Shot in 2023, Andrew Patterson’s “The Rivals of Amziah King” will finally be having its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in March. Kurt Russell and Matthew McConaughey stars in Patterson’s sophomore effort. A first look image was released, and can be seen above.

The most hated man in Mexico, Jacques Audiard, is distancing himself from his embattled “Emilia Perez” star Karla Sofía Gascón, amid the implosion of her Oscar campaign after racist and controversial tweets resurfaced.

McDonagh is coming off ‘Banshees of Inisherin’ which received nine Oscar noms, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. His other works include “In Bruges,” and “Seven Psychopaths.”

Ford is now tackling the film that resulted in $130M losses for Disney, expect unlike Mangold, he doesn’t have a theory, he’s just brushing it off as a bump on the road.

The beginning of the month brings out our second spitball of this coming May’s Cannes Film Festival. I’ll be writing one of these every month, with updates in between, until the announcement of the lineup in April.

Every film from non-fiction filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, 95, is a gift. It’s already damn-near miraculous that he managed to direct his last one; “Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros,” which clocked in at 4 hours, and was released in 2023.

While Netflix keeps touting gains in subscribers — 300M+ and counting —- Disney+ is bleeding out as it lost 700,000 subscribers over the final three months of 2024, which is what we learned this morning from the Walt Disney Company’s fourth quarter earnings call.

Great cast, mediocre trailer. Then again, with Edwards at the helm, it certainly can’t be worse than ‘Fallen Kingdom’ or ‘Dominion,’ right? Some of the visuals at least look inspired.

The crowning jewel of Sundance 2025 was Geeta Gandbhir’s ”The Perfect Neighbor,” a true crime nonfiction, shot almost entirely from police bodycam footage.

The trailer for “Hurry Up Tomorrow” has been released. Looks like Shults hasn’t tampered down on the virtuosic style of his previous films — if anything he’s upped the ante. I’m very much looking forward to this one.

A curious development in the saga to bring “Assassination,” co-written by David Mamet and Nicholas Celozzi, to the big screen (via Deadline). The film is supposed to start production in April.

Here’s another remake, or as industry folk like to call it these days, a “reimagining.” Sidney Lumet’s 1964 cold-war classic “Fail-Safe” will be remade by Joe Berlinger, the director known for the classic true-crime docuseries “Paradise Lost.”

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.