Reis is the star and co-writer of “Catch the Fair One,” a new film that sheds much-needed light on the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women (MMIW) movement. Directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka and executive produced by Darren Aronofsky, “Catch the Fair One” is a gripping and tightly-wound drama about this overlooked issue, galvanized by a knockout breakout performance from Reis. Wladyka found Reis on Instagram in 2017, and brought her on as his lead and creative collaborator after seeing her fight and an initial screen test....

But, the twist: “Dead Pigs,” a fictionalized take on a 2013 incident that saw 16,000 dead pigs appear in Shanghai’s Huangpu River, hadn’t found a home, even as fellow filmmakers like Rian Johnson touted the charms of the award-winning comedy starring Zazie Beetz and beloved Chinese star Vivian Wu. “Well, that’s what’s funny, right? We were having a hard time selling the movie, but I was getting meetings with studios,” Yan said in a recent interview with IndieWire....

In her day, Birkin was a gorgeous British gamine who married composer John Barry, an unhappy liaison that produced Charlotte’s older half-sister Kate Barry, followed by a liaison with the love of Birkin’s life, French actor-singer-composer Serge Gainsbourg, who couldn’t have been more famous during the happy decade they spent together before they split in 1980. They met in 1969 during filming of “Slogan,” in which they had a fictional affair....

Craig said he’d had a few drinks at Jackman’s party when he approached Mendes and boldly offered him the directing job for “Skyfall” after Marc Forster’s “Quantum of Solace” (which was a critical disappointment). “I was definitely a little drunk, Sam turned up late and I hadn’t seen him for years, I hadn’t seen him since ‘Road To Perdition,’” Craig said. “Sam sat down and we were having a drink together and it just dawned on me, it was just like one of those [moments]....

Co-directors Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan are set to direct and executive-produce the comedy pilot “Mason,” with A24 (the studio behind Daniels’ “Everything Everywhere All at Once”) producing and Steven Yeun executive-producing the series created by comedian Nathan Min. The comedian also stars in the pilot. Oscar nominee Yeun most recently appeared on the big screen in Jordan Peele’s “Nope” but, along with his acting credits, has produced series including “Tuca & Bertie” and Netflix’s upcoming “Beef....

“I was terribly unhappy with the dub in ‘Batman’,” said Elfman, for whom the film marked his 10th score. “They did it in the old-school way where you do the score and turn it into the ‘professionals’ who turn the nobs and dub it in. And dubbing had gotten really wonky in those years. We recorded [multi-channel recording on] three channels — right, center, left — and basically, they took the center channel out of the music completely....

But Patel eventually realized the potential that the role gave him. “It’s a full meal,” he said. “There’s real despair and tragedy and loss, and then on the other hand, there’s beautiful moments of unabashed physical comedy and just absolute goofiness. Any opportunity I get to be able to do that, brilliant.” Iannucci ultimately took a colorblind casting approach to the entire project, but said that decision started with Patel....

Sorkin was discussing the development of his award-winning NBC political drama “The West Wing” and how during development he never wrote or planned for the series to continue beyond the pilot. As Sorkin explained, “When I was writing the pilot episode, I never imagined that there would be an episode two. I didn’t think that this could get on the air. And I certainly didn’t think it would last as long as it did and be as popular as it was and have the kind of effect on people that it did....

This year, nominees Lee Isaac Chung for “Minari,” Emerald Fennell for “Promising Young Woman,” David Fincher for “Mank,” Aaron Sorkin for “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” and Chloé Zhao for “Nomadland” vied for the top directorial prize for film, with Zhao winning. On the TV side, “The Queen’s Gambit,” “Homeland,” and “The Flight Attendant” won the major prizes, shaking up the race as we head into Emmys season. The DGA prize is often considered a bellwether for the Best Director Oscar....

The Doc+ FAST (free ad-supported streaming television) channel will launch on the former IMDb TV service on December 13. It will feature documentary films and series from the Doc+ library, as well as some of its recently launched original titles, like: “The Sentence of Michael Thompson,” which first premiered on MSNBC; the very first Documentary+ original “When the LAPD Blows Up Your Neighborhood;” Nick Aldridge’s “Crypto Farmers” about those who have “mined” for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency; and Danilo Parra’s “Mala Onda....

A dry-as-hell dark comedy set in a retro future where the terminally ill are allowed to replace themselves with their own clones — a decision that can only be undone by fighting their doppelgänger to the death on live TV — Riley Stearns’ “Dual” may have been conceived prior to the pandemic, but any film that so wickedly contrasts the banality of living against the urgency of survival is bound to hit a little harder after two years of lockdowns....

E3 2021 kicked off June 12 and featured a variety of gaming news from the industry’s highest-profile studios and indie developers alike. The event marked the first E3 since 2019 and though it was less of a genuine industry convention and more of a collection of prerecorded marketing videos, the quantity of announcements still made E3 2021 a must-see event for gaming fans. E3 will be back in full force next year: Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti announced during the beginning of the 2021 event that E3 will return to the Los Angeles Convention Center in 2022....

That isn’t a problem for the filmmaking duo of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (better known as Daniels), who once created an interactive six-minute short that could be played in 3,618,502,788,666,131,106,986,593,281,521,497,120,414,687,020,801,267,626, 233,049,500,247,285,301,248 different ways. These guys aren’t just uniquely prepared to meet the present moment, they’ve been waiting for it to catch up with them for a long time. So it’s not much of a surprise that the project they’ve been working on since 2016’s “Swiss Army Man” sees the crisis of living with “Everything Everywhere All at Once” more clearly than any other movie like it....

But here’s the weird part: “PBC” is not bad. Its supporting cast includes Danny Trejo (“Machete”), Kate Flannery (“The Office”), and Pete Gardner (“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”). It just added Cheri Oteri (“Saturday Night Live”) and Neil Flynn(“Scrubs”). You probably wouldn’t know the series’ leads, Jessica Sarah Flaum and Christian A. Pierce, but they’re talented and have a total Jim-and-Pam thing going on. If you want to check it out, Season 2 is now streaming (timed by FloQast to give accountants some much-need levity ahead of the busy accounting season)....

While prepping to play “father of the atom bomb” J. Robert Oppenheimer for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming biopic, Murphy prepped by doing “an awful lot of reading” about Oppenheimer’s life — but opted out of any intense science lessons. “I’m interested in the man and what [inventing the atomic bomb] does to the individual,” Murphy told The Guardian. “The mechanics of it, that’s not really for me — I don’t have the intellectual capability to understand them, but these contradictory characters are fascinating....

But what comes after that TIFF premiere? Reportedly, Netflix executives met with exhibition leaders this year about releasing the film with a exclusive 45-day window; that release would be part of a test to see if the strategy might make sense for future Netflix titles. Netflix previously provided exclusive theatrical windows for films like awards players “Roma” and “The Irishman,” but the sequel poses a new opportunity. The 2019 “Knives Out” grossed $165 million in its domestic run, more than four times its five-day Thanksgiving opening weekend of $41 million....

“Is it outing you to ask you to tell them the scene I read first?” McDormand asked Coen. “Her friend invited her to a right-to-life protest! Oh my God! Can you imagine?” “There are a lot of thought experiments that happen while you’re doing these things,” Coen added. “Some of them you reject, some of them you don’t…There was a big population in parts of northern Minnesota that were very conservative....

The all-Black cast included “This is Us” star Sterling K. Brown and his wife Ryan Bathe as Ross and Rachel, Aisha Hinds of “911” played Monica; Uzo Aduba, who won an Emmy on Sunday, played Phoebe; Kendrick Sampson of “How to Get Away With Murder” played Joey, while “Hollywood” star Jeremy Pope played Chandler. Before the episode started, actress Cynthia Erivo set the tone with a beautiful rendition of the famous theme song....

“I’d known about Anya but I’d never seen her in a film until I saw her in ‘Soho,’” Miller told Wright. “And I remember thinking, ‘Gee, she’s interesting.’ I started to say to you, ‘I’m looking for someone to cast as Furiosa,’ and I barely got the sentence out before you said, ‘Don’t go any further, she’s great, she’s gonna be huge. She’s fantastic to work with.’ You were so emphatic about it....

On April 12, the Gottfried family wrote, “We are heartbroken to announce the passing of our beloved Gilbert Gottfried after a long illness.” The family shared on Twitter, “In addition to being the most iconic voice in comedy, Gilbert was a wonderful husband, brother, friend, and father to his two young children. Although today is a sad day for all of us, please keep laughing as long as possible in Gilbert’s honor....