Coming off last year’s “Armageddon Time,” James Gray is currently prepping his next project — a film about John F Kennedy’s youthful days as a Navy commander during World War II.

Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav met with Paramount CEO Bob Bakish on Tuesday in New York City to discuss a possible merger, Axios is reporting.

Washington’s directed four films, so far, “The Great Debaters,” “Antoine Fisher,” “Fences” and “A Journal For Jordan.” The latter got trounced by critics when it was released in 2021.

I had reported in September about the disastrous reactions that Chris Pine’s “Poolman” screening had received at TIFF.

Ben Stiller will star in “Nutcrackers,” his first lead role in over six years. Stiller’s last major role was in Mike White’s “Brad’s Status,” released in 2017.

I guess Warner Bros has another major success. “Wonka,” again, defied expectations and grossed $6 million on Tuesday — an impressive weekday total.

In Japan, a black and white monochrome version, retitled “Godzilla-1.0/C,” will be released on January 12, 2024. Fangoria is hinting that this monochrome version might also hit U.S. theaters early next year.

Albert Serra’s next film was announced this morning, it’s called “Out of This World” and will begin production this summer, with a 2025 premiere being eyed. This is set to be his English-language debut.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa already has “Serpent’s Path” ready to go in 2024, but it seems as though he’s already completed another film. Screen Daily reports Kurosawa just shot a new feature, “Chime”, which stars Mutsuo Yoshioka.

Earlier in the summer, I had mentioned Frank Darabont was a director who had gone eerily quiet for over a decade now. That will soon change as Darabont is in talks to direct episodes for the final season of Netflix series “Stranger Things”.

Contrary to rumors, Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two” won’t be premiering at the Berlin Film Festival. A well-informed source tells me that it never intended to do the Berlinale, even though the film is in the can and ready to go.

“Wolfs”, written and directed by Jon Watts, stars Brad Pitt and George Clooney as “lone wolf fixers” assigned to the same gig. It turns out that Watts, Clooney and Pitt had such a blast making this film that they’re already working on a sequel.

Critics are being too kind to “The Color Purple,” but I get it, it’s the holiday season, let’s celebrate movies, even the mediocre ones. The result is a 70 on Metacritic and 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The DCEU ends, not with a bang but a whimper. There will be no red carpet premiere for “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom”, no afterparty, just a small pre-reception and "fan screening” for James Wan’s film.

Ostlund was asked about his thoughts on Cannes announcing that Greta Gerwig would preside over the jury of next year’s 77th edition of the festival, and then, barely answering the question, he just goes on this anti-“Barbie” rant.

UPDATE: Shooting has wrapped in Hong Kong and a first look image has been released — Merlant can be seen lying naked on the bed of a luxurious hotel room.

Rose Glass’ “Love Lies Bleeding,” produced by A24, now has a trailer, and it’s bloody chaotic. The film will have its world premiere at Sundance next month.

Principal photography on “Spaceman” began in April 19, 2021 and wrapped on July 1, 2021 in the Czech Republic. Yes, when it finally starts streaming, it’ll have been almost three years since production had wrapped on the film.

Things seem be revving up when it comes to Mann’s actual next project. The Guardian is reporting that Mann’s “Heat” sequel is definitely happening. In fact, it’s going to be his next film.

I’m hearing Universal/Blumhouse’s “Five Nights at Freddy‘s” will have its sequel shoot in the spring of 2024. A Halloween 2024 release date is being eyed for this second film — talk about a quickie!