Well, that didn’t take long. As expected, Disney has just fired Jonathan Majors from the handful of Marvel-related projects he was supposed to star in.

Although he remains secretive about it, he’s saying it’s a Ping-Pong movie. Correct me if I’m wrong, but weren’t the Safdies rumored to direct a Ping Pong movie starring Chalamet? Those rumors quickly got squashed.

Producer Kristie Macosko Krieger has now given us an update on the current status of ‘Bullitt’ and it’s a positive one. The script is almost finished.

Actor Jonathan Majors has been found guilty by a New York jury of assault in the third degree and guilty of harassment.

Speaking to The Mary Sue, Charlie Hunnam revealed that he is working with Netflix on a sequel, but that it’s in the very early stages of development.

Now, this is great casting. We have our first look at Willem Dafoe as a “crazy vampire hunter” in Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu.” (12.25.23)

Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya’s “The Kitchen” had its world premiere at the 67th BFI London Film Festival on October 15, 2023. The reviews out of that fest resulted in decent reviews — 66 on Metacritic and 83% on Rotten Tomatoes.

TheWrap’s Steve Pond is reporting that 64 voters for the Golden Globe Awards “are threatening to withhold their final ballots after being told that they will not be given tickets to the Globes ceremony in January.”

Warner Bros’ “Wonka” hit the high end of projections and grossed an estimated $38.5M domestically this weekend. The film, which also amassed $53.6M internationally, now has its worldwide total standing at $151.4M.

It turns out that, after nearly three years of filming, “Blossoms” will premiere on Chinese television in ten days, on 12.27.23. The series is a whopping 30 episodes of around 50 minutes each — this totals 25 hours of television.

Leigh, who is 80, started shooting this mysterious new film in May and, I was told, production wrapped in August. I can now also report that the title of this new film is “Hard Truths.”

Tarantino backed away for the simple reason that he didn’t want ‘Star Trek’ to be his final film, having already determined that he would direct 10 movies and then retire.

Disney’s “Lilo & Stitch”, an upcoming American live-action/CGI remake of Disney's 2002 animated film, will be sent straight to Disney+ in June 2024.

Would you believe it if I told you that 77-year-old Sylvester Stallone is set to return for a sequel to his 1993 action thriller “Cliffhanger”?

A few weeks ago, I had posted my review of Sam Esmail’s “Leave the World Behind.” I did not expect it to become this much of a hot button topic.

One such list has arrived. I always look forward to Film Comment’s year-end poll of critics, filmmakers and curators. This year’s results are interesting to sift through. A lot of unusual choices, and some obvious ones.

I saw George Clooney’s “The Boys in the Boat” a few weeks ago via screener link, and it doesn’t really work. It’s very conventional. One might easily use the word “vanilla” to describe this film and you’d get a good sense of its overall vibe.

The short story is being described as a template for an action/thriller in the vein of “Dog Day Afternoon” and “Speed”. It does sound like a smaller-scaled film for Scott, who just turned 86.

I’ve put this story under “rumor” because I refuse to believe that we won’t eventually be seeing this one, but a few signs are pointing towards it not happening.

Why am I covering this film? For two reasons: the title is outrageous, and it’s also set to have its world premiere at Sundance next month.