ADAM MCKAY

The effects of climate change are being felt more quickly than we thought possible, but the Academy Award-winning director says there are actions we can take now to deal with this existential threat.

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 albums from the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Thomas Rhett, a look back at Whitney Houston's life and legacy and the musical comedy “Better Nate Than Ever.”.

John C. Reilly competes with sports trivia for the spotlight in "Winning Time," HBO’s star-studded drama about the Los Angeles Lakers’ Showtime era.

In an upset, the deaf family drama “CODA” has won top honors at a very unpredictable 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards that also saw wins for the leads of “Squid Game,” the cast of “Ted Lasso” and Will Smith.

Lincoln Center will honor Cate Blanchett with its 47th Chaplin Award at the arts organization’s annual fundraising gala.

Kirsten Dunst says earning an Oscar nomination along with her fiancé Jesse Plemons is like a “fairy tale.”.

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.

Americans will soon realize that the interest on our national debt is costing taxpayers a frightening percentage of our national income and wealth.

Adam McKay, creator of Netflix's popular satire-comedy movie "Don't Look Up," and climate scientist Kate Marvel talk why the world needs more films like the comet metaphor movie.

Can movies like Don’t Look Up parody a society already too absurd for fiction?

Director Adam McKay told Variety that the star came up with the line between takes of the dinner scene.

In the middle of the movie, there's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment of the crew filming a scene. Adam McKay said it was left in on purpose.

"You've got the patch there. In fact, I was observing a little Latin phrase at the bottom, what does that say?" "'Hic Servare Diem,' which means 'Here to save the day.'"

Friday, December 24, 2021 I “Encanto” begins to stream on Disney Plus.

“In the edit room, we had to do this weird straddling of reality versus bonkers,” the director Adam McKay says of his new Netflix film.

With a touch of Barbara Stanwyck, a sumptuous Art Deco office and a deadly shade of crimson lipstick, Cate Blanchett plays a femme fatale in Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley” with cunning embrace and subversion of the film noir archetype.

This week’s new entertainment releases include fresh music from U2 as part of the soundtrack for the animated “Sing 2,” a marathon of holiday films on TCM and the end-of-the-world comedy “Don’t Look Up.”.

Science is perfectly at the forefront of this star-studded story, but will the jokes connect with a wide audience?

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 stars and writer-director Adam McKay discuss their new film, a satire about Earth's impending collision with a comet that offers a comical analogy to climate change – and mankind's reluctance to deal with it.

Preview: The stars and director talk with "CBS Sunday Morning" about the best way to approach a catastrophic topic – through satire.

A look at the features for this week's broadcast of the #1 Sunday morning news program

What would humanity do if a giant space rock were hurtling directly towards Earth? According to director Adam McKay ("The Big Short," "Anchorman," "Step Brothers"), we might not even care.

Timothée Chalamet will play Willy Wonka in a musical based on the early life of the eccentric chocolatier.

Neflix says it's "kicking 2021 off with a bang" — and it appears that momentum will last all year. The streaming service is set to release a new movie every single week of 2021, the company announced on Tuesday. Not only is the 2021 movie slate star-studded, but many of the films are created by award-winning filmmakers, including Adam McKay, who is behind movies like "Vice" and "The Big Short." Plus, popular Netflix films like "To All the Boys" and "The Kissing Booth" will get the final installments in their trilogies. With some movie theaters starting to fail — even before the pandemic hit — and many people staying at home, streaming services like Netflix are receiving more and more content.

This combination photo shows poster art for political documentaries, from left, "All In: The Fight for Democracy," "Boys State," "537 Votes," "Slay the Dragon," and "The Fight." The election has unleashed an avalanche of documentaries like no season before it. In a presidential election of enormous stakes, filmmakers have rushed to finish their films before Election Day. (Amazon, from left, Apple TV Plus, HBO Max, Magnolia Pictures, Magnolia Pictures via AP)NEW YORK – The election has unleashed an avalanche of documentaries like no season before it. In a presidential election of enormous stakes, filmmakers have rushed to finish their films before Election Day, to try to inform, sway and entertain the electorate.

FILE - Director Adam McKay appears during a photo call for the film "Vice" at the 2019 Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin, Germany on Feb. 11, 2019. It’s also a lively film that resurrects 2000 not just via hanging chads but by following the cultural atmosphere. Alongside interviews with backroom players like Roger Stone, “SNL” sketches make frequent cameos — including some McKay wrote. McKAY: The movie we’re making right now is about a comet that’s going to hit Earth. McKAY: I think it’s the strangest thing I’ve ever experienced in my life.

Writer, producer and director Adam McKay brought us comedy hits like “Anchorman,” “Talladega Nights” and “Step Brothers.” His latest movie, “The Big Short,” is based on Michael Lewis’ nonfiction bestseller, which follows the events leading up to the 2008 financial crisis. The film won the top movie award from the Producers Guild of America and is also up for five Oscar nominations, including one for best director. McKay joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss the movie and the Oscar nominations diversity controversy.