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• Disney fires Guardians of the Galaxy franchise director after offensive tweets

  20-07-2018 23:43
  James Gunn, who directed the first two Marvel hits, has been taken off the third film after old tweets covering 9/11 and rape were resurfacedJames Gunn has been fired as director of the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise after a series of offensive tweets have resurfaced.The 51-year-old film-maker had been behind the first two Marvel hits and was working on the script for the third. Tweets of his from 2008 and 2009 were discovered by conservative site the Daily Caller that made light of rape, ped
  
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• How Sharp Objects Brought Wind Gap to Life

  20-07-2018 23:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sharp Objects would be nothing without Wind Gap, Missouri. Location is a crucial part of HBO’s moody, visually arresting mini-series, so before director and executive producer Jean-Marc Vallée and cinematographers Yves Bélanger and Ronald Plante could work their magic in bringing Gillian Flynn’s novel to life, location manager Gregory Alpert...More »
  
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• 9 Moments From the Brooklyn Nine-Nine Comic-Con Panel That Will Make You Cry

  20-07-2018 22:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  For a brief foray into the darkest timeline of TV news, on May 10, Brooklyn Nine-Nine was canceled by Fox, and the fandom very publicly melted down. Twitter exploded with please to “Save Nine-Nine!” The cast thanked their fans for their love and devotion — and then just about 30 hours...More »
  
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• Andrew Lincoln Confirms He’s Leaving The Walking Dead: ‘This Will Be My Last Season’

  20-07-2018 22:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  During a San Diego Comic-Con panel in Hall H Friday, Walking Dead star Andrew Lincoln confirmed that he’s exiting the show. “There seems to be an elephant in the room,” Lincoln told the audience, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “This will be my last season playing the part of Rick...More »
  
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• Director James Gunn Fired From Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 After "Indefensible" Tweets Resurface

  20-07-2018 21:53 via feeds.eonline.com
  UPDATE: James Gunn is speaking out after being fired from Walt Disney."My words of nearly a decade ago were, at the time, totally failed and unfortunate efforts to be provocative. I...
  
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• James Gunn Fired From Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

  20-07-2018 21:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  James Gunn will no longer direct Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, according to a statement from a Disney spokesperson. The director’s dismissal comes after his old tweets joking about pedophilia and rape were recirculated by Trump supporters online. “The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James’ Twitter feed are...More »
  
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• Camp Counselors React to Hollywood Camp Scenes

  20-07-2018 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Vulture sat down with two longtime camp counselors and asked them to comment on scenes from films like Wet Hot American Summer, The Parent Trap, and Moonrise Kingdom. Here’s what we learned....More »
  
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• This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Patti Harrison and Lorelei Ramirez Present A Woman’s Smile

  20-07-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week...More »
  
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• Sharp Objects’ Sophia Lillis on Playing a Young Amy Adams (and a Young Jessica Chastain)

  20-07-2018 20:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  You’d be forgiven for assuming that Sharp Objects director Jean-Marc Vallée got his hands on some miraculous de-aging technology for the scenes where Camille Preaker (Amy Adams) flashes back to her younger self. Instead, the HBO mini-series found a dead ringer for Adams herself in Sophia Lillis. The 16-year-old actress,...More »
  
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• Shinobu Hashimoto, Writer of Kurosawa Films, Is Dead at 100

  20-07-2018 20:12 via nytimes.com
  His first film, “Rashomon,” became a touchstone of world cinema. He went on to collaborate on celebrated pictures like “Ikiru” and “Seven Samurai.”
  
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• Your Guide to the Fleetwood Mac Albums From Before They Were Fleetwood Mac

  20-07-2018 20:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Fleetwood Mac was released in 1975, its success was not immediate. Its path to becoming a colossal record fixed within the pop-music canon took the better part of a year, when, propelled by hits like “Rhiannon,” it would reach number one on the Billboard charts. The album spent 37...More »
  
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• Sweden’s Telia stokes political storm with €1bn TV play

  20-07-2018 19:24 via ft.com
  Telecoms operator’s acquisition of Bonnier prompts fears of erosion of media plurality
  
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• Christian Bale Loses All the Weight He Gained to Play Dick Cheney

  20-07-2018 19:15 via feeds.eonline.com
  When the director yells cut, it may be time to lose the weight.As soon as Christian Bale signed up to play former Vice President Dick Cheney in the upcoming movie Backseat, the actor...
  
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• Taylor Swift and Jennifer Hudson to Star in ‘Cats’ Movie Adaptation

  20-07-2018 19:08 via nytimes.com
  James Corden and Ian McKellen will also be a part of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, directed by Tom Hooper.
  
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• Dewayne Perkins on Being Relevant Always and Forever

  20-07-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dewayne Perkins (@DewaynePerkins) is a Chicago-raised, New York–based stand-up comedian and writer for Netflix’s The Break With Michelle Wolf. He had a rude awakening when his manager told him that social media apparently matters, so follow him on Twitter and Instagram. This week, Perkins talked with me about writing in his own voice, deleting jokes,...More »
  
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• The Director of Unfriended: Dark Web Explains Those Horrifying Snuff Films

  20-07-2018 18:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Stephen Susco didn’t plan to make an R-rated movie that played like one of the most cruel studio horror films we’ve seen since the Saw era. A massive fan of the first Unfriended, he wanted to make a PG-13 thriller and put his own spin on the desktop-POV style he...More »
  
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• Eighth Grade’s #MeToo Scene Is the Most Difficult Thing You’ll Watch This Year

  20-07-2018 18:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers for the film Eighth Grade below.Countless films and TV shows have depicted the realities of sexual violence in graphic detail, yet one of the most powerful #MeToo moments on-screen this year features not an actual sexual assault but the implied threat of one. It’s a scene that viscerally conveys...More »
  
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• Unfriended: Dark Web Drops the Revenge Ghosts in Favor of the Pure Terror of Being Online

  20-07-2018 18:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  I tend to imagine Unfriended: Dark Web being a little hard to parse for viewers 10 or 20 years from now, but maybe that’s too optimistic. The opening shot is an image from our digital nightmares: a login screen on a clearly stolen Mac laptop, with login after login being...More »
  
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• The end of UnREAL: why it's time to say goodbye to TV's darkest comedy

  20-07-2018 18:05
  The surprise launch of the final season of the reality TV satire brings the end to an award-winning water cooler hit that ultimately fizzled outSpoilers aheadWhen UnREAL, a scathing satire of the behind the scenes world of dating reality TV, first came out, it was heralded as a darkly comic masterpiece. The show’s first season won a Peabody, an AFI award and received two Emmy nominations, and was celebrated for its presentation of the enduring frenemyship of two very different, difficult w
  
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• Far From the Tree Is a Marvelous, Empathetic Doc About Kids Not Like Their Parents

  20-07-2018 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  It takes a beat or so to register the audacity of the title Far From the Tree, a phrase that’s normally presented in a negative context, as in “One look at Eric and Don Jr. and you know the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” (Nor do the worms,...More »
  
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• 230 Minutes With Michiko Kakutani

  20-07-2018 17:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s 8:50 p.m., ten minutes before closing, and Michiko Kakutani is riffling through vinyl at A1 Records on East 6th Street, searching in vain for a copy of Beggars Banquet. “The Stones are my all-time favorite,” she says. “I wonder if they have any other Keith stuff here.” Kakutani worships...More »
  
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• Relive Chris Klein's Admittedly "Terrible" Mamma Mia! Audition

  20-07-2018 17:45 via feeds.eonline.com
  Rest assured, everyone in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again can sing!The entire cast from 2008's Mamma Mia! is back for the Universal Pictures sequel, directed by Ol Parker; newcomers...
  
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• Seth Bogart’s Feelin’ Fruity Is Bringing a Punk Aesthetic to TV

  20-07-2018 17:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This is Wiglet. She’s my pet poodle and she likes to eat wigs. She tries to eat the hair of a lot of my guests,” says Seth Bogart, gently patting the blonde curly wig of a yellow dog made from papier-mâché. We’re at his Highland Park studio in northeast Los...More »
  
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• Has Good Time Become a Quickie Cult Classic?

  20-07-2018 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  A few weeks back I was at 30 Rockefeller taking in a taping of The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. (I was writing about the rap group Brockhampton, who were on the show debuting their new single, “Tonya.”) The evening’s first guest was Robert Pattinson, which I was stoked about:...More »
  
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• Trump, Late Night, and the Motif of Harmful Sensation

  20-07-2018 17:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the best tropes in horror is the motif of harmful sensation: something is so awful to look at or to be exposed to that it will drive a person mad or even kill anyone that comes in contact with the big bad book/art/song. Stephen King’s “1408,” Lovecraft’s Necronomicon,...More »
  
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• Taylor Swift, James Corden and Jennifer Hudson Cast in Cats Movie

  20-07-2018 17:05 via feeds.eonline.com
  Mi, mi, mi, meow!It's time for James Corden, Taylor Swift and Jennifer Hudson to get in touch with their feline side because they've been cast in an upcoming film adaptation of...
  
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• Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger Recap: We’re All on Our Own

  20-07-2018 16:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week’s episode gives us the eight-year anniversary of the Roxxon rig’s explosion — which means plenty of flashbacks (as usual), but also a look at the different ways that families come around to grieving. But because the show is set in New Orleans, there’s no mention of death without...More »
  
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• These Aren’t Fashion Documentaries (Even if They’re About Fashion Stars)

  20-07-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The directors of “McQueen,” “Westwood” and “The Gospel According to André” say their subjects are the stuff of great drama.
  
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• Streaming: On Netflix, a Genuine Nail-Biter, and on Amazon, a Genuine Eccentric

  20-07-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  “Calibre,” Netflix’s Scottish thriller, is a movie you can pause, but you’re not going to want to. Damon Packard‘s films on Amazon are unsettling.
  
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• A Word With: Lily James Taps Her Inner Meryl to Become a Dancing Queen

  20-07-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Ms. James talks about sharing the screen with Meryl Streep and Cher in “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again,” and why the World Cup is greater art than the theater.
  
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• Which of the Six Thai Cave-Rescue Films Will You End Up Seeing?

  20-07-2018 15:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last week, 12 members of the Wild Boars youth soccer team and their coach were rescued from Thailand’s Tham Luang Nang Non cave system. Because no good deed goes unpunished, Hollywood is eyeing the story for a theatrical adaptation. Per Variety, there are six movies based on the Thai rescue...More »
  
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• VEENHUIZEN - Roestvrij Theater in het Gevangenismuseum ... - Roder Journaal

  20-07-2018 15:52
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  VEENHUIZEN - Roestvrij Theater in het Gevangenismuseum ...
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  Op 20, 21 en 22 juli speelt Theater Roestvrij de voorstelling De hemel heeft niet genoeg regen naar Hamlet van William Shakespeare.en meer »
  
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• Roseanne Barr Defends Racist Valerie Jarrett Tweet: ‘I Thought the B*tch Was White!’

  20-07-2018 15:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s been nearly two months since ABC decided to cancel Roseanne following Barr’s racist tweet about former Barack Obama aide Valerie Jarrett. Since then, Barr did a tearful interview on Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s podcast, and earlier this month she announced on Twitter that she would forgo any television interviews about...More »
  
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• James Packer, billionaire in retreat after series of crises

  20-07-2018 15:40 via ft.com
  Casino tycoon beset by personal and business woes has quit his 24 Australian directorships
  
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• Taylor Swift to star in Tom Hooper's Cats movie

  20-07-2018 15:34
  Singer-songwriter to take first major acting role, alongside Ian McKellen, James Corden and Jennifer Hudson, in Hooper’s adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musicalTaylor Swift is to take her first lead acting role in the film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats, directed by Tom Hooper.Swift, 28, has one significant screen credit to her name: she voiced the environmentalist Audrey in the 2012 animation The Lorax. She is expected to actually appear on screen – albeit wear
  
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• Anatomy of a Scene | ‘Don’t Worry’

  20-07-2018 15:27 via nytimes.com
  Gus Van Sant narrates this scene from “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot’ featuring Joaquin Phoenix as the disabled cartoonist John Callahan. Here, Callahan operates an electric wheelchair for the first time. Mr. Van Sant discusses how the sequence was shot.
  
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• Nicole Byer, Wanda Sykes and Two Oscar Winners Audition for Batgirl

  20-07-2018 15:20 via feeds.eonline.com
  Name a better place to cast the lead in Batgirl than at 2018 Comic-Con.Conan O'Brien opened his eponymous late-night show Thursday with a sketch featuring nine celebrities...
  
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• Downton Abbey Movie Cast: Who's In and Who's Out?

  20-07-2018 15:01 via feeds.eonline.com
  You can't keep the Crawley family down. Downton Abbey is returning to life on the big screen roughly three years after signing off TV. Julian Fellowes, the show's creator, is returning to...
  
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• Tom Ward: ‘Shooting Stars is the funniest TV show – Vic and Bob are gods’

  20-07-2018 15:00
  The standup and 2017 Chortle best newcomer award winner on the things that make him laugh the mostCardinal Burns as Dean and Murf, playing two drug casualties dining out on their minor dance hit from 1993. I actually dropped to my knees laughing.Continue reading...
  
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• Set It Up’s Katie Silberman Is Here to Save the Rom-Com

  20-07-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Love isn’t dead as long as screenwriter Katie Silberman wields her laptop. Last month, Silberman’s Set It Up premiered on Netflix to swoons as romance-starved audiences rooted for aggrieved personal assistants Zoey Deutch and Glen Powell to successfully hook up their horrible bosses Lucy Liu and Taye Diggs — or...More »
  
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• A Buoyant ’70s Musical About Black Lives Lands in 2018

  20-07-2018 15:00 via nytimes.com
  The creators of “Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope” took their bighearted revue all the way to Broadway. A concert production will show how it plays today.
  
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• Six Thai cave movies now in works as government set up panel to oversee

  20-07-2018 14:57
  The Thai government has formed a committee to oversee production of all the films planning to dramatise the rescueThe rush of films inspired by the dramatic rescue of 12 boys and their football coach from a flooded cave in Thailand has now expanded to encompass six, plus a documentary, and a government committee has been set up to co-ordinate and oversee the planned productions.According to the Thai newspaper the Nation, Thailand’s culture minister, Vira Rojpojchanarat, said: “Five i
  
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• Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, and James Corden Are in the Cats Movie, Which Somehow Exists

  20-07-2018 14:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  It is mind-boggling enough that Tom Hooper, of that mostly tonsils adaptation of Les Mis, has decided to direct a Cats movie. More baffling is that somehow Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, James Corden, and Ian McKellen have all agreed to appear in it. That’s according to The Hollywood Reporter, following...More »
  
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• This Week in the Arts: Panorama, Andrew Solomon, ‘Be More Chill’

  20-07-2018 14:00 via nytimes.com
  The Weeknd headlines the New York festival, “Far From the Tree” comes to screens and the high school musical debuts on Off Broadway.
  
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• This week’s best home entertainment: from Orange Is the New Black to Sick Note

  20-07-2018 12:59
  The women of Lichfield Penitentiary get a change of scenery in OITNB, while Lindsay Lohan joins Rupert Grint in Sick NoteThe best shows to stream this month
  After a divisive fifth season set during a prison riot, Netflix’s comedy-drama looks to shake things up again by sending some of its major players to an intimidating max-security institution. So expect a host of new characters and even heavier storylines but also, thankfully, the cheeky humour that made OITNB such a bingeable show in t
  
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• Posthuis Theater toneel eindmusical 'Betoererd' van groep acht OBS De Optimist - Heerenveense Courant

  20-07-2018 11:57
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  Posthuis Theater toneel eindmusical 'Betoererd' van groep acht OBS De Optimist
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  De leerlingen uit groep acht van OBS De Optimist uit Heerenveen hebben woensdag hun basisschoolperiode afgesloten met het opvoeren van de eindmusical 'Betoeterd'. De speellocatie was ditmaal het Posthuis Theater. Het thema van de jaarlijkse ...
  
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• Domtoren en theater De Kom kleuren rood - RTV Utrecht

  20-07-2018 11:03
  Domtoren en theater De Kom kleuren rood
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  NIEUWEGEIN - De Utrechtse Dom en theater De Kom in Nieuwegein kleuren de komende dagen rood. Het uitlichten van beide gebouwen heeft te maken met de Special Olympics, die dit jaar vijftig jaar bestaan. De organisatie vraagt zo aandacht voor samen ...
  
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• Herdenking Limburgse filmmaker Van Luijn in Theater Tuschinski - De Limburger

  20-07-2018 10:23
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  Herdenking Limburgse filmmaker Van Luijn in Theater Tuschinski
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  Arcen / Belfeld - De Arcense filmmaker Wouter van Luijn, die vorige week werd doodgeslagen op Mallorca, wordt vrijdagmiddag herdacht in het Amsterdamse Tuschinski. Dat meldt Omroep Venlo. Nabestaanden, vrienden en bekenden kunnen vanaf half vier ...en meer »
  
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• The Impact of Police Violence on Screen

  20-07-2018 10:00 via nytimes.com
  The Times’s assistant TV editor, Aisha Harris, discusses how representations of police brutality in media have changed. She says shows like “Insecure” and “Queen Sugar” sensitively deal with this issue by focusing on the interactions’ emotional toll, not the violence itself.
  
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• Police Violence Is Flooding Our Screens. What’s the Impact?

  20-07-2018 10:00 via nytimes.com
  The Times’s assistant TV editor, Aisha Harris, discusses how representations of police brutality in media have changed. She says shows like “Insecure” and “Queen Sugar” sensitively deal with this issue by focusing on the interactions’ emotional toll, not the violence itself.
  
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