The news is being met with justified disbelief and confusion: Who was asking for a Bamm-Bamm movie? Is Hollywood now coming up with ideas via a Mad Libs generator?

Dolly Parton, one of the most beloved figures in American entertainment, has died at 80 in Nashville. A country music legend, Parton also became a major film star, appearing in “9 to 5.”

Kelly’s plan is to have this novel adapted into an animated/motion-capture movie and then continue the story with a live-action project that jumps 28 years into the future.

Not many are talking about “The Magic Faraway Tree,” starring Andrew Garfield, which just had the weakest wide-release opening in almost 20 years.

There she is again, Adèle Exarchopoulos. Just a week after it was announced she’d star in Megan Park’s next film, Exarchopoulos has attached herself to an even bigger English-language project.

Dan Stevens has been cast as RoboCop in Prime Video’s upcoming series. Stevens will star as Alex Murphy and his cyborg alter ego, RoboCop, in the show from showrunner Peter Ocko and Blumhouse Atomic Monster.

Here’s our first look — images below — at Danny Boyle’s “Ink,” via Vanity Fair, which is set to open the Venice Film Festival next week before screening at Telluride and TIFF.

South Korea has selected Lee Chang-dong’s “Possible Love” as its submission for the Best International Feature Oscar, choosing it over Na Hong-jin’s “Hope.”

Now we have more details, and a trailer. Titled “Ali G: Who Iz I,” the film is set for a theatrical release from Amazo/MGM Studios on October 23, and will mark Cohen’s feature directorial debut.

Just five Cannes competition titles still seek U.S. distribution, four of them subpar, all French. The fifth, and easily the best film still without US studio attachment, is Ira Sachs’ “The Man I Love.”

McConaughey recently said that “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” is the movie that pays him the most in residuals—the ongoing “mailbox money” he receives from the film being shown, streamed, and rented.

Despite the Venice launch, “Company” has so far failed to land a berth at any of the major North American fall festivals. It was not announced by Toronto, Telluride or the New York Film Festival.

The story being told in “Gold Mountain” feels right at home for Lee — especially after his tech-obsessed filmmaking of the last 14 years (“Life of Pi,” “Billy Lynn’s Halftime Walk,” “Gemini Man”).

Hoult has dropped out of ‘Harry Potter’ and has been replaced by Kit Connor. Hoult’s reason was “scheduling issues,” and hey, maybe it really was “scheduling issues,” but the timing is rather odd.

Gunn has previously called Batman his “biggest issue” in the DCU and spoken at length about how difficult it is to develop a version of the character that feels distinct enough from Reeves’ vision.

If the movie is as rough as some in the industry seem to fear, that teaser may have been less of a marketing campaign and more of a public plea for somebody to finally take the damn thing.

Since “The Sopranos” bowed out in 2007, Chase has dabbled in film, directing 2012’s “Not Fade Away” and writing the “Sopranos” spinoff “The Many Saints of Newark.”

Synopsis: “Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the film reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza”.

Ah, yes — Ridley Scott must be promoting a new movie, which means lots of ridiculous quotes from the many interviews he’s doing. Here’s the latest example.

Ferguson had briefly teased the movie as a romance, while Lee previously told Screen that she was “scared to do it,” explaining that it’s a romance between two women and a role she hadn’t tackled before.