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• Armie Hammer Joins Gal Gadot In Death On The Nile Remake, A Movie About People With No Pores

  03-10-2018 23:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Murder on the Orient Express, Kenneth Branagh’s detective Hercule Poirot had to solve a homicide on a train. In the the upcoming remake of Death on the Nile, he will be tasked with another whodunit, but he’ll have to crack the case without getting distracted by his tall and...More »
  
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• Maniac’s Sonoya Mizuno on the Inspiration Behind Her Character’s Glorious Wig

  03-10-2018 23:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  You might not recognize Sonoya Mizuno in Netflix’s Maniac, given that she appears underneath a gigantic bob wig and behind wire-frame glasses nearly as large as her face. Plus there’s the fact that the actress, who trained as a ballerina, previously played distant and/or glamorous characters, whether as a robot...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘The Hate U Give,’ a Police Shooting Forces a Teen to Find Her Voice

  03-10-2018 22:59 via nytimes.com
  The timely film, based on Angie Thomas’s young-adult best seller of the same name, takes a wonky leap from page to screen.
  
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• Damon Wayans Says He’s Quitting Lethal Weapon

  03-10-2018 22:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Maybe it’s time for Fox to just let this one go. In a new interview with Electronic Urban Report, Damon Wayans said he’s quitting the show Lethal Weapon. There was no new incident or conflict with his co-star Seann William Scott, who was brought in after Clayne Crawford was fired...More »
  
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• Netflix Orders Hoops Animated Comedy Starring Jake Johnson

  03-10-2018 22:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix has a new animated comedy on the way. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the streaming network has given a ten-episode order to an animated series starring the voice of Jake Johnson titled Hoops, which counts The Lego Movie’s Phil Lord and Chris Miller as executive producers. Created by Ben...More »
  
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• Journalist Behind Bizarro Drew Barrymore Interview Promises It Wasn’t Faked

  03-10-2018 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  In an interview with EgyptAir’s in-flight magazine, Drew Barrymore seemingly gave several bizarre remarks on motherhood, body shaming, and the status of women around the world. (“I cannot deny that women made a great achievement over the past century,” Barrymore says at one point. “There is a significant progress recorded...More »
  
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• Disney's Lilo & Stitch Is Getting a Live-Action Remake

  03-10-2018 22:08 via feeds.eonline.com
  Lilo and Stitch are back.
  On Monday, The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that the 2002 animated movie, Lilo & Stitch, is being made into a live-action/CG hybrid film. According to...
  
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• Lilo & Stitch Will Have a Live-Action Ohana in New Movie

  03-10-2018 21:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Disney is making sure there will never be an irreconcilable cultural divide between its older fans and its younger ones by slowly repurposing the whole Disney vault for new releases. The latest: According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lilo & Stitch is being remade as an animated/live-action hybrid by the same...More »
  
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• Review: The Gorgeous Heartbreak of ‘A Star Is Born’

  03-10-2018 21:30 via nytimes.com
  Bradley Cooper, who directed and stars with Lady Gaga, creates thrills with a steadfast belief in old-fashioned, big-feeling cinema.
  
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• Mischa Barton Is Joining The Hills Revival, Which Might Truly Be the Real O.C.

  03-10-2018 21:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  If Laguna Beach was the real O.C., which gave Lauren Conrad to the world and eventually led to The Hills, what happens when The O.C. crosses back over into reality TV, and merges with The Hills? The rest is still unwritten. MTV has announced that Mischa Barton is joining the...More »
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: This New York Film Festival Is Definitely Not Boring

  03-10-2018 21:18 via nytimes.com
  It can be elitist, maddening and most of all inspiring — especially films like Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” and Julian Schnabel’s “At Eternity’s Gate.”
  
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• Lloyds’ courtship of Schroders hard for ex to take

  03-10-2018 21:05 via ft.com
  Stan’s hurt feelings over bank’s asset management tie-up is not entirely justified
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel Says ‘Ultimately, the Audience Decides’ on Comedy Comebacks Like Louis C.K.

  03-10-2018 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel has partnered with Caesars Entertainment to open a new comedy club in Las Vegas next year, but that’s not the most interesting bit of news from his interview with The Hollywood Reporter to promote it. Later in the chat, Kimmel was asked about the backlash the...More »
  
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• Robert Pattinson Says He’s Wearing a ‘Frilly Frock’ in The King

  03-10-2018 20:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Let the battle of the heartthrobs begin! Robert Pattinson plays the villain in The King, an upcoming Netflix adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Henry the IV and Henry the V. As the Dauphin, the French heir apparent, Pattinson goes head to head with Timothée Chalamet’s young Henry V and apparently he’ll...More »
  
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• Her Smell Is a Bracing, Unnerving Depiction of Addiction, Narcissism, and Growth

  03-10-2018 20:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  A low thrum runs throughout much of Her Smell. It’s part of the Keegan DeWitt’s unsettling score, but it could easily be mistaken for diegetic sound design, or even just the actual noise picked up in the low-ceilinged space under a rock venue. It starts out sounding like guitars and...More »
  
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• Connie Chung Reveals She Was Sexually Assaulted in Her 20s

  03-10-2018 19:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  In an essay for the Washington Post, veteran broadcaster Connie Chung has revealed that she was molested in college by a doctor who treated her family. When Chung visited him to ask for contraception in the 1960s, she writes, the doctor assaulted her during an examination. “While I stared at...More »
  
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• Chelsea Peretti Says She’s Leaving Brooklyn Nine-Nine, But Not Necessarily Forever

  03-10-2018 19:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Brooklyn Nine-Nine fans have been through a lot between seasons five and six — weathering a whole cancellation and rescue of their show by an entirely different network — and now they will have to absorb another blow. Chelsea Peretti tweeted today that she won’t be appearing in all of the...More »
  
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• ITV rules itself out of bidding for Endemol Shine

  03-10-2018 19:38 via ft.com
  Analysts have said ‘Big Brother’ owner could fetch as much as €3bn
  
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• Sarah Jessica Parker Can't Imagine a Sex and the City Sequel Without Kim Cattrall

  03-10-2018 19:35 via feeds.eonline.com
  What feud? Sarah Jessica Parker says she can't "imagine" doing another Sex and the City movie without Kim Cattrall.Last year, Cattrall spoke out about not wanting to return...
  
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• Gary Kurtz, Hands-On ‘Star Wars’ Producer, Is Dead at 78

  03-10-2018 19:34 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Kurtz worked closely with George Lucas on the first two films in one of the most successful franchises in history.
  
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• Is Milo Rau Really the Most Controversial Director in Theater?

  03-10-2018 19:02 via nytimes.com
  He has a manifesto. He puts jihadism onstage. He’s surrounded by scandal. But this much-acclaimed director says deep down he’s a conservative.
  
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• Review: A Captive Emily Dickinson in ‘Because I Could Not Stop’

  03-10-2018 18:33 via nytimes.com
  In this multimedia performance piece, Angelica Page delivers a portrait of a poet for whom being “nobody” was anything but a pleasure.
  
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• Look Back at the Stars of A Star Is Born, From 1937 to 2018

  03-10-2018 18:30 via feeds.eonline.com
  Lady Gaga's star burns brighter than ever in A Star Is Born, directed by her co-star, Bradley Cooper. The Warner Bros. musical, out Friday, is the third remake since Janet Gaynor and Fredric...
  
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• There’s a New Bling Ring in Town

  03-10-2018 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Someone call Alexis Neiers — there’s a new Bling Ring in town. On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Police Department announced that it had arrested three teens who are suspected of burglarizing A-list celebrities and athletes.Over the past few months, burglars have broken into the Hollywood-area homes of Rihanna, Christina Milian, and Los Angeles Dodgers...More »
  
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• Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Trailer: Teen Angst With a Side of Spell Casting

  03-10-2018 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sabrina Spellman is a witch, bitch! In this trailer for Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Kiernan Shipka stars as the half-witch, half-mortal teen trying to figure out her place in the spooky town of Greendale. On her 16th birthday, Sabrina has to make a big decision: Will she be part...More »
  
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• Astronomy Club: Comedy Central’s Best New Digital Series

  03-10-2018 18:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  When asked “What is Astronomy Club’s most lofty goal?” the New York–based sketch group replied:We’re not sure how lofty it is, because our group is straight fire, but our main goal is to have a television show. That’s step one. A sketch show would be great, but we are also...More »
  
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• Review: In Scathing ‘Downstate,’ Sympathy for the Devils

  03-10-2018 18:12 via nytimes.com
  Bruce Norris’s new play at the Steppenwolf Theater Company applies his usual cynicism to questions of justice and vengeance for sex offenders.
  
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• In Dracul, Dacre Stoker Sets Out to Prove That Count Dracula Really Lived

  03-10-2018 18:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Bram Stoker first gave his publisher a copy of the novel that introduced the world to his blood-sucking count, the author began the conversation with a startling claim: “This story is true.” In his original preface to the manuscript, discovered in the Icelandic translation of the novel, Stoker wrote:...More »
  
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• 8 New Books You Should Read This October

  03-10-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Each month, Boris Kachka offers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations. You should read as many of them as possible.Every editorial product is independently selected. If you buy an item through our links, Vulture may earn an affiliate commission....More »
  
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• Suzan-Lori Parks Wins Distinguished Playwright Award

  03-10-2018 17:40 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Parks has been chosen for the Mimi, or the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, which comes with a $200,000 cash award.
  
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• Trevor Noah on Kavanaugh: 'We should nominate him for the next season of Jersey Shore'

  03-10-2018 17:32 via theguardian.com
  Late-night comics discussed the supreme court nominee drama and examined Stephen Miller’s immigration policiesLate-night hosts discussed the latest news to suggest that Brett Kavanaugh wasn’t being totally honest about his past of heavy drinking. Continue reading...
  
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• First trailer released for Dick Cheney biopic starring Christian Bale

  03-10-2018 17:28
  The actor has gained 40lbs to play the former Vice President in a starry take on White House wranglings from The Big Short director Adam McKayChristian Bale’s latest Oscar-baiting dramatic physical transformation has been unveiled in the first trailer for Vice, Adam McKay’s biopic of former US vice-president Dick Cheney.Bale, who lost 60lbs for 2004’s The Machinist, gained 40lbs (as well as a bald cap) to play the part of George W Bush’s controversial vice-president. The
  
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• Netflix Is Making Narnia Movies and TV Shows, in the Latest Entry in the Streaming Fantasy Wars

  03-10-2018 17:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the wake of Game of Thrones, it looks like all future TV or movie-like content must be fantasy. Today, Netflix has announced plans to develop “new series and film projects” based on C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia book series. From the sound of it, this won’t be one...More »
  
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• Happy Mean Girls Day! Here's a Special Message From Aaron Samuels to Lindsay Lohan

  03-10-2018 16:40 via feeds.eonline.com
  It's October 3rd! And it's Wednesday! You know what that means...Yep, it's Mean Girls day. So fetch. To celebrate, you should definitely wear pink. And bonus, we've got...
  
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• Christian Bale Is Unrecognizable as Dick Cheney in First Vice Trailer

  03-10-2018 16:28 via feeds.eonline.com
  Annapurna Pictures dropped its first official trailer for the new movie Vice on Wednesday and gave fans a sneak peek of Christian Bale's portrayal of Dick Cheney.The trailer opens...
  
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• Venom Is Funnier Than You’re Expecting

  03-10-2018 16:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  A few months ago, director Ruben Fleischer tried to convince the world that his would-be super-franchise starter, Venom, is something it very much isn’t. Speaking to the huddled masses at San Diego Comic-Con, he said the titular protagonist would be a “grittier, grounded, complicated character,” and that there are “no...More »
  
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• Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy and Damien Chazelle Shoot for the Moon

  03-10-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Was the cost in lives and money worth it to put a man on the lunar surface? The award-winning actors and director discuss their Neil Armstrong biopic, “First Man.”
  
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• Vice Trailer: Christian Bale Goes Full Dick Cheney

  03-10-2018 15:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the very least, Christian Bale has proved once again that he’s basically able to morph into whatever form he pleases. In this case, Bale’s playing Dick Cheney in Big Short director Adam McKay’s biopic Vice, which also stars Amy Adams as Lynne Cheney, Steve Carell as Donald Rumsfeld, and...More »
  
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• The Story Behind Adam Driver’s Oil Baron SNL Sketch

  03-10-2018 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Saturday Night Live’s season 44 premiere graced us with a completely relatable and timely character: Adam Driver’s withered oil baron Abraham H. Parnassus. Freshman writer Eli Coyote Mandel delivered the breakout sketch, which touched on the posturing masculinity of our current era without making Matt Damon wear a fake nose...More »
  
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• The chosen one? The new film that claims Trump's election was an act of God

  03-10-2018 15:39
  More than 1,000 US cinemas are screening The Trump Prophecy – which posits that God chose the philandering billionaire to restore America’s moral values It was, everyone agreed, a miracle. The unexpected election of Donald Trump in 2016 was an act of God, who chose the philandering billionaire and reality TV star to restore America’s moral values.This is the theme of The Trump Prophecy, a movie telling the story of Mark Taylor, a former fireman from Orlando forced to retire aft
  
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• Bradley Cooper Gave Lady Gaga a 15-Foot-Tall Photo of Her Face

  03-10-2018 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  What gift did auteur director Bradley Cooper give Lady Gaga after they finished work on A Star Is Born? (Other than, presumably, no longer wiping her makeup off when they saw one another.) A massive framed print of the movie’s final shot. During an interview with the New York Times,...More »
  
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• Brazil’s TV titan seen as election kingmaker

  03-10-2018 15:20 via ft.com
  Globo network dominates political debate despite rise of social media
  
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• This Is Us Recap: Acceptance Letters

  03-10-2018 15:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  We are most definitely embarking on a “be careful what you wish for” situation with This Is Us. We wanted to see what life was like for the Pearsons in the direct aftermath of Jack’s death, but I am here to report that I’ve seen what that life is like...More »
  
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• Robin Williams: eclectic collection owned by late actor to be auctioned

  03-10-2018 15:13
  More than 300 items including a Golden Globe, street art by Banksy and autographed scripts will go for sale in New YorkDistinctive modern art and memorabilia owned by the late American actor Robin Williams is set to go up for auction in New York. Related: Robin Williams: curios and mementoes for sale – in picturesRelated: Come Inside My Mind: star-studded documentary honors Robin WilliamsWilliams’s best actor Golden Globe award won in 1988 for his performance in the film Good Mo
  
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• Where Were All the Pregnant Women in Classic Movies?

  03-10-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In classic Hollywood movies, having a baby was an exercise in innuendo. Actors could say the word “baby,” but not the word “pregnant.” They could say a woman “went to the doctor” — just as long as they were vague about it. Baby bumps were rare. And loud, wailing labor...More »
  
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