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And so, well after his opening dedication “To my brother Vittorio,” Taviani never stops finding new ways to evoke his loss, just as the film proper never stops reinventing itself. A travelogue not only across land but also through moods and styles and diverse film forms, “Leonora Addio” finds more success in some registers than in others, offering an experience at different points deeply moving and quite baffling, though thankfully the former outshines the latter....

Lisa Kudrow revealed during a recent Daily Beast interview that despite fan hopes and internal conversations with series co-creator Michael Patrick King, the HBO cult favorite “The Comeback” is unlikely to get a Season 3. “I don’t think we’re gonna make it! Not make it ever, but I don’t think we’re gonna make it in nine years,” Kudrow said. “We also don’t know if HBO wants it, by the way. But we haven’t asked....

Why? Well, Assayas saw the need to update the meta message of fame, mirrored celebrity, and even international filmmaking collaborations for the modern age. He felt the original film, starring his now ex-wife Maggie Cheung, has “nothing to do with the world.” “We are in a moment of very deep transformation of whatever we call cinema, in terms of aesthetics, in terms of financing, in terms of viewing,” Assayas explained to the Los Angeles Times....

Back in Episode 4, podcaster extraordinaire Cinda Canning (Tina Fey) not only provided the narration that bookended “The Sting,” but she also teased the ending of “Only Murders in the Building” by flashing “a few months” ahead. The host of “All Is Not OK in Oklahoma” — the true crime series that first brought together Charles (Steve Martin), Mabel (Selena Gomez), and Oliver (Martin Short) — was suddenly talking about them, only it didn’t make much sense at the time....

New Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences CEO Bill Kramer confirmed that all 23 categories will be presented live, reversing the 2022 decision to cut eight Oscar categories from the live broadcast. This year, original score, makeup and hairstyling, documentary short, film editing, production design, animated short, live-action short, and sound were axed from the main telecast, drawing backlash from guilds and industry leaders like Steven Spielberg and Guillermo del Toro....

This comes as “Nomadland,” winner for Best Picture, Actress, and Director, reduced its price Tuesday to $5.99. Prior, it was available as a $14.99 Premium VOD offering after its initial launch in theaters and on Hulu. (The rentals bump came before the price reduction.) Platforms vary in how quickly they reflect changes in viewership, but AppleTV is one of the most responsive. That shows in today’s rankings, which reflect transactions rather than pricing....

Deadline recently reported that Netflix has ordered a documentary series from Cutler based on the “Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul” book by Time Magazine correspondent Jamie Ducharme. Cutler will direct and executive produce the series, while Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey will executive produce for Amblin Television. Elise Pearlstein and Trevor Smith will executive produce for THis Machine and Ian Orefice and Rebecca Teitel will executive produce for Time Studios....