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• Anatomy of a Scene | ‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’

  28-06-2018 23:43 via nytimes.com
  The director Stefano Sollima narrates a scene from the film featuring Benicio Del Toro.
  
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• Indiana Jones 5 Production Being Pushed Back Due to Script Issues

  28-06-2018 23:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you had already blocked off July 10, 2020, to go see Indiana Jones 5 then you just got a free day in your calendar. Variety reports that filming, which was supposed to start in April of next year, may be rescheduled by “months, if not a year” since “key...More »
  
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• Netflix Is Adapting Midnight’s Children Into a Series

  28-06-2018 23:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix is making moves to expand its presence in India, and according to The Hollywood Reporter, the streaming giant is adding a Midnight’s Children series adaptation to its slate. Based on the 1981 book by Salman Rushdie, Children is a magical-realist novel that focuses on Saleem Sinai, a boy born...More »
  
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• Pat Houston Says Not Everyone in Whitney’s Family Is Okay With New Documentary

  28-06-2018 23:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Perhaps the best way to understand Whitney Houston is to look at those who were closest to her. The upcoming documentary, Whitney, does just that, as Academy Award–winning director Kevin Macdonald sits down with Whitney’s friends, family, colleagues, and confidants. But just because the estate and her family gave him...More »
  
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• Science fiction writer Harlan Ellison dies aged 84

  28-06-2018 23:10
  Prolific writer and critic, whose credits include a Star Trek episode and the short story A Boy and His Dog, died in his sleepThe award-winning writer Harlan Ellison has died at the age of 84.In his career, Ellison wrote over 1,800 short stories, screenplays, novellas, essays, critiques and teleplays, winning eight Hugo awards. His wife Susan confirmed the news via her friend Christina Valada on Twitter.Continue reading...
  
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• Michael Douglas Thinks the Wasp Can Kick Ant-Man’s Ass

  28-06-2018 23:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dr. Hank Pym, a father, a scientist, and the first adopter of the Ant-Man suit, is proud of his super-daughter. And why not? The Wasp, played by Evangeline Lilly, is a badass, kung fu Tinkerbell. Just look at this sequence. She got her wings before Ant-Man (thanks, dad!), and there’s...More »
  
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• Japan’s Secret Shame review - breaking a nation’s taboo about rape

  28-06-2018 23:00
  This important film focuses on allegations by Shiori Ito to tell the wider but hidden story of violence towards Japanese womenJapan’s Secret Shame is an extremely difficult documentary to watch. It is harrowing, frustrating and distressing. It is also an incredibly important film, brave and necessary, handled with care and quiet fury by the producer and director, Erica Jenkin. It tells a big story about violence towards women, about structural inequality and discrimination, by focusing on
  
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• 7 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend

  28-06-2018 23:00 via nytimes.com
  Previews, openings and some last-chance picks.
  
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• ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Will Open in San Francisco

  28-06-2018 22:32 via nytimes.com
  The Tony-winning play will open at the Curran Theater in San Francisco in the fall of 2019.
  
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• A Guide to Hannah Gadsby’s Pre-Nanette Work

  28-06-2018 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the year-and-a-bit since Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby started performing Nanette, her latest hour-long set, her international acclaim has climbed to a surprising, though deserved, new level, particularly in the U.S. After winning the Barry Award for Best Show at the Melbourne Comedy Festival last spring, Nanette went on to...More »
  
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• Writer Harlan Ellison Dead at 84

  28-06-2018 21:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  The award-winning fantasy and science-fiction writer Harlan Ellison died today at the age of 84. His wife, Susan, confirmed the news. Ellison edited the influential anthology Dangerous Visions in 1967, and over the course of his storied career had won multiple Nebula, Hugo, Edward, Writers Guild of America, and Edgar...More »
  
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• Halo Is Becoming a Showtime Series (Really!)

  28-06-2018 21:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  The story of Halo in Hollywood is a long and tortured one. At various points over the past 15 years it’s had Alex Garland attached as a screenwriter for a film. Peter Jackson was going to executive-produce. Neill Blomkamp was going to direct. Microsoft has made deals with studios and...More »
  
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• Luke Cage’s Showrunner on Criticism, Black Hollywood, and That Explosive Season Finale

  28-06-2018 21:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  I had a lot of issues with the first season of Marvel’s Luke Cage. When the series premiered in 2016, I recapped each episode, and my criticism centered on the show’s noxious sort of respectability politics and its inability to understand its titular character beyond his role as a symbol...More »
  
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• Shailene Woodley Ate Only 350 Calories a Day for Adrift: "It Was F--king Miserable"

  28-06-2018 20:59 via feeds.eonline.com
  In the course of shooting her latest film, Shailene Woodley had to put herself in her character's lost-at-sea shoes.
  As the protagonist in Adrift, Baltasar Kormákur's...
  
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• Review: Joyously Rediscovering ‘Songs for a New World’

  28-06-2018 20:57 via nytimes.com
  There are shows that find their true best form in concert. “Songs for a New World,” which was Jason Robert Brown’s first musical, is one of these.
  
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• Comcast chief must consider sharing load in Fox tussle

  28-06-2018 20:38 via ft.com
  Brian Roberts may have to bring in a partner to knock off Disney’s proposal
  
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• The 100 Greatest RuPaul’s Drag Race Looks of All Time

  28-06-2018 20:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  As the world straps in, braces itself, and prepares for the finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race season ten — a season that has inundated us with gag after gag on the runway — it’s important to look back and pay respects to the slays of the past. With that in...More »
  
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• Everything We Know — and Want to Know — About Drake’s New Album

  28-06-2018 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  By night’s end, a new Drake album will be upon us and, perhaps, so will the truth. We’re all thinking it: Drake, are you the father??? His fifth studio album, Scorpion, has a lot of ground to cover, from secret love children to possible Pusha-T retaliation to what actually went...More »
  
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• Drake’s New Album Will *Sigh* Be 25 Songs Long

  28-06-2018 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Drake’s new album Scorpion is due at midnight. Ahead of its release, Drake has released the track list: two sides, 25 songs total. (Previously released singles “God’s Plan,” “I’m Upset,” and “Nice for What” show up.) The track listing confirms news from music exec Kenny Burns, who said that the...More »
  
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• Cate Blanchett and Jack Black Are Witches in The House With the Clock in Its Walls Trailer

  28-06-2018 19:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cate Blanchett is arguably one of the world’s most charismatic people and Jack Black is one of the world’s preeminent stars of fantasy films for children, so there’s something for almost everyone in this trailer for The House With the Clock in Its Walls. Based on the book by John...More »
  
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• Fox Cancels Ghosted After One Season

  28-06-2018 19:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Freshman paranormal comedy Ghosted will not return for another season. Variety reports that Fox has canceled the single-cam series starring Adam Scott and Craig Robinson. Ghosted’s schedule on Fox was a little all over the place — it debuted in October 2017, received an additional six-episode order a month later,...More »
  
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• Henry Taylor’s Wild Heart Can’t Be Broken

  28-06-2018 19:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Adapted from the forthcoming Henry Taylor: The Only Portrait I Ever Painted of My Momma Was Stolen, to be published by Rizzoli Electa with Blum & Poe.He began to realize he had some sort of mystic powers. He felt he was able to touch people, to contact certain souls in...More »
  
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• Disenchantment trailer: first look at Matt Groening's new Netflix series

  28-06-2018 19:04
  Disenchantment, the Simpsons creator’s first new production in two decades, follows the boozy escapades of a medieval princessThe first trailer has been released for Disenchantment, the upcoming animated series from Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons and Futurama. The show, billed as “an adult fantasy about a crumbling medieval kingdom known as Dreamland”, marks Groening’s first new project in nearly two decades, since Futurama premiered in 1999.Related: Disenchantmen
  
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• Gordon Firth obituary

  28-06-2018 18:59
  My father, Gordon Firth, who has died aged 82, was a headteacher in Cheshire and also a cartoonist who, after retirement from teaching, took part in the making of two successful children’s television programmes in the late 1990s and early 2000s.Gordon’s involvement in TV stemmed from a sideline in the mid-70s, when he had contributed cartoons to the Warrington Guardian’s children’s page. The distinctive style and characters he developed in that newspaper became the basis
  
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• The Best Actor on TV Is Barry’s Bill Hader

  28-06-2018 18:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  For years, Bill Hader was known mainly for his work on Saturday Night Live, where for eight seasons he impersonated real people (Al Pacino, Clint Eastwood, Christopher Walken) and inhabited fake ones, including, most famously, Weekend Update nightlife commentator Stefon.Hader’s portrayal of Stefon was all whispery flamboyance, highlighted by a...More »
  
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• Disney/Sky: panel game

  28-06-2018 18:43 via ft.com
  There is a strong case for setting a floor price for the media target
  
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• Glenda Jackson to Return to Broadway in ‘King Lear’

  28-06-2018 18:38 via nytimes.com
  The role follows Ms. Jackson’s Tony-winning performance in Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women.”
  
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• Review: ‘Leave No Trace’ Is a Very American Story About Survival

  28-06-2018 18:20 via nytimes.com
  Ben Foster and Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie play father and daughter in the latest movie from Debra Granik, the director of “Winter’s Bone.”
  
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• Expert Witness: Sex Educators React to Hollywood’s Sex Scenes

  28-06-2018 18:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Vulture’s new series, Expert Witness, we ask scientists, historians, and other professionals to give Hollywood movies a good old-fashioned fact-check.Sex scenes in Hollywood are notoriously polished and, some might say, fantastical (here’s looking at you, The Shape of Water). But just how polished? Sex educators Dirty Lola and Francisco Ramirez...More »
  
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• Will Chase to Star With Kelli O’Hara in Kiss Me Kate Next Spring

  28-06-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In what’s technically a Smash–13 Reasons Why crossover event, otherwise known as “exciting musical theater,” Will Chase will star with Kelli O’Hara in Kiss Me Kate next spring. Chase will play Fred Graham/Petruchio to the previously announced O’Hara’s Lilli Vanessi/Kate in the Roundabout production. The show will be directed by...More »
  
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• Jordan Klepper on the End of The Opposition and the ‘Jordan Klepper’ Character

  28-06-2018 17:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  After nine months on the air, The Opposition With Jordan Klepper ends its run on Comedy Central tonight at 11:30 p.m. Ordered to series after Klepper rose to fame for his wildly popular Daily Show field pieces at Trump rallies during election season, The Opposition enjoyed a short-lived run on...More »
  
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• Ten is too many, but what is the perfect length for a TV series?

  28-06-2018 17:09
  Hulu’s chief has suggested that the Handmaid’s Tale could run for a hefty 10 seasons, a figure that already feels excessive. But how long should a show go on for? We crunch the numbers …Great news – knockabout family romcom The Handmaid’s Tale may continue for 10 seasons. This, according to Hulu chief executive, Randy Freer, who points out: “One of the benefits for creators in the streaming world [is that] shows can take a natural progression, they can live f
  
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• Tim Robinson’s Daughter Penny Is a Legendary Comedian in the Making

  28-06-2018 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tim Robinson stopped by Late Night With Seth Meyers last night to promote the new season of his Comedy Central series Detroiters, and this clip from his chat with Meyers is jam-packed with funny stuff. There’s Robinson reminding Meyers that Easter is not “built around having kids and looking for...More »
  
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• XXXTentacion Fights His Own Dead Body in This Posthumous ‘SAD!’ Video

  28-06-2018 15:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  XXXTentacion’s team has released the posthumous video for the rapper’s hit song “SAD!,” which skyrocketed to No. 1 after his murder last week. (He became the first solo artist to get a posthumous No. 1 since Biggie.) In the video (which X wrote the script for) he is seen attending...More »
  
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• In Season Two, Marvel’s Luke Cage Evolves Into a Contradiction

  28-06-2018 15:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers below for the entirety of Luke Cage season two.When watching the second season of Marvel’s Luke Cage, my mind occasionally turned to thoughts about the spirited black actress Theresa Harris. While promoting the film Bargain With Bullets in 1937, Harris noted somberly, “I never had the chance to rise...More »
  
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• Azealia Banks Starts GoFundMe to Fund Lawsuit Against Russell Crowe

  28-06-2018 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Azealia Banks has launched a GoFundMe to fund a lawsuit against Russell Crowe. For two years, Banks has maintained that the actor spat on her, choked her, and called her the N-word at a party she attended with RZA. The campaign, created on June 24, has raised about $2,000 of...More »
  
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• The Indefatigable Glenda Jackson Will Return to Broadway As Lear in a New King Lear

  28-06-2018 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Glenda Jackson only recently returned to acting after a two-decade stint in Parliament, and she is not about to slow down. After winning the Tony Award for Three Tall Women this spring, Glenda Jackson will return to Broadway next year as King Lear in, of course, King Lear. Jackson resumed...More »
  
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• 25 Golden Age Movies Edited by Women

  28-06-2018 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the Coen brothers’ Hollywood satire Hail, Caesar!, Frances McDormand commands a short but memorable scene. Her character, film editor C.C. Calhoun, sits alone in a cramped, dark room filled with cigarette smoke, each exhale illuminated by the light projected by the flatbed editor. With a cigarette between her lips...More »
  
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• Review: A Child Adds a Layer to Gay Couple’s ‘Ideal Home’

  28-06-2018 14:00 via nytimes.com
  Chemistry between the stars, Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd, aids the poignant and pithy script, which is based on the director’s own experiences.
  
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• Review: In ‘Uncle Drew,’ N.B.A. Stars Keep Dunking With Age

  28-06-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  This basketball comedy is amusing and kindhearted, but strangely bland.
  
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• Review: In ‘This Is Congo,’ Four Lives Shaken by Conflict

  28-06-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  “This Is Congo” aims to deliver a portrait of the Democratic Republic of Congo from the ground up.
  
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• Review: In ‘Love, Cecil,’ an Aesthete Ahead of His Time

  28-06-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s new documentary is about Cecil Beaton, the British dandy, photographer and theatrical designer.
  
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• Review: In ‘Hover,’ the Drone Tech Isn’t All There

  28-06-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Matt Osterman’s allegorical thriller, written by its star, Cleopatra Coleman, flirts with topicality on several fronts.
  
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