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Elon Musk has called the documentarian Alex Gibney many names on X in the last few months: “crackpot,” “douchebag to his core,” “an idiot,” and someone for whom “dogsh*t is worth more respect.” That’s because Gibney made a four-hour documentary about him, “Musk,” which arrives in U.S. theaters October 9. 

It’s hard to imagine most movie scenes happening any other way. But behind plenty of memorable moments is a script that once looked completely different. Characters with different lines, scenes playing out in unexpected ways, and sometimes entire sequences that took a completely different direction before the cameras rolled. A few of these original ideas…

The history of the video game movie is exceedingly perplexing. It’s basically 27 years of almost non-stop failures (save for the occasional hit like the original “Lara Croft” film, “Rampage,” or “Pokémon: Detective Pikachu”) until “Sonic the Hedgehog” suddenly ushered in a new golden box office age for these projects. Subsequently, the 2020s have been full of massive…

What appears on screen can be completely convincing, even when the reality behind the camera looks almost ridiculous. A terrifying location might turn out to be a tiny set, a massive fantasy world can be built inside a studio, and actors who seem to be interacting with something extraordinary may actually be staring at a…