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Really, “Searching for Mr. Rugoff” isn’t just the story of a movie theater. It’s a tale about the foundation of the arthouse scene in America in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the complicated impresario/raconteur, Don Rugoff, who made it all possible. Outside of showing who Rugoff was, Deutchman becomes a subject himself in the documentary. As a former employee of Rugoff’s Cinema 5 production company, Deutchman also seeks to figure out what happened to the disgraced producer after he lost his company....

Sam (Bridget Everett) has had it hard. Her sister and closest friend Holly just succumbed to cancer, leaving Sam emotionally and professional adrift, shut off from the world, and barely able to move off her bed/couch. While working in a student testing center she meets Joel (Jeff Hiller). Actually, her and Joel knew each other from high school, but Sam has no memory of him. The two start to form an unlikely bond involving music that slowly starts to make Sam’s Kansas hometown feel tolerable....

We don’t know how much the current films will fall and even less about the performance of opening titles “Elvis” (Warner Bros.) and “The Black Phone” (Universal), two non-franchise studio features. “Maverick” was the #3 film last weekend ($44.7 million, off only 14 percent) and became even more impressive Monday when it rose to #2 over “Lightyear.” The long-running “Maverick” grossed 25 percent less than the #1 film, “Jurassic World: Dominion,” which dropped 60 percent last weekend....

The first four in the Blumhouse series are a mixed bag, with IndieWire’s best review going to “Black Box.” In his B- review, Eric Kohn wrote the film “blends the psychological uneasiness of an amnesiac’s plight with the ravings of a mad scientist, and the full premise suggests a clever marriage of ‘Total Recall’ and ‘Get Out,’” he wrote. Related ‘Riches’ Imagines a ‘Succession’ Scenario Where Big Business Is Good Mark Burnett Exits MGM Worldwide Television Related 51 Directors’ Favorite Horror Movies: Bong Joon Ho, Quentin Tarantino, Guillermo del Toro, and More Nightmare Film Shoots: The Most Grueling Films Ever Made, from ‘Deliverance’ to ‘Mad Max’ to ‘Avatar 2’Here’s a look at the next four installments in the series, along with their official synopses: “The Manor” is written and directed by Axelle Carolyn (“The Haunting of Bly Manor,” “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”) and stars Barbara Hershey, Bruce Davison, Nicholas Alexander, Jill Larsen, Fran Bennett, and Katie Amanda Keane....

OKPicture this: You’re curled up with your favorite book that also happens to be your favorite movie. Spending more time at home last year resulted in an uptick in book sales, and film screenplays are a unique way for cinephiles to dive deep into their favorite films. “The Matrix: Shooting Script” Before “The Matrix 4” debuts later this month, read the screenplay that launched a franchise. The 1999 sci-fi film revolves around Thomas Anderson, a....

Fincher discussed a handful of projects he is working on during a recent interview with Aaron Sorkin on the Director’s Guild of America’s The Director’s Cut podcast. In the interview, Fincher outlined three projects he was working on, including a limited series that will be written by Robert Towne, who wrote the script for the 1974 “Chinatown” film and the first two “Mission Impossible” movies. “I am playing with adapting a French graphic novel about an assassin,” Fincher said on the podcast....

The Oscar-winning film, starring Ethan Hawke and Denzel Washington as LAPD partners, at first was scripted as a “Lethal Weapon”-type movie, according to lead star Washington. “I don’t think it was written for a Black guy,” Washington said of his role in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “It was more like a plaid-shirt [wearing] guy with beer bottles in the back.” Instead, director Antoine Fuqua ushered in different take for the film....