Tom Cruise's new project with director Alejandro González Iñárritu suggests a return to auteur movies like Collateral, and we should all celebrate.

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Chances are, if you love movies and have been trapped inside the house since March, you’ve played Cinephile: A Card Game. The game, created by Cory Everett and Steve Isaacs, is an ingenious, multipurpose ode to the magic of the movies, something we were in very short supply of when most theaters were closed, and mainstream releases sidelined. There were even a number of games played online, for charity, including a few that the Collider crew participated in. And now we are so thrilled to exclusively announce that the Cinephile team is back with an all-new project – a …

Perhaps you only know Jay Baruchel from his starring roles in How to Train Your Dragon or Man Seeking Woman. Perhaps you only know him from his supporting roles in Apatow joints like This Is the End or Knocked Up. But what you might not know about Baruchel is that he is a purveyor and creator of grindhouse-leaning horror cinema, a wholly Canadian combination of John Carpenter and David Cronenberg. His latest film in that mold, which he directed, co-wrote, and co-stars in, is called Random Acts of Violence. Though the red-band trailer hints at a …

Late on Friday afternoon, Collider reported that Taika Waititi and Jude Law were teaming for a new Showtime series called The Auteur. The timing wasn't ideal, not just because it was a Friday afternoon, but because it was Valentine's Day, and the start of a long holiday weekend. Showtime wasn't exactly happy with us, but if a story is true and newsworthy, it's our duty to publish it. Of course, this means that, sometimes, we don't have all the details, and with regards to The Auteur, I had a feeling it was based on the …

Hot off his Oscar win for writing Jojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi and two-time Oscar nominee Jude Law are teaming on The Auteur, a new TV series in development at Showtime, Collider has learned. While there are no deals in place yet, Waititi and Law are currently in negotiations with Showtime, which is saying goodbye to Homeland and Shameless this year -- and possibly Ray Donovan as well. The network is ramping up its next generation of shows, including Halo, Mr. Ripley and limited series The President Is Missing based on the bestselling book by James Patterson and Bill Clinton, but …

Over the past several weeks, there have been a series of stories where acclaimed auteur directors are asked about Marvel movies and the directors say something negative about those films. Martin Scorsese compared Marvel films to “theme parks”; Francis Ford Coppola called them “despicable”; Ken Loach said they’re a “cynical exercise”; Pedro Almodovar called them sexless and “neutered”; Fernando Meirelles said he wasn’t interested in them, but also added that it doesn’t mean the movies are bad. Naturally, people who had worked with Marvel then came to the defense of these movies, with Guardians of the Galaxy …