First things first, here’s what Variety has to say about the upcoming actors strike interfering with the Venice Film Festival. Spoiler: it sounds like a major headache for Venice boss Alberto Barbera.

What’s with all of these studios underreporting the budgets of their summer blockbusters? A NYT interview with Greta Gerwig has the production cost of “Barbie” actually at $145 million.

A quick analysis of the reviews from French critics, who saw “Oppenheimer” on July 11th, can be found on the Christopher Nolan Art & Updates Twitter feed.

A fantastic filmmaker-heavy jury has been announced for the 80th Venice Film Festival.

The actors strike is upon us and we are likely to see a lot of turbulence in the industry. Chief among them is a total halt in production for Ridley Scott’s upcoming ‘Gladiator’ sequel, via Variety.

One film that won’t be affected by the actors strike is Jacques Audiard’s musical thriller “Emilia Perez,” starring Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña, which wrapped filming just last week in Paris.

Abdellatif Kechiche is supposed to be shooting his next film in Sète right now, at least according to that city's cinema management.

Warner Bros’ “Barbie” will have its review embargo lift on July 18th at 7 pm ET.

A trailer – created by AI – for a non-existent “Heidi” movie creeped the hell out of me. Call it “nightmare fuel,” or whatever else it’s been described as, but what did I just watch?

I’m pleased to report that “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” will only be available digitally on October 10th. That means, you should go see this one in theaters.

I don’t like using the word “woke” because it’s too simplified a term. Yes, it’s an easy way of entering a debate, to say this is “woke” and that is “woke,” but the substance gets lost in the process.

We are two days away from Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki’s “How Do You Live?” being released in Japan.

During his final months on earth, Jean-Luc Godard was surrounded by an intellectual circle of friends, including Fabrice Aragno, Jean-Paul Battagia, Nicole Brenez, Mathilde Incerti, and Mitra Farahani.

Disney has revealed, via Forbes, that its Marvel streaming drama “Secret Invasion” went over budget, and was made for a whopping sum of $211.6 million.

Why did Warner Bros. decide to open “Barbie” on the same date (July 21) as Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”? Because they can. But there’s much more to this story than meets the eye.

Let’s all take a deep breath and appreciate the fact that Tom Cruise is still trying to, quite literally, kill himself on-screen for cinema.

Selena Gomez is looking for her Oscar role and it might come in the form of playing ‘70s musical icon Linda Ronstadt.

The “Oppenheimer” embargo has lifted and it’s getting nothing but raves from critics.

On Sunday, I had reported that Eli Roth’s “Borderlands” was in post-production hell with even its main screenwriter, Craig Mazin, deciding to remove his name from the project — he’ll now go under the pseudonym of Joe Crombie.

Film at Lincoln Center announced this afternoon that Todd Haynes’s “May December” will open the 61st New York Film Festival, making its North American premiere at Alice Tully Hall on September 29th.