I’m glad to see Paul Schrader digging Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City.” In fact, he’s calling it Wes’ best movie.

Here’s the trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers,” which is being released on September 15th. It’s definitely not what the director’s fans expected. The film looks like his most commercial effort.

The news gets worse for “The Flash”. People ran with the $64 million opening weekend numbers, but it was reported today that the movie actually grossed $3 million less — $61 million is the actual total, per Warner Bros.

Craig Mazin has become a big name on television as the creator of HBO’s “Chernobyl” and “The Last of Us.”

In an interview with WIRED, Christopher Nolan acknowledges that the people he’s shown “Oppenheimer” to come out of it speechless:

Before it got “destroyed” by Warner head David Zaslav, “Batgirl” was test screened in Sherman Oaks. Twitter insider Viewer Anon attended that screening. He opened up a bit about it last night:

Some major changes on the Letterboxd all-time Top 250. It was bound to happen after the recently released “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” suddenly showed up as the #1 movie off all-time.

The movie was screened way in advance on Friday, its not supposed to be in theaters until July 12th. I’ll have more on this one soon …

Kevin Spacey’s thriller “Peter Five Eight” has been picked up for multiple territories, including the United States.

J.C. Chandor is, was, in my world, a potential major U.S. filmmaker in the making. His first few films included “Margin Call,” “All is Lost” and, especially, “A Most Violent Year” were impressive.

One of the great legends of cinema is the original, still unfound, cut of Orson Wells’ “The Magnificent Ambersons.” Filmmaker William Friedkin once called it the “holy grail of cinema.”

Production on David Cronenberg’s “The Shrouds” began mid-May in Toronto and has just wrapped filming. That’s a month of production, in and out. At 80 years of age, David Cronenberg is as efficient as ever.

In the same interview with La Liberation, Tarantino is asked about his thoughts on “trigger warnings” being shown before movies.

Sam Esmail’s adaptation of Fritz Lang’s classic 1927 sci-fi film “Metropolis” has been permanently axed due to the writers strike.

A few months ago I suspected that there were many Academy voters who disliked the Oscars’ new diversity rules, but that they just couldn’t say it out loud.

So, this is how it usually works with, many, DC movies. Their superhero movies gets released to middling reviews, fans are disappointed, then the filmmaker slyly reveals that there’s a longer cut.

That’s an incredible amount — far and away the best for an indie in the pandemic-era. Anderson’s film is supposed to go wide next weekend.

One of the most anticipated films of the year, David Fincher’s “The Killer,” was screened for Netflix execs and staff in late April. I was told that the room was left stunned by the end of the 150 minute film.