Last week, I attended a distributor screening for “The Exorcist: Believer” and this movie just falls FLAT. Absolutely nothing works. It’s all just recycled ideas.

The mixed reviews that greeted “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” went beyond just critics, as even Marvel fans aimed their ire towards this misbegotten project.

Paul Verhoeven perfected the Phillip K Dick story with his 1990 film — sometimes, you just shouldn’t mess with greatness.

Another “Blade” rewrite has now been called by Marvel boss Kevin Feige, this one is said to be a total revamp of the last draft. I’m not sure what’s going on with this project, but Feige doesn’t seem too impressed by what he’s seen so far.

I love how we have a new David Cronenberg film to look forward to next year. It’s called “The Shrouds.”

Get ready for some major controversy to emerge once this one kicks off production and eventually gets released.

We are exactly one year away from Todd Phillips’ “Joker: Folie à Deux” being released in theaters. Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix are set to star in the sequel, which is said to be a musical.

According to Variety, and it’s quite clear by just looking at the current numbers, “Oppenheimer” will not be breaking the billion dollar mark at the global box office.

Last month, Ryusuke Hamaguchi premiered “Evil Does Not Exist” at Venice. The film now has a trailer. Janus Films have not set up a release date just yet. There are rumors that it’ll be released in early 2024.

SAG-AFTRA sat down with the studios last night and restarted talks on a deal for the actors. After last week’s WGA deal, there’s some much-needed positivity in the air.

Deadline had originally reported that Clooney’s “The Boys in the Boat” had received such high test screening scores that MGM decided to give it a coveted awards-bait release date on Christmas Day.

Back in July, I reported that Alfonso Cuarón was supposed to shoot his next film, “Jane,” in the fall. Then the SAG-AFTRA strike happened and I wasn’t entirely sure what was next for the film.

The trailer for Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” is out. It sure plays like a Sofia Coppola movie. A girl’s coming of age story. That indie rock soundtrack. I’ll be catching up with this one over the weekend.

I wrote last week about the 10-year anniversary of Alfonso Cuaròn‘s “Gravity.” On Thursday, Cuaròn will be at a BFI event in London to present the film to an audience and participate in a Q&A session afterwards.

NYFF boss Dennis Lim tells NYT’s Manhola Dargis that the fest absolutely loved Scorsese’s film and that he made a real effort at nabbing a North American premiere for ‘Killers’ :

So, clearly, Hayao Miyazaki is not done. Some of the reviews for “The Boy and the Heron” were calling it his “swan song”, but get that thought out of your head immediately.

Azazel Jacobs’ “His Three Daughters” was bought for just under $7 million. No word yet on whether it’ll be released this year. 

The trailer claims Woo is “one of the best action directors of all-time.”? Well, is he?

Macon Blair’s remake of “The Toxic Avenger,” starring Peter Dinklage, has a teaser. Blair directed the solid Sundance winner “I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore.”

There have been a lot of bad ‘X-Men’ movies: “X-Men: The Last Stand” (‘06), “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” (‘09), “X-Men: Apocalypse” (‘16), “Dark Phoenix” (‘19), “The New Mutants” (‘20) …