AUGUST 25, 2023

Summer 2023 Box Office Will Hit $4 Billion, but What a Weird Way to Get There It's a terrific achievement that offers no clue as to how it could be done again.  By Tom Brueggemann

Doug Jones Returns to 'What We Do in the Shadows' for the Baron's Best Episode Yet The vampire elder attends Lazslo's (Matt Berry) roast and ends up hunting Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) in one of the most intense and u … By Proma Khosla	'Piaffe' Isn't Just a Daring Tale of BDSM, It's Also a 'Rorschach Test' of Sexuality Filmmaker Ann Oren walks IndieWire through her audacious debut, which stars Simone Bucio as a woman who grows a horse tail, kicking off an u … By Samantha Bergeson

Casting 'The White Lotus' Is Always a Rush Despite the HBO series' Emmys success, casting director Meredith Tucker tells IndieWire that her and creator Mike White have an adaptable ap … By Marcus Jones	SAG-AFTRA Encourages Actors to Promote at Fall Fests if Movies Have Signed Interim Agreements “This is what solidarity looks like. We are proud of our members who demonstrate the various ways to bolster the strike effort," Dunca … By Brian Welk

	Where to Watch This Week's New Movies, from 'Bottoms' to 'Scrapper' A fleet of festival favorites cruise into theaters this week, along with the unbelievable (and true-ish) story of a real-life race car drive … By Kate Erbland
	'Dune: Part Two' Pushed to March 2024 as Warner Bros. Shuffles Release Calendar Amid Strikes Upcoming blockbusters "Godzilla x King Kong: The New Empire" and "Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim" were also delayed by the studi … By Christian Zilko
	WGA Says AMPTP Offer Has Too Many Loopholes and Limits and Isn't 'Good Enough' The Writers Guild acknowledged concessions from the studios in staff sizes and AI but remain frustrated by an unwillingness to budge elsewhe … By Brian Welk
	The Best Survival Movies, from 'Cast Away' and 'The Revenant' to 'The Martian' and 'Alive' Also featuring "The Road," "Deliverance," "127 Hours," "Panic Room," and more.  By Alison Foreman
	The 20 Best Teen Movies of the 21st Century (So Far) From "Lady Bird" to "Dope," "Love, Simon" to "Booksmart," the past two decades have offered up some genuine high school classics.  By Kate Erbland and Wilson Chapman