Marvel's Kevin Fiege remarks on Chloe Zhao's gorgeous visual style in Eternals.

Okay, now we're even more excited for Eternals.

On a big-budget movie, particularly one produced with tons of expectations both financially and culturally, certain creative risks have to be curtailed to make sure the train stays on the tracks and the bottom line stays where it needs to be. But the Marvel Cinematic Universe seems to be determined to buck this trend, giving directors like Taika Waititi and Ryan Coogler ample room to make the movie they want to make, personalized styles and all. And based on a Hollywood Reporter interview with Eternals director Chloé Zhao, this MCU style of "letting directors be" seems to be continuing. …

As we look ahead to the fall movie season, we’re in an entirely new predicament from when it came to the summer blockbusters. Blockbusters needed theaters to be reopened, that wasn’t going to happen with COVID running rampant, and so studios decided to simply delay those blockbusters and allowed their smaller features to hit VOD. But the business model is different for awards contenders, which tend to play at major festivals to build up buzz before opening in limited release and expanding. What happens to those movies in the age of COVID? For Fox Searchlight, they’re going …

Fox Searchlight has released the first images from Nomadland, Chloe Zhao’s follow up to her acclaimed 2018 film The Rider. The movie marks the first film for Frances McDormand coming off her second Oscar win for Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri and has her playing “Fern, a woman in her sixties, who after losing everything in the Great Recession embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.” The road movie will also, like The Rider, feature real people turned actors, in this case co-stars Linda May and Charlene Swankie. The …