“Oppenheimer” DP Hoyte van Hoytema has won the American Society of Cinematographers, the most prestigious awards body of the craft. I guess the ASC loved all the close-up shots in Nolan’s film.

This past January, Mann did confirm his plans to shoot “Heat 2” in 2024. A few days later, he mentioned that he wanted to shoot it on film — something he hasn’t done since the aughts.

This weekend was all about “Dune: Part Two,” and not much else. And, for good reason. The sequel to the 2021 film, based on Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel, brought in $81 million between Thursday and Sunday.

In what amounted to a considerable upset, Cord Jefferson took home the USC Scripter Award for his “American Fiction” screenplay, besting its closest competitor, Christopher Nolan and “Oppenheimer.”

I gather some of our readers went to see the film this weekend. What did you think? My review was positive. It’s an upgrade of the first one — both visually and story-wise.

For some reason, journeyman director Renny Harlin has managed to convince a studio to let him direct three new ‘Strangers’ movies (yes, three), all hitting theaters in 2024.

I didn’t expect Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” to roll its cameras this early, but a Production Weekly listing has production on the A24-produced film set to begin in April.

No offense to ‘Across the Spider-Verse,’ which I liked, but, for the longest time, Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man 2” was known as not only the best Spidey movie ever made, but also one of the best comic book movies ever made.

Denis Villeneuve shot both ‘Dune’ movies back-to-back, without even an hour in between. He’s telling THR “I physically need to recover for a couple of weeks.”

Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” tanked at the box-office, making $63 million against a production budget of a little under $100 million. The film ultimately lost Paramount an estimated $87 million.

“Dune: Part II” earned $12 million in Thursday previews — it’s the biggest amount any movie has taken in since “Barbie” and it beat out the “Oppenheimer” total by half a million dollars.

The ‘Legacy’ has been dropped — it’s now called “Superman.” James Gunn explained that his sudden reversal on the title only came after locking the final draft of the script.

Earlier today, Deadline reported the predictable, that Todd Phillips’ “Joker: Folie à Deux” was “widely anticipated” to have its world premiere this September on the Lido.

They’re back. The Daniels, 21st century Godards of fart and dildo jokes, directed 2022’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once” to total domination of the 95th Oscars.

A social media user flagged an article in the Columbus Business Journal which included the claim that James Gunn’s “Superman: Legacy” would have a massive budget of $363 million …

“Dune: Part Two” actress Rebecca Ferguson has set the internet on fire with a whodunnit that has turned out to be more entertaining than any of Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot movies.