Meanwhile, “experts” are calling “Free Guy” a hit. The Ryan Reynolds video-game romcom snagged a comfy $28.4 million in its first four days. The worldwide total thus far is $50 million. Not bad, right?. For Reynolds this should wipe away the stink of “The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard,” but then you realize that “Free Guy” has a massive budget of $125 million. What the hey?! It’ll need to have some legs to break even before it inevitably goes to Disney+ in the fall....

Davis already has three Oscar nominations, including a win for 2017’s “Fences,” but it’s Boseman’s shattering performance that will drive buzz for this movie, which, at times, cannot transcend the staginess of its theatrical origins. The late actor’s best moments here are two highly-charged monologues that are delivered in passionately devastating ways. Much like what Denzel Washington did with Wilson’s words in “Fences,” Boseman gives us a fierce and fully-formed performance....

Todays news broke that Matt Damon and Robert Downey Jr. have been added to an already stacked cast that includes Cillian Murphy and Emily Blunt, which means that the film is starting to take shape. The film would carry a substantial budget, believed to be over $100 million, which had Universal immediately jumping onboard to work with Nolan. As mentioned, this is Nolan going back to “Dunkirk” territory. Of course, it sounds a bit more like a biopic, so it could very well end up being primo Oscar bait....

Nolan mentioning that he was “outed” as a fan of the movie stems from Anne Hathaway mentioning Nolan’s silly penchant for randomly quoting “MacGruber” lines on the set of “The Dark Knight Rises" According to Vanity Fair, Nolan even sent an email to the cast and crew of NBC’s upcoming “MacGruber” TV series, the email read: “Though I can’t be there in person to watch you take the first step of your odyssey—know that my spirit soars with you, and whilst it’s perhaps unfair to add to the great sense of responsibility you must already feel, I am duty-bound to tell you—the world is waiting, the world is watching....

In an interview given to Le Monde, Denis, a Godmother figure for many young French actresses and female directors including Atlantics’ Mati Diop, tried to make sense of the Haenel/Polanski controversy at the Cesars. In this insightful and fascinating interview, Denis starts off by saying that we should “Leave Adèle Haenel alone at this moment, (because) it is obviously her right to say whatever she wants.” However, Denis says she is still allowed to disagree with Haenel’s “finger-pointing” and “shaming” adding, “People voted, they found Polanski’s film better, worthier than the others, that’s it, it’s the César....

Chazelle’s 1920s epic will be screened for NYC and Los Angeles film critics more than a month before it gets released in theaters, or, specifically, 7 weeks. This is a surefire sign that they want the film to be seen as widely as possible. On November 14th, “Babylon” will be screened in Los Angeles and on November 16th it’ll be New York City’s turn. Both are Guild screenings with press allowed to attend, the cast and crew will be doing Q&As right after....

In the last issue of french magazine Les Inrockuptibles, David Cronenberg confirms that he’ll shoot a new feature film in March of 2023. This one is called “Shrouds”, it comes to us from the aborted Netflix project we had previously spoken of. Supposedly, the streaming giant got cold feet after reading the second episode. The film will be co-produced by Saïd Ben Saïd. He may have been hinting at retirement, with no film released these last six years, but the legendary 79-year-old Canadian director is not done....

Morris has been criticized for not being tough enough on Bannon in this doc, but I say phooey. Morris not only calls Bannon “racist,” “evil,” and “scary” to his face, but he is there to counterbalance and debate him throughout. Of course, deciding to boycott this doc plays right into the hands of the alt-right, who won the election because of the safe-space mentality inflicting America today. I saw Errol Morris’ “American Dharma” at the Toronto International Film Festival and, suffice to say, I was floored by it, disturbed if you will, by its talking head Steve Bannon who, in the film, gives us credible evidence of a looming, impending, hell inevitable, civilian uprising that is about to occur in the country....

“Till” currently has a 66 on Metacritic (based on 9 reviews) and 100% on Rotten Tomatoes (based on 7 reviews). THR, IndieWire and The Guardian are all mixed on the film, but have glowing praise for Deadwyler. EARLIER: The social media embargo has lifted on Chinonye Chukwu’s “Till.” Like all other critics, I’m not allowed to publish a review until tonight at 9pm. The reactions on Twitter were as expected: movie is by-the-books, but, wowee, Danielle Deadwyler stuns in the lead performance....

People are underestimating the potential of Tim Miller’s upcoming Terminator movie, a sort of back-to-the-basics approach by producer James Cameron and Miller to bring the franchise back to its glory days (the first two films). Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton are back. What more do you need? Also, don’t, for a second, think Cameron is the mastermind behind the whole film; Yes, Miller is credited as director but you very much need to see this film as a directorial duet....

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The topic of Alfonso Cuaron’s incredible film “Roma” came at the forefront of the conversation: “I saw Roma several times, especially during its gala screenings at Venice. I also met Cate Blanchett there and asked her why she was in attendance and she replied because she finally wanted to discover the 22nd film of the Cannes competition (laughs). I also told my friend Alberto Barbera (artistic director of the Venice Film Festival), “Alberto, we lent you the film, take care of it....

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With all that being said, and me having gone completely off-script in this post, Google has decided that the anti-abortion box-office hit “Unplanned” is not just a drama but “propaganda” as well, which has irked many on the right. Who knew that ‘propaganda’ was a movie genre? It’s rather odd that this film is deemed ‘propaganda’ but other Christian-centric films such as the “God Is Not Dead” series and documentaries made by conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza are not by Google....

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, a technically gifted filmmaker, has decided to go to war with film critics over the negative reactions “Bardo” has been getting. The filmmaker is now accusing film critics of racism after “Bardo” received tepid reviews at Venice/Telluride. Inarritu spoke to the Los Angeles Times about these prejudiced film critics: Very strange how racist film critics have gotten in just a matter of a few years. Doesn’t Inarritu realize that this is his first film to be vehemently disliked by them (maybe second if you count “Bitutiful)?...

With that being said, what if “CODA” wins on Saturday? Will the race be over? I’m inclined to think so. The odds-on favorite is Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog,” but it’s also turned into the film too many people have been beating up on lately. Filmmaker Rod Lurie, an Oscar voter will clout, tells me he doesn’t know a single person who will vote for Campion’s film. This leaves us with the semi-entertaining TV movie “CODA,” which has been gaining a ton of momentum ever since it won SAG ensemble....

Suffice to say, Gibson repented, apologized numerous times, said he wasn’t in the right place when his alcoholism came back, etc. In 2015 he wrote and directed “Hacksaw Ridge,” which was deemed his comeback and all but reintegrated him in the industry by garnering multiple Oscar nods for Best Picture and, yes, Best Director. However, that was before the #MeToo movement started, a movement that has all but destroyed Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, and other filmmakers’ careers in Hollywood....

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For those of us wishing for a Coen-esque feature, expect disappointment since Joel has admitted that his adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic tale will be very faithful to the original text, with around “85% of the language” being kept for the film version. Not just that, but according to Costume Designer Mary Zophres, appearing on the Team Deakins podcast, “The Tragedy of MacBeth”was shot digitally in black and white. The only other Coen not shot in color was 2001’s “The Man Who Wasn’t There....

Peele is a talented guy and I’m saying this as someone who loved “Get Out,” and really liked “Us.” His sense of framing a shot is really quite something. However, the last thing he should do is follow the money. What Peele should do is go back to his smaller-budgeted roots and slyly provoke us the same way he did with his first two features. Don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot to like about “Nope” and its ambitious scope, but, if anything, it showed how Peele is not ready to paint on a bigger canvas....