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After longtime cast members Pete Davidson, Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, and Kyle Mooney parted ways with the sketch comedy series earlier this year, “SNL” has now confirmed that Alex Moffat, Melissa Villaseñor, and Aristotle Athari will not be returning for the upcoming season. Moffat, who frequently plays Eric Trump on the series, joined the cast for Season 42 as a featured player from 2016 through 2018. He was brought on as a full-time cast member in 2018....

This month will see a glut of critically embraced theatrical debuts — more than we’ve seen in three years. These include “TÁR” (Focus), “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight), “Aftersun” (A24), “Triangle of Sadness” (Neon), “Till” (United Artists), “Decision to Leave” (MUBI), and “Armageddon Time” (Focus). All will open in limited play, some will go wider, but whatever the release patterns they represent a crucial period for the specialized industry — distributors and exhibitors alike....

Hawke reunites with Derrickson after their sick 2012 horror film “Sinister,” one of the most truly creepy movies of the last decade. Here’s the synopsis of “The Black Phone”: “After five children go missing in a suburban Colorado town in the 1970s, Finney Shaw is soon to become the sixth victim when he is kidnapped by a serial killer and trapped inside of a soundproof basement. Finding a disconnected phone, Shaw discovers its ability to transmit the voices of the killer’s previous victims, who try to help him escape....

While that line is on-the-nose enough to be read as meta comedy, Morgan’s other indulgences would be less grating if “The Crown’s” surrounding story didn’t feel needlessly stretched out. Past entries get away with steady heavy-handedness thanks to their broad framework (using episodes to hone in on an array of Royal family members, as well as their key connections), sterling performances from an enviable cast list, and elegant craftsmanship worthy of the show’s 10 Creative Arts Emmys....

While “The Godfather” films are an iconic trilogy in film history, the behind-the-scenes making of them is an epic story in itself. Now that story is being told in Paramount+’s “The Offer,” premiering April 28. Watch the trailer below, with Ruddy (Miles Teller) struggling to get the adaptation of Mario Puzo’s novel made. Dan Fogler stars as director Francis Ford Coppola, with Matthew Goode playing Paramount Studios chief Robert Evans, and Juno Temple portraying Rudy’s secretary Bettye McCartt....

Based on Jandy Nelson’s 2010 New York Times bestselling novel, the upcoming Apple TV+ film “The Sky Is Everywhere” follows Lennie (Grace Kaufman), a shy teen who is grieving from the sudden death of her older sister. “There is no more music in me, no more dreams in me,” Lennie explains in the trailer. “I lost the one person on Earth who understood me.” That is, until Lennie meets new student Joe Fontaine (Jacques Colimon), who wows her with his musical prowess....

“I totally get it,” said the screenwriter to IndieWire during breakfast in West Hollywood the morning of the Governors Awards. “They probably go in thinking of that kind of singular, watered down one-sentence description and then hopefully they have, by the end, discovered that this is a story about a lot of different things, and the fact that the character is suffering from obesity is one thing among many. There’s religious trauma, there’s family drama, there’s codependency, there’s religion....