After audio of Cruise’s rant went viral this week, the movie star received criticism for speaking disrespectfully to his employees. The actor and producer scolded the film’s crew for breaching coronavirus safety protocols on the set of “Mission: Impossible 7,” the Christopher McQuarrie-directed Paramount movie that was hit with a one-week production delay in October after 12 people on set in Italy tested positive for COVID-19. Cruise can be heard swearing at crew members who were standing too close together at a monitor, telling them: “We are not shutting this fucking movie down!...

As their star rose, Van Ness capitalized on their newfound notoriety to build their personal brand, penning a memoir and continuing their solo podcast “Getting Curious,” which launched in 2015 and is still going strong. (The last episode of 2021 featured an interview with queer singer Brandi Carlile.) Netflix took note. The six-episode comedic docu-series “Getting Curious With Jonathan Van Ness” borrows both its title and premise from the podcast, though with fewer celebrity guests and more hands-on exploration....

The film was directed by his son and reflects a return to box office form for both. Reitman père had more than 20 projects in varying stages of development. “Afterlife” showed he remained vital in comedy, a genre that gets short shrift in theaters today. VOD charts showed little change this week, including any impact from last Tuesday’s Oscar nominations. “Dune” (Warner Bros./$5.99) rose from last week, taking two #2 slots and placing on all three....

The co-writers of the upcoming Mattel adaptation, in theaters July 21, revealed that collaborating on Netflix film “White Noise” inspired how they penned the “Barbie” script. And it’s not just big hair that both movies have in common: Baumbach helmed “White Noise,” which starred Gerwig alongside Adam Driver, while Gerwig directs “Barbie” from a script she co-wrote with Baumbach. “I wrote ‘White Noise,’ and then, once I had that in a place where I thought, OK, I’ve done a lot of the heavy-lifting, Greta and I started work on ‘Barbie,’” Baumbach told Entertainment Weekly....

In the one-off special, which is intended to mark the 20th anniversary of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” and now also marks the 10th anniversary of the last in the eight-film series, Grint recalls a moment during production when Watson brought up the possibility of quitting. “You were considering pulling out. I’ve never really spoken to you about that,” Grint said. Related ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Says Warner Bros. Once Denied His Request to Parody the Harry Potter Theme David Zaslav Is Down for More Harry Potter ‘If We Can Do Something with JK’ Related The 225 Best Horror Movies of All Time 2023 Oscars: ‘Avatar’ Is the One to Beat in Visual EffectsWatson said, “Yeah....

While the debut “Hill House” season reimagined Shirley Jackson’s 1959 horror novel of the same name, the new “Bly Manor” will tackle Henry James’ 1898 ghost story “The Turn of the Screw.” The ghost story is set at the eponymous Bly Manor mansion and centers around two orphans under the care of a young governess. The woman becomes convinced the mansion is haunted after her mind slowly begins to unravel the more time she spends inside....

The reception has been so strong that many casual fans have wondered why Selick hadn’t made another film since “Coraline” hit theaters in 2009. His hiatus can be partially attributed to to the famously labor intensive process of stop-motion animation, but Selick also devoted quite a bit of that time to working on a project that never saw the light of day. In 2009, it was announced that Selick would direct “The Shadow King,” an original fantasy film about a boy who uses his extremely long fingers to craft shadows that could be used to fight monsters, for Pixar....