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But don’t think Wall Street is writing off Paramount, which has attracted renewed attention after “Top Gun: Maverick” became the year’s biggest box-office success story and Warren Buffett’s company bought a $2.6 billion stake in Paramount in May. Like Mav in the cockpit, Buffett has a history of knowing what he’s doing. Paramount outperformed almost all its media peers this year, its stock is down 19.57 percent, bested only by Fox, which is down 11....

“Paul [McCartney] describes it as being very raw,” Jackson said. “He said to me: ‘That is a very accurate portrayal of how we were then.’ Ringo [Starr] said: ‘It’s truthful.’ The truthfulness of it is important to them. They don’t want a whitewash. They don’t want it to be sanitized. Disney wanted to remove all the swearing and Ringo, Paul, and Olivia [Harrison] said: ‘That’s how we spoke. That’s how we talked....

This list has been updated to include “Nomadland,” which Almodóvar watched after the initial publication of his favorite films. “Nomadland,” by Chloé Zhao After Fern (Frances McDormand) loses all, there’s nothing left for her to do but wandering around and melting with every landscape she stumbles upon in the endless trip that she starts. All the non-professional actors are impressive. McDormand’s look is the most beautiful, moving and deepest landscape of them all....

The cackling lovechild of Abe Vigoda and the Wicked Witch of the West, Doofenshmirtz has come up with all sorts of cockamamie schemes to destroy Perry over the years — one for each of the 222 episodes of “Phineas and Ferb” that aired on the Disney Channel between 2007 and 2015 — but the Chicken Replace-inator has to be among the dumbest and most inspired. Decades after Jeff “Swampy” Marsh and Dan Povenmire first hit upon the basic idea behind their wonderful animated series for kids of all ages, they’re still finding new ways to have fun with it....

As a Mexican-American woman beginning her rise in Hollywood, Dávila excels at mapping her own experiences onto fictional characters, avoiding the autobiographical trap into which many women creatives often get pigeonholed. Despite her early success, she’s not immune to impostor syndrome. “The process of directing had been very mysterious to me for a long time. … I think that there was this mental hurdle of thinking of myself as a director,” the filmmaker said in a recent interview with IndieWire....

Where to Watch “Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal”: HBO Max (the show originally aired on Adult Swim) There’s nothing on TV that will rattle your insides quite like the victory roars in “Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal.” They come from a prehistoric man, Spear (voiced by Aaron LaPlante), his unexpected dinosaur companion, Fang, or any of the handful of vicious predators that the two encounter on their travels across a pre-civilization Earth. The Emmy-winning animated series (few wins were more justified in the 2021 season than its award for Outstanding Animated Program, to go with its other four equally deserved trophies for Individual Achievement in Animation) doesn’t need much more of a premise than that....

But their previous collaboration on the Asian-American rom-com hit proved to be a valuable springboard for transforming Washington Heights into a playground for each musical number. Only the amount of detail was staggering and a lot more complex, as they incorporated influences from the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. “One of the exciting ideas that Jon had for the whole movie, instead of having each number being variations on a theme, he wanted each one to have its own identity and its own look and feel,” Coates said....