A new Mike Leigh movie is always a cause for celebration. However, there’s some baggage that comes with his latest one, “Hard Truths,” which was rejected by Cannes and Venice.

I was wondering what was happening with Cary Fukunaga’s “77 Blackout,” which was supposed to star Tom Hardy and Mahershala Ali. It seems like Fukunaga has put that project aside and is now set to direct another film with Hardy.

When asked about why he abruptly left Todd Haynes’ movie, he didn’t storm out of the room, nor did he seem pissed off. Instead, no doubt with the aid of his PR team, he concocted one hell of a world salad answer

Over the past few months, Luca Guadagnino (“Challengers”) is rumored to have been in talks to direct a movie within Peter Safran and James Gunn’s DCU.

Earlier this summer, Doug Liman’s “The Instigators,” starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck, proved to be a major streaming success over at Apple TV.

It was promised yesterday, and now there’s confirmation that David Fincher is set to direct “Bitterroot” (formerly known as Big Hole), a Western crime thriller for Netflix (via What’s on Netflix’s Casey Moore).

Robert Zemeckis’ “Here” will have its world premiere at the AFI Film Festival on October 25. It is being screened there as the festival’s Centerpiece selection.

“Alpha” tackles a government approved experiment on a death row inmate gone awry. They’ve turned him into apex predator and Paul’s FBI agent has been assigned to track him down.

With Venice, Telluride, TIFF and NYFF lineups locked in and screening, these are the films we haven’t heard much about. They’ve all been shot and completed; some were even supposed to come out last year.

An ‘Old Guard’ sequel has been filmed, production wrapped in August 2022, but it’s remained dubiously absent from the Netflix calendar. What’s taking so long for it to be released?

We already knew that Greta Gerwig's next film, following “Barbie,” would be an adaptation of CS Lewis's “The Chronicles of Narnia” for Netflix, and it looks like casting has finally started for the film.

According to Deadline, Cuarón, who calls “Disclaimer” a “7-hour film,” even though it technically clocks in at 5.5. hours, is “studying the possibility of creating a version of his series” that could maybe qualify for Oscars.

The always reliable Kasey Moore over at What’s on Netflix is reporting that, in addition to “Squid Game: America,” David Fincher is looking to direct another new original, and unannounced, movie for Netflix.

“Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery” has a budget of $210M. That's 5x more than the original. Is this going to be the most expensive whodunit ever produced?

Edward Berger’s “Conclave,” which seems to be the most acclaimed film at Telluride, did not show up on the Lido, and Venice boss Alberto Barbera has just explained why …

Here’s another big title that’s just screened at Venice: Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door,” starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton.