This is great news for a film that’s not IP and is auteur driven. The budget on this one was $10-12M. We’re looking at a major win for original filmmaking.

The film, written by Robert Wade and Neal Purvis, is said to follow a former European spy who accepts a mission from a Japanese businessman to take down the head of a Yakuza boss in Japan.

I did not expect Malik Hassan Sayeed to be the cinematographer on Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt.” This might not be news to some, but I thought Sayeed had retired from cinema.

Zoë Kravitz is in talks to join Austin Butler in Darren Aronofsky’s crime thriller “Caught Stealing” for Sony Pictures. Principal photography is set to commence in September.

The Queens-born filmmaker tackles a “culture in deep trouble” where “cinema is an instrument for profit only” and a “system that has not yet figured out how to monetize integrity”.

Kevin Costner’s “Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 2” won’t be released in theaters on August 16. The film has been pulled from the schedule.

An ever-so-desperate industry is trying to kickstart another “Barbenheimer” phenomenon this fall. Good luck with that. It ain’t happening.

The embargo has lifted on Lee Isaac-Chung’s “Twisters.” I’m only watching the film next Monday. You can find the reviews over at Metacritic where “Twisters” so far holds a 73 Metascore (based on 14 critics).

Macon Blair’s remake of “The Toxic Avenger,” starring Peter Dinklage, released a teaser in October. Ever since, it’s been crickets, we haven’t heard much about it.

In the 24 hours since the trailer dropped, it has received a whopping 11 million views. By all accounts, it went viral, and people are definitely talking about it. So, why the backlash?

Huppert and Gray back together again after their Cannes 2009 debacle? After he, supposedly, called her a “fascist b*tch”? This should be fun to watch.

It's just been rated R for strong violence, grisly images, sexual content, some nudity and language. This signifies clear intent on the part of Apple TV to make it available on their platform.

Back in May 2023, A24 acquired domestic rights for John Crowley’s “We Live in Time,” starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh, which had been shooting in London. A trailer has been released.

I’m going to go ahead and pretend that Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut is still called “Pussy Island.” They should have kept that title and not renamed it “Blink Twice.”

It’s now been confirmed that ‘Shrek 5’ will release on July 1, 2026, in theaters. Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz and Eddie Murphy will all be back to reprise their roles.

In conversation with The New Yorker, Nicolas Cage claims that he’s nearing the end of his film acting career. Say it ain’t so.

Parker Finn’s upcoming remake of 1981’s “Possession” kickstarted a bidding war, between numerous studios, including A24, Netflix, Warner Bros, Sony and Paramount.

The trades have finally started to report on Sam Raimi’s “Send Help,” a project, I had written about way back in October 2023. It’s set to be Raimi’s next directorial effort.

We have a trailer for Taika Waitit’s dwarf-less remake of Terry Gilliam’s much-beloved 1983 film “Time Bandits.” It sure looks like a Waititi production.

We all saw this coming. Kevin Costner’s 3-hour Western, “Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter One” will be available to watch at home as it is listed for VOD release on July 16. That’s only 19 days after its initial theatrical launch.