Film News

NEW YORK (AP) — The fallout from the actors strike , now past 100 days, has been widespread throughout the film industry. Movies large and small have postponed . Sound stages remain shuttered. Adjacent industries have been devastated.

The wife of a man who nearly died of an opioid overdose comes bursting into the office of the sleazy doctor who prescribed it, wrongly, in exchange for personal gain. She slugs the doctor, in her agony.

TORONTO — How do you get people to pay attention to the opioid epidemic? For English director David Yates and Canadian producer Lawrence Grey, the answer was simple: make it funny.

Just in time for Halloween comes “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” a video game adaptation with the potential treat of demented Chuck E. Cheese-like animatronic creatures running amok. But the trick turns out to be on us.

Dreamily gazing at the album covers of Elvis Presley was not, statistically speaking, a rare habit among American teen girls in the late 1950s and early ’60s. But for Priscilla Beaulieu, teenage fantasy became a strange and surreal reality.

NEW YORK (AP) — The eighth installment of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise has been postponed a year, signaling a new wave of release schedule juggling for Hollywood studios as the actors strike surpasses three months of work stoppage.

Let nobody say writer-director Maryam Keshavarz doesn’t know how to start a movie.

Alexander Payne brings audiences to a New England boarding school in 1970 in “ The Holdovers ,” a textured, nostalgic and often funny piece about three lonely and mismatched souls stuck together over Christmas break.

NEW YORK (AP) — In a movie match-up almost as unlikely as “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” Martin Scorsese took on Taylor Swift in cinemas over the weekend.

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian action thriller that tells a gripping story of corruption and police brutality in Africa’s most populous country has reached record viewership numbers on Netflix charts globally.