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Sony’s move was unprecedented for a video game as high-profile as “Cyberpunk 2077,” which released on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox consoles December 10. The game, which Polish developer CD Projekt Red claimed to receive 8 million pre-orders across all platforms, scored controversy due to a variety of bugs and performance issues, particularly on the last-generation PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles. Microsoft, which operates the Xbox consoles, announced on Friday that it would offer refunds to customers who purchased the digital version of the game on the Microsoft Store....

So apparently the final frontier of the 32nd Century is just… like the frontier of the Old West? It sure felt that way in the relatively banal second episode, “Far From Home.” Whereas the Season 3 premiere of “Star Trek: Discovery” was expansive and eye-opening, this one relied on well-worn tropes. How funny that, when all was said and done, neither Saru (Doug Jones) nor Tilly (Mary Wiseman) really even asked much about what exactly brought about the relatively lawless environment they found themselves in....

It was there that the network placed a “Screaming Booth,” where passersby could vent their anxieties in real time. Live-streamed on Facebook, where it played alongside cable news anchors issuing unnerving live commentary as results came in, the “Screaming Booth” feed eventually amounted to two hours and 18 minutes of pure existential terror — the essence of November 8, 2016. Standing in line that evening outside the Ed Sullivan and waiting to join the studio audience, I eyed that booth with a mixture of annoyance and queasy uncertainty before concluding I had no need for cathartic release....

Michael (Hickey), a travel columnist for The New York Times , goes to Tel Aviv to write an article after suffering a tragedy. He is still grieving and the loss has caused problems between him and his husband. He just wants to do his research and go home. But when he sublets an apartment from Tomer (Nissim), a young film student, he finds himself drawn into the life of the city....

On the one hand, “The Adam Project” recognizes that its star’s wounded sarcasm is the perfect fit for an Amblin-esque adventure about a swole fighter pilot who travels back in time in order to team up with his scrawny 12-year-old self (“It’s not a multiverse!” Reynolds shouts at the tween. “My god, we’ve seen too many movies”). On the other hand, this exhaustingly overstuffed Netflix spectacle is so busy trying to fuse the temporal antics of “Back to the Future” into the space-age heroism of “Star Wars” — and to do so in a way that will keep people from clicking over to “Love Is Blind” — that its favorite quote starts to sound less like an earnest plea to appreciate the present than it does a veiled threat to settle for it… or else....

On the one hand, the internet has turned the world into such a relentless battle royale for attention that people have become intractably obsessed with their own relevance. For Jordan — a perma-clenched striver who Cummings embodies as a perfect combination of Ryan Serhant’s energy, Patrick Bateman’s personality, and Ari Gold’s career — it’s impossible to think about anything else. At a time when agents like him are hemorrhaging the power they once had in this town, Jordan is so fixated on performing his own value that it seems to be his full-time job (after all, how many projects can actually get put together by a pull-string doll in a business suit who only knows how to say things like “we’re excited” and “let’s keep talking?...

Here’s the official synopsis: “In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters — an unholy preacher (Robert Pattinson), twisted couple (Jason Clarke and Riley Keough), and crooked sheriff (Sebastian Stan) — converge around young Arvin Russell (Tom Holland) as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family. Spanning the time between World War II and the Vietnam war, director Antonio Campos’ ‘The Devil All the Time’ renders a seductive and horrific landscape that pits the just against the corrupted....

“Helios gave us higher resolution and more image fidelity,” said Series VFX supervisor Richard Bluff. “The assets that were going into the environments could not only be rendered in real-time on the wall, but could also be easily rendered in any one of our render engines that we use in post-production. This allowed a lot of flexibility on the back end. We were basically supersizing the pixels being drawn to the screen....

Emmerich and De Luca have more in common than most of the studios’ chess pieces. Both were forged in the scrappy New Line ethos, and they are cinephiles who make risky bets in order to work with top talent. Case in point: Both just debuted big movies at Cannes. That’s because Zaslav has espoused the power of branding a title in theaters. Zas himself attended the lavish Cannes world premiere of Baz Luhrmann’s $150-million music biopic “Elvis”; rising star Austin Butler hung out with Emmerich at the Beach Stephanie afterparty....

Just weeks after announcing his retirement from the NFL, legendary quarterback Tom Brady announced he will star in and produce road trip comedy “80 for Brady,” starring Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, and Rita Moreno as four friends who travel to the 2017 Super Bowl LI to see the New England Patriots quarterback play. Based on a true story, “80 for Brady” will be directed by Kyle Marvin, who also co-wrote the script with Michael Covino, using a draft by “Booksmart” screenwriting duo Emily Halpern and Sarah Haskins....

Krieps’ time will come. Ever since she broke out in 2017 opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread,” the Luxembourg actress has been making up for lost time, shooting one role after another, with no regard for making smart career choices, she told me at Cannes. “My choice always comes from my heart, which is why it doesn’t seem like a career choice, ever.” Mia Hansen-Love’s “Bergman Island,” starring Krieps and Tim Roth as a fractious married couple, made a small arthouse splash last year after debuting at Cannes, while Mathieu Amalric’s Cannes title “Hold Me Tight” is finally coming out in North America this fall....

But Mortensen has continued to defend the film, and has insisted that it will “stand the test of time” in a new interview with The Film Stage (via The Playlist). “The dumbass in that story was the white guy,” Mortensen said. “There was a steep learning curve for the character I played. But they both learned from each other. And the fact is, it was based on real events. So the people that really tried to do damage to the movie’s reputation during its run, as you say, and people still to this day are like, oh, is this the ‘Green Book’ of this year?...

Products featured are independently selected by our editorial team and we may earn a commission from purchases made from our links. While CBS All Access quickly made its name as the home of the “Star Trek” TV universe, the ViacomCBS-owned streaming service is home to plenty of other high-quality original TV series (“The Twilight Zone” and “The Good Fight,” for one). A more under-the-radar choice: “Why Women Kill,” the colorful, murderous comedy-drama from “Desperate Housewives” creator Marc Cherry....

No HBO film has been more highly decorated. Later this year, Steven Soderbergh will release another film that could easily be mistaken for a TV Movie. Premiering via a HBO’s sister platform, HBO Max, “Let Them All Talk” is an original story about a celebrated author who takes a healing trip with old friends; it stars the legendary Meryl Streep alongside fellow Oscar winners Dianne Wiest and nominee Candice Bergen....

Buying video games can really add up, but if you’re a budget gamer who wants to cut back on the clutter of collecting too many games while saving money in the process, GameFly might be a good option for you. The monthly subscription service offers a curated collection for gamers and movie buffs alike, with thousands of titles to choose from, including new and used video games for Xbox Series X, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS5, PS4, PS3, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Switch, older consoles, and more....

“Severance” Season 1 ends with one hell of a payoff: Helly R. (Britt Lower), the newest member of Lumon’s Macro Data Refinement pod, is an Eagan. So who knows what that whole “R.” thing is all about — but that’s (probably) not important right now. What is vital as the excellent first season gives way to the just-renewed Season 2 is if Outie Helly (posing as her Outie counterpart, Helena Eagan, a member of the powerful family that not only runs Lumon Industries but essentially the entire town), Innie Mark (Adam Scott), and Innie Irving (John Turtorro) got enough time in the Outie world to get the message across about the evil deeds of corporate overlords....

Welcome to another version of the new normal in exhibition. Unlike most of 2020 and 2021, when seismic changes in how studios released its features could be a daily occurrence, today it’s all about the incremental shifts. The tweaks aren’t as damaging to theaters, but they inexorably point toward the prioritization of streaming. So far, horror audiences don’t appear to threaten streaming subscriptions; that makes the same-day play for “Firestarter” May 13 look like a lower-risk strategy....

EARLIER: “Are you going to Sundance?” The question is a post-New Year’s tradition, but this year it’s tinged with more skepticism than cordiality. With omicron throwing a new variable into the puzzle of pandemic-era disruption, the prospects of any large-scale physical gathering in January — much less one attended by over 100,000 people dedicated to packing into box-like rooms for hours at a time — sounds like a fever dream....

Last year, “Better Call Saul” had the most nominations, while “The Crown” and “Ted Lasso” ultimately triumphed with the most wins. This year “The Crown” was not eligible — its next season won’t debut until November 2022 — but “Ted Lasso” was a contender for its second season. And predictably, it made out with a Comedy Series nomination, alongside “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “What We Do in the Shadows,” “Hacks,” and “Only Murders in the Building” — “Hacks” and “Only Murders” also scored Best News Series nods....

“I was more worried the studio would sue me. Do something to silence me,” Snyder said about his decision to lend vocal support to the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut fans. The community has become a poster child in the media for toxic fandom, but Snyder stays focused on its activism above all else. “Here’s the reality,” Snyder said. “That fandom raised $750,000 for suicide prevention and mental health awareness. They’ve saved lives. That’s a fact....