There were some out there clinging to the belief that Jeymes Samuel’s “The Book of Clarence” would be an Oscar contender. It might still go to TIFF, not sure about Venice or Telluride. But today’s news isn’t reassuring.

As Roger Friedman reported two weeks ago, Woody Allen’s “Coup de Chance” will be having its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Variety has confirmed the news.

Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers” and Luc Besson’s “Dogman” are also due to turn up out of competition.

M. Night Shyamalan is shooting a new film. The India-born, Philadelphia-raised filmmaker has been riffing on “Twilight Zone”-type premises for 25 years now.

Alex Garland's upcoming "Civil War" with Kirsten Dunst is apparently completed and has received its MPA rating: R for strong violent content, bloody/disturbing images, and language throughout.

“No Hard Feelings” just had it’s embargo lift and the reviews are middling — 50% on Rotten Tomatoes, 55 on Metacritic.

The teaser is out and it looks better than expected. It sure plays like a Sofia Coppola movie. A girl’s coming of age story. That indie rock soundtrack. It can’t be all that bad.

Guillermo del Toro retweeted our Paul Schrader/Wes Anderson article and gave his own assessment of “Asteroid City.” He’s a fan.

‘John Wick 4’ filmmaker Chad Stahelski says he’s had talks about adding a Best Stunts category to the Oscars and it could happen sooner than expected.

Jonathan Majors’ lawyer, Priya Chaudhry, claims that the Marvel star’s arrest on 03.25.23 was the result of NYPD “racism” citing that six of the responding officers were white.

The ballots have been sent out for my annual mid-year critics poll concerning the best films of 2023. The goal is to post the results on Friday or, at the latest, Monday.

Kosinski/Pitt are currently in pre-production mode on their upcoming “Formula One.” We now know what the story will be about, via Production List:

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.