Cruz originally dissed Rey as part of his reaction to Disney’s firing of Gina Carano from “The Mandalorian.” The studio parted ways with Carano over controversial social media posts, including one that compared the current U.S. political divide to Nazi Germany. Carano and Cruz are both Republicans from Texas, and Cruz decided to blast Disney in the aftermath of Carano’s forced removal from the “Star Wars” franchise. “Texan Gina Carano broke barriers in the ‘Star Wars’ universe: not a princess, not a victim, not some emotionally tortured Jedi,” Cruz wrote on Twitter....

Dennis Rader became infamous as the BTK Killer. He killed 10 people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. The BTK Killer taunted the police by sending them letters detailing his crimes in gruesome details. Rader was eventually arrested for his crimes in 2005 after he resumed sending letters to the police a year earlier. “Mindhunter” fans are well aware how important the BTK Killer was to “Mindhunter’s” endgame, as Fincher and his team threaded out Rader’s introduction to the show throughout the first and second seasons....

According to Hamada, the most expensive DC movies will be designed for movie theaters just as they always have been (think Patty Jenkins’ “Wonder Woman” films, James Wan’s “Aquaman” sequel, Dwayne Johnson’s “Black Adam” film, the long-in-development Flash movie). The goal is to begin releasing four of these tentpoles in theaters a year beginning in 2022. Smaller, riskier comic book films will head straight to HBO Max. While not confirmed, The Times suggests projects such as Batgirl and Static Shock movies are examples of the films DC Films will send straight to HBO Max....

“For me, it was important to bring more femininity to the story,” Villeneuve said. “I am fascinated by the relationship of femininity and power, the place of women in society.” Related ‘Dune: Part Two’ Wraps, Timothée Chalamet Shares Set Photo Celebrating Sequel Timothée Chalamet Was ‘Blindsided’ by Massive Production Scale of ‘Dune’ Related The 225 Best Horror Movies of All Time 7 New Netflix Shows in October 2022 – and the Best Reasons to Watch “[Screenwriter] Eric Roth said, ‘If you had one aspect of the novel you would like me to focus on, what would it be?...

“There is absolutely no love for cinema, nor for the audience here,” Villeneuve writes about the HBO Max decision. “It is all about the survival of a telecom mammoth, one that is currently bearing an astronomical debt of more than $150 billion. Therefore, even though ‘Dune’ is about cinema and audiences, AT&T is about its own survival on Wall Street. With HBO Max’s launch a failure thus far, AT&T decided to sacrifice Warner Bros....

Netflix is coming off a major 2020 with huge Oscar contenders (David Fincher’s “Mank” and Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods,” among others) and record-breaking streaming tentpoles (Hemsworth’s “Extraction” holds the record for biggest Netflix original film debut with 99 million views), but its 2021 slate looks in prime position to be even bigger. The video kicks off with Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds touting their spy epic “Red Notice,” which will no doubt be one of Netflix’s biggest draws in 2021....

“I love Louie, but I think we were forced to put Louie in it,” Hall said. “We were forced to put in a white person.” Murphy added, “[The studio was] like, ‘There has to be a white person in the movie.’ I was like, ‘What?’ So who was the funniest white guy around? We knew Louie was cool, so that’s how Louie got in the movie.” “It was official,” Hall continued....

Interview Magazine recently sat Wright down with “No Time to Die” director Cary Fukunaga to discuss the Bond film and Wright’s latest thriller, “Last Night in Soho.” Wright said that he has, in fact, written a screenplay for “Baby Driver 2.” “If I did the sequel — and in fact I’ve already written a script I’d have to find a way to make it fun for me. The idea of doing a straight Xerox is just not interesting because, as you know, these films take at least two years and in our cases, because of the pandemic, they took even longer,” he said....

The seeds of this site were sown by a fateful 1993 trip to Park City, where Hernandez and college friend Cheri Barner met Mark Rabinowitz. The experiences they had there, at the height of the booming American independent film market, inspired the concept for IndieWire, which they launched as an email newsletter at the festival two years later. In an oral history for IndieWire’s 20th anniversary, Hernandez explained how the communal experience of Sundance motivated his work:...

The main one is the aforementioned “Reboot,” created by Steven Levitan. The show follows a showrunner (played by “Crazy Ex Girlfriend’s” Rachel Bloom) who pitches a reboot of the 2000s-era sitcom “Step Right Up.” Unfortunately, her plans for the reboot are fraught with issues, including an acrimonious lead couple (Judy Greer and Keegan-Michael Key) and another with legal issues (Johnny Knoxville). The trailer for the series looks like a fun mash-up of 2000s-era nostalgia—no doubt there will be some sly digs at Levitan’s “Modern Family”—as well as some commentary on why shows like this have changed in the last 20 years....

Film at Lincoln Center has changed in the months since it furloughed half of its full-time staff last spring (most employees have since returned); former editor-in-chief Nicolas Rapold departed last summer after more than a decade with the magazine. Devika Girish and Clinton Krute, who both joined the Film Comment team in 2019 under Rapold’s leadership, are serving as co-deputy editors, overseeing the return of the magazine. “Devika and I are excited and proud to be a part of bringing Film Comment back from hiatus,” Krute said in a statement....

A.V. Club film critic A.A. Dowd published an essay on the morning of August 25 explaining the publication’s decision not to review the film, noting scientific experts who confirm that going to movie theaters remains one of the more unsafe activities to do during the pandemic. “[Science experts] did not mince words: There’s a very good chance you could get sick. And that’s a risk The A.V. Club will not be taking to review a movie, any movie,” Dowd wrote....

Jones notwithstanding, Miguel Sapochnik’s “Finch” only deviates from expectations by doing exactly what it promises from the outset. Finch is introduced to us in full “I Am Legend” mode as he and his WALL-E-esque prototype Dewey search the ruins of Missouri for sustenance and spare parts, but there aren’t any supernatural dangers lurking in the shadows outside of our hero’s tank-like RV. There aren’t any computer-generated zombies biding their time until nightfall....

The charge was filed on Wednesday by former Netflix employees B. Pagels-Minor, a Netflix program manager, and Terra Field, a software engineer. The filing accuses Netflix of “engag[ing] in the above activity [firing] to quell employees from speaking up about working conditions including, but not limited to, seeking to create a safe and affirming work environment for Netflix employees, speaking up about Netflix’s products and the impact of its product choices on the LGBTQ+ community, and providing support for employees whom Netflix has treated in an unlawful and disparate manner....

She is the resident badass at the heart of Taylor Sheridan’s “Yellowstone.” Her anger is controlled and deliberate; so is her calculating mind. She can kiss her father goodbye and financially destroy a company or ruin someone’s life. She’s a warrior in designer pumps. But I’m gonna say it: “Yellowstone” may have a Beth Dutton problem. Beth’s been through a lot. She’s been beaten, threatened with sexual assault, blown up, and thanks to her half-brother Jamie (Wes Bentley) underwent forced sterilization as a teenager....

“[I] haven’t seen the film since the first screening in a dark, tiny viewing room in a post-production company’s facility 50 years ago,” Hackman said, adding, “If the film has a legacy, I am not sure what that would be. At the time, it seemed to me to be a reverent story of a cop who was simply able to solve and put a stop to a major crime family’s attempt to infiltrate the New York drug scene....

Cannes likes George Miller, and he likes Cannes. It’s where he debuted “Mad Max: Fury Road” in 2015, and made his third Competition jury appearance the following year, this time as its president. Now his latest film, “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” has an out-of-competition slot with an epic and gorgeously wrought fairy-tale romance between a Djinn eager for freedom (Idris Elba) and a successful but lonely academic who studies storytelling (another Cannes perennial, Tilda Swinton)....

Born in 1984 and raised to think of the “Lost in Translation” director as more of an auteur than an actress, I’ve been all the way in on the likes of “Somewhere” and “Marie Antoinette” from the moment Coppola’s movies came into my life, and it always seemed unnecessary — even rude — to dig through the trash and unearth what I understood to be her greatest embarrassment (even if Coppola herself is blasé about the whole thing)....

Nielsen’s early numbers for the 78th Golden Globes stated that the event averaged around 5.4 million viewers and a 1.2 rating in the key 18-49 age demographic, which is more than a 60 percent decline in each category compared to the ratings for 2020’s Golden Globes. Early Nielsen statistics do not include viewership of the live show from the Pacific time zone or out-of-home viewing. A full report will be released Tuesday....

The character, as reported by Bloomberg, will be unveiled in “Grand Theft Auto VI” and be a co-lead for the central “Bonnie and Clyde”-esque storyline. She will also be of Latina descent. As Bloomberg reported, “Developers are also being cautious not to ‘punch down’ by making jokes about marginalized groups, the people said, in contrast with previous ‘Grand Theft Auto’ games.” “Grand Theft Auto VI” is anticipated to be released as part of developer Take-Two’s 2024 fiscal year after being in the works for almost a decade since 2014....