“Avatar: The Way of Water” was already a hefty 192 minutes, but James Cameron is now telling Empire Magazine to expect a longer runtime for the threequel, ‘Fire and Ash.’

Sony has acquired the rights to Zach Cregger’s upcoming “Resident Evil” reboot. The film is set up with a September 18, 2026 release date in theatres.

If you’re wondering, for some odd reason, where Michael Bay has been these last few years, well, he’s actually been struggling to greenlight any of his new projects. 

Hey, would you look at that. A week or so after being dropped by CAA for “groping” an “A-list actor” at a Golden Globes afterparty, Ali Abbasi has now signed on to be repped by UTA.

In “Immortal Man,” Cillian Murphy reprises his role as gangster Thomas Shelby. The rest of the cast includes Barry Keoghan, Tim Roth, Stephen Graham and Rebecca Ferguson.

Just a brief update on Bong Joon-ho’s “Mickey 17” which earned $2.5M in Thursday previews. The original $18M opening weekend projection still stands.

Having seen Joe & Anthony Russo’s “The Electric State,” I can confirm what critics are saying; this is probably the worst “movie” you will see all year, whether on Netflix or in theatres.

According to THR, a TV show about Moneypenny, MI6’s trusted secretary, was one of Amazon’s Marvel-style spinoff ideas. The other ideas they had included  a series about CIA agent Felix Leiter and even a female 007 story.

If producer David Heyman does, officially, come aboard to produce Bond for Amazon/MGM then none other than Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón would be his first pick as director of Bond 26.

A interesting development. The Hot Mic‘s Jeff Sneider is reporting that Margaret Qualley has reportedly left A24’s “Victorian Psycho” which co-stars Thomasin McKenzie.

Rumor: Parker and Stone’s film is called "Whitney Springs", and not only has it been delayed to July 11th release, but it might now be going straight to streaming on Paramount+

What’s a post-Oscar role looking like for Adrien Brody? How about a part in one of the hottest projects in town? Damien Chazelle’s “Evel Knievel on Tour.”

James Gray is set to direct “Paper Tiger” next month in New Jersey. The film, which tackles family and the Russian mafia, is being described as a domestic crime drama.

Here’s a kicker. Florence Pugh, who stars in “Thunderbolts,” is trying to convince us that the tone of the film is like a “badass indie, A24-feeling assassin movie with Marvel superheroes.”

Coppola, who invested over $100M of his own money on “Megalopolis,” admitted in an interview that he doesn’t have any money to make ‘Glimpses,’ which will still get made, but for “cheap”

Here’s a report from Deadline that has Charlie XCX starring in Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia.’ She would be the first official actor to join the cast. The role being eyed for her to play is that of Jadis, The White Witch.

The embargo has lifted and the reviews are very strong. As you’ll see in my thoughts (below) we actually have a good studio movie about to hit theaters next Friday — 86 on Metacritic and 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.

With “Past Lives” becoming this acclaimed, and Oscar-nominated, A24 indie, writer-director Celine Song decided her sophomore effort would be a romcom (“Materialists”) which is due out in the summer. However, she now seems open to inserting herself inside the MCU.

Directed by Pawlikowski, who wrote the screenplay together with Henk Handloegten ("Babylon Berlin"), ”Fatherland” is an adaptation of Colm Tóibín's novel "The Magician.”

RaMell Ross tells THR that financing on his next film is needed. around $10M. He adds that it would have to be akin to a “philanthropic” donation and not guaranteed a financial return.