Updated October 12: Variety has reported that Hong Chau has joined the stacked cast of Yorgos Lanthimos’ mysterious new film “AND.” Chau will soon be seen in Darren Aronofsky’s Oscar contender “The Whale” as Brendan Fraser’s character’s caretaker. A24 releases the film December 9. Chau received Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe award nominations for her performance in Alexander Payne’s 2017 “Downsizing.” September 29: Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos are set to collaborate for the fourth time on a new film titled “AND....

And for the most part, the TV industry has responded with aplomb, with networks and broadcasters pivoting to online FYC events, drive-in FYC events, special deliveries and the like all exhibiting new heights of creativity as publicity teams work overtime trying to keep their clients and creatives in the critical conversation. For the most part, all that’s left to do is the counting. And, of course, the ceremony. There are still a lot of questions to be answered about what form the 72nd Emmy Awards will take when they air Sunday, September 20 on ABC, as well as where things stand just three weeks out from the event....

The HBO series is based on showrunner Sam Levinson’s drug-fueled adolescence, as embodied by lead character Rue (Zendaya). Yet for Rue’s pal Lexi, star Maude Apatow drew upon her own high school experiences. Cue up the curtain on the February 20 episode, where Lexi gets her moment in the spotlight. “I thought it totally made sense for Lexi to be a theater kid. I was in real life, and the play is loosely inspired by my senior year of high school,” Apatow told Entertainment Weekly....

Right before the electric blue title hits, “Euphoria” spends two minutes staring into Hunter Schafer’s eyes. Well, actually, it’s just the one eye. After her new therapist asks why she ran away (alluding to Jules’ attempt in the Season 1 finale to leave home with Rue, played by Emmy winner Zendaya), the short question elicits an eruptive reaction. In the reflection of Jules’ eye, memory after memory spills out in rapid fashion....

“I’d known about Anya but I’d never seen her in a film until I saw her in ‘Soho,’” Miller told Wright. “And I remember thinking, ‘Gee, she’s interesting.’ I started to say to you, ‘I’m looking for someone to cast as Furiosa,’ and I barely got the sentence out before you said, ‘Don’t go any further, she’s great, she’s gonna be huge. She’s fantastic to work with.’ You were so emphatic about it....

Girl hasn’t been back to her hometown — a seedy Pacific Northwest hamlet named Golden, where the shine appears to have worn off quite some time ago — since she was six years old, when her dirtbag father (John Clifford Talbot) kicked her and Mama out, adding a grievous injury to Mama’s back for good measure. The family has been fractured ever since, but a recent missive from “Daddy” in which he makes plain both his refusal to pay child support and his desire to kill Mama for even asking for it has pushed Girl to the brink....

Emma Thompson had high praise for the script and the character she played. “With all actors, parts come along and they meet you right in the center of yourself,” the actress said. “I hadn’t read anything like it and I never played anyone like that. Even though she’s a very ordinary woman, she’s doing something extraordinary and she’s learning from pushing through her own preconceptions … about what it means to be female, about what it means to be a woman....