Who exactly is willing to dish out big money for Bill Condon’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman”? The Jennifer Lopez starring movie musical premiered to tepid reviews, and that’s with a reported budget of $60M. A distributor still hasn’t been found.

Tensions are said to be high between Gascón and Netflix, which invested $30M+ in the film’s awards campaign. It’s become such a dire situation that the streamer is now refusing to provide transport and accommodation to Gascón.

Just a few weeks after the trailer for James Gunn’s “Superman” got launched, Marvel has decided to riskily unveil first footage of its big 2025 juggernaut, Matt Shakman’s “The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” and quite frankly, there’s nothing mind-blowing here.

Ari Aster (“Hereditary” and “Midsommar”) is coming off 2023’s polarizing “Beau is Afraid.” A24 has produced all four of his films, including the upcoming “Eddington.”

French actress Juliette Binoche has been named the president of the jury for the 2025 Cannes film festival. She succeeds last year’s president, Greta Gerwig, whose jury gave the Palme d’Or to “Anora.”

A recent listing has “28 Years Later: Part 3” starting production on March 31, 2025. The entire trilogy will have been shot and completed by the time Boyle starts to do press on the first one in June.

A “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” reboot is close to having a pilot greenlit over at Hulu, with Sarah Michelle Gellar set to reprise the iconic titular role.

Netflix is attempting to steer its $30M+ Oscar campaign for “Emilia Perez” in the right direction, and this means, quite wisely, ignoring that its controversial star Karla Sofia Gascón was even in the movie.

This very strange awards season only got weirder, and more entertaining, with the recent implosion of the “Emilia Perez” campaign, for which Netflix spent anywhere between $30M-$40M. It’s certainly not winning Best Picture.

Neon’s using the same template as with ’ “Longlegs.” Cryptic marketing aside, the review embargo has lifted, three weeks before the film is released, but the trades are again not chiming in. It’s only been screened for a select few outlets.

A new report claims Emmy-winning “Shōgun” star Anna Sawai is being eyed for the role of Yoko Ono in Sam Mendes’ quartet of films about the Beatles. The InSneider broke the report, and the potential casting would be the first role outside the band members.

‘Canrival’ is now going to the EFM Berlin Film Market in search of buyers. Italian producer and entrepreneur Andrea Iervolino, who has now boarded the project, says the film could shoot as early as April. Iervolino will also help finance Gilliam’s passion project.

The most acclaimed film of Sundance 2025 has been picked up for U.S. distribution, no doubt an awards campaign will be mounted for it by the fall.

NarniaWeb has obtained a copy of the casting call for the leads in Greta Gerwig’s adaptation, confirming two children, a boy and a girl, will portray characters that are 10 or 11 years old.

“I’m having an existential crisis,” Pearce admitted to The Times. “I watched ‘Memento’ the other day and I’m still depressed. I’m shit in that movie.

More casting on Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.” With the already-reported Elliot Page, additionally joining the ensemble are Himesh Patel, Bill Irwin and Samantha Morton.

Written and directed by Drew Hancock, “Companion” nabbed $1.1M in Thursday previews. It’s now projected to earn $11M this weekend. That’s decent for a film that’s reported to have cost $10M.