The latest installment of “The Addams Family” franchise stars Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, a 16-year-old student at Nevermore Academy who harnesses her budding psychic ability to solve a serial killer case and unlock the murder mystery that involved her parents 25 years ago. Tim Burton directs and executive produces the Netflix series, aptly titled “Wednesday,” premiering on the streaming platform sometime in 2022. Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán play Morticia and Gomez Addams, with Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams, Victor Dorobantu as Thing, and George Burcea as Lurch....

“It was doing incredibly well, and the deal that they’d made with Robin was a high-percentage first-dollar gross — a movie-star deal — and it was great, because instantly by putting Robin in the movie their pre-sales paid for the whole fucking film,” Smith said. “So, the movie was paid for and then the movie was making money hand over fist and made over $100 million. From what I remember, Robin’s split would be even greater and he’d get a bigger percentage if it crossed $100 million, so every dollar the movie made at the theatrical box office would have to be split — I’m not sure if it was a 50/50 split — with Robin Williams....

Henry Selick, whose last feature was 2009’s masterpiece “Coraline,” is back at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival with “Wendell & Wild.” It’s a delightful return to form for the man who put stop-motion back on the map, and a charmingly devious collaboration with comedy duo Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, reunited after their groundbreaking comedy series ended. After watching her parents die in a tragic car accident, troubled teen Kat (Lyric Ross) spent her adolescence shunted from juvy home to juvy home, getting in trouble, and hating the world....

The BAFTAs always favor homegrown talent, so there’s a bit of UK bias thrown in, which accounts for strong showings for Best Film nominees “The Father” and “Promising Young Woman,” with six bids apiece, “The Mauritanian,” with five, and “News of the World,” with four craft nods. It’s unlikely that local indie fare like “Rocks” or “His House” are going to suddenly pop up on Oscar nominations morning. Historically, about two-thirds of BAFTA contenders also reap Oscar bids....

Last year, all four SAG film actor winners went on to win at the Oscars: Renee Zellweger (“Judy”), Brad Pitt (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”), Joaquin Phoenix (“Joker”), and Laura Dern (“Marriage Story”). Netflix landed, as expected, three strong ensembles in the Cast category, which will move on easily to the Best Picture race: Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods,” George C. Wolfe’s August Wilson adaptation “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” and Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7....

HBO’s “The White Lotus” is back — which means that viewers, once again, have a murder on their hands. Season 2 opens with Daphne (Meghann Fahy) going for a swim on the last day of her holiday in Sicily, when she bumps into a dead body (or part of a body?) and swims, screaming, back to shore. Daphne isn’t the victim, but who in this gorgeous, secretive, calculating cast of characters is floating lifeless in the ocean by season’s end?...

This version saw strong reactions in multiple showings in Los Angeles and New York, but the color film proved to be a box-office disappointment with $9.7 million in after five weeks in theaters. The black-and-white screenings included sold-out shows with appearances by del Toro and lead Bradley Cooper. Word of this alternative version was first revealed when the director spoke to IndieWire’s Eric Kohn last month as part of our Awards Spotlight video series....