The four-time Oscar-nominated actress revealed that “The Fabelmans” director Spielberg still sends her photos of his parents, Leah Adler and Arnold Spielberg, over a year after wrapping production on his autobiographical film. Williams plays Mitzi, based on Adler, while Paul Dano is Spielberg’s surrogate father as Burt Fabelman. “We’re still talking about his parents. We were just texting about his parents,” Williams said during the MoMA Contenders series panel post-screening. “I am still getting family photos, things I have never seen, and the archives and the memories and the love....

Buoyed by the highly anticipated release of its final two Season 4 episodes “Stranger Things” just became only the second Netflix series ever to cross 1 billion hours viewed within its first 28 days of availability, according to the streaming service’s internal metrics. Korean-language sensation “Squid Game” Season 1 was the first; it remains the overall record holder with 1.65 billion hours of viewership over its first four weeks. “Squid Game” has been renewed for a second season....

“Stranger Things 4” treads a whole lot of water before showing its hand at the end of Episode 7 — but what a hand it is. Like most television shows, “Stranger Things” uses its episodic structure to follow multiple parallel storylines. One follows Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), one follows the Upside Down, and there may be others, all destined to converge roughly around the finale when El can save the world....

In fact, though, “Khorshid” (or “Sun Children”) is quite the thrill ride, mixing a Dickensian, social-realist account of children in poverty in Tehran with a kinetic, far-fetched heist movie and a well-meaning drama about a kindly teacher who would, in a 1980s American film, have been played by Robin Williams. Majidi’s “Children of Heaven” was the first Iranian film to be nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, back in 1999 (Roberto Benigni’s “Life is Beautiful” won)....

Special awards announced included: Louis Black “Lone Star” Award, Adobe Editing Award, Adam Yauch Hörnblowér Award, ZEISS Cinematography Award, the Mailchimp Support the Shorts Award, and the Fandor New Voices Award. All 2022 film categories will be eligible for category-specific audience awards, which will be certified by the accounting firm of Maxwell Locke & Ritter. Online screenings and audience award voting will conclude 9 a.m. CT on Monday, March 21. Winners will be announced via sxsw....

The more impressive 2021 figure, however, is $71.9 billion came from digital and discs — a category that includes VOD and streaming across all major studios and Netflix. In 2020, when theaters experienced global shutdowns, digital represented $61.8 billion; in 2019, that figure was $58.8 billion. The digital share was slightly lower in 2021, 72 percent vs. 76 percent in 2020. In pre-Covid 2019, streaming represented $58.8 billion, or 46 percent....

The multi-hyphenate stars in David Blue Garcia’s “Texas Chain Saw Massacre” as Melody, who — along with pals Dante (Jacob Latimore), Ruth (Nell Hudson), and her little sister Lila (Elsie Fisher) — travels to tiny Harlow, Texas, to turn it into an influencer’s paradise, only to find that the ghost town is hiding plenty of secrets. Namely, the existence of Leatherface, who has spent decades hiding and is suddenly reminded of why he so adores killing people with his trusty old chainsaw....