Movies

• Warner Bros. Board Rebuffs Paramount’s Latest Buyout Offer - The board said the blockbuster deal it reached with Netflix last month posed less risk.
• Critics Choice Awards 2026: The Complete Winners List - “Frankenstein” took several early trophies, including best supporting actor for Jacob Elordi. In TV, “Adolescence” and “The Studio” were big winners.
• He’s Chevy Chase, and He’s Still Like That - The famously prickly comedian found a sympathetic adversary in the director of a CNN documentary about him. Their conversation with a reporter was … spirited.
• Women Directed Fewer Box Office Hits in 2025, Report Finds - The number of female filmmakers dropped to 8.1 percent this year from 13.4 percent in 2024, according to a study from the University of Southern California.
• Brigitte Bardot: A Life in Pictures - The movies made the French actress a star, but photography sealed her stardom.
• Brigitte Bardot, French Movie Icon Who Renounced Stardom, Dies at 91 - “And God Created Woman” made her a world-famous sex symbol in the 1950s. She later gave up acting to devote her life to animal welfare.
• Good Calls - This week, we close out the year with your best advice of 2025.
• Park Chan-wook and the Funny Thing About Stomach-Churning Horror - When American studios wouldn’t back his film about a laid-off manager committing gruesome murders, the director returned to Korea. Now he has a hit on his hands.
• That Old Classic Film in the Theater? It Might Be From This Man’s House. - The artifacts of 20th-century cinema are being preserved in museums, and in the care of private film collectors like Brian Darwas, who has hundreds of movie prints at his home.
• May Britt, 91, Dies; Her Marriage to Sammy Davis Jr. Sparked Outrage - She was a white actress, he was a popular Black entertainer, and their relationship elicited racist reactions in 1960, worrying John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign.