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Earlier: Jean-Marc Vallée, the Canadian director and producer who helmed the films “Wild” and “Dallas Buyers Club” and HBO series “Sharp Objects” and “Big Little Lies,” has died December 25 at age 58. The cause of death is not yet known, though representatives revealed that Vallée died in his cabin outside Quebec City. His producing partner, Nathan Ross, released a statement regarding his death. “Jean-Marc stood for creativity, authenticity and trying things differently....

Field of Vision is part of First Look Media’s non-profit arm First Look Institute (FLI) and is known for its intersection of documentary film, journalism and the visual arts. Co-founder and executive director Charlotte Cook, who has been with the organization since it was formed in 2015, will continue to lead the new independent company. Field of Vision will remain a non-profit organization, but it won’t be starting things from scratch....

Rock said he was in producer Brian Grazer’s office when Murphy pitched the movie — a kind of Black “Ocean’s Eleven,” starring Rock, Dave Chapelle, and Chris Tucker as a gang that robs Trump Tower. Trump would be the bad guy, “Like Alan Rickman in ‘Die Hard,’” Rock told THR. The movie morphed during development into what we know today, “Tower Heist,” the more middle-of-the-road movie with a great cast of, as Rock puts it, “a bunch of white people....

When we first meet 12-year-old Kingsley (promising newcomer Kenyah Sandy), he’s entranced by a planetarium filled with stars, his eyes consumed with the possibilities of an unknown world. But in the context of his mostly white school, he’s treated as a nuisance unworthy of the curriculum: Scolded for reading slowly during English class and tossed out of a music session for getting a touch too bawdy with his classmates, the bespectacled child has been ostracized by the system even before it kicks him out....

Trading of Twitter shares were halted on October 4 following the report that Musk is moving ahead with the purchase on the original agreed-upon terms. Per anonymous sources via Bloomberg, Musk penned a letter to Twitter offering to confirm the deal at $54.20 per share price. Twitter or Musk have not publicly commented. Twitter sued Musk earlier this year after the Tesla CEO backed out of the purchase offer in July....

Total Film’s “Cruella” interview reads: “‘It’s very different from “Joker” in many ways,’ Stone laughs over Zoom. However, while there are certainly differences between the two movies, Stone can see why thematic lines could be drawn between the two. ‘I would never even remotely compare myself to Joaquin Phoenix,’ she continues. ‘I wish I was more like him.’” Gillespie told the publication that “Cruella” and “Joker” are similar only in the sense that, like Joaquin Phoenix’s “Joker” character Arthur Fleck, “there are some really deep, emotional things that [Emma Stone’s] Cruella is dealing with that send her to the villainous darker side....

With plenty more on the docket, we here at IndieWire are laying out everything coming to Disney+ this month. But among the many titles (and after plenty of hit-and-miss Disney+ franchise extensions), “Star Wars” still looms large. Originally announced at the D23 fan convention back in 2019, audiences will finally get to see Diego Luna reprise his role of Cassian Andor from “Star Wars: Rogue One” with “Andor.” The series will be divided into two parts....