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Per an official release, “Master Gardener” follows “a meticulous horticulturist (Edgerton) who is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager (Weaver). When she demands that he take on her wayward and troubled great niece, it unlocks dark secrets from a buried violent past.” “When the idea first started it was one of my male protagonists but then these two women intervened and it became something more complex and unique,” Schrader said about the project....

Given the global circumstances, the PGA will be shaking up its approach for the 32nd Annual Producers Guild Awards, opting out of a traditional in-person ceremony and instead hosting a virtual awards ceremony on March 24. However, the winners of the Sports, Children’s, and Short Form categories, in addition to the PGA Innovation Awards, will be announced during a new event launched by the organization entitled “A Day with the PGA Awards Nominees....

As a documentary filmmaker, Huezo has immersed herself in communities across Mexico and her native El Salvador to show the human consequences of their seemingly endless wars. In “Tempestad” (2016), she tells the story of two women exploited by the drug war in Mexico, and here she brings the same harrowing overtone of urgency to her fiction debut. “Prayers for the Stolen” introduces us to the three eight-year-old girls as they excitedly observe insects in the forest, but this edenic prologue comes to an abrupt end — there’s a snake in the grass (literally), one that appears to be poisonous....

“I don’t take it seriously,” Tarantino said in an interview with GQ magazine earlier this month, although the publication did note that the director gave off “a sigh of disappointment that we would even think to ask such a thing.” “There’s a lot of feet in a lot of good directors’ movies,” Tarantino said. “That’s just good direction. Like, before me, the person foot fetishism was defined by was Luis Buñuel, another film director....

“I can’t understand the vitriol directed at her,” Fiennes told The Telegraph about Rowling and the backlash she’s faced over the last year. “I can understand the heat of an argument, but I find this age of accusation and the need to condemn irrational. I find the level of hatred that people express about views that differ from theirs, and the violence of language towards others, disturbing.” Backlash against Rowling ignited June 6, 2020 after she posted a series of comments to Twitter in which she argued that discussing gender identity negates biological sex....

The official “Red Notice” synopsis from Netflix reads: “When an Interpol-issued Red Notice — the highest level warrant to hunt and capture the world’s most wanted — goes out, the FBI’s top profiler John Hartley (Dwayne Johnson) is on the case. His global pursuit finds him smack dab in the middle of a daring heist where he’s forced to partner with the world’s greatest art thief Nolan Booth (Ryan Reynolds) in order to catch the world’s most wanted art thief, ‘The Bishop’ (Gal Gadot)....

That manifestation has come to pass, with the pair working together on AMC’s new murder mystery series, “Dark Winds,” focused on two Navajo detectives (Zahn McClarnon and Gordon) trying to solve a double homicide. Gordon, McClarnon, and Matten are all Hollywood veterans and see the series as more than a vehicle for a leading role; it’s a chance to let their Indigenous communities see themselves outside the frame of trauma....

The experience begins with reconnaissance scout and unreliable avatar Selene Vassos crashing into the swamps of a forbidden planet. She appears to have gone rogue in pursuit of a signal called “The White Shadow,” and the initial jolt of recognition trills up your spine just a few seconds after she crawls out of the wreckage as players take their first hesitant steps through the first of the game’s six massive biomes....

Production on “The Northman” was set to begin earlier this year, but Eggers and his crew were forced to shut down and go into quarantine just a week before cameras were to start rolling, due to the pandemic. Eggers co-wrote “The Northman” script with Icelandic poet and novelist Sjón Sigurdsson. Reports that filming on “The Northman” is now underway are accompanied by recent set photos revealing some of the villages that have been constructed for the project....

Based on the DC “emo comic,” Matt Reeves’ upcoming take on the Caped Crusader leans into the “nihilistic side,” as Pattinson told GQ in a March cover story. “Even the artwork is really, really different,” Pattinson added. “So, hopefully, there are a lot of sad people in the world.” Even filming “The Batman” during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns pushed Pattinson to almost a breaking point of his own. “The nature of the shoot was so kind of insular, always shooting at night, just really dark all the time, and I felt very much alone,” the “Good Time” star said....

Earlier: Sacha Baron Cohen typically films his documentaries in secret, with unsuspecting subjects taking part in his politically charged comedy stunts. The comedian rarely tells his subjects they are being set up in order to capture their genuine reactions to outrageous inquiries and requests. It’s a decision that can have near-violent consequences, as Cohen almost ignited a riot after crashing a far-right rally over the summer while filming “Borat 2....

Sacha Baron Cohen reprised his famed character as part of a Kennedy Center Honors tribute to the band U2 on December 4. Cohen-as-Borat slammed Grammy winner West during his speech, saying the rise of antisemitism in the U.S. rivals that of the fictional “Jew-crushing nation” Kazakhstan, Borat’s home country. “Before I proceed, I will say I am very upset about the antisemitism in US and A,” Borat said (via The Guardian)....

At the opening of Season 2 (stylized in the opening credits as “Save Me Too”), Jody is still missing. Nelly, much like Claire and her husband Barry, have settled into a state of perpetual anxiety, even if they’re able to mask that sadness to their respective partners. Even with the potential arrival of a new baby among the Palm Tree faithful, there’s still a lingering tension that comes by Jody’s continued absence....

According to Deadline: “Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who have received rave reviews for penning ‘American Crime Story: Impeachment,’ are writing the script with Rick Yorn of LBI Entertainment joining Hill and Scorsese as producers. Bernie Cahill, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Trixie Garcia and Eric Eisner will exec produce. Insiders add that with the band and the groups management participating in the film, Apple has rights to use the groups musical catalogue for the film....

Co-directed by Pete Docter (“Inside Out”) and Kemp Powers (“One Night in Miami”), the imaginative story of a jazz musician attempting to avoid the afterlife marks the first Pixar movie with a Black lead, and blends its lively celebration of music with a broader emotional drama about finding purpose in life. All of that means it’s bound to resonate in the midst of Oscar season, and not only in the animation category....

IndieWire can exclusively confirm that new Starz drama “Becoming Elizabeth” will debut opening night, followed by a Q&A panel with creator and executive producer Anya Reiss and series stars Alicia von Rittberg and Jamie Blackley. Award-winning international festival and non-profit organization SeriesFest spotlights episodic storytelling. The annual six-day festival will include a full slate of in-competition screenings, panels, and workshops, as well as never-before-seen sneak peeks and television premieres. Joining the special screening event line-up this year includes “Rat in the Kitchen” (TBS) with series’ co-hosts actress and comedian Natasha Leggero and Chef Ludo Lefebvre; “Bring on the Dancing Horses” featuring star and executive producer Kate Bosworth and director, writer, and executive producer Michael Polish; “This is Going to Hurt” (AMC+) with comedian and writer Adam Kay; “Somebody Feed Phil” (Netflix) with series creator and host Phil Rosenthal; and “Candy” (Hulu) with executive producers and co-creators Robin Veith and Nick Antosca....

“I mean, I don’t look back on that and think, ‘How dare she do that?’ You know?” Rogen said. “I think sometimes when you read something, when it comes to life it doesn’t seem to be what you thought it was. But it was not some terrible ending to our relationship. She came back the next day to say goodbye. She helped promote the film. No hard feelings and I couldn’t be happier with how the film turned out in the end....

Five of their next six titles, including Marvel’s “Eternals,” all of which are set to open during the rest of 2021, will not reach Disney+ or Hulu until at least 45 days after their theatrical release. Their animated “Encanto,” opening at Thanksgiving, will reach the streaming platform after 30 days. That’s close to as much as theaters could hope for. Most films, irrespective of performance, have hit home availability by 45 days....

The comedy mega-producer loaned his computer to “Freaks and Geeks” alum and mentee Shaun Weiss after the actor left rehab. Weiss played Sean in the one-season NBC series. “Judd Apatow put me in a rehab place. He was giving me a chance. That was the other thing that was really heartbreaking, too,” Weiss said during the “Dopey” podcast (via Page Six). “He was really being my mentor and teaching me how to write and giving me different jobs and assignments that really cultivated me as a writer....

In the sketch, Taylor-Joy and Bryant play moderators interviewing a group of New York University students who star in a reality television series. They can’t seem to stop gushing over Pete Davidson’s character, who is game to their adoration, and that means the questions with the rest of the group fall very flat, especially as they become increasingly politically incorrect. “As a Black woman, could you please explain race?” “How has been being gay and Chinese prevented you from being happy?...