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• Quentin Tarantino: Weinstein Company owes me over $4m in royalties

  30-04-2018 23:32
  The director, along with stars including Jake Gyllenhaal and Meryl Streep, has filed court papers claiming the company owes him moneyQuentin Tarantino has filed court papers to state that he is owed over $4m in royalties from the Weinstein Company.The failed film company is currently taking bids for its assets yet before any sale is made, the film-maker has posted an objection along with a host of other big names, including Jennifer Lawrence and Jake Gyllenhaal. Related: After six months of #MeT
  
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• What’s New on HBO: May 2018

  30-04-2018 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Because Michael B. Jordan is in a new movie: Fahrenheit 451HBO’s latest original film is an adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s classic novel about firemen who don’t fight fires but start them, burning books as state censors. Directed with flair by Ramin Bahrani, who also wrote the screenplay, this take on...More »
  
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• Why the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Should Go On

  30-04-2018 23:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  I’ve been watching the White House Correspondents’ Dinner closely since 2011, when I started writing jokes for President Barack Obama. I thought Michelle Wolf’s routine Saturday night matched every other recent performer at that event. Comedy is subjective, so you can count on hits and misses. To me, Wolf landed several...More »
  
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• The Faces of Tribeca Film Festival 2018

  30-04-2018 23:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Vulture kicked off this year’s Tribeca Film Festival by welcoming some of your favorite actors and filmmakers into our photo and video studio in New York City. Check out the guests below....More »
  
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• STADSKANAAL - Noorderpoort Meezingfestival in Theater Geert Teis - Ter Apeler Courant

  30-04-2018 23:02
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  met als thema vrijheid en verbondenheid - wordt gehouden in theater Geert Teis in Stadskanaal. Tijdens de uitvoering – waarbij liederen worden gezongen die in de bevrijdingstijd na de Tweede Wereldoorlog populair waren zoals We'll meet again van Vera ...
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• Art on the BBC: The Genius of Leonardo da Vinci – the man, his art and his TV career

  30-04-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Kenneth (Civilisation) Clark, Henry Moore and other ghosts from the BBC Archives bring us a bargain-basement portrait of the renaissance manJanina Ramirez, the art historian, is walking purposefully towards me, along a corridor. It has become a television bugbear for me, the “approach” approach to presenting, walk and talk. Like the – worse still – camera whirling around the head thing, AKA helicoptering. I mind less if the walk is connected to what they are saying, if th
  
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• The Unnerving Delights of Atlanta Robbin’ Season

  30-04-2018 22:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Atlanta is having one of those miracle seasons that only happens when every artist involved is on the same creative page and operating at the peak of their powers. Since its sophomore season debuted in March, Donald Glover’s FX series has not only delivered on its season-one promise — which...More »
  
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• Three-Sentence Reviews: John Bradford’s Electricity, David Hockney’s Ephemeral Color, and 11 More Shows

  30-04-2018 22:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Oliver LaricMetro Pictures519 West 24th StreetHot off the international biennial circuit — including Liverpool, São Paulo, the New Museum’s 2015 Triennial, and a batch of other museum projects — comes the 37-year-old, Austrian-born, Berlin-based Oliver Laric and his gallery-filling black-and-white animated “Year of the Dog.” The film is a simplistic...More »
  
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• Michael B. Jordan and Joe Robert Cole Snag Another Comic-Book Franchise With Netflix’s Failsafe

  30-04-2018 22:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  The comics have been good to Michael B. Jordan and writer Joe Robert Cole. Their Marvel Comics adaptation collaboration, Black Panther, was a record-shattering (well, until Avengers: Infinity War) success and a critical darling, and now the duo may be teaming up once again to translate a much more obscure...More »
  
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• The 43 Best Moments From Season 6 of Vanderpump Rules

  30-04-2018 22:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  I have terrible news. The sixth season of the most delightfully horrifying form of entertainment mankind has known so far — Bravo’s bartender reality show Vanderpump Rules — comes to an end tonight. It seems the dreaded Patrick is going to meet Lisa, and that she is not going to...More »
  
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• Het Nationale Theater pakt deze zomer uit met spektakelstuk ... - Omroep West

  30-04-2018 21:23
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  Het Nationale Theater staat te popelen om het zomerseizoen af te trappen. In het kader van 200 jaar Scheveningen gaat het Haagse toneelgezelschap namelijk het romantische watersprookje Ondine opvoeren. En daarvoor wordt de Koninklijke Schouwburg ...en meer »
  
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• The Best TV Shows of 2018 (So Far)

  30-04-2018 20:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the past, Vulture has traditionally shared a list of the best TV shows of the year so far at around the midpoint in the 365-day calendar. Last year, we did the same thing but continually updated the list on a monthly basis, both as a service to readers and...More »
  
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• Your One Book, One New York Voting Cheat Sheet

  30-04-2018 20:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  We’ve reached the final day of voting for the 2018 One Book, One New York contest, and the standings are close. How close, you ask? Wouldn’t you like to know. Suffice it to say, today’s voting may well determine which book — from the field of Manhattan Beach by Jennifer...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Becoming Who I Was’ Looks at a Boy’s Days, and His Past Lives

  30-04-2018 19:58 via nytimes.com
  The documentary follows a Buddhist boy who has been identified as a rinpoche — a reincarnated centuries-old monk.
  
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• Queer Eye’s Antoni Is Writing a Cookbook, in Case You Need Things to Do With Avocados

  30-04-2018 19:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  To quote Ratatouille, anyone can cook, and soon, with the help of Queer Eye’s food and dimples expert Antoni Porowski, so too could you. Per EW, Porowski has signed a deal with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to write his first cookbook, which will contain 100 recipes and be published in the...More »
  
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• EU rules mean it’ll be lights out for acts like Beyoncé | Letters

  30-04-2018 19:21 via theguardian.com
  Pretty much every single tool that we use as lighting designers will be rendered obsolete by these rules, writes lighting designer Tim RoutledgeIn response to Richard Pilbrow’s well put letter (EU rule could leave theatres dark, 30 April), it’s pertinent to point out that this directive on theatrical lighting will not only leave theatres in the dark but also every music venue, arena, music festival and touring concert production across Europe. As a very well established lighting desi
  
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• Watch Donald Glover Sway to TLC’s ‘Creep’ in Atlanta Deleted Scene

  30-04-2018 18:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  So I creep! Imagine denying us this blessing: The men of Atlanta — Donald Glover, Brian Tyree Henry, and Lakeith Stanfield — re-creating TLC’s “Creep.” On last week’s episode, Earn (Glover) booked Paper Boi (BTH) a gig at the Pajama Jam concert at a college in Statesboro. A deleted scene...More »
  
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• Disney shares powered by Avengers’ box office haul

  30-04-2018 18:47 via ft.com
  Latest Marvel film earns $641m in weekend debut
  
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• Kanye Spent His Weekend Hanging Out With the New Right-Wing Leaders of Free Thought

  30-04-2018 18:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Freethinker Kanye West has turned his recent thoughts on politics into action. Over the weekend, TMZ reports that West took a meeting with conservative pundit Candace Owens, the same woman who West fawned over in a tweet the previous weekend. After learning that West was apparently a fan, Owens begged...More »
  
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• Carey Mulligan’s Confusingly Plural One-Woman Show Girls & Boys Is Coming to New York

  30-04-2018 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Soon you will be able to see Carey Mulligan in New York, and later listen to Carey Mulligan if you don’t have the chance to be there in person. Audible, which previously produced Billy Crudup’s Harry Clarke, is bringing the Royal Court Theatre’s production of Girls & Boys, which stars...More »
  
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• 'I want something magical': Russia's banned Eurovision singer is back

  30-04-2018 17:57 via theguardian.com
  As she prepares for this year’s contest, Julia Samoylova talks about being at the centre of a diplomatic crisis and bringing a big power ballad to LisbonTalking with Julia Samoylova, Russia’s Eurovision entry, it’s easy to forget that a year ago she was at the centre of a diplomatic crisis. The 29-year-old chats away, all smiles and nervous laughter, like any other entrant, as she covers everything from her childhood in Ukhta, an industrial town in Russia’s north, to her
  
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• Avengers: Infinity War: How They Decided to Split Up the Characters

  30-04-2018 17:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the first two Avengers movies, the powered-up ensemble comprised little more than a handful of characters, and they spent most of the plot fighting at each other’s side. Over the last few years, though, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has experienced a superheroic population boom, and that presented a logistical...More »
  
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• Does the Ending of ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Spoil Itself?

  30-04-2018 17:47 via nytimes.com
  Life may be short, but intellectual property is eternal.
  
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• ‘Avengers: Infinity War’: Does the Ending Spoil Itself?

  30-04-2018 17:47 via nytimes.com
  Life may be short, but intellectual property is eternal.
  
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• Bill Cosby’s Damning Deposition Was the Nail in the Coffin, According to Juror

  30-04-2018 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Less than a week after Bill Cosby was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault, one of the jurors in the retrial is giving insight into how the jury arrived at that verdict. Harrison Snyder, 22, tells Good Morning America that, for him, the decision came down to Cosby...More »
  
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• The Best Movies of 2018 (So Far)

  30-04-2018 17:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s only a few months into 2018, but there’ve already been a handful of films worthy of great praise — and breaking box-office history. Here are the best movies Vulture has reviewed, according to our movie critics David Edelstein and Emily Yoshida.(A quick note about our methodology: We’ve restricted this...More »
  
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• 9 Art Shows to See This Week On and Off Frieze Island

  30-04-2018 17:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nearly 200 galleries from around the world have docked at Randall’s Island to peddle their blue-chip merch at the Frieze New York art fair this week, taking place May 2–6 in a big bespoke tent (one that has its own pretty funny Twitter). Tickets, ferry ride, and a copy of...More »
  
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• Kanye West’s Theatre of the Absurd

  30-04-2018 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kanye West released two songs over the weekend. Both were terrible, albeit in different ways. Friday evening witnessed the arrival of “Lift Yourself,” where the artist responded to rap radio host Ebro’s questioning of his recent right-curious and Trump-loving tweets with gibberish: “Poopity-scoop / Scoopity-whoop / Whoopty scoopty poop.” Not...More »
  
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• Time’s Up Calls on Corporations to Cut Ties With R. Kelly

  30-04-2018 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  The cohort of women of color within Time’s Up have put R. Kelly in their crosshairs. In a statement released Monday morning, Time’s Up called for Kelly to be dropped by companies and venues including RCA Records, Ticketmaster, Spotify, and Apple Music because of abuse allegations against the R&B singer....More »
  
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• ‘Ink,’ a Tale of Rupert Murdoch’s Rise, Is Coming to Broadway

  30-04-2018 16:30 via nytimes.com
  Another British import is coming, this one about an early chapter in Mr. Murdoch’s career.
  
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• You Just Might Impress Shania Twain Much on Her New Country Music Competition Show

  30-04-2018 16:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Now is probably not the best time to announce that you’ve hired Shania Twain to host a TV show, but nonetheless, the USA Network has chosen it. USA announced today that Twain will head up its new music competition series Real Country alongside Jake Owen. The eight-part series, shooting in...More »
  
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• What’s New on Hulu: May 2018

  30-04-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Because it’s one of the most underrated movies of the decade: WarriorIt’s been seven years since Warrior came out and I’m still not over how thoroughly it blew me away. Perhaps the finest fight movie since Rocky, Warrior is an honest-to-goodness incredible film, satisfying everything you want to see in...More »
  
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• Netflix’s Evil Genius Investigates the Notorious ‘Pizza Bomber Heist’

  30-04-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Duplass brothers’ Evil Genius: The True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist looks like it’ll be your next true-crime obsession. The docuseries uncovers the story of an infamous 2003 plot to rob an Erie, Pennsylvania, bank: During the so-called “pizza bomber heist,” a pizza deliveryman with a bomb...More »
  
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• 40 Essential Lesbian Romance Films

  30-04-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This past weekend at the box office was particularly gay. Love, Simon was still playing at theaters across America, and it was joined by Disobedience — which tells the story of two women finding love and comfort with each other in an Orthodox Jewish community — and Duck Butter, an...More »
  
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• BFI apologises after woman with Asperger's ejected from cinema

  30-04-2018 14:51
  Tamsin Parker, 25, was removed for laughing during The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in LondonThe British Film Institute has apologised after staff forcibly removed a woman with Asperger’s from the cinema in what onlookers described as a “disgusting” sign of “naked intolerance”.Tamsin Parker, a 25-year-old artist and animator, was watching a screening at the BFI’s cinema on London’s South Bank of her favourite film – the spaghetti western The Good, th
  
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• American Idol Recap: When You Swish Swish Upon a Star

  30-04-2018 14:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  I knew something was off with Disney Night right from the start: Katy Perry, who has always fancied herself something of a demented Disney princess, came out in Snow White garb to entertain/humor/bludgeon us with an old-timey impression. You know damn well she should’ve embraced Cruella de Vil drag. Give...More »
  
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• Michelle Wolf: the unstoppable rise of America's provocative political comic

  30-04-2018 14:27 via theguardian.com
  Her caustic White House correspondents’ dinner speech will be no shock for fans of the former Daily Show contributorWhen Michelle Wolf arrived at the Edinburgh festival in 2016 she was the latest in a long line of bubbling-under US standups to use the fringe to hone their craft and build an international audience. She returned home with a nomination for best newcomer, and a reputation firmly established for smart, sly, social commentary – laughing in the gaps between political princi
  
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• The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: The Suspect Husband

  30-04-2018 14:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  I wish I had a pithy little intro paragraph that deftly connected the themes of this episode to something else. Like a parody of a podcast or a story from my life, but I can’t do that this week because all I have to say about this episode is: GET...More »
  
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• When good TV turns bad: how Weeds made a right hash of things

  30-04-2018 14:00 via theguardian.com
  By season three, the satire about a suburban LA mum and dealer had been through so many time jumps and location changes it had left its audience feeling dazed and confusedGiven the recent legalisation of marijuana in California, and the popularity of programmes such as Breaking Bad and Narcos, the premise of Weeds seems antiquated. But when it started in 2005, the satire about a suburban Los Angeles mother who risked jail by dealing the green stuff after her husband’s early death felt revo
  
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• In Conversation: Seth Rogen

  30-04-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Seth Rogen is 36 years old, hasn’t starred onscreen in a comedy in a couple of years, and his newest project is Hilarity for Charity, a Netflix special intended to raise awareness of Alzheimer’s disease. None of that, though, should be taken for signs of maturity. “The special pretty much...More »
  
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• Avengers: Infinity War blasts Star Wars: The Force Awakens' first-weekend record at US box office

  30-04-2018 13:41
  Marvel’s superhero film earns $250m in the US, $2m ahead of The Force Awakens in 2015, while also smashing opening-weekend records across the world• Sign up for Film Today and get our film team’s highlights of the dayMarvel’s new superhero movie Avengers: Infinity War has overhauled Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ opening-weekend record at the US box office, earning an estimated total of $250m since its release on Friday, $2m ahead of The Force Awakens’ total in
  
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• Does Human Planet have to be as accurate as the news?

  30-04-2018 13:35 via theguardian.com
  The nature show has been pulled by the broadcaster after questions were raised over the veracity of some scenes. But some argue that even if film-makers cheated, it is still far from fake newsOn Friday morning, at 9.30am, I bought and watched the fourth episode of the 2011 BBC natural history series Human Planet on Amazon Prime. Just over an hour later, the show was no longer for sale.This digital extinction seemed to be part of the BBC’s attempt to remove, for the moment, any trace in any
  
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• Avengers: Infinity War Has the Biggest Box Office Opening of All Time

  30-04-2018 13:30 via feeds.eonline.com
  Excelsior!Marvel Studios' Avengers: Infinity War made history over the weekend, earning an estimated $250 million at 4,474 theaters in the U.S. and Canada--the highest domestic debut...
  
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• WPP shares up almost 8% after better than expected sales

  30-04-2018 13:27 via ft.com
  Media group hints at disposals following turbulence and departure of founder Sorrell
  
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• Britain’s film renaissance: made in UK, owned in USA?

  30-04-2018 11:21 via ft.com
  The UK movie industry is in robust health, but worries persist over its capacity for creativity
  
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• The First Time: The Duplass Brothers: The First Time We Got Cable TV

  30-04-2018 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Dark dramas on HBO inspired Mark and Jay Duplass to make their first movie, ages 8 and 12, about a karate master who battles a robber.
  
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• WPP sales edge lower as investors await strategy review

  30-04-2018 08:52 via ft.com
  Management promises to restore ad agency to growth in wake of Martin Sorrell’s exit
  
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• Michelle Wolf has nothing to apologise for. Her critics do, though | Arwa Mahdawi

  30-04-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Urging the comedian who performed at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to apologize for an uncontroversial joke sends an incredibly dangerous messageLet me tell you a few deplorable things that happened in America this weekend. Nearly 43 million people woke up in poverty in the richest country in the world. And 3.2 million Americans woke up without health insurance. A further 36 people died because of gun violence, bringing the total number of gun deaths in the US this year to 4,627.
  
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• Monday’s best TV: The Royal Wives of Windsor; Britain’s Cocaine Epidemic

  30-04-2018 07:19 via theguardian.com
  While not free of wafflers, the first of a two-parter on the women who have married into the House of Windsor has some useful insights. Plus: a dizzying exposé of the UK’s cocaine consumption9pm, BBC Four Continue reading...
  
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• WHCA Issues Statement Confirming They’re Not Huge Fans of Michelle Wolf’s Monologue

  30-04-2018 07:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  While the debate rages about what comedian Michelle Wolf did or did not mean by specific jokes in her White House Correspondents’ Dinner monologue this weekend, and the level of seriousness with which we should all approach them, and how to react to the entire debacle, the Correspondents’ Association itself...More »
  
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