Here’s an awkward interview that’s just been published between Dwadline and LucasFilm President Kathleen Kennedy. If you read between the lines, there’s a lot to decipher.

“Black Bag,” which is being dubbed a “spy thriller,” is set up with a March 14, 2025 release date via Focus Features. Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender star in the film alongside Regé-Jean Page, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke and Pierce Brosnan.

Rodrigo Teixeira, one of the film's producers, is now telling the Dois Pontos podcast that none other than Martin Scorsese wrote an email to Salles after seeing the film. Predictably, Scorsese was gushing about “I’m Still Here” which he loved.

If you thought the ‘Shrek’ franchise was DOA, think again. A fifth film is happening over at DreamWorks. Not just that, a teaser was just released. The film is set to hit theaters on December 23, 2025.

Saoirse Ronan and Austin Butler are set to star in Sean Durkin’s “Deep Cuts,” A24 will produce. The project is an adaptation of Holly Brickley’s debut novel which was released in bookstores this month. Durkin is writing the screenplay.

There’s been a lot of talk about Andy Serkis’ upcoming “The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt For Gollum,” which would reunite the original cast for this new instalment. Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, and Orlando Bloom have been been asked to return.

While Paul Verhoeven is struggling to find financing for “Young Sinner,” one of his classics is being developed for a remake. Given Hollywood’s current IP obsession, this tracks.

Paolo Sorrentino has already set up his next film. “La Grazia” (“Grace”) is set to star Sorrentino muse Toni Servillo (“The Great Beauty”). Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the film is being described as “a love story set somewhere in Italy.”

A trailer has been released for A24’s “Death of a Unicorn.” I have not been hearing good things about this film, shot in July 2023, which has test screened a handful of times already. The trailer hasn’t tampered down any of these doubts.

Hackman was one of the great actors of the ‘70s, standing toe to toe with De Niro, Pacino, Hoffman and Nicholson. What a man. What a career. The term “legend” should not be used in vain, but Hackman was just that.

Steven Spielberg’s upcoming UFO movie has started filming in New Jersey. Emily Blunt and Wyatt Russell could be seen shooting scenes together.

Some are wondering if Harmony Korine's “Baby Invasion,” which premiered at Venice last year, will ever get released, this latest update has only further enhanced the confusion.

Michelle Trachtenberg has passed away, she was 39. I won’t lie and claim to have been that familiar with her TV work, which included “Gossip Girl” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” but that is way too young an age to die.

A Variety report says that Christopher Nolan wanted James Bond 26 to be his follow-up to “Tenet,” but was snubbed by Broccoli. Nolan would go on to direct “Oppenheimer,” and the rest, as they say, is history.

In late 2023, Na Hong-Jin started production on “Hope,” which stars Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander, but it sounds like he’s taking his time in the editing room as Korean media is reporting that the film won’t be ready in time for 2025 release.

Bloomberg now has a report describing Zaslav’s love for auteur-driven cinema, and how this infatuation for the medium might sadly, and quite epically, backfire on him in 2025. The biggest risk is Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film.

As I’ve said many times, if you’re adapting “Blood Meridian” then you best not miss. Everyone knows that. The late, great Cormac McCarthy’s masterfully violent 1985 novel is a tough read but also an essential American novel. It’s surely the author’s magnum opus.

We have proof of life. Gareth Evans’ “Havoc” actually exists. Not just that, a trailer just popped online. Netflix has also dated the film for April 25, 2025 release.

Rachel Zegler must have received a stern talking to from Disney. The ‘Snow White’ star has now completely reversed course on her previous assertion that the backlash against her casting in the live-action was based on “misogyny.”