While the film’s actual engagement with smartphones and selfies often feels tangential (particularly after such a pointed opening), many audience members will likely feel compelled to hurl their phone across the room while watching, if only in the hope of distancing themselves from the never-ending parade of horror they pipe into our hands. Pelosi, however, can’t turn away, and while the documentary often lingers between the gulf of “wide-ranging” and “scattershot,” the amount of extremely timely material it contains is impressive....

Hathaway revealed during “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on March 15 that she teased “WeCrashed” co-star Jared Leto with the iconic “father, son, House of Gucci” prayer during production of the Apple TV+ series. “I really respect Jared’s process, and I had a wonderful time working with whoever that was, and we really created the most beautiful connection between us,” Hathaway said. “The day the ‘House of Gucci’ trailer came out, I mean, I had to do something....

Season 2 feels like a course correction with a desire to embrace the “autonomy” Weisman found interesting about women and aerobics in the 1980s. Sheila is working to tailor herself into a lifestyle brand, but everyone else in her orbit is working on themselves, too. Rose Byrne was good before, but with stronger writing and a more confident character arc, she is utterly amazing in Season 2. Much of this is shunted to the latter half of the season, once Sheila enters a downward spiral that sees her seeking out fitness instructor Vinnie Green (Murray Bartlett) while contemplating recovery....

David Zaslav, who has led Discovery for 14 years, will be in charge of the new business, an official name for which has not yet been given. AT&T shareholders will own 71 percent of the new company, Discovery shareholders 29 percent. As for everyone else, that’s TBD: Executives from WarnerMedia and Discovery will be in “key leadership roles,” according to a press release. “We think together, the combination makes us the best media company in the world,” Zaslav told press about the merger, adding the new business will spend $20 billion on content....

The sprinklings of people invoking “Puh-uhb” in and around the John Barleycorn is the kind of simple Season 2 joke that’s “Back” in a nutshell. Pronouncing that name becomes more a dejected statement of fact, the kind of thing that writer Simon Blackwell and stars Robert Webb and David Mitchell have turned into their own kind of magic trick over their multi-decade run together. So while there’s plenty of shifting around in “Back” Season 2, the humor comes from the same place: melancholy resignation to the fact that something will always be (fittingly, in the words of the new network’s slogan) slightly off....

During the discussion, Thorne alleged that at 10, she was denied an acting job after the director, whom she opted not to name, claimed she “flirted” with him during her audition. “I had a director give me feedback once, and I was 10,” Throne said on the podcast. “The casting director calls my agent, and the agent calls my mom, and they’re like, ‘So she’s not moving forward because the director felt like she was flirting with him, and it made him really uncomfortable....

Following the Los Angeles Times exposé on the Golden Globes in 2021, the fallout was swift, and the ceremony was dropped by broadcaster NBC. The investigative piece revealed that the HFPA had no Black journalists among its 87 members, surfacing myriad other accusations. While the Globes will soon return to NBC on January 10, 2023, through a one-year agreement with the broadcaster, Best Actor contender Brendan Fraser will not be in the audience....

All films are listed alphabetically by title. “Ammonite” NEON Dir: Francis Lee, DoP: Stéphane Fontaine Format: Redcode Raw 7K and 8K Camera: Red Monstro Lens: Canon K35 Fontaine: From my very first conversations with Francis Lee, it was quite obvious that our main characters were a bit reluctant to express their emotions with words, and that the camera had to find a way to capture their feelings without being intrusive....

“As the world has been hit by a heavy crisis in which a part of Europe finds itself in a state of war, the Festival de Cannes wishes to extend all its support to the people of Ukraine and all those who are in its territory,” the Festival de Cannes team said in a press statement. “However modest as it is, we join our voices with those who oppose this unacceptable situation and denounce the attitude of Russia and its leaders....

Yes, “Chemical Hearts” is a prime (and sometimes almost self-parodic) example of a cinematic alchemy that will be very familiar to a generation raised on John Green novels instead of “She’s All That.” But where the likes of “Paper Towns” and “The Fault in Our Stars” were inflected with a kind of manic pixie dream magic that inspired their characters to save each other or die trying, Richard Tanne’s adaptation of Krystal Sutherland’s YA hit “Our Chemical Hearts” offers a relatively inert take on the same milieu....

In interviews after “Endgame’s” release, Evans stressed he was not too eager to reprise Captain America in the future. “It’s not a hard no, but it’s not an eager yes either,” Evans said on “The Graham Norton Show” back in May. “I think Cap had such a tricky act to stick the landing, and I think they did a really nice job letting him complete his journey. If you’re going to revisit it, it can’t be a cash grab....

“Clara Sola” is set in a remote village in Costa Rica, where 40-year-old Clara endures a repressively religious and withdrawn life under the domineering eye of her mother. Her uncanny affinity for creatures large and small allows Clara to take solace in the natural world around her. But tension builds within the family as Clara’s younger niece approaches her quinceañera, stirring up a sexual and mystical awakening in Clara, and a journey to unfetter herself from the patriarchal structures and social conventions that have commanded her life....

Brubaker exposed a common issue at Marvel: Work-for-hire comic book writers and artists don’t get compensated for creating characters and storylines now propelling the MCU on film and television. Marvel owns the Winter Solider, not Brubaker, so the studio doesn’t have to pay the writer for using the character in “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” or any Marvel Cinematic Universe property. A new report on the matter from The Guardian mentions other comic book creators who have had to fight to be fairly compensated by Marvel....

The film promises to take a fresh approach to the beloved story. Here’s Netflix’s logline: “Living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy, Anne Elliot is an unconforming woman with modern sensibilities. When Frederick Wentworth—the dashing one she once sent away—crashes back into her life, Anne must choose between putting the past behind her or listening to her heart when it comes to second chances.” Dakota Johnson recently starred in the cancer drama “Our Friend,” released by Gravitas earlier this year....

“Adapting my play into a screenplay has been a real labor of love for me,” Hunter said in a statement to Deadline. “This story is deeply personal and I’m very thankful it will have the chance to reach a wider audience. I’ve been a fan of Darren’s ever since I saw ‘Requiem for a Dream’ when I was a college freshman writing my first plays, and I’m so grateful that he’s bringing his singular talent and vision to this film....

“I’m so excited about it,” Stuber said. “[Fassbender is] charming and great-looking and funny and all these things that you want him to have chances to show in film. He’s a giant star ready to explode in the world, and he’s just looking for those parts that can take advantage of who he is as a person. Opportunistically you see what David has done with talent throughout his career, and how he constantly elevates people to do their best work....

“I did a two-and-a-half-hour conversation with him,” Maron told his guest. “And he didn’t think it was right. He wouldn’t let us release it. So I’m sitting on this two-and-a-half-hour conversation with David Fincher. He’s like, I don’t know, let’s hold off on it, because I think I could do more.” (Via MovieMaker.) Maron added, “He seems like this perfectionist, you know, tormented guy.” Maron’s guest Jodie Foster was on hand to promote her new film “The Mauritanian,” but the question of Fincher inevitably came up because she starred in his 2002 film “Panic Room....

It sounds like the sales pitch for a sketchy screenwriting contest, except for the part where it’s totally true. Before Netflix had a hit teen rom-com franchise in “The Kissing Booth,” and star Jacob Elordi became the “Euphoria” rogue and a James Bond candidate, it all began when writer Beth Reekles self-published the story on Wattpad. Here, internet fandom is binary: Wattpad stories sink or swim. That ruthless crucible for new-yet-proven IP is a nice facsimilie for Hollywood, which increasingly turns toward self-published corners of the internet....

“I would deeply love one day to make a James Bond movie,” Villeneuve said. “It’s a character that I’ve been with since my childhood. I have massive affection for Bond. It would be a big challenge to try and reboot it after what Daniel did. What Daniel Craig brought to Bond was so unique and strong and honestly unmatchable. He’s the ultimate James Bond. I can’t wait to see Cary’s movie....

The Oscar-winning film, starring Ethan Hawke and Denzel Washington as LAPD partners, at first was scripted as a “Lethal Weapon”-type movie, according to lead star Washington. “I don’t think it was written for a Black guy,” Washington said of his role in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “It was more like a plaid-shirt [wearing] guy with beer bottles in the back.” Instead, director Antoine Fuqua ushered in different take for the film....