“This is a historic day for the IDA workers who worked tirelessly to get a union at our organization,” Hansen Bursic, an organizing committee member of the union, the Documentary Workers United, said in a statement. “We are excited to get to work to accomplish the goals laid out in our mission statement and fight for a contract that benefits staff.” In his own statement, IDA Executive Director Rick Pérez said the union marked “a positive step forward that will help forge a new direction for the organization and its staff....

James Caan says that he walked out of an initial “The Godfather” screening after realizing director Francis Ford Coppola cut a key scene involving Robert Duvall as Tom Hagen. Caan played Sonny Corleone, the eldest son of mafia don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando). “When Michael [Al Pacino] tells me he is going to take care of the cop and Sollozzo [Al Lettieri], I say, ‘You’ll get brains all over your nice Ivy League suit....

Foxx stars opposite Jeremy Piven as two best friends who win tickets to the NBA All-Star game. Yet their travel plans get derailed due to a group of outrageous characters, including Robert Downey Jr. as a Mexican man and Foxx playing multiple roles including, allegedly, a racist, white police officer. “All-Star Weekend” was filmed in 2016 and also stars Benicio del Toro, Gerard Butler, and Eva Longoria. “It’s been tough with the lay of the land when it comes to comedy,” Foxx told CinemaBlend about any upcoming release plans for the film while promoting vampire hunting Netflix film “Day Shift....

Both are genre thrillers, each released for $19.99 after their third weekend in theaters. “Spiral” is the more recent, and is part of a lucrative and long-running franchise. However, it’s “Wrath” that was #1 at three of the four lists below (#2 at Apple/iTunes), while “Spiral” lagged at #2 in the two charts that track by revenues and lower (#4 and #6) at Apple/iTunes and Google TV, both of which chart by number of rentals....

“We’re super thrilled to have Jimmy score his hat trick on this global stage. We know he will be funny and ready for anything!” executive producers and showrunners Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner said in a statement to media on Monday. Kimmel hosted the Oscars in both 2017 and 2018. The “anything” there could refer to either Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at last year’s Oscars or the Best Picture snafu Kimmel oversaw in 2017....

Mulaney revealed on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” that he had been investigated by the Secret Service earlier in the year following a joke he made on “Saturday Night Live” about the death of Julius Caesar. Though Mulaney did not reference President Donald Trump, or any other contemporary politicians, he noted that the joke gained traction on social media and resulted in an unexpected meeting with Secret Service agents. “The joke was about it was a leap year had been started by Julius Caesar to correct the calendar, and another thing that happened with Caesar was that he was stabbed to death by a bunch of senators cause he went crazy....

The writer-director revealed to The New York Times that he has more stories to tell within the “Nope” universe. The U.F.O. adventure film starred Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer as Hollywood horse trainers determined to capture an extraterrestrial presence on film. Steven Yeun, Barbie Ferreira, Brandon Perea, Keith David, Donna Mills, Andrew Patrick Ralston, and Michael Wincott round out the cast. Yet eagle-eyed fans of Peele’s third feature, following “Get Out” and “Us,” drew attention to an uncredited character listed as Nobody on IMDb, played by Michael Busch....

Five years after Gad took on the role of LeFou in Disney’s live-action remake, the “Wolf Like Me” actor is slamming the hype around the “exclusively gay moment” onscreen, as director Bill Condon categorized it in 2017. The aforementioned moment is Gad’s character, LeFou, dancing in a crowd with Gaston (Luke Evans), which presumably implied LeFou was in love with his boss. “My regret in what happened is that it became ‘Disney’s first explicitly gay moment’ and it was never intended to be that,” Gad told The Independent....

“Jungle Cruise” leads at Vudu, which favors higher-priced titles with its revenue tally. Among transactional charts, iTunes has it as #3, with GooglePlay placing it at #5. “The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard” (Lionsgate/$5.99) repeats at #1 at both iTunes and Google, and at #5 is the highest non-PVOD films at Vudu. All of this reinforces that Disney can maximize returns from multiple outlets even as films still do well in theaters....

Alfre Woodard, Samuel L. Jackson, his wife LaTanya Richardson Jackson, and more previously asked Illinois Judge James B. Linn to not sentence Smollett to prison time in a letter written to the judge. Jackson wrote that Smollett “comes from a good family” that can “provide the support and monitoring assistance that they can provide for him in an alternative probation scenario.” The “Pulp Fiction” star continued, “Jussie has already suffered a great deal of punishment, as this situation has destroyed his existing career and impugned his reputation....

Festival organizers announced Thursday morning that the upcoming edition of the Czech Republic-based event, which typically starts at the beginning of July, will instead begin August 20. The event will run through August 28. “Our decision to take this step was made after consulting with experts and upon a careful consideration of the current situation. We hope that the coming months will see a significant increase in vaccinations, thanks to which the pandemic will be brought under control, thus allowing us to hold the Karlovy Vary festival in a form that will be maximally safe for guests and visitors....

On Sunday, comedian Kathy Griffin was banned from Twitter after she changed her display name and profile picture to match Musk’s, and wrote several satirical tweets mocking the Tesla and Space X CEO. The “impersonation” was paper-thin — her handle remained @kathygriffin and could be seen on all her tweets — but the suspension was accompanied by a tweet from Musk stating that “any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended....

Those were more innocent times. The festival’s 75th-anniversary ceremony and subsequent dinner took place two years after the festival’s COVID-era cancellation and the obliteration of theaters around the world. Hopes remain that “Top Gun: Maverick” can reignite moviegoing enthusiasm a week after its boisterous Cannes premiere, but within the celebratory atmosphere many actors and filmmakers expressed uncertainty about how much stability remained for their work. This time, there were no mariachi bands....

“I’m excited to see it,” MacLachlan told The Times. “It’s one of my favorite books and I look forward to seeing what the director Villeneuve does with it. I think the simultaneous release is kind of the wave of the future. It’s disheartening though because a movie like that is meant to be seen on the large screen.” Villeneuve previously condemned Warner Bros. for shifting “Dune” to a hybrid release model, writing an open letter last December that read: “There is absolutely no love for cinema, nor for the audience here....

Well, according to the actress in a recent awards Q&A in Europe (shared in a video by Pop Crave), that relationship was actually meant to go in a much more intimate direction. According to Gaga, they were meant to have a sexual relationship that wound up on the cutting room floor. “There’s a whole side of this film that you did not see, where Pina and I developed a sexual relationship,” Lady Gaga said....

Although no reason for the departure has been announced, sources suggest it was the landlord’s decision to not extend the lease after non-payment of rent. Landmark did not responded to press inquiries. It’s not the sole A-list specialized location in the city; these include AMC at the Metreon and Kabuki, Cinemark’s Century San Francisco Centre, which played exclusive runs of platform titles, as well as Alamo Drafthouse’s New Mission. Neon confirmed that “The Worst Person In the World” will now open at the Kabuki....

Cinephiles have long been conditioned to roll their eyes at mawkishly uplifting movies about the magic of cinema. The worst of these tend to come from people who can’t find any other way to make the same point, so it’s understandable if the ultra-earnest title card at the start of Pan Nalin’s “Last Film Show” inspires you to put your head between your knees and brace for a long two hours....

Overall grosses continued a slow uptick, with this weekend’s Top Ten total of $11.8 million the best since the second weekend of “Tenet” in the U.S. The full total looks to be around $14 million, again an improvement. (The same weekend in 2019 was $138 million.) Regal, the second-largest chain, remains all but closed. New York state and Seattle are now open; New York City, Los Angeles County, and San Francisco remain closed....

“I don’t think it’s a secret that if it does happen, we would love to go into ‘Silence of the Lambs,’” Mikkelsen said. “That’s always been an issue because they didn’t have the rights for that book. But that’s obviously the most famous part and we’d love to go in there. We’d obviously switch it around a little and do all kinds of crazy stuff with it. That story is so interesting and the characters in it are as interesting....

When asked if she ever felt her life was in physical danger while filming “Borat 2,” Bakalova answered, “Maybe the scene when we were at the hotel and Rudy Giuliani called the police, I was kind of scared that something would happen. But fortunately, we escaped.” Bakalova said she was “nervous” before entering the hotel room with Giuliani, adding, “My heart was racing. But Sacha was like, you should be nervous in this situation....