Season 2 keeps those grand curveballs coming. Maintaining the 15-to-17-minute episodes and bringing back many favorite guest stars (Sam Richardson, Patti Harrison, and Tim Heidecker among them), “I Think You Should Leave” still bucks expectations with every new sketch, while stretching its structure in refreshing new ways. One episode features a nine-minute sketch — nine minutes! — and it comes soon after an opening short (featuring Paul Walter Hauser) that’s so sweet and innocent, I’m not sure it’s meant to be funny....

The effort took place over seven hours Sunday afternoon behind the Sunset Boulevard headquarters of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, one of the 13 Hollywood locals that are covered by the IATSE-studio contract negotiations that reached an impasse earlier this month. Unsatisfied by progress around wage increases, breaks, and other big-ticket issues, IATSE’s leadership is optimistic it can marshal its members to approve a strike in a effort to dramatically turn up the heat in negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents major studios and production companies....

“I turned down a movie because I didn’t want to get the motherfucking jab,” Ice Cube said on the podcast, though he didn’t name the movie or anyone involved. “I turned down $9 million. I didn’t want get the jab. Fuck that jab. Fuck y’all for trying to make me get it. I don’t know how Hollywood feels about me right now.” Initially, Ice Cube’s comments seemed to imply that he intentionally left the film....

Hot off of Butler’s turn as the King of Rock ‘n Roll for Baz Luhrmann’s mind-bending biopic “Elvis,” Jacob Elordi will play the “Jailhouse Rock” crooner for A24 drama “Priscilla.” Based on Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir “Elvis and Me,” the film will be directed by Sofia Coppola and star “Mare of Easttown” breakout Cailee Spaeny as the ex-wife of Elvis. Coppola also adapted Priscilla’s New York Times bestselling memoir for the big screen....

Just under a month after Disney publicly condemned the law’s passage, DeSantis argued that Disney aimed to “inject sexuality into the programming that is provided to our youngest kids,” and Florida will no longer allow Walt Disney World its tax incentivized, self-governing district, which had been set up in 1968. During “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” host Oliver summed up the legal proceedings as a band-aid punishment for Disney flip-flopping over “Don’t Say Gay....

“The John Wick films have become a global phenomenon, are among the most watched titles on Peacock and we are thrilled and honored to partner with Lionsgate to extend this incredible franchise,” said Kelly Campbell, President, Peacock and Direct-to-Consumer. “The Continental” will be set around the hotel which has been a centerpiece of action for each of the three films where assassins rest between assignments. In the films, Ian McShane plays Winston, the hotel manager....

Amini died in police custody on September 16 after being arrested for not properly wearing her hijab to fully cover her hair. Iranian police said she died of a heart attack, but eyewitnesses claim she was beaten to death. Women around the world have since cut a lock of their hair with #HairForFreedom to show their support for Amini and in solidarity with Iranian women living under the Islamic Republic’s strict theocratic rule....