Lamar’s latest single “The Heart Part 5” features the 13-time Grammy winner transforming into OJ Simpson, Jussie Smollett, Nipsey Hussle, Kobe Bryant, and Kanye West using deepfake technology from Parker and Stone’s Deep Voodoo studio under the Park County banner, as reported by Variety. “The Heart Part 5” is directed and executive-produced by Lamar and longtime collaborator Dave Free, comprising Lamar’s PGLang company, which inked a deal with the “South Park” creators’ company to craft a live-action feature film for Paramount Pictures....

Variety has reported that the follow-up to the 2019 Academy Award nominee (Best Original Screenplay) is “expected to release in theaters and the streaming platform in the last quarter of 2022” and will “also make a festival run before its release.” The original “Knives Out” was released by Lionsgate in the fall of 2019 following a world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. The movie earned $311 million on a budget of $40 million....

The “Antichrist” auteur was diagnosed four months prior to the 2022 Venice Film Festival, where the long-awaited Season 3 of “The Kingdom” premiered 28 years after the TV show first debuted. During a press conference at the festival, the director admitted to having Parkinson’s symptoms for a long time prior to an official diagnosis. “That means that I had not lived up to the way I wanted to be as a director, because I was ill,” Von Trier explained to Variety....

Among numerous other groups referred to in the piece, Wachowski’s call to action also speaks in support of the organization Refuse Fascism, a left-wing political group formed in December 2016 with the goal of taking Trump out of office. “The Matrix 4,” though only directed by Lilly’s sister Lana Wachowski, is set to be released from Warner Bros. Pictures on December 22, 2021. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news!...

In “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” tensions and temperatures escalate throughout the course of an afternoon recording session in 1920s Chicago. A band of musicians await the arrival of one trailblazing performer, the Mother of the Blues, Ma Rainey. She’s played by Viola Davis, the Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress for another August Wilson adaptation, director Denzel Washington’s “Fences.” (Washington is also a producer on “Ma Rainey’s.”) Late to the session, Ma Rainey stirs up ado with her white manager and producer over the control of her music....

The film follows Brigance (McConaughey) as he defends a Black man (Jackson) accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter. In sequel “A Time for Mercy,” Brigance is forced to defend the boy who murdered his mother’s boyfriend, a deputy sheriff, because the boy claims the man was abusive towards his family. The case pits Brigance against local law enforcement as well as his community. The project is still in early stages of development at HBO, with no writer yet attached....

Here’s the official synopsis: “‘Mayor’ is a real-life political saga following Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, during his second term in office. Surrounded on all sides by Israeli settlements and soldiers, most people in Ramallah will never have the chance to travel more than a few miles outside their home, which is why Mayor Hadid is determined to make the city a beautiful and dignified place to live. His immediate goals: repave the sidewalks, attract more tourism, and plan the city’s Christmas celebrations....