Highlights from the MGM catalog include “Basic Instinct,” “Legally Blonde,” “Moonstruck,” “Poltergeist,” “Raging Bull,” “The Silence of the Lambs,” “Thelma & Louise,” “Tomb Raider,” and “12 Angry Men.” For TV, the studio produced “Fargo,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and “Vikings.” In its almost century-long tenure as a famed Hollywood studio, MGM acquired 80 Academy Awards, and 100 Emmy Awards during its reign. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news!...

Cerna indicated that an additional benefit of the redesign is making Prime Video feel more like other streaming services on the market. “Part of ease of use is familiarity,” she said. “So in instances where, you know, there are established patterns in the wild, we leverage those.” Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.

It’s near impossible to interview Amber Ruffin. Those familiar with her work know that even when addressing the most serious of topics, Ruffin has a natural ebullience that’s impossible not to be drawn into, which makes it all the more hilarious whenever she delivers a devastating punchline. In an interview setting, the best a person can do is give themselves over to the comedian’s enthusiasm and let her delight carry the moment wherever it wants to go....

In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Ana de Armas, who plays Marilyn Monroe in the film defended the film’s use of nudity and explained that she isn’t bothered by other people’s interpretations of it. “It’s harder for people to watch [those scenes] than for me to make them, because I understood what I was doing and I felt very protected and safe,” de Armas said. “I didn’t feel exploited because I was in control....

“How can you associate me with a government whose extremist media has spared no effort to destroy, marginalize, and stigmatize me in past years?” Farhadi writes (via Vulture translation). “A government to which I have made my views clear on the suffering it has caused over the years — from the events of January 2017 and November 2019, to the bitter and unforgivable tragedy that caused the murder of the Ukrainian plane passengers, from the cruel discrimination against women and girls to the way the country has allowed coronavirus to slaughter its people....

Last year’s festival was billed ATX TV… From the Couch!, and this year will offer another unique and immersive “at home” experience filled with premieres, panels, screenings, special events, and more. The 2021 festival will be a mix of daily VOD programming and appointing viewing, with more interactivity and community focus. Typically held in Austin, TX, the ATX TV Festival successfully pivoted to a virtual event last year during the first few months of the pandemic....

Black Friday is here! While the crowds this year might not be as large as years past, you can avoid them altogether with these virtual deals. To get your started, we’ve compiled a list of some of the best discounts we can find on everything from headphones to a fancy wine preservation system — items we think IndieWire readers will enjoy. See our roundup of the best Black Friday deals below, and don’t forget to check back to see what new markdowns we find....

Out with the old, in with the new! The summer is nearly over, which means it’s a perfect time to get organized as we welcome fall. From the chilly weather to cozy sweaters, there’s something special about the change of seasons and if you’ve been putting off getting organized, a bit of cleaning can brighten your space as well as your mental disposition, which is especially important during a pandemic....

For fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Funko Pop! vinyl figures might be some of the coolest collectibles on the market. The pop-culture-focused consumer products company has partnered with Marvel for a bunch of exclusive collections based on your favorite superheroes. Of course, that includes Black Widow, Iron Man, Falcon, Winter Soldier, Captain America, Black Panther, Loki, Thor, and more. But the latest round of insanely popular Marvel designs are inspired by the Disney+ series, “The Falcon & Winter Soldier,” “WandaVison,” and the highly anticipated “Loki” which debuts on June 9....

Pressing play on a song can transport you back in time and rustle up memories from your favorite movies, or maybe even a personal experience. We might not always notice, but musical soundtracks are a major part in the evolution of cinema. Although soundtracks tend to differ from film scores in that they’re usually inspired by a film vs. written specifically for it, but sometimes the movie soundtrack is just as big (if not bigger) than the film itself....

Betty Gilpin was no stranger to the show in her early years, appearing on both the flagship “Law and Order” show and many of its spinoffs. Appearing on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” this week, the “GLOW” star opened up about the multitude of roles she played on “Law and Order,” including “a pedophile with vocal fry” and “a lesbian with acne.” But her most memorable experience on the show happened during what should have been her easiest role: playing a corpse....

That’s not a lot, but it’s better than Searchlight’s theater-only flop “The Personal History of David Copperfield.” Based on those two performances, UA made the right move: Searchlight devoted marketing spend to a disappointheatrical release that now must wait until November before it can play VOD. “Bill & Ted” was first on all three possible charts (Spectrum’s full-week list ended August 27, the day before its availability). “Fatima” (Picturehouse), the other new PVOD entry, appeared on two....

“The Kazakh community worldwide is underrepresented and inherently vulnerable,” the letter reads. “Our nation is still recovering from an oppressive colonial past, which is why we do not have substantial media representation. Sacha Baron Cohen understands this fact and exploits Kazakhstan by hijacking our ethnic identity, whitewashing us by portraying us as Eastern Europeans, and inciting harassment toward Kazakh people worldwide. Our people report countless cases of sexual and physical harassment as well as bullying due to the ‘Borat’ franchise....

Cohen shot the “Borat” sequel in secret over the summer. Fans of the comedian started to wonder what he was up to after news broke in June that Cohen crashed a far-right rally in Olympia, Washington, and convinced the crowd to sing a racist song with him. Cohen appeared dressed in overalls and a fake beard and sang about injecting kids with the “Wuhan flu.” The event was for the Washington Three Percenters, a far-right militia group known for its gun advocacy....

A white woman living in a post-colonial African country refuses to abandon her family’s coffee plantation even as civil war brews around her. A derelict spaceship full of criminals sails across the stars towards a black hole, adrift between their histories on Earth and the oblivion that awaits them in the cosmos. A former officer in the French Foreign Legion remembers his time stationed in Djibouti, where his men lost themselves in the desert (and each other) while preparing for a fight that never came....

The best gauges of recovery lie in the box-office performances of 2019, with monthly comparisons between the 2019 and 2021 totals. Since May 2021, when films grossed only 19 percent of the same month’s earnings two years prior, the improvement has been dramatic. In June, the ratio improved to 35 percent; July, 45 percent; August, 50 percent. Through last weekend, September was 75 percent, although the month will likely end around 65 percent....

Perhaps some audiences will jive to the plot holes visible from outer space that perforate this movie written by “South Park” story editor Amanda Idoko, but Taylor does not understand how to make a pileup of errors and misunderstandings amid a folksy collective work the same way that, say, the Coen brothers do. Still, actors clearly enjoy working with the “Get on Up” and “The Help” filmmaker, as this is a cast on the level of “Mars Attacks!...

During The Hollywood Reporter Drama Actor Emmy Roundtable alongside Oscar Isaac, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton, and Quincy Isaiah, Cox revealed his “worst” fan encounter to date: at a Ronan Farrow book launch event. “My thing [since ‘Succession’ began] is people ask me to tell them to fuck off all the time,” Cox said, referencing his Emmy-nominated turn as media mogul patriarch Logan Roy. “Well, it’s not the easiest thing to say to people....

“Everybody who was involved in that meeting, everyone has a different version of what happened,” De Palma said (via Collider). “I was just watching the biography they did of Steven and he related how he saw it. They always portray me as the guy that says the worst thing that drives everybody crazy, but if you’re gonna show me something I’m gonna tell you what I think about it. Why am I there unless I’m gonna give an honest appraisal of what I’ve seen?...

In a historic win, Julia Ducournau won the Palme d’Or for her film “Titane,” which Neon releases stateside this year. This makes her only the second female director ever to win the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize, including Jane Campion in 1993 for “The Piano.” (In a gaffe that briefly stunned the audience, Spike Lee accidentally announced the Palme winner at the top of the ceremony.) Since the 2020 festival was canceled due to the pandemic, the last film to take the Palme d’Or (the festival’s top prize) was Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” in 2019 — a film that went all the way to the Oscars, winning Best Picture the following year....