There are few people in Hollywood right now who are rising as fast as Josh O’Connor. Sure, he’s been working for years now, but he really broke out in a big way recently with film roles in “La Chimera” and “Challengers.” Now, he’s caught the attention of Steven Spielberg.

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According to THR, Josh O’Connor is set to star opposite Emily Blunt, Colman Domingo, Colin Firth, and Eve Hewson in Steven Spielberg’s upcoming sci-fi film.

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It looks like Judd Apatow‘s return to the director’s chair will be in a big way.  Deadline reports the “King Of Staten Island” director will work with Steven Spielberg on Sony‘s “Cola Wars,” about Pepsi and Coca-Cola’s 1980s battle for soda supremacy. Spielberg produces the feature through his Amblin Entertainment banner. It’s Apatow’s first film since 2022’s poorly-received “The Bubble.”

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“Cola Wars” has been inching toward production since Sony bought the project in April as a pitch for over $1 million.

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Colin Firth and Emily Blunt are getting back together on the big screen. The two Brits have starred in two films previously, 2012’s little-seen “Arthur Newman” and the already underrated 2018 musical “Mary Poppins Returns.” Thanks to none other than Steven Spielberg, they are about to give it another go-around.

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According to Deadline, Firth is negotiating to join Blunt in Spielberg’s new “untitled” tentpole set for May 15, 2026.

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Thanks to stellar performances in “Challengers” and “La Chimera,” British actor Josh O’Connor is on the cusp of a Hollywood breakout. His casting in Rian Johnson‘s “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery” may have initiated that process, but the actor’s lastest one cements it. Empire reports that O’Connor will star opposite Emily Blunt in Steven Spielberg‘s upcoming UFO blockbuster.  

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Steven Spielberg may have found his lead for his upcoming blockbuster, and it’s an actress in high demand right now. Deadline reports that Emily Blunt is in talks to star in Universal and Amblin‘s upcoming summer tentpole, set to hit theaters on May 15, 2026.  Ms. Blunt teaming up with Mr. Blockbuster himself? It could be a match made in heaven, and in several ways.

READ MORE: Steven Spielberg’s Next Film Will Hit Theaters On May 15, 2026

For one, Blunt is arguably in the best stretch of her career.

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Mark your calendar, Steven Spielberg fans. THR reports that the American auteur’s next film will hit theaters on May 15, 2026, courtesy of Universal and Amblin Entertainment. That’s great news, but it opens up another question: which previously announced Spielberg project will the movie be?

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There are two main options there: an original UFO film from Spielberg and screenwriter David Koepp reported this April, or the long-gestating Frank Bullitt movie with Bradley Cooper set to star as the SF police detective.

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Filmmaker Steven Spielberg always moves fluidly from genre to genre, and perhaps there’s no better example than the recent 30th anniversary of 1993’s “Schindler’s List,” which was released the same year as the couldn’t-be-totally-different “Jurassic Park.” And so, coming off his grounded and very personal family drama, “The Fabelmans,” for his next film, Spielberg might be going back to the sci-fi genre again.

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It’s a rare treat when two genre filmmaking giants like Steven Spielberg and Denis Villeneuve come together to share their insights. In a recent episode of The Director’s Cut—A DGA Podcast, these visionary filmmakers sat down for a conversation that was both entertaining and enlightening. Spielberg, in particular, didn’t hold back in his praise for Villeneuve, particularly commending his unique approach to filmmaking and his latest masterpiece, “Dune: Part Two,” and welcoming him into the upper echelon of directors.

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FX’s. “The Bear” basically swept awards season this year, and this past weekend, they added more feathers to their caps with major wins at the SAG Awards and the PGA Awards. The show is definitely on top of TV at the moment and explains why the acclaimed show is watched and loved by people like Steven Spielberg. Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who plays Ritchie on the show and won an Emmy for his role on the series, was on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!

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Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List” swept at the Oscars 30 years ago next month, and to mark the anniversary, THR has put together a very impressive and comprehensive oral history about the film, its Oscar campaign, and much more. The article has tons of little tidbits— famous director Billy Wilder desperate to make ‘Schindler’ as his last film (Spielberg was weeks away from shooting, it was too late), and then a casting what-if with Mel Gibson that seems rather shocking in hindsight.

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In today’s episode of Bingeworthy, our TV and streaming podcast, host Mike DeAngelo flies high for Apple TV+’s Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks-produced series (“Band of Brothers,” “The Pacific”), “Masters of the Air.” The series follows a group of airmen with the 100th Bomb Group that risked their lives in World War II, flying bombing missions in Europe (read our review here).

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In 2001, the TV mini-series was forever altered by HBO’s “Band of Brothers,” a towering achievement in the form and quite simply one of the best WWII films or shows of all time. Based on the book by Stephen E. Ambrose, and created by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, “Band of Brothers” told the story of “Easy” Company from boot camp through the Western Front.

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Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro” is available on Netflix now and out in the world. Cooper’s second directorial effort, many heavy-hitting filmmakers seem to be going to bat for the film, including director Alfonso Cuaron and Steven Spielberg, though the latter may not be entirely a surprise given he is a producer on the film.

In a new In Conversation video discussion from Netflix, Spielberg joined Cooper for an illuminating 32-minute talk about “Maestro” and revealed a lot of the backstory of the project—primarily being that “Maestro,” a film about legendary composer Leonard Bernstein, was going to be something that he was going to direct initially.

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While Martin Scorsese is still fairly concerned about the state of cinema in the modern day, that doesn’t mean he has given up on TV. In fact, for his next TV project, he’s teaming up with none other than Steven Spielberg for a series inspired by one of his own films, “Cape Fear.”

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According to Deadline, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese are teaming up to produce a new series based on “Cape Fear.” The show, which is created and showrun by Nick Antosca (“The Act”), will be inspired by the 1991 film of the same name, as well as the 1962 film and the original novel.

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Taylor Swift takes the theatrical box office by storm this weekend with “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.” And with $100 million made already in pre-sales, it’s the highest-grossing concert film of all-time before its opening weekend comes to a close. But EW reports that “Deadpool 3” director Shawn Levy thinks this is only the beginning of cinematic success for the pop star icon.

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Well, this is interesting. Deadline reports that Universal Pictures has optioned the rights to adapt Jonathan Eig‘s Martin Luther King Jr. biography, “King: A Life.” But who’s in line to direct and executive produce is most intriguing here.  Steven Spielberg will be executive producer on the project, but Chris Rock, of all people, in talks to direct and produce.  

READ MORE: Will Smith Has Reportedly “Tried Unsuccessfully To Make Amends” With Chris Rock Over The Oscars Slap

It’s not Rock hasn’t directed before, but what he’s directed before.

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One of 2024’s most anticipated TV shows now has a premiere date.  Apple TV+ announced that “Masters Of The Air,” their upcoming mini-series from Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Gary Goetzman, the same team who produced “Band Of Brothers” and “The Pacific,” will premiere on the streamer on January 26, 2024. Two episodes premiere on that date, with one new episode every Friday through March 15.

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To drum up hype for EDGLRD, his new creative collective/design studio, Harmony Korine put one of America’s greatest living filmmakers in his sights. EW reports (via a new GQ profile) that, with the recent advances in gaming technology (the same Korine uses to make his new film “Aggro Dr1ft“), videogames now look better than movies visually. And in the case of “Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare III,” the cult filmmaker thinks the game’s new trailer “looks better than anything that [Steven] Spielberg‘s ever done.”

READ MORE: Harmony Korine Isn’t Sure How To Describe ‘Aggro Dr1ft’: “Maybe It’s Not Even A Movie”

But will “Aggro Dr1ft” look that good?

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With the writers and actors on strike, well, who the hell knows what’s going on? You may not hear from any actors, writers, or hell, even directors who are not doing press in solidarity. So, in a bid to still continue making things interesting for you and for us, we’re reintroducing an old Flashback Friday or Throwback Thursday feature and just calling it “Flashback”: a fun excuse to highlight old interviews, old stories, classic movie stories and more.  

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And now a promising update on the ongoing crisis at Turner Classic Movies. EW reports that after Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and P.T. Anderson‘s “emergency call” with Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav last week, TCM has rehired Charles Tabesh, its senior VP of programming and content strategy. And while Tabesh is just one of several TCM execs laid off last week, his return should assuage some of the fears that the network’s future was in doubt.

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Earlier this week, Warner Bros. Discovery laid off several execs at Turner Classic Movies, leading many to conclude that the channel’s future may be in crisis. To confront the situation, filmmakers Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and P.T. Anderson scheduled an “emergency call” with WBD CEO David Zaslav to discuss the issue. So how did the call go?  

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Whenever you talk to a Hollywood director, they will inevitably have stories about films that they almost made. Sometimes they can’t make them because they don’t have time. Other times, another person is hired to direct. But there are always instances where a filmmaker is so close to getting something made, only to have it taken away from them for whatever reason. In the case of Martin Scorsese, there are a number of those films, including “Schindler’s List.” That’s right, Scorsese was all ready to make “Schindler’s List,” but a variety of factors changed that, and he’s opening up about that now.

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James Mangold‘s “Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny” will have its world premiere next month at the Cannes Film Festival on May 18: a prestige showing for a prestige franchise. Or what was once a prestige franchise? Fifteen years after 2008’s “Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Cyrstal Skull,” it’s hard to tell how much cultural caché Lucasfilm‘s storied series still has.

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Believe it or not, it’s been nearly 10 full years since it was reported that Steven Spielberg was interested in taking Stanley Kubrick’s unproduced “Napoleon” script and adapting it as a TV series. This has clearly been a passion project for Spielberg, as he has consistently tried to get this to happen, most recently with the help of director Cary Fukunaga. However, after Fukunaga was accused of sexual misconduct, there were questions about whether it was still in the works.

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The theatrical industry is in shambles. There are really no two ways to say it. Ticket prices are going up (and AMC is trying to milk every last cent out of customers) and the only movies that are making any sort of big money are blockbusters like Marvel films and other franchise fare. So, to say that “Top Gun: Maverick” has somehow “saved” the industry because it’s another franchise film that earned a lot of money at cinemas is a bit… dubious.

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