Cinema, Theater & TV news

• Terry Gilliam Had a Stroke But at Least The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Is Finally Going to Screen

  09-05-2018 23:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just when you thought the timeline of Terry Gilliam’s decades-old project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote couldn’t get any more dramatic, the director suffered a stroke recently while waiting to see if his film would finally, at long last, reach audiences as a selection at the Cannes Film Festival....More »
  
  Read more

• Amazon Won’t Enter Jeffrey Tambor Into the Emmys Race for Transparent

  09-05-2018 23:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Amazon fired Jeffrey Tambor from Transparent after an investigation into claims of sexual harassment against him that were made before the show’s fifth season began, and now the streamer won’t put him in the running for awards recognition for his performance in the fourth. According to Gold Derby, the streaming...More »
  
  Read more

• Review: ‘The Day After’ and the Awkwardness of Lunch With the Boss

  09-05-2018 23:23 via nytimes.com
  A tiny Seoul publishing house is the scene of questionable workplace conduct in Hong Sang-soo’s latest comedy of boozy bad manners.
  
  Read more

• Chris Brown Sued by Woman Who Alleges She Was Raped at His House

  09-05-2018 23:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chris Brown is facing new legal problems today after a young woman alleged that she was sexually assaulted and held against her will at his California home. Both Brown and Young Lo (real name: Lowell Grissom) are named in a lawsuit that was filed this morning in the Los Angeles...More »
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Taskmaster review – panel game that celebrates the bizarre and the mediocre

  09-05-2018 23:00
  Comedians including Asim Chaudhry, Liza Tarbuck and Tim Vine throw themselves into Greg Davies’s allocated tasks with unabashed if resigned abandonTaskmaster is back for a sixth season. “We’re going to begin with the Prize Task, pause in case of a cheer … OK, so our new gang ...” begins Alex Horne. No cheer, but a laugh from the studio audience, at a gag that is self-aware and a little bit meta. It’s also quite good one, which is why they’re laughing.Al
  
  Read more

• Modern Love: Rachel Weisz Reads ‘When Eve and Eve Bit the Apple’

  09-05-2018 22:52 via nytimes.com
  On this week’s Modern Love podcast, the “Disobedience” star tells the story of two women who must reconcile their love of God with their love for each other.
  
  Read more

• Second Stage Season Brings World Premieres and a First

  09-05-2018 22:37 via nytimes.com
  Young Jean Lee’s “Straight White Men,” the first Broadway production of a play by an Asian-American female playwright, will start the season in June.
  
  Read more

• Annette Bening in Talks to Join Captain Marvel and Thanos Is Quaking

  09-05-2018 21:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Praise be her name! Light of our life Annette Bening will join Brie Larson in Captain Marvel, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Co-directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Mississippi Grind, Half Nelson), the movie will feature Larson as superhuman Air Force pilot Carol Danvers. Bening’s casting means a few important...More »
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Jessica Hecht to Star in a New Play by Calvin Trillin

  09-05-2018 21:49 via nytimes.com
  “About Alice” is part of the coming season at Theater for a New Audience, which also includes European imports and “Julius Caesar.”
  
  Read more

• Friday Night Lights Will Be ‘Reimagined’ With a New Movie

  09-05-2018 21:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Clear eyes, full hearts, will reboot! Pineapple Express director David Gordon Green is in final talks to direct a Friday Night Lights movie, according to Variety. One caveat: it’s not a sequel to the 2004 Billy Bob Thornton movie. Additional caveat: it’s not a continuation of the hit NBC series, starring...More »
  
  Read more

• Outlander Gets Renewed for 2 More Steamy Seasons, and Releases a First Look at Season 4

  09-05-2018 21:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sing me a song, a song that’s going to be very, very long. Starz has renewed Outlander, TV’s premiere fantasy-slash-romance-slash-sci-fi adventure, for seasons five and six as the characters settle into lives in America on the brink of the Revolution. “Fans can rest assured their beloved Claire and Jamie will...More »
  
  Read more

• Ali Wong’s Hard Knock Wife Is a Hilarious, Cathartic Follow-up to Baby Cobra

  09-05-2018 21:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I love her so much, but I’m on the verge of putting her in the garbage.”That’s what a very pregnant Ali Wong tells the audience in her new Netflix special, Hard Knock Wife, speaking of her young daughter, whom Wong was carrying during her 2016 special Baby Cobra. It’s one...More »
  
  Read more

• ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ Can Play at Cannes, Court Rules

  09-05-2018 21:10 via nytimes.com
  A French court threw out a complaint that could have prevented Terry Gilliam’s movie from closing the film festival.
  
  Read more

• Vodafone’s TV deal shows price can be right for more than the buyer

  09-05-2018 20:50 via ft.com
  Corporate finance boutique Robey Warshaw deserves more of a mention in the press
  
  Read more

• UK newspapers claim MPs vote is victory for press freedom

  09-05-2018 20:23 via ft.com
  Commons narrowly rejects case for a new inquiry into media behaviour
  
  Read more

• Can MoviePass Survive the Summer?

  09-05-2018 19:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  MoviePass has never made any mystery of its intent to change the theatrical filmgoing game – to remake the game in its own image, really. The cut-rate service — for which subscribers pay a $9.95 monthly fee to be able to attend one movie a day, theoretically every day of...More »
  
  Read more

• Beethoven’s Fidelio and Mahler’s Tenth, With the Conventions Tossed Away

  09-05-2018 19:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  The classical music canon is like sex: the substance doesn’t vary much, and it’s all about how well you do it and with whom. Simon Rattle has, by his own count, performed Mahler’s Tenth Symphony more than 100 times, and this time he brought his new ensemble, the London Symphony...More »
  
  Read more

• Anne V. Coates, Admired Editor of Acclaimed Movies, Dies at 92

  09-05-2018 18:57 via nytimes.com
  In a six-decade career working for top directors, she was nominated for five Oscars, winning one for “Lawrence of Arabia.”
  
  Read more

• Teletubbies has vital lessons for toddlers | Letters

  09-05-2018 18:48
  Toddlers invest immense amounts of energy in learning how to make sense of television – not just content, but also the rules of storytelling and genre, writes Cary BazalgetteCatherine Shoard has jumped on the “malign influence of TV” bandwagon (Is children’s TV raising a crop of raving narcissists?, 7 May). Does she really think that at 13 months her son is an empty vessel waiting for TV programmes to pour attitudes into his head that will then be fixed for life? I sugges
  
  Read more

• Andy Samberg and the Cast of Brooklyn Nine-Nine Choose Their Favorite Cold Opens

  09-05-2018 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ask any fan to explain the comedic delights of Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and they’d all tell you that one of the fundamental tenets of the NYPD’s silliest precinct has always been its use of cold opens. In nearly every episode throughout its five-season run, a cold open, often totally unrelated...More »
  
  Read more

• Sweetbitter Author Stephanie Danler on Bringing Her Book to TV

  09-05-2018 18:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sweetbitter’s television adaptation gave the book’s author Stephanie Danler a chance for some do-overs. The Starz show is a faithful adaptation: “In every episode, there’s a scene that’s directly from the book,” Danler assures die-hards. But the show’s six-episode first season only pulls from about a fourth of the book’s...More »
  
  Read more

• Review: ‘Always at the Carlyle’ Hints at Scandal, Chooses Discretion

  09-05-2018 18:23 via nytimes.com
  Matthew Miele’s documentary about the Carlyle Hotel, on the Upper East Side, is more interested in burnishing a reputation than in exploring it.
  
  Read more

• ‘Harry Potter’ Director’s 5 Influences: Kate Bush, Tennessee Williams and More

  09-05-2018 17:45 via nytimes.com
  John Tiffany regularly makes magic on stage, never more than in the Tony-nominated show. But what made him?
  
  Read more

• Roman Polanski’s Thoughts on #MeToo Are Just As Bad As You’d Imagine

  09-05-2018 17:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week Newsweek Polska published an interview with filmmaker Roman Polanski — who fled the United States in 1977 after being charged with drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl — in which he shared his thoughts on the #MeToo movement in Hollywood, and they are just as bad as you might imagine.Polanski said the...More »
  
  Read more

• Roseanne Recap: They’re Just Like Us

  09-05-2018 17:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Roseanne Conner’s support of Donald Trump has been a lot — too much for some viewers — to get past. But the latest surprising reveal about the character is a stereotype too far.Roseanne’s hawking her new neighbors, and not in her usual Roseanne way, where she’s scoping out how she...More »
  
  Read more

• Younger Season 5 Trailer: We’ve Got Ourselves Some Love Triangles!

  09-05-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  We’re feeling pretty steamy after watching this trailer for Younger’s upcoming fifth season. There are too many romantic interests for our beloved ladies! Liza is juggling a bunch of boos, many of whom aren’t Charles. Kelsey has two boos of her own to deal with. (“You’ve been gaslighting an entire...More »
  
  Read more

• George Clooney Was Having a Lot of Fun at the Met Gala After-Party, and By That, We Mean Wasted

  09-05-2018 16:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  The dressy outfit portion of Met Gala coverage is solidly over and now we’ve moved onto hashing out the events of the messy after-parties. On Watch What Happens Live, Andy Cohen took the opportunity to discuss who exactly was the most sloshed after the event. Cohen himself claimed that “another...More »
  
  Read more

• All 19 Star Wars-Themed Sketches Produced By Saturday Night Live

  09-05-2018 16:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  The original Star Wars hit theaters just a few days after Saturday Night Live wrapped its second season in 1977, and it became the highest-grossing film of all time the following year. Since SNL first lampooned the movie with Bill Murray’s lounge singer in season three, the show and films have aged like siblings, celebrating anniversaries...More »
  
  Read more

• Jay-Z Ordered to Testify Next Week in SEC Investigation Involving Rocawear

  09-05-2018 16:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Turns out, even Jay-Z can’t get out of court obligations. On Tuesday, a federal judge in Manhattan ordered Jay-Z to testify next week as part of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into Iconix, the company he sold his former clothing brand Rocawear to in 2007. According to the court,...More »
  
  Read more

• NBC Investigation Says Management Didn’t Know About Matt Lauer Accusations

  09-05-2018 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  NBC released the results of its internal investigation following revelations that Matt Lauer sexually harassed multiple women at the company, and said it found no evidence that management knew of the Today anchor’s behavior. According to The Hollywood Reporter, NBC’s report found that no NBC or Today show executives or...More »
  
  Read more

• Rewind: The Late, Late Show With Martin Scorsese

  09-05-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  “After Hours,” Mr. Scorsese’s 1985 comedy, is showing at midnight at the IFC Center.
  
  Read more

• Ninja Supreme Court Justice: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Fun With Fame

  09-05-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The star of the documentary “RBG” has embraced her popularity as another tool in her effort to help women advance.
  
  Read more

• Michael B. Jordan Kept a Killmonger Diary to Get in Touch With His Feelings

  09-05-2018 15:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Be forewarned: You are not prepared for Michael B. Jordan’s hoarse, post–Met Gala voice that accompanies his newest too-small sweater on this late-night appearance. This sounds like the smoothest hangover ever heard by human ears, a hangover you’d would invite — nay, welcome! — into your home. (Armie Hammer’s voice:...More »
  
  Read more

• Taylor Swift Addresses Being Bullied By Kim Kardashian During Concert

  09-05-2018 15:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you were expecting an olive branch between Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian West, don’t. Hours after revealing an apparent reconciliation with Katy Perry, Swift opened her Reputation Tour by talking about her ongoing feud with Kardashian West for the first time. You’ll recall that Kim exposed Swift’s dishonesty about...More »
  
  Read more

• Screened out: why TV and film glam up plain women in books

  09-05-2018 15:15
  Marian in The Woman in White is written with a moustache – which vanished in the new TV version, just like the imperfections of many literary characters on cameraWhen the BBC’s ratings winner The Woman in White ended on a plot twist on Monday night, fans of the 1859 novel were less than pleased, with some speculating that it set the scene for an unexpected sequel in a similar fashion to the TV incarnation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. In the book, Wilkie Colli
  
  Read more

• Hereditary, What Keeps You Alive, and 12 More Horror Movies We Can’t Wait to Watch This Summer

  09-05-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The horror offerings of spring 2018 were defined by two themes: human-eating monsters, and women seeking blood vengeance. But the upcoming summer horror movies slate is looking like a considerably more mixed bag. The months-long countdown to the Sundance smash Hereditary will finally end in June. The Green Room team...More »
  
  Read more

• The Founders of Wicomicon on How They Pulled Off Their Pop-up Convention, and the FanCon Fallout

  09-05-2018 14:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Two years ago, the artist and writer URAEUS gained national media attention when he showed up at San Diego Comic-Con with a batch of T-shirts bearing the phrase “Black Heroes Matter.” Less than a year had passed since #OscarsSoWhite shone a spotlight on the lack of diversity in Hollywood, and...More »
  
  Read more

• Google bans all adverts on Irish abortion vote

  09-05-2018 14:41 via ft.com
  Move comes a day after Facebook banned foreign ads
  
  Read more

• Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem Shine in Soapy-Yet-Substantial Everybody Knows

  09-05-2018 14:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Everybody Knows opens with a whirlwind introduction to a sprawling Spanish family, introducing sisters, in-laws, nieces and nephews so breathlessly you may feel the urge to make a diagram. At the wedding they’ve gathered for, videographers fly a drone camera high over the raucous reception, as if to get a...More »
  
  Read more

• 21st Century Fox to buy seven local TV stations from Sinclair

  09-05-2018 14:15 via ft.com
  Move will give Murdoch’s Fox a bigger foothold in several key NFL football markets
  
  Read more

• Cannes 2018: Asghar Farhadi demands Iran lift travel ban on Jafar Panahi

  09-05-2018 13:59
  At the press conference for opening night film Everybody Knows, Farhadi expressed solidarity for Panahi, whose new drama Three Faces is also playing in competition Asghar Farhadi has called on the Iranian government to allow fellow Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi to travel to the Cannes film festival to present his new film.Panahi, a previous award-winner at Cannes, has been barred from leaving his home country since 2010, when he was found guilty by authorities of committing “propaganda a
  
  Read more

• Why the UK’s media fears MPs will impose fresh regulation

  09-05-2018 13:56 via ft.com
  Opposition parties believe amending the Data Protection Bill will restore public trust
  
  Read more

• Review: In ‘The Seagull,’ a Great Play, a Great Cast and Yet ...

  09-05-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Annette Bening, Saoirse Ronan and Elisabeth Moss are highlights of Michael Mayer’s adaptation of the durable Chekhov play.
  
  Read more

• Review: In ‘Revenge,’ the Trophy Turns Hunter

  09-05-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Coralie Fargeat’s debut feature is a skillful and gory fusion of feminism and exploitation.
  
  Read more

• Review: ‘Boom for Real’ Is a Beguiling Look at a Teenage Basquiat

  09-05-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  The director Sara Driver pays the artist proper and enthralling tribute in this documentary, which is as distinctive as her fictional films.
  
  Read more

• Terry Gilliam suffers stroke ahead of Don Quixote's Cannes premiere

  09-05-2018 12:58
  The veteran director is said to be recovering well in London, as decision looms over whether Cannes can premiere his long-awaited film Terry Gilliam, the former Monty Python member and director of films such as Brazil and Time Bandits, has suffered a minor stroke. He is said to be recovering well in London after falling ill over the weekend, returning home from hospital on the evening of 8 May. The same day, a court hearing was held in Paris to rule whether Gilliam’s new film, The Man Who
  
  Read more

• Eurovision 2018: the songs to look out for, from gay couples to toy camels

  09-05-2018 12:47
  The annual jamboree of dance bangers, pop opera and token metalheads rolls around this weekend – here are some of the best tracks from a very strong crop Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• When Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem Work Together, You’d Better Believe They Get Equal Pay

  09-05-2018 12:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem are the two leading lights of Spanish cinema, with awfully similar career profiles: They both started acting while young, they have managed to toggle between Pedro Almodovar films and Hollywood blockbusters, and they have each been nominated for three Oscars and won one. If any...More »
  
  Read more

• Fighting for the Palme d’Or, and the Right to Fly to Cannes

  09-05-2018 12:08 via nytimes.com
  Two directors in the running for the film festival’s top prize, Kirill S. Serebrennikov of Russia and Jafar Panahi of Iran, are barred from travel by their governments.
  
  Read more

Follow @newslock_cinema on Twitter!