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According to Deadline, Hastings appeared at a keynote discussion at the New York Times DealBook conference, during which he spoke favorably of Musk, calling him “the bravest, most creative person on the planet.” “What he’s done in multiple areas is phenomenal,” Hastings said. “His style is different. I’m trying to be, like, a steady, respectable leader up here and he’s just out there.” During the conversation at Jazz at Lincoln Center, which was moderated by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Hastings referred to Musk’s acquisition of Twitter as an attempt to try and make a positive contribution to the planet....

Tudum began in January 2020 as an in-person event in one market, São Paulo, Brazil. The Covid pandemic disrupted that whole in-person thing, but on September 24 the event is back — and it’s supersized. Named for the streaming service’s start-up sound, Tudum is now made up of five events from around the world, offering “more content, more shows and movies, more talent,” and yes, “more news to break,” as Lee said in a telephone interview with IndieWire....

Jordan Peele’s alien thriller has a rare relationship to animals on screen. Not only is it a quasi-Western, featuring Kaluuya astride a steed named Lucky, it’s also about the people who put horses in movies, giving the entire operation a meta quality. OJ and his sister Emerald (Keke Palmer) are the current owners of Haywood’s Hollywood Horses, a business founded by their father (Keith David), who claims the family are descendants of the Black jockey in Eadweard Muybridge’s “The Horse in Motion....

“On the Count of Three” tells the story of Val (Carmichael) and Kevin (Abbott), two lifelong friends who are now determined to kill themselves. The film explores the friendship between them over the course of what they hope will be the final day of their lives. Like much of Carmichael’s comedic work, it looks to combine blunt truths about the realities of life with plenty of laughs to soften the blows....

Each year the Gotham Awards kick off the start of awards season and honor independent and lower-budget movies. Hosted by the Gotham Film & Media Institute, this year’s competitive nominees include a race for Best Feature that includes “The Green Knight,” “Passing,” and “Pig.” The Gotham Awards previously announced that “Spencer” actor Kristen Stewart will receive a Performer Tribute, Eamonn Bowles will get the Industry Tribute, the cast of “The Harder They Fall” the Ensemble Tribute, and Jane Campion the Director’s Tribute....

The film premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, and, per an official HBO synopsis, the documentary captures Wood’s “experience as a survivor of domestic violence to pursue justice, heal generational wounds and reclaim her story” after escaping a dangerous, almost decade-long relationship. Wood co-authored and successfully lobbied for passage of The Phoenix Act, state legislation that extends the statute of limitations for domestic violence cases in California. The trailer includes Wood’s friends and family, including mother Sara Lynn Moore, who alleged that Wood’s former partner Marilyn Manson “groomed her” and was a “predator....

However, the process has placed scrutiny on Disney’s relationship with the larger LGBTQ community. While Disney has recently incorporated extremely subtle references to homosexuality in some of its films, many critics feel the company has not done nearly enough to make their movies inclusive. That may be beginning to change, as Pixar recently restored a same-sex kiss that was previously cut out of the upcoming film “Lightyear.” But according to a new report in Variety, the studio has long wrestled with questions over how inclusive its films should be....