In this latest edition of “things we never expected to occur,” it turns out that we might get an unlikely collaboration between two famous filmmakers who have absolutely nothing in common, stylistically or thematically.

“Blackhat,” Michael Mann's cyber-tech thriller from 2015, was panned by critics, but, over the years, has somehow been reappraised by a few Mann diehards who believe it’s a great movie.

Here’s a nice get for the 67th BFI London Film Festival. “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” is set to have its world premiere at that fest, which runs from October 4 to October 15 this year.

Rumored to have been rejected by Cannes earlier this year, Betrand Bonello’s sci-fi film “The Beast” has had some strong word of mouth these past weeks, with even some hinting at a possible Golden Lion win at a Venice.

Sam Levinson is coming off his highly polarizing, and much-hated, HBO series “The Idol.” However, he’s a household name because of “Euphoria,” a TV sensation with cinematic elements to it.

Last month, Variety had reported that Sean Durkin’s “The Iron Claw” would be released theatrically on December 22nd with, apparently, no fall festival premiere set for the film.

Judging by the newly released trailer, which is close to 4 minutes, Snyder has made his own space opera as he looks to set up a juggernaut franchise for Netflix.

Consider me shocked by David Zaslav’s Warner Bros hiding the actual budget of “The Flash.” It turns out, it’s not the originally reported $220 million, but, rather, almost $100 million more.

Over at UPROXX, Neill Blomkamp gave an interview where he discussed “Gran Turismo,” but when the topic of ‘Alien’ came into the conversation Blomkamp wanted to hear none if it.

Yesterday I posted my Telluride predictions and, in the process, also acknowledged the possibility that Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” might show up. Well, scratch that off, it’s not going. It’s been confirmed by a knowledgeable source.

The Venice Film Festival has released David Fincher’s statement about his upcoming film, “The Killer." The film’s page has also been updated with the first official cast and crew list —

Over the years, Uwe Boll has participated in a bunch of our critics polls, he’s a reader of this site, so let’s all be nice to him, or, at least, I’ll try to be.

There were a few boos at my screening of Jessica Hausner’s “Club Zero,” but, this time, I wasn’t in disagreement with the birds.

A report from The Cinemaholic claims that Paul Verhoeven’s “Young Sinner” will be shooting in Los Angeles this coming September.

Francis Ford Coppola’s "One from the Heart" will be presented in a newly restored version at the 80th Venice Film Festival. 

Here’s a recently unearthed interview with the late William Friedkin who had nothing but immense praise for Woody Allen’s movies, or at least, his earlier ones. Going as far as to call him “the greatest living filmmaker.”

We had reported on August 2nd that Gyllenhaal was directing a remake of “Bride of Frankenstein” for Netflix. This would be a remake of the 1935 film — the sequel to 1931’s Frankenstein.

Author Stephen King’s assertion that “Babylon” will be viewed as a “classic” twenty years from now got me thinking about other maligned films from the last 10 years that might get the same positive fate.

Here’s an excerpt from a THR piece, titled Starless Publicity Campaigns Start to Impact Grosses, that has had the industry buzzing these last 24 hours:

Notice how Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” hasn’t shown up at either TIFF or NYFF. This has led to some rumors that it might have its North American premiere at Telluride.