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“O Night Divine” stars John C. Reilly as a fully bearded Santa Claus who serenades an adorable little girl in Italian. Alex Wolff also features as a crooning vagabond, showing off a lovely singing voice that we certainly didn’t hear in “Hereditary.” They are joined by model and filmmaker Hailey Gates, who had small parts in “Uncut Gems” and “Twin Peaks: The Return.” The rest of the ensemble includes newcomers Samia Benazzouz, Chloe Park, Valerio Santucci, Francesca Figus, Tania Hanyoung Park, and Shi Yang Shi....

Humorist and actor Robert Benchley (grandfather of “Jaws” author Peter) tries to sell Disney on the idea of adapting the Grahame story, but before he can get to the big man himself he goes on a veritable tour of the studio. What follows is as much an inside-look at filmmaking as anything Hollywood had ever given viewers by the early 1940s. It plays like a DVD “making of” feature nearly 60 years before DVDs were invented, so no wonder, after the towering heights of “Snow White,” “Pinocchio,” and “Fantasia,” critics were puzzled by this especially strange theatrical release....

In the memo, Dolan, the CEO of AMC parent company MSG Entertainment, attributed the decision to subscriber losses via cord-cutting, or the cancellation of cable bundles in favor of streaming. Dolan said that AMC initially believed gains in subscribers for their streamers like AMC+ and Shudder would offset losses from cable cutting, but their estimates proved to be wrong. “It was our belief that cord cutting losses would be offset by gains in streaming....