Telluride tracker Michael Patterson has posted his first batch Best Bets for the 50th Telluride Film Festival. I’ll just post the main fall fest biggies that he has:

Its been a long time since I counted the number of movies I watch on any given year. I’d say my guesstimate would, maybe, be around 300, tops.

Although he used to get offered blockbusters, once “Red Rocket” was released and seen, these offers abruptly stopped.

In the last 5 years, we've had Steven Soderbergh, David Lynch, David Fincher, Martin Scorsese, Jane Campion, Woody Allen, Alfonso Cuaron, Noah Baumbach, Spike Lee, and many more making the jump to the small screen.

The first episode of “Secret Invasion” premiered on Disney+ last Wednesday. The viewership numbers are not good and another sign of a crumbling Marvel universe.

A Variety cover story on Scarlett Johansson tells us that she didn’t get paid that much for her work “Asteroid City.”

Rolling Stone has just received a letter, signed by more than 300 actors, addressed to the SAG-AFTRA Leadership. It sounds threatening, they’re not kidding around.

The Wrap is reporting David Corenswet has nabbed the coveted role of Superman in James Gunn’s upcoming “Superman: Legacy.” Rachel Brosnahan has also been cast as Lois Lane.

In 2003, “The Room,” a film financed by self-proclaimed impresario Tommy Wiseau for $6 million, was supposed to be the culmination of his imagined talents, his ultimate artistic statement, and the capstone to his suspiciously vague career

Darren Aronofsky became the most polarizing figure in movie culture back in the fall of 2017. His controversial “mother!” provoked a volcanic stir of reactions.

David Fincher already raved about Albert Serra’s brilliant “Pacifiction.” He recently confided to Brad Pitt his love for the film:

Production on “Back in Action,” starring Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz, took place in late February and finished in late April.

Obviously, just a rumor and I’m trying to corroborate it with a few sources, but for now here’s the post from the Paul Thomas Anderson subreddit:

Sean Baker was the guest on honor at the 38th edition of Cinema Jove. Based on what I’m reading, he’s not very happy with the way freedom of speech and creativity is being stifled in American film.

Is it bad that Time Magazine’s Eliana Dockterman was granted access to interview Greta Gerwig at her Chelsea office and still managed to write this about “Barbie”:

Ari Aster’s interview with Italian outlet La Reppublica hasn’t been covered by any outlets.

HBO is abruptly pulling the plug on “The Idol.” The Sam Levinson-The Weeknd series was announced as six episodes when the deal was signed, but now the show will end with just five episodes.

Last week, in an in-depth interview with Le Monde, Quentin Tarantino described the lead character of his upcoming “The Movie Critic” as closely resembling Travis Bickle.

UPDATE: In regards to my original HULU piece, a publicist on the film is saying “at this point we can only confirm that this is a Searchlight film, release plans will be determined at a later date”.