Harmony Korine has full-on lost his mind for video games. In fact, he believes that the recent advances in gaming technology now look visually better than any movie (via EW):

All throughout the summer I’ve been hearing whispers, here and there, about the upcoming fall movie slate, which has lowered my expectations about the amount of quality we might be getting at the September fests.

Maybe it wasn’t a good idea for Lars Von Trier to get an Instagram account. He’s discovered the ways social media can totally backfire on you.

A total shocker this evening. After much deliberation, Warner Bros has decided to delay “Dune: Part Two” to March 15th, 2024. That’s not even a set up for a Cannes premiere. They’re just releasing in early Spring.

A trailer has been released for Susanna Fogel’s “Cat Person.” This one will hopefully have enough reach this fall to stir up debate amongst movie audiences.

It turns out that Shyamalan wasn’t going to stop shooting this year. After “Trap,” his team had reserved offices in Cincinnati, Ohio for a project titled “Good Grades.” The shoot was set to take place from October 16th to December 8th.

On Wednesday — its 34th day in release — Greta Gerwig’s ”Barbie” passed “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” as the high-grossing domestic box office release of 2023.

The film is set to world premiere at the New York Film Festival, just days before its October 6th release via Amazon. Here’s a test-screening reaction from a month ago.

A THR interview with Michael Mann states that his upcoming “Ferrari” has a budget of $110 million — that’s $20 million more than originally reported.

“An Officer and a Spy” is the real deal. Polanski crafted his film with absolute surgical genius. Only a master can make a film as sublimely atmospheric and textural as this one.

Some were surprised by last night’s announcement that Chile’s submission for the Best International Film Oscar was not Pablo Larrain’s “El Conde,” but rather Felipe Gálvez‘s “The Settlers.”

Wes Anderson’s 37-minute “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” will premiere on Netflix September 27. No word yet on whether the other three Roald Dahl shorts Anderson shot will also be there. Check out the Venice poster below.

Shooting on Sean Baker’s “Anora” wrapped this past March. This will be his eighth feature film. I’m being told not to expect it anytime soon as it is eyeing a premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

In the latest issue of Premiere (France), producer Saïd Ben Saïd confirmed that his next project with Paul Verhoeven will be titled “Sans compter.”

Back in May I wrote about the catastrophic test screening for “The Exorcist: Believer” in New York.

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.