Sources told Deadline that executives at Legendary Entertainment found out about “Dune” and “Godzilla vs. Kong” moving to a hybrid theatrical-HBO Max release only 30 minutes before Warner Bros. went public with the announcement. As reported earlier this month, Legendary allegedly had Netflix lined up to purchase “Godzilla vs. Kong” for around $250 million, but Warner Bros.’ parent company WarnerMedia blocked the decision. Deadline adds that Legendary Entertainment and its partners “provided 75 percent of the $165 million or so net budget of ‘Dune’” and “put up a similar amount of the funding on the ‘Godzilla Vs....

THR first reported that Oscar winner Scorsese will team up again with Academy Award winner DiCaprio for a seventh feature collaboration. Based on David Grann’s non-fiction book “The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder,” the film is centered on a shipwreck in 1742. The book will be published next year. Grann also penned “Killers of the Flower Moon,” which Scorsese also adapted for an Apple Original film starring DiCaprio, slated for a 2023 release....

If the pandemic dealt a blow to screen storytelling on all fronts, that means the already-quenched pocket of stories for and about the LGBTQ community was bound to suffer more than usual. LGBTQ film festivals, hubs of community-building and vital launching pads for emerging filmmakers, were forced to downsize and go virtual. Potentially groundbreaking pop culture event movies like Billy Eichner and Judd Apatow’s collaboration on the gay rom-com “Bros” were put on hold (it’s scheduled to restart production this year)....

While the U.S. has fewer avenues for short films to gain attention than say Europe or Asia, there will always be cinephiles who enjoy the unique pleasures of a well-made short. The best short films don’t use the form as a mere stepping stone to a feature, but as a unique and valuable medium unto itself. Recognizing that barriers to entry remain higher for all marginalized filmmakers of all stripes, it’s vitally important to highlight up and coming queer filmmakers at the shorts level....

Obama, who has long shown an interest in film, was seen by many as a natural fit for the show about fame because of her life of experiences in the spotlight. And according to Donald Glover and his brother and longtime collaborator Stephen Glover, things are off to a good start. “Donald always says perspective is important, and people with different perspectives are important for a writers room. And for sure, she definitely has a unique perspective on everything,” said Stephen Glover....

Filmmaker Jordan Peele may love putting his characters through hell, but he’s also just as delighted to bring them back through it, ending his thrillers and chillers with vaguely happy endings (or, at the very least, endings where his stars live, or perhaps more appropriately, live to tell everything they’ve just been through). Such was the case with his breakout debut, “Get Out,” which sees stars Daniel Kaluuya and Lil Rel Howrey surviving a series of horrifying attacks, racist revelations, and enough nightmare material to basically make sure they (and probably the audience) never set foot in a stranger’s home ever again....

According to showrunner and head writer Joby Harold, that relationship was foundational to “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” a guiding force (ha) for Obi-Wan’s emotional state and the healing ahead of him. “It’s very much to me what’s driving Obi-Wan at this time in his life,” Harold told IndieWire. “It’s that which haunts him and that which still in the back of his head is rattling around and won’t let go. How could you let go with what happened in ‘Revenge of the Sith?...