Last night, the U.S. Premiere of Marco Bellocchio’s “Exterior Night”, a selection of this year’s Spotlight section, was screened at the New York Film Festival.

Social media injected Oscar hopes inside the heads of the “RRR” producers. Now, the Indian film has launched a massive Oscar campaign that will amount to absolutely nothing. Money blown.

Marielle Heller’s “NightBitch” has started production in Los Angeles. This is definitely a movie to keep an eye on.

Critics have really outdone themselves in terms of their hatred towards David O. Russell’s “Amsterdam.” The film is, by all accounts, DOA. I mean, how can it not be? A 33% score on Rotten Tomatoes …

Sean Baker’s passion and love for film is beautiful to behold. Hell, he even has a public Letterboxd account. so, not only is he a great filmmaker, but he’s also very much active in the online film world. I was even told he reads this site!

Romanian-born Cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr. (The Master, Jojo Rabbit) will be shooting Francis Ford Coppola’s upcoming “Megalopolis.”

I’m hearing Brian De Palma is FINALLY ready to shoot “Sweet Vengeance.” The crime drama will shoot in and around Montevideo, Uruguay and will be “inspired by two true stories of murders” which took place in the United States.

I figured Paul Schrader would dig Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde,” but he also has an interesting take on the film’s controversy.

Scott Feinberg has his latest predictions up on THR. A few eyebrows are being raised as people noticed he had Margot Robbie (Babylon) in the Supporting Actress category …

Ethan Coen’s “Road Movie” was originally called “Drive-Away Dykes.” Too bad they didn’t keep that original title.

What’s brilliant about Fields‘ slowburner of a film is that he leaves it up to the viewer to decide whether “TAR” is anti-cancel culture or a tongue-in-cheek condemnation of Cate Blanchett‘s brilliant but prickly conductor.

I’ve gathered a few “She Said” reactions from two screenings that occurred in the last few months.

Deadline is reporting that Francis Ford Coppola has finalized his “Megalopolis” cast.

Scott Feinberg has an eyebrow-raising piece over at THR where he surveyed over 50 Academy members and their thoughts on Will Smith’s “comeback.” The biggest takeaway: people are still pissed off at Smith.

An interview with Allen [via ABC Spain] deserves to be translated into English.

After an innumerable amount of years in development, Abderrahmane Sissako has finally started shooting his first film since 2014’s “Timbuktu”. The Mauritanian-born director’s “The Perfumed Hill” started production this week.

Paul Schrader announced details for his next film at the New York Film Festival, this was revealed during the Q&A for his latest, “The Master Gardener.”

A storm is coming this December in the form of a Will Smith-starring Oscar-baity slavery drama.

This morning a trailer for Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” dropped online.