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• Chinese box office takings look to beat US for first time

  28-05-2018 22:00 via ft.com
  Numbers grow thanks to relaxation in censorship and wider range of films on offer 
  
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• The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood tells fans to chill out

  28-05-2018 20:44
  Author of dystopian novel admits she has no control over the TV series – but that’s OKMargaret Atwood has admitted having no control over the TV version of her harrowing novel The Handmaid’s Tale but, she says, she has no problem with that.“I think I would have to be awfully stupid to resent it because things could have been so much worse,” she told an audience at the Hay literary festival in Wales. “They have done a tippety-top job ... the acting is great, th
  
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• the tony awards: Ding. Hiss. Chirp. Broadway’s Best Sounds (Other Than the Songs).

  28-05-2018 19:31 via nytimes.com
  The Tony Award for best sound design is back after a several-year hiatus. We speak to the five nominees in the play category.
  
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• BTS Becomes First K-Pop Band to Top Billboard Chart

  28-05-2018 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you still don’t know anything about BTS, you sure as hell do now. (And also, we made a helpful guide for you!) The ridiculously successful Korean boy band made history this week, as they’ve officially become the first K-pop band to net a number one spot on the Billboard...More »
  
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• Discovery to shut European TV hub as it mulls post-Brexit plan

  28-05-2018 18:39
  Bear Grylls broadcaster may move from London to Poland or Netherlands if EU-wide TV deal not struckDiscovery is to shut its European broadcasting base in London as the US TV giant behind channels including Animal Planet and Eurosport mulls post-Brexit plans for a new continental hub. Discovery broadcasts more than 100 TV channels across Europe from its headquarters in west London, making the pay-TV giant the biggest broadcaster to use the UK as a hub for the continent. Continue reading...
  
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• Michelle Wolf Mocks the ‘Ugly’ Personality of Sarah Huckabee Sanders

  28-05-2018 18:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  As the case of whether Michelle Wolf insulted the physical looks of press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner spirals to a close — no, she didn’t — Wolf is looking at new comedic opportunities, which has come in the form of a new Netflix...More »
  
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• Westworld recap: season 2, episode 6 – Maeve's on a mission but is Ford back?

  28-05-2018 18:10
  While Maeve returns to Westworld to find her daughter, while Ford appears to have been uploadedSee ya later, Shogun World! It was nice to know you, however briefly, and we really appreciated that sword fight between those two dudes at the end there, with the hand getting chopped off. But now, it’s time to go. It’s time to leave the Japanese-themed park so grand it has its own Mount Fuji, get back in the tunnel, throw on a fresh set of clothes and go steal somebody’s child.Perha
  
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• Westworld recap: season 2, episode 6 – In search of happy families

  28-05-2018 18:10
  While Maeve returns to Westworld to find her daughter, the Man in Black has a heart to heart with his own offspringSee ya later, Shogun World! It was nice to know you, however briefly, and we really appreciated that sword fight between those two dudes at the end there, with the hand getting chopped off. But now, it’s time to go. It’s time to leave the Japanese-themed park so grand it has its own Mount Fuji, get back in the tunnel, throw on a fresh set of clothes and go steal somebody
  
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• Cameron Esposito Is Taking Rape Jokes Back for Survivors

  28-05-2018 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cameron Esposito hadn’t been planning to talk about her sexual assault onstage. Then things kept happening in our culture — the release of the Access Hollywood tape; the election of the man featured in it; the revelation of sexual misconduct by prominent men in Hollywood and in comedy specifically; the...More »
  
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• Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Are Reportedly Honeymooning in … Canada?

  28-05-2018 17:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  While Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have changed their honeymoon plans multiple times, according to TMZ, the royal couple has finally landed on an unexpected spot: Canada. TMZ reports that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are heading to the royal-favorite Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge in Alberta, Canada, where they...More »
  
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• Arie Luyendyk Jr. Now Feels ‘100 Percent’ Betrayed by The Bachelor

  28-05-2018 17:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the days following the shocking, divisive finale of Arie Luyendyk Jr.’s season of The Bachelor — which concluded with the Arizona real estate agent dumping the winner, Becca Kufrin, to propose to the runner-up, Lauren Burnham — Luyendyk Jr. offered an array of excuses during his required day-long media...More »
  
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• Solo’s Easter Eggs are Actually Good

  28-05-2018 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Major spoilers for Solo: A Star Wars Story below.About halfway through Solo: A Star Wars Story, two words were said that caused me to mutter “Oh my God” at a surprising volume. The line comes during one of the film’s many up-against-the-odds action sequences. With only the sassy droid L3-37...More »
  
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• TV giant Discovery to shut European hub as it mulls post-Brexit plan

  28-05-2018 16:24
  Bear Grylls broadcaster may move from London to Poland or Netherlands if EU-wide TV deal not struckDiscovery is to shut its European broadcasting base in London as the US TV giant behind channels including Animal Planet and Eurosport mulls post-Brexit plans for a new continental hub. Discovery broadcasts more than 100 TV channels across Europe from its headquarters in west London, making the pay-TV giant the biggest broadcaster to use the UK as a hub for the continent. Continue reading...
  
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• China’s Weibo microblogging site deletes posts by embassies, says report

  28-05-2018 16:15 via ft.com
  US mission most heavily censored as Beijing steps up online crackdown
  
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• Annabella Sciorra Criticizes Court for Letting Harvey Weinstein Roam Free Around His ‘Hunting Ground’

  28-05-2018 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last fall, actress Annabella Sciorra became one of the first women to publicly go on the record about Harvey Weinstein allegedly raping her, which occurred in her New York apartment in the ‘90s. Now, in the aftermath of Weinstein being arrested on two rape charges — the arrest of which...More »
  
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• The Best New Jokes in the Mean Girls Musical

  28-05-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The team behind the Tony-nominated Mean Girls (creator Tina Fey, musician Jeff Richmond, and lyricist Nell Benjamin) faced a difficult challenge when they decided to adapt a much-beloved film for the stage. How many classic lines will the musical retain? What changes will the audience tolerate, let alone enjoy? What...More »
  
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• Love, Simon: Colton Haynes Hits on Nick Robinson in a Deleted Scene

  28-05-2018 16:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  There's more to Simon Spier's story.E! News has an exclusive deleted scene from 20th Century Fox's Love, Simon, available on Digital May 29 and on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD...
  
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• How Wild at Heart Led to Laura Dern’s Incredible Performance in The Tale

  28-05-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s no secret that the last few years have been good to Laura Dern. From Enlightened to Wild to Certain Women to Twin Peaks: The Return to Big Little Lies to Star Wars: The Last Jedi, there’s been no shortage of reminders that she’s an actress of extraordinary range and...More »
  
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• Westworld Recap: Choose Your Fate

  28-05-2018 14:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  The title of this week’s episode, “Phase Space,” is not just a clue to the final reveal, but perhaps a good characterization of the ongoing story structure of Westworld as well as the events within the park. To wit: “In dynamical system theory, a phase space is a space in...More »
  
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• Can Michelle Wolf's Netflix show shake up the late night comedy scene?

  28-05-2018 14:24
  Wolf’s pilot episode prophesies a brief period of growing pains in pursuit of an individual identity, and grand dividends once it’s completeMichelle Wolf knows you’re tired. She’s tired, too. She conceived her new series The Break, a half-hour shot live in front of a studio audience and uploaded to Netflix each Sunday instead of in a binge-friendly lump sum, as a reprieve from all of the week’s exhausting bullshit. As she reassures her crowd in the opening monologue
  
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• Our 7 Biggest Questions About This Week’s Westworld, ‘Phase Space’

  28-05-2018 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Westworld is all over the map this week, foregoing the specific character focus of previous episodes this season to really drop in and catch up with everyone. And then “Phase Space” went and blew everyone’s mind with an ending that brought back a familiar face who we thought we’d never...More »
  
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• When good TV goes bad: how Frasier Crane destroyed Cheers

  28-05-2018 14:00
  How far can you stretch a will-they, won’t-they couple, before they edge towards tedium?There is barely a sitcom from the past 30 years that doesn’t owe some sort of debt to Cheers. Premiering in 1982 and running for 11 seasons, it invented or perfected many of the genre’s most recognisable conventions. Story arcs. Cold opens. The workplace-as-melting pot format of its titular Boston bar – refined from time spent by co-creators Glen and Les Charles, along with director Ja
  
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• A Simple Guide to the Timelines of Westworld Season Two

  28-05-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first season of HBO’s Westworld played with its sci-fi narrative by cutting back and forth across different time periods, most notably between two characters — Jimmi Simpson’s white-hat William and Ed Harris’s Man in Black — who ended up being the same guy. Eagle-eyed fans picked up on the...More »
  
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• King Lear – can the BBC's starry adaptation avoid bard mistakes?

  28-05-2018 12:50
  Richard Eyre’s adaptation condenses and cuts up Shakespeare’s great tragedy, but the result could be the perfect Lear for the box-set generation and annoy puristsMost Shakespeare productions on television have been either camera-captures of a previous theatre success or were filmed in a studio that looked like a stage. Sir Anthony Hopkins’ King Lear, though, is, in every sense, specially made for television.The actor retired from theatre in 1989, stultified by nightly repetitio
  
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• Museum of film history opens in Kent town with no cinema

  28-05-2018 12:18
  Museum of the Moving Image crams ‘35,000 years’ of culture into two-storey house in DealBehind a domestic front door in a narrow street in the Kent seaside town of Deal, a museum is celebrating two centuries of cinema – or, as the founders insist, 35,000 years. “The history of cinema is the history of the moving image, and that goes back to flickering shadows on the walls of painted caves,” its co-founder, Prof Joss Marsh, said. Continue reading...
  
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• Frozen gateaux! Intestinal tracts! How well do you know Midsomer Murders?

  28-05-2018 11:00
  From shady goings on in condiments factories, to dangerous liaisons on a croquet lawn, test your knowledge of the dramaWhen boorish property magnate Hugh Dalgleish (Tim McInnerny) emerges from a seaside ghost train, holidaymakers are surprised to discover which items on the seat behind him?His head and cravatHis liver and handkerchiefHis heart and panama hatHis intestinal tract and giletIn Dark Secrets (2011), an eccentric pensioner is found dead in her country pile. Who done it, in which room d
  
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• The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: Mending Fences

  28-05-2018 08:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Let’s get this out of the way right up front: Any episode with a big charity event in the middle is going to be a little light on story. When Bravo started teasing the rest of the season in the middle of the episode, I knew we DEFINITELY were light...More »
  
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• Monday’s best TV: Peter Kay’s Car Share – The Finale; King Lear

  28-05-2018 07:20
  Will the final episode of the beloved Peter Kay sitcom drive into the sunset? Meanwhile, the Beeb’s starry King Lear adaptation enters the fray10pm, BBC One Continue reading...
  
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• Trust Season-Finale Recap: Homecoming

  28-05-2018 05:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  What has Trust been all about? On one level, it was a recap of one of the craziest kidnapping stories of all time, the story of a boy who tried to get himself out of a dangerous situation and only ended up ruining his life. But why tell the story...More »
  
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• Ariana Grande Teases ‘The Light Is Coming’ Featuring Nicki Minaj

  28-05-2018 04:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fresh from her Billboard Music Awards performance last week, Ariana Grande previewed a new track, “The Light Is Coming,” featuring with Nicki Minaj, on her social media accounts on Sunday. In a 21-second clip posted on Twitter and Instagram, the pop star sits in a dark moving vehicle at night...More »
  
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• Billions Recap: All in a Day’s Work

  28-05-2018 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  I am delighted to report that Grigor Andolov is becoming a more interesting character/eventual antagonist for Axe! And, unsurprisingly, the nicer and more benign he is towards Axe, the scarier he seems in general. If he brought me flowers I would assume I’d be digging my own shallow grave before...More »
  
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• Vida Recap: A Night Out

  28-05-2018 03:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  After Emma tells Lyn off for essentially spending her days jogging and watching TV, the sisters take some time apart in Vida’s fourth episode. Both embark on story arcs that build on character development from past episodes and give new urgency to their stories.Lyn sits around her room, sending off...More »
  
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• Killing Eve Season-Finale Recap: In Love and War

  28-05-2018 03:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The most striking scene in Killing Eve’s season finale is the one writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been leading up to for the last eight episodes. Eve finds and sneaks into Villanelle’s fashionably crumbling Parisian apartment, and the twice-fired intelligent agent and the heavily bruised assassin end up lying in bed...More »
  
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• Ron Howard Is Still Looking on the Bright Side Despite a Lackluster Solo Box Office

  28-05-2018 02:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  There is still a disturbance in the force. Over the weekend, Deadline reported Solo: A Star Wars Story is falling short of its $130 million projection, finally breaking the $100 million mark on the fourth day since its May 24 release. But that isn’t keeping Ron Howard down. In acknowledgment...More »
  
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• 13 Reasons Why Recap: I Don’t Know Her

  28-05-2018 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are a lot of characters on this show. This isn’t a bad thing, per se, but it definitely demands a level of attention to detail that isn’t quite there. For proof, look no further than “The Chalk Machine,” which centers on Ryan’s testimony. We haven’t really checked in with...More »
  
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• Jonathan Meades on Jargon review – blisteringly brutal, clever and hilarious

  28-05-2018 00:30
  Meades delivers his latest polemic, on how ‘the language of the trained liar’ has infected all aspects of life, in inimitable deadpan styleJonathan Meades has taken a swig from an Alice “drink-me” bottle. He’s tiny, sitting on a used syringe, on a cigarette butt, among the trash. Because he’s not in Wonderland, he’s in the gutter: a place where slang is the lingua franca.Jonathan Meades On Jargon (BBC Four) begins with a splendid and heartening
  
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