SOUND BYTES

The month in dialogue and digits.

‘AFTER 45 YEARS OF DOING THIS… I FEEL I’VE PRETTY MUCH SAID WHAT I’VE HAD TO SAY WITH CINEMA.’

NICOLAS CAGE MAY ‘SWITCH FORMATS’ TO TV AFTER ‘THREE OR FOUR’ MORE FILMS.

‘We would never want to magically undo it in any way.’

KEVIN FEIGE SAYS TONY STARK WON’T BE BACK IN THE MCU.

1,300 THE NUMBER OF ARTISTS WHO SIGNED A LETTER OF PROTEST AFTER MELISSA BARRERA WAS FIRED FROM SCREAM 7 OVER SOCIAL MEDIA COMMENTS.

‘I WANNA KISS RYA N GOSLING IN THE RAIN.’

PAUL MESCAL DREAMS OF STEPPING INTO RACHEL MCADAMS’ SHOES IN THE NOTEBOOK.

GOOD THING

BAD ROMANCE

Todd Solondz is gearing up to make his first film in eight years – Love Child – about an 11-year-old inappropriately obsessed with his mother (Elizabeth Olsen).

GOOD THING

DEATH NOTE

Serial-killer comedy Average Height, Average Build has been scrapped at Netflix after director Adam McKay left to make a climate-change movie.

‘I’M BUZZING TO BE GETTING BACK ON THE HORSE WITH NICK [LOVE] – HE’S THE ONLY F***ING IDIOT STUPID ENOUGH.’

DANNY DYER AND NICK LOVE ARE FINALLY RE-TEAMING, FOR MARCHING POWDER.

‘IF YOU MAKE A THREE-HOUR MOVIE, YOU ARE A SELFISH ACTIVIST, AND NOT OF CINEMA.’

CELINE SCIAMMA HAS NO TIME FOR FILMMAKERS WHO CAN’T KEEP THEIR RUNTIMES TIGHT.

$19.5M

THE OPENING WEEKEND BOX-OFFICE TOTAL FOR DISNEY’S WISH IN THE STATES, CAPPING A YEAR OF UNDERPERFORMING TITLES FOR THE MOUSE HOUSE.