The groundbreaking Marvel superhero star of “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” has a legendary origin story of his own: Liu partially owes his acting career to being fired from what he thought was his dream job 10 years ago exactly. “I owe my life to being let go from a career I hated. Accounting = not for me,” Liu tweeted. The “Kim’s Convenience” alum captioned in an Instagram post that he celebrates every April 12 as the anniversary of leaving Deloitte....

Directed and written by Bell, “Skinamarink” stars Jaime Hill, Lucas Paul, Ross Paul, and Dali Rose Tetreault. In a recent interview with Variety, Ball spoke about the film’s unexpected success. He credited the viral popularity of his movie to the fact that it is based on subject matter that so many people have encountered in their scariest dreams. “I have a YouTube channel where people comment with nightmares they’ve had and I would recreate them,” he said....

Season 48 of the beloved sketch comedy show kicked off on Saturday night, complete with a tribute to Kidman’s commercial. Chloe Fineman plays Kidman in the fake ad, which essentially begins a shot-for-shot remake of the real thing. Everything seems normal, with Fineman delivering Kidman’s now-iconic lines like “somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like this.” But it’s quickly revealed that things are not as they seem. Slowly, all of the extras in the movie theater begin to stand up and salute the screen before repeatedly chanting “heartbreak feels good in a place like this” in a cult-like fashion....

Davidson said he’s “just happy I’m no longer the first thing people think of when they say what’s the worst thing about Staten Island.” He noted that “the bar, shockingly, is in a neighborhood with the second highest COVID infections in all of New York. So the rule is that they’re supposed to let people eat or drink outside and the owner said no one wants to do that, because they’ll go out of business....

The film was thought to be lost, but a highly successful Kickstarter campaign raised over $22,000 to restore it. Backers of the campaign will finally see the effort pay off this fall when Deaf Crocodile Films’ new restoration of “Solomon King,” complete with new color grading and significant audio improvements, premieres at Fantastic Fest in September. With today’s release of the new trailer, many are taking the opportunity to appreciate what this means for the film preservation community....

Less good news: Most of the grosses run far below past comparable films. James Gray’s “Armageddon Time,” the week’s biggest new platform release, could manage only $72,000 in six theaters. Given decent reviews, its director, and a cast that includes Anne Hathaway and Anthony Hopkins, that’s disappointing. The 1980s coming-of-age story had six top New York/Los Angeles theaters. “Holy Spider” (Utopia), a Danish-produced film about an Iranian serial killer, had an impressive $17,000 opening at New York’s IFC Center....

“It’s weird to traipse across delicate stuff like that,” she said of its real-life background. “We all know there are people still alive that are incredibly enmeshed in this and intimately related to this story. I could never become a completely different person. I think that she was somebody who just felt so explosively alive that, in order to do her justice, I had to become so explosively alive that I had to be a larger part of myself in order to remain impulsive and truly present....