Greta Gerwig’s Cannes 2024 Jury: Lily Gladstone, J.a. Bayona, Eva Green, And More

Peter Jackson makes another return to Middle-earth with the upcoming The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum. More than a decade after completing The Hobbit trilogy, which itself came a decade after his groundbreaking work on his Lord of the Rings trilogy, Jackson is set to produce the new film, which will shift its focus to one of the most iconic, but least explored characters, Gollum.

Furiosa, George Miller's latest entry in the genre-defining Mad Max franchise, is just over a week away and the internet is flooded with the first reviews from press screenings. The new movie takes audiences back in time, before the events of Mad Max: Fury Road, and tells the story of the titular heroine (played by Anya Taylor-Joy) and her journey from a child of the Green Place, to the warrior seen alongside Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) in Fury Road.

One of the more hotly anticipated films at Cannes is James Vanderbilt's Nuremberg. The war film is currently in search of a distributor with an unknown release date. This collaboration between Oscar winners Rami Malek and Russell Crowe takes on familiar territory, examining the legal dissection of the Nazi regime and the policies they set forth that directly led to the Holocaust.

Beloved Hollywood star Danny DeVito has responded positively to the idea of voicing the Nintendo character, Wario, in The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2. in an interview with The Movie Dweeb, DeVito was asked about the various roles he is rumored to be playing, including Phil in Disney's Hercules live-action remake, and whether he would be interested in taking on the role of Wario alongside Chris Pratts Mario.

Netflix has now officially ordered a sequel to the beloved Adam Sandler sports comedy Happy Gilmore, almost 30 years after the first one debuted. The streaming giant announced the exciting news during their recent upfronts presentation (via THR), with Sandler confirmed to return as the titular golfer with anger issues.

The Lord of the Rings universe is expanding with The Hunt for Gollum bringing back franchise veterans Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis. This time around, Jackson will be producing the new movie, and Serkis will be taking over as director to bring a lost story to the screen within the existing world of Middle Earth as seen in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies.