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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ari Aster really doesn’t want to talk about “Beau Is Afraid.” “This is so not the right thing,” he laughed anxiously during a recent press day for his new film. “I shouldn’t be talking about this movie for another 10 years.

Beau may be afraid but Ari Aster certainly isn't. Of the many words used to describe the writer-director's previous two films — “Hereditary” and “Midsommar” — timidity was never of them.

TORONTO — A Canadian Screen Awards special that replaced a live show took on a patriotic tone Sunday night, promoting the work of this country's film and TV creatives and celebrities.

“The Super Mario Bros. Movie" scored the best second weekend ever for an animated movie in North American theaters with $87 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.

TOKYO (AP) — Takeshi Kitano’s new film, premiering at the Cannes Film Festival next month, is a samurai story without heroes, mercilessly portraying human greed, betrayal and cruelty.

TORONTO — CBC's historical saga “The Porter” swept the Canadian Screen Awards on Friday with 12 wins including best drama, wrapping a week of festivities that turned out to be a celebration of Black excellence in media.

NEW YORK (AP) — Clint Eastwood is getting back in the director's chair. The “Unforgiven” and “Gran Torino” filmmaker is set to direct the legal drama “Juror No. 2" for his longtime studio, Warner Bros.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Rev. Edward Siebert's journey with “The Pope's Exorcist,” a film about arguably the most famous exorcist in the Catholic Church, began with an adventuresome visit to Milan about six years ago.

At first, when suburban mom Kristin gets the mysterious call to head to Italy to settle the affairs of a dead relative, she protests she’s too busy.

“Renfield” is not Nicolas Cage's first blush with a vampire. In 1988's “Vampire's Kiss,” he played a New York literary agent who thought he was an immortal bloodsucker.