This is a huge momentum boost for Laura Poitras. Her opioid epidemic doc “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” has been selected as the centrepiece film of the 60th New York Film Festival.

People tend to forget that writer-director Martin McDonagh is first and foremost a celebrated playwright, and not an awards baiter. That’s just the way we like him.

Online sleuthing has been rampant over the sprinkle of clues TIFF’s Midnight Madness account has been dropping these last few hours.

Shia Laboeuf has joined Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis.” This casting news is quite surprising given that Laboeuf has been persona non grata in Tinseltown for over a year now.

Not only did Todd Phillips’ ‘Joker’ sequel, “Joker: Folie A Deux” get an Oct. 4, 2024 release date, but word is that it starts shooting in December. Will this be a snowy sequel?

Here’s the list of orphaned festival players that have yet to be picked up as of now:

The industry was stunned yesterday by Warner Bros’ total shelving of “Batgirl.”

Woody Allen’s upcoming film, shot almost entirely in French, has set a September production date, according to Production Weekly. The film will be shot in Paris.

This story shocked everyone today. Warner Bros’ “Batgirl,” already complete and budgeted at $100 million, is not getting released

What was the point of Leos Carax meeting with Jennifer Lawrence in New York other than having to do with a possible new project?

The SXSW jury awarded James Morsini’s “I Love You Dad” the top prize in March. You can call this one a shocking win. The polarizing film received mixed reviews and was even called out by a few.

Some more sleuthing occured this weekend. This time it was emailing festival contacts to figure out what was submitted to and rejected by Venice.

Remember when MGM planted stories to the press that Ron Howard’s “Thirteen Lives” had such uniformly positive test-screening reactions that the studio decided to schedule the film’s release during Thanksgiving weekend, right at the thick of this year’s awards season schedule.

Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise” being chosen as the New York Film Festival opener probably means no TIFF for this expansive and ambitious film.

This has to be the worst summer movie season I’ve ever experienced. No other year has come close to the lack of quality that we’re currently experiencing at the movies.

We had reported on 12.20.21 that Bong Joon-ho was setting his sights on his next film and that Tilda Swinton was going to be part of it.

I decided to do some detective work on David Fincher’s “The Killer” this weekend. As far as it stands, save for the Scorsese, it’s the last remaining question mark of 2022.

Every single one of the reactions I gathered for Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans mentioned Judd Hirsch as a standout.