In America, where gods of industry are all too literally considered deities, we're still not through contending with the legacy of Steve Jobs.

Products aside, the technology leader's flair for theatrics makes him worthy of film treatment, which he's already gotten once over with Jobs, Ashton Kutcher's 2013 vanity project. This new take is Steve Jobs and stars not Kutcher but Michael Fassbender, who looks as little like Jobs as can be, but surely hopes to carry the role with his on-point mannerisms and delivery.

As the Verge reports, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, who adapted the script from Walter Isaacson's hit biography, the film is made up of three half-hour scenes that track the famous press unveilings of the Macintosh, NeXT, and the iMac. Shooting in the Bay Area called for an audience of '80s-looking extras back in early January.

Though some names on the film have come and gone — Christian Bale was attached at one point — the final product is directed by Danny Boyle, who won the Academy Award with Slumdog Millionaire (2008). Seth Rogan stars as Steve Wozniak, Jobs' longtime friend and collaborator, and the film also includes performances from Kate Winslet and Jeff Daniels.

The "next big thing," as Apple might say, arrives October 9th.

Previously: Local Seth Rogen Body Double Sought For Steve Jobs Film

In the last day or so, the scaffolding and tarps have come down around the historic New Mission Theater sign and marquee at Mission and 22nd, revealing a brightly painted version of the once chipped and long weathered landmark — originally designed by architect Timothy Pflueger, who's also responsible for the Art Deco lobby. This will, as we've talked about before, be a part of the new Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, the cinema-with-booze-and-food out of Austin that's slated to open this fall. Local photographer Thomas Hawk grabbed the shots of the pretty sign and its brand new neon bits (which haven't yet been turned on), noting that the name "New Mission" standing alone has kind of taken on a new meaning.

He writes, on Ello:

Although the theater was always called The New Mission Theater, the "New Mission" takes on a different sort of connotation now that the beat up old discount 99 cent only store that was next to it has been converted into a brand spanking new condo complex called the Vida.

There has been a lot of concern and graffiti around the Mission lately about "gentrification" -- the new condos that seem to be popping up everywhere in SF have become one of the symbols that the anti-gentrification crowd has latched on to -- along with the big tech busses, expensive new restaurants and your garden variety tech worker / "hipster."

... I just espouse tolerance for everybody, gentrifiers and anti-gentrifiers alike, just between the two of us. :)

Having lived in and photographed the Bay Area for almost 25 years now though, I will say it's amazing how much it has changed -- especially in the last 5.

Photo by Thomas Hawk

Based on the autobiographical graphic novel of the same name by Phoebe Gloeckner, Diary of a Teenage Girl was one of the breakout hits of Sundance this year, and will now be hitting theaters this summer thanks to Sony Pictures Classics, which snapped it up during this year's festival. Set in 1970s-era San Francisco, SFist first caught wind of the production back in early 2014 when stars Alexander Skarsgard and Kristin Wiig were spotted at location shoots around town.

As you can see in the lush, Instagram-filtered trailer brought to us today by Yahoo Movies, it's a coming-of-age tale centered on 15-year-old Minnie Goetze (played by 23-year-old British actress Bel Powley) as she comes into her own, sexually. She's encouraged by a libertine mom (played by Wiig), and then has an affair with the handsome, older Skarsgard, who is actually her mom's boyfriend.

The film provides a judgement-free look at young Minnie's budding sexuality, and as the NYT's Manohla Dargis wrote that director Marielle Heller "pulls off the tricky feat of honoring Minnie's sexuality without exploiting it or her."

Diary of a Teenage Girl opens in select theaters on August 7.

Previously: Kristen Wiig, Alexander Skarsgard Shooting '70s-Era Movie in S.F.

Poltergeist - Everywhere

Back in 1982, when the original Poltergeist opened, I was a bit obsessed with it, and would end up seeing it a total of six times in a theater. What can I say? I loved horror movies, it was summer vacation, I was a latchkey kid, and most of my friends were out of town till school started up again. So I find it amusing that 33 years later there's a summer remake starring someone I went to school with. Sadly, it doesn't look like I'll be seeing this reboot six times. Also, Jared Harris? You are no Zelda Rubenstein.

Tomorrowland - Everywhere

You can't make four movies that have very overt objectivist themes and still maintain you're a "centrist," right? Right? Read my full review of Brad Bird's latest here.

I'll See You In My Dreams - Embarcadero

Mature romantic comedy starring Blythe Danner as a widow who decides to start dating, and Sam Elliott as the grizzled charmer who catches her eye. Or whose eye she catches. Let's just say, eyes are caught, OK? Mary Kay Place, Rhea Perlman, and June Squibb costar.

Good Kill - Vogue

Drama about fighting foreign wars while not on foreign soil. Ethan Hawke is a military pilot now manning drones. He has a crisis of conscience after running one-too-many missions where the loss of civilians is NBD. Betty Draper Francis January Jones takes on the suffering wife role, and a bitching 1967 Firebird plays his best friend.

Jauja - Roxie

Viggo Mortensen is a Danish engineer searching for his runaway daughter in turn-of-the century Argentina, in this very languid and sometimes puzzling Western drama from director Lisandro Alonso.

Everything Is Terrible!: Legends - Roxie

On Monday, May 25th, the VHS archivists and maniacs behind those Everything Is Terrible! videos bring their touring version of EIT!: Legends to the Roxie. It will include an interactive portion called "Choose Your Own Destiny," in which the audience will choose clips and steer the direction the show will take and, needless to say, more terrible video clips than any person should probably be subjected to. Be sure to bring your Jerry Maguire VHS tapes!

Welcome to Me - AMC Van Ness and Presidio

Welcome to Me is like a Saturday Night Live movie based on a character that really shouldn't have a back story. Would Penelope, Kristen Wiig's recurring SNL character who is always one-upping people at parties, be funnier if you found out her backstory is that she has borderline personality disorder, is a virtual shut-in, and she's just stopped taking her meds? Because that's pretty much the set-up of this indie comedy that just screams indie comedy at every step.

Wiig's Alice Klieg lives in Palm Desert, and, due to her mental illness, has a limited life and very set routine. The TV is always on, either airing infomercials or old VHS tapes of Oprah shows that she knows by heart. She visits a therapist (Tim Robbins). She buys pudding and lotto tickets at the corner store. And most of what she says comes via prepared statements she pulls out of her fanny pack.

And then she wins the lottery.

What she chooses to do with that money is the bulk of the movie: She convinces a flailing public access station, run by two brothers (James Marsden and Wes Bentley) to produce a talk show starring her, about her, and air it two hours a day, five days a week. Of course her myopic worldview makes for some funny moments--her insistence that she always make an entrance in a swan boat; sitting and eating a meat cake for 10 minutes; rehashing past hurts with badly acted reenactments. But it also makes for some really disturbing ones, like her deciding she's going to neuter dogs, live and on the air for several episodes. (She was once a veterinary assistant.)

A person as self-centered and unwilling to address her illness as Alice would likely have estranged her family and friends long ago, but in the movie they have, inexplicably, stuck by her. They include an ex-husband, played by Alan Tudyk, and a best friend, played by Linda Cardellini. Her friends, for reasons never made clear, care about Alice as more than just the source of some of uneasy laughter. But we're never given any other reason to care.

Iris - The Clay

Albert Maysles, along with his brother David, directed some of the best and most influential documentaries ever made, including Salesman, Gimme Shelter, and of course, Grey Gardens. Going solo since the death of David in 1987, Albert was making movies up until his passing in March, including this one about 93-year-old designer — of interiors, fabrics, and clothes —and fashion icon, Iris Apfel.

While this film isn't quite like Grey Gardens in terms of its approach to its subject, one can't deny Little Edie and Iris Apfel are spiritual twins when it comes to style. I don't think Iris would be opposed to wearing a sweater on her head if it went well with the dozens of bracelets and necklaces she happened to be donning, because, in her own words, "It's better to be happy than well-dressed."

Even if you've never heard of Iris, it's probably safe to bet you've at least seen her and her giant glasses, short grey hair, and mounds of bangles. And seeing her packed-to-the-gills residences, her daily routines, and her relationship with her 100-year-old husband, all through the eyes of Albert Maysles, is nothing short of a treat.

Hot Pursuit - Everywhere

If you're in a comedy with Sofia Vegara, and her performance looks subtle next to yours? Well, you might be doing it wrong. Reese Witherspoon has been funny before, but from the looks of this one, she may have forgotten that comedy is more than screaming and mugging for the camera. We could all use a good female-centric buddy cop movie, but this isn't it.

Maggie -  Metreon

Arnold Schwarzenegger has made a zombie movie. Of course he has! Think The Walking Dead meets iZombie. Arnold's daughter (Abigal Breslin) becomes infected with the zombie virus, and he decides to buck the system and keep her out of the mandatory quarantine, fleeing the law with his soon-to-be zombie daughter at his side. Zombisim! The ultimate I'LL BE BACK.

The D Train - AMC Van Ness

Jack Black stars as a former high school loser who decides to convince the most popular guy in his former school (James Marsden, again!) to accompany him to their class reunion. But he gets more than he bargained for and blah blah blah. I'm already tired of this movie because every time I've had to look something up on IMDb today a damn ad for it would start playing and there was no way to shut it off, because the pause and mute buttons are lies. Lies!

5 Flights Up - Marina Theater

Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton star as a couple who have been together for forty years, and decide to look into selling their Brooklyn apartment the same weekend their beloved dog falls ill, a terrorist threat shuts down the Brooklyn Bridge, and they find what may be their dream apartment in Manhattan. In other words, here's the movie you can take your mother to on Sunday.

Heaven Adores You - The Roxie

Documentary about the life and music of Elliot Smith, with a focus on his time in the three main cities he called home — Portland, New York, and Los Angeles — and the sudden fame he garnered after the release of the film Good Will Hunting. A definite must-see for any Elliot Smith fan. Producer Marc Smolowitz is scheduled to make an appearance after the 7 p.m. showing at the Roxie tonight.

Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll - Balboa

Back in the 1960's, Cambodia had a vibrant rock and roll scene, and its own set of pop stars and influential musicians. Then, the Khmer Rouge came to the country. That spelled the death of thousands, and the end to Cambodia's rock and roll. This documentary traces that history through the words of the artists who survived, and includes lots of amazing music and clips. Director John Pirozzi will be in person at tonight's evening showing at the Balboa.

At a shareholders meeting in SF this morning, Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger made a few big announcements with regard to the Star Wars franchise, and fans across the internet are already going nuts. First off, the title of the first Star Wars stand-alone feature will be Rogue One, and it will star Oscar nominee Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything) and be directed by Gareth Edwards (Monsters, Godzilla). The other news: Looper director Rian Johnson has officially been confirmed as director of Star Wars: Episode VIII, which is set for release on May 26, 2017 — forty years (and one day) after the release of the original Star Wars film in 1977.

The rumor that Johnson was signed on to direct the next two films in the series dates back to last June, but now it's made official.

The news was posted on StarWars.com, and Johnson immediately took to Twitter to crack wise.

Johnson is a well respected writer-director who's already built a sci-fi following because of 2012's Looper, and he was also the director on three episodes of Breaking Bad, "Fly", "Fifty-One", and "Ozymandias," the latter which was named the best in the series overall by series creator Vince Gilligan.

Back in 2012 when Disney snapped up Lucasfilm for $4 billion, George Lucas said that he was ready to pass along the Star Wars franchise to "the next generation of filmmakers." Episode Seven of the franchise, the first to be made by Disney with Lucas only as consultant, titled Star Wars: The Force Awakens, comes out December 18. It's directed by J.J. Abrams and stars Lupita Nyong'o and Girls' Adam Driver, with Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill all reprising their original roles. See that trailer below.

As for the title of the stand-alone feature, Rogue One, which will be written by About a Boy screenwriter Chris Weitz and is due out in December 2016, Rogue One is what Luke Skywalker was called in The Empire Strikes Back.

At the risk of ruining the start of the work week, we have some worrisome casting news: Ashton Kutcher, star of That ’70s Show and Two and a Half Men, will play Steve Jobs in an upcoming indie flick. The movie, tentatively titled Jobs, will be directed by Joshua Michael Stern and written by Matt Whiteley. It will center around Jobs's life "from his relatively wayward youth to his involvement in the creation of Apple," notes NYT.

Variety says filming will begin in May.

For many Apple fans, Kutcher as Jobs is downright terrifying, bordering on heresy. Only a reincarnate of Laurence Olivier would be suitable casting for some Mac sect members. Then again, as you can see, Jobs and Kutcher are pretty similar appearance-wise. It could be a brilliant choice. Or it could be another The Butterfly Effect. The last actor to portray the former Apple cofounder was ER's Noah Wylie in the 1999 docudrama Pirates of Silicon Valley.

More importantly, who will play Woz?

A pointy Quentin Tarantino doing a Q&A after Inglorious Bastards (or, Inglourious Basterds) screening at the Castro Theatre.

Update: According to former SFist editor Jackson West, "[Quentin] showed up at the Zeitgeist last night after the Inglorious Basterds premiere at the Castro, and also stopped by Philz coffee at some point and left a doodle and recommendation the whiteboard." (Thanks, Jackson!)

Jan Wahl, the greatest wide-brim hat wearing Bay Area on-air talent of all time, gives Sacha Baron Cohen's , the film version of his popular fictional gay Austrian fashion reporter, a dismal review. Claiming that it enforces stereotypes of gay men, Wahl chides the satire for its "gross-out sex jokes," saying that it "will cause all kinds of bad things to children who are already bullied. ... it will cause real problems that we will not hear about and will not happen in the Bay Area." Which, yes, it will be a rich source of material insofar as playground taunting goes. Anyway, Wahl goes on to give the film no hats. "NO hats?!?!" the stunned KCBS reporter exclaims. That's right, no hats. Listen to the review in its entirety here.)