Cinema, Theater & TV news

• European antitrust officials raid sports media rights firms

  10-04-2018 23:31 via ft.com
  21st Century Fox’s London HQ among the companies searched
  
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• Inexplicably, HBO Cast a Guy Who’s Not Lenny Kravitz to Play Zoë Kravitz’s Big Little Lies Dad

  10-04-2018 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Instead of uniting Hollywood’s coolest family this side of the Knowles-Carters, Big Little Lies has gone in a, um, different direction. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Weeds alum Martin Donovan will play the father of Bonnie, played by Zoë Kravitz. Yes, Martin Donovan, who is not — we repeat not —...More »
  
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• The Class of Mum and Dad review – it’s back to year 6 for these primary school parents

  10-04-2018 22:00 via theguardian.com
  Sending eight adults back to a Bolton school to find out how their children are learning makes for an interesting experiment, but is it top of the class?There’s a lot of going to primary school going on in my house of a morning. My younger son hasn’t started yet; he’ll go in September. The older one is in year 1. Their mum is a trainee teacher, at a different primary school in the area. I have very little idea what goes on there, though. She is too exhausted when she gets home,
  
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• Review: Miss You Like Hell Is a Musical About Living Undocumented in America

  10-04-2018 22:00
  Quiara Alegría Hudes and Erin McKeown take the Public Theater audience on a cross-country road trip.
  
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• Nicki Minaj Will Return This Thursday With Two New Songs

  10-04-2018 21:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nicki Minaj’s long hibernation between albums appears to be coming to an end. After two days of teasing a countdown to something, with deleted tweets, Minaj has announced she’s dropping not one but two new songs on Thursday afternoon — “Barbie Tingz,” a nod to her fans, and “Chun-Li,” named...More »
  
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• Everyone Around Stan Lee Claims Everyone Else Is Doing Him Wrong

  10-04-2018 21:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  At 95, comic-book legend Stan Lee is now surrounded by people who seem to have all turned against each other. Almost a year after the death of Lee’s wife, Joan, The Hollywood Reporter has compiled a series of conflicting reports about Lee’s health and well-being from the various people said...More »
  
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• Why Michael B. Jordan Doesn't Want to Meet NBA Legend and His Namesake Michael Jordan

  10-04-2018 21:29 via feeds.eonline.com
  Michael B. Jordan is revealing all--and he looks good doing it!In the May issue of Men's Health (on newsstands Apr. 17), the actor is opening up on everything from sharing a name...
  
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• This Poor Guy Lost All His Money on Wheel of Fortune Last Night Because of a Mispronunciation

  10-04-2018 21:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Listen, we love wading birds here at Vulture, even though we’re personally named after an evil bird of prey. Flamingos are great! Their necks could and should be the ninth wonder of the world! But that doesn’t mean we’re going to refer to flamenco, a sexy Spanish dance, as flamingo...More »
  
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• Drake Has Trained His Sights on Wokeness

  10-04-2018 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Did you cry during the “God’s Plan” video? I held it together until the scene where Drake sneaks up on the mother and son, hands ’em a stack, and everyone hugs and cries a little. I love songs about hard-working people coming into money they deserve. My favorite Kanye West...More »
  
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• Theater News: Jumping Into Adulthood in The Edge of Our Bodies

  10-04-2018 21:00
  A play by Adam Rapp makes its New York debut via Chicago's TUTA Theatre.
  
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• Review: A Random, Life-Changing Encounter on a Train in Dutch Masters

  10-04-2018 21:00
  Greg Keller's Dutchman-inspired two-hander makes its New York premiere at the Wild Project.
  
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• Opening Statements in Cosby Trial Focus on Andrea Constand’s Seven-Figure Settlement

  10-04-2018 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  It isn’t often that the prosecution and defense teams can agree on anything in court, but in the case of the felony sex-assault trial against Bill Cosby, they both seem to acknowledge that this is certainly one of the most famous cases of “he said, she said” of our time....More »
  
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• Alex, Inc. Is Proof That Tiya Sircar Needs Her Own Show

  10-04-2018 20:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alex, Inc., a show about Zach Braff holding microphones at various distances from his face, is not a particularly compelling sitcom. Sure, there are moments when you wonder whether Braff’s podcast career slash midlife crisis will succeed, but it all ticks by without much to draw you in. Yet, there...More »
  
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• NYC Stories: Archer’s Lucky Yates Watches New York City Break a New Yorker

  10-04-2018 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  For every triumphant rags-to-riches story that takes place in New York City, there’s one that heads the opposite direction. Lucky Yates (you’ll recognize him as the voice of Dr. Krieger on Archer) recounts the day he saw the city finally break a man down....More »
  
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• Review: ‘Hitler’s Hollywood’ Unearths the Cinema of the Third Reich

  10-04-2018 20:25 via nytimes.com
  The film uses clips to explore the aesthetics, attitudes and messages of German cinema from 1933 to 1945.
  
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• The 8 Most Important GIFs From Janelle Monáe’s ‘Pynk’ Video

  10-04-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Janelle Monáe said “Let the vagina have a monologue” in “Django Jane,” we perhaps should have known to brace ourselves for an immaculately art-directed ode to all things even vagina-adjacent — up to and including Tessa Thompson popping her head out between Monáe’s stylish labial legs — which is...More »
  
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• Silicon Valley star TJ Miller arrested for alleged false bomb threat

  10-04-2018 19:36
  The actor, also known for Deadpool, was released on a $100,000 bond after accusations of ‘intentionally conveying’ false informationTJ Miller has been arrested for allegedly sharing false information about a bomb threat.The comic and actor, known for the long-running show Silicon Valley and his role in Deadpool, was taken into custody on Monday night after he made the claim in March while riding on a train to Connecticut. Continue reading...
  
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• Review: In ‘Beirut,’ a War-Torn Backdrop for American Spy Games

  10-04-2018 19:35 via nytimes.com
  Jon Hamm plays a former diplomat who returns to Beirut to help rescue a C.I.A. spy in a thriller written by Tony Gilroy (“Bourne”).
  
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• This Is the Beirut We Wish You Could See

  10-04-2018 19:33 via nytimes.com
  Many people bristled at the new movie “Beirut.” But nuanced depictions of Lebanon and its people exist. Here’s what to watch and read.
  
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• T.J. Miller Charged for Calling in Fake Bomb Threat

  10-04-2018 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  The U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut has brought a federal criminal complaint against ex–Silicon Valley actor and Emoji Movie star T.J. Miller for calling in a fake bomb threat on an Amtrak train. According to the complaint, on March 18 Miller called a 911 dispatcher to report that...More »
  
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• Wild Wild Country Recap: Oh Sheela

  10-04-2018 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix’s documentary series Wild Wild Country is wild, wild indeed. It follows the path of Bhagwan Rajneesh and his red-clad religious group, the Rajneeshees, after they moved to Antelope, Oregon, in 1981 in an attempt to establish a utopian community. It’s a twisty story that goes to very shocking and...More »
  
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• Janelle Monáe and Tessa Thompson Just Redefined the Color Pink With One Pussy Powerful Video

  10-04-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Black is the new pink. Specifically, these two black women: Janelle Monáe and Tessa Thompson, who have reunited for yet another visual splendor from Monáe’s forthcoming album. After stepping into their bisexual lighting in the “Make Me Feel” video, “PYNK” (which also reunites Monáe with Grimes) is strictly for the...More »
  
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• On Comedy: The Sociopathic Comedy of Brett Davis

  10-04-2018 18:45 via nytimes.com
  This anarchic, unhinged 30-ish comedian with a demented weekly cable access show also pulls stunts for a podcast, including marrying a Tide bottle.
  
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• Defending the Apu stereotype again? Maybe The Simpsons has run its course | Shuja Haider

  10-04-2018 18:26 via theguardian.com
  For South Asian fans, it is sad to see this once great American show disregard the hurtful impact of its characterisationViewership of The Simpsons has declined steadily over the years, with last season’s ratings hitting an all-time low. But the show’s sharp satire has lived on in memes on social media that serve as still-relevant social commentary. One shows the oblivious Principal Skinner asking himself, “Am I out of touch?” before concluding, “No, it’s the
  
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• Letter: Stéphane Audran was the perfect Cara in Brideshead Revisited

  10-04-2018 18:17 via theguardian.com
  As the producer of Granada’s 13-hour television version of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, I remember casting the net wide in our search for the actress to play Cara, the mistress of the exiled Lord Marchmain. But how lucky we were in Stéphane Audran.No actress could have confounded more absolutely Charles Ryder’s lurid expectation of “a voluptuous Toulouse-Lautrec odalisque”, or fitted more perfectly Waugh’s own conception: a “middle-aged, w
  
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• Remember That Crazy Toronto Mayor, Rob Ford? Well, Damian Lewis Is Playing Him in a Film

  10-04-2018 18:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  O, Canada. Damian Lewis, who you probably know best from Billions or Homeland, has signed on to play the truly wild ex-Toronto mayor Rob Ford in a big-screen thriller. THR reports that the film, Run This Town, will be “told against the backdrop of the last year of his mayoral...More »
  
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• Saturday Night Live: how the show has been exported around the world

  10-04-2018 18:01 via theguardian.com
  The long-running comedy series will receive a regionally specific version in Italy and it joins a long line of international takes on the classic formatHow do you say “more cowbell” in Italian? Last week, NBCUniversal signed a transatlantic deal with European media titan Sky to produce a regionally specific version of Saturday Night Live in Italy, expanding an already global network of sister shows. Though the past few years have seen the stateside SNL steep itself in the particulars
  
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• 25 of the Best Coming-of-Age Horror Movies

  10-04-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s something especially visceral about horror movies rooted in coming-of-age narratives. Being a teenager is a hormonal and emotional nightmare already, and the process of bodies changing and hearts breaking and love blossoming and skin mutating and family pressures mounting is a biological script practically written to terrify. This weekend,...More »
  
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• Jordan Peele Asked Tiffany Haddish to Audition for Get Out: Why She Said No

  10-04-2018 17:39 via feeds.eonline.com
  Tiffany Haddish has already experienced great success. She starred in the 2017 comedy Girls Trip and is set to appear in the new comedy The Last O.G. with Tracy Morgan.But on...
  
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• Hungarian newspaper to close days after Orban victory

  10-04-2018 17:37 via ft.com
  Loss of Magyar Nemzet raises questions over future of the country’s independent media
  
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• Lifetime’s You Trailer: Penn Badgley Is One Suave Stalker

  10-04-2018 17:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lonely Boy? More like Stalker/Bookstore Owner Boy. Please warmly welcome Penn Badgley back to television thanks to You, Lifetime’s newest literary adaptation, about a boy who falls in love with a girl … from afar … and then seemingly stalks her into submission until those feelings get reciprocated. It helps...More »
  
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• New Trailer: ‘The Meg,’ With Jason Statham

  10-04-2018 17:17 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Statham takes on the world’s largest shark in this preview.
  
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• A Quiet Place Had the Best Opening Ever for an Original Horror Movie. Here’s What That Means.

  10-04-2018 17:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  By now, it should not be news that horror pictures are one of the few reliable bets at the box office these days. It’s one of those things you can count on like death, taxes, and Marvel movies. And while we’re used to hearing superlatives like “best opening ever!” and...More »
  
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• Like a Movie Villain, Comedy Central Will Try to Roast Bruce Willis

  10-04-2018 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bruce Willis may have made it through a seemingly infinite series of Die Hard movies, but can he survive some light jabs from frumpy comedians who all think they’re going to be the first to bring up Moonlighting? On Tuesday Comedy Central announced plans for a roast of Bruce Willis,...More »
  
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• Theater News: Playwrights Horizons to Honor Frozen's Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez

  10-04-2018 17:00
  The company's spring gala will take place in May.
  
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• Photo Flash: The Old Globe's Commission of Anna Ziegler's The Wanderers Set to Open

  10-04-2018 17:00
  Barry Edelstein directs the production, set to open April 13 for its run through May 6.
  
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• Holy Noldor, a Brand-New J.R.R. Tolkien Book Is Getting Released This Year

  10-04-2018 16:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Good guy J.R.R. Tolkien, still delighting us with his words at the ripe age of … crunches the numbers … 126. Thanks to the editing prowess of the author’s son, Christopher, this summer brings The Fall of Gondolin, written by Tolkien while he was hospitalized after the Battle of the...More »
  
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• Video Flash: Watch Joshua Jackson and Lauren Ridloff in Children of a Lesser God

  10-04-2018 16:00
  Mark Medoff's drama follows a teacher at a school for the deaf and a student he meets there.
  
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• Video Flash: Sara Bareilles Passes the Waitress Pie to Katharine McPhee

  10-04-2018 16:00
  McPhee joins the company of the Broadway hit tonight.
  
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• Photo Flash: The Actors Fund Holds When Pigs Fly Benefit

  10-04-2018 16:00
  When Pigs Fly was scheduled for an off-Broadway run last October, but was canceled because of funding issues.
  
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• Mark Bonnar: 'I do a good cold, hard stare'

  10-04-2018 16:00 via theguardian.com
  After playing corrupt cops and tortured barristers in TV shows like Line of Duty and Unforgotten, Bonnar is returning to the theatre – in a dystopian drama about replacing a dead childMark Bonnar takes comfort in the fact that he once played the back end of a pantomime cow. It was the actor’s first stage role, at the amateur Leith theatre in Edinburgh, the city where he was born. It was a funny start for a man who would go on to be known for the icy stare of his green-grey eyes. Back
  
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• 8 Things Today’s Movie Musicals Can Learn From Grease

  10-04-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Have you ever met anyone who hasn’t seen Grease, the movie? I’ve been aware of the movie for more than three of the four decades since it was first released in theaters (and only because there were a couple years on the front end where I wasn’t born yet), and...More »
  
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• Cardi B Cannot Disclose What Happened in Her Prom Limo

  10-04-2018 15:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jimmy Fallon is back as the third wheel! On The Tonight Show, Fallon and his co-host Cardi B welcomed John Mulaney. After exchanging pleasantries (and a baby gift!), Cardi and Mulaney discussed their prom experiences. Mulaney was driven by his nana; Cardi’s boyfriend dumped her in the weeks leading up...More »
  
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• Peter Rabbit digs in for a fourth week on top at UK box office

  10-04-2018 15:57
  Family favourite is still No 1, while high-concept horror A Quiet Place opened with a buzz and Love, Simon breaks the teen comedy mould The Easter school holiday is the gift that keeps on giving – at least to Sony, which once again ruled the UK box office with its live-action/animated hybrid Peter Rabbit. The family friendly Beatrix Potter adaptation scored a fourth consecutive weekend at the top spot, with takings of £3.15m taking the tally up to £32.2m. In the past seven days
  
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• Thoroughbreds prep and Cardi B's shades: fashion lessons from 2018's pop culture

  10-04-2018 15:49 via theguardian.com
  You can pick up some of this summer’s best looks by wallowing in TV, film, music and even an environmental exhibition at the V&A Continue reading...
  
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• Seth Meyers’s Wife Gave Birth to Second Son in the Lobby of Their Building

  10-04-2018 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Seth Meyers welcomed his first son, they barely made it to the hospital on time. For the birth of his second son, Meyers and his wife Alexi Ashe didn’t make it to the hospital at all. Last night on his show, Meyers announced that his wife gave birth to their son,...More »
  
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• Which of These 33 Characters Will Die in Avengers: Infinity War?

  10-04-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The makers of Avengers: Infinity War are promising that this latest installment in Marvel’s megahit franchise will be the deadliest yet, and with a cast that numbers a few dozen, there is definitely room to cull the superpowered ranks. Which of your faves will likely fall at the gauntlet-clad hand...More »
  
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• Theater News: Tony Winner Anika Noni Rose to Lead Classic Stage Company's Carmen Jones

  10-04-2018 15:00
  Artistic director John Doyle will helm the production.
  
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• Theater News: Public Theater Announces One-Week Extension for Miss You Like Hell

  10-04-2018 15:00
  Daphne Rubin-Vega stars in the new musical by Quiara Alegría Hudes and Erin McKeown.
  
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• American Idol Recap: Flops of Jupiter

  10-04-2018 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  This is no ordinary duet episode of American Idol. What begins as a familiar collaboration between wide-eyed contestants and hardened, weary adults like Pat Monahan becomes a death march at episode’s end when Lionel “That Reminds Me of Me” Richie, Luke “Everyone Did a Great Job” Bryan, and Katy “Dressed...More »
  
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