Weaving back and forth in time, “Test Pattern” opens on the incident that will drive the bulk of the drama’s action: a woozy Renesha (Hall), still somehow managing to sit upright on a bed, a glass of water threatening to tip out of her hand. She’s not alone, and when Mike (Drew Fuller) comes into frame, Renesha’s dulled senses might not instantly realize the threat, but Ford’s invasive lensing of the interaction instantly puts the audience on alert....

“Killing Eve” Season 3 Official Trailer A perfect example of a trailer that is more tantalizing than the resulting show, the sneak peek at “Killing Eve’s” third season even cleverly obscures the fact that one of the heavily featured characters (spoiler!) dies in the first episode. Get excited by Villanelle’s fashion choices and deeply weirded out by her homicidal clown, because it’s pretty much all diminishing returns from there. “Perry Mason” Official Trailer Wait, wait, wait, Matthew Rhys scruffily fedora-ing around a noirish Depression-era Los Angeles AND a charismatic evangelist played by Tatiana Maslany?...

A coming-of-age comedy, the film premiered at New Directors/New Films this year as the closing night selection, and opens in theaters September 16 at Brooklyn Arts Museum (BAM) and the Quad in New York City, as well as select theaters nationwide, from Mubi Per the official synopsis, “The African Desperate” tracks one very long day for Palace Bryant (an expertly deadpan Diamond Stingily), a newly minted MFA grad whose final day of art school becomes a real trip....

“It really took a lot of coordination with the DP and the costume designer, Carl Herse and Tracy Gigi Field,” Hill said. “We had a set [that had] a lot of recess lighting and a lot of cove lighting, and all that cove lighting is digital. It’s all LEDs. And so you can turn it into any temperature of light and color, you know, all these different variables that you can use to kind of help control the look....

Well, I’ll believe it when I see it. Despite market indicators (and semi-assurances from the Mayor of Television himself, FX’s John Landgraf), it’s hard to imagine a lighter load when you’re still climbing out from under an avalanche. 2022 is expected to set a record for scripted programming, driven in part by the COVID pandemic’s production bottleneck giving way, flooding the market with new seasons and series. (A prime example: After four years off the air, “Atlanta” released two seasons within six months....

Early innovation by companies such as Kino Lorber and Oscilloscope helped pioneer the notion of the “virtual cinema” release that brought recent acquisitions to national audiences while creating a modest pipeline for theaters. Companies like IFC and Magnolia, well-entrenched in the VOD space for over a decade, churned along. NEON and Bleecker Street embraced their Hulu output deals while others, from ARRAY to Grasshopper and MUBI, engaged audiences across the digital landscape however they could....

Per the Netflix synopsis, “The film takes place over the course of a single morning in a 911 dispatch call center. Call operator Joe Baylor (Gyllenhaal) tries to save a caller in grave danger — but he soon discovers that nothing is as it seems, and facing the truth is the only way out.” Gyllenhaal has been a big fan of Möller’s film since it hit the festival circuit back in 2018, and went on to become Denmark’s Oscar submission for Best International Feature....

In upcoming series “The Man Who Fell to Earth,” Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as an extraterrestrial who travels to Earth after his home planet dies. He seeks out scientist Justin Falls (Naomie Harris) to save both his world and hers. Inspired by the Walter Tevis novel of the same name — as well as the David Bowie film — “The Man Who Fell to Earth” will premiere April 24 on Showtime, with the first two episodes airing back to back....

“The Suicide Squad,” like all of Warner Bros.’ 2021 titles, will debut day and date in whatever theaters are open later this summer and on HBO Max for 31 days. The release date is currently set for August 6, 2021. It’s a strategy that’s been paying off for Warner Bros. (mostly), thanks to films like “Godzilla vs. Kong,” which has topped $100 million in the U.S. even after playing on the Warner streaming platform....

“Above all, I am glad I brought this film to Toronto,” Spielberg said in a statement. “This is the most personal film I have made, and the warm reception from everyone in Toronto made my first visit to TIFF intimate and personal for me and my entire ‘Fabelmans’ family.” “2022 brought an exceptional selection of films that excited festival audiences around the world,” said TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey. “Our lineup showcased beloved auteurs alongside fresh voices in filmmaking, including numerous women powerhouses....

“Cinema is my happy place, my true motherland,” Swinton said during her speech (via Variety). “Its fellowship is my heart’s family tree. The names on the list of those awarded this honor, meanwhile, they are the names of my masters. They’re the elders of my tribe. The poets of the language I love above others. I sing their songs in the bath. I’m the punk kid film nut hitching a ride to the station to get to the foothills of the heights of their achievements....

In March, the festival announced that it would “transform prominent locations into an expansive 12-day multi-screen outdoor celebration” held this month, and is believed to be first major North American film festival to mount such an in-person event. Director Jon M. Chu’s long-awaited “In the Heights,” adapted from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, will open the 20th anniversary edition of Tribeca on June 9. The festival will also celebrate the world premiere of Steven Soderbergh’s “No Sudden Move” as its Centerpiece selection on June 18, with the world premiere of an untitled Dave Chappelle-produced documentary, produced and directed by Oscar- and Emmy-winning “American Factory” filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar, set to close it out on June 19....

He received the shirt as a gift, and it bears a maxim he gleaned from Lars von Trier, with whom he began a three-plus-decade partnership on “Medea” in 1988. “He means don’t act so people can feel and see that you’re acting. That’s the difference,” said the Cologne-born actor, the star of more than 200 movies from directors including Von Trier, Fassbinder, and Werner Herzog. Over the years, Kier’s steely cobalt eyes and sinisterly soothing German accent have enabled him to play low lives, decadents, and villains....

Netflix took four big prizes out of the competition, including Silver Lion winner Paolo Sorrentino for “The Hand of God,” Best Director Jane Campion for “The Power of the Dog,” Best Young Actor for Paolo Sorrentino’s “Hand of God” breakout Filippo Scotti, and Best Screenplay for first-time writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal for “The Lost Daughter.” “I was married in Italy, in Puglia. I found out I was pregnant with my second daughter in Italy....

A handful of the aforementioned events went virtual with varying degrees of success. Others were rescheduled. Some, such as the Venice and Florida film festivals, trudged forward with limited physical events. There’s no industry consensus on how festivals should be operated during the pandemic, and it’s fruitless to speculate about when physical conventions could return en masse due to the unpredictable nature of the coronavirus. However, experts agree that regardless of how the pandemic plays out in the next few months, virtual conventions are here to stay, even after it becomes safe for such events to be held physically again....

McCarthy and Falcone co-founded On the Day Productions, and have written and produced films like “Tammy,” “The Boss” and “Life of the Party” together with Falcone directing. Now, the creative partners lead “God’s Favorite Idiot,” which is part “Bruce Almighty” and part workplace comedy. Falcone stars as unassuming tech support employee Clark Thompson who pines after his co-worker Amily Luck (McCarthy). After being struck by lightning, Clark begins to glow — and not just because his crush is reciprocated....

Evoking the idiotic but undeniably iconic image of a shrieking woman and her bouncing boobs running for their lives, the term “scream queen” has shaped horror actresses’ careers ever since Fay Wray climbed the Empire State Building with King Kong in 1933. And yet, the half-funny play on words, nebulously defined and as outdated as the surface-level conceit it describes, doesn’t mean much of anything to the modern moviegoer anymore....

Both streamers carry only the color version, perhaps because the monochrome cut just arrived in theaters. As for why Disney would make the counterintuitive move to share the film with a rival, that’s the fallout from the Disney acquisition of 20th Century Fox (which includes Searchlight). Studios usually contract with premium cable channels on theatrical releases; pre-Covid, these deals usually kicked in eight to nine months after they opened in theaters....

On the surface, there appears to be very little natural synergy between Max and Discovery+. The HBO streaming platform is the home to prestige TV and Warner Bros. blockbuster movies; Discovery+ is chock full of unscripted programming about home renovation, cooking, and hastily marrying someone from another country whom you met on the internet. It is fair to assume the two services will “come together in some way,” one insider with knowledge of the general plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told IndieWire on Friday....

“Smith enjoyed a hefty payday — according to reports, as much as $40 million — and then personally wrote checks to the cast which includes Saniyya Sidney and Demi Singleton, who play Venus and Serena, Tony Goldwyn, Jon Bernthal, and Aunjanue Ellis, among others. A source described the payments as a nice bonus, given by Smith on top of what they already received from the studio as compensation for the pivot to simultaneous HBO Max release strategy,” per THR....