As the MCU very slowly, but surely, starts to dwindle in popularity, a new breed of Hollywood claptrap is emerging from the swamps of dirt-poor creativity.

Slate has decided to poll over 50 black curators, critics, filmmakers etc. on the Best Black-Directed films of all-time. Participants included Ava DuVernay, Charles Burnett, Carl Franklin, Julie Dash and Gina Prince-Bythewood.

I’ve been all over the chaos that occured on the set of Ridley Scott’s Apple TV series “Sinking Spring.”

According to a report from Puck, despite attempts by director Aziz Ansari to revive it, “Being Mortal” will finally not be completed. The film was set to star Bill Murray, Keke Palmer, and Seth Rogen.

The Cannes Film Festival will announce its entire lineup during the third week of April. The deadline to submit movies happens in early March. Press got their accreditations confirmed this morning as well.

Of course, it’s always fun to speculate way ahead of time when it comes to the last bastion of hope we have with the Oscars. 

The 29th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards are being handed out tonight. If you care to tune in, the ceremony will air live on Netflix’s YouTube channel starting at 8 p.m. ET.

I’m hearing from a source at Warner Bros that David Sazlav and James Gunn are planning to keep Flash star Ezra Miller for more movies.

"RRR" is being re-released in theaters in the U.S. this coming Friday, March 3.

An official teaser trailer for Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” was released last December.

They were not televised but available to stream freely on YouTube, where they gathered just 440k views. Less than half a million people were watching.

“Tropic Thunder” in 2023 is a landmine of triggered outrage waiting to happen. If this movie came out today, and bless Paramount for having had the guts to release it 15 years ago, most would completely miss the point.

“Quantamania” nabbed $32.2M in its second domestic weekend, a 69% drop. That’s a historic low second weekend for Marvel. No MCU movie has ever had a worst drop during its second weekend of release.

“RRR” director SS Rajamouli gets that. Recently chatting with The New Yorker, he was asked about the quality of action filmmaking in Marvel and other recent superhero movies:

Fun times we live in. My recommendation to all of you is to buy as much physical media as possible (books, DVDs etc) before an inevitable purging of the classics becomes the norm.

I don’t know how else to say this, but “Everything Everywhere All At Once” is winning the Best Picture Oscar.

Will Smith has won his first (and only) award this season for his lead turn in “Emancipation.”

Nicolas Philibert’s “On the Adamant” won the Golden Bear prize at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival. The French documentary chronicles a unique day-care center in the heart of Paris that welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders.

Sydney Sweeney’s performance in “Reality” was raved about to no ends at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. She received a lot of good ink from critics for her first big noteworthy movie role.