Ringarde, much? Just when Emily (Lily Collins) began worming her way into viewers’ guarded, cynical hearts — her anti-feminist naiveté could be considered charming in a screwball, ironically patriarchal kind of way — the second season of Netflix’s “Emily in Paris” all but assassinated its titular character. Season 2 feels like being flung into an alternate Darren Star-helmed universe where Emily is no longer merely an inexperienced expat; she’s an idiot abroad....

The show is doing all of this while drawing on Jeff Lemire’s “Lunatic” run from the “Moon Knight” comic, using a psych ward as the staging ground for visionsthat include Marc/Steven’s troubled childhood and a fight with vengeful sand spirits aboard the deck of a ship sailing through the Egyptian afterlife. IndieWire spoke with cinematographer Gregory Middleton about how the show’s camerawork keeps the viewer grounded even when Marc and Steven aren’t sure what’s going on....

On the surface, “The Suicide Squad” is not a movie with geopolitics on its mind. Writer/director James Gunn’s hard-R supervillain romp is a loud, bloody, men-on-a-mission riff that owes more to Sam Peckinpah and Gunn’s own zany “Guardians of the Galaxy” than anything with complex historical connotations. Nevertheless, they’re hiding in plain sight, whether or not Gunn intended them to be there. Shot in Panama with signifiers that speak directly to its history with military dictatorships, “The Suicide Squad” has more layers than its absurd concept would suggest, even if it reduces them to B-movie conceits along with everything else on the screen....

Hulu’s output deals with Neon, IFC, and Magnolia, as well as its in-house relationship with Searchlight, keeps the distributors in business. The only other major entity with similar deals is Showtime (aka Paramount money), with A24 and Bleecker Street. Now, if only they could spread those dollars around a bit more. Earlier this year, this column argued that Sundance is now a market for VOD movies. Time for some clarity: We live in a VOD market bankrolled by the streaming landscape....

Public tickets and passes go on sale Thursday at 11 a.m. PT/noon MT/1 p.m. CT/2 p.m. ET. Time zones are indeed important this year, because anyone with a computer and internet connection can access the festival’s virtual screenings anywhere in the US (the VR program is available internationally). Tickets start at $15. At the same time Thursday, industry members with standard passes can begin making reservations for virtual premiere screenings....

The show was quickly renewed for a second season, but fans remain as anxious as ever to have their questions answered about the buzzy series. To help with that, some of the show’s cast and creative team sat down with IndieWire editor-in-chief Dana Harris-Bridson for a panel at IndieWire’s Consider This FYC Brunch. The panel included co-creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, executive producer Jonathan Lisco, and stars Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, and Tawny Cypress....

Here’s the official synopsis: Garner is a two-time Primetime Emmy Award winner for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her turn as the foul-mouthed, tenacious Ruth on Netflix’s “Ozark,” which returns to the streamer on January 21 for Season 4, just a few weeks before “Inventing Anna” premieres. The rest of the cast includes Anna Chlumsky, Arian Moayed, Katie Lowes, Alexis Floyd, Anders Holm, Anna Deavere Smith, Jeff Perry, Terry Kinney, and Laverne Cox....

The first three episodes of “Invincible” debut on Friday, March 26, with hour-long installments unveiling every Friday up through the finale on April 30. “Invincible” boasts quite a cast of voice talent, including Sandra Oh (“Killing Eve”), Seth Rogen (“This Is the End”), Gillian Jacobs (“Community”), Andrew Rannells (“Black Monday,” “Girls”), Zazie Beetz (“Deadpool 2”), Mark Hamill (“Star Wars: The Last Jedi”), Walton Goggins (“Justified”), Jason Mantzoukas (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”), Zachary Quinto (“Star Trek”), Mahershala Ali (“Moonlight”), Melise (“The Flash”), Kevin Michael Richardson (“The Simpsons”), Grey Griffin (“Avengers Assemble”), Khary Payton (“The Walking Dead”), and more....

Famously starring Patrick Swayze, “Road House” centered on a bouncer with a mysterious past who overhauls a rowdy bar and takes down local corruption in the process. For the remake, Gyllenhaal plays a former UFC fighter who, per an official synopsis, takes a job as a bouncer at a rough-and-tumble roadhouse in the Florida Keys, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems in this tropical paradise. Production will start in the Dominican Republic in August 2022....

Gunn became a Marvel legend after turning the once-obscure “Guardians” characters into one of the studio’s most popular film series. Much of the franchise’s success has been credited to Gunn’s unique writing and directing style which relies heavily on his irreverent sense of humor and love of classic rock needle drops. For many fans a new “Guardians of the Galaxy” soundtrack is just as exciting as the movie itself, given Gunn’s knack for brining fun, forgotten one-hit-wonders back into the foreground....

James Mangold is sick of that speculation. The filmmaker, who takes over for Steven Spielberg as the director of “The Dial of Destiny,” wants fans to know that Harrison Ford is irreplaceable. In a reply to a since-deleted tweet from a fan asking if Waller-Bridge would be leading the franchise, Mangold went on a lengthy rant about fans spreading misinformation about his film. “One more time. No one is ‘taking over’ or replacing Indy or donning his hat nor is he being ‘erased’ thru some contrivance,” Mangold wrote....

IndieWire is exclusively debuting a conversation between Campion and Holly Hunter, during which Campion detailed working with the “Doctor Strange” star. Watch the video below. “Casting is so stressful because you’re doing it really when you know the story the least,” Campion recalled of the Netflix film. Yet Cumberbatch immediately enthralled her, despite not obviously fitting the role of Western rancher Phil. “Just jumping in there and going, ‘I think this guy can do it....

“I was talking about this the other day. [My production partner] Elaine [Goldsmith-Thomas] made a post where she listed all the things I had been nominated for and won that season,” Lopez said about the “Hustlers” awards season run. “And when it came to the Oscars, it was so obviously absent. It was a sting.” “I was like, ‘Okay, when you’re supposedly in everybody else’s mind supposed to be nominated and you’re not, what does that mean?...

“I saw the trailer. It’s very well done,” Jodorowsky said. “We can see that it is industrial cinema, that there is a lot of money, and that it was very expensive. But if it was very expensive, it must pay in proportion. And that is the problem: There [are] no surprises. The form is identical to what is done everywhere. The lighting, the acting, everything is predictable.” Jodorowsky continued, “Industrial cinema is incompatible with auteur cinema....

The trio of movies that Jordan Peele has directed over the past decade — “Get Out,” “Us,” and “Nope” — established him as one of the major filmmakers to arrive this century. Evolving beyond the sketch comedy roots of “MADtv” and “Key & Peele,” Peele’s approach to horror uses the genre as a Trojan horse for big ideas about race, class, and the fragile foundations of American society. They also offer an impeccable combination of eeriness and humor that expands their appeal....

“All roads to the White House go through the great state of Wisconsin,” she said. “Trump can’t win reelection if he doesn’t win Wisconsin. So, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin has built an unprecedented voter mobilization operation, and they need resources in these final days to deliver Wisconsin to Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Harris. The future of democracy is on the line people, and that’s why the cast of ‘Veep’ is getting together for a virtual reunion with some special guests too....

Dunst discussed the possibility at a November 11 screening of her latest movie, Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog,” with Variety’s Mark Malkin. “I would do it. Why not? That would be fun,” she said. “I would never say no to something like that.” She even jokingly quipped about what her role might look like: “I’d be old MJ at this point with little Spidey babies.” After rising to fame with roles in “Interview with the Vampire,” “The Virgin Suicides,” and “Bring it On,” Dunst got a blockbuster role in “Spider-Man” and delivered one of the most memorable Marvel moments with an upside-down kiss shared between Mary Jane and Spider-Man....

Danson famously played Sam Malone on all 11 seasons of “Cheers,” one of the most popular sitcoms of all time. Alley joined the show in Season 6 as Rebecca Howe, the new owner of the titular bar and a neurotic foil for Sam, as a replacement for the departed female lead Shelley Long. Alley quickly developed her own identity on the series and won an Emmy in 1991 for the role....

While the Academy portal screens about 100 Best Picture candidates for its members (distributors pay a $12,500 fee), awards marketers email screening links (and sometimes, mail DVDs) for assorted documentaries, animated, foreign-language, and low-budget titles from, so far, Magnolia (“Collective,” “The Fight”), Neon (“Gunda,” “Ammonite”), A24 (“Minari,” “On the Rocks”) and IFC Films (“The Nest,” “MLK/FBI”). So where are the usual suspects? Don’t be fooled. While many major films pushed back, a few remain, including Paul Greengrass’s Tom Hanks vehicle “News of the World” (Universal, December 25), Lee Daniels’ “The United States vs....

Poitras worked with the Freedom of the Press Foundation and Field of Vision to create a site that contains everything from how to create unguessable, four-layer passwords to a 20-page template for Risk Assessment and Security Protocol that asks filmmakers to consider security check-in procedures (time? place? method?), psychological security, and identifying the risk scenarios for your cover stories, if compromised. Digital Security for Filmmakers includes quotes from fellow filmmakers like Lyric Cabral, who said she knew her work on 2015 FBI counterterrorism documentary “(T)error” was under surveillance, and “Strong Island” director Yance Ford, who admits that he didn’t fully understand the risks he and his loved ones faced....