Hollywood Reporter
April's dinner was ended early after a shooter entered the Washington Hilton.
Variety
“Songs of U.S.,” a video series devoted to exploring the American songbook on the nation’s 250th birthday, will feature artists such as Amy Grant, Linda Perry, Grace Potter, Mickey Guyton, Samara Joy and Old Crow Medicine Show in both song and conversation about what these American tunes have meant to the country. Other participants in […]
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Six decades ago, David Lean ventured to the sprawling sandstone mountains of Wadi Rum to film the world’s most interesting canvas: the human face. This credo is not dissimilar from that of Winnipeg-shot “A. Rimbaud,” the latest micro-budget feature from American indie virtuoso Patrick Wang (“A Bread Factory”), whose contained, stripped-bare, three-hour biopic of French […]
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The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders are grappling with the Netflix effect. For 16 seasons, auditions for the premier dance team were documented for the CMT show “Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team.” But for as successful at that show was, it’s nothing compared to the number of eyeballs that watch Netflix globally. The first season of […]
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Sophia Meloni’s “Chop Cheese” starring Christopher Meloni and Michael Gandolfini and Michael Bruce’s “Kiloran Bay” starring Alan Cumming are among the short films set to screen at the Palm Springs International ShortFest. ShortFest will return to the Festival Theaters from June 23 through 29.  ShortFest will feature a number of live-action films, including the Kaily […]
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The “Life Is Strange” TV series at Amazon Prime Video has added five new cast members, Variety has learned exclusively. Billy Barratt (“Responsible Child,” “Invasion”), Emily Carey (“House of the Dragon,” “Wonder Woman”), Esther McGregor (“We Were Liars,” “High School”) Faly Rakotohavana (“UnPrisoned,” “Secret Society of Second-Born Royals”), and Mia Isaac (“The Perfect Couple,”
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“It’s exhausting,” says Magnussen as he talks about drawing from real-life tech titans to play Duncan Park, a data-mining boss consumed by ambition and self-doubt.
Hollywood Reporter
"This is starting over from scratch," said Joe Russo at a SXSW London talk on Tuesday. "We want to make sure everybody feels like this isn't leaning on anything from the past."
The Guardian Culture
The Fall frontman’s play about a papal plot appalled critics when first staged in 1986, with Leigh Bowery starring as a cardinal. Now Hey! Luciani is back – but does it make any more sense 40 years on?When Steve Hanley joined Manchester post-punk group the Fall, he expected to be playing bass guitar, not the pope on the London stage.“I was the new pope,” remembers the musician. “I had a full pope suit on with about seven different layers of cassocks, and I’d come out to wave.” Hanley’s papal arr
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Recently premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, “Ulya” is a biopic of Latvian-born basketball phenomenon Ulyana Semjonova, who played and won many medals and championships for the Soviet Union from the late 1960s until well into the 1980s. Yet her tragedy, as director Viesturs Kairišs’ film presents it, is her height: At […]
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The director of the Prime Video film explains why he rejected easy drama in favor of a richer look at the man who helped to define a generation of comedy with ‘Home Alone,’ ‘Uncle Buck’ and ‘Cool Runnings.’
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Permut Presentations has acquired the life rights of Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez, who served a nearly 24-year sentence for a murder he did not commit, as well as to NBC News journalist Dan Slepian’s reporting on Velazquez. The company is planning to make a narrative feature about Velazquez’s decades-long relationship with Slepian, who was a senior […]
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Will Arnett will star opposite Kristen Stewart in the upcoming Amazon Prime Video limited series about NASA astronaut Sally Ride and the Challenger shuttle disaster. The series was officially picked up at Amazon in March with Stewart attached to play Ride. The show is ispired by Meredith E. Bagby’s book “The New Guys.” The official […]
The Guardian Culture
Newport Street Gallery, LondonWhite may be a talented musician but as a visual artist, he’s a nonstarter. Not even the collaborations with Ai Weiwei and Damien Hirst can save this showNobody can phone it in like a famous conceptual artist. Invited to customise one of rock star Jack White’s amplifiers, Ai Weiwei has inscribed the F-word in buttons of various sizes and colours across its front. It’s a cynical, contemptuous gesture, but also a marvellously louche one, reminding you of the dangerous
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Prime Video’s “Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat” is heading to Westfield Fashion Square this Friday for fans to experience a work outing with the Rockin’ Grandma’s Hot Sauce crew. As one of several “Jury Duty” FYC events taking place over the next week, the “ultimate company retreat” will feature a themed food truck with walking […]
Hollywood Reporter
After years of reinvention, the '30 Rock' creator has landed somewhere unexpected: a show where grief is funny, characters actually change and the laughs-per-minute benchmark no longer applies.
The Guardian Culture
The Misfits: Marilyn Monroe’s final film showed her capacity for playing painfully knotty characters
Written for Monroe by then husband Arthur Miller, the role of Roslyn is contradictory and complex. It signalled a potential new phase in her careerWhat else can you call it but star quality? It was that – that ineffable, incalculable thing that makes certain actors on film seem almost holy – which made Marilyn Monroe one of the icons of cinema, perhaps the icon. That, coupled with her untimely death, which meant Monroe never grew any older on screen, is surely why she endures even now, 100 years
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Paramount Skydance’s BET has formed its first board of advisers, saying the group of six “cultural icons, business leaders and industry visionaries” will help guide the brand’s “continued evolution as a force at the intersection of media, community and culture.” The six members on the inaugural BET board of advisers are: BET founder Bob Johnson; […]
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He'll play NASA official George Abbey in the limited series.
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Syeda Irtizaali, Netflix’s recently appointed U.K. director of unscripted, told an audience at SXSW London on Tuesday she doesn’t want to use AI in unscripted television. Describing Netflix as a “tech-forward company,” she said that she was “very relaxed about people using AI as a tool to bring ideas in,” describing AI as a “really […]