This week, Daniels’ acclaimed multiverse fantasy is a unanimous #1 across three VOD charts. It came close to this when initially released at $19.99 last month, but at the lower price it has corralled all for the first time — and it’s the first time a film outside a major studio has achieved this. The price drop ($1 less than the usual next step of $5.99) may have helped a little at iTunes and Google Play, which count the volume of transactions....

The event will take place at the DGA Theater on Sunset Blvd. in LA at 7: 30 p.m. PST. Tickets are $20 for Film Independent members, with a limit of two tickets per membership. Proof of Covid vaccination is required to attend the event. Casting for the live read has yet to be announced, though Film Independent events such as these often have a star-studded cast to perform lines from classic films....

Jakob Fabian (Schilling, star of “A Coffee in Berlin”) is a 32-year-old war veteran back in the city and rattled by PTSD, which is somewhat keeping his literary aspirations at bay as he works by day as an ad man for a cigarette company. Everything is unstable, so Fabian frequents the debauched cabarets lining Berlin’s underbelly at night with his wealthy and debauched friend Labude (Albrecht Schuch). But Jakob’s pessimistic attitude finds a challenge in the beautiful and confident Cornelia (Saskia Rosendahl, who starred with Schilling in “Never Look Away”), with whom he falls in love....

“The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” has reached the midpoint of its six-episode arc, which seems as good a time as any to take stock of what Marvel and specifically showrunner Malcolm Spellman have laid out. Much has been made about the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first few forays into the television space on Disney+, with “WandaVision” perhaps utilizing the aesthetics and language of television to wallpaper over any narrative issues. If at times “WandaVision” felt like a six-hour movie broken up quite purposefully into 20-minute chunks (to allow for its various situational comedy homages), “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier feels like 10-12 shows being crammed into one — which, at this point, is less a complaint than an observation....

When producers come to you, how do you assess whether they should try to move forward or wait? Look, it’s not my job to say “wait” or “go.” The question is, if they want to go, how can they make it work? Sure, but you’re allowed to have an opinion on this, too. It’s a function of whether they have the financial resources for a plan B. You can do everything perfectly and there still could be an outbreak....

IndieWire began when future New York Film Festival director Eugene Hernandez emailed a newsletter to a couple hundred members of iLINE, the AOL film community he created with Cheri Barner and Mark Rabinowitz. (Lead stories: “Trainspotting Rumors About Dubbing and Re-Cutting Put to Rest by Its Director” and “Antonia’s Line Banned in The Philippines.”) He’d tried this before, as a monthly, but realized he wasn’t exploiting his advantage: Being online meant providing news faster....

Wade, the former “Dancing with the Stars” showrunner, will tack on some new responsibilities. In addition to the unscripted fare he’s overseen, he’ll now been in charge of animation house Bento Box Entertainment, TMZ, MarVista Entertainment, as well as Studio Ramsay Global. All of those entities were brought in under Collier. Not only will Wade continue to have final say in alternative programming, he’ll also add scripted content creator Fox Entertainment Studios as well as Blockchain Creative Labs....