Venice remains the unofficial kickoff to awards season, and Barbera has masterfully shaped it into Cannes’ most viable rival. 

“The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” which has an 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, sits at a tamer 65 on Metacritic. These reviews are slightly lower than “Thunderbolts.”

The trailer, which is tucked away on Warner Bros.’ official YouTube channel, is virtually undiscoverable unless you have the direct link. It’s not searchable, not embedded anywhere official, and somehow has only one comment.

I’ll admit, I wasn’t even sure if I wanted to post about this “first look” still of Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite,” which might be the worst image you could pick to build anticipation for a film.

The road to the Venice premiere was anything but smooth. The film, which Schnabel has been trying to make for more than a decade, faced pressure from financiers to trim down its considerable runtime.

Has anyone seen Terrence Malick lately? Apparently, he’s still deep in the editing process for “The Way of the Wind.” The elusive filmmaker was once again absent from this year’s Venice Film Festival lineup.

Notably absent were Edward Berger’s “Ballad of a Small Player,” which skips Venice in favor of Telluride; Ditto Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet,” which is passing on the Lido.

Apparently, we’re getting two Osgood Perkins films in the same year — but this one, “Keeper,” may be the more intriguing of the two.

So, apparently, Taylor Russell, who just dropped out of “Thomas Crown Affair,” is now attached to star in Frank Ocean’s directorial debut for A24.

Dan Trachtenberg, who revitalized the ‘Predator’ franchise with 2022’s “Prey,” is back behind the camera for “Predator: Badlands,” and the first trailer has officially dropped.

Russell, who was the co-lead, alongside Jordan, departed the film in the middle of shooting. Her exit stemmed from “creative differences.”

James Gunn’s “Superman” has been struggling to meet expectations overseas, currently at $171M, with theories swirling as to why that is the case.

Gus Van Sant is back. After years of radio silence on the feature film front, the iconic filmmaker is set to return this fall with “Dead Man’s Wire.”

Here comes an interesting film from the same team that brought us “The Brutalist.” It’s a radical musical co-written by Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet.

It’ll be an ambitious film. Clocking in at a hefty 2 hours and 29 minutes, “Frankenstein” is only one minute shorter than del Toro’s last live-action, 2021’s “Nightmare Alley.”

The Toronto International Film Festival is back for its 50th edition, and this morning’s lineup revealed an intriguing update as to what to expect with this year’s fall fests.