UPDATED: The revised projections now have ‘Mario’ opening with $160 million in its first five days. It helps that word of mouth is very strong — an A CinemaScore.

I was already hearing bad things about John Ridley’s “Shirley,” but there’s now word of more reshoots occurring on the upcoming Netflix-produced film.

Johnny Depp’s “comeback” film will be opening the 76th Cannes Film Festival. That’s right, Maïwenn’s “Jeanne du Barry” has been bestowed the honors of launching the prestigious festival next month.

After “X,” and “Pearl”, filmmaker Ti West is dead-set in completing his Mia Goth trilogy with “MaXXXine.”

Woody Allen’s 50th film, shot in Paris, in French, is now heavily rumoured to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this coming May. What a great treat!

Russell Crowe was a guest on Barstool Sports’ podcast and let it slip that a sequel to Shane Black’s “The Nice Guys” might happen.

‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ started production on December 11th and has finally wrapped filming, four months later. We’ve seen many of the outdoor scenes leak online, it looks bonkers.

Ben Affleck’s “Air” gets released tomorrow. Critics are pushing it to succeed, that’s for sure — a 99% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and 80 on Metacritic.

The official trailer for Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” has been released.

As she’s continuing to write her “Dracula” movie, Chloe Zhao, an Oscar-winning director for “Nomadland,” has set up her next movie with Amblin studios.

Even James Gunn is admitting that there is a current superhero overkill going on in the movie industry.

Duke Johnson co-directed and wrote, with Charlie Kaufman, 2016’s darkly fantastic “Anomalisa.” It was his feature-directing debut.

The entire David Lynch interview in this month’s Cahiers du Cinema is worth a read. He goes through his current state of mind and why he stopped doing those weather reports on YouTube.

Illumination founder and CEO, Chris Meledandri, who has “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” coming out tomorrow, is looking to reboot the ‘Shrek’ franchise.

Carpenter is telling the Cahiers du Cinema, in their April issue, that even though he “walked away from the business”, he’s continuing to work on “one or two things.”

In a new interview with Cahiers du Cinema, Lynch admits that he’s still bitter about his experience making “Dune” and that he has no interest in catching Villeneuve’s version.

Back in January, it seemed to be set in stone that Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers” would do the fall festival circuit and then get released in November, but things can definitely change in just a few months.

Finally, a major publication has started reporting on Michael Mann’s “Heat 2.” I’ve been all over this project ever since I had heard, last summer, about the heated studio bidding war in trying to snatch up the rights to Mann’s novel.

I was actually surprised by last month’s intel that post-production work on Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro” had been completed.

Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” is coming for awards season. The above image is the first official one released for the upcoming film.