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• Spotify files for unconventional IPO

  28-02-2018 23:18 via ft.com
  Direct listings value music streaming service at $19.7bn based on midpoint of share sales
  
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• Heathers Reboot Postponed in Wake of Parkland Shooting

  28-02-2018 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Paramount Network has announced that its Heathers reboot is delaying its premiere until later this year in the wake of the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida. “Paramount Network’s original series Heathers is a satirical comedy that takes creative risks in dealing with many of society’s most challenging subjects ranging...More »
  
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• The Assassination of Gianni Versace review – Ryan Murphy's fashion fable is flawed but fab guilty pleasure

  28-02-2018 23:00
  Murphy’s brand of high camp sometimes hinders his retelling of the murder of Gianni Versace, but ultimately it’s an enjoyable and worthy follow-up to The People v OJ SimpsonThe mood and effect of American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace is best exemplified by the fact that, when his boyfriend of 15 years, Antonio D’Amico, hears gunshots and races to find his dying lover riddled with bullets and bleeding upon the steps of Casa Casuarina, their Xanadu-like villa,
  
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• Save Me review – Suranne Jones shines as a grief-stricken mother in a complex mystery

  28-02-2018 23:00
  This gripping Lennie James drama treads familiar ground but there are clever layers that give it its own identity. Plus: Benidorm limps towards the sun loungersLennie James as writer and star, Suranne Jones as a desperate mother, and a complex mystery with a missing child at the heart of it – there are so many elements of Save Me (Sky Atlantic) that point towards a Guaranteed Quality TV Moment that it would have been shocking if it failed to live up to expectations. Instead, this is a well
  
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• There’s a Mary-Louise Parker Short Film Inside the New Jennifer Lawrence Movie

  28-02-2018 22:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Right in the middle of Red Sparrow’s psychosexual insanity exists a phenomenal short film that I have titled “Mary-Louise Parker Doesn’t Really Give a Shit About Your Little Spy Movie, Jennifer Lawrence” (alternatively: “Drinking Out Loud with Mary-Louise Parker” or even “Mary-Louise Parker Fucking Rules,” followed by more exclamation points...More »
  
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• Modern Love: Modern Love Podcast: Jennifer Beals Reads ‘From He to She in First Grade’

  28-02-2018 22:44 via nytimes.com
  This week, the “Taken” star tells the story of two parents who help their child find her identity.
  
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• The 15 Most Bizarre 911 Calls on Fox’s 9-1-1

  28-02-2018 22:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you haven’t been watching Fox’s first-responder drama 9-1-1, just imagine a show that blends all your favorite trauma-based shows — Grey’s Anatomy, the Chicago ones (P.D., Med, Fire, and Justice), Blue Bloods — and adds a pinch of Ryan Murphy shamelessness. The premise revolves around Connie Britton’s character, an...More »
  
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• Review: A Tragic Wig and the Search for Happiness in ‘Oh Lucy!’

  28-02-2018 22:25 via nytimes.com
  The writer-director Atsuko Hirayanagi traces the ordinary absurdities of one woman’s life in this against-the-odds charmer.
  
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• The Looming Tower Is Basically Law & Order: Bin Laden Unit

  28-02-2018 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Looming Tower is a frustratingly not-quite-there account of the run-up to the 9/11 attacks, tracking CIA and FBI agents working at cross-purposes and Al Qaeda strategists and soldiers plotting violence against the United States. Based on Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book, and adapted for Hulu by Wright, Alex Gibney,...More »
  
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• These Trump Paintings Are the Highlight of the ADAA Fair

  28-02-2018 21:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the beautiful uptown ADAA show a jarring standout is the great hell-raising storm-bird proto-Pop genius Peter Saul and two wildly colored Day-Glo abstract-figurative quasi-portraits — Abstract Expressionist Portrait of Donald Trump and The Little Guy Gets Angry — which the artist says is a portrait of “a Trump voter.”In...More »
  
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• They Just Want to Meet the Nice People

  28-02-2018 21:29 via nytimes.com
  Broadway theatergoers, inspired by the acts of kindness portrayed in the musical ‘Come From Away,’ are booking trips to a small town on the island of Newfoundland.
  
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• How to Watch This Year’s Oscars Ceremony

  28-02-2018 21:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  For the love of Saoirse “Ser Shaw” Ronan! Hollywood’s most glamorous evening of the year, the Academy Awards, will finally descend upon us on Sunday, March 4, in all of its glory. Unluckily for a lot of us, ABC still isn’t relenting in its “free livestream for everyone” policy. However,...More »
  
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• ITV’s margins can only slide in Netflix and Sky technology race

  28-02-2018 21:00 via ft.com
  Judges rated Carolyn McCall’s strategic triple toe loop with a 6% fall in the shares
  
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• How John Boyega Went From ‘Star Wars’ Stormtrooper to Sci-Fi Producer

  28-02-2018 21:00 via nytimes.com
  The 25-year-old actor is among a new wave of British actors, many from African backgrounds, who are shaking up the movie industry.
  
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• Wendell Pierce on His Play Some Old Black Man and His Last Day Playing Meghan Markle’s Dad

  28-02-2018 20:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Wendell Pierce has a master plan: Each year he tries to shoot a film and a TV show, and also appear in a play. Even with training from Julliard, he’s still interested in honing his skill as an actor and in learning as much as he can from his collaborators....More »
  
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• Ta-Nehisi Coates to write Marvel's new Captain America comics

  28-02-2018 20:31
  The National Book Award winner will take charge of the next series for Marvel following on from his work on the latest Black Panther comicsTa-Nehisi Coates will be taking over Marvel Comics’ Captain America, helming a new series of the comics set to drop on the Fourth of July. In an essay for the Atlantic, where Coates serves as a national correspondent, the author of Between the World and Me explained his decision to write Captain America, the Marvel hero first conceived by Joe Simon and
  
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• Children’s Fare? This ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ Tests That Notion

  28-02-2018 20:30 via nytimes.com
  Joël Pommerat’s visually abstract, sonically sophisticated adaptation will be performed this weekend as part of the three-week Tilt Kids Festival.
  
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• Fuller House Showrunner Jeff Franklin Fired After Reports of Inappropriate Behavior

  28-02-2018 20:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jeff Franklin, the creator and showrunner of Netflix’s Fuller House and creator of the original Full House, has been fired. According to Variety, Warner Bros. TV, which produces the show, received complaints about Franklin’s behavior in the writers room, including that he was verbally abusive to members of his staff...More »
  
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• Ryan Seacrest’s Accuser Hits Back at His Denial As New Witness Comes Forward

  28-02-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Tuesday, Ryan Seacrest issued a lengthy response to a Variety report that exposed the multiple sexual-assault allegations made against him by a former E! stylist. He denied the claims and alleged that the accuser attempted to extort him. She’s now speaking out to defend her story. Suzie Hardy reiterated...More »
  
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• LittleThings blames Facebook newfeed changes for shut down

  28-02-2018 19:55 via ft.com
  Women’s lifestyle publisher first to close after social media group changed algorithms
  
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• Fox Wants Rashida Jones to Pour Herself a Cup of Ambition and Write a 9 to 5 Reboot

  28-02-2018 19:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are so many reboots and revivals in Hollywood these days, it’s enough to drive you crazy, if you let it. But surely you can make room in your hearts for an updated 9 to 5. According to Deadline, the original movie’s writer, Patricia Resnick, is working on the project...More »
  
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• Lupita Nyong’o Has a Great Story About the Black Panther Cast Singing Snoop Dogg Together

  28-02-2018 19:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  As Black Panther continues to break box-office numbers, famed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, who pens the current Black Panther comic-book series, sat down with the film’s stars, Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong’o, for a conversation at the Apollo Theater on Tuesday night.Loud cheers filled the legendary Harlem theater as the panel...More »
  
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• ITV boss warns of Brexit uncertainty as advertising market hit

  28-02-2018 19:33 via ft.com
  Carolyn McCall says lack of clarity damaging as shares fall on slower revenues
  
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• Outdated thinking 'is still holding female TV writers back'

  28-02-2018 19:23
  Letter signed by 70 screenwriters argues that prestigious drama work is still overwhelmingly a male preserveMore than 70 female TV writers have accused British drama bosses of failing to give them opportunities to write for the biggest primetime shows. In an open letter to commissioners, 76 women, whose credits include high-profile shows such as EastEnders, Midsomer Murders and How to Get Away With Murder, said British drama was “overwhelmingly written by men”.
  The signatories, inclu
  
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• A Political Satire on Stage, and Not About Trump

  28-02-2018 19:08 via nytimes.com
  Bruce Norris, the Pulitzer-winning playwright, brings “The Low Road,” a Colonial-era free market spoof inspired by the financial crash, to the Public Theater.
  
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• Why Are There So Many Bisexuals on TV All of a Sudden?

  28-02-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The past few months on television have seen a boom in a particular kind of story — all of a sudden, there are bisexual characters all over TV. There’s Eleanor Shellstrop low-key lusting for Tahani, and there’s the open attraction Ilana has for Abbi on Broad City. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Submission’ Plunges Into a Campus Sex Scandal

  28-02-2018 18:59 via nytimes.com
  Stanley Tucci plays a professor tempted by a student’s writing in this adaptation of Francine Prose’s novel “Blue Angel.”
  
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• New Harassment Allegations Emerge From Weinstein’s Earliest Industry Days

  28-02-2018 18:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  A new report into Harvey Weinstein’s past claims that the former studio exec has been a sexual predator since his earliest days in the entertainment industry. According to The Hollywood Reporter, in 1975, when Weinstein worked as a concert promoter in Buffalo, he propositioned a female manager at a local...More »
  
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• Coco's Anthony Gonzalez on How He Connected With His Character Miguel

  28-02-2018 18:44 via feeds.eonline.com
  Coco broke records in every way, and we have a feeling it isn't done making history.
  We recently chatted with Anthony Gonzalez about the film's success, what his friend's...
  
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• Slovak culture minister quits after journalist’s murder

  28-02-2018 18:39 via ft.com
  Madaric says cannot just sit quietly as furore grows
  
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• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Showrunners Tell the Stories Behind 6 Songs From Season 3

  28-02-2018 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  As one of the best shows on television, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend defies small-screen narrative standards in just about every way possible. So, as we eagerly await the CW’s verdict for a season four renewal, Vulture called up co-creators Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna to learn how they wrote and created...More »
  
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• Ta-Nehisi Coates Will Write Captain America for Marvel Comics

  28-02-2018 18:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  After days of speculation in the comics press, Ta-Nehisi Coates dropped a bombshell: He’ll be writing Marvel Comics’ Captain America. In a short essay published at his literary home, The Atlantic, Coates announced that he’ll be taking over writing duties on the series in a new No. 1 issue, set...More »
  
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• Wreck-It Ralph 2 Trailer: Ralph Goes Online, and Like Most of Us, Probably Lives to Regret It

  28-02-2018 18:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Disney has made animated movies with dead parents, evil witches, and creepy monsters — but the internet seems like a whole new level of scary. In Wreck-It Ralph 2, Ralph and Vanellope journey from their humble little arcade into the mass of unhinged human id harnessed for the sake of...More »
  
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• Civilisations' striking similarity to 1969 series signals slow evolution of arts TV

  28-02-2018 18:12
  BBC offers spectacular global revamp of original, but with little change in its presentationContemplating an early statue in Civilisations, the BBC’s new art history series, Mary Beard observes that it “raises all sorts of questions about what a likeness is”. So does Civilisations itself. The show was commissioned by the BBC’s director general, Tony Hall, as a modern take on Civilisation, the 1969 series that he credits with firing his own interest in culture when he was
  
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• The Tick’s Griffin Newman on ‘Very Sh*tty Reality’ of Hollywood Abuse

  28-02-2018 17:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Amazon’s The Tick, which debuted the back half of its first season last Friday, actor Griffin Newman plays Arthur, a man who is absolutely terrified of just about everything. As Arthur gets roped into the superhero shenanigans of Peter Serafinowicz’s the Tick, Newman and the show’s great achievement is...More »
  
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• Photo Flash: Uma Thurman, Phillipa Soo, and Parisian Woman Cast Receive Sardi's Portraits

  28-02-2018 17:00
  Josh Lucas, Marton Csokas, and Blair Brown will also be immortalized on the walls of the famed theater-district restaurant.
  
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• Photo Flash: Thomas Jay Ryan, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, and More Open in The Amateurs

  28-02-2018 17:00
  Jordan Harrison's new play is directed by Oliver Butler.
  
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• Photo Flash: Take The Low Road at the Public Theater

  28-02-2018 17:00
  Michael Greif directs Bruce Norris's play.
  
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• Photo Flash: See Taylor Trensch as Evan Hansen in New Production Photos

  28-02-2018 17:00
  The Hello, Dolly! star joined the company February 6.
  
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• Photo Flash: Chickens, Goats, and Once on This Island Cast Celebrate 100 Performances

  28-02-2018 17:00
  The Ahrens and Flaherty musical runs at the Circle in the Square Theatre.
  
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