Earlier today, Roger Friedman posted about Roman Polanski’s “The Palace” being “eyed” to world premiere at the 80th Venice Film Festival.

If you haven’t seen any of filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier’s films, then you’re missing out. He’s one of the very best up-and-coming directors around.

Just because you’re a top-notch filmmaker doesn’t mean you can’t also like the most mainstream, and dumbed-down, of blockbusters.

Disney has replaced the “dwarfs” with seven “magical creatures” to “avoid reinforcing stereotypes.”

They should have kept it as “How Do You Live,” but GKids Studios has decided to rename Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film to “The Boy and the Heron.” Why? Not sure. I don’t like it.

Steven Soderbergh has secretly filmed a new series, titled ‘COMMAND Z’, starring Michael Cera and Liev Schreiber, that will be released in 3 days. It’s Soderbergh, I’m not surprised by this news.

It saddens me to hear that Clint Eastwood’s “Juror#2,” which stars SAG members Toni Collette, Nicholas Hoult and Kiefer Sutherland, has halted production in Georgia.

I don’t know what is the exact the reason for all of these underperforming summer blockbusters at the multiplex, but I certainly wasn’t expecting “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” to be part of that group.

As you know, there’s been no marketing for this film, so we had no idea what it was about. Here’s the first hint of plot, via Games Radar:

I’m getting pandemic vibes all over again with this now officially begun screen actors strike. We’re talking about 160,000 SAG actors not allowed to work or participate in any kind of promotional work for the studios.

Lena Dunham will be teaming up with Netflix on the romcom “Too Much,” which is said to be about an “American woman in London”.

Christopher Nolan is saying “Oppenheimer” was much more expensive than previously reported.

It’s no secret that Pixar has been in a bit of rut lately, but it’s nice to see Disney CEO Bob Iger admit it and willing to work on fixing things at the toon company.

Edited by the film’s editor Jennifer Lame, this extended look features scenes from Nolan’s film as well as the movie’s score from Ludwig Göransson.

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.