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Back in December, representatives of Tarantino denied Miramax’s accusations, which allege a breach of contract along with numerous intellectual property violations. The Oscar winner announced at the start of November that he was putting seven uncut scenes from “Pulp Fiction” up for auction as Secret NFTs on OpenSea, the world’s largest NFT marketplace. According to an earlier story in The Hollywood Reporter, Miramax sent a cease-and-desist letter to Tarantino after the announcement, but the NFT project persisted....

After revealing she was not invited to the 94th Academy Awards, “West Side Story” breakout star Zegler has reportedly been asked to be a presenter at the Oscars on Sunday, March 27. Zegler is currently in London filming Disney’s “Snow White,” per The Hollywood Reporter, but the production schedule has now reportedly been shifted to accommodate Zegler’s Oscar appearance. IndieWire has reached out to representatives at the Academy and ABC, which hosts the telecast, for comment....

“Ratched” is set in 1947 after World War II and follows Mildred (Paulson) as she arrives in Northern California to seek employment at a leading psychiatric hospital. The medical facility is where unsettling experiments have begun on the human mind. Mildred presents herself as the perfect image of what a dedicated nurse should be, but a darkness inside of her grows as she begins to infiltrate the mental health care system and those within it....

Assets include writings of famed film critic Pauline Kael, whose biting insights on film are often hard to find on the internet, the story of pioneering aquatic star Annette Kellerman, what critics said about the world’s first feature-length film “The Story of the Kelly Gang” from 1906, and the story of the Lon Chaney monster that inspired Jennifer Kent’s cult classic “The Babadook.” Kael fans will enjoy her updated insights on “Lawrence of Arabia”: “The most literate and intelligent and tasteful and the most beautiful of the modem expensive spectacle films....

After longtime collaborator Quentin Tarantino spoke out on the “Marvel-ization” of Hollywood driven by IP over star power, Jackson said that audiences “can’t refute” the superstardom of Marvel actors, much like the late Chadwick Boseman. “It takes an actor to be those particular characters, and the sign of movie stardom has always been, what, asses in seats? What are we talking about?” Jackson, who plays Nick Fury in the MCU, said on “The View” (via Entertainment Weekly)....

Barrett’s film hints at the sleeker, darker film underneath his many genre fixations; it also sets up the possibility of a followup that could better tap into those ideas. “Seance” works best when viewed as a prequel to another film, one with a mythology that Barrett only bumps up against in this one (and one that, unfortunately, can’t receive more than oblique reference here; unpacking it would mean major spoilers for the film at hand)....

For Haythe, that reinvention came from opening up the world of French leader Catherine de Medici (Samantha Morton) to characters that have been commonly written out of history. “Anything is fair game if the character is right. All those people exist in history, the kings and the queens. The people who serve them, the people who brought them their horses, or share their lives most intimately, are nonexistent in history, so you can invent those people,” Haythe said....