“The Last Duel” takes a page from Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon” in telling the same event from three varying perspectives. The story centers around a duel between Jean de Carrouges (Matt Damon) and Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver) after the former accuses the latter of raping his wife, Marguerite de Carrouges (Jodie Comer). The narrative is told from the viewpoints of each character. Damon recently confirmed to Entertainment Tonight how this story structure shaped the writing process....

Maya Rudolph, whose turn as Connie the Hormone Monstress on the Netflix series “Big Mouth” has become a Twitter sensation, secured the first Emmy of her career for the role in the episode “How to Have An Orgasm.” The win was a welcomed surprise considering how beloved Rudolph is, both as an actress and for her role on the animated series. This category, however, as a whole, was especially fraught with issues this year....

And yet many of the best films of the fest are still looking for homes, and thus comes our annual plea: buy these films! We really love them and we think your audience will, too! The year ahead is certainly going to be an unpredictable one for distribution companies as the future of exhibition remains an open, ever-changing question. But the quality of these movies is not up for debate, nor is their potential to resonate with audiences well beyond Sundance....

“Maybe I could know how to play my dad,” Michael said, “but I don’t know how to play Tony. I have to create my own Tony from my life and still play the things that made him Tony.” As The New York Times reports: “Michael was utterly fascinated with the multifaceted Tony — ‘a character who will cry, become angry at himself that he’s crying and then laugh at himself all in one scene,’ he said....

The location supervisor for “Lady in the Lake” who submitted the initial report has since “retracted his original statement of seeing the gun and advised he did not see a gun but that one of the drivers [had] seen the gun,” but adding that he did witness “a large amount of marijuana” on the street vendor. The vendor was later arrested on a drug charge. The police were called to the set later that afternoon at 4:45 p....

The winners were a distinctly international affair, with Penélope Cruz winning Best Actress for “Parallel Mothers,” Hidetoshi Nishijima as Best Actor for “Drive My Car,” and Anders Danielsen Lie scoring Best Supporting Actor for “The Worst Person in the World.” Ruth Negga picked up Best Supporting Actress for her role in “Passing.” The critics group convened in New York and Los Angeles to vote January 8 using a weighted scoring system, choosing winners and runners up across a variety of categories....

Netflix reported 1.54 million global paid net subscriber additions, slightly lower than the 1.75 million adds that analysts expected, per Refinitiv data obtained by CNBC. The company’s $2.97 earnings per share were also lower than analysts’ expectations of $3.16. That said, the company’s revenue slightly exceeded analysts’ expectations: Netflix reported $7.34 billion in revenue, while analysts expected only $7.32 billion in revenue, per Refinitiv. The company’s stock was down 1....

That statistic comes from Nielsen, which stated that “Lucifer” was watched for 1.284 billion minutes from May 24 to May 30. The popularity of “Lucifer” is such that the show garnered more viewing minutes than the second and third most-watched show’s of the week — Netflix’s “The Kominsky Method” and “Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous” — during that time period. “Lucifer” is a superhero show based on the DC Comics character co-created by Neil Gaiman (whose “The Sandman” comic is currently being adapted into a Netflix series)....

“My latest information is that they would start filming, subject to coronavirus, in February 2021,” Standing Bear said. “And they will be here for about 16 weeks. They’re going to start moving in here quietly, I’m not helping that very much, but quietly around November and December. So, they’re coming.” Chad Renfro and Addie Roanhorse are the official Osage Nation ambassadors for the film and say they are in open communication with Apple and Paramount on the upcoming production....

The winners from the eight categories — which also include Documentary Short, Makeup and Hairstyling, Animated Short, and Live-Action Short — will all get their moments during the live broadcast laster Sunday. Their speeches will be edited into the live telecast, a move that producers hope will move the show along and save viewers from the apparent pain of watching winners make the long trek from far-flung seats. It’s a move that has sparked criticism from many corners of the industry since the plan was announced earlier this year....

The winners of the following awards may be eligible to submit their shorts to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Oscar consideration. Synopses are courtesy of the festival. Greater Palm Springs CVB Best of the Festival Award Winner: “Unforgivable” (El Salvador), Directed by Marlén Viñayo. A ruthless hitman for the 18th Street gang serves his sentence inside an evangelical Salvadoran prison, where he is guilty not only of his crimes, but of an unforgivable sin under God and gang: being gay....

The question came up, as it so often does, during the press cycle for Anderson’s latest film (which just scored four Golden Globe nominations, including one for Best Musical or Comedy). In an interview with The New Yorker, Anderson spoke about how he’s “happier than ever” to be able to carve his own niche in filmmaking, while acknowledging that superhero movies are the thing that will most likely bring audiences back into seats....

From an early age Tan was a storyteller, telling tales and illustrating them, starting at the age of six. But in all that time she never thought she’d be a writer because there wasn’t a model, especially not an Asian-American woman. “It wasn’t until I was a business writer…that I thought to do something that was much more meaningful to me,” she said. She started writing short stories for her personal enjoyment and was surprised to discover that she was finding things out about herself that had meaning....

As for the nominations themselves, the Peabody Awards will announce this year’s 60 nominees on Tuesday, May 4. The Peabody Awards recognize 60 stories from over 1,300 entries for distinction. The organization celebrates the finest in broadcasting and digital media, including television, radio/podcasts, and the web, in entertainment, news, documentary, children’s and public service programming. Winners will be announced in June and Peabody is currently working on plans to honor this year’s nominees via a virtual event....

“Out of all the people who have played Diana over the past 10 years, she’s the closest to her,” Wharfe said of Stewart. “She managed to perfect her mannerisms.” “Spencer,” written by Steven Knight and directed by Pablo Larraín, takes place over a single Christmas weekend in 1991 as Diana celebrates the holiday with the royal family at Sandringham Estate. With rumors of Prince Charles’ affair swirling, Diana spends the weekend contemplating the end of her marriage and seizing the chance to break free from the royal family....

Milton Katselas’ “Butterflies Are Free” tells the story of a romance that blossoms between a blind man (Edward Albert) and his neighbor (Goldie Hawn) after the man moves into his first apartment by himself. The film was an adaptation of Leonard Gershe’s hit Broadway play of the same name, with the playwright returning to write the screenplay. Eileen Heckart won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in the film, which also scored nominations for Best Cinematography and Best Sound....

“Out of all the comic-book characters and that kind of movie, I’ve seen every single one of the [Batman] movies in the cinema, which I can’t really say I’ve done for any other series,” Pattinson told Total Film, as reported by Games Radar. “I was always really looking forward to them coming out. There was the combination of just being so attracted to it, but also feeling like it’d had a lot of movies made about it, and none of them are bad movies....

The short answer is its third-quarter financial report… only, Roku actually topped internal and external expectations for Q3. Sure, Roku lost lots of money — $122.2 million, a loss of 88 cents per share — but tech companies often do. Anyway, that counts as a win when analysts expected a per-share loss of roughly $1.28 or $1.29. Roku also beat other metrics: EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization), revenue, active accounts, ARPU (average revenue per user), and hours spent viewing....

During an interview with “The Jess Cagle Show” on Sirius XM radio, O’Donnell finally addressed the snafu, though she stopped short of an actual apology. “I was just talking because I didn’t think [‘Fight Club’] was good and the ‘Sixth Sense’ was out. I don’t know. It annoyed me, the movie,” she said. “So I was saying — ‘the ‘Sixth Sense’ makes sense, but this one doesn’t make sense because of the thing at the end is sorta well, I don’t wanna say, but listen — that’s what I did....

Last year, the site added over 600 new critics part of its continuing dedication to amplifying underrepresented voices in film and TV. Rotten Tomatoes will, per today’s release, “continue to recognize critics contributing to Top Critic-approved publications and will be granting approval to several new outlets whose high-quality work serves underrepresented audiences.” Established in 2008, the Top Critic designation was originally created “to distinguish Tomatometer-approved critics who excel at and demonstrate a deep commitment to their craft....