FEBRUARY 22, 2021

'Croods 2' Leads the Box Office, Again, on the Lowest-Grossing Weekend of 2021 Searchlight didn't report grosses, but theater data shows "Nomadland" placed in the top 10 despite Hulu availability.  By Tom Brueggemann

'All Creatures Great and Small': TV's Sweetest Show Delivers an Emotionally Honest Ending Series creator Ben Vanstone unpacks the show's first Christmas special and previews what's in store for Season 2.  By Steve Greene	Zendaya Says Her 'Agency Was Stripped Away' by Backlash Over 'Malcolm & Marie' White Director "John David, I, and Sam equally own this film," Zendaya says. "It’s not like it belongs to someone else and I just got cast in it."  By Zack Sharf

Woody Allen, Soon-Yi Previn Condemn 'Allen v. Farrow' as 'Shoddy Hit Piece' with 'No Interest in the Truth' The filmmaker and his wife issued a statement criticizing HBO shortly after the network aired the first episode of "Allen v. Farrow."  By Zack Sharf	'Miss Scarlet and the Duke' Creator Didn't Want to Just Put Sherlock Holmes in a Wig When series creator Rachael New sat down to conceive "Miss Scarlet," she took stock of how characters were being envisioned in the wake of t … By Kristen Lopez

	'Fortnite' Is the First Video Game to Host a Film Festival, with a Potential Audience of 350 Million An animated short film festival is a video-game first, but it's one of many film and music events that Epic Games is using to broaden its ap … By Tyler Hersko
	Warner Bros. Executive Slams Joss Whedon's 'Justice League' Cut: 'Stupefying' and 'Piece of Sh*t' The anonymous executive tells Vanity Fair that nobody at Warner Bros. wanted to admit how horrible Whedon's "Justice League" came out.  By Zack Sharf
	Perfectionist David Fincher Won't Let Marc Maron Release Their Two-and-a-Half-Hour Interview "He didn’t think it was right. He wouldn’t let us release it," Maron said of his conversation with Fincher, which is still sitti … By Ryan Lattanzio
	'Framing Britney Spears' Filmmakers Say There's More Than Enough Material for a Followup Interest in Spears' life and story is buzzing since the debut of the New York Times documentary on Hulu, sparking questions about a possible … By Ryan Lattanzio
	Time's Up Slams Brett Ratner's Return to Hollywood: 'We Have Not - and Will Not - Forget' Sexual harassment and assault allegations first surfaced around the director in the fall of 2017.  By Ryan Lattanzio