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“Where I am coming from is, I can understand his daughter having a problem with it. It’s her fucking father. I get that,” Tarantino told Joe Rogan this week. “But anybody else, oh suck a dick!” To this statement, Shannon Lee writes, “While I am grateful that Mr. Tarantino has so generously acknowledged to Joe Rogan that I may have my feelings about his portrayal of my father, I am also grateful for the opportunity to express this: I’m really fucking tired of white men in Hollywood trying to tell me who Bruce Lee was....

The sketch ends, like the movie “The Shining,” by zooming in on a black-and-white photograph, with Rudolph inserted among the show’s original cast members of yore including Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, and more. Throughout the night’s episode, Rudolph reprised some of her most iconic portrayals, including Beyonce (suffering through an episode of “Hot Ones” while eating diabolically hot chicken wings) and, of course, Vice President Kamala Harrris. Rudolph joined a lineup of hosts this season including John Krasinski, Dan Levy, Regina King, Regé-Jean Page, and Nick Jonas....

In truth, a theatrical behemoth like Legendary is not the “800-pound gorilla in the room” it was back when Thomas Tull founded the company in 2000, said Stephen Galloway, the former film journalist who now serves as dean of Chapman University’s Dodge Film School. With the movie business and theatrical windows forever changed, he argues, this distribution deal is “more of an antiquated model” that will leave Legendary with a lot to prove....

Little else changed this week, with fewer films than usual finding positions on all three iTunes, Google Play, and Vudu charts. “Sing 2” (Universal/$19.99), high on all charts again, has spent more than three months at a $19.99 or higher. Like “Spider-Man,” it still ranked in the top 10 this weekend. “Dog” (United Artists/$19.99), a much more recent release and #7 in theaters, was the third across-the-board placer. The only new entry of note was “Panama” (Saban/$6....

Ramiro Alanis revealed that he spent four months watching “Spider-Man: No Way Home” 292 times in theaters to top the previously held Guinness World Record for most in-theater viewings of one film. Alanis kicked off the mission December 16, the opening night for the blockbuster Marvel installment. Per official rules, Alanis was unable to take bathroom breaks during screenings or “participate in any other activity” until the credits finished rolling. Theaters had to issue a written statement that Alanis obeyed the official standards....

Part of that is due to the age difference. Lindon is a youthful 20-year-old, but the rest of her teenage cast is, well, made up of teenagers. To cover the physical differences, the filmmaker and actress often reverts to obvious acting affectations: tugging on her limp ponytail, hiding beneath long bangs, or fussing with a drink and staring off into the middle distance. We get the message that Suzanne feels weird in her own skin and disconnected from her peers, but Lindon’s delivery is too broad to feel real....

“I didn’t want to be an actor when I was a kid. My parents forced me to do it, my mother made me do it. My mother coached me to go into her agency and tell the children’s agent, ‘I want to do what mommy does,’” said Wheaton, whose mother Debra was an actress and his father Richard a medical specialist. “And through a combination of an incredible emotional abuse from my father and a lot of manipulation, using me, from my mother, it really put me in that place....