Maybe some of our French readers can enlighten us on what the heck is going on right now in the French film industry in regards to the “Les Amandiers” controversy.

Ava DuVernay's Netflix movie 'Origin' is about to start filming in the Southern United States. The film was initially reported to be called "Caste" but the title seems to now be “Origin” …

Over the years, there have been several one-hit-wonder directors — basically, a filmmaker who made a single great movie and then never directed again.

80 years ago on this date, Michael Curtiz’s “Casablanca” was released. It's a film that has withstood the test of time, and produced some of movie history’s most memorable lines.

Christopher Nolan is known to have lengthy films in his filmography, with his “Interstellar (169 minutes) being the record-holder, so it’s no surprise he will again be working on an epic scale with his upcoming “Oppenheimer.”

Let’s just get this out of the way, I truly believe Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbachcould make something great with her upcoming film “Barbie.” No, really. They are true talents that have the wit and cinematic instinct to pull it off.

Now that dust has settled on this past September’s Venice Film Festival, I started asking around about the big titles that might have been rejected by Alberto Barbera.

Explain this to me. How do Anne Thompson, Clayton Davis and Scott Feinberg all have Wakanda Forever’s Angela Bassett at the very top of their Best Supporting Actress contenders? You’ve got to be kidding me.

Deadline has industry sources telling them that Netflix’s sneak preview release of “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” is killing off all adult competition, despite only playing in 638 theaters.

Before we proceed, let me just mention that James Cameron once gave Guillermo del Toro a million dollars to pay the ransom after Mexican hoodlums kidnapped del Toro's father.

There’s already a nice little reappraisal happening for David O. Russell’s “Amsterdam,” which we all figured would get bashed by critics in late September. Russell was a marked man and you just knew he didn’t stand a chance.

The Best Animated Film category has been owned by Disney for many years. The mouse house has won 15 of the last 21 Oscars in this category.

A twitter user posted about Cannes 2017, for many one of the weakest editions the fest had ever seen, but still plenty of highlights. It wasn’t just the competition, but there also were excellent titles in the sidebars.

Letitia Wright is PISSED at Scott Feinberg for having written about her award-season baggage due to allegedly promoting anti-vax messaging during the pandemic.

I was told that “Avatar: The Way of Water” won’t screen for press until December 6th. That’s just around nine days before Thursday previews begin for James Cameron’s 192-minute epic.

I saw Laura Poitras’ immaculate doc right before it won Venice, it’s now being released in both New York and L.A. theaters.

The trades are not talking much about this, but “The Fabelmans” has been underperforming at the box office since its release and projected to not do much business during its wide expansion to 600 theaters.