An editorial from Variety published after the trailer’s premiere calls out “The 355” for casting a Spanish actress in a Colombian role and offers up a handful of Colombian actresses who could’ve taken the role of Graciela instead of Cruz. Chastain, who also produced the project, issued a statement to Variety explaining the casting decision. “When I had the idea of making this film, we didn’t have a script or financing,” Chastain said....

The late-night host lay down onstage during “Abbott Elementary” creator Quinta Brunson’s Emmys Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series acceptance speech, continuing a gag that he was too intoxicated to stand after being dragged to the stage by fellow comedian Arnett. Brunson prompted Kimmel to stand during her speech, but he remained dedicated to the bit and did not move. During the September 14 episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” Brunson, with her Emmy in hand, in turn faux interrupted Kimmel’s monologue....

“Deep down, I want to be a Cambodian police woman. Is that allowed, or am I being unrealistic?” the 81-year-old Cleese tweeted in response to one user who asked him, “Why the fuck can’t you just let people be who they want to be? Do you actually think there is some deep conspiracy to turn people ‘against their genders’? Or do you like her as a person and therefore there isn’t anything she can do wrong?...

Writer-director Jordan Peele just peeled back one more layer of his alien blockbuster “Nope.” Over the weekend, the Oscar winner took to Twitter to share the full scrapped intro to the fictional “Gordy’s Home!” sitcom that starred Ricky “Jupe” Park, portrayed by Jacob Kim and later Steven Yuen in the film, alongside a key chimpanzee star. The clip is styled to look as if it’s straight off a VHS recording, and it uses the opening credits for “Gordy’s Home!...

Like the original game, which was released in 2014 and immediately became a viral sensation, the “Five Nights at Freddy’s” movie will focus on a troubled security guard at a Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza venue (think a Chuck E. Cheese, but creepier). During his first night, the animatronic characters in the restaurant come alive, forcing the guard to outwit them if he hopes to survive a week of employment. In the video game, the guard’s survival methods mostly manifest in opening and closing security doors; presumably, the film will be a bit more action-packed....

“The movie is a clear depiction of [Hoover’s] efforts to impeded the civil rights movement,” Cohen said. Though “Judas and the Black Messiah” hasn’t screened in Washington due to the pandemic, Cohen reportedly saw the movie several weeks ago and the next day got to work with his staff on reintroducing legislation to remove Hoover’s name. The building was named after Hoover following his death in 1972, around three years after the events in the movie....

“It was brilliant and I was very proud of myself and I’ll probably never be able to do it again,” Winslet said. “That came at the end of four weeks worth of quite intense training and it was in the dive tank, it was in the training tank. But I loved it.” Winslet’s “Avatar 2” co-star Sigourney Weaver revealed earlier this year the “Avatar” cast trained with elite military divers in order to maximize the amount of time they could hold their breath underwater....

The ravishing romance takes place in 19th-century upstate New York, where two women (Waterston and Vanessa Kirby) cobble together an intellectual and erotic connection amid the soul-crushing frontier. It’s easily career-best work from this focused, fiercely intelligent performer who first wowed audiences in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Inherent Vice.” “Paul really did pluck me from obscurity,” she said of her breakout role in the shaggy 2014 Thomas Pynchon adaptation, where she starred as the elusive femme fatale Shasta Fay, ever out of Joaquin Phoenix’s reach in a haze of pot smoke and noirish wiles....

Raf and Julie’s relationship isn’t even on last legs, it’s barely hanging on by a toenail, and abrasive, needy Raf isn’t helping matters much. As Julie snores away next to her during the film’s opening moments, Raf fires off a series of increasingly insane text messages to her, all in hopes of rousing her long-time partner or at least not letting Julie enjoy a night unencumbered. But Julie snoozes away because she’s got an ace up her sleeve: she’s moving out, this is all over, and her life is about to get a whole lot better....

The latest entry in A24’s evolving canon of European folk horror is “Lamb,” the feature directorial debut of Icelandic filmmaker Valdimar Jóhannsson. In the vein of “The Witch” and a more dour “Midsommar,” Jóhannsson brings a moody sensibility to this disturbing fairy tale about a pair of shepherds, Maria and Ingvar (Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snær Guðnason), who make a startling discovery in their barn one day: a half-human, half-lamb hybrid child....

“I’m so excited and deeply humbled to be hosting E!’s iconic red carpet coverage,” Cox said in a statement when the news was announced last week. “For many years I would wake up early on awards show days, get my snacks in place and watch E!’s coverage all day long. I dreamed of walking red carpets. Now, not only have I had several fun and amazing personal red carpet moments, I also get to be a red carpet guide for E!...

MGM scooped up rights to the film, which was penned by Scott Rosenberg, a writer on the first “Venom” film from 2018, as well as “Jumanji: Next Level.” Deadline has reported a seven-figure deal for the acquisition. Rosenberg is also set to executive-produce “Jim Jones.” An Oscar winner for Best Actor for “The Revenant,” DiCaprio will produce “Jim Jones” for his Appian Way company alongside president of production Jennifer Davisson....

Hiddleston has played Loki across the MCU, starting with “Thor” and serving as the main antagonist of Joss Whedon’s “The Avengers.” The character was killed in “Avengers: Infinity War,” but the time-travel plot of “Avengers: Endgame” opens the door for Loki to return. Disney’s official “Loki” synopsis reads: “Watch Loki—the imperious God of Mischief—who, after absconding with the Tesseract, is a fish-out-of-water when he lands in a world of trouble with the bureaucratic TVA (Time Variance Authority)....

Kore-eda’s 2013 feature debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won both the Jury Prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury – Special Mention. Sundance Selects released the dramedy in the U.S., which examines two very different families who discover that their six-year-old sons were switched at birth. Kore-eda’s film starred Fukuyama Masaharu, Ono Machiko, Maki Yoko, and Lily Franky, and was produced by Kameyama Chihiro, Hatanaka Tatsuro, and Tom Yoda....

Asked recently by GQ magazine to name “his favorites of his oeuvre,” Shyamalan answered, “The ones I have most affinity for are the ones that have maintained that quirky nature. ‘Unbreakable,’ and ‘Lady in the Water,’ and ‘The Visit,’ and this movie [‘Old’]…the ones that are poky.” Some moviegoers might be surprised to hear Shyamalan prefers a film like “Lady in the Water” over “The Sixth Sense.” The 2006 release remains one of Shyamalan’s most critically-maligned movies....

In an interview with GQ UK, Williams revealed that she “resented” her iconic “GoT” character during her teen years. “I think that when I started becoming a woman, I resented Arya because I couldn’t express who I was becoming,” Williams said. “And then I also resented my body because it wasn’t aligned with the piece of me that the world celebrated.” Williams was cast in the hit HBO series when she was 12 years old in 2009....

Here is a movie with so many conflicting takes on the overlapping natures of artistic and romantic collaboration that it can only end once Levinson’s sweatiest thoughts have wrestled each other to an exhausted stalemate. Despite the undeniable charge of watching the “Euphoria” creator fashion such a flamboyantly romantic spectacle during the sterility of our Zoom year (a far cry from the back-to-basics brilliance of the recent episode he made for the HBO show during its COVID hiatus), Levinson’s high-contrast, low-reward drama is also a stunning example of how airless a film can become when it’s shot in a bubble....

Aside from being Schreck’s longtime friend, Heller had been through a similar stage-to-screen trajectory with “The Diary of a Teenage Girl,” which existed as a theatrical work before she adapted it into her debut 2015 feature film. Heller wanted to offer the chance to use her experience to help shepherd Schreck’s vision. “We couldn’t plan every shot the way we would do for a movie because we were filming it live and calling the cameras live,” Heller said....

This year, that film was “Morbius.” The Jared Leto vehicle pulled off the impressive feat of bombing at the box office twice in the same year. After its catastrophic initial release led to an influx of Internet memes making fun of the film, Sony appeared to mistake that mockery for genuine enthusiasm and released the film again. The second release was even less impressive, grossing less than $300 per screen on average....

The “Showing Up” actress confirmed that the slated Peggy Lee biopic “Fever” with writer-director Todd Haynes is officially dead. “It’s gone the way of the buffalo, I’m afraid,” Williams told Variety in a cover story. “But if anyone reading this story would like to resurrect it, Todd and I are on board for that.” “The Many Saints of Newark” breakout Alessandro Nivola was set to play Dave Barbour, with Doug Wright penning the screenplay....