“Collaborating with Jon on the Spider-Man films has been a true pleasure,” Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said. “We were looking forward to continuing our work with him to bring the Fantastic Four into the MCU but understand and are supportive of his reasons for stepping away. We are optimistic that we will have the opportunity to work together again at some point down the road.” Watts was announced as the director of a new “Fantastic Four” movie in late 2020, soon after Disney acquired the characters through its acquisition of 20th Century Fox....

Some theaters are already ready to go. Deadline reported that AMC will be reopening two of its largest LA locations, the Burbank 16 and Century City 15, on Monday. AMC CEO Adam Aron in an appearance on Fox Business Network pledged that the chain will open all of its LA theaters by March 19 “no matter what.” Other theaters aren’t quite ready. Deadline reported that the TCL Chinese Theatre Imax will reopen on March 26 and Alamo Drafthouse will open its doors some time after next week....

Tickets will go on sale this morning for one preview showing Saturday night, December 4, at two Alamo Drafthouse locations: the New Mission in San Francisco and South Lamar in Austin. Tickets are also on sale for a single Saturday-night screening at the Music Box in Chicago. These are anticipated to be 70mm presentations. This remains a work in progress; more previews seem likely, but for now there are no announced plans for further showings....

In a brief but memorable series of exchanges with the animals during their chatty moonlight stroll, Mank (Gary Oldman) and Marion Davies (Amanda Seyfried), are definitely upstaged by the scene-stealing Capuchin monkeys, elephants, and giraffes. “David wanted specific performances from all the animals,” said ILM VFX supervisor Pablo Helman (“The Irishman”). “He wanted the [four] monkeys to be agitated, the giraffes to spring in a certain way, and the elephants to have a response....

“The romantic comedies remained my only consistent box office hits, which made them my only consistent incoming offers,” McConaughey writes. “For me personally, I enjoyed being able to give people a nitty-minute breezy romantic getaway from the stress of their lives where they didn’t have to think about anything, just watch the boy chase the girl, fall down, then get up and finally get her. I had taken the baton from Hugh Grant, and I ran with it....

Though he’s garnered fans worldwide by leading the Netflix relaunch of the groundbreaking UK crime series “Top Boy” in 2019, and even won a BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2020, the 25-year-old Ward is fully aware that starring opposite Best Actress winner Olivia Colman in a romantic drama written and directed by Oscar winner Mendes has introduced him to an entirely new audience, and he can’t help but feel grateful....

Per Netflix, “Midnight Mass,” which is created and directed by Flanagan, tells the tale of a small, isolated island community whose existing divisions are amplified by the return of a disgraced young man (Zach Gilford) and the arrival of a charismatic priest (Hamish Linklater). When Father Paul’s appearance on Crockett Island coincides with unexplained and seemingly miraculous events, a renewed religious fervor takes hold of the community — but do these miracles come at a price?...