I am happy to report this news: Fox Searchlight has chosen May 8, 2020 for the release of “The Personal History of David Copperfield.” At last!

I’ve been raving about Armando Iannucci’s Pythonesque take on Charles Dickens since I saw it in Toronto. “Copperfield” opened the London Film Festival and is up for awards already over there. When it hits America, the Oscar drum will start to sound for Iannucci, as well as star Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie, and everyone else including Ben Whishaw as Uriah Heep. He’s a Heep of fun!

Iannucci’s movies include “In the Loop,” and “The Death of Stalin.” Plus he created “Veep” for HBO. But the tone here is very different. The movie aims for a wider following. It’s a total winner.

Want to see Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman”? In Manhattan, at Broadway’s Belasco Theater, the month long screening is such an event that tickets are being scalped on StubHub.com.

Never mind that you can see “The Irishman” at the Landmark 57, and downtown at the IFC Center. Tickets are $17.50 plus tax and service charges.

But everyone wants to go to the Belasco. The New York Times even wrote about it today, about the ornate theater and the special design in the lobby.

What the Times didn’t mention is that Belasco tickcts are very sold out. This past weekend was jammed, and after that word of mouth has done the rest of the job.

So, of course, New Yorkers have turned to Stubhub, the king of the secondary market. For every show, there are a few seats available on their site. The price average is $65, which is high for a movie but low low low for a Broadway show.

At the high end, there’s a center balcony seat this Friday night for $94. Center orchestra seats, which are rare, are running around $100.00.

Mind you, you can still go to the other theaters. This is strictly a Belasco situation. In Hollywood, no tickets have turned up on Stubhub for the run at the American Cinemateque, aka the Egyptian Theater. Angelenos are stubbornly lazy. They will wait for “The Irishman” to hit Netflix before asking their drivers to get out the Maybach and take them downtown for a three-and-a-half hour movie!

Netflix, which doesn’t put movies in theaters for very long, still likes the great old New York palaces.

Right now they’ve got “The Irishman” playing to sold out crowds at Broadway’s Belasco Theater.

Next Sunday, they’re taking over the dormant Paris Theater across from The Plaza Hotel to premiere “Marriage Story.” The Paris has been closed for several weeks, and still has the marquee poster for Ron Howard’s “Pavarotti.”

The owner of the building that houses the Paris — real estate magnate five time billionaire Sheldon Solow and his son — shut down the Paris on September 1st.

But Netflix is smart, and knows that the Paris adds prestige to their films. They’ll run “Marriage Story” there for about three weeks beginning November 6th and ending the 28th. They may cut a deal to follow with their other Oscar-buzzed movies, like “The Two Popes.” Maybe when “The Irishman” finishes up at the Belasco, it can move there. (This is just hopeful daydreaming.)

Here’s an idea: why don’t they just buy it and call it the Netflix Paris?

That may be all for “Terminator” movies, just as it was for “Rambo” last month.

The new Terminator entry, “Dark Fate,” cost at least $185 million to make, and took in just $29 million over the weekend. It’s DOA. To paraphrase Arnold Schwarzenegger, “he won’t be back.”

Schwarzenegger brought back Linda Hamilton, had a team of expensive writers, and then handed this ghastly expensive project to a director, Tim Miller, who’d never made a feature film. Let’s say that again: never made a feature film. In what business would you give something that costs $185 MILLION DOLLARS to a total novice? Unbelievable.

Many important people are involved in the mopping up: Both Paramount and Fox-Disney, Skydance, Tencent, Lightstorm Entertainment and TSG. They’ve spread the misery around, certainly. And so many people have to get paid before Arnold, unless that’s in his deal. James Cameron, for one, and David Goyer. A mess.

Paramount is having a tough time. They invested in a lot of “franchise names” like Will Smith (“Gemini Man”) and Arnold, and got nowhere. They’re probably thanking God for “Rocketman.” Because of the success of the Elton John movie, Paramount will try to replicate the success with their BeeGees movie which tell the tale of the Gibbs brothers rising out of Australia, having many hits, bringing in their youngest brother, Andy, who soared to fame and success then died. Then two of the main brothers die, leaving Barry Gibb in Miami. They should call the movie “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?” but they’ll probably call it “Stayin’ Alive.” As long as they don’t call it, “I Started a Joke.”

As for “Terminator,” enough already. Sylvester Stallone’s “Rambo: Last Blood” was a dud with $44 mil here, $44 mil abroad. There will never be another “Die Hard” movie with Bruce Willis. The era of the ’80s avenging anti-superheroes is over.

Todd Phillips’s “Joker” is dark, a little depressing, and kinda violent. Joaquin Phoenix’s performance is outstanding. So are the all visuals, etc. In the last couple of weeks, a meme has taken over as fans — either set up or spontaneous– have flocked to the Bronx’s Shakespeare Avenue steps to re-enact the Joker’s jolly jaunt.

And now, the box office worldwide is eyeing 1 billion dollars. This movie has been a phenom. Tomorrow it crosses $300 million just in the US. “Joker” has held the number 1 spot for weeks. Obviously there are repeat customers. Arthur Fleck’s pathetic life has definitely struck a chord. And so far, thank goodness, no one’s gotten hurt.

For Warner Bros, “Joker” is a lifesaver. The studio tried a bunch of smaller dramas this year and really got burned. Edward Norton’s “Motherless Brooklyn” is out this weekend, it’s a dud. But it did inspire some “Ed Norton” puns from boxofficemojo.com. Hey, Art Carney would have been great in “Motherless Brooklyn.”

The big happy news is that “Harriet,” starring Cynthia Erivo as Harriet Tubman, did better than predicted this weekend. Receipts on the underground railroad were $12 million. Erivo is heading to an Oscar nod for Best Actress and she’ll get a best song nomination. Cool stuff.