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“In the hands of a lesser actor, Arvin would have just been an impenetrable, potentially alienating character who did a lot of awful things,” Campos said in an exclusive statement about casting Holland in his new feature. “The key to him was understanding his trauma and communicating the humanity in him. Beyond adapting his voice and his physicality, Tom was able to take on and carry the trauma Arvin had lived but was still able to communicate the warmth and humanity that made Arvin an accessible character we could actually connect with and root for....

“The Fabelmans” marks the first time Spielberg has written one of his own films since 2001’s “A.I.: Artificial Intelligence.” The all-star cast includes Seth Rogen, David Lynch, Michelle Williams, and Dano, playing a character inspired by Spielberg’s father. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter to promote his role in “The Batman,” Dano admitted to being intimidated by playing the father of a Hollywood legend, especially considering Spielberg’s father had just died in 2020 at the age of 103....

Remember when documentaries were deeply honorable but commercially unviable? “Knock Down the House” shattered Sundance records in 2019 when Netflix bought it for $10 million; Apple and A24 broke that record the next year with the $12 million acquisition of “Boys State.” Apple paid a reported $25 million for “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry,” while studios like Concordia, Participant, Radical, and XTR pump millions into the non-fiction genre. Today, everyone loves documentaries....

Speaking on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” to promote the movie, Reeves detailed one especially harrowing stunt in the new film that involved tumbling down a 46-story-high building with Carrie-Anne Moss, who reprises her role as Trinity alongside Reeves’ Neo. Reeves said the craziest thing he had to do was “jump off a building… I’m going to guess around 46 stories.” When asked by Colbert why the filmmakers didn’t simply resort to post-production VFX, Reeves said, “Because it’s Lana Wachowski and it’s ‘The Matrix’ and you need natural light and you want to do it real....

Over half a century after the original “Munsters” black-and-white sitcom series wrapped, writer-director Rob Zombie is breathing new life into the kooky undead family comedy with a feature film. Jeff Daniel Phillips stars as the famed Herman Munster, who preaches acceptance no matter what people look like, monsters or not. Director Zombie’s wife Sheri Moon Zombie plays Lily Munster, and Daniel Roebuck is Grandpa. Iconic Halloween persona Elvira aka Cassandra Peterson stars as real estate agent Barbara Carr, with Jorge Garcia, Richard Brake, Catherine Schell, and Sylvester McCoy rounding out the ensemble cast....

It wouldn’t be a true documentary season without a new entry from the quixotic mind of Herzog. The distinctive Bavarian director, who turns 80 a week ahead of this year’s TIFF, will visit the festival to screen “Theatre of Thought,” a study of the human brain that goes beyond the traditional boundaries of neurological inquiry. “It’s a real science-meets-poetry kind of exploration,” Powers said. “He’s exploring the landscape inside our skulls....

This will be the first time in three decades that a Cruise movie has played at Cannes. His last appearance on the festival’s lineup was Ron Howard’s “Far and Away” in 1992. Once again, the film finds Cruise in “Mission: Impossible” mode, helming all of his own jaw-dropping stunts. “For 34 years you guys have been very patient with me, and I felt it was my responsibility for me to deliver for you,” Cruise told audiences at Comic-Con when the first trailer bowed (several years ago)....