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President Biden fired Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul, a Trump holdover, after he refused to resign.

Saul, who was fired on Friday, said he does not intend to leave and claims the White House’s move to fire him as the head of the independent agency, which usually doesn’t change along with a new administration, is illegal. Saul’s six-year term was supposed to run until January 2025.

“I consider myself the term-protected commissioner of Social Security,” Saul told The Washington Post while calling the attempt to unseat him a “Friday Night Massacre.

Australian rock outfit Amyl and the Sniffers have released a new song, “Guided by Angels” from their upcoming album, Comfort to Me, out September 10th via Ato Records.

“Guided by Angels” is a driving track with a distinct post-punk edge as Amy Taylor bellows her cathartic, chant-like vocals over big riffs and thundering drums. The track arrives with a music video, directed by John Angus Stewart, in which Taylor dances around and belts the song in various locales — a field, a storage unit, the ocean — as her bandmates stand cooly by.

Domestic theaters, now mostly reopen even with five new studio movies in the last three weeks, could only muster a total gross of $45 million this past weekend. That’s less than a quarter of what the same weekend in 2019 took in. That week was dominated by “Toy Story 4.” Disney released the Pixar sequel targeting the Father’s Day audience. That timing only added to an already monster hit that took in $121 million initially, and $434 million domestic all told.

This weekend, two new films were timed to Father’s Day, at least in part. Unfortunately for struggling theaters, neither had them in mind.

“Luca,” Pixar’s latest, debuted on Disney+ free for subscribers (unlike some other recent Premium VOD offerings). No viewership reports have emerged. But the figure might have been in the millions just in the U.S. And with the low end of a Pixar opening this century at $39 million,...

Photo: ‘Security’/Netflix My Obsession With International Films Over the years, I have realized that I have become more and more interested in film from other countries. It’s possible that I have become so used to seeing the same faces in Hollywood, and felt that the unfamiliarity in foreign history, and the talent from other countries, would provide more entertainment and diversity for me. Italian psychological thriller, and crime film, ‘Security’ has appeared on the ever-growing ‘Netflix’ roster, earlier this week. I could not have been more excited to watch it, considering I have yet to be disappointed with any international film I have seen so far. Related article: A Tribute to Cannes Film Festival: A Celebration of Cinema, Glamour, and Humanity | Statement From Hollywood Insider’s CEO Pritan Ambroase Related article: Five Forgotten Superhero Performances That Were Actually Great Initially, I had thought that ‘Security’ must have been an older film,...

Exclusive: Two-time BAFTA nominee Peter Chelsom is making his second feature, the revenge thriller The Beauty of Sharks with Indiana Production in Italy. The news comes as Chelsom’s Italian thriller Security drops on Netflix today.

Written by Rob Green with rewrites by Chelsom and Tinker Linsday, the pic, set in 1958, follows Mrs. Joy Hamilton, a recently widowed American socialite on the brink of ending her life when she sees the chance to avenge a famous millionairess, whose son she raised as her own. Believing the son to be dead, Mrs. Hamilton recruits a handsome gigolo to be the imposter in a dangerous confidence trick. The Beauty of Sharks will shoot in Amalfi in January and casting is underway. Colin Vaines and Lee Brazier will produce.

Chelsom tells Deadline, “It’s very much a ‘modern period film’ – a story that addresses issues of privilege, prejudice and fluidity which, by virtue...