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Adam McKay’s cosmic end-times satire “Don’t Look Up” quickly became the most-viewed original movie on Netflix over the holiday weekend. Endless social media debates over the movie’s quality or scientific accuracy — it’s about a comet on a planet-annihilating collision course toward Earth — aside, viewers who stayed for the comedy’s mid- and post-credits scenes were in for some wild surprises. According to director McKay in a new interview with Variety, the film’s final moments were actually wrought out of the actors’ improv....

Mortensen also wrote the movie, which follows John (Mortensen) who lives with his partner, Eric (Terry Chen), and their daughter, Mónica (Gabby Velis), in California, far from the traditional rural life he left behind years ago, while his conservative father, Willis (Lance Henriksen), lives alone on the isolated farm where John grew up. In the early stages of dementia, Willis is brought to John’s California home to help him relocate. Unfortunately, their best intentions ultimately run up against Willis’s adamant refusal to change his way of life in the slightest....

This is the epiphany Robert (Daniel Zolghadri), the budding cartoonist at the heart of Owen Kline’s debut feature “Funny Pages,” reaches when his art teacher and mentor Mr. Katano (Stephen Adly Guirgis) dies in a freak car accident. After getting arrested for breaking into his high school to steal back Katano’s work, and subsequently rejecting the legal counsel of a family friend in favor of a public defender’s services, Robert informs his frustrated parents (Maria Dizzia and Josh Pais) that he’s dropping out of high school....

Netflix has released the first trailer for “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” Rian Johnson’s murder mystery sequel that sees Daniel Craig’s beloved Cajun detective cracking another case. And his second outing is set to be even starrier than his debut, with a cast that includes Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson, and Dave Bautista. The original “Knives Out” was one of the unlikeliest blockbusters in years....

“The HFPA plans to recognize the performances of 2021 to celebrate the great work of the industry this past year at the 79th Annual Golden Globes,” an unnamed source told Variety in a statement. Per Variety, a letter went out to studios on Friday with an explanation of eligibility rules for the 79th Golden Globes, one that reportedly emphasized performances. It’s unclear how much Hollywood talent will be eager to participate in the 2022 incarnation of the show: The Golden Globes and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association came under heavy criticism earlier in the year due to a Los Angeles Times report that revealed that the organization, which is composed of several dozen entertainment journalists, fostered a “culture of corruption,” engaged in self-dealing, and had a lack of diversity among its members....

Nia DaCosta’s update of the 1993 horror classic displaced the studio’s own “F9” ($19.99), after an expanded edition returned the widely seen sequel to #1 across all charts last week. The worldwide top grossing film of 2021 ($716 million, with less than 25 percent domestic) is now #2 at both Vudu and Google Play, and #3 at iTunes. The strength of “Candyman” took #1 on Vudu’s full week chart, even though its release covered only three days of Vudu’s listing period....

West’s mythic confidence gradually became a fact of life after he unhinged his wired-shut jaw and began swallowing the culture whole over the last two decades. But back then it felt like Simmons had discovered a new molecular element, and he wasn’t going to let it out of his sight. The covalent bond that formed between filmmaker and subject soon grew into a brotherhood, and the infinity pool of footage that resulted from that brotherhood doesn’t merely take you inside the formative years of the 21st century’s most inescapable artist, it also implies the story of a lifelong friendship that formed in the margins between self-belief and self-immolation....