MARCH 31, 2021

'Godzilla vs. Kong' Director Adam Wingard: 'I Can't Wait to Use the Potential That This Might Buy Me' The filmmaker has spent nearly two decades scaling up his work, but as he tells IndieWire, his first major blockbuster is actually setting t … By Kate Erbland

How to Find a Movie: These Apps Are Making Sense of Your Streaming Platforms From ReelGood and JustWatch to Dabby and TiVo, everyone wants to be your app.  By Chris Lindahl	'Zola': A24 Gives Janicza Bravo's Wild Indie the Insane Trailer It Deserves - Watch After its breakout Sundance debut in 2020, "Zola" is finally ready for her theatrical close-up.  By Zack Sharf

Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2021 Launches with Oscar Panels - Exclusive Santa Barbara is a key stop on the awards circuit, with a range of starry panels and tributes.  By Anne Thompson	'The Midnight Sky': How George Clooney's VFX Team Created the Horrifying, Beautiful Ballet of Blood If Clooney's sci-fi adventure wins the VFX Oscar, it'll be because of Framestore's brilliant dancing blood in zero-G.  By Bill Desowitz

	Why 'Godzilla vs. Kong' Box Office Won't Tell the Future of Theaters, Even If It's a Hit How do we define "a hit"? The newest MonsterVerse entry should have a strong opening north of $20 million, but in 2021 everything is about c … By Tom Brueggemann
	Banning Zoom at the Oscars Didn't Work Out: Producers Accommodate Overseas Nominees Among the issues: International nominees face a 10-day quarantine if they travel to Los Angeles. The Academy met Tuesday with publicists to … By Anne Thompson
	Sharon Stone Paid Leonardo DiCaprio's 1995 Salary When Studio Didn't Want to Cast Him Stone was a producer on 1995's "The Quick and the Dead" and fought the studio to hire DiCaprio and director Sam Raimi.  By Zack Sharf
	Emmy Predictions: Best Drama Series - A Battle of (Aptly) Epic Proportions With a slew of 2020 nominees out of the running, the pressure is on for series — new and old — to land a spot in the Best D … By Ben Travers
	The 20 Highest Grossing Indies of 2021 (A Running List) Refreshed weekly, here's a chart of the year's twenty highest-grossing theatrically released films.  By Kate Erbland