“I love the Russian people. That is why I have to tell you the truth,” Schwarzenegger captioned a video on Twitter. “Please watch and share.” The video includes Schwarzenegger detailing his admiration of Russian Olympian weightlifter Yuri Petrovich Vlasov and working in Russia, as well as revisiting his father’s history during WWII. “I’m sending this message to various different channels to reach my dear Russian friends and the Russian soldiers serving in Ukraine,” Schwarzenegger said in the nine-minute video....

“Baroness” always — and proudly — skews feminist, though the comedy is always queen. The humor is a deeply satisfying blend of broad slapstick with sharp satire. Many of the sketches combine a shrewd social criticism, whether of diet culture or parenting double standards, with a wacky brand of outsized character work. The hallmark of a “Baroness” sketch is a relatable everyday scenario that is gradually heightened to insane extremes....

That caused director Ridley Scott to go off on millennials and “audiences brought up on their fucking cell phones” during Marc Maron’s “WTF Podcast.” And even later, when asked a question he wasn’t keen on by a journalist during the film’s press junket, he told the reporter to “go fuck yourself, sir.” Affleck, speaking to The Hollywood Reporter timed to the release of “The Tender Bar,” has come out in defense of Scott’s harsh words, with the caveat that he could have been “slightly misquoted....

The Oscar winner doesn’t shy away from doing the extreme onscreen, with Del Toro seeming to weigh in on the recent method acting debate. During an interview with Variety, the “French Dispatch” star revealed there is nothing he wouldn’t do for a role, albeit with one exception: “I will not kill you,” Del Toro joked. “I promise.” The actor previously burned himself with cigarettes and put on weight for 1998’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” opposite Johnny Depp....

Need a new TV to binge watch your favorite movies? With a 4K TV, you’ll get theater-level clarity right in your living room. 4K TVs are designed to deliver crisp and clear images with more color resolution and deeper picture depth for a truly immersive viewing experience. Because there are so many options to choose from, we found some of the best 4K UHD and Ultra HD TVs from top brands including LG, Sony, Hisense, Toshiba, and Insignia....

From simple activities like streaming a favorite show to more complex activities such as editing video or sound, laptops and tablets can just about do it all. They also help lessen the load, which is great when you’re a student because you might not have to carry around as many books. Laptops and tablets also come in handy whether you’re working from home or in the office, and tablets are perfect for kids....

U.K.-based Cineworld, which operates Regal in the U.S. and is the #2 exhibitor worldwide, announced a multi-year deal in which it will play Warner Bros. titles with a 45-day theatrical exclusive. That starts in 2022; in the meantime, it will play Warners movies day-and-date with HBO Max. Disney moved “Black Widow” off May 7 in favor of July 9, and announced that both the Marvel movie and “Cruella” (still on May 28) will be available simultaneously in theaters and on Disney+ as “Premier Access” titles (aka a subscriber surcharge, usually $29....

Here’s the official synopsis from Focus Features: “From award-winning writer/director Justin Chon, Blue Bayou is the moving and timely story of a uniquely American family fighting for their future. Antonio LeBlanc (Chon), a Korean adoptee raised in a small town in the Louisiana bayou, is married to the love of his life Kathy (Alicia Vikander) and stepdad to their beloved daughter Jessie. Struggling to make a better life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past when he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home....

Warner Bros. shared a first look at Bong Joon Ho’s upcoming “Mickey 17,” set to be released on March 29, 2024. “Mickey 17” is currently in production and is directed, produced, and scripted by Bong, adapted from Edward Ashton’s novel “Mickey 7.” Pattinson stars as the titular Mickey, who is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever a mission is too dangerous — even suicidal — the crew turns to Mickey....

After two statues immortalizing “Breaking Bad” characters Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) were unveiled at the Albuquerque Convention Center July 30, New Mexico Republican Rep. Rod Montoya and Albuquerque-based conservative radio talk show host Eddy Aragon criticized the city’s decision to commemorate the Emmy-winning AMC series. “I’m glad New Mexico got the business, but really?” Rep. Montoya told Fox News. “We’re going down the road of literally glorifying meth makers?...

In “Brother and Sister,” or “Frère et Soeur” as it’s known in French, Alice (Cotillard) and Louis (Poupaud) are siblings. She is an actress, while he was a teacher and a poet. For the past two decades, Alice has resented him, and they’ve remained estranged for the last 20 years. That is, until their parents become involved in a serious accident, and they are forced to toss blood under the bridge and reconcile anew....

Licht is a well-respected producer who launched “Morning Joe” on MSNBC and spearheaded “CBS This Morning” before buoying “The Late Show.” Against Fox News Channel and MSNBC, Licht faces — to put it kindly — an uphill battle. In 2022, Fox News nearly triples CNN’s overall viewership throughout the entire day (6 a.m. to 6 a.m.). If that sounds bad, don’t look any closer: Fox’s primetime (8 p.m. to 11 p....

“The show was presented to me in the way we pitched it around town — as an independent film made into television,” Fukunaga. “The writer and director are a team. Over the course of the project, Nic kept positioning himself as if he was my boss and I was like, ‘But you’re not my boss. We’re partners. We collaborate.’ By the time they got to postproduction, people like [former HBO programming president] Michael Lombardo were giving Nic more power....

The Walt Disney Company executive chairman Bob Iger teased the new introduction on Saturday, tweeting, “To all fans of #BlackPanther: watch the film on #DisneyPlus late tonight, for a special tribute to someone that was and will always be near and dear to our hearts.” The updated intro includes the page-turning design that opens all Marvel movies, but now with new concept art, and images and footage from “Black Panther....

Yet the Oscar winner revealed that the announcement of Christopher Nolan’s serious take on Batman for “Batman Begins” was met with skepticism back in 2005. “I would [tell people] we’re going to sort of do Batman, but take him seriously,” Bale told The Washington Post. “I had tons of people laugh at me and just say, ‘Well, that’s just not going to work at all.’” “Batman Begins” was the first installment in the DC franchise since Joel Schumacher’s “Batman & Robin” in 1997, which quickly was deemed campy for its Bat nipple suit and over-the-top acting....

One aspect of the trailer that left fans stunned, and even a little perplexed, was the first footage revealing Colin Farrell’s transformation into the Penguin. The actor, as you can easily see in the shots provided, is almost totally unrecognizable. And that double-take moment many fans had was also shared by Farrell’s co-star Jeffrey Wright, who plays Commissioner Gordon in the new movie. Speaking on SiriusXM’s “The Jess Cagle Show” — via Comic Book — Wright said he didn’t recognize his co-star thanks to the astonishing prosthetic makeup work of artist Mike Marino....

The reveal came up when David was asked if he always knows where a given season is heading, as events across the preceding episodes are almost always hurtling to an unexpected endpoint that ties the whole thing together. (The Season 3 chef with Tourette’s, anyone?) “Sometimes it’s obvious. With the season before, we knew that spite store was going to meet its demise, somehow. But this one, it just felt right....

“If I was meeting with Lynch, I’d be more interested to talk about painting than ‘Dune.’ I’m not expecting to have that chance to share the experience,” Villeneuve said of ever speaking to Lynch, who is also a renowned visual artist, about the movie. “I don’t know if I succeeded, OK. I have a very close relationship with the movie I made… I’m kind of proud of the movie, but it’s up to other people to judge....

Rice recently renewed his contract at Disney back in August, and it was set to run through the end of 2024. He is set to receive a payout from Disney amid termination. He and Walden came to Disney through the company’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox in 2017. Until today, Rice oversaw an arm of the company that produces more than 300 shows annually and for platforms including ABC, Disney Channel, Disney+, Hulu, and FX....

On Disney’s August 12 Q2 earnings call, CEO Bob Chapek hinted that releasing “Shang-Chi” only in theaters is not a move the studio would make now, citing the “unfortunate” COVID resurgence that the studio didn’t see coming. (Just a few hours before the call Sony Pictures announced plans to delay the release of their “Venom” sequel by three weeks.) The COVID delta variant surge means that a delay for “Shang-Chi” is not possible, the studio confirmed....