JOEL COEN

With London’s stages closed for much of the pandemic, Mark Rylance — one of the theater’s most soulful actors — made six films.

This week’s new entertainment releases include a new album from Def Leppard, a five-part Apple+ series on dinosaurs and a documentary about the late composer Stephen Sondheim and his musical “Company.”.

A play that offers an audaciously Shakespearean take on recent and future U.S. politics is running at London's Old Vic theater.

Jane Campion’s gothic western “The Power of the Dog” leads all nominees for this year's Oscars, where streaming services more than ever before swept over Hollywood’s top honors.

It’s time again to celebrate Hollywood’s grandest ambitions and most daring risk takers.

Denzel Washington leads a magnificent ensemble in this stark, minimalist adaptation of a Shakespearean tragedy.

The Stream This combination of photos shows, from left, promotional art for "The Tragedy of Macbeth," album art for "The Boy Named If," by Elvis Costello & The Imposters" and "The Peacemaker" a series on HBO Max. MOVIES— In Joel Coen's first film without his brother, Ethan, he directs the stark, expressionist "The Tragedy of Macbeth," starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand. The film, which begins streaming Friday on Apple TV+, is shot in black-and-white and dense with atmosphere. — AP Film Writer Jake CoyleMUSIC— Elvis Costello and his band The Imposters release "The Boy Named If" on Friday. — AP Entertainment Writer Mark KennedyTELEVISION— John Cena reprises his "The Suicide Squad" role in the DC universe spin-off series "Peacemaker."

This week’s new entertainment releases include new albums from Elvis Costello and The Lumineers, and John Cena reprises his “The Suicide Squad” role in the DC universe spin-off series “Peacemaker.”.

Film - Joel Coen This image released by A24 shows director Joel Coen, left, and actor Frances McDormand on the set of "The Tragedy of Macbeth." And, so, I missed him because that wasn’t there,” Coen said in a recent interview. We weren’t interested in a rent-a-castle version.”As much as the film is a departure for Coen, “The Tragedy of Macbeth” isn't really a solo act. “There are echoes of things we’ve done in the past in this play,” Coen says. They’re a slice of cake" — but in “Macbeth,” he pushed further into a more heightened, theatrical movie realm.

Joel Coen's “The Tragedy of Macbeth" is an intoxicatingly expressionist Shakespeare adaptation dense in fog and shadow.

Denzel Washington the actor has some 60 films under his belt, plus two Oscars, and at 66 is universally regarded as one of the all-time greats.

The American Film Institute lined up behind many of the year’s end-of-year Oscar contenders, naming Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story,” Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” and Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up” among the year’s 10 best films.

The New York Film Critics Circle on Friday named “Drive My Car,” Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s three-hour emotional epic and Haruki Murakami’s short story adaptation, the best film of the year.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Licorice Pizza” has been named the best film of the year by the National Board of Review.

Fresh off his turn as James Bond, Daniel Craig has his next project lined up and its also got plenty of blood being spilled.

After a pandemic-prompted virtual festival last year, movies return to the big screen at the annual NYC celebration of world cinema.

Film-New York Film Festival This image released by Apple shows Denzel Washington, left, and Frances McDormand in a scene from “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” premiering at the New York Film Festival. (Alison Rosa/Apple via AP) (Alison Rosa)NEW YORK — (AP) — Joel Coen, in his first solo outing as a filmmaker, premiered a strikingly stark, black-and-white adaptation of Shakespeare's “Macbeth," with Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, at the New York Film Festival on Friday. “I didn’t want to abandon the notion of the play," Coen told reporters after a screening. The film, which a24 will release in theaters Dec. 25 and which will debut in January on Apple TV+, was the most anticipated premiere of the New York Film Festival. But it was also due to the star power of its lead actors — Washington as Macbeth and McDormand as Lady Macbeth.

Joel Coen, in his first solo outing as a filmmaker, premiered a strikingly stark, black-and-white adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” with Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, at the New York Film Festival on Friday.

The fall movie season -- usually a reliable rhythm and cozy autumn comfort — is this year, like much of the past 18 months, a little disorienting.

Movies from 77 countries will screen at the 2021 London Film Festival, as Britain’s leading cinema showcase welcomes mass audiences back to movie theaters after a pandemic-disrupted year.

A year after depending on drive-in and virtual screenings, the New York Film Festival, one of the premier destinations of the fall festival circuit, will return to in-person premieres at Lincoln Center this September, with vaccination proof required for all attendees.

Joel Coen's "The Tragedy of Macbeth" starring McDormand and Washington will have its world premiere on opening night of the New York Film Festival, organizers said Thursday, July 22, 2021. (AP Photo) (Uncredited)Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” starring Frances McDormand and Denzel Washington will have its world premiere on opening night of the New York Film Festival, organizers said Thursday. Washington plays the Scottish Lord and McDormand stars as the scheming Lady in Coen’s black and white adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy. “The New York Film Festival is a place where I’ve been watching movies as an audience member and showing them as a filmmaker for almost 50 years,” said Coen in a statement. “We’re proud to open the festival with a film that immediately joins the ranks of the great screen Shakespeares,” said Dennis Lim, Director of Programming for the New York Film Festival.

Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” starring Frances McDormand and Denzel Washington will have its world premiere on opening night of the New York Film Festival, organizers said Thursday.

Scott Rudin says he’s “stepping back” from film and streaming projects, along with his Broadway productions, as the fallout continued for one of the entertainment industry’s most powerful producers following renewed accusations of bullying.