Cinema, Theater & TV news

• Please Give Jennifer Grey Some G-Rated Ideas of What to Do With This Enormous Zucchini

  12-07-2018 23:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you had long dreamed of giving one of the stars of Dirty Dancing a recipe involving summer squash, today is your lucky day: Jennifer Grey has got her hands on a gigantic zucchini, and she has no idea what to do with it. (Sorry for everyone who was hoping...More »
  
  Read more

• All the People Sacha Baron Cohen Has Duped So Far

  12-07-2018 23:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Showtime comedy Who Is America? debuts this weekend, and it’s already getting the best kind of press possible: people, especially Twitter-happy conservatives, revealing they were tricked by Showtime and Cohen while he was in character. The “I’ve Been Duped by Sacha Baron Cohen” Club is growing...More »
  
  Read more

• Mira Sorvino Claims Casting Director Gagged Her With a Condom When She Was 16

  12-07-2018 23:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mira Sorvino has been vocal about sexual harassment in Hollywood ever since she came forward with a disturbing allegation against Harvey Weinstein in October 2017, which is far from her only experience with an abusive man in the industry. In a new interview with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s HFPA in Conversation podcast, the Academy...More »
  
  Read more

• Sacha Baron Cohen’s New Character Demands an Apology from Sarah Palin

  12-07-2018 23:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Seth Rogen told Vulture his pal Sacha Baron Cohen was working on something good, and so far, he hasn’t disappointed: After Sarah Palin admitted to being duped into an interview by Cohen, she claimed he presented himself as a disabled veteran. After former congressman Joe Walsh also admitted to being...More »
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• The Handmaid’s Tale Star Yvonne Strahovski on Her First Emmy Nomination

  12-07-2018 23:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Handmaid’s Tale actress Yvonne Strahovski landed her first Emmy nomination on Thursday and will compete in the dramatic supporting actress category against two of her colleagues, Alexis Bledel and Ann Dowd, who won last year. (In total, seven Handmaid’s Tale actors were nominated this year.)Strahovski, who plays ice queen...More »
  
  Read more

• US appeals decision approving AT&T-Time Warner deal

  12-07-2018 23:02 via ft.com
  Challenge raises possibility $80bn acquisition could be reversed
  
  Read more

• US again seeks to block $80bn AT&T-Time Warner deal

  12-07-2018 23:02 via ft.com
  Trump administration appeals court decision approving landmark media takeover
  
  Read more

• Keeping Faith review – a brilliant Welsh answer to Broadchurch

  12-07-2018 23:00
  Don’t be put off by the name – already a huge iPlayer hit, this Carmarthen-set drama about a vanished husband is realistic and beautifully shotFaith (Eve Myles) needs help from her husband Evan (Bradley Freegard, Myles’s real-life spouse) to squeeze into a dress. She has recently had a third child, and is about to go back to work as a lawyer. But tonight she is going out on the lash, with the girls, to celebrate someone’s – not Faith’s – divorce coming t
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• A Crew Member From That Roe v. Wade Movie Snatched a Reporter’s Notes

  12-07-2018 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The embattled anti-abortion film Roe v. Wade — that one with the Milo Yiannopoulos and Tomi Lahren cameos — had a strange new development today on its path to completion. A reporter from the Daily Beast was observing a scene being filmed near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., when...More »
  
  Read more

• 12 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend

  12-07-2018 23:00 via nytimes.com
  Previews, openings and some last-chance picks.
  
  Read more

• Theater De Tamboer in Hoogeveen heeft tot 2023 nog 5 miljoen euro extra ... - Dagblad van het Noorden

  12-07-2018 22:58
  Dagblad van het Noorden
  Theater De Tamboer in Hoogeveen heeft tot 2023 nog 5 miljoen euro extra ...
  Dagblad van het Noorden
  De gemeente Hoogeveen wil af van de financiële noodverbanden voor De Tamboer. Dat betekent dat er structureel meer geld naar het theater moet, want de komende jaren zijn naast de vaste subsidie miljoenen extra nodig. Geen onaangename ...
  
  Read more

• Sandra Oh on Her Emmy Nomination for Killing Eve: ‘It’s Not Just Me at This Moment’

  12-07-2018 22:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sandra Oh was working when she got the news that she had received her sixth Emmy nomination and first for the show Killing Eve. She was with her friend and fellow actor Michelle Krusiec, talking through the Hansol Jung play, Wild Goose Dreams, which Oh had previously starred in. “My...More »
  
  Read more

• John Legend on His Jesus Christ Superstar Emmy Nominations and Being Within Reach of an EGOT

  12-07-2018 22:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  With the announcement of the Emmy nominations this morning, John Legend has not one, but two chances of winning an Emmy — which means that in addition to his Grammy, Oscar, and Tony wins, he’s within reach of an EGOT. Legend is up for an Emmy for Outstanding Actor in...More »
  
  Read more

• When Will the Fifth Indiana Jones Movie Take Place? A Vulture Investigation

  12-07-2018 22:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Star Wars cinematic universe isn’t the only franchise owned by Disney, created by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford that’s having trouble. This week the studio announced it had pushed the release date of the forthcoming fifth Indiana Jones film back to July 2021, thanks in part to an...More »
  
  Read more

• Pulitzer-Winning Play ‘Cost of Living’ Will Become a Musical

  12-07-2018 22:19 via nytimes.com
  Martyna Majok’s intense drama will get a musical adaptation from Michael John LaChiusa, the Williamstown Theater Festival announced.
  
  Read more

• The ‘In My Feelings’ Challenge Can Die Now, Will Smith Just Won It

  12-07-2018 22:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  You know how everyone and their mother and their grandmother and their cousin and their dog and their mailman and their therapist has taken on the #InMyFeelingsChallenge, inspired by Drake’s song of the same name and started by Instagram star Shiggy? Well, Will Smith, too, has accepted the challenge and...More »
  
  Read more

• Sacha Baron Cohen hits back at Sarah Palin as Roy Moore admits being duped

  12-07-2018 22:08
  The former Alaska governor had called the comedian ‘evil, exploitative and sick’ after unwittingly featuring in Cohen’s new show – along with the disgraced Alabama Senate candidateA character of Sacha Baron Cohen’s has responded to Sarah Palin’s claim that she was exploited, calling it “FAKE NEWS”.The former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate called the comedian “evil, exploitative and sick” in a Facebook post on 10 July af
  
  Read more

• The Handmaid’s Tale Snags 7 Emmy Nods for Its Cast

  12-07-2018 22:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Blessed be the fruit, seven times over. Emmy voters handed The Handmaid’s Tale another nomination for outstanding drama on Thursday, but even more notable is the show’s clean sweep of seven acting nods in four categories: lead actress, supporting actress, supporting actor, and guest actress.“I’m proud of them. I’m proud...More »
  
  Read more

• New ‘West Side Story’ From Ivo van Hove and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

  12-07-2018 21:42 via nytimes.com
  The experimental director and avant-garde choreographer’s production — the first in the U.S. not to be based on Jerome Robbins’s choreography — will come to Broadway.
  
  Read more

• The Feel-Good Mutant Soul of Dirty Projectors’ Lamp Lit Prose

  12-07-2018 21:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  The last time we heard from the Dirty Projectors, the Brooklyn indie-rock band had shrunk from a robust five members to just one when group architect Dave Longstreth broke up with his partner and bandmate, Amber Coffman, moved out to California, recorded an album about the split, and titled it...More »
  
  Read more

• Emmy Nominations 2018: The Surprises and the Snubs

  12-07-2018 21:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  It wouldn’t be an Emmy Awards nomination day if we didn’t feel both elated about some surprises nods, and furious about the shows and people who were egregiously overlooked — snubbed, if you prefer — by Television Academy voters. Here, without further ado, is a rundown of the key shockers...More »
  
  Read more

• Anatomy of a Scene | ‘Sorry to Bother You’

  12-07-2018 21:11 via nytimes.com
  Boots Riley narrates a sequence featuring Lakeith Stanfield and Michael X. Sommers.
  
  Read more

• Sky might not be the limit in unfolding Comcast-Fox bid drama

  12-07-2018 20:50 via ft.com
  Could trio ultimately reach a deal that spares companies further debt and dramatics?
  
  Read more

• How Netflix Broke HBO’s 17-Year Emmys Streak

  12-07-2018 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just five years after launching its first original series, Netflix racked up the most 2018 Emmy nominations on Thursday, ending HBO’s 17-year reign as the Television Academy’s most celebrated network.Netflix’s multibillion-dollar investment in first-run content yielded an impressive 112 Emmy nods, up about 20 percent from its 2017 haul of...More »
  
  Read more

• Brace for Ivo Van Hove’s West Side Story on Broadway

  12-07-2018 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Get excited for a very strange take on West Side Story. Ivo van Hove, the experimental theater director behind those recent stark takes on The Crucible, A View From the Bridge, and David Bowie’s Lazarus, will direct the musical on Broadway, it was announced today. He’ll work with choreographer Anne...More »
  
  Read more

• What does Love Island have in common with a surrealist dystopia? Quite a lot, actually

  12-07-2018 20:00
  Society is obsessed with happily ever afters, and it’s not just on reality TV shows that walking out alone makes you a loserStrapped to a lie detector in the final week of Love Island, contestant Dom was asked a simple question.“Did you come here just for a root?”Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• BT loses UK rights to screen Italian football

  12-07-2018 19:50 via ft.com
  Ambitious rival Eleven Sports to broadcast Serie A games as well as La Liga
  
  Read more

• Sacha Baron Cohen’s 11 Best Jokes As Borat, Ali G, and More

  12-07-2018 19:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  You can call Sacha Baron Cohen a lot of things, including actor, writer, comedian, performance artist, and provocateur. But the three titles he’s usually referred to when recalling his most memorable moments are: Ali G, Borat, and Brüno. From BBC Two’s Comedy Nation in 1998 to the release of his...More »
  
  Read more

• Sacha Baron Cohen’s 10 Best Jokes As Borat, Ali G, and More

  12-07-2018 19:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  You can call Sacha Baron Cohen a lot of things, including actor, writer, comedian, performance artist, and provocateur. But the three titles he’s usually referred to when recalling his most memorable moments are: Ali G, Borat, and Brüno. From BBC Two’s Comedy Nation in 1998 to the release of his...More »
  
  Read more

• Bill Maher Is Stand-up Comedy’s Past. Hannah Gadsby Represents Its Future.

  12-07-2018 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last weekend, as Hannah Gadsby’s Netflix phenomenon Nanette continued to rack up impassioned reviews and think pieces, Bill Maher aired a new HBO special, Live From Oklahoma. If you watch them back-to-back, they seem to be in conversation, or debate. They have core subjects in common, including the cultural and...More »
  
  Read more

• What about Twin Peaks? The 2018 Emmys' bizarre snubs

  12-07-2018 19:17
  While Game of Thrones takes the lead, Twin Peaks: The Return was stuck with just technical recognition and Mindhunter was nowhere to be seenThe Emmy absence of Twin Peaks: The Return shocked many last year, until it was revealed that it had missed the nomination window and was therefore ineligible for inclusion. This year was when that should have been put right. That hasn’t happened. Related: Emmys 2018: Game of Thrones leads race with 22 nominationsContinue reading...
  
  Read more

• 2018 Comedy Emmys: Kenan Thompson Gets a Nom, Nathan Fielder Gets Snubbed

  12-07-2018 19:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 2018 Emmy nominations were announced this morning, and there’s some good news and some bad news. In addition to the wonderful news that Megan Amram’s An Emmy for Megan did, in fact, get an Emmy nomination, Comedy Series noms went to Atlanta, Barry, Black-ish, Curb Your Enthusiasm, GLOW, The...More »
  
  Read more

• Theater in Venlo omgebouwd tot zitvolleybalveld | 1Limburg ... - 1Limburg - Nieuws en Sport uit Limburg

  12-07-2018 19:05
  1Limburg - Nieuws en Sport uit Limburg
  Theater in Venlo omgebouwd tot zitvolleybalveld | 1Limburg ...
  1Limburg - Nieuws en Sport uit Limburg
  Theater De Maaspoort in Venlo is de komende week een locatie voor het wereldkampioenschap zitvolleybal. De Nederlandse volleybalbond hoopt met de ...
  L1SPRT: ​Theater De Maaspoort omgebouwd voor WK zitvolleybal ...L1 Radio en TValle 3 nieuwsartikelen »
  
  Read more

• Review: Tracking ‘Dark Money’ in Montana Elections

  12-07-2018 18:59 via nytimes.com
  In her documentary, Kimberly Reed explores how Montanans fought a political invasion backed by wealthy anonymous donors.
  
  Read more

• Mouse house is a very, very, very fine house | Brief letters

  12-07-2018 18:57
  Worst BBC soap operas | Woodlice | Mouse house | Paul Simon | Big Ben | Cricket’s coming homeThere is a rival for the worst BBC soap opera (Costa del LOL, G2, 9 July): Triangle, set aboard a North Sea ferry to Amsterdam, in freezing and gloomy weather, where Kate O’Mara had to sunbathe in sub-zero temperatures. However, I retain a lasting affection for Revelations, Granada’s sex in the bishopric soap, which boasted appalling dialogue and (as far as we could tell) only three loc
  
  Read more

• More Sky bids expected in Fox-Comcast battle

  12-07-2018 18:49 via ft.com
  Shares in pan-European media group rise on prospect of further moves in bidding war
  
  Read more

• Emmy nominations: the 2018 list

  12-07-2018 18:43
  Game of Thrones leads the way with 22 nominations as Netflix beats HBO as most nominated networkThe Americans
  The Crown
  The Handmaid’s Tale
  Game of Thrones
  Stranger Things
  This Is Us
  Westworld Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Shock and Awe Undercuts Its Own Great Story

  12-07-2018 18:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  As frequently as the attacks of September 11, 2001, have been reenacted or invoked in the last two decades of film, there has been an unspoken agreement, clung to with near-superstitious fervor, that they cannot be movied. Paul Greengrass’s United 93 was perhaps the first notable film to depict one...More »
  
  Read more

• Emmys 2018: Game of Thrones leads race with 22 nominations

  12-07-2018 18:34
  Hit fantasy drama comes out on top, with Westworld, Saturday Night Live and The Handmaid’s Tale all followingGame of Thrones has come out in the lead in this year’s Emmys race with 22 nominations.The seventh season of the fantasy drama was recognized in the category for best drama as well as acting nominations for Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Diana Rigg and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Anthony Bourdain Posthumously Nominated for Six Emmys

  12-07-2018 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  A month after Anthony Bourdain died at the age of 61 while filming an episode of his popular CNN travel series, Parts Unknown, in Kaysersberg, France, the show has received six Emmy nominations. As announced this afternoon, Parts Unknown nabbed the following nominations: Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program, Outstanding...More »
  
  Read more

• Rob Reiner Thinks Our Democracy Is Hanging by a Thread

  12-07-2018 18:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  With Shock and Awe, Rob Reiner thought he was making a film about the recent past instead of one reflecting on the present. The fact-based film follows the ramp-up to the Iraq War from the perspective of three reporters for Knight Ridder (played by Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, and...More »
  
  Read more

• A Show About Slaves, With White Actors, Will Go On After Protests

  12-07-2018 18:18 via nytimes.com
  The show based on slave songs closed in Montreal. But after a backlash, several theaters in Quebec are planning to stage it.
  
  Read more

• Alan Johnson, 81, ‘Springtime for Hitler’ Choreographer, Dies

  12-07-2018 18:13 via nytimes.com
  A former dancer, Mr. Johnson collaborated with Mel Brooks on several movies and once asked him, “‘Oh my God, are we allowed to show this?”
  
  Read more

• Megan Amram Gets an Emmy Nomination for An Emmy for Megan

  12-07-2018 18:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Megan Amram can rest easy tonight knowing that her Emmy-deserving web series An Emmy for Megan just got one step closer to its goal. The Emmy nominations were announced this morning, and sure enough, Amram’s tireless campaign to earn a nomination — which included her web series as well as...More »
  
  Read more

• Why Has the Romance Gone Out of Summer Movies?

  12-07-2018 17:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  When you think of the actors who have exemplified summer-movie stardom, you might picture gun-toting musclemen like Dwayne Johnson and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Will Smith with his run of July Fourth blockbusters, or Robert Downey Jr. suiting up to save the world as the foremost of Marvel’s Avengers.But does Julia Roberts...More »
  
  Read more

• Here Are the 2018 Emmy Nominations

  12-07-2018 17:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Today, the Television Academy announced the nominations for 70th annual Emmy Awards. Game of Thrones, Saturday Night Live, and Westworld led the total number of nominations per show with 22, 21, and 21 apiece, while Netflix overtook perennial leader HBO in the total tally with 112 nominations to HBO’s 108.Outstanding...More »
  
  Read more

• Review: ‘Gone Missing,’ Now a Poignant Reminder of a Life Cut Short

  12-07-2018 17:26 via nytimes.com
  The death of the show’s composer, Michael Friedman, makes this musical about loss an accidental and indispensable elegy.
  
  Read more

• The Glory of the Mary Queen of Scots Trailer Is Here

  12-07-2018 17:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Wig! Forehead! Heavy powder! Saorise Ronan and Margot Robbie are coming for the Oscars the 2017 awards season denied them. Josie Rourke’s Mary Queen of Scots — scripted by Beau Willimon — is the battle of high cheekbones: Mary Stuart (Ronan) is attempting to usurp her cousin Elizabeth I (Robbie),...More »
  
  Read more

• It’s the Battle of the Best Actress Nominees in ‘Mary Queen of Scots’

  12-07-2018 17:16 via nytimes.com
  Saoirse Ronan plays the title character and Margot Robbie is Queen Elizabeth I in the new drama directed by Josie Rourke, artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse.
  
  Read more

• Mira Sorvino: casting director 'gagged me with a condom' at 16

  12-07-2018 16:55
  The Oscar-winning actor claims that during one of her first auditions she was tied to a chair, bruised and gaggedMira Sorvino has claimed that a casting director gagged her with a condom during an audition at the age of 16.The Oscar-winning star of Mighty Aphrodite revealed in an interview with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s podcast that she was auditioning for a horror movie when the situation got out of hand. Related: Mira Sorvino: I am terribly sorry for working with Woody Al
  
  Read more

Follow @newslock_cinema on Twitter!