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While the proposals mark a move forward in the effort to increase on-set safety, they fall short of an outright prohibition on functional guns. Support for a ban grew immediately following Hutchins’ death, but that consensus didn’t hold. In the days after “Rust” actor and producer Alec Baldwin fatally shot Hutchins with a prop gun that he and key crew members believed was not loaded, a petition calling for a ban on functional firearms drew thousands of signatures....

When you’ve been spending most of the last year at home, coming up with new and inventive ways to stay entertained can be a challenge. Especially if you live in a household with multiple people of different ages. And if you’re like a lot of the population whose quarantine ritual has been binge watching as many movies as possible, it’s time to put all of that hard work to use in the form of movie trivia games....

After most recently landing a Best Actor nomination for his Oscar-winning directorial debut “A Star Is Born,” Cooper is helming Leonard Bernstein biopic “Maestro,” plus co-writing, producing, and starring in the upcoming feature opposite Carey Mulligan, Maya Hawke, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Silverman, Scott Ellis, and Matt Bomer. Nine-time Academy Award nominee Cooper revealed that he still isn’t taken seriously in Hollywood while candidly speaking with Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Sean Hayes on their “SmartLess” podcast....

And I fell in love, both as a cinephile admiring Keaton’s transformation of the language of cinema, and a girl with a crush on a handsome movie star. But it wasn’t just Keaton’s balletic fearless athleticism; something sad behind his eyes drew me in. I read the Rudi Blesh biography, and learned about Keaton’s rough and tumble youth on the Vaudeville circuit, where his father Joe started throwing him around the stage as a toddler — for laughs....

After 25 years in the game, Nintendo 64 hasn’t lost its luster among gamers who crave the nostalgia of one of Nintendo’s most recognizable consoles. Despite going out of production in 2002 (to make room for the Nintendo Game Cube, another popular old-school console), these collectible consoles are still available online. Named for its 64-bit processing unit, the Nintendo 64 debuted in Japan in July 1996, and in the U.S. that September....

The film also stars comedian Jaboukie Young-White. Principal photography on the movie began toward the end of 2019 and wrapped in January 2020, so anticipation for “C’mon C’mon” has been building for some time. The black-and-white photography was lensed by Robbie Ryan, the Academy Award-nominated cinematographer behind Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite.” After “C’mon C’mon,” Joaquin Phoenix will next be seen in Ari Aster’s “Disappointment Blvd.,” which is currently in production. The rest of the NYFF lineup, which already included the previously announced “The Tragedy of Macbeth” from Joel Coen, “Parallel Mothers” from Pedro Almodóvar, and “The Power of the Dog” from Jane Campion, is looking rich, with recently added screenings including Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune,” Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter....

Where to Watch ‘Cake’: Hulu, or catch the currently airing Season 5 on FXX One of the best jokes in the entire run of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” is in the “Game of Games” episode. Learning that his next challenge is to eat a cake, Frank says “That sounds good.” Charlie responds, “It’s not. You have to eat the ingredients of a cake.” Watching the FXX shortform collection “Cake” is enough to make you wonder if that’s not such a bad thing after all....