IndieWire have again sent out ballots for their year-end critics poll. I completely forgot to fill mine out last year, but I’ll be participating in 2022.

Yes, you read that right. I’m hearing 80-year-old Barry Levinson’s “Wise Guys,” which just started production, is going to cost David Sazlav’s Warner Bros a whopping $100 million.

Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” will have a test-screening this coming weekend in the West Coast. My inbox is always open for reactions …

Paul Thomas Anderson will be repping Ron Howard’s “Thirteen Lives” during the first week of January. A guild screening of Howard’s film will be moderated by PTA on January 5th.

I’ve been attending Sundance now for well over ten years. It’s where I discovered so many of today’s best filmmakers. It’s not the big names that count at Sundance, but rather the sense of discovery.

James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ sequel screened to very positive notices yesterday afternoon. Are we surprised? Not really.

Back in July, Focus Features bought Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City” for domestic distribution. Now we finally have a release date.

So far, it’s looking very good for James Cameron’s 192-minute epic 

If there’s one film that has received a surprising push from the latest critics group awards then it’s definitely SS Rajamouli’s “RRR.” What a story this is becoming.

Not to sound like a broken clock, but this year’s Best Actor race is very weak. You basically have three locks: Brendan Fraser, Collin Farrell and Austin Butler. The remaining two spots will be a showdown between Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Paul Mescal, Hugh Jackman, Gabrielle LaBelle, Adam Sandler and … Tom Hanks?

Back in August, I had been told that Warner Bros CEO David Zaslav was a big fan of “The Flash.”

Reviews are under embargo until 12.16.22 but social media reactions are allowed …

Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Pinocchio’ had a rousing world premiere at the BFI/London Film Festival back in October. Reviews were all unanimously praise-worthy, it was even in the 90s on Metacritic … and then more people saw it.

Quite a few developments today. Firstly, it now has a teaser trailer and, more peculiarly, it has a March 29th, 2024 release date attached to it.

During an episode of the Happy. Sad. Confused. podcast, Adam Sandler spoke about his upcoming Safdie Brothers film and a potential team-up with filmmaker Todd Field.

This will likely be the first of several Best Film awards it’ll receive in the coming days and weeks .. on its way to an inevitable Best Picture nomination at the Oscars.

One film that is quickly falling off prediction charts is Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale,” which, all of a sudden, has a 63 on Metacritic? I didn’t expect that. When did this happen?

Over the weekend I had posted about a Caltech professor by the name of Girish Shambu having been hired by BFI in early summer as a “voting consultant” for the 2022 Sight and Sound poll.

Back in late September, projections were that “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” would turn in a $424 million domestic haul, well below what its 2018 predecessor pulled in.

Our Sight and Sound directors’ ballots compilation has gathered around 85 lists so far. I’ll probably give it a final update later this afternoon.