HBO decided it was a wise decision to screen Sam Levinson’s “The Idol” at Cannes. It turns out they were right.

We are day 8. There are still four days left here at Cannes, and plenty of movies left to be seen.

Warner Bros. Pictures is set to open ”The Color Purple” in theaters on December 25, 2023. They’re banking hard on this one to be an Oscar contender.

UPDATED: Haynes hasn’t even shot this movie yet and he’s already implying it’ll be a button-pushing endeavor:

I’m surprised nobody picked up on this story, then again I had written down a note to write something about it and completely forgot.

So, you’re Jude Law and about to play King Henry VIII in Karim Ainouz’s “Firebrand,” but you also want to go fully method in tackling this historical figure. What do you do?

Assessing the different opinions here at Cannes, I get the sense that people are not that excited for Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City.”

A very interesting article today via Spanish outlet El País explains why Erice’s fourth feature isn’t in Cannes competition.

Producer Niels Juul has basically confirmed, via Instagram, that Michael Mann’s “Ferrari” is going to Venice:

Film critic Robert Daniels with another bewildering take, this time he’s aiming his darts at Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

Alfonso Cuaron is a major fan. He raved about it to Variety. Here he is in his own words:

Who comes up with these insane ideas? Did anyone bother to tell New Line this was a terrible idea?

There was mention a few weeks ago that Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” had a script completely written in the first-person.

In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Schrader actually admits that the Toronto International Film Festival rejected the film based on bogus reasons:

I will say this about Martin Scorsese’s “Kundun,” I’ve seen it twice in my life, but it just didn’t work for me, it wouldn’t even be in my top 20 of his best films.

Some slight news in regards to Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film. Jeff Sneider on The Hot Mic podcast reiterated what I already reported a week ago.

We don’t know much about Quentin Tarantino’s “The Movie Critic,” set to shoot in the fall, but from a recent interview with Paul Schrader it looks like he’ll be recreating some scenes for iconic ‘70s films:

People are buzzing here about a viral video showing Cannes boss Thierry Fremaux in an altercation with a local police officer