The big surprises from this morning’s Screen Actors Guild nominations: Adam Sandler (“Hustle”) and Ana De Armas (“Blonde”) nominated in their respective lead categories.

This had to be one of the worst and most painfully dull award shows I’ve seen in years. Jerrod Carmichael’s opening monologue was good, but the rest of his night was terribly unfunny, I don’t think a single joke of his landed after that opening.

Francis Ford Coppola has come out and denied reports of a chaotic “Megalopolis” production.

You won’t be getting any Golden Globe predictions from me this afternoon. They are too unpredictable, especially this year. They’ve also become eerily irrelevant. It’s basically a clown show at this point.

The trailer for Ari Aster’s “Beau is Afraid” has been unveiled by A24. It looks and feels like Charlie Kaufman’s “Synecdoche, New York.” It looks totally inaccessible (that’s a good thing).

Steven Soderbergh just dropped his annual seen/read list for 2022 and his logging shows that he’s watched David Fincher’s ”The Killer” four times in a week during the month of August.

Old-school Francis Ford Coppola is back. I’m not talking about the “Twixt” guy, but rather the madman who made “Apocalypse Now.” That guy.

Blumhouse founder Jason Blum is predicting this year’s Best Picture winner will be S.S. Rajamouli’s “RRR.” He has such passionate admiration for the film that he’s gone to publicly back it over any other contender.

Paul Mescal already landed a primo role in Ridley Scott‘s “Gladiator” sequel, and has now been tapped to replace Blake Jenner in Richard Linklater‘s “Merrily We Roll Along”, according to Above the Line.

The SAG nominations will be announced on Wednesday and you can expect both Cate Blanchett (TÁR) and Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everything Everywhere All At Once) to get nominated for Lead Actress.

The American Society of Cinematographers announced its nominees for the 37th ASC Awards. They are: Roger Deakins (“Empire of Light”), Greig Fraser (“The Batman”), Darius Khondji (“Bardo”), Claudio Miranda (“Top Gun: Maverick”), and Mandy Walker (“Elvis”).

As we had expected on Friday, “M3GAN,” a delightful horror movie from Blumhouse, opened big with $30 million this past weekend. Who had a chance to see it? I’d love to read your thoughts about this peculiar genre picture.

I don’t think “Snake Eyes” is one of the top-tier Brian DePalma films, but it’s sure as hell better than most of the middle films big studios are releasing these days.

Kirill Serebrennikov‘s last three films, “Leto,” Petrov’s Flu,” and “Tchaikovsky’s Wife,” all competed for the Palme d’Or at Cannes.

I haven’t heard much in the way of a release strategy for the film, but this would be an odd date coming from Searchlight given that the film wrapped production in November of 2021.

This year’s Best Actor category is such a peculiar beast. You have a weak bunch of candidates scrambling to make the final five and it’s come to the point where Tom Cruise (“Top Gun: Maverick”) is being discussed as a legitimate nominee.

Someone needs to free Christian Bale from the grips of Scott Cooper. They’ve so far collaborated on “Hostiles,” “Out of the Furnace” and “Pale Blue Eye,” but have failed to make much of a dent with these critically and commercially.

Owen Roizman, who passed yesterday aged 86, was one of Hollywood’s most important cinematographers, he defined the look of American ‘70s cinema.