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• Pam Fryman Is the Busiest Woman This Pilot Season

  08-05-2018 23:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  In between rehearsals on the CBS pilot History of Them, Emmy-nominated director Pamela Fryman takes out an album. It’s a thick one, filled with photographs and mementos of the many sitcoms she’s worked on: There she is with Kelsey Grammer in an old Frasier photograph; Neil Patrick Harris is in...More »
  
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• Behind the Insanity of Pilot Season, TV’s Hunger Games

  08-05-2018 23:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s May, and while spring fills the air in Hollywood, so do the anxiety levels. The fated of 75 broadcast pilots — and the dreams of thousands — hangs in the balance as the broadcast networks prepare to announce their lineups to New York advertisers next week. Since February, there’s...More »
  
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• Theresa May pressed to revive inquiry into newspaper malpractice

  08-05-2018 23:00 via ft.com
  Publishers fear for free speech as Miliband and Clarke seek data bill amendment
  
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• One Strange Rock review – Will Smith getting jiggy with planet Earth

  08-05-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  This Hollywood star-hosted documentary undeniably looks great, but is pitched a little too much like a secret advert for the Alpha Course‘We sure lucked out with planet Earth,” says Will Smith, wearing a look of humble wonder and opening up the doors on to a pool area with a nice view. “Blue skies, rolling hills, water everywhere. I mean, this place is nice.”Yes that Will Smith – the Fresh Prince, the movie star, Agent J, He Is Legend. And now He Is Host of Flashy N
  
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• Clayne Crawford Reportedly Fired From Lethal Weapon, Fox Looking to Recast His Part

  08-05-2018 22:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fox needs a new Riggs. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the network has fired Clayne Crawford from its Lethal Weapon TV adaptation and is looking to recast his role with a new actor in order to pick up the show for a third season. Crawford was reportedly fired for creating...More »
  
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• Sweetbitter Star Ella Purnell on Tabloid Rumors and Being Typecast

  08-05-2018 21:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tess — the quick, quietly confident central character of Starz’s new Sunday-night show Sweetbitter — isn’t the kind of role Ella Purnell usually gets in her in-box. Tess moves to New York near the end of the early aughts, and finds a job at a swanky Union Square restaurant. She...More »
  
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• In ‘Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again’ Trailer, Abba Is the Star

  08-05-2018 21:17 via nytimes.com
  The final clip before the movie’s release highlights Cher, Lily James and younger versions of Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgard and Colin Firth.
  
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• Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter to Reteam for Bill and Ted’s Third Excellent Adventure

  08-05-2018 20:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before he saved the world from large, speeding machines and before he turned into a sexy assassin with soulful eyes, Keanu Reeves was just a Wyld Stallyn from San Dimas, California, with his partner in inter-dimensional crime, Alex Winter. And today, 29 years after Bill and Ted’s first excellent adventure,...More »
  
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• The Women on the Cannes Jury Will Make You Forget About the Met Ball

  08-05-2018 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Today is the first day of both the Cannes Film Festival and the rest of our lives, since it truly doesn’t matter what happened prior to jury president Cate Blanchett and her peers storming the red carpet on the Croisette. Blanchett was joined by fellow jurors Ava DuVernay, Kristen Stewart,...More »
  
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• Sanaa Lathan ‘Would Never’ Bite Beyoncé, According to Sanaa Lathan

  08-05-2018 20:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sanaa Lathan would very much like to be excluded from this narrative, one that she never asked to be a part of, since Vulture closed its investigation into who bit Beyoncé. With Bey-bite-gate (this is what we’re calling Tiffany Haddish’s revelation that an actress on drugs bit Beyoncé at an...More »
  
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• Eurovision 2018: everything Australians need to know before watching

  08-05-2018 20:00 via theguardian.com
  From voting blocs to cheering on Jessica Mauboy – and how come Australia can even enter? Here’s your definitive guide to this year’s song contestWhy is Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest?
  Great question. It’s because Australia is part of Europe, just next to Germany.Oh, that’s funny.
  All right, it’s because SBS, the TV station that shows Eurovision in Australia, is part of the European Broadcasting Union and that is the most important determining factor
  
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• Kanye West Let Us Down

  08-05-2018 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  I’ve been having the same debate with the same friend for about a year now. He is supportive of leftist causes and organizations but also sternly critical of their shortcomings and increasingly suspicious that many of the decade’s most popular activists became public intellectuals for the celebrity meet-and-greets. Our dialogue...More »
  
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• Bob Bura obituary

  08-05-2018 19:42 via theguardian.com
  Pioneering animator of children’s programmes such as Camberwick Green, Trumpton and ChigleyBob Bura, who has died aged 93, was one of Britain’s most prolific animators. Working with his long-time collaborator, John Hardwick, he produced hundreds of films and live-action puppet sequences. Through their pioneering techniques of stop-motion, they brought to life characters in classic children’s television programmes from the 1960s to 80s such as Camberwick Green, Trumpton, Chigley
  
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• Britain’s press singled out for further punishment

  08-05-2018 19:33 via ft.com
  New legislation risks curtailing journalists’ ability to do their jobs
  
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• Facebook curbs foreign adverts for Irish abortion vote

  08-05-2018 19:29 via ft.com
  Concern over lack of regulation of content from campaigners abroad
  
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• Lu Over the Wall is a Goofy, Lovable Mermaid-Vampire Dance Musical

  08-05-2018 19:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s “animation for grown-ups” and then there’s Masaaki Yuasa. The idiosyncratic director of Mind Game and Ping Pong has made a name for himself with a resumé of visually imaginative, largely mature-audiences-only films and TV series. The most recent, a reboot of the perennially rebootable Devilman franchise, finishes off its...More »
  
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• M&A debt: Extend and pretend

  08-05-2018 19:14 via ft.com
  Credit investors are bullish but heed the signs shareholders are sending
  
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• Gabrielle Union Is ‘Figuring It the Fuck Out’

  08-05-2018 19:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s happy hour time on a late Sunday afternoon in downtown Los Angeles, and Gabrielle Union is wearing the sunset, a satin dress that shifts from twilight blue to dusky peach, end-capped with a pair of goldenrod sandals. Union’s got a grin on her face and a skinny, spicy margarita...More »
  
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• Dear White People Levels Up in Season Two

  08-05-2018 18:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  The title of the Netflix series Dear White People is also the phrase that opens each episode of the titular campus radio show, wherein the woke biracial heroine Samantha (Logan Browning) climbs atop a virtual soapbox and directly addresses whatever social ills weigh most heavily on her at that moment, in sing-song...More »
  
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• The Rock Charges Studios $1 Million If They Want Him to Tweet About the Movie He’s In

  08-05-2018 18:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tired: posting a regular thirst trap on Instagram, as the Good Pope Rihanna decrees. Wired: Adding “social-media fee” to your multimillion-dollar movie salary. For his next project Red Notice, Variety reports that Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson will be paid around $22 million. A million of that money is just to...More »
  
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• Cannes 2018: Cate Blanchett defends festival's failure to select more women directors

  08-05-2018 18:33
  The Australian actor, who is head of this year’s female-majority jury, says change will come to the film festival, but ‘not overnight’ Cate Blanchett has defended the lack of women directors at Cannes this year, arguing that change will come to the film festival, but “not overnight”. Related: Cannes 2018: our critic's 10 must-see films at this year's festivalRelated: Cannes in crisis: has the festival learned the lessons of Weinstein?Continue reading...
  
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• Cannes 2018: Cate Blanchett defends festival's failure to select more female directors

  08-05-2018 18:33
  The Australian actor, who is head of this year’s female-majority jury, says change will come to the film festival, but ‘not overnight’ Cate Blanchett has defended the lack of female directors at Cannes this year, arguing that change will come to the film festival, but “not overnight”. Related: Cannes 2018: our critic's 10 must-see films at this year's festivalRelated: Cannes in crisis: has the festival learned the lessons of Weinstein?Continue reading...
  
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• 2 New R. Kelly Accusers Detail Harassment: ‘You Weren’t Free to Walk Throughout the House’

  08-05-2018 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Joining a growing group of voices who have alleged R. Kelly has a history of sexual abuse and harassment, two new accusers, Asante McGee and Kitti James, appeared on Megyn Kelly Today to detail their respective histories of dating the rapper. James spent two years living in R. Kelly’s Chicago...More »
  
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• Martin Sorrell vows to ‘start again’ after WPP exit

  08-05-2018 17:15 via ft.com
  Former chief says ad industry needs ‘new agency model’ that is more agile and responsive
  
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• Dear White People’s Logan Browning Used Criticisms of Sam to Prepare for Season 2

  08-05-2018 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers ahead of season two of Dear White People.Dear White People star Logan Browning admits there were times that the first season’s backlash toward her character Samantha White got the better of her. Winchester University’s political activist/radio host spoke truth to power and wasn’t afraid to be a catalyst, but...More »
  
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• The 14 Craziest Movie Posters in Cannes

  08-05-2018 16:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  You may watch some of the most brilliant features in world cinema after ascending the steps of the Palais des Festivals at the Cannes Film Festival, but if you instead head down to the basement of the Palais, you’ll find the Marché du Film, where posters tout low-budget exploitation films...More »
  
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• NBC Gives Good Girls Another Year of Doing Bad

  08-05-2018 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  NBC’s Good Girls will live on to, perhaps, become good women. The network announced that it renewed the series — which stars Mae Whitman, Christina Hendricks, and Retta as moms who decide to rob a grocery store — for a second season. Maybe this time they’ll rob a larger grocery...More »
  
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• In Great News for Trench Coats, Charlize Theron Says Atomic Blonde 2 is in Development

  08-05-2018 16:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Charlize Theron won’t be your next James Bond, but she will pull on her peroxide blonde wig and a Burberry trench coat to reprise her Atomic Blonde role. On Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen Monday night, Theron replied to a phone-in question asking how she feels about her...More »
  
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• Swipe left: why dating shows have become irrelevant

  08-05-2018 16:27 via theguardian.com
  The announcement of a new TV show based on a Snapchat dating concept is the latest nail in the coffin of a genre that doesn’t have a place in an online dating-focused worldToday in hellish sentences I never thought I’d write, a Snapchat dating show is coming to television. Phone Swap, which currently gets 10 million viewers on Snapchat Discover, will run on select Fox stations later this year.The premise of Phone Swap is simple. Potential love interests decide whether or not to date
  
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• Santa Clarita Diet Has Been Renewed to Satisfy Your Zombie Appetite

  08-05-2018 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sheila! Wants! Brains! Braiiiiiins! (Okay, this show might be more Real Housewives than Night of the Living Dead, but still.) So, Netflix will acquiesce and give her some. Santa Clarita Diet has been renewed by the network for a third season, which is set to premiere sometime in 2019. The...More »
  
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• Martin Sorrell plans to ‘start again’ after abrupt WPP exit

  08-05-2018 16:14 via ft.com
  Ad agency did not impose ‘non-compete’ condition when former boss left in April
  
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• New Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again Trailer: Cher Hath Arrived

  08-05-2018 16:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  If the first Mamma Mia 2 trailer is to be believed, Meryl Streep is going to die somewhere in this movie. The latest trailer (above) is a lot more upbeat, but still doesn’t answer the whole death question. How much will she be in this movie? Is this because she...More »
  
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• American Animals Trailer: These Boys Wanna Rob

  08-05-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Do you ever feel like you’re waiting for something to happen?” That’s the question Spencer Reinhard (Dunkirk’s Barry Keoghan) asks in this exclusive trailer for American Animals. “That thing that could make your life special?” The boys of American Animals — Keoghan, Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson, and Evan Peters —...More »
  
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• Iranian director apologises after Isis-garbed PR stunt for film

  08-05-2018 15:48
  Actors dressed as fighters brandished fakes guns and rode horse at Tehran shopping centreAn Iranian film-maker has apologised after pranksters dressed as members of Islamic State entered a shopping centre in Tehran to promote his feature film. A group of actors, some of whom had appeared in Ebrahim Hatamikia’s recently released Damascus Time, brandished fake guns, wielded swords and rode a horse past onlookers in the Koroush shopping centre and cinema complex. چطور&
  
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• Madonna Gave a Surprise Performance at the Met Gala

  08-05-2018 15:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Madonna (the secular one) arrived at the Met Gala in a golden crown made of crosses, a black veil, and a gown by Jean Paul Gaultier. While she looked gorgeous, she wasn’t the showstopper of the red carpet — that honor went to Rihanna and/or Frances McDormand. But you didn’t...More »
  
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• Which Meghan Markle TV Special Is Right for You?

  08-05-2018 15:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hear ye, hear ye! You might’ve heard that an American actress is infiltrating Britain’s royal family, thanks to Meghan Markle’s impending marriage to Prince Harry this May. The royals are thrilled, the common folk are thrilled, but most importantly, the television networks are thrilled — not even a week went...More »
  
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• Vanderpump Rules Reunion Recap: Daddy Tissues

  08-05-2018 14:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  The worst part of any Vanderpump Rules reunion is undoubtedly the chairs. While the Real Housewives get to plop their long trains down on plush couches, the Fireball-fueled knuckle fuckers of this show are perched on high-backed, black cocktail stools that are just a little bit too high for a...More »
  
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• The future isn't female enough: the problematic feminism of The Handmaid's Tale

  08-05-2018 12:00 via theguardian.com
  The second season of the award-winning drama is being criticized as ‘torture porn’ and is less interested in men as aggressors than on women’s role in upholding the patriarchySince its first season, The Handmaid’s Tale has been upheld by many women as a rallying cry for the feminist resistance. The image of red robed and white bonneted women from the classic feminist text has become as celebrated as Rosie the Riveter. It has been referenced in any number of striking signs
  
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• Jay-Z and Eminem claim Weinstein Company owes them more than $800,000

  08-05-2018 11:14
  In court filings, the rappers claim they were underpaid for projects including the Jake Gyllenhaal movie Southpaw and a forthcoming Trayvon Martin TV documentaryRappers Jay-Z and Eminem have claimed the Weinstein Company owes them hundreds of thousands of dollars, in a lawsuit that is currently preventing the sale of the company in the wake of its bankruptcy.The Weinstein Company filed for bankruptcy in March, following its collapse after the series of sexual assault allegations made against its
  
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• Does It Matter if You See a Film in a Theater or at Home?

  08-05-2018 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Cannes and Netflix clashed over this question, so we asked our critics to debate the pros and cons. Where do you stand?
  
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• Late Night Tries to Make Sense of Rudy Giuliani’s Recent Trump Defense Tour

  08-05-2018 08:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Well, maybe Seth Meyers put it best during his Monday night segment on Rudy Giuliani’s non-stop news appearances, presumably intended to aid President Trump in handling his ongoing Stormy Daniels scandal. Said the Late Night host, “This burrito is really falling apart.”No matter your own personal feelings about Donald Trump’s...More »
  
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• Cannes 2018: The directors who are banned from attending the film festival

  08-05-2018 08:00
  Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi and Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov – who both have films competing for the Palme d’Or – have been prevented from leaving their respective countriesTwo dissident directors competing for the coveted Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes film festival will be unable to attend the event, due to restrictions imposed by Russia and Iran.Russian theatre and film director Kirill Serebrennikov and Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi are unable to
  
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• Tuesday’s best TV: The Secret Life of 5 Year Olds; The Split

  08-05-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  The children are tested on their understanding of right and wrong; there are more twists and turns in the legal drama; and Snow Patrol take centre stage for Jools HollandAnother round of cute psychological experiments, sometimes with a mildly uncomfortable judgmental undertone. The theme of this new two-parter is right and wrong and, for a long time, one little girl has her half-formed understanding of the concept put starkly on display. But she comes good, as do the group as a collective w
  
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• HBO Defends the Use of Elephants on Westworld Following PETA Abuse Claim

  08-05-2018 06:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  At least in part, HBO’s Westworld explores the ethics of creating synthetic lifeforms to indulge humanity’s baser instincts. You know who’s completely onboard with that idea? PETA, who suggested the HBO drama use CGI elephants instead of real ones following this week’s episode “Virtù e Fortuna.” (Of course, if the...More »
  
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• Eurovision song contest seeks new viewers across the globe

  08-05-2018 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Annual contest, taking place this week in Portugal, has ‘a life beyond Europe’, says EBU bossThe kitsch costumes, power ballads and risk of a humiliating nul points are familiar to its fans. Now, if the Eurovision song contest organisers get their way, these traits could find a bigger global audience.The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the body behind the event, is considering how it can sell the broadcast to the rest of the world.Continue reading...
  
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• Eurovision seeks to win viewers in new territories

  08-05-2018 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Song contest, taking place this week in Portugal, has ‘a life beyond Europe’, says EBU bossThe kitsch costumes, power ballads and risk of a humiliating nul points are familiar to its fans. Now, if the Eurovision song contest organisers get their way, these traits could find a bigger global audience.The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the body behind the event, is considering how it can sell the broadcast to the rest of the world.Continue reading...
  
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• Irwins thank Russell Crowe and John Oliver for koala chlamydia clinic – video

  08-05-2018 05:07 via theguardian.com
  Terri, Bindi and Robert Irwin thank Russell Crowe for donating money from his 'divorce auction' to the Australia Zoo wildlife hospital to treat chlamydia in koalas. The ward has been named after John Oliver, who bought a number of items from Crowe’s auction, including paying AU$7,000 for the jockstrap the actor wore in the film Cinderella Man Continue reading...
  
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• The Terror Recap: Tuunbaq Take the Wheel

  08-05-2018 04:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  It speaks to how well The Terror has built up its story and its characters that in its final stretch, just as things are starting to move at a desperate clip, it can get away with opening “Terror Camp Clear” with a seven-minute conversation between two characters. Of all of...More »
  
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• And Now: The Best Young Popes At The Met Gala

  08-05-2018 04:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  The theme of this year’s Met Gala is Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination. For the less enterprising attendees, that means sheath dresses with spikey crowns, but for the truly fashion elite, it was a feast of chic Pope looks. As expected, Rihanna did her summer reading and got...More »
  
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• Theater Review: Caryl Churchill on Losing Revolutionary Momentum

  08-05-2018 04:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 1976 Caryl Churchill collaborated with Joint Stock Theatre Company for the first time to write a play about revolutionary fervor, apocalyptic visions, political optimism, and a powerful left-wing movement crushed by committee, greed, and internal factionalism, ultimately making way for the restoration of a selfish, rich status quo. No,...More »
  
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