'Marty Supreme' Review: Timothée Chalamet Raises Hell as a Ping Pong Prodigy in Josh Safdie’s A24 Movie

Happy Monday, everyone, and welcome back from the Thanksgiving holiday break!

I’m still back in Boston for another week, but I want to let you know that I gave thanks for each and every one of you, my subscribers, without whom I’m nothing — just as I’m nothing without my sources. Reporting the news is an immense privilege and one I don’t take for granted, and I owe that privilege to you fine folks. So, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

As noted last week on both The Hot Mic and FYC, I’m also grateful for Jai Courtney’s psychotic turn in Dangerous Animals, A24’s rising awards contender Pillion, the young cast of Sketch, and a slew of largely unheralded Netflix documentaries that aren’t The Perfect Neighbor — namely, aka Charlie Sheen, Unknown Number: The High School Catfish, Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy, Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror, Untold: Shooting Guards, My Father, the BTK Killer, and The Twister: Caught in the Storm.

In terms of box office, Disney’s Zootopia 2 dominated this week, as the sequel took in $156 million over the five-day holiday weekend en route to a global haul of $560 million. I saw the film over the weekend with my two nieces, and I liked it, though it wasn’t as good as the first movie. At McDonald’s the following night, both of my nieces were excited to get a Judy Hopps toy in their Happy Meal, though they quickly forgot about it minutes later, as they have the attention span of flies with ADHD.

Regardless, Disney is poised to keep its winning streak going with Avatar: Fire and Ash, which is tracking for a $110 million opening weekend at the domestic box office, where Netflix’s perfunctory release of Rian Johnson’s latest Knives Out movie, Wake Up Dead Man, grossed just $2.5 million on roughly 600 screens — way below what Glass Onion grossed.

Elsewhere, in release date news, it looks like David Lowery’s Mother Mary will finally arrive in theaters in April — expect the trailer to drop tomorrow with Anne Hathaway front and center — and it sounds like Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars will be pushed to the fall on the strength of good buzz for the Jacob Elordi-led drama. Meanwhile, Parasite director Bong Joon Ho has confirmed that his untitled animated movie will be ready for release at some point in 2027.

But most importantly, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Three is expected to move up a month or two, from December 18 to October or November. That’s because Avengers: Doomsday is also slated for Dec. 18, and unlike Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, it makes no sense for those two films to compete on the same weekend.

The original Dune debuted in late October, and that release window makes sense to me for Part Three, as Gerwig’s Narnia movie is going to own Thanksgiving next year. Not to be outdone, Nolan will debut a six-minute prologue from The Odyssey in theaters on Dec. 12, attached to 70mm IMAX screenings of Sinners and One Battle After Another.

Finally, Paramount has announced that the next live-action TMNT movie will hit theaters on Nov. 17, 2028, followed by a new entry in the Sonic the Hedgehog universe on Dec. 22.

Multiple sources have been peddling the rumor that Paramount is in talks for Quentin Tarantino’s next movie, but I haven’t run anything because I don’t believe it. Quentin and Sony’s Tom Rothman are too tight, and I don’t think QT would leave Sony high and dry. Besides, I don’t even think Tarantino has even settled on an idea yet.

Prior to Thanksgiving, I saw the sequels to Wicked and Sisu, and both were disappointing to various degrees. Wicked: For Good just didn’t have the same charm as the first film, while Sisu: Road to Revenge delivered what its trailer promised, but felt too similar to the original.

I’ve also been watching Season 5 of Stranger Things, which has also been a little disappointing, though I was impressed by the Demogorgon’s attack on the Wheeler home in Episode 2 — a sequence that further illustrated how talented the Duffer brothers are. I know I’m about to get to the good stuff, but so far, there has been an awful lot of repetitive wheel-spinning.

Tonight’s top story is my full review of Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme, which features a dynamite performance from Timothée Chalamet.

There are also items about Donald Trump’s executive order for Hollywood to make Rush Hour 4, the new favorite to play James Bond, Scarlett Johansson heading to the Exorcist franchise, a pair of new movies for Superman breakout Skyler Gisondo, the new director of Amazon’s God of War series, and the fate of Kendrick Lamar’s Paramount comedy as well as Tom Holland’s Fred Astaire movie at Sony. Plus, my thoughts on the teaser for Pixar’s latest original animated movie Hoppers.

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