The next season of the TCM podcast The Plot Thickens will train a spotlight on the famously reclusive, notoriously obsessive Stanley Kubrick.

Hosted by Ben Mankiewicz and made in partnership with the Criterion Collection, the 11-episode “Stanley” premieres Sept. 24 and features excerpts from a never-before-heard 1972 audio interview with the filmmaker conducted by Newsday film critic Joseph Gelmis tied to the release of A Clockwork Orange (1971).

In the interview, Kubrick talks about directing actors, independent filmmaking, football and even his beloved pets, offering a rare glimpse into the mind of one of cinema’s most influential figures.

The podcast also includes Mankiewicz interviews with Steven Spielberg, Sofia Coppola, Matthew Modine, Josh Safdie, George Miller, Phil Rosenthal, Michael Bauman and Lee Unkrich; with Kubrick’s stepdaughter, Katharina Kubrick; with longtime Kubrick collaborator James B. Harris; and with authors Claire Dederer and Jon Ronson.

“The Plot Thickens podcast has become one of the most ambitious and rewarding ways we explore the stories behind the people who shape filmmaking, and this season on Stanley Kubrick is a perfect example of that,” Charlie Tabesh, TCM senior vp programming and content strategy, said in a statement.

“The discovery of this previously unheard conversation with Kubrick is truly extraordinary, and alongside new interviews and other archival recordings, it helps create the most complete portrait of the filmmaker possible. As a network dedicated to preserving and celebrating film history, TCM is the ideal home to share a recording like this, pairing Kubrick’s own voice with thoughtful storytelling and the insights of those who knew and studied his work.”

New episodes will be released every Thursday. (Watch the trailer here.)

In conjunction with the seventh season of the podcast, TCM will present every one of Kubrick’s features over four consecutive Thursdays next month, starting at 5 p.m. PST on Sept. 3 with Killer’s Kiss (1955).

Viewers also will be treated to Fear and Desire (1952), The Killing (1956), Paths of Glory (1957), Spartacus (1960), Lolita (1962), Dr. Strangelove (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon (1975), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999).

Two of his short films, Day of the Fight and Flying Padre, both from 1951, will also be screened.

Criterion, which put out The Killing and Paths of Glory on laserdisc back in the day, will release a “Complete Kubrick” special edition box set in October.

Previous Plot Thickens seasons have focused on Peter Bogdanovich, the 1990 film The Bonfire of the Vanities, Lucille Ball, Pam Grier, John Ford and the making of Cleopatra (1963).

Camille Delamarre will direct Andrea Iervolino’s sports car movie Bugatti: The Final Race.

The director of pics such as Brick Mansions, The Transporter Refueled and Assassin Club will direct based on an English-language story from producer Iervolino about the life of race car driver Ettore Bugatti. The Andrea Iervolino American Company is producing.

We first reported on the Bugatti movie in 2024, at which point frequent Iervolino collaborator Bobby Moresco was expected to be scripting the project. A rep today confirmed to Deadline that Iervolino is now scripting the film himself alongside Albert Ferrari. This marks the first time Iervolino has taken a writing credit on one of his pics.

Iervolino is known for bringing films about other classic Italian car brands Lamborghini, Ferrari and Maserati to the screen. The Bugatti story will be set in Paris, in 1947, where Bugatti is living out his last months in an apartment where past and present blur into one. He has one final race ahead of him: To win back Molsheim – the factory, and the name, that were taken from him.

For Iervolino, the film is the final circuit on a tour that began with 2022’s Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend, starring Frank Grillo, and was followed by Michael Mann’s Ferrari, starring Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz, and and Maserati: The Brothers, directed by Bobby Moresco with Anthony Hopkins, Michele Morrone, Andy García, Al Pacino and Jessica Alba starring.

“With Lamborghini, Ferrari and Maserati I told the story of the Italian obsession with speed,” said Iervolino. “Bugatti is something else: It is art applied to an engine, a man who designed cars the way others carve sculpture, and who paid for that dream with the loss of his son.

“I have carried this story with me for years, and for the first time I felt the need to write it myself, together with Alberto Ferrari. Then I needed a director who could put speed in the audience’s stomach and, at the same time, hold the silence of a family tragedy. Camille has spent twenty years building a language of movement. He is the right man for this race.”

Delamarre added: “I grew up a few kilometres from the Bugatti legend, and for me Molsheim is not just a name: It is the place where impossible objects were built. When I read Andrea and Alberto’s screenplay I found exactly what I was looking for – a film in which the cars are not scenery, they are characters.

“We will shoot with real machines, in real places, because you cannot fake the sound of a 1939 straight-eight. But the race that interests me most is the one between a father and a son: Two men chasing the same perfection from opposite directions, with far less time than they think.”

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off a guest star role in an upcoming episode of NBC’s St. Denis Medical, Damon Wayans has signed with Verve for representation.

A writer, actor, producer, comedian, and patriarch of one of comedy’s most enduring dynasties, Wayans is best known as a co-creator and star of the groundbreaking sketch comedy series In Living Color — the first major network sketch series centered around a predominantly Black cast, which earned him four Emmy nominations for his writing and helped launch the careers of icons such as Jamie Foxx and Jim Carrey.

Wayans is otherwise perhaps best known for starring in the ABC sitcom My Wife and Kids, which ran for five seasons, winning him a BET Comedy Award. Most recently, he starred opposite his son Damon Wayans Jr. in CBS’s comedy series Poppa’s House, for which he won the 2025 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series. Wayans and Wayans Jr. made history as the first father-son duo nominated together in the category.

Additional TV credits for Wayans include Lethal Weapon, Happy Endings, The Underground and Saturday Night Live.

On the feature side, his credits include Major Payne, The Last Boy Scout opposite Bruce Willis, Mo’ Money, Bamboozled for Spike Lee, Celtic Pride, Bulletproof opposite Adam Sandler, and Earth Girls Are Easy.

Earlier this year, Wayans joined siblings Keenen Ivory, Marlon, Shawn and Kim, along with son Damon Wayans Jr., as the Wayans family was inducted into the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame. This came in recognition, per NAACP president and CEO Derrick Johnson, of “trailblazing work in television, film, and stand-up [that] has transcended pop culture and cemented their legacy.”

Wayans reunites with former In Living Color castmate David Alan Grier in the Season 3 premiere of St. Denis Medical, airing November 2. In the episode, he plays Dr. Highland, a charming but pompous new doctor at St. Denis who’s filling in while Ron (Grier) is recovering from surgery.

Wayans continues to be represented by Dave Feldman at Brecheen Feldman Breimer.