While performing a stand-up comedy show in Orlando this week, the comedian and Oscars co-host had a lot of thoughts to share about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock on stage at the award ceremony. “I’m still traumatized,” Sykes said (via PEOPLE). “I can’t talk about it. I get emotional.” But talk about it she did. Sykes went on to say that she was appalled that Smith was allowed to stay in the Dolby Theatre and accept his Oscar for Best Actor after the incident....

“It was fun to be able to do [retro] visual effects for the sitcom and then to be able to do full modern for a few of the episodes,” said Marvel’s production visual effects supervisor Tara DeMarco of the 3,010 shots that technically outnumbered the shot count on “Avengers: Endgame.” The black-and-white scenes for the first two episodes (“Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience” and “Don’t Touch That Dial”) were depicted as era-specific as possible through makeup, costuming, camera lensing, and Tungsten lighting (used for all the period settings)....

But Park is about to come roaring back. Movie lovers will soon see the auteur return to cinema’s with the upcoming “Decision to Leave,” which tells the story of a detective investigating a mysterious death in the mountains when he happens to encounter the dead man’s wife. He’ll follow the highly anticipated film with “The Sympathizer,” a new HBO series from A24 based on Viet Tanh Nguyen’s 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel....

Few contemporary directors have a style as instantly recognizable as Wes Anderson’s. While his films have spanned locations ranging from Japan to pre-war Central Europe to 1960s New England, his style of production design is equal parts twee pop and French New Wave, with healthy doses of vintage upholstery thrown in for good measure. His is an attention to detail giving design lovers plenty to obsess over. Anderson has a love for symmetry, geometric patterns, and muted versions of the primary colors....

Ethan (Will Sharpe) is at his wit’s end by the finale, when he’s convinced that wife Harper (Aubrey Plaza) had sex with Cameron (Theo James) to get back at Ethan for cheating on her during a night of illicit partying. (He didn’t!) By the time Episode 7, “Arrivederci,” begins, Ethan has gone from soft-spoken and diplomatic to full-on violent rage. “Mike [White] wanted him to be a bit of an enigma, and for audiences to sort of be able to guess one way or another about him,” Sharpe told IndieWire via Zoom after the finale....

In an excerpt below — available exclusively on IndieWire — Elton unpacks the real truth behind the persistent belief that Cimino’s epic (both in scale and in terms of financial failure) “Heaven’s Gate” led to the end of United Artists. The book is out today. Michael Cimino’s epic Western, “Heaven’s Gate,” his first film since the Oscar-winning “The Deer Hunter,” was shown to the New York press on November 19, 1980....

The teaser trailer offers an exciting look at the period sports drama, complete with a nostalgic 1980s palette and fashion sense. It also features newly revealed cast members Gaby Hoffmann, Jason Segel, Adrien Brody, Tamera Tomakili, Julianne Nicholson, Tracy Letts, and Rob Morgan. They join previously announced talent Jason Clarke as Jerry West, the “cantankerous tortured genius of basketball,” and frequent McKay collaborator John C. Reilly as former Lakers owner Jerry Buss....