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In the past, both Rasoulof and Panahi faced trumped-up charges for creating work critical of Iranian policies. However, these detainments are a microcosm of broader unrest now echoing across Iran and an acceleration of aggressive tactics by the country’s leadership. The result has left Iran’s film community and its international allies in a state of anger, fear, and uncertainty about how to proceed. Rasoulof and Al-Ahmad, an occasional documentary filmmaker and outspoken activist, were arrested on Friday after they posted a letter online signed by more than 70 members of the Iranian film community calling for an end to police violence in the Abadan, where the collapse of a building in May yielded massive protests....

The film stars Jared Leto as Dr. Michael Morbius, a scientist who attempts to cure himself of a rare blood disease, only to accidentally afflict himself with a set of vampire-like traits. The film also stars Matt Smith and Michael Keaton, who is reprising his role from “Spider-Man: Homecoming.” Jared Leto’s Marvel debut has been a long time coming, but the actor is already thinking ahead to future “Morbius” movies. While “Morbius” takes place in the same Spider-Man villain universe as Sony’s “Venom” films, Leto is interested in having his character cross paths with Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe....

The Academy Award winner stars opposite Michael Shannon in the Paramount limited series “George & Tammy” based on the tumultuous love story between music duo Wynette and George Jones. Abe Sylvia created the series. Lead star Chastain worked with vocal coach Ron Browning for months to sing like Wynette, calling a live performance in front of hundreds of extras “the scariest thing I’ve ever done.” Yet Chastain took the physical preparation to play Wynette into her own hands when tracking Wynette’s later-in-life health issues and painkiller addiction....

On this week’s episode of the “Team Deakins” podcast, Brolin and Deakins compare the two “Sicario” films and agree that Villeneuve’s more character-driven approach makes for a more impactful thriller than Sollima’s more action-driven style. Not to say there’s anything wrong with Sollima’s entry. Brolin and Deakins praise Sollima’s skills as an action director, but there’s no denying “Soldado” just can’t compete with “Sicario.” “Stefano Sillima did the second one. For what it is, and I would say this to Stefano’s face, it’s a bigger scope and more action, for what it is it’s wonderful,” Brolin said....

“Jungleland” tells the story of two desperate people who can feel themselves sinking into stereotype, and a third who’s already there and couldn’t possibly care less; his name is Stanley (a career-best Charlie Hunnam), he’s “the hungry and the hunted” all rolled into one, and he’ll be anyone he needs to be as long as it feeds into his fantasy of becoming someone better. Alas, that’s a type unto itself. For now, Stanley is a scruffy Masshole factory worker who moonlights as a manager/hype man for his little brother Lion (a winsomely implosive Jack O’Connell), a lightweight boxer who’s forced to compete in bareknuckle underground fights because Stanley’s antics have gotten them barred from anything more reputable....

“I was in LA at the time working on ‘Star Wars’ [‘The Rise of Skywalker’],” Terrio said about first watching the Whedon cut. “I was on the west side of Los Angeles working with J.J. [Abrams] at the time, and I drove to the studio and I sat down and watched it a couple of weeks before release. I immediately called my lawyer and said, ‘I want to take my name off the film....

Cuoco, the former “Big Bang Theory” star and now an Emmy contender for “The Flight Attendant,” also produced the show. And as she revealed during a recent Hollywood Reporter roundtable, she was nervous to embark on what would be her first actual onscreen sex scene. But luckily, as the star revealed, she had help from Huisman, who is no stranger to baring it all after three seasons starring often-naked on “Game of Thrones” as Daario Naharis....