Look to Beyoncé and Amy Schumer, according to screenwriter Reid Carolin. The upcoming finale to the “Magic Mike” trilogy, based on Channing Tatum’s experiences as an exotic dancer, is set to have a “strong” female protagonist and an untraditional love story at its heart. Carolin looked to both Schumer and Beyoncé while crafting the “Magic Mike Live” musical showcase in Las Vegas, which launched in 2017. “It’s almost like if an Amy Schumer stand-up comedy act merged with Beyonce’s backup dancers who just happened to take their shirts off, merged with ‘Alice in Wonderland,’” Carolin told Variety of the hit show....

Nolan told ET Online in a recent interview that he’s in “disbelief. Especially the way in which they did,” alluding to how allegedly many filmmakers weren’t given much notice, or any at all. “There’s such controversy around it, because they didn’t tell anyone. In 2021, they’ve got some of the top filmmakers in the world, they’ve got some of the biggest stars in the world who worked for years in some cases on these projects very close to their hearts that are meant to be big-screen experiences....

Per HBO, the documentary profiles Dorothy Otnow Lewis, a veteran psychiatrist who has studied various infamous murderers. Her research includes videotaped death row interviews and examines the formative experiences and neurological dysfunction of such infamous murderers as Arthur Shawcross and Ted Bundy. Her work challenges the very notion of evil, proposing that murderers are made, not born. The film also explores the death penalty itself, highlighting research that indicates states with the death penalty tend to have higher murder rates than those without, questioning the theory of the death penalty as a deterrent to violence....

In wholly unsurprising (but in no way unpleasant) news, HBO’s “Succession” garnered the most nominations of the morning, with eight mentions, including Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong in Lead Actor in a Drama Series, Nicholas Braun, Kieran Culkin, and Matthew Macfadyen in Supporting Actor, J. Smith Cameron and Sarah Snook in Supporting Actress, as well as a nod for Drama Series. Similarly, HBO’s lauded limited series “Mare of Easttown” was one of two projects earning five nominations, including its three Emmy-winning performances, for Kate Winslet in Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Made-for-TV Movie, Julianne Nicholson in Supporting Actress, and Evan Peters in Supporting Actor....

Attendees at Disney’s CinemaCon showcase on April 27 were treated to a first look at the film, which opens from Disney-owned 20th Century Studios on November 4, 2022. With a plot mostly kept under wraps, Russell’s A-list epic stars Margot Robbie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Robert De Niro, and Christian Bale, plus John David Washington, Rami Malek, and Zoe Saldana, in the New Regency-produced film. Taylor Swift also co-stars in the film, and her character was briefly seen tearing up in highlights played from the movie....

Now, the potential of blockchain in the film industry has earned a major vote of confidence from one of Hollywood’s most influential families. The nonprofit Decentralized Pictures — co-founded by Roman Coppola, tech and entertainment veteran Leo Matchett, and American Zoetrope exec Michael Musante and led by a board that includes Sofia and Gia Coppola — plans to go live in the fall with a mission to discover and support underrepresented filmmakers using a blockchain-powered web platform....

Created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, “Reservation Dogs” is set on a reservation in rural Oklahoma and revolves around the four teens as they do potato chip-related crimes and get into gang-related (paintball) warfare, all while trying to scrounge up enough cash to leave their dreary surroundings in the dust and head west to California. An established actress, Jacobs has seen what it means to work within the industry. With recurring roles on Netflix’s “The Order” and Starz’s “American Gods,” as well as extensive work in the Canadian film scene — Jacobs is Mohawk and grew up in Kahnawake, a First Nations reserve just outside of Montreal, Quebec — she knows what to expect, particularly when it comes to making her way as an Indigenous actress....