The films will be available in theaters nationwide starting February 25. The 2022 program will open in over 350 theaters across more than 100 theatrical markets, including New York and Los Angeles, before expanding to over 500 theaters. To learn more about the participating theaters and how to purchase tickets, visit the website here. Watch a trailer for the series below. “What a way to get back to the big screen!...

Notable artists and talent in the shorts program include Paul Feig, Angela Sarafyan, Kate Flannery, Yalitza Aparicio Martinez, Angela Trimbur, Ken Marino, Bi Gan, and Shannon Plumb. Selections range from more than 23 countries, including Iran and Ukraine. The Sundance Institute will offer in-person premieres for the Indie Episodic works, with Shorts screened in curated programs. Beginning January 24, all Indie Episodic projects and selected Shorts will also be available to stream online through the end of the festival....

Ready to make your home smarter? It’s hard enough staying up to date on all the new gadgets and gizmos, but if you’re looking to make your home more advanced, we’re here to help. Getting a smart home doesn’t necessarily mean remodeling everything. In fact, most smart devices are easy to set up and compliment what’s already in your space, which intern makes your day just a little bit easier....

The countdown to Mother’s Day has begun! If you’re looking for movies to binge this weekend (or whenever you have the time), we collected a list of films that honor the complexities of motherhood. From dark comedies and feel-good dramas to thrillers and cult classics, these movies will pull at your heart strings, and in some cases, tickle your funny bone. Hulu is another great option, especially if you love network TV....

It’s been about a year and a half since the pandemic caused worldwide restrictions, forcing people into their homes for weeks at a time. Now that those restrictions have mostly been lifted, a vast majority of the world is yearning to get back to their pre-pandemic ways (even if it means wearing a face mask while doing so). Maybe your gym was shut down for a while and you’re looking to get back into that fitness regime?...

It’s not something commonly seen on television today, especially in the era of peak true crime television with creatives often adapting magazine articles and documentaries rather than going to victims directly for the rights to their story. It’s debatable how much of this is to get around paying for life rights and/or to give directors and screenwriters an out if they change real events too much. And it’s impossible not to think of how commodified the true crime genre is hearing the real Broberg Felt sensitively discuss that this is her story and that she hopes it will educate others....

Butler has been a theatrical draw, but what’s of note is unlike many VOD-centric action originals released by Vertical and others, this one found an elevated response at a PVOD price and with minimal marketing. It’s also #3 at Vudu (Google Play reporting lags, as usual), and it’s another example of the often-eccentric universe that creates the home-viewing charts. This week also saw the reduced-price “The Lost City” (Paramount/$5.99) at #1 on both Google Play and iTunes (which rank by sales activity, not revenue) while also streaming at Paramount +....

“I didn’t turn it down,” Cumming said. “I told them to f*ck off!” Cumming also revealed that he was competing with Rupert Everett, with whom he shared the same agent, for the role. “They wanted me and Rupert Everett to do a screen test, and they said they couldn’t pay me more than a certain sum, they just didn’t have any more money in the budget,” Cumming said. “And I had the same agent as Rupert, who of course, they were going to pay more....

Baldwin in his suit, as obtained by IndieWire, named the armorer tasked with handling the weapons on set, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, first assistant director Dave Halls, the individual in charge of props, Sarah Zachry, and Seth Kenney of PDQ Arm & Prop, which supplied the ammunition and guns to the film set. Baldwin specifically accused Gutierrez-Reed of failing to check the gun or the bullets of the gun carefully, as well as Halls for not checking the weapon before he had announced that it was a “cold gun” and handed it to Baldwin....

“We weren’t gonna make a biography,” Poitras told IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “One thing I try to do as a filmmaker is to not hear the story that people repeat about their life over and over. We all do that. We all tell a story and we go into a kind of a mode of repeating, but how could it feel in the present in a really meaningful way.” While Poitras filmed Goldin risking her career by challenging global art institutions to cut ties with the Sackler family — major philanthropic donors who fueled the opioid epidemic through the manufacturing of OxyContin — it was readily apparent how this moment in Goldin’s life was connected to her personal experience and history....

That limited availability likely is a disappointment for “Unhinged” with Russell Crowe, which pegged its delayed release to two weeks ahead of “Tenet” and has been a leader in showing in reopened territories in recent weeks. It’s earned a modest $3 million so far in overseas dates. It also bodes less well for the other wide release, Roadside Attractions’ “Words on Bathroom Walls.” The missing theaters for the “Tenet” date appear to be centered in California, New York, North Carolina, Maryland, and possibly Arizona, none of which are listed for August 21....

“It really comes down to one thing: We believe that we will need to raise more capital to assure ourselves that we can lengthen our financial runway, at least into next summer,” Aron said. “The simple question becomes: Have we raised that needed capital or not?” In other words, the AMC executives said that extant debt and lease renegotiations, reduced interest payments, and $900-million in debt and equity proceeds will be sufficient enough to keep the chain afloat until early 2021....

Still, in terms of pure red-carpet optics, Cannes locked its ace-in-the-hole two years ago when it planned to screen “Top Gun: Maverick” out of competition at its canceled edition. At long last, Tom Cruise will walk the red carpet of the Lumiere Theatre for the first time since 1992, when he appeared for Ron Howard’s “Far and Away.” The Cannes launch (which follows a world premiere at CinemaCon) means even people for whom the pronunciation of “Cannes” is as mysterious as its program will catch a whiff of the media excitement around May 18....

“My Father’s Dragon” (Cartoon Saloon/Netflix), the 2D adaptation of Ruth Stiles Gannett’s classic children’s book, from Oscar-nominated director Nora Twomey (“The Breadwinner”), took home the Special Jury prize. This provides some heat as Cartoon Saloon chases its fifth Best Animated Feature Oscar nomination. The Audience Award went to “Aurora’s Sunrise,” the animated documentary from director Inna Sahakyan, which tells the remarkable story of Aurora Mardiganian, who survived the Armenian genocide as a teenager, and came to America, where she starred in a 1919 silent Hollywood film based on her survival of the massacre that slaughtered 1 million Armenians....

For Baz Luhrmann’s musical biopic “Elvis,” in theaters June 24, Austin Butler trained in the art of karate to play Presley. “I was doing karate training every day with my movement coach,” Butler explained to AP Entertainment. “We would study Elvis and we would study his movements and then all of the people who inspired him. And also general things like swing dancing and tap dancing and things just for dexterity and movement....

Here’s the official synopsis, courtesy of Netflix: “While vacationing in Greece, American tourist Beckett (John David Washington) becomes the target of a manhunt after a devastating accident. Forced to run for his life and desperate to get across the country to the American embassy to clear his name, tensions escalate as the authorities close in, political unrest mounts, and Beckett falls even deeper into a dangerous web of conspiracy.” “Beckett” is produced by Cito Filomarino’s colleague Luca Guadagnino....

Similar to most of the world, Covid-19 numbers in Germany have been skyrocketing this winter. Movie theaters in Germany are closed until January 10 at the earliest. Germany announced 662 Covid-19-related deaths on Tuesday, December 8, a then record for the country. Throughout the fall, organizers for the Berlin Film Festival remained hopeful the 2021 edition could take place with an in-person event. News hit in November that Berlinale 2021 would feature a reduced lineup to prevent overcrowding, but organizers said at the time the festival “still had plans to take place as a physical event in February” and that it was “too early to consider cancellation....

Whether it’s romantic dramas, war stories, action films, dark comedies, or illuminating the stories of marginalized women and girls, there’s no denying that female directors have shown their cinematic range. Of course, there’s still a lot of work to be done in widening opportunities, and completely shattering the glass ceiling, but female directors continue to make strides that have shifted the landscape. The last three years have seen an uptick in women director’s helming box-office hits, and the numbers continue to increase....

So you’ve decided to pursue filmmaking. Perhaps you’re inspired by how director Ava DuVernay brings stories to light about underrepresented communities, or George Lucas’ ability to take audiences on cosmic adventures. Either way, being a filmmaker means that you have stories to share with the world. Congratulations on finding your passion. Now that you know what it is that you want to do, you’re going to need a few supplies to help you achieve those filmmaking goals....

The “Breaking Bad” spinoff concludes later this year, and while Odenkirk described moving on from the role as “challenging,” he also admitted there is a sense of freedom to it. “I always used to scoff and roll my eyes at actors who say, ‘It’s so hard.’ Really? It can’t be,” Odenkirk told The New York Times of taking on a dramatic role. “[But] the truth is that you use your emotions, and you use your memories, you use your hurt feelings and losses, and you manipulate them, dig into them, dwell on them....