A surprising development. Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” is said to test-screen next week in the West Coast.

An intriguing trailer has been released by Netflix for Scott Cooper’s “The Pale Blue Eye.”

UPDATE: Paramount are saying there was a “site error” earlier today and that, actually, it’s Diego Calva who will be campaigned as Lead Actor and Brad Pitt as Supporting Actor. That makes more sense. Robbie stays put as Lead Actress.

This is the moment we’ve all been waiting for. Auteur extraordinaire Ryan Coogler’s masterpiece-in-the-waiting “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” is being screened today for selected press.

It started on Saturday, I had an email exchange with a NYC-based film critic about how weak this year’s crop of films have been.

Hayao Miyazaki’s next animated film is officially titled “How Do You Live?” It was originally supposed to be ready by 2020 in unison with the Tokyo Olympics.

Sony Pictures Classics can hold out on whatever amount of hope that is left for Florian Zeller’s “The Son,” but the film crashed and burned at Venice and Toronto. It currently has a 60 on MC and sits at 47% on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s dead.

The destruction of “Batgirl” was just the start as reports are starting to emerge that Warner Bros CEO David Zaslav aka Zaslav the Destroyer wants to write off between $2 billion — $2.5 billion worth of content in the upcoming quarter.

Some photos have leaked from the set of Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla.” They show Elvis and Priscilla Presley, husband and wife, strolling outdoors.

I already have a few spies lined up for a test-screening that will occur in the West Coast this coming week for “John Wick: Chapter 4.” Stay tuned …

In their Screen Talk podcast, Anne Thompson and Eric Kohn mention something that didn’t even cross my mind at all: Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin” could maybe win Best Picture.

We can add James Cameron to the ever-growing list of directors who have criticized superhero movies. The full list of names can be found below.

Halloween is a week away and horror has been thriving at the box-office this year. Not just that, arthouse horror is very much still being critically-acclaimed with filmmakers such as Robert Eggers, Ari Aster and Jordan Peele leading the way.

The Gotham Awards nominations are out and they are definitely not a predictable bunch.

Aubrey Plaza told Dazed that she’s going to audition for John Waters’ upcoming “Liarmouth.” Oh, please let this happen. Plaza in a John Waters movie is just what the doctor ordered.

Will Smith was supposed to be a pariah that absolutely nobody would dare come close to in the foreseeable future, but in this day and age of daily social media outrage, the effect of the slap, as millions watched at home, has been watered down to sheer whateverness.

I’m not sure what Clayton Davis was thinking when he wrote his latest Oscar piece, this one his 10.20 piece called “Will She Said Hit Too Close to Home for Oscar Voters?

We’re getting a new film from Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski, this one starring real-life couple Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara. Exciting.

It was expected, but a German media outlet is saying that Roman Polanski’s “The Palace,” which is almost ready, won’t be premiering at the Berlin Film Festival next February.