“It’s a body memory,” she told me the next day, a few hours after the emotional premiere of her movie. “Life is dangerous. The headlines have statistics and bloody pictures. Nobody talks about what everyday life is like there.” This year’s Cannes has been filled with contrasts between the celebratory festival environment and the tragedies of war. The official festival events have not ignored this unseemly blend: The opening ceremony included a rousing speech from President Volodmyr Zelensky and the Marché du Film hosted “Ukraine Day” with some 30 delegates from the country in attendance....

I’m starting to worry about Hulu’s classic “The Handmaid’s Tale.” The series returned with its fourth season on April 28, seeing June Osborne (an always impeccable Elisabeth Moss) embrace her role as a revolutionary and become even more of a thorn in Gilead’s side — so much so that it raises the eternal question: How is June still alive? Are you kidding me? How?! Now, in all fairness, I don’t remember people asking this question about Jack Bauer during the 200-some episodes of “24” that he survived with aplomb....

It starts on roiling seas, as the Swedish teenager makes her way across the Atlantic Ocean to attend and speak at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York City in September of last year. For some, that act — spending over two weeks on a racing yacht to cross an ocean, rather than simply take a flight there — was a put-on by Thunberg, some sort of show, but “I Am Greta” makes it clear that it was truly an extension of her beliefs....

It feels noteworthy to bring this up in reference to Michelangelo Frammartino’s “Il Buco” because such are the thoughts you might find yourself dwelling upon throughout this alternately challenging and absorbing sit. Of course, the fact that the film both welcomes and nourishes such mental digressions is neither a feature nor a bug (or, depending on how you look at it, maybe both) but a direct and inevitable outcome of an uncompromised and uncompromising deep dive into the nature of screen representation that is — very much by design — painstakingly dry....

“No more than three global entertainment companies are likely to attain the streaming-service scale required — 300 million global subscriptions at an average of $15 per month — to generate attractive cash flows,” Kilar wrote. “Expect two or three major mergers and/or acquisitions involving entertainment companies in the coming 24 months as a result.” It’s not all bad news, however. “Given the unusually large addressable market and the relatively fixed cost of content at scale, I believe the streaming cash flows of the leading companies will eventually be north of $10 billion a year, far greater than what most entertainment companies have each historically generated....

Kilar began negotiating his exit via a legal team last May, mere days after it was first announced that AT&T would spin off WarnerMedia in a deal with Discovery, Inc. Kilar was kept in the dark on the deal; the handwriting was on the wall. Longtime Discovery boss David Zaslav leads the newly former Warner Bros. Discovery. The merger is expected to finalize within the next few days. As the two former standalone companies warm up to each other, the expectation is that their respective streaming services HBO Max and Discovery+ will begin their path to coming together as one....

Over a decade since the reboot film premiered in 2011, Momoa admitted that the movie “really sucked” during an interview with GQ. “I’ve been a part of a lot of things that really sucked, and movies where it’s out of your hands,” Momoa dished. “‘Conan [the Barbarian’] was one of them. It’s one of the best experiences I had and it [was] taken over and turned into a big pile of shit....

But they could not kill Fred Hampton’s legacy and, 50 years later, his words about revolution still echo, maybe louder than ever. Shaka King’s latest feature, “Judas and the Black Messiah,” aims to tell this story, and a blazing first trailer makes it look like one of the film events of the year. In 1968, the young, charismatic activist became chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, who were fighting for freedom, the power to determine the destiny of the Black community, and an end to police brutality and the murdering of Black people....

In a thread posted to his personal Twitter earlier Wednesday, Jennings said: “I just wanted to own up to the fact that over the years on Twitter, I’ve definitely tweeted some unartful and insensitive things. Sometimes they worked as jokes in my head and I was dismayed to see how they read on screen.” He explains his decision to leave the tweets up for years after the fact as an attempt to avoid “whitewashing a mistake....

“It is with profound sadness that I send this to you today. Kevin Conroy, the quintessential voice of Batman, and a dear friend to so many of us, has passed away,” a rep for Conroy said in a statement. News of Conroy’s passing was first reported when Diane Pershing, who co-starred with Conroy in “Batman: The Animated Series,” posted a tribute to him on Facebook. “Very sad news: our beloved voice of Batman, Kevin Conroy, died yesterday,” Pershing’s post reads....

Cut to three years later, and bingo — “King Richard” launched with a bang at the Telluride Film Festival, where the Warner Bros. production became an instant Oscar contender, with Smith’s empathetic performance as a flawed but passionate patriarch hailed as his best yet. Green’s early passion for sports merges with his distrust of unearned sentimentality to yield an absorbing, credible saga about the bonds of a Black family devoted to navigating the athletic spotlight on their own terms....

Larry King was born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger on November 19, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York. His parents were Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and Austria-Hungary. When King’s father died of a heart attack the burgeoning newscaster immediately started working after he graduated high school, hoping to support his mother and brother. At an early age he knew he wanted to get into broadcasting. It was by chance that King met a CBS staffer who convinced him to move to Florida where the media landscape was just starting to gain ground....

In a recent interview with USA Today, Carax confirmed that he did write a part in the “Annette” script specifically for Rihanna. The part was a cameo appearance in which Rihanna would perform with the eponymous character who, as a baby, possesses the rare gift of an angelic singing voice. Rihanna declined the role. “It was a small part written specifically for her,” Carax said of the planned cameo. “She was supposed to play Rihanna....

“He is finally gone,” Ruffalo wrote. “The nightmare has come to its fitful end. A bunch of trump elite criminals pardoned in the shroud of night. The Golden Toilet Presidency is over. A turd is a turd no matter where it lays. We are going to be okay. From the wreckage there will be renewal, from the wounds will grow compassion and character, from the division will come clarity, from the despair will come wisdom, from the loss will come community....

Mix in Monica Bellucci as the Jeffrey Epstein-esque queenpin of a child prostitution ring, Guy Pearce — no stranger to stories about anterograde amnesia — as a mustached FBI agent prone to wearily saying things like “Memory’s a motherfucker,” and pliable source material (the 2003 Belgian thriller “The Alzheimer Case”) that’s enriched by its new setting along Texas’ southern border, and it sounds like the recipe for a solid little programmer....

“The truth is that movies are simply not as available today as they were during the heyday of VHS when some brick-and-mortar video stores carried tens of thousands of titles,” the manifesto for indie film preservation group Missing Movies states. “Now, with a few giant companies controlling the most popular streaming services and trying to outdo one another with original content, many older movies are being left behind.” A collaborative effort between filmmakers and cinephiles, Missing Movies sets out to “empower filmmakers, distributors, archivists, and others to locate lost materials, clear rights, and advocate for policies and laws to make the full range of our cinema history available to all,” as IndieWire can exclusively share....

In his report introduction, MPA chairman Charles Rivkin refers to the comeback stories that Hollywood loves but adds: “Most of us anticipate that things are unlikely to return to what is ‘normal’ anytime soon.” The numbers reflect a challenging year, but North America saw the best of it. Its decline was was 11 percent, to $32.2 billion, while foreign markets dropped 23 percent, to $48.2 billion. That discrepancy reflects the penetration of alternative platforms; it also may testify to the member companies’ ability to keep losses to a minimum....

Brokaw, 80, spent his entire journalism career with NBC News, beginning in the Los Angeles Bureau where he covered Ronald Reagan’s first run for public office, as well as the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, and the 1968 presidential campaign. In 1973, he moved to the nation’s capital as the NBC News White House correspondent during the Watergate scandal, a position he held until 1976 when he started co-hosting “TODAY....

During his first tenure at the helm of the entertainment giant, Iger was famous for cultivating close relationships with Hollywood talent and giving the company’s storytellers the space and resources to do the best creative work possible. His passion for the brand and willingness to accommodate artists made him a very popular figure in Hollywood. Chapek took a dramatically different approach, aggressively restructuring the company to cut expenses and maximize profits in a way that many felt came at the expense of the creativity and quality....

“Flee,” directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, tells the true story of Amin Nawabi as he grapples with his secret past as an Afghan refugee on the verge of marrying his husband. “In the touching and innovative documentary ‘Flee,’ Jonas Poher Rasmussen takes great care in sharing the personal history of an Afghan refugee. The filmmaker uses the process of animation to protect the identity of his subject, while also bringing an added layer to the material, capturing the impact of trauma on memory and identity in the process,” said Jury chair Peter Debruge, chief Variety film critic....