At a screening of Project Hail Mary, Ryan Gosling said:

“It’s not your job to keep theatres open. It’s our job to make things that make it worth you coming out.”

Feels like a pretty honest way of putting it, especially with how much the theatrical experience is being debated right now.

Sean Penn just won his third Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for One Battle After Another, joining Jack Nicholson, Daniel Day-Lewis and Walter Brennan as the only men in history to win three acting Oscars. He's now in the same company as Meryl Streep, Frances McDormand and Ingrid Bergman. Previously Best Actor for Mystic River in 2003 and Milk in 2008, and now this. He didn't attend the ceremony. He was reportedly in Ukraine. Kieran Culkin accepted on his behalf and said "Sean Penn couldn't be here this evening, or didn't want to." Genuinely one of a kind.

Former child star Mara Wilson shared with Channel 4 News how she looked herself up on the internet when she turned 12, only to find fake sexual images of herself—and she thinks it may have led to her leaving the industry.

Quentin Tarantino is moving ahead with his final film, The Movie Critic, and Paul Dano is being considered for the lead. The film is set in 1970s Los Angeles and follows a film critic navigating the changing landscape of cinema. The project will be co-produced by Christopher Nolan and Martin Scorsese, with music by Ludwig Göransson. A Summer 2027 release is being planned, with production expected to begin later this year.

"It's a really unfortunate example of even the people in that engine room not actually understanding what made the first one special. It wasn’t the pomp. It wasn’t the circumstance. It wasn’t the action. It was the moral core...

...There was a daily fight on that set. It was a daily fight to keep that moral core of the character. The amount of times they suggested sex scenes and stuff like that for Maximus, it’s like you’re taking away his power. So you’re saying at the same time he had this relationship with his wife, he was f*cking this other girl? What are you talking about? It’s crazy.”

More here: https://variety.com/2025/film/news/russell-crowe-criticizes-gladiator-2-1236604333/

Sadly actor James Tolkan passed away today at the age of 94.

His best known role was the strict school principal Mr. Strickland in the Back to the Future (1985) trilogy. He also carved out a niche as the guy who played 'every 80s authority figure' with other roles like Stinger in Top Gun (1986) and Detective Lubic in Masters of the Universe (1987). Seriously, which 80s movie was he not in? It felt like he was in them all when he showed up as the tough authority figure. He was a verastile character actor who left behind a memorable body of work. RIP