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• Taylor Swift Reportedly Won’t Put Her New Album on Streaming for a Week

  07-11-2017 22:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  With just days to go until Taylor Swift’s new album, it’s now become clear whether or not fans will be able to stream it right away. Bad news: You’ll have to pony up for it. Bloomberg reports that Swift intends to keep Reputation off streaming for at least one week...More »
  
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• Meek Mill’s Lawyer: Judge Sentenced the Rapper Because He Wouldn’t Cover Boyz II Men for Her

  07-11-2017 22:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Can we go back to the day our love was strong? Or can we at least go back to one day last year when Meek Mill and his judge had a private meeting in her chambers? Boyz II Men’s “On Bended Knee” might be the reason for Meek’s prison sentence,...More »
  
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• The Riverdale Teens Let Loose and Sing Rent

  07-11-2017 22:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  The teens of Riverdale, who are all 20-somethings at heart, love drama — specifically stage musical drama, specifically Rent. In this week’s episode, Veronica and Josie sing “Out Tonight” (the film version, the philistines) for no apparent reason other than that they’d really like to go out, which must be...More »
  
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• Will Mel Gibson Tank Daddy’s Home 2?

  07-11-2017 22:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Daddy’s Home 2, the sequel to 2015’s $250 million–grossing hit that’s in theaters Friday, Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell play “co-dads” — the biological father and stepdad to a pair of Boston-area kids — who put aside their differences to maintain progressive domestic bliss. John Lithgow is Pop-pop, an...More »
  
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• Disney Lifts Ban on the Los Angeles Times After Backlash

  07-11-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Disney has lifted its screening ban on the Los Angeles Times. The paper will be allowed once again to attend advanced showings of Disney films after journalists and critics’ associations resolved not to attend screenings and even to ban Disney movies from awards consideration unless its lockout of the Times...More »
  
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• The 20 Grisliest Death Scenes in American Horror Story

  07-11-2017 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  For decades, horror movies have dreamed up more and more outlandish ways to kill their poor victims. (Remember how Scream finished off Rose McGowan with an automatic garage door?) The stakes are even higher for American Horror Story co-creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk: Not only do they compete with Hollywood, they also have to...More »
  
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• Disney talks may suggest Murdochs have lost interest in Sky takeover

  07-11-2017 21:40 via theguardian.com
  Reports that 21st Century Fox is willing to sell most of its assets may indicate the media clan are backing away – or is it just a way to achieve their dreams of scale?Rupert Murdoch’s apparent willingness to sell most of 21st Century Fox to Disney suggests the media mogul’s interest in taking full control of Sky has unexpectedly diminished.The Sky deal has proved problematic for the Murdochs since their bid was first announced last December, with the takeover facing regulatory
  
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• Review: ‘Hello Again,’ a Movie Musical Ode to Love and Lust Over Decades

  07-11-2017 21:33 via nytimes.com
  This film from Tom Gustafson, based on a 1993 Off Broadway show, has a formidable cast of Broadway names but wants for dramatic traction.
  
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• Everything We Know About Fifty Shades Freed: Seduction, International Sights and Some Seriously Sexy Music

  07-11-2017 21:24 via feeds.eonline.com
  They may not even be back on the big screen yet, but Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele already have fans' hearts racing.
  With the franchise's final chapter, Fifty Shades Freed,...
  
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• Actress Accuses James Toback of Licking Her During a Private Meeting

  07-11-2017 21:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Another woman has accused producer-director James Toback of sexual harassment. Actress Becky Wahlstrom, who has appeared on episodes of Joan of Arcadia, Nashville, and Mad Men, says she met with Toback about a role in August 1998 when Toback allegedly licked her armpit hair and asked if he could dry-hump...More »
  
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• Disney ends blackout of LA Times after boycott from media outlets

  07-11-2017 21:10
  Studio lifts ban on Los Angeles Times journalists attending preview screenings after dispute that led to other critics threatening not to cover Disney filmsDisney has reversed its decision to ban the Los Angeles Times from attending film screenings as punishment for the paper’s critical coverage of its business operations. Related: 21st Century Fox held talks with Disney over possible sale, reports say Saluting the film journalists standing up for one another. Standing with you. https://t.
  
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• Which Serial Killers Might Appear in Mindhunter Season 2?

  07-11-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first season of Netflix’s Mindhunter ends with a cliff-hanger: The FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit has been betrayed by one of its own, and Agent Holden Ford is last seen hyperventilating after getting a little too personal with a serial killer. With such an open-ended finale, there’s certainly high hopes...More »
  
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• Sky shareholders on the horns of a dilemma

  07-11-2017 20:56 via ft.com
  UK takeover rules mean Fox cannot easily terminate its bid
  
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• Julianna Margulies Will Return to TV As an Intimidating (Duh) Magazine Editor in AMC’s Dietland

  07-11-2017 20:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Slapped but not forgotten, Julianna Margulies will soon return to TV. Margulies, who spent seven seasons playing Alicia Florrick in The Good Wife, has booked a starring role in AMC’s Dietland, written by Buffy and UnReal’s Marti Noxon. True to steely form, Margulies will play a “wildly ambitious magazine editor”...More »
  
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• Is Lethal Weapon a Christmas Movie? Mel Gibson Has the Answer

  07-11-2017 20:34 via feeds.eonline.com
  Is Mel Gibson the Christmas gift that keeps on giving?While out promoting his new film Daddy's Home 2, Gibson dished to E! News in an exclusive interview that this may not be his...
  
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• Future of Sky News faces review if no Fox deal, says Sky

  07-11-2017 20:27 via theguardian.com
  Broadcaster says competition regulator should not assume news channel will continue if Fox takeover bid is blocked
  Sky has said it will review the future of Sky News if 21st Century Fox’s £11.7bn bid to take full control of the broadcaster is blocked on the grounds of media plurality.Fox’s bid for Sky is currently being investigated by the Competition Markets Authority with particular reference to the Murdochs’ commitment to broadcasting standards, and the deal’s im
  
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• Known Watercolorist Britney Spears Sold an Original Painting at Auction for $10,000

  07-11-2017 20:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  For those of you who didn’t know, pop legend Britney Spears is also a fine painter. We first learned of her talented brushstrokes when she posted a video of herself painting on a dramatic terrace. Her role as a player in the art world was cemented yesterday when one of...More »
  
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• Gossip Girl actor Ed Westwick denies rape accusation

  07-11-2017 20:19 via theguardian.com
  The British actor claims not to know Kristina Cohen who alleges that he sexually assaulted her three years ago in a detailed Facebook postActor Ed Westwick has been accused of rape by fellow actor Kristina Cohen.The 30-year-old British star of Gossip Girl and BBC comedy White Gold allegedly assaulted Cohen three years ago at his apartment. Cohen, whose credits include Californication and horror film Devil’s Night, was briefly dating a producer who was friends with Westwick. Continue readin
  
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• Do we really need a Twilight Zone revival in the era of Black Mirror?

  07-11-2017 19:55 via theguardian.com
  Get Out director Jordan Peele is being lined up to bring back the classic sci-fi anthology show, but with successors like Electric Dreams and long list of abandoned reboots should it be left alone?TV executives love to revive famous old shows. And who can blame them when the X-Files is currently enjoying a new lease of life, the recent return of Twin Peaks proved such an unexpected joy and even the new version of 80s shoulderpad-fest Dynasty seems to have found its audience?The Twilight Zone, ho
  
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• Review: Welcome to Prom. Try Not to Die.

  07-11-2017 19:45 via nytimes.com
  James Presson’s overstuffed play aims to meld outsize teenage passions with Jacobean tragedy.
  
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• Brian Michael Bendis Leaves Marvel for DC Comics

  07-11-2017 19:45 via nytimes.com
  The writer behind Ultimate Spider-Man and Jessica Jones is joining a rival comic book publisher.
  
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• Talking Puberty With Big Mouth’s Jessi Klein and Andrew Goldberg

  07-11-2017 19:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  The animated Netflix series Big Mouth reveals the horrors and horniness of puberty, and does it from the perspectives of boys as well as girls. That’s in keeping with the gender-inclusive vision laid out by co-creators Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Levin, and Jennifer Flackett, who decided that periods and...More »
  
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• New Trailer: ‘Downsizing’

  07-11-2017 19:40 via nytimes.com
  Matt Damon plays a telemarketer who shrinks to five inches tall as part of an environmental effort in this comedy from Alexander Payne.
  
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• Sky threatens to close Sky News if Fox deal blocked

  07-11-2017 19:25 via ft.com
  Takeover faces regulator scrutiny over UK media plurality
  
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• Murdochs weigh break-up of media empire

  07-11-2017 19:09 via ft.com
  Talks with Disney over sale of key TV and movie assets could signal end of an era for the media moguls
  
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• The 12 Most Essential How I Met Your Mother Episodes to Watch on Netflix

  07-11-2017 18:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  A group of white 20-something friends hanging out in their inexplicably large apartments and dating their way through half of New York is about as traditional as network sitcoms get. But in its nine seasons, How I Met Your Mother gained a loyal fan base and picked up an Emmy...More »
  
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• Nancy Banks-Smith on The Archers: every man and his donkey is a suspect

  07-11-2017 18:41 via theguardian.com
  Who tried to kill Matt? We’re not short of leads after Huw Kennair-Jones’s final act as Archers editor is to frame half of AmbridgeThis month Huw Kennair-Jones, briefly the editor of The Archers, leaves Ambridge for the bright lights of ITV. The last day at work is a wonderful opportunity for a leg pull. You can delete Donald Trump’s Twitter account or, in this case, leave every man in Ambridge under suspicion of attempted murder.It happened during the Hunt Ball, which everyone
  
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• Johnny Depp’s Former Business Managers Push to Foreclose on Five of His Houses in Continuing Legal Battle

  07-11-2017 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Johnny Depp might soon lose five of the Los Angeles houses he somehow owns. As part of a continuing legal battle that involves dueling lawsuits between Depp and his former business managers, Joel and Rob Mandel of the Management Group, TMG has now filed an action for judicial foreclosure against the...More »
  
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• Paddy Russell obituary

  07-11-2017 17:53 via theguardian.com
  Prolific BBC drama director who oversaw highly regarded Doctor Who adventures of the 1960s and 70sPaddy Russell, who has died aged 89, was a television pioneer. As the first female floor manager employed by BBC television, she worked on a number of landmark productions, before graduating to become an admired and prolific drama director. Her adoption of “Paddy”, a diminutive of her name Patricia, helped her to negotiate the patriarchal landscape of the BBC of the 1950s: seeing her nam
  
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• Christopher Nolan Is Very Sorry for Being Rude to Netflix

  07-11-2017 17:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  In an interview earlier this year, Christopher Nolan made his opinions about Netflix known, calling their strategy of simultaneous streaming and theatrical film releases “mindless.” The director also refused to work with the streaming giant because of it. He still feels how he feels, but he’s now sorry for how...More »
  
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• Netflix Announces Its First Comic Book

  07-11-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  A few months back, streaming giant Netflix made a play to compete with Disney and Warner Bros. by buying Millarworld, a line of comics run by veteran comic-book writer Mark Millar, the scribe behind the comics that were adapted into films like Kick-Ass and the Kingsman franchise. Disney and Warner...More »
  
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• Ron Funches Comes Onstage Like a Wrestler Entering the Ring [Sound of Glass Shattering]

  07-11-2017 17:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  With the best voice in comedy, Ron Funches sat down with us before his set at Comedy Central’s “Colossal Clusterfest” and let us in on his preshow mantra, along with his strange choice for an entrance song, which, according to him, really changes the temperature in the room....More »
  
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• Weinstein accuser Rose McGowan's memoir Brave 'will pull no punches'

  07-11-2017 17:23
  The actor has alleged that the film producer raped her in 1997, and her book promises to ‘shine a light on a business built on systemic misogyny’Rose McGowan’s memoir Brave, a book that the New Yorker claimed on Monday was the subject of an investigation by a private security agency hired by the film producer Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers, will be published on 30 January 2018 by HarperCollins. Related: Weinstein hired ex-Mossad agents to suppress abuse allegations, report cl
  
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• Late-night hosts: with Trump, Japan again faces 'a monster with tiny hands'

  07-11-2017 17:04 via theguardian.com
  Comics, including Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah and Seth Meyers, discussed Donald Trump’s 13-day trip to AsiaLate-night hosts on Monday addressed Donald Trump’s 13-day trip to Asia, which began yesterday with his visit to Japan to meet with the prime minister, Shinzō Abe.“I’ve been feeling an emptiness, a great void, but it left the country on Friday,” Stephen Colbert began. “Donald Trump is on a 13-day trip through Asia. Fox & Friends has one less vie
  
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• 75 Years Later, Now, Voyager Remains a Poignant Depiction of Mental Illness

  07-11-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  About 23 minutes into Now, Voyager comes one of the most resplendent transformations in all of cinema.Charlotte Vale (played with trademark intensity and brutal grace by Bette Davis) begins the film as an archetypal spinster figure. Her eyebrows are unruly, clothes dowdy, and a definitive air of anxiety cloaks her....More »
  
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• Theater News: Annie Arrives at Walnut Street Theatre

  07-11-2017 17:00
  Glenn Casale directs the musical, which runs through January 7.
  
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• Theater News: 7 New York City Premieres Join 59E59's 2018 Season

  07-11-2017 17:00
  Alan Ayckbourn, Hershey Felder, and more bring their works to New York City.
  
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• Photo Flash: Carrie Coon Hosts Josh Radnor, Dave Malloy, and More at SPACE on Ryder Farm Gala

  07-11-2017 17:00
  The nonprofit residency program for artists and activists held its second-annual gala on November 6.
  
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• Interviews: Metamorphosis From Madama Butterfly to M. Butterfly and Miss Saigon

  07-11-2017 17:00
  David Henry Hwang and Alain Boublil discuss the life cycle of their stage works based on the Puccini opera.
  
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• Has Luke Skywalker Gone to the Dark Side in Star Wars: The Last Jedi? Mark Hamill Weighs In

  07-11-2017 16:55 via feeds.eonline.com
  The initial teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, released in April, ended with a shocking quote from Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill): "I only know one truth: It's time for the Jedi to...
  
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• Blue Planet II is the perfect tonic as the world turns into a horror show | Stuart Heritage

  07-11-2017 16:49 via theguardian.com
  The BBC’s wildlife sequel has it all – profundity, wonder and trippy visuals. But crucially, it transports viewers to a tranquil place untouched by the awfulness above the oceanOf course Blue Planet II is the year’s most watched TV show. That was always going to be the case. Half of Bake Off’s audience naffed off the instant it left the BBC. This year’s Strictly has been hamstrung by its colossal shrug of a lineup, while X Factor – never the most placid watch
  
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• Harvey Weinstein hired ex-Mossad agents to suppress allegations, report claims

  07-11-2017 16:39
  Harvey Weinstein calls New Yorker report ‘fiction’, as magazine alleges producer used an ‘army of spies’ to stop accusers from going publicHarvey Weinstein allegedly hired an “army of spies”, including former Mossad agents, in an attempt to stop accusers from going public with sexual misconduct claims against him, according to a report in the New Yorker.Among the private security agencies hired by Weinstein starting around autumn 2016, the magazine claims, was
  
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• BuzzFeed’s New Reality Dating Series Sounds Like Black Mirror Meets UnReal

  07-11-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Beloved Bachelor Nation, there’s a new reality dating show vying for your attention. This Thursday, BuzzFeed is introducing a twice-weekly, 15-minute dating show called RelationShipped on Facebook Watch, the social network’s new video-streaming platform. It sounds like The Bachelor, but choose-your-own-adventure style, according to The Hollywood Reporter. RelationShipped will follow...More »
  
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