“The Exorcist” opened on December 26, 1973. Director William Friedkin, interviewed by Peter Biskind in 1996, was still angry about it, arguing that the studio’s release strategy hurt his film. But “The Exorcist” was a huge hit — it’s the ninth all-time highest domestic grossing sound film, adjusted for inflation — and second only to “Titanic” among Christmas period releases in the past 50 year. But Friedkin apparently believes it could have been bigger....

Such a dark question from such an innocent boy (Por Silatsa), and yet this sets the tone for “The Long Walk” trailer, which IndieWire exclusively premieres below. The critically acclaimed film by Laos’ first female filmmaker Mattie Do premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2019 before playing at the Toronto International Film Festival. The time-traveling drama is set in Laos and follows a ghost that can transport an aging hermit (Yannawoutthi Chanthalungsy) to the moment of his mother’s death, 50 years prior....

According to Entertainment Weekly, it’s the first time anyone’s been able to watch the scene unfold since the table read of the finale. The cold open is dedicated to late actor Hugh Dane, who died in 2018 and played security guard Hank throughout the run of the show. In the cold open below, Hank is dressed as “Dorpheus,” the brother of Laurence Fisbburne’s Morpheus from the original film, in full regalia with sunglasses and leather trench....

It was the year that saw the launch of the entertainment industry’s big-money streamers from high-profile companies such as AT&T and NBCUniversal. It was also a year that served as a key test for platforms such as Disney+ and Apple TV+, which launched in late 2019 and needed to prove that they had the staying power of industry heavyweights such as Netflix. Hulu began streaming a variety of FX shows. Quibi happened....

“This Much I Know to Be True” debuts July 8 on MUBI after wowing audiences at the 2022 Berlin Film Festival. Starting with Cave’s sculpture studio, the new documentary from “Blonde” writer/director Dominik captures Cave and Warren Ellis’ creative partnership, expanding on Cave’s 2014 pseudo-doc “20,000 Days on Earth.” “In time we all find out we are not in control,” Cave says in the trailer. “We never were. We never will be....

Adapted from Michael Koryta’s 2014 novel of the same name, “Those Who Wish Me Dead” starts the way that every movie should: With “Salt” mode Angelina Jolie smoke-jumping into the cauldron of a Montana wildfire. But in a story that could go in any number of directions from such an auspicious beginning, it’s what happens next that cements Sheridan’s film as the vintage stuff of braindead weekend viewing par excellence....

The Oscar-nominated “Far From Heaven” and “Carol” filmmaker said he completed all the interviews for the film, which were shot by his trusted cinematographer Ed Lachman, in 2018 before heading into shooting “Dark Waters.” His editors on the film are Affonso Gonçalves, who has cut many of Haynes’ films, and Adam Kurnitz. “It’s such an archive-based film that when I got to turn my attentions to it fully, it was right at the end of last year and the beginning of this year,” he said....