Illumination/Universal/Nintendo’s “The Super Mario Bros Movie” is tracking to earn “at least $85M-$90M” over its Wednesday through Sunday launch.

Maybe Andrea Riseborough’s team is behind the current marketing rollout for Ben Affleck’s “Air,” whoever it is, it’s working. I’m very much looking forward to watching this movie next week.

David Robert Mitchell is coming off 2018’s “Under the Silver Lake,” an unfairly maligned film that I saw at Cannes.

After “CODA,” director Sian Heder probably had plenty of options to choose from when it came to what her next project might be. The sky was the limit and the industry came calling.

The $150 million Nancy Meyers Rom-Com might have found a new buyer and it’s none other than David Sazlav’s Warner Bros.

This sounds almost too good to be true, but Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” is happening and has apparently actually started production.

The s*itshow that is Sam Levinson’s “The Idol” will world premiere a few episodes at the Cannes Film Festival. Why did Thierry Fremaux decide to pick this TV show as part of his selection? Beats me.

Quentin Tarantino’s close friend, writer-director Brian Kopppelman, is shutting down rumors that QT’s next film is about Pauline Kael.

The latest issue of Production Weekly blew up the online film world last night when there was a posting for Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film.

The sometimes, but not always, reliable GiantFreakingRobot made the claim yesterday that Barry Keoghan had been cast as the villainous Roman Emperor Geta in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator” sequel.

A post-screening Q&A for “Evil Dead Rise” at SXSW on Wednesday evening turned into this weird shouting match between a disappointed “fan” and the film’s executive producer Bruce Campbell.

Kudos to Ben Affleck for adamantly refusing to make a DC movie. For months there had been rumors that James Gunn was trying to hire him to direct one of the movies in his newly created DC Universe.

I hearing the Safdie Brothers’ next film, starring Adam Sandler and Gael García Bernal, might have bumped up its production date from April to June.

Let’s all calm down and take a deep breath. There are some out there who think Matt Johnson’s “BlackBerry,” which I saw via a screener during the last Berlin Film Festival, can be an awards contender.

This year’s Oscars was filled with pricey ads. The most peculiar one came in the middle of the ceremony when the stars of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” introduced the new trailer.

This year’s box-office has been surprisingly stellar with such mid-budget hits as “M3Gan,” “Creed III,” “Cocaine Bear,” “Scream VI” and “80 For Brady.”

I had written last December about this, but today the trades have finally caught up and reported that the next film Guillermo del Toro will direct is “Frankenstein.”

Great news, the latest Safdies project is slowly starting to come together.

The latest trend these past 24 hours has been to rank the last ten Best Picture winners. A fairly easy breezy task when you take into account how there were only a handful of great films that have won the big prize in recent years.

Thierry Fremaux will have such a headache this year when deciding which French films to select in competition, to the point where he might even pick as many as five.