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If one looks at the Ryan Murphy/Netflix collaborations in total, you’d be safe saying the pair haven’t crafted a match made in heaven (massive viewing numbers for “Dahmer” notwithstanding). Which is a shame, as “The Watcher” is probably the best series Murphy’s worked on for the streaming giant. What makes “The Watcher” soar is Murphy going back to what worked for him with the first “American Horror Story”: a haunted house film with a cadre of characters you simultaneously liked yet were irritated by....

The “Everything Everywhere All at Once” actress is officially set to receive the inaugural TIFF Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey announced that Yeoh will be honored during the TIFF Tribute Awards presented by BVLGARI as part of an in-person gala fundraiser on Sunday, September 11 at Fairmont Royal York Hotel. “Michelle Yeoh is the definition of groundbreaking,” Bailey said. “Her screen work has spanned continents, genres and decades....

What set Emmett’s murder and Mamie’s crusade apart from other lynchings of the time — of which there were many — was Mamie’s fierce dedication to showing, quite literally, what a pair of white Mississippi men (and, perhaps, others) had done to her boy. Showing Emmett’s desecrated body at his very public funeral, a ruined, bloated, mutilated shell of the vibrant child, was a non-negotiable for Mamie, and it’s the same for Chinonye Chukwu’s “Till,” which offers a lightly dramatized version of Emmett and Mamie’s story, one that only comes to life when daring to be as fierce, as confrontational, and as passionate as the real Mamie....

In this week’s episode of Screen Talk, fresh from a posh dinner at the festival, Eric Kohn and Anne Thompson sit down at their Cannes apartment to discuss their experiences on the ground. They debate a few of the higher-profile entries so far, including documentaries on Val Kilmer and the Velvet Underground as well as “Cow,” the experimental effort from Andrea Arnold. They also touch on the relative quietness of the market, why it doesn’t seem to be getting in the way of anyone doing business at the festival, and then close by looking ahead to their expectations for next week....

Deadline reported that Coogler, who also is directing a film sequel to “Black Panther,” will develop several television shows as part of a new five-year overall exclusive television deal between Disney and Coogler’s Proximity Media. Other details about the Wakanda show, including an official title, casting details, and a release date, were not provided. “Ryan Coogler is a singular storyteller whose vision and range have made him one of the standout filmmakers of his generation,” Disney executive chairman Bob Iger said in a statement....

Warner Bros. Discovery is going at FAST, well, fast. On the company’s most recent quarterly earnings call, Zaslav said WBD “will be aggressively attacking the AVOD market with our own FAST offering in 2023.” Between that and the pending combination of HBO Max and Discovery+, WBD engineers should probably plan to work through the holidays. Zaslav sees his company’s giant film and TV library as providing a “unique opportunity to increase our addressable market and drive real value....

Monroe stars as Julie, who joins her husband (Karl Glusman) when he has to relocate to his family’s native Romania for a new job. Julie only recently abandoned her acting career to follow him to Bucharest, and so she often finds herself alone, unoccupied and despondent amid the anonymous apartment complex that surrounds her. (The blank facades and crumbling interiors of the structures suggest corporate housing made after the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu....