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Where to Watch “Joe Pera Talks with You”: Adult Swim (the first two seasons are also available to stream on HBO Max) Season 3 of “Joe Pera Talks with You,” released in 2021, is set in 2018. It’s not that this is a show driven by nostalgia for a world three years gone by. It’s that fully appreciating everything that’s around you just takes a different pace. The opening episodes of the show introduced Joe Pera (Joe Pera) as a tour guide of sorts through the points of interest in his northern Michigan surroundings....

The “Outer Range” star revealed on MTV’s Happy Sad Confused podcast that he was this close to playing the Caped Crusader in Zack Snyder’s DC films. “That was interesting to me,” Brolin said. “That was his decision, that wasn’t my decision.” The opportunity came about before “Deadpool 2,” which was released in 2018, and Brolin was pitched to play a different take on Batman entirely. “It would have been the older, the more raspy, for lack of a better word…” Brolin said....

Dench shared a letter with UK’s The Times (via Deadline), in which the Academy Award winner slammed the series for presenting an “inaccurate and hurtful account of history” without a formal label of being a work of fiction. In her piece, she invoked recent criticisms made by former Prime Minister John Major about an episode in Season 5 suggesting that, in 1991, Prince Charles (now King Charles III) complained to Major about waiting to take over the throne....

“Jupiter’s Legacy” has quietly emerged one of the most addictive shows of 2021. The Netflix series about children of superheroes has everything you want in a bingeworthy series. It marks the first collaboration between Netflix and Mark Millar since the streamer acquired Millarworld comics in 2019, and they have plenty more in the pipeline. For those unfamiliar, Millar is one of the most influential comic book writers of the last half century....

“During the LA reshoots for Justice League, Geoff Johns summoned me to his office to belittle and admonish my (and my agent’s) attempts to take grievances up the proper chain of command,” the actor tweeted. “He then made a thinly veiled threat to my career. This behavior cannot continue.” The film has been mired in controversy ever since its original director Zack Snyder departed the project due to a family tragedy in 2017....

Variety has reported that the follow-up to the 2019 Academy Award nominee (Best Original Screenplay) is “expected to release in theaters and the streaming platform in the last quarter of 2022” and will “also make a festival run before its release.” The original “Knives Out” was released by Lionsgate in the fall of 2019 following a world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. The movie earned $311 million on a budget of $40 million....

Vonnegut’s writing laughs at our place in the stars by seeing it through the pinhole of personal experience, and his readers can’t have their minds blown by the cosmic adventures of characters like Billy Pilgrim and Kilgore Trout without learning about the author’s most formative experiences along the way. Schenectady. Dresden. Frustration and success. These details are braided throughout Vonnegut’s texts with such ecstatic clarity that even his diehard fans may not care to watch someone else dig into the margins around them for two hours....

Labor Day was founded to honor and recognize the American labor movement, but the holiday has also become a reason for an extended weekend of fun festivities consisting of parades, barbecues, and sales. We can always count on Labor Day weekend to find markdowns on must-haves including electronics, clothing, appliances, and more. To help with your holiday weekend shopping, we rounded up a list of items that are marked down for Labor Day....

Producers say the new “Kingdom” will contain a mix of new and old characters from the original, which followed the idiosyncratic staff of the Danish hospital and their encounters with the supernatural and unexplainable. A third season of the show, which ended in 1997, was always planned but fell apart due to the deaths of cast members Ernst-Hugo Järegård and Kirsten Rolffes, as well as von Trier’s dedicated turn toward film....

Von Trier’s “The Kingdom Exodus” will premiere this fall after being acquired by MUBI. The first two seasons have been newly restored with directors’ cuts and will stream exclusively on MUBI ahead of the broadcast of the five-part “The Kingdom Exodus.” MUBI will handle the distribution and streaming rights for North America, UK, Ireland, Latin America, Turkey, and India. Presented by TrustNordisk and produced by Zentropa Entertainments, “The Kingdom Exodus,” the third and final season of von Trier’s legendary TV series, will receive its World Premiere out of Competition at the Venice International Film Festival and broadcast exclusively on MUBI in Fall 2022 on a weekly episodic basis....

Many changes made for the series were done in the name of sustaining narrative television. The TV series follows the basic outline of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel, as well as Tomas Alfredson’s 2008 feature involving a young boy whose new friend is a vampire, as well as 2010’s American remake directed by Matt Reeves, “Let Me In.” From there, both movies take different routes to tell their story. Which version is right for you?...

It’s jarring when a big-name talent arrives for an interview on their own — either in-person or via the telephone or Zoom — because it almost never happens. Not without the buffer of publicists, assistants, handlers, and other assorted hangers-on. Reinhart calls me, right on time. No one patches her through. No one else is on the line. That’s a surprising move, particularly for the “Riverdale” and “Hustlers” star who has earned a reputation for being outspoken when left to her own devices (often literally)....

From San Francisco’s SFFILM Awards night to recent awards in Mill Valley and the Hamptons, it’s clear who many of the Oscar players are this year. SFFILM announced Tuesday that two lauded auteurs, Sorkin (Netflix pickup “The Trial of the Chicago 7”) and Chloé Zhao (Searchlight’s “Nomadland”) will accept (virtual) awards on December 9. SFFILM always mounts a glittery dinner gala to raise funds for the year-round film organization’s support of emerging film artists, but this year will pivot to a live-streamed showcase....

“I am aware that a lot of the people, even hard-core ‘Lord of the Rings’ fans assume that a lot of the shots are some tricky sort of camera angle or some CGI shrinking John Rhys-Davies down,” Beattie told Polygon. “I don’t want to burst anyone’s bubbles, but I can only think of a couple of shots where CGI was used to shrink Rhys-Davies down.” Making “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy took its toll on Beattie, who recently had his third knee reconstruction surgery because he blew both of his knees out during filming....

“Bones & All” would add to Guadagnino’s busy slate. He’s already working on a modernized version of “Scarface” at Universal Pictures, featuring a script from the Coen Brothers, and a “Lord of the Flies” adaptation at Warner Bros., plus a Scotty Bowers gay hustler film pairing him with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Last year, Guadagnino released the eight-part miniseries “We Are Who We Are” on HBO. Set on an Italian military base, the series explored queer coming-of-age themes similar to “Call Me By Your Name....

Gyllenhaal eventually obtained the author’s blessing on her script — which often departs from the original —and cast Oscar winner Olivia Colman (“The Favourite”) and Jessie Buckley to play Leda, a British professor vacationing in Greece, and her younger self, a young mother juggling academia and two young children. And this year, Gyllenhaal went from watching 24 films on the jury at Cannes to taking “The Lost Daughter” (December 17, Netflix) to Venice, where she won Best Screenplay....

The “Borat 2” and “Bodies Bodies Bodies” actress is set to star in and produce “Triumph,” inspired by the aftermath of the fall of Communism in the 1990s when Bulgarian army officials teamed up with psychics to find a rumored alien artifact to change the course of history and restore Bulgaria’s honor. Deadline first reported the news. Bakalova and Julian Kostov (“Shadow and Bone”) will produce “Triumph” through their company Five Oceans....

As the chairman of Disney Studios Content Alan Bergman pointed out upon opening day two of the company’s movie panels, when D23 started, Marvel Studios had just been acquired. At the last D23, held pre-pandemic in 2019, many projects Marvel promoted ultimately struggled to get out on time amid seemingly endless production delays thanks to COVID-19. But with the upcoming “Wakanda Forever,” the sequel to 2018’s groundbreaking blockbuster “Black Panther,” finally marking the end of Marvel’s Phase 4, many anticipated Marvel would shoot for the moon — and land there....

The central thesis of this New York Film Festival Currents selection can be boiled down to a single question: What is the purpose of a university in modern India? However, its approach to this seemingly simple idea is boldly multifaceted, from its ghostly depiction of young love that blossoms in the absence of parents (and curdles when they re-enter the picture), to its exploration of the modern Indian film school — using decades-old student reels to create an artistic continuum — to the vital role of the student protest within India’s political milieu, and its self-reflexive goal of using socialized education to level the playing field....

The preview for the 1950s-set psychological thriller featured Florence Pugh and Harry Styles entangled in a myriad of compromising sexual positions, with their throbbing marital desire culminating in cunnilingus on the kitchen table. Yet director Wilde shared that the MPA cut out the truly tantalizing sequences from the R-rated feature, in theaters September 23. “Oh, yeah. There’s a lot that had to be taken out of the trailer,” Wilde told the Associated Press ahead of the “Don’t Worry Darling” world premiere at the Venice Film Festival....