Place your bets, and forget about the rest of the field, it’s come down to two films for the best picture Oscar: “Anora” and “Conclave.” Which will come out on top?

Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook is praising Robert Pattinson's performance as the lead in Bong Joon ho’s “Mickey 17.” Pattinson plays various different incarnations of the same character in Bong’s sci-fi film.

In a 2024 New Yorker piece tackling Mattel’s splash into the film industry, one exec described A24’s upcoming ‘Barney’ movie as “surrealistic” and not unlike the work of “Adaptation” and “Being John Malkovich” duo Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze.

Mimi Cave’s “Holland” was shot in early 2023. The film stars Nicole Kidman, and set to premiere at SXSW before going straight to Prime Video on March 27. The film now has a first trailer.

It was inevitably going to happen. Netflix is enemy numero uno in the theatrical business, and the fact that they can just offer one of their titles for theatrical exhibition, without any repercussions, is rubbing many industry folk the wrong way.

Puck is reporting that Kathleen Kennedy will step down from running LucasFilm at the end of the year. Kennedy has been running LucasFilm for 14 years.

An update on David Ayer’s “Heart of the Beast,” starring Brad Pitt. It’s shooting in March and the great JK Simmons (“Whiplash”) has just joined the cast.

The film, adapted from Iddo Geffen’s short story “Debby’s Dream House,” continues Kaufman’s fascination, and blurring, of dreams with reality. The story follows a man who manufactures dreams for people but ultimately begins creating nightmares for them.

James Gunn says Matt Reeves still hasn’t submitted a script for “The Batman: Part II.” The goal is to shoot the damn thing by “the end of the year,” but there’s no certainty.

I’ve already reported on Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” having recently test screened, back in late January. I have more plot details on the film. This will be a brief summary of what awaits us in the PTA’s latest.

We now have some concrete, and more official, news concerning Terry Gilliam’s next film which is now simply titled “Carnival.” Gilliam had previously mentioned that this would be his “swan song,” but he needed around $40M to make it happen.

What do our readers think? Chalamet is 29 and already thinking about his legacy. Despite the legacy, I respect the ambition. Chalamet’s filmography already includes stellar performances in “Call Me By Your Name,” “Lady Bird,” “Dune” and “A Complete Unknown”

Since the film is gearing up for a German release on April 3, a trailer has finally been released for “Eden.” We need a streamer, preferably Netflix, to come and save this film — there’s no doubt in my mind that its story, a meaty and Survivor-like melodrama, will be a hit on the streamer.

If László Nemes waited seven years before directing “Orphan,” which premieres at either Venice or Cannes later this year, then he won’t be waiting that long to helm his next film. It’s already been set up.

“Conclave” won Best Ensemble. It’s now back to being win-competitive in terms of the Best Picture Oscar. I’m still betting on “Anora” to prevail come next Sunday, but at this point anything can happen.

“White Chicks” was littered with the most politically incorrect jokes imaginable. And yet, it was a horrifically watchable affair, the same way Tommy Wiseau’s “The Room” or Ed Wood’s “Plan 9 From Out Of Space” were terribly-executed pearls in cinematic history.

Guadagnino has given an update, for the first time, on his “American Psycho” project and makes the surprising revelation that he’d never seen the 2000 film adaptation.

In a recent interview with Collider, Star Wars actress Daisy Ridley mentions that she’d specifically asked if she could be in ‘Narnia.’ However, she believes she might have lost the role to Saoirse Ronan.