Last night, Bong Joon ho’s first film in six years had its world premiere in London. As with every time a film screens early, and people go to social media for likes and reposts, take these “Mickey 17” notices with a slight grain of salt.

UPDATE: This passes the smell test. The Hot Mic’s Jeff Sneider has Margaret Qualley up for the role of Rogue in Marvel’s X-Men reboot. Qualley, a star-in-the-making, is coming off “The Substance,” and is about to shoot Ridley Scott’s “The Dog Stars.”

Less than three weeks before its release, “Mickey 17” is currently tracking to have an $18M opening weekend in North America. Not great.

“Green Book” is nowhere near the same mediocre league as 2006 Oscar winner “Crash.” It’s also better than other 21st century winners such as “Coda,” “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” “Chicago,” “The Artist,” and “Argo.”

‘The Batman: Part 2’ had originally set up a summer 2025 shoot in the UK. Scratch off those plans. Pattinson is now telling Deadline that production will only begin at the end of the year.

Guadagnino tells W Magazine that his buzzy film will be released in the fall, which means we might not get to see this one premiere at Cannes. Amazon/MGM is probably preparing an awards campaign for the film, and an inevitable premiere at Venice.

I’m hearing Robert Elswitt is the DP on James L. Brooks’ “Ella McCay” — he’s coming off the beautiful black & white photography he produced on Netflix’s “Ripley.” Elswit used to be Paul Thomas Anderson’s go-to cinematographer.

A source — who has worked on several Marvel movies — is now spilling the beans to Vulture about the high degree of difficulty in making the film, which included multiple reshoots, and action set pieces that ran up the budget.

Kevin Costner has decided to side with the Netflix algorithm, which recently had ‘Horizon’ as the most streamed film in January, on any platform, with over 40M hours watched, and proclaim the film “one of the biggest” of 2024.

I was wondering what was going on with this one, shot in early 2023, and stuck in post production limbo ever since. It turns out that a straight to streaming fate has landed upon Geremy Jasper’s “O’Dessa.”

A sequel to “The Accountant” is officially releasing in theaters on April 25. Amazon will produce the film. Gavin O'Connor is directing and Ben Affleck will reprise his role. A trailer has just been released for the film.

“Remain” will shoot in August. Shyamalan is working with a new DP on this one as Adolpho Veloso, who shot the acclaimed “Train Dreams,” is billed as the cinematographer.

Francis Lawrence, who directed the 2005 film, has just given us the most promising update to date, and he seems to be hinting at an imminent and official announcement coming soon.

THR is reporting that none other than Ryan Murphy has rescued Ellis’ series from development hell. Murphy is apparently closing in on a deal to take over the whole project.

Margaret Qualley, Josh Brolin and Guy Pearce have joined the cast of Ridley Scott’s “The Dog Stars,” with Jacob Elordi starring as the lead. Production is scheduled to begin at the end of April in Italy.

This is beyond just a remake, its intentions are to be as identical as possible to the 2010 animated original. The shots are also framed in the exact same way.

No surprise, “Captain America: Brave New World” is being panned by critics. We all saw this coming. As it stands, ‘Brave New World’ has a 43 on Metacritic (based on 37 reviews), and 52% on RT.

Shot on an iPhone during the COVID-19 lockdown of 2020, Besson’s “secret” film is being tagged as a “love story for the ages,” starring newcomers Matilda Price and Luke Stanton Eddy.

The untitled project is the most expensive production in Korean film history. The costs, translated into USD, would be that of around $60M. Sony Pictures is rumored to be circling the project with plans for a worldwide release.

Speaking of comebacks. We’re seeing quite a few of them taking shape. It’s not just Will Smith, or even Armie Hammer, who are in the middle of cleansing their past misdeeds. Jonathan Majors is also in the middle of a cleanse.