“Scream 6,” the next film in the iconic franchise, directed by Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, is the first “Scream” movie without iconic final girl Neve Campbell, but that’s not all that’s changed. While other iterations of the series have traveled outside the confines of fictional suburban town Woodsboro, this time, Ghostface is going even farther afield: he wants to take a bloody bite out of the Big Apple....

“‘The Rock.’ Car chase: Sean driving and I’m alone filming him,” Bay writes. “He slams the brakes; my head hits the window. He says, ‘You OK?’ I say, ‘No, the Disney folks are here to kick my butt for being two days over schedule.’ Sean, with that sly look, says, ‘You want me to help?’ Cut to: Having lunch with the Disney execs in a third-grade classroom, sitting at tiny tables and chairs....

So says writer, director, and star Lena Dunham, who helms her sophomore feature that debuted at Sundance this year. “Sharp Stick” centers on caregiver Sarah Jo (Kristine Froseth), who strikes up an affair with her married boss Josh (Jon Bernthal). Yet when Josh returns to his wife Heath (Dunham), Sarah Jo is thrown into a tailspin of self-exploration and sexual healing. Watch the trailer for the film below. “It’s a joke as old as celluloid that the minute we spot a sexually active girl in a horror movie, we know she’s going to die in a blood death,” Dunham said in a statement on the film....

For a century, theaters were the most efficient way for studios to initially exhibit and market films: It brought the titles maximum attention, and set them up for future revenue streams. Theatrical exhibition also demands enormous marketing expense, and locks studios into 75-90 days of exclusivity when customers would prefer home access sooner. Other issues: Studios must share half of their revenue with theaters, it requires a dedicated distribution staff, and leaves studios reliant on a business beyond their control....

Viewers have long fretted over how, exactly, specific series will grapple with COVID-19’s disruptive nature, or if it’s even in select shows’ DNA to address the mask-wearing elephant in the room. Only “Superstore” can handle COVID! No, this is “It’s Always Sunny’s” time to shine! But if series like Netflix’s “Social Distance” and “films” like HBO’s “Coastal Elites” are any indicator, odds are there will be more pandemic-infused specials than anyone can anticipate....

Written by Jennifer Deyell (who previously penned Dorfman’s “Love That Boy” over a decade ago), “Spinster” opens in a familiar space, as 39-year-old Gaby (Peretti) is a perennial loser when it comes to love, and her inability to find a suitable mate has turned her sour on most aspects of her life. It’s well-trod romcom territory, the sort of concept everything from “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” to “The Apartment” has approached in different ways — but for a while there, it seems as if Dorfman has found a unique angle: What if Gaby isn’t just unlucky in love, but such a total asshole that she’s not even really worthy of it?...

In a letter written to Disney (as published on the SFWA website), Foster claimed the studio stopped paying him royalties on his first two “Star Wars” books and all three “Alien” books after it acquired Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox, respectively. The author said he’d “never been paid royalties on any of these, or even issued royalty statements for them.” Furthermore, Foster said that any time he’d contacted Disney the studio got back to him requesting he sign a nondisclosure agreement before talking....