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The streamer gave the firmest timeline yet for its plans to bring advertisements to its streaming service when it reported its Q2 earnings Tuesday. Previous reports had pegged the launch of Netflix’s ad-supported tier to late 2022. “Our lower priced advertising-supported offering will complement our existing plans, which will remain ad-free,” the letter reads. There is no word on AVOD Netflix pricing. Currently, the cheapest Netflix-subscription plan (in the U.S.) costs $9....

“The New Mutants” looks to buck this trend when it opens in theaters August 28. Writer-director Josh Boone and actress Maisie Williams touted back in March that “New Mutants” featured a gay love story. The difference between this film and something like “The Rise of Skywalker” is that the gay characters in “New Mutants” are two of the main characters: Rahne Sinclair (Williams) and Danielle Moonstar (Blu Hunt). Boone referred to the gay love story as “sort of the spine and focus of some of the character-driven stuff in the film....

“There was a bond formed just through our taste and visually what we were drawn to,” Richards told IndieWire. Following film school, the collaborators spent a great deal of time traveling the American West, in particular South Dakota, where they made their first two features, “Songs My Brothers Taught Me” and “The Rider.” Like “Nomadland,” both films feature first-time performers in stories set against expansive western landscapes. In a far-ranging interview, Richards discusses how their collaboration and filmic language evolved over the three films....

In its absence (and without any other wide opening), the three day total will come to only $35 million. That makes it the weakest weekend since May 21-23 last year, just before “A Quiet Place II” opened and theaters started seeing steady improvement. This is how low a number this is – the last time the lowest gross of a year for a weekend was less than twice as much was in 2014....

Hulu’s hit murder mystery series “Only Murders in the Building” will officially return for Season 2 on June 28. Series stars Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Selena Gomez announced the premiere date in a special promo video just one day after the network tweeted a pic teasing the month and day. “This is our new favorite elevator,” the official Hulu page captioned a photo of buttons for floors eight, two, and six lit up....

Known as the “father of the atomic bomb,” Oppenheimer was head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and helmed the “Manhattan Project,” which first developed nuclear weapons for World War II. He also supervised the Trinity Test, in which the first atomic bomb was successfully detonated in New Mexico. Murphy stars as Oppenheimer, with Emily Blunt playing his wife, biologist and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer. Matt Damon portrays General Leslie Groves Jr....

And why not? The feature debut from director Dean Fleischer Camp (adapting a series of shorts he created with “Marcel” star Jenny Slate), has been embraced by critics for its charm, wit, inventive stop-motion, and its adorable breakout star. The one-inch anthropomorphic shell (voiced by Slate) lives with his grandmother Connie (Isabella Rossellini) and develops a friendship with doc filmmaker Dean (Camp), who moves in and films Marcel’s daily activities, which go viral....