While filming “We Own This City,” Bernthal told The Hollywood Reporter that there was no room for the modern understanding of method acting while on set. Bernthal portrays real-life police officer Detective Wayne Jenkins, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for conspiracy, racketeering, and robbery charges while leading Baltimore’s corrupt Gun Trace Task Force. The HBO series is helmed by the creator, writers, and producers of “The Wire.” When asked by THR if method acting has been “abused” by actors, Bernthal replied “absolutely,” before saying, “And that’s why these conversations are difficult for me, honestly, because every actor has a process....

Stephen Colbert introduced the trailer at 2022 Comic Con which showcased Balrog, the infamous villain from the Tolkien novels. The series, which hails from showrunners JD Payne and Patrick McKay, stars Peter Mullan, Benjamin Walker, and Cynthia Addai-Robinson alongside a large ensemble cast that fills out the Middle Earth. Rather than directly adapt Tolkien’s novels and the two trilogies of films they inspired, the series aims to expand the “Lord of the Rings” mythology by fleshing out Tolkien’s appendices and footnotes....

When filming the second-to-last episode of “Losing Alice,” writer-director Sigal Avin faced a challenge. Not only did the episode feature an extended sequence that required emotional vulnerability from everyone involved, but also in that moment Avin was a director directing a fictional director directing. Buried within an incredibly focused and layered enterprise, on the most basic level possible Avin had to figure out how to differentiate herself from her filmmaker character Alice (Ayelet Zurer)....

“Black Panther 2” is slated to premiere in November 2022, over two years after Boseman died of pancreatic cancer in August 2020. Boseman’s historic role as T’Challa was reportedly not going to be recast, leaving writer-director Ryan Coogler ti rework the original script for the sequel. Yet co-star Lupita Nyong’o revealed “Wakanda Forever” is honoring the late Black Panther himself. “It’ll be interesting to bring out another one of those films without Chadwick Boseman,” Nyong’o said during Saks’ digital-first Spring 2022 campaign, as reported by PEOPLE....

“All we told her to do was just welcome her son home; she hasn’t seen him in a while,” Scorsese said. “The key there is ultimately the warmth between all of them and particularly my mother playing his mother; he may be a psychopathic killer, but he’s still her son. When people talk about improvisation, this really was improvisation. We had a few ideas on set we played…but basically once we started shooting, she picked up on something and started speaking....

Created, co-written, and co-directed by Emmy-winner Danny Strong and adapted from Beth Macy’s book “Dopesick: Doctors, Dealers, and the Drug Company that Addicted America,” the series offers an in-depth look at America’s ongoing opioid crisis. Melding several timelines together and including both fictional and composite characters, the show aims to deliver as comprehensive a look at the pharmacological addiction epidemic as possible, from the ravages waged on rural communities by OxyContin, to the Virginia prosecutors building a case against Purdue Pharma, and the machinations happening behind the scenes at the pharmaceutical company aiming to make as much money as possible by obfuscating the dangers of the drug in order to push more product....

That isn’t to say his movies aren’t enjoyable, or their subjects unworthy of the scrutiny Farrier gives them, only that it keeps getting harder to shake the suspicion that he’s digging the same rabbit holes that he films himself falling down. Farrier’s latest feature — a characteristically first-person exercise that finds him “stumbling into” a story that consumes several years of his life for our amusement — begins with some parking mishegoss at an Auckland antiques store before unraveling into an intimate portrait of the toxic narcissist who’s terrorized half of New Zealand....