After some pretty dire test scores, Warners had come up with their own alternative cut of “Mickey 17” that tested 10 points higher than Bong’s. However, the director had final cut and got his way. 

Cregger is getting a $20M payday to direct, and write “Resident Evil,” plus 20 points on the backend — this is just the 3rd film of his career. Just to compare, Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese have base salaries of around $20M per film.

Coming off his underseen 2024 boxing gem, “Day of the Fight,” Jack Huston has set up his next film which will tackle the life of a very familiar figure, especially if you’re a David Lynch fan.

Variety’s sources claim that the scaling back has less to do with the “anti-woke” brigade and more about the “controversies” surrounding leads Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot.

After a string of questionably greenlit projects, it looks like David Zaslav is leaning to make co-CEO of DC Studios Peter Safran the new head of Warner Bros, replacing Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy.

Shot in 2023, Andrew Patterson’s “Rivals of Amziah King” had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival. Matthew McConaughey is the lead in Patterson’s sophomore effort.

“The Bride,” which was shot in New York, is said to have had worrisome test scores which has led Warner Bros to now enter the editing room in an attempt to shape and salvage the film.

Sony has finally pushed back the release date on this one. “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” is now set to release on September 19. This new date could give Kogonada’s film the opportunity to premiere at a fall film festival, most likely TIFF.

James Cameron, not one to back off from hyperbole, has been banging the drums hard for his upcoming “Avatar: Fire and Ash” these last few weeks.

“Ne Zha 2,” has hit the $2 billion mark in China becoming the highest grossing animated film of all-time, far surpassing previous record holder “Inside Out 2” ($1.7 billion).

Serra claims that Stewart had initially agreed to be part of the film, but then changed her mind when he made some changes to the original idea of the script, which turned her off.

Now we have Publisher’s Weekly confirming Leonardo DiCaprio’s casting in “Home,” he’s set to star, and Todd Field’s involvement as writer-producer. Apple Studios will distribute.

In a new interview with Forbes, McTiernan, 74, who hasn’t directed a film in almost 25 years, says he’s working on three new scripts, all of which might might never see the light of day.

Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant 2,” which just premiered at SXSW, is still over a month away from release, but according to its director, a third film is already being fast tracked.

What I’ve been hearing so far about Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest are clear signs of an utterly polarizing film. Good luck to Warner Bros in marketing this one.

Hans Zimmer’s score for Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part 2” was going to heavily contend for the Original Score Oscar, but it sadly did not meet the eligibility requirements to be nominated for an Academy Award.

If we were to believe THR, it appears that Nicolas Winding Refn “reportedly shot “The Avenging Silence” on the down-low in Korea last year, meaning it should be ready for a festival bow in May.”

This weekend’s John Goodman news got me thinking —who are some of the best living actors/actresses to have never been nominated for an Oscar?

Criterion reached out to Apple, multiple times, to take over and release ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ but the streamer is flat out refusing to work with them. 

Amanda Seyfried, Thomasin McKenzie, Lewis Pullman, Christopher Abbott, and Tim Blake Nelson star in “Ann Lee,” a film developed by ‘Brutalist’ team Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet.