On Saturday, Garland (“Civil War“) told The Guardian that he wasn’t “planning to direct again in the foreseeable future”. He’s now clarifying with IndieWire that he meant it as only taking a break from filmmaking, and not retiring.

O’Connell is reported to play the “racist white villain” in the film, which is set in the ‘30s South, centers on vampires, with dual twin roles for Jordan, and the filmmaking heavy in “anime influences.”

Warner Bros. has announced that a new ‘Matrix’ installment is in the works. Drew Goddard will write and direct ‘The Matrix 5.’ This will be the first ‘Matrix’ film not directed by a Wachowski.

UPDATE: My intel was correct. Dupieux’s film will be opening the 77th Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, May 14. It will be playing out of competition. It’s been retitled “Le Deuxième Acte” (“The Second Act”).

Roger Ebert’s Matt Zoler Seitz is tackling the lost movies of 2020: the films from early on in the pandemic that deserved a better fate, but were nixed from theatrical release and relegated to being streamed at home.

Here’s another take from Paul Schrader, this one about Ava Duvernay’s “Origin,” which he really likes, and how it got undeservedly shunned by the Oscars:

There’s major buzz for “Blitz,” which, as of now, isn’t expected to premiere at Cannes, with a fall launch being eyed for McQueen’s WWII epic, possibly a premiere at Telluride.

“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” is being theatrically released on May 10. Deadline’s Anthony D'Alessandro is reporting that ‘Kingdom’ is tracking at a $54M-$61M opening weekend.

Victor Erice’s “Close Your Eyes,” which is a lock for my 2024 top 10 list, has finally been acquired by a U.S. distributor. The Film Movement will be releasing the film in the current or next quarter of 2024.

A trailer for “The Beast” was released in January. Bertrand Bonello’s critically acclaimed sci-fi mindbender, starring Lea Seydoux and George MacKay, is being released this coming Friday, April 5.

We already tackled the most underrated films of the 2000s and 2010s. Now it’s time for the 1990s, and what a decade it was for U.S. filmmaking.

Raimi is now explicitly saying, without hesitation, that he wants to direct the next ‘Avengers’ flick (via ScreenGeek). No formal offer has been given to Raimi, but he tells the outlet “I hope they do.”

A “romantic” first poster for “Joker: Folie à Deux” has been unveiled by Warner Bros. It looks photoshopped. At first, I thought it was fan-made. It doesn’t necessarily entice us into seeing the film.

A Forbes report is saying that Disney lost $134 million on ‘Dial of Destiny.’ The fifth film in the ‘Indiana Jones’ franchise was a colossal failure, and part of Disney’s disastrous 2023 movie year.

Park Chan-wook has set up his next film. It’s set to start production in the fall of 2024. Lee Byung Hun and Son Ye Jin are in talks to star in Park's upcoming film.

Jesse Eisenberg won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for his critically-acclaimed “A Real Pain,” which he also directed, and the film went on to be bought by Searchlight for a cool $10 million.

Production has officially started on “Honey Don’t” in California. The cast for this latest one, which is said to be a detective noir, will be composed of Aubrey Plaza, Margaret Qualley and Chris Evans.

Andrew Stanton, the Oscar-winning filmmaker known for Pixar classics “WALL-E” and “Finding Nemo,” is directing “In the Blink of Eye,” a sci-fi drama for Searchlight Pictures. The film wrapped production