Keanu Reeves is replacing Alan Ritchson in Netflix’s MAELSTROM, Deadline reports. A federal marshal, a protected witness and a hurricane cutting off help. CARRY-ON’s Jaume Collet-Serra directs a script that first sold in 1993.

HBO’s HARRY POTTER has found James and Lily: Jasper Talbot and Hannah Chinn. Harry Gilby will play Charlie Weasley, too. How much of Harry’s parents we’ll actually see is still under wraps.

Steven Soderbergh wanted to remake MATANGO (1963), Ishirō Honda’s mushroom horror film. It terrified him as a kid, but he couldn’t reach a deal with Toho. That’s one abandoned remake worth thinking about.

Even a phone call gets this framing in DUEL (1971). Spielberg shoots Dennis Weaver through a washing-machine door. The scene was added for the theatrical cut.

A body-horror movie and a documentary are leading the weekend. Saturday’s domestic projections: CLAYFACE at $24–25M, with YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING at $19–20M in weekend two. A very different kind of box-office race.

Joanne and Noah aren’t out of story yet. Erin Foster says she has more planned for NOBODY WANTS THIS, but Netflix hasn’t renewed it for season 4. The creator is ready. Now it’s Netflix’s move.

More time with Eleanor Young. Good luck, Rachel. Constance Wu says HBO’s CRAZY RICH ASIANS sequel series starts filming in New York next year. Adele Lim is writing and showrunning, with Henry Golding and Michelle Yeoh also returning.

Two weeks in quarantine, and Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer wrote WICKER. Olivia Colman commissions a husband from a basketmaker. Alexander Skarsgård is the husband. A fairly productive fortnight.

RAISED BY WOLVES people, we have something to cling to. Creator Aaron Guzikowski is writing a new ALIEN movie, with Ridley Scott producing. Very early days, but that’s an interesting reunion.

Imagine going to a Tarantino Q&A and leaving having seen 17 minutes of David Fincher’s next movie. That was AFI Fest last night: THE FURTHER MIS-ADVENTURES OF CLIFF BOOTH, with Brad Pitt back in the role.

A useful reminder that you don’t have to become friends with the neighbors. Olivia Wilde’s THE INVITE is now on HBO Max in the U.S., starring Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton.

A boxing crowd, filmed in Stanley Kubrick’s living room. For DAY OF THE FIGHT (1951), he shot extra spectator reactions at home. A small reminder that a convincing location can end just outside the frame.

Your film taste can now follow you into the group chat. Discord has added Letterboxd profile linking on desktop. Mobile linking is coming in the next couple of weeks.

Being in prison should be a pretty solid alibi. Apparently not for Assane Diop. LUPIN Part 4 is now on Netflix, with all 8 episodes available.

Paul Dano wants an apocalypse bunker. Javier Bardem has to build it while his marriage to Penélope Cruz unravels. BUNKER, from THE FATHER director Florian Zeller. In theaters nationwide January 15. very normal client project.

LAIKA used replacement parts to animate the water in WILDWOOD’s Portland drinking fountains, frame by frame. all that work for a sip. In theaters tomorrow.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Abbi Jacobson as mother and daughter, in hand-drawn black and white. TANGLES adapts Sarah Leavitt’s memoir about caring for her mother with Alzheimer’s. Directed by Leah Nelson.

Joanne and Noah have reached the moving-in-together stage. godspeed to their bathroom counter. All 10 episodes of NOBODY WANTS THIS Season 3 are now on Netflix.

The scream in THE SHOUT (1978) contains Niagara Falls, a rocket launch and director Jerzy Skolimowski’s own voice. when “just scream louder” isn’t quite doing it.

For everyone waiting until the whole season was out: your evening is now spoken for. The SLOW HORSES Season 6 finale is streaming on Apple TV. All six episodes are available.