Phillippe, fresh off the success of “Cruel Intentions,” was a last-minute addition to the cast, replacing the previously announced Jude Law, whose departure threatened the film’s financing. “Jude Law was going to play my role. He was going to be pretending to be an American who was discovered to be British,” Phillippe recalled. “He dropped out, and ‘Gosford Park’ was about to fall apart because they needed that financing relevancy. Jude had more than I did, but I had enough to secure the financing if I took the role....

But all that attention isn’t enough for these social butterflies. Members of the Screen Actors Guild have put on their own awards show for 26 years running, and the 27th SAG Awards are just around the corner. They’ll be held Sunday, April 4 at 9 p.m. ET, and the virtual, typically host-less ceremony will air on TNT and TBS. So, who will be there? That’s the question on everyone’s lips, and Thursday’s SAG Awards nominations announcement (held on Instagram Live, for some reason, and read by Daveed Diggs and Lily Collins), provided our first clues as to what thespians we might see, live, Zooming in from their own living rooms....

“It’s like the world’s best toy box to be able to play at Marvel,” he recently said. “I’d love to come back and tell another tale, especially with the great management they’ve got there.” While he could potentially keep focusing on Doctor Strange, Raimi has even expressed interest in returning to his most iconic hero, Spider-Man himself. Now that Tobey Maguire’s take on the character is a part of the MCU thanks to “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” the director is game to re-team with him on a fourth webslinging film....

Instead, Erika is told someone is coming to see her — apparently she’s not the only one on the clock, though that unnerving realization is soon compounded by who shows up to help: A senior lab tech? A repair specialist? No, it’s the same R&D manager she just spoke to on the phone, and she’s not there to fix the machine. She simply overrides the error report and forwards the faulty analysis anyway....

When it came time to tell the story in “Sound of Metal,” in which hardcore drummer Ruben (Riz Ahmed) experiences a sudden loss of hearing, writer/director Darius Marder reached for something different to orient how the audience understands what is happening inside Ruben’s own body. “I wanted to use a language of perspective that I had never seen before,” said Marder. “When we think of point of view we think of visuals, not sound....

Among those who used their time during the live broadcast of the Spirit Awards on IFC to champion their often-under-appreciated collaborators was Ruth Negga, who won the award for best supporting female for her role in “Passing.” Zooming into the ceremony remotely, she said she wanted to share the award with the entire cast and crew of the Rebecca Hall-directed film. “Nothing can be created in isolation without anybody else. We create in solidarity with others,” she said....

Like so many of Denis’ films (“Beau Travail,” “Trouble Every Day”), this sweaty romantic thriller about two white foreigners who fall in love (or at least fuck a lot) against the background of Central American political tensions is a cryptic and carnal search for a way out of purgatory. And like so many of Denis’ films, the incandescent “Stars at Noon” is cut with such jagged atemporality that it often seems set in a space between time, where the past never happened and the future may never come....