No surprise, “Despicable Me 4” is crushing it at the box-office. The Illumination/Universal animated film grossed $28 million on Wednesday.

Michael Mann has just joined Letterboxd. His follower count should be exploding at any given moment. To celebrate the occasion, Mann has decided to list his “14 favorite films.”

Deadline’s originally projected opening for “Deadpool & Wolverine” was a ridiculous $200M. Now THR actually has it at $165M, and that number sounds a little more reasonable.

Soderbergh, “fascinated” by her Eras Tour concert film, has apparently been studying Swift, and researched all behind-the-scenes chaos that comes in being the biggest pop star in the world.

Italy has been a total refuge for the legendary actor. Last year, they honored him with their most prestigious national film prize, the Stella della Mole Award for lifetime achievement.

Just because ‘Beverly Hills Cop 4’ is one of the better Netflix original action flicks does not mean it’s a great movie, hell, that doesn’t even mean it’s a “good” movie.

Franco told an audience at Karlovy Vary that he’s taking his time with the film and would rather be satisfied by the final cut than rush it out to festival audiences.

Robert Towne, who turned screenwriters into stars after his Oscar-winning work on “Chinatown,” has died. He was 89.

Joseph Kosinski’s F1 movie, tentatively titled “Apex,” is continuing to film at Formula One events. Fresh off “Top Gun: Maverick,” Kosinski’s film stars Brad Pitt, and is being produced by Apple.

The $110M film, some of which Costner personally financed, dropped 62% on Friday, and has now fallen to fourth place, behind “Bad Boys: Ride or Die.”

Ever since its Cannes premiere, I haven’t really written much about “Kinds of Kindness”. The film seems to have been met with a shrug by critics and audiences — 64 on Metacritic.

A tentative November 1st date has apparently been set up for the Marvel reboot, which still doesn’t have a director attached to it — Yann Demange (“71”) recently exited the project.

Back in May, I had mentioned, even before its lineup was revealed, that Cannes rejected “Emmanuelle”– –Diwan’s follow-up to the Golden Lion-winning “Happening.”

Tim Burton‘s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” will open the 81st Venice Film Festival. The film will be screened out of competition on Wednesday, August 28.

I’ve already reported on both of these films, and the rousing early reactions they have received (here and here). Hammond is backing up my intel with his own.

After Christopher Nolan, Denis Villeneuve, Danny Boyle, and Matthew Vaughn, there’s a new name circulating around town.