• The Guardian ranks the best "Vs" movies after the success of Godzilla vs Kong. Really fun list
• /Film You've probably heard by now that Rian Johnson scored a massive deal for his Knives Out sequels. They'll be going to Netflix for um... $400 million. Daniel Craig will be reprising his role for new mysteries.
• AV Club Edward James Olmos talks about his "random roles" in this always engaging series
More after the jump including Lil Nas X, Olivia Colman, Kung Fu, Thandiwe Newton, and new projects from Sam Mendes and Alex Garland...
• NYT Kung Fu debuts tomorrow on the CW and here's an article about how rare it truly is
• Out Lil Nas X goes to number one with "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)" named after a certain movie you love
• Deadline Olivia Colman will lead Sam Mendes next film Empire of Light, a love story set in the 1980s
• Coming Soon the previously obsessively coordinated MCU might be a mess right now with new series and ever shifting theatrical plans but Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 has started filming
• British Vogue long time film and tv star Thandiwe Newton (Crash, Westworld) is speaking out about her life and career. And will now be credited as "Thandiwe" the original spelling of her name, going forward.
• Towleroad Diablo Cody has completed the Madonna biopic script and "moved on"... will there be rewrites? Who knows!
• Broadway World The Little Mermaid (live action version) will begin shooting early this summer at both Pinewood studios and on the island of Sardiniaa
• Coming Soon Jennifer Jason Leigh, stepping in for Al Pacino apparently, will lead the second season of Nazi-hunting show Hunters with Logan Lerman reprising his co-lead role
• THR ICYMI they interviewed the nominated producers of Judas and teh Black Messiah and Ryan Coogler reveals he declined Academy membership when he was invited years ago. (He doesn't vibe with art being competitive)
• /Film Alex Garland is starting production on his third film, Men, with Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear starring. He's two for two so far with Ex Machina and Annihilation behind him. Early plot descriptions are super vague 'a woman on a solo vacation after her ex-husband's death' but if his first two films are indication it will lean into genre somehow.