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• What’s Going on at Annapurna Pictures?

  11-10-2018 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures, the prestige production company behind such films as Zero Dark Thirty, American Hustle and Her, sent shockwaves through the industry this week by pulling the plug on a Jay Roach–directed Fox News biopic with an A-list cast just two weeks before production was set to begin,...More »
  
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• Ryan Coogler to Write and Direct Black Panther 2 and the World Is Right Again

  11-10-2018 23:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  In good news you really needed today, Disney has finally locked down Ryan Coogler to write and direct Black Panther 2, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Coogler’s billion-dollar baby obviously had Disney keen on keeping the director and his team onboard for the inevitable sequel, but THR says Coogler didn’t...More »
  
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• Drake, Bad Bunny and More: Your Thursday Pop Culture Cheat Sheet

  11-10-2018 23:47 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know from today’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• Women on the Verge review – a scabrous creation from Sharon Horgan that doesn’t quite hit the peaks

  11-10-2018 23:40
  This forensic examination of the lives of three thirtysomething women veers too often into Bridget Jones territory, but it certainly has its momentsFive minutes, two vaginas and three exquisitely sharp lines jabbing you in the solar plexus. We can only be in the presence of a Sharon Horgan production. Women on the Verge (W), her new six-part series, is actually a co-creation with writer Lorna Martin. Based on Martin’s similarly titled bestselling memoir, it is the tale of three thirtysomet
  
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• Now Lindsey Buckingham Is Suing Fleetwood Mac and Please Let This Drama Go to Trial

  11-10-2018 23:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Like we said, have your popcorn at the ready! A day after Lindsey Buckingham revealed that Stevie Nicks allegedly had him fired from Fleetwood Mac over the phone back in January, he’s now suing the band for kicking him out. Us Weekly reports that Buckingham is suing Fleetwood Mac for...More »
  
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• Mahershala Ali Is Still Looking Very Good and Very Concerned in New True Detective Photos

  11-10-2018 23:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  After squandering every last cent of goodwill HBO’s True Detective had during its second season, the show is making a bold return in 2019. To make amends for Colin Farrell’s mustache, the network has given us Mahershala Ali, which, as apology gifts go, is a pretty damn good one. True...More »
  
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• Sanaa Lathan Joins Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone

  11-10-2018 22:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jordan Peele is reviving The Twilight Zone for CBS All Access, and he’s found a star for at least one episode of the anthology. Per Deadline, Sanaa Lathan will take a bite of out of the Zone, and star in an episode titled “Rewind.” Lathan last appeared on a TV...More »
  
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• ‘First Man’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  11-10-2018 22:40 via nytimes.com
  The director Damien Chazelle narrates a scene from his film featuring Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy.
  
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• Considering the State of Things, Music’s Obsession With Nostalgia Makes a Lot of Sense

  11-10-2018 22:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Remember when nostalgia was considered lame? Specifically, a little under 15 years ago, when Wichita Falls pop-punks Bowling for Soup’s cover of Baltimore kindred spirits SR-71’s “1985” became a minor hit on the airwaves. (Interestingly, both bands dispute who came up with the idea to have Bowling for Soup cover...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Watergate’ Shocks Anew With Its True Tale of Political Scandal

  11-10-2018 22:33 via nytimes.com
  Charles Ferguson delivers a comprehensive documentary about the not-so-distant past, with its eye very much on the present.
  
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• What Did RHONJ’s Teresa Giudice Write in a Letter to Donald Trump?

  11-10-2018 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ever since Real Housewife of New Jersey Teresa Giudice and her husband Joe were convicted of bankruptcy and wire fraud and sentenced to separate stints in prison, reality-TV fans knew that Joe had a chance of getting deported after being released from the clink. Now, it is no longer a...More »
  
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• We’re Getting an Amy Winehouse Hologram Because There Weren’t Enough Bad Ideas

  11-10-2018 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Amy Winehouse is going to be resurrected as a hologram, her father has announced to Reuters. Her hologram will be trotted out for a 2019 tour for all the world to watch in horror; she’ll be projected onstage in front of a live band and the hologram will be synced...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘The Oath,’ a Pledge of Allegiance to a President Creates Chasms

  11-10-2018 22:17 via nytimes.com
  This satirical comedy, written, directed by and starring Ike Barinholtz, turns dark and ham-handed.
  
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• Review: ‘Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween’ Is Toothless Terror

  11-10-2018 21:50 via nytimes.com
  This sequel to the movie adaptation of R.L. Stine’s horror series is more goofy than scary.
  
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• Some Nights, Men Explain the Constitution to Heidi Schreck

  11-10-2018 21:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  ‘Oh, my God,” says actor and playwright Heidi Schreck, stopping dead in her tracks one recent Thursday afternoon. We’d just reached the apex of the Brooklyn Bridge, and three men had materialized, their upper torsos draped with undulating snakes and their sights suddenly set on the open-faced woman with the...More »
  
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• This Week in True-Crime Podcasts: Bear Brook, Unobscured, and More

  11-10-2018 21:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  The true-crime podcast universe is ever expanding. 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 for the month of October,...More »
  
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• Here’s Every Word of Kanye’s 10-Minute Monologue to Trump

  11-10-2018 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hurricane Kanye West blew through the White House on Thursday to meet with Donald Trump and it’s a wonder the place is still standing. Though Kanye and Trump were expected to discuss prison reform, manufacturing, gang violence, and other pressing issues, there wasn’t a discussion at all. It was a...More »
  
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• Emma Roberts to Battle Injuries and Ruinous Secrets in Ice-Skating Drama Spinning Out

  11-10-2018 21:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Emma Roberts is getting a Netflix show. The American Horror Story scene stealer will star in Spinning Out, which is about the best kind of sports drama of them all: ice-skating drama. Following in the footsteps of the classic 1990s film The Cutting Edge, Spinning Out will center on a...More »
  
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• Tom Morello: 12 Essential Post-Rage Against The Machine Songs

  11-10-2018 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Though Rage Against the Machine staged a reunion tour in 2008 and have performed a handful of other times since, the seminal rap-rock group hasn’t recorded a studio album since 2000’s Renegades. But Tom Morello — Rage’s boundary-pushing guitarist whose sound defined the band as much as front man Zach...More »
  
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• Jaboukie Young-White Joins The Daily Show As a Correspondent

  11-10-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Comedy Central’s The Daily Show With Trevor Noah has added a new name to its team of correspondents. The show just announced that Jaboukie Young-White has been hired at the show as a correspondent, joining Ronny Chieng, Roy Wood Jr., Dulcé Sloan, Desi Lydic, and Michael Kosta. Young-White will make...More »
  
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• Fyre Festival Founder Billy McFarland Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison

  11-10-2018 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  A judge sentenced Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland to six years in prison on Thursday, slamming him as a “serial fraudster” for orchestrating a $26 million scam. McFarland, 26, founded the disastrous music event, which rapper Ja Rule helped organize and promote. He later lured investors into a bogus ticket...More »
  
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• Review: O, for a Muse of Fire, or a Comptroller, to Save ‘Popcorn Falls’

  11-10-2018 20:16 via nytimes.com
  Armed with money for a theater (which doesn’t exist) to save his town, a mayor tries his hand at playwriting in this two-actor, multicharacter comedy.
  
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• Charli XCX Is Steve Jobs and Troye Sivan Is the ’N Sync Member We Never Had in ‘1999’ Video

  11-10-2018 20:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Even though Charli XCX and Troye Sivan were 7 and 6 years old, respectively, in 1999, both of these pop heroes just want to go back in time in this music video for their new song. But it doesn’t even matter if they were in single digits when Titanic came...More »
  
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• Drake Is Speaking Spanish Again in Bad Bunny’s New Music Video

  11-10-2018 19:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bad Bunny first teased a collaboration with Drake all the way back in January when he posted a video of the two on Instagram, in which Drake said, “I’m on the way.” Then Drake put out a whole album in June, with no Bad Bunny to be found. But now!...More »
  
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• Thomson Reuters unit rebrand lauded in rap

  11-10-2018 19:45 via ft.com
  Employee of Blackstone-acquired Refinitiv tries to lift morale with choice lyrics
  
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• Trump Signs Music Modernization Act Into Law Surrounded by His Best Rock and Country Buds

  11-10-2018 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Thursday afternoon, President Trump signed the Music Modernization Act (a bill aimed at getting songwriters, publishers, and producers fairer pay) into law, and he did so surrounded by a who’s who of his very best rock and country friends. To his left was Steeley Dan and the Doobie Brothers’...More »
  
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• Strictly a show trial: why all the fuss about Seann and Katya's snog?

  11-10-2018 19:28
  Seann Walsh, Katya Jones, her husband and his dog have been in the UK papers all week. Is the ‘curse of Strictly’ more about moralistic BBC bashing?It all started with a snog. Since shots of Strictly Come Dancing contestant Seann Walsh’s drunken kiss with dance partner Katya Jones appeared on the front page of the Sun on Sunday, the story has been played out in the red-tops. Today, the pair have made front pages of the Sun, the Mirror and Daily Mail. Their crime? Not apologisin
  
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• Has Hollywood Been Shamed Into Closing the Pay Gap?

  11-10-2018 19:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a just world, it’d be no surprise that Scarlett Johansson is getting paid $15 million (per The Hollywood Reporter) for her upcoming Black Widow flick, roughly the same amount that co-stars like Chrises Evans and Hemsworth earn for their individual outings. After all, she’s played the character in numerous...More »
  
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• Barrow Street Theatre Will Live On With a New Name and New Production

  11-10-2018 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Earlier this year, Barrow Street Theatre lost its lease to the Greenwich House Theater, a space it had occupied since 2003, but the producers behind it have announced that the Off Broadway company will live on, now as Barrow Street Theatricals. Original Barrow Street producers Scott Morfee and Tom Wirtshafter...More »
  
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• How Big Mouth Created the Shame Wizard, the ‘Mortal Enemy’ of the Hormone Monster

  11-10-2018 18:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  As much as Netflix’s coming-of-age animated comedy Big Mouth is filled with clever jokes about sex and puberty, it’s also about the darker, most embarrassing aspects of growing up. Nowhere is that more apparent than with season two’s introduction of the Shame Wizard, a devious British ghoul who inflicts self-doubt...More »
  
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• Dan Stevens Reflects on the Days He Spent Covered in Mushy Bananas for Apostle

  11-10-2018 18:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dan Stevens is a man of many masks. He’s been a dashing aristocrat in Downton Abbey, an extremely proficient trained killer in The Guest, a monster with a heart of gold in Beauty and the Beast, and he’s currently playing an ultrapowerful and mentally unstable mutant in FX’s Legion. Even...More »
  
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• Review: Hard-Boiled Play in ‘Bad Times at the El Royale’

  11-10-2018 18:26 via nytimes.com
  The writer-director Drew Goddard has fun with genre and a cast that includes Jeff Bridges, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm, Cynthia Erivo and Chris Hemsworth.
  
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• Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween Lacks the Original’s Bite

  11-10-2018 18:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  I’ll confess that I spend an unconscionable amount of time wondering about the right age at which to introduce my child to horror movies. Of course, even the fact that I struggle with this probably says something about the times we live in; when I discovered Psycho and The Shining...More »
  
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• A Grey’s Anatomy Catch-up Guide For No Matter How Far Behind You Are

  11-10-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  So you want to watch Grey’s Anatomy as it launches into its 15th season, but you aren’t exactly caught up? Maybe you only just recovered from a certain dreamy person making a permanent exit. Maybe you swore off the medical drama when Izzie started sleeping with a ghost. Or maybe...More »
  
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• I Think I Have a Crush on Post Malone Now?

  11-10-2018 17:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Post Malone is on the cover of Billboard this week (pre-haircut) campaigning for the Grammys, but it’s what’s on the inside that counts. Peel back those bad-boyish layers and your boy is just a big ol’ softy, the teddy bear of the group, alongside his cover co-stars Dua Lipa and...More »
  
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• The Importance of Being Rupert

  11-10-2018 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are passion projects, and then there’s Rupert Everett’s The Happy Prince. Fascinated by Oscar Wilde since childhood, the actor in 2008 announced that he would star in, write, and make his directorial debut helming a film about the literary icon’s final days. All he needed, he said, was the...More »
  
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• See Lucas Hedges and Julia Roberts Get Into Trouble in Ben Is Back Trailer

  11-10-2018 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  When troubled Ben (Lucas Hedges) returns to his family out of the blue on Christmas Eve, his mom Holly (Julia Roberts) rushes to embrace him. But not everyone is happy that Ben is … back. He’s just out of rehab, and still battling demons that he’s packed with him. Even...More »
  
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• Deutschland 86 Trailer: Communism Is Crumbling, But the Music’s Still Playing Loud

  11-10-2018 17:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  TV’s favorite East German spy is back. Starting October 25, SundanceTV will start airing episodes of Deutschland 86, the follow-up to the critical darling and Peabody-winning German TV series about a young communist operative who heads West. Three years after the events of Deutschland 83, the ten-episode follow-up season finds...More »
  
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• Westside Trailer: Netflix Will Born Its Own Stars, Dammit!

  11-10-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just in time to capitalize on all your Star Is Born feelings about passionate, ambitious artists, Netflix has unveiled its latest docuseries, Westside. Meet Pia (Toscano, from American Idol), Taz, Arika, James, Caitlin, Leo, Alexandra, Austin, and Sean: nine musicians given a shot to be Born-ed. But can they make...More »
  
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• This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Tompkins, Lapkus, and Aukerman’s Threedom

  11-10-2018 16:54 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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• Popcast: ‘A Star Is Born’ Is Here. Let’s Discuss.

  11-10-2018 16:42 via nytimes.com
  What does Bradley Cooper’s remake starring Lady Gaga say about the pop music business — and the film industry — today?
  
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