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So when Leder tells you something is difficult, you better believe it. “Finales are very hard,” she said during a recent Zoom interview. “I often wonder, which is harder: the pilot or the finale?” Leder is often called on for both, most recently directing the first episode of “The Morning Show,” as well as its emotional finale, “The Interview.” She received an Emmy nomination for the latter, her first Outstanding Directing nod since 2006, and as she weighs the difficulties of both setting the tone and paying off on its promise, you can see the years of experience flash across her face....

“You have to feed their souls,” he says, walking around the boardroom in his big, black, block glasses and tan, crisp, California suit. “How do you do that? Well, that’s hard. Right now, the soul of America is broken. […] People don’t trust politics or big business, so what can Americans look up to? Well, I’ll tell you: Paramount. Take a look at the logo. We’re the mountaintop. We’re the goddamn Statue of Liberty — because you can give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, and we’ll give them two hours of respite from the harsh realities of this world....

In the summer of 1989, Touchstone Pictures — a subsidiary of Disney — began filming what would go on to become the biggest romantic comedy hit of all-time (at least by total number of tickets sold). It was also the third-highest grossing film of 1990 and catapulted eventual Oscar nominee Julia Roberts to global fame. The film was, of course, “Pretty Woman,” a formerly dark and gritty tale about a down-and-out sex worker and the rich businessman who hires her for a week (and then, of course, falls hopelessly in love with her)....

“The Suicide Squad,” like all of Warner Bros.’ 2021 titles, will debut day and date in whatever theaters are open later this summer and on HBO Max for 31 days. The release date is currently set for August 6, 2021. Director James Gunn has long billed the film as a gritty, 1970s war movie with comedic sensibilities. The 2016 “Suicide Squad” was memorable for introducing Margot Robbie’s fan-favorite turn as Harley Quinn, who later got her own spinoff with last year’s “Birds of Prey....

For their narrative debut, documentary filmmakers Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis (“Il Solengo,” their 2015 nonfiction film about a hermit living outside of Rome) tackle a two-pronged film whose two halves share visions of one another, as well as a few familiar faces, but only ever-so-gently collide across disparate worlds. “The Tale of King Crab” divides its time between 19th-century rural Italy and the coast of the southernmost tip of Argentina....

Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio,” one of Netflix’s high-end holiday originals, ranks #3, behind Sony’s “Bullet Train.” “Grinch,” along with “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (Universal/$3.99) and “Elf” (WBD/$3.99), placed on all three charts. Particularly impressive is their showing on Vudu, which calculates by revenue. Two other holiday titles — “The Holiday” (Sony/$3.99) and 47-minute 1964 TV special “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (Universal/$9.99, for sale only) — also have a single listing....

“The Undoing,” which stars Kidman and Hugh Grant, is a limited series based on Jean Hanff Korelitz’s 2014 novel “You Should Have Known” and adapted by writer and executive producer Kelley. Here’s the synopsis for “The Undoing,” per WarnerMedia: Grace (Kidman) and Jonathan Fraser (Grant) are living the only lives they ever wanted for themselves. Overnight, a chasm opens in their lives: a violent death and a chain of terrible revelations....