Variety’s Clayton Davis is already projecting the meltdown that will occur if no woman is nominated for Best Director come Tuesday morning.

S. Craig Zahler is one of the great new cinematic voices of the last decade. He hasn’t even gotten his due from critics either.

A Tinseltown producer/friend emailed me last night with a tip. He said he’d been hearing buzz around a new Coen Brothers movie titled “The Zebra Striped Hearse.”

Some claimed it couldn’t be done, but James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of Water” is set to hit $2 billion at the worldwide box-office tonight.

Taika Waititi is currently in New Zealand directing the first three episodes of his Apple series adaptation of “Time Bandits.” This is an ambitious project that could easily go wrong.

“All Quiet on the Western Front” led this morning’s BAFTA nominations with a whopping 14 nods. If you don’t have this one as one of your final ten for the Best Picture Oscar then you haven’t been paying much attention.

Earlier today, New Mexico prosecutors charged actor Alec Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter for the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie “Rust” [via Variety]

The fate of last year’s Sundance-dumped “Jihad Rehab” has suddenly, for some reason, woken up Variety to reality.

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” received a PGA nod last week, and it thus became a potential Best Picture nominee, the first MCU film to contend since 2018’s “Black Panther.”

We’re exactly a week away from the Berlin Film Festival announcing its competition lineup, but here’s some intel to whet your appetites.

Deadline has the scoop that Antoine Fuqua is set to direct “Michael”, a Lionsgate drama telling the life story of the iconic Michael Jackson. The Jackson estate has given full approval for this to happen.

Late last year I was wondering why there were some negative Debbie Downers practically hoping for Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” to fail.

It’s almost mid-January which means we’re coming very close to the start of the 45th edition of the Sundance Film Festival. The Park City event is set to begin tomorrow and run until the 29th.

Variety’s Clayton Davis is reporting what I’ve known for quite a few months now: Academy voters’ love for “Top Gun: Maverick” is real and it could go all the way.

Last December, I broke the news that Wes Anderson’s “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” will be released this year. Now Netflix has made it official via press release. The date is TBD 2023.

We finally have a date for David Fincher’s “The Killer.” Netflix has set up a November 10th release for the film, right in the thick of awards season. You think they’re confident about this one?

I never doubted French film critics would fall hard for Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon.”

Tom Hanks‘ latest film, “A Man Called Otto,” has become a box-office success. The film opened in just a few theaters late last year, but has progressively gained in momentum over these last few weeks.