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Several studios provided sizzle reels, but most of the trailers were familiar. Jon M. Chu and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “In the Heights” (June 11, Warner Bros.) launched the show with the first eight minutes of the film, which will open the Tribeca Film Festival in June. “l and Lin-Manuel Miranda knew we wanted to use every fiber of the cinema experience to show Washington Heights and introduce it to the world and make it feel like home,” said Chu in a video, “and show all the colors and shapes and sizes and hopes and dreams....

Super Bowl LV will be aired on CBS at 6:30 p.m. ET and will be announced by Jim Nantz and Tony Romo. Viewers can check their local TV listings to determine which channel CBS is on in their area. Coronavirus-related safety measures mean that the upcoming Super Bowl will boast a more limited in-person audience than prior Super Bowls. Only 22,000 fans will be able to attend the game. The National Football League announced earlier in January that it would give 7,500 free tickets to vaccinated health care workers....

“No Bears,” which Janus and Sideshow release stateside on December 23, finds Panahi playing a fictionalized version of himself pitted in a moment of crisis at a rural border town in Iran en route to direct a new feature in Turkey. On Friday, “No Bears” plays the Miami Film Festival where, ahead of the screening, Panahi will be honored with a Precious Gem Award. (Last year’s Precious Gem went to Oscar-winning “Drive My Car” director Ryusuke Hamaguchi....

Here’s what Gunn had to say after a fan mentioned on social media that the “Snyder Cut crew” was review bombing “The Suicide Squad”: “I’ll live — stuff like this means nothing in the big picture. (And important to point out most of the Snyder Cut fans have been supportive, it’s only a few who feel it’s worthwhile spending their time doing stuff like this.)” Kevin Smith recently spoke out against the review-bombing of his animated Netflix series “Masters of the Universe: Revelation....

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has addressed the possibility of Depp reprising his role of Jack Sparrow. While Bruckheimer noted “you’d have to ask” Disney whether Depp could lead the film, he noted that he would “love” to have Depp in a “Pirates” movie soon. “You’d have to ask them. I can’t answer that question. I really don’t know,” Bruckheimer told The Hollywood Reporter of Disney. “I would love to have him in the movie....

In a recent episode of cinematographer Roger Deakins’ podcast, Team Deakins, the Oscar winner and his wife and co-host, James, were joined by the Coens’ long-time costume designer Mary Zophres. She revealed at the end of the show that the film’s cinematographer, Bruno Delbonnel, had shot “Macbeth” entirely in black and white. Zophres went on to explain that the process of doing the costumes this time was easier than the last time she’d worked with black and white — that being the 2001 Coen brothers crime drama “The Man Who Wasn’t There....

The ravishing romance takes place in 19th-century upstate New York, where two women (Waterston and Vanessa Kirby) cobble together an intellectual and erotic connection amid the soul-crushing frontier. It’s easily career-best work from this focused, fiercely intelligent performer who first wowed audiences in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Inherent Vice.” “Paul really did pluck me from obscurity,” she said of her breakout role in the shaggy 2014 Thomas Pynchon adaptation, where she starred as the elusive femme fatale Shasta Fay, ever out of Joaquin Phoenix’s reach in a haze of pot smoke and noirish wiles....