“Gladiator II” hasn’t even been released yet, and apparently Ridley Scott already has plans to turn the franchise into a trilogy. I'm not even kidding you. He's comparing the whole thing to the way 'The Godfather' trilogy unfolded.

In his 1997 review of James Cameron’s “Titanic,” Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers wrote that the film was “shot with a poet's eye and a tin ear for dialogue.” This type of criticism of Cameron’s writing has been around for decades.

The film, directed by Josh Cooley (“Toy Story 4”), is expected to take in $40M in its opening weekend, and will thus dethrone “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” for the #1 spot. The budget for ‘Transformer One’ is said to be around $75M.

If you haven’t seen Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beasts,” it’s well worth checking out. It made a major splash at Cannes 2022 and cemented Sorogoyen as a major talent to watch.

The 72nd San Sebastian Film Festival is set to open tonight with Audrey Diwan’s "Emmanuelle." The film had been rejected by Cannes and Venice before finally settling for the splashy San Sebastian opener slot.

Here’s some semi-concerning news about Matt Reeves’ “The Batman: Part II,” which is supposed to be shooting in early 2025. Reeves tells Collider that DP Greig Fraser’s presence on the sequel remains a question mark.

The film was shot on an iPhone 15. ‘28 Years’ cost $75M to produce which makes it the priciest film ever to be shot on an iPhone. Boyle is joined by his go-to cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire, 28 Days Later, Trainspotting, 127 Hours).

It looks like Francis Lawrence has dropped out as director of the upcoming Sublime biopic. Lawrence is now officially busy making another ‘Hunger Games’ movie, and has been replaced by indie helmer Justin Cho (“Blue Bayou,” “Gook,” “Ms. Purple”)

If you’re wondering what Sean Durkin has been cooking after “The Iron Claw,” he’s supposedly hopped on-board HBO’s “Lanterns,” and will be directing a “handful” of episodes for the limited series.

I wasn’t sure about the status of Solondz’s next project, “Love Child,” starring Elizabeth Olsen, and earlier in the year we had learned about a potential shoot in the summer. That clearly hadn’t materialized. What gives?

Variety’s Clayton Davis is reporting that Karla Sofía Gascón (“Emilia Perez”) will officially be campaigned as Lead Actress for the Oscars. Gascón’s co-stars, Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana, will be pushed in the Supporting Actress category.

Last fall, A24 hopped onboard Song’s next project. I had originally reported that her sophomore effort would be the romcom “Materialists.” The film wrapped its NYC production in June and had screened for a select few last night.

This cult following of the first film has allowed Entertainment One to greenlight a sequel, it’s called “Den of Thieves 2: Pantera,” and much of the cast is back for this one, including Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson Jr.

Josh O’Connor is apparently attached to star in the film. Plot details have also been disclosed and it sounds like it’s a heist movie, which is a genre Reichardt already tackled in 2014’s “Night Moves”:

"Sing Sing” has quietly dropped on VOD. There was no advanced warning, no advertising, or heads up. For a film that has the necessary critical and punditry backing to be an Oscar horse, this is all just really baffling to me.

It’s great to see Jeremy Saulnier having some commercial success. His “Rebel Ridge” has been #1 on the Netflix charts for two weeks now. It’s a “hit,” having amassed 38.6M views in its second week of release.

Christian Tafdrup, the Danish director of the original “Speak No Evil” isn’t too happy about the remake, specifically how Hollywood rewrote the “entire ending.” Tafdrup told the Danish radio show Kulturen that he was unimpressed with the film.

UPDATE: Six weeks later, and the trades are finally catching up on Jon Watts' "first-look deal". Sneider was way ahead of curve when it came to this story. Also, why is Deadline reporting it as an “exclusive”?