Led by “The Croods: A New Age,” which had no real competition as the #1 title for its third weekend (it alone provided over 40 percent of the weekend gross), the studio’s lineup is not exactly a theater lifeline. All of the films are available on Premium VOD now or will be soon, and total grosses will amount to something over $7 million divided among somewhere between 2,200-2,400 theaters. That would mean an average of around $3,000 per complex....

James Caan says that he walked out of an initial “The Godfather” screening after realizing director Francis Ford Coppola cut a key scene involving Robert Duvall as Tom Hagen. Caan played Sonny Corleone, the eldest son of mafia don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando). “When Michael [Al Pacino] tells me he is going to take care of the cop and Sollozzo [Al Lettieri], I say, ‘You’ll get brains all over your nice Ivy League suit....

That article prompted plenty of discourse about Strong and the merits of what has come to be colloquially known as method acting (though Strong’s approach differs significantly from the original definition of the term). Many celebrities have come to Strong’s defense, while others have opened up about their lack of respect for method acting. Strong isn’t particularly happy about any of it. Speaking to Vanity Fair from the Telluride Film Festival, where he is on hand to promote James Gray’s “Armageddon Time,” Strong expressed some regret about the infamous profile....

Lewis, who died in 2017, was known as the “King of Comedy,” and made his professional debut as part of the iconic duo Martin and Lewis alongside Dean Martin, kicking off an eight-decade career that included hits like “The Nutty Professor,” “The Bellboy,” “The Patsy,” and “The Ladies Man.” As detailed in the Vanity Fair piece, Sharpe (now Karen Kramer, having been married to director Stanley Kramer, who died in 2001) met Lewis on the set of 1964’s “The Disorderly Orderly....

“Meghan condemns the reprehensible violence and vitriol that has been targeted towards the Asian American community,” McCain’s representative told Entertainment Weekly in a statement. “There is no doubt Donald Trump’s racist rhetoric fueled many of these attacks and she apologizes for any past comments that aided that agenda.” Earlier: Throughout the past week, celebrities are speaking up about entrenched hatred and violence toward Asian Americans in the wake of the recent shootings in Atlanta that left six Asian women dead....

For “Dopesick” star Kaitlyn Dever, her favorite scene from the harrowing Hulu drama showing the full history and scope of America’s opioid crisis, which earned her her first Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series, was a fateful phone call between her character Betsy, a coal miner hooked on Oxycontin after a bad back injury, and Dr. Fennix (Michael Keaton), the doctor who prescribed the drug to her, and later became addicted to it himself....

Oscar favorite and “Mare of Easttown” Emmy winner Winslet will star in “The Palace,” telling the story of one year within the walls of the palace of an authoritarian regime as it begins to unravel. Winslet executive produces the series, created and also executive produced by “Succession” producer and scribe Will Tracy. Two-time Academy Award nominee Stephen Frears (“The Queen,” “The Grifters”) is slated to direct and executive produce, with Frank Rich also executive producing....