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The Apple TV+ series based on Victor LaValle's novel launches on September 8.

The Netflix-backed doc will have its world premiere on Saturday, September 16, at Roy Thomson Hall.

The writers strike is poised to continue without formal negotiations resuming after the guild slammed the studios for leaks to the press.

The company defended its investment criteria but said it hopes "perpetrators everywhere will be brought to justice no matter who they are."

Danny and Michael Philippou go spoiler-heavy on their buzzy viral horror "Talk to Me" — and reveal an awkward text encounter they had with "Hereditary" director Ari Aster following their movie's festival premiere.

It’s right there in the title: Claire Simon’s stunningly personal documentary “Our Body” might generally be about her own health journey, but it’s really fixated on the communal experience of occupying a female body. Our body. While academics have tried to uncover the mystique behind women’s physiques, and narrative filmmakers have grappled with the “male gaze” permeating the female form, Simon’s “Our Body” positions the body in its strictly anatomical purposes, ranging from reproduction to even death. Simon uses the film as both a personal journey through her own cancer diagnosis and as a general observation of the everyday operations of a gynecological ward in a public hospital in Paris. And while watching “Our Body,” the emphasis...

[Editor’s note: The following post contains spoilers for “Hijack.”] After seven tense hours, Kingdom Airlines Flight 29 arrived at its final destination in London intact, despite a hijacking, the murders of a passenger, a hijacker, and the pilot, and a second hijacking. (It was a long flight.) And though “Hijack” production designer Andrew Purcell cannily crafted a plane on which to film the Idris Elba–led Apple TV+ series, some things can’t be faked. Including a forced landing fraught with “Will they make it?” tension. (Watch the gripping landing in the video below.) “This is the only real plane involved in the making of it,” Purcell told IndieWire of the landing (watch it in the video below). “Up in Gloucestershire, there’s a kind...

“The Office” is remaining closed for the time being. Leslie David Baker, a series regular on the popular NBC comedy series announced on social media Thursday that, three years after a Kickstarter campaign attempting to fund a spinoff show based on his character, he will be returning donations received to fans. In 2020, Baker launched a Kickstarter campaign for “Uncle Stan,” a potential spinoff of “The Office” based on his character Stanley, a grumpy office worker at the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. According to the description, the series would focus on Stanley as he reluctantly comes out of retirement to help his nephew run a motorcycle/flower shop business. The campaign launched with a $300,000 crowdfunding goal, and...

Will Smith needed some convincing to take on “Men in Black” and, with it, back to back extraterrestrial movies. The Oscar winner revealed during Kevin Hart’s “Heart to Hart” Peacock talk show (via Insider) that he was hesitant to star in the 1997 film alongside Tommy Lee Jones right after “Independence Day.” It was “Men in Black” producer Steven Spielberg who later sealed the deal for Smith. “I kind of understood ‘Men in Black’ a little bit but I didn’t want to make ‘Men in Black,'” Smith said. “That was the next year after ‘Independence Day.’ So I didn’t want to make two alien movies back to back.” Amblin producer Spielberg contacted Smith directly and sent a helicopter to talk with him face-to-face. “I was in New York. It landed...

The Toronto International Film Festival has today announced the lineup for two of its more unpredictable and interesting sections: Discovery and Midnight Madness. Billed as “the infamous,” this year’s Midnight Madness lineup features 10 titles, seven of which are world premieres. The Discovery lineup, which primarily includes world and international premieres, includes 26 titles. Per TIFF, both “Midnight Madness and Discovery provide a cornucopia of original and unexpected work. Midnight Madness is a fan favorite, iconoclastic program highlighting the weird and the wicked, while the Discovery program offers a window to contemporary international cinema and introduces the public to first and second feature films from gifted new...

Streaming video is not the bulletproof business the industry once hoped, leaving companies to take drastic steps to stay afloat in this newfound reality. The ads have arrived, some content has left, and the stress of reaching profitability is being passed on to the consumer via price increases. By our tally, six streamers have raised prices — so far — in 2023. If we looked back a full 12 months, it’d be double digits. Rates for all three services that make up the Disney Bundle — Disney+, ESPN+, and Hulu — increased in the second half of 2022. Disney+ just missed our cutoff with a price increase on December 8, 2022, when its ad-supported tier launched in the U.S. And you don’t have to read too much between Bob Iger’s lines lately to...

With his latest film “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan has returned to war; World War II, specifically. Although the J. Robert Oppenheimer biopic doesn’t feature any scenes of soldiers heading into battle, it’s a war movie at its heart, with the conflict in Europe and Asia motivating the morally reprehensible actions of the Manhattan Project in the States. “Oppenheimer” makes, in some ways, a good companion piece to Nolan’s 2016 hit “Dunkirk”: a more conventional (relatively speaking) depiction of the war, from the perspectives of the ordinary soldiers during the Dunkirk evacuation. From the moment it ended, World War II has proven fertile ground for hundreds of directors, as Hollywood stars have geared up to fight some Nazis. But...

The messy showdown in the series finale of “Succession” between the Roy siblings as they jockeyed for the final grab of power over their late father’s empire was almost even more physical. In a new interview with Variety, Sarah Snook (Shiv Roy) talked about how the boardroom fight scene involving Shiv, Roman (Kieran Culkin), and Kendall (Jeremy Strong) was scripted a bit differently. Method actor Strong also originally did not want to rehearse the scene at all. (He was, after all, known for this terrifying improv on the series.) However, due to Snook’s pregnancy at the time, rehearsal was integrated and the physical aspects of the fracas were toned down. “Originally, it was meant to be more between Shiv and Kendall who are fighting —...