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"We’ve lived long enough to see all the stuff that we were beaten for loving become the fine art of our day," said show creator Seth Green.
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That Christopher Nolan would hit a home run with “The Odyssey” was as predictable as Odysseus’s return to Ithaca. What’s maybe a little more surprising is that he has hit a grand slam. The movie earned a staggering $124 million its opening weekend, with its IMAX showings sold out for the rest of the millennium […]
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Stratospheric costs could prevent the fire-damaged landmark from returning to its former glory. Now, unless a wealthy patron is found, the building seems destined for ‘soulless’ facade retention or ‘curated decay’ Doubly destroyed by two fires, Scotland’s finest piece of architecture, the Mackintosh building at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA), cuts a lamentable sight, its charred carcass tightly shrouded in white plastic sheeting, like a vacuum-packed Christo sculpture.A 12-year saga of destruct
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SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for the first eight episodes of “Cape Fear,” now streaming on Apple TV. Javier Bardem has played plenty of villainous roles — the suave Raoul Silva in “Skyfall,” the devilish Anton Chigurh in “No Country for Old Men.” But Max Cady opened up something new for the Oscar winner, […]
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Jake Johnson has never been more booked and busy. The “New Girl” veteran is currently starring in three TV shows: “Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed,” a cheeky Apple TV+ thriller opposite Tatiana Maslany that’s drawn critical raves; “Sunset P.I.,” an upcoming NBC comedy as a private investigator roaming L.A.; and “Cable Guy,” a Hulu pilot inspired by […]
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As studios embrace AI and analog film makes a comeback, the nation's top programs are racing to future-proof their students with courses that run the gamut from emerging tech to the celluloid arts. THR’s annual rankings anoints the nation’s top programs as they navigate an industry in flux and graduate the next Ryan Coogler and Chloé Zhao.
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From Tokyo to Toronto, we scoured the globe to find the top academies for acting, directing, crafts and animation.
Hollywood Reporter
Keith David voices President Andre Curtis in Dan Harmon and James Siciliano's American history-skewing animated series.
Hollywood Reporter
'Avengers: Doomsday' traps 60 characters in round rooms. Ed Harris channels Taylor Sheridan to criticize Taylor Sheridan. The TV Academy fumbles. Cinerama Dome saved.
Variety
Leslie Odom Jr. was forced to exit a matinee performance of “Hamilton” in London mid-show Thursday. Variety understands Odom bowed out after the first act and was replaced by Manaia Glassey-Ohlson. He did not appear in the evening performance of the show. A spokesperson for “Hamilton” declined to elaborate on what caused Odom’s exit but […]
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As the Malaysia International Film Festival (MIFFest) approaches its 10th anniversary next year, founder Joanne Goh is looking beyond expansion. “We expect the festival to become a hub of Southeast Asia,” Goh tells Variety, outlining her vision for MIFFest as a meeting place for filmmakers, producers and industry leaders across the region. That vision gained […]
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Eight years after “Burning,” Lee Chang-dong is preparing to return with Venice competition title “Possible Love,” but the acclaimed Korean filmmaker says the long gap was never about stepping away from cinema. Speaking with Variety at the Malaysia International Film Festival (MIFFest), where he received a Lifetime Achievement Award, Lee says the years since “Burning” […]
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On today’s episode of Variety‘s “Strictly Business” podcast, Madison Wells Media chief Gigi Pritzker and newly appointed president and chief content officer Dan Steinman discuss how the well-positioned indie navigates the ups and downs of a transforming marketplace. “We have to be smarter,” Pritzker says. “Even inexpensive movies are expensive,” says Steinman. Pritzker explains why […]
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The social platform says it will test a video-first look for users when they open the app in select countries, potentially bringing it to the U.S. next year.
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Cecilia Vega, who was fired as a correspondent from CBS News’ “60 Minutes” in a major shake-up three months ago, is speaking out about her experience at the TV newsmagazine under Bari Weiss’ leadership. Vega said the “new administration” at CBS News — indicating Weiss, whom Paramount installed as editor in chief of the division […]
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Sky Yang and Sean Kaufman will star alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones in Paramount‘s upcoming adaptation of Gabrielle Zevin’s best-selling novel “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.” Set over several decades, the story follows Sadie and her co-collaborator Sam Masur, who meet as children and then reunite as college students, as well as Sam’s roommate and friend Marx […]
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They may not make the music or mastermind the marketing campaigns, but — duh! — the music business wouldn’t and couldn’t exist without lawyers. The best of them oversee the mega-million deals and catalog sales of superstars, protect the  creative work of human beings against AI and other entities that would steal it, prevent young […]
The Guardian Culture
Sacha Baron Cohen’s doofus voice-of-yoof has been making fresh mischief with new film Who Iz I? But who will he catch out this time? And what does his fictional hometown make of his return?The Wimbledon lawn tennis championships are not generally a hotbed of crime. Yet this year, unprecedented infringements ocurred. Eleven players were fined a total of £34,000 for “audible obscenities” and “racquet abuse”. Meanwhile, a spectator at the men’s singles final called a heckler a “bumbaclat” before in
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It’s a shame most fans of the “Avatar” franchise won’t have the chance to see its first animated feature on the big screen. (M. Night Shyamalan’s risible 2010 live-action film will be acknowledged here and here only.) “Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender” is the first official release from Avatar Studios, the shingle set up half […]
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Paris-based The Pool Films has taken world rights to coming-of-age drama “The Color of the Sun,” which marks the feature film debut of Tokyo-based photographer and commercials director Xavier Tera, who has collaborated with the likes of Harry Styles, Kaytranada and Rosalia. “Color of the Sun,” which will soon launch from the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons […]