Six years after Steve Rodgers handed over “Captain America” reigns to Sam Wilson, Aka The Falcon, in “Avengers: Endgame”, Wilson (Anthony Mackie) will be the lead of “Captain America: Brave New World.”

A Ridley Scott film that seems to have garnered a large cult following over the years is 2013’s "The Counselor," which had a screenplay penned by the late Cormac McCarthy.

The report goes on to describe Marvel’s control of filmmakers as one that brings in all these “journeyman directors who would do what the studio wanted, or these people who they could, frankly, bully.”

Netflix acquired North American and U.K. rights to Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Perez,” which premiered at Cannes last month. It went on to win the Jury Prize and Best Actress for its three leads.

Multiple accounts make the claim for Charlie Chaplin’s “City Lights” to be the actual record-holder. Chaplin shot the three-minute scene where The Tramp meets the Flower Girl a mind-boggling 342 times.

I’m utterly devastated to hear about the passing of Shelly Duvall. She truly made a mark on cinema in the ‘70s and ‘80s.

A black & white version of the film, titled “Godzilla Minus One Minus Color,” was released in very limited fashion in January. It will be available to stream on Netflix in August.

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.