“When Barrett is confirmed, a president who lost the popular vote will have picked a quarter of the federal judiciary and a third of the Supreme Court and his choices will have been rubber-stamped by a Senate Republican majority representing 15 million fewer than the Democratic minority,” Oliver said. Oliver offered a series of quick examples of the sort of major cases that were swung by just a single vote in the court, including upholding the Affordable Cart Act, preserving Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, and striking down a restrictive abortion law in Louisiana....

“I’m getting annoying emails from Paul Thomas Anderson about a couple of potential projects!” Greenwood recently told NME (via The Film Stage). “They sound really interesting and peculiar, so I’m thinking about those while I wander around. I really enjoy the thinking time of music, drifting off and wondering how to describe in music what [Paul Thomas Anderson] is talking about. It’s very self-indulgent, but really fun. I’m an extremely lucky man....

The “Wonder Woman” actress said in December 2020 that her experience with Whedon was “not the best one,” and now THR reports that, per “a knowledgable source,” Gadot “had multiple concerns with the revised version” of “Justice League.” The THR report claims that sources shared that “the biggest clash … came when Whedon pushed Gadot to record lines she didn’t like, threatened to harm Gadot’s career and disparaged ‘Wonder Woman’ director Patty Jenkins....

“She’s got a priest tied up, and she’s torturing him and throwing fire,” Neil said. “She’s sort of going on this spiel about her childhood, and what happened to her by this priest in this ministry. And she ends up burning an effigy of the baby Jesus. I have no idea what side of my personality I seemed to have showed for [the producers] to go: ‘She’s really good at torturing!...

“It’s like, what the fuck was I doing working with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski?” Winslet said. “It’s unbelievable to me now how those men were held in such high regard, so widely in the film industry and for as long as they were. It’s fucking disgraceful. And I have to take responsibility for the fact that I worked with them both. I can’t turn back the clock. I’m grappling with those regrets but what do we have if we aren’t able to just be fucking truthful about all of it?...

“I didn’t think the crimes would be buried forever,” Lee told the court at the retrial of Yoon, who was convicted of one of the 10 murders and spent 20 years in prison. Yoon, whose full name has not been published due to South Korean privacy laws, was released from prison in 2008 and is now in a retrial trying to overturn his conviction. “I still don’t understand [why I wasn’t a suspect],” Lee said about his involvement in the Hwaseong murders....

Why tackle one of the most iconic British royals in history? In a new interview with InStyle, Stewart said she remains “viscerally affected” by images of Princess Diana’s funeral, which she remembers watching as a child. Stewart’s comments were the first time she’s go on record talking about “Spencer.” The project begins filming at the start of 2021. “The accent is intimidating as all hell because people know that voice, and it’s so, so distinct and particular,” Stewart said....

“I definitely don’t align myself with Louis Farrakhan, I don’t stand by him,” he said. “Any kind of hate speech, I vehemently reject. That’s not up for debate, hate is not up for debate.” Comments made by participants in the Clubhouse room (titled “Someone Ended the Room About Farrakhan,” spawned from another room that was shut down) included praise of Hitler, conspiracy theories about Jewish people running the slave trade, and comparisons of Jewish people to termites....

But nearly three decades later, as the two stars geared up to reprise their iconic roles in Colin Trevorrow’s “Jurassic World: Dominion,” they began to see that romance in a different light. The world has changed a lot since 1993, and what seemed normal at the time now seems strange to them. In a new interview with The Sunday Times, Dern and Neill reflected on their original onscreen romance and questioned whether it was the right choice....

With “Annette,” Carax is rewriting plenty of rules. By the time Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard shed their clothes, the Sparks musical has already launched its revisionist approach to the genre. The first song, “So May We Start,” finds Carax, the band, and the lead characters walking down the streets of Los Angeles and literally arriving at the plot of the movie. He also contributed new lyrics to several songs....

That anecdote paints a picture of a director who knows precisely what he wants, and while that is to some degree certainly true, there is also incredible creative looseness to the way Anderson works. On “Licorice,” for example, Anderson wanted to embrace a rawness, taking a distinctly 1970s-like approach to shooting the film — one where they didn’t try to always diffuse the 110-degree San Fernando Valley sun or control the look of multiple scenes shot in vehicles....

Based on Herbert Asbury’s 1927 nonfiction book, “The Gangs of New York” follows the rival gangs of late-1800s New York City. Scorsese is set to direct the first two episodes of the series, which was developed internally at Miramax TV and penned by playwright and TV writer Brett Leonard (“Taboo,” “Fear the Walking Dead”). Per Deadline, the upcoming series will not center on the same characters as the film, which starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Cameron Diaz....

“I was in a car park and my agent said, ‘There’s this part in this new show that is a prequel to ‘Game of Thrones.’ And I was like, ‘Ohhh. I don’t know. It’s a tough one, isn’t it? It’s a tough one to follow. Haven’t we seen this before?’” Smith said. “But then [the offer] sort of didn’t go away. Then it came up again, and then I went in for a screen test, and then that was that....

Without the shadow of Rocky Balboa, “Creed II” places Jordan’s Adonis Creed front and center. But Jordan doesn’t want to hog all the spotlight. At a recent press conference to promote the movie (via Slash Film), Jordan spoke about his decision to cast Mexican boxer Canelo Álvarez in his first acting role. While the “Rocky” franchise has a proud tradition of casting former boxers, Jordan’s saw the casting as an opportunity to highlight Mexican boxers....

In a new oral history published by Entertainment Weekly, “Fast” cast member Jordana Brewster remembered, “When Michelle [Rodriguez] read her role, she was like, ‘No, I’m not playing that.’ And then she changed it completely. It went from a trophy girlfriend to this really layered character.” “It was a reality check for them to realize that the streets don’t work like that,” Rodriguez said about pushing for rewrites to the original script to empower her character....

As a result, deafness and blindness are common tropes in features. The genre’s most famous example is 1967’s “Wait Until Dark,” starring Audrey Hepburn. Hepburn plays a blind woman named Susy whose house is invaded by men looking for a doll containing a large amount of heroin. The leader of the gang, Roat (Alan Arkin) terrorizes the woman, culminating in a third act finale where Susy smashes out all the lights in her apartment, leaving Roat as blind as Susy....

First things first: Spikes offered no specifics on pricing, aside from the fact that the new service will operate on a tiered model. Definitely don’t expect to get an all-you-can-watch plan for $9.99, which Spikes has long been critical of. The new MoviePass will allow users to bring a friend, roll over unused credits, transact with virtual currency, and trade unused credits. “The tiered plans are going to be able to allow you to come in at a place that you feel more comfortable with....

“When you learn the rules and the limitations, you figure out what you can do and you double down on them and then you really get very specific,” Watts said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “Obviously in a close-up, the eyes were all I had. In a wider shot, I used my physicality and I had to go back to my training back in my very, very early days of when we learned how to use masks, so it was fun....

For Netflix’s adaptation of the adventures of the Lord of Dreams (Tom Sturridge) across time, space, and sometimes Washington Square Park, one of the core creative decisions involved how closely this “Sandman” would, or even could, mirror the style of the comics. What could it create in place of the abstract and iconic impressions that only comics’ particular format of sequential words and pictures can deliver? Much like a dream, a drawing is tangible — but only just....

Netflix’s official synopsis for “The Sandman” reads: “A rich blend of modern myth and dark fantasy in which contemporary fiction, historical drama, and legend are seamlessly interwoven, ‘The Sandman’ follows the people and places affected by Morpheus, the Dream King, as he mends the cosmic — and human — mistakes he’s made during his vast existence.” Gaiman is executive producing the adaptation alongside David S. Goyer and Allan Heinberg. The creative team has long attempted to bring “The Sandman” to the big screen, including a failed movie adaptation in 2013 with Joseph Gordon-Levitt attached to star....