Will Packer, the prolific film producer behind such hits as “Girls Trip,” “Ride Along,” and “Think Like a Man,” issued his own statement: “The fact that there was even a question what the outcome would be. The fact that I realized I was holding my breath as I watched the verdict with my family. The fact that black people have been saying this has been happening for years but without video (and sometimes with it) it’s fallen on deaf ears....

Ahead of the third film “Clerks III” launching in theaters for a two-night-only special event, Smith admitted he “never understood” why “Clerks” resonated with audiences since debuting in 1994. The film spurred sequel “Clerks 2” in 2006; the third feature was in development since before 2013. “I’ll tell you, for years, I never understood why people liked ‘Clerks’ so much,” Smith admitted to Forbes. “It’s in black and white, it’s got nobody famous in it and stuff, looks like it was made by children, and it was....

Mikkelsen took over the Grindelwald character after Johnny Depp exited the “Fantastic Beasts” franchise with a headline-making $16 million payout. Mikkelsen replaced Depp as Grindelwald in 2020. “It was quite chaotic,” Mikkelsen told The Hollywood Reporter. “You don’t want to copy anything [Depp was] doing — that would be creative suicide. Even if [a role has] been done to perfection, you want to make it your own. But you still have to build some sort of bridge between what came before....

According to DigiDay, Netflix is returning funds to advertisers. “They can’t deliver. They don’t have enough inventory to deliver. So they’re literally giving the money back,” one agency executive told the publication. A Netflix spokesperson did not immediately respond to IndieWire’s request for comment on this story. Netflix’s initial ad deals were pay-on-delivery, which means if they don’t deliver the eyeballs, the advertiser doesn’t pay. Traditional television usually offers a make-good at a future date, but neither is a perfect system....

The iconic star — don’t call Cage an “actor” — has been preparing to play an equally influential figure: Dracula. Cage stars in Chris McKay’s “Renfield,” about the vampire’s servant and henchman in an insane asylum. And yes, it’s a horror-comedy co-starring Nicholas Hoult, Awkwafina, Adrian Martinez, and Ben Schwartz. “Rick and Morty” screenwriter Ryan Ridley penned the script, reportedly set in the present day. “A word I don’t like anymore, ‘acting,’” Cage told the Los Angeles Times....

Controversially, eight categories will be presented before the live broadcast and edited into the live show, a move that’s meant to help keep things moving by forgoing tracking shots of winners making the long walk from their seats to the stage. “One of the misperceptions is that things are being taken off the show, that’s not the case,” Packer said. “Make no mistake, without a doubt, we’re going to make sure everybody has their moment....

Green, a passionate collector of non-fungible tokens, has had quite the month. He recently lost several of his NFTs in a phishing-related incident, which equated to hundreds of thousands of dollars of lost wealth. But that was not even his biggest concern. One of the stolen NFTs was a character from the popular Bored Ape Yacht Club, a decentralized brand that gives owners of its ape cartoon NFTs complete control of their character....