The affluent L.A. neighborhood of Brentwood, where actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found dead inside their home, has been the scene of a number of high-profile Hollywood tragedies.

There's a good chance that his reign in entertainment is about to come to a close when Warner Bros. Discovery sells. The only question is his legacy.

Generative AI video technology is not yet good enough for anyone to make an entire feature-length movie. But Bekmambetov felt compelled to try. He adapted The Man With a Shattered World, a book about a young soldier who sustains a traumatic brain injury in battle and the efforts to recover his memories.

Tributes rolled in late Sunday for Rob Reiner — whose warm, empathetic work as a director and actor made him a pillar of Hollywood for decades — as investigators worked to determine what led to the deaths of Mr. Reiner and his wife, Michele.

Alison Dumbell, a co-founder of Upstage with experience in Bollywood and Los Angeles, said she has noticed more demands for “characters that are specifically Korean” than generic “East Asian” ones from Western producers. She attributes that shift partly to the global popularity of South Korean entertainment.

A multilayered political thriller, a dark-comedy salute to radical resistance, a ping-pong picaresque and a bluesy vampire tale set in Jim Crow Mississippi are among THR film reviewers’ favorites of the year.

Several Hollywood unions, including the Writers Guild of America and Teamsters, have expressed serious concerns over a potential sale of Warner Bros. Discovery or its assets to Netflix or Paramount.