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Take, for instance, a scene early in Sean Durkin’s fraught marital drama, “The Nest.” Having just been told by her status-obsessed husband, Rory (Jude Law), that they need to uproot the family and move to England, Allison O’Hara (Coon) drives to her cherished job as a riding instructor with a lot on her mind. Heart’s “These Dreams” blasts out the open windows, and Allison absentmindedly takes a drag from her lit cigarette as she gulps down her morning coffee....

“For the first time of my life, I decided to work with more than one unit because otherwise I would not be here…it was too much work to do in too little time,” Villeneuve told Nolan. “For the first time, I had to learn to direct multiple units and that’s not the best way to work. I love to work with one camera, one tripod. But I didn’t have a choice…I had to do it this way....

The nominations for the 2021 Oscars will be announced Monday, March 15, ahead of the 93rd Academy Awards telecast on Sunday, April 25. The Academy pushed back the ceremony this year in the wake of the COVID pandemic. Films that were set for a theatrical release but headed to streaming and/or PVOD instead are eligible for Oscar consideration. The Oscar cutoff date for release eligibility is February 28, 2021. The complete rundown of Oscar shortlists is below....

Fritz Lang’s original “Metropolis” is one of the most influential films in cinematic history. The silent film, which tells the story of a futuristic dystopia with a massive class divide, was one of the first feature length science fiction films ever made, as well as a quintessential example of the German Expressionism movement. Any remake of the film will inevitably be subject to massive scrutiny, as many cinephiles will find it hard to imagine a remake topping the original....

There’s no chalking it up to crowded fields, or voter bias. It all comes down to the rules: Prior to last Oscar season, a film score had to contain 60 percent original music in order to compete in Best Original Score, a threshold “Green Book,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “Let Them All Talk,” and “Pieces of a Woman” didn’t meet. With the bar that high, some scores with an even greater emphasis on pre-existing songs (a....

Among the nominees for film are Oscar hopefuls “Mank,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” with TV accolades including “The Mandalorian,” “The Queen’s Gambit,” and “What We Do in the Shadows.” In terms of features, Netflix was the big film winner, grabbing seven ADG nominations, including three period dramas (David Fincher’s black-and-white “Mank” biopic, George C. Wolfe’s adaptation of August Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” and Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7”); one fantasy film (George Clooney’s “The Midnight Sky”); and three contemporary films (Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods,” Charlie Kaufman’s “I’m Thinking of Ending Things,” and Ryan Murphy’s “The Prom”)....

Cinépolis CEO Alejandro Ramírez Magaña, who oversees the world’s fourth-largest theater chain, had a message for studio execs sitting at front-and-center reserved tables: The best way to avoid piracy is a healthy and exclusive theatrical window. On the flip side, day-and-date streaming is perfect if you want your film to be pirated — it’s virtually a guarantee for illegal downloading and a loss of revenue. And: He brought receipts (and his corporate communications team sent them to IndieWire)....