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• M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass Congeals on the Screen

  14-01-2019 23:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  In his 2004 supernatural melodrama The Lady in the Water, M. Night Shyamalan cast himself as an author who receives a message from a “madam narf” (i.e., an elite mermaid-ish entity from the “Blue World”) to the effect that he shouldn’t give up writing in spite of low wages and...More »
  
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• True Detective Season 3 Premiere Scores Solid Ratings

  14-01-2019 23:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Early ratings for True Detective are in, and the Nielsen numbers suggest audiences are still plenty interested in HBO’s crime anthology series. Sunday’s two-hour premiere of the Mahershala Ali–led season was watched by an average of 1.3 million same-day linear viewers, with 1.4 million tuning in for episode one and...More »
  
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• The Carpetbagger: The Critics’ Choice Is ‘Roma.’ Will It Be Oscar’s?

  14-01-2019 23:12 via nytimes.com
  After Alfonso Cuarón’s movie cleaned up at the Critics’ Choice Awards, what stands in the way of a best picture win?
  
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• Spielberg’s West Side Story Has Cast 17-Year-Old High School Student Rachel Zegler As Maria

  14-01-2019 22:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  The dream: Doing a production of West Side Story in high school, and then actually getting to make West Side Story on film. According to Deadline, Rachel Zegler, a 17-year-old New Jersey High School student, will play Maria in Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner’s adaptation of the classic musical. The...More »
  
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• Lessons DC Can Learn From Aquaman’s Billion-Dollar Success

  14-01-2019 22:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Aquaman has swum its way into a rarefied body of water, crossing the billion-dollar mark in worldwide box-office tallies over the weekend. Since arriving on screens in late December, the James Wan–directed comic-book adaptation has hauled in $287.8 million domestically and a robust $733.6 million overseas to become the first...More »
  
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• James McAvoy to Host SNL on January 26

  14-01-2019 21:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Saturday Night Live has revealed its second season 44 host of the year, and it’s yet another first-timer. On Twitter today, the show announced that James McAvoy, who stars in M. Night Shyamalan’s new film Glass, will host the show on January 26, where he’ll be joined by musical guest...More »
  
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• Choir Boy Star Explains the Show’s Most Swoon-Worthy Scene

  14-01-2019 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Broadway has seen its fair share of heartbreaking love songs, the ones that leave audiences torn between risking it all and giving up on love. Tarell Alvin McCraney, the co-writer of Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight, joins the tradition with his musical Choir Boy and its number “Love Ballad.”In the show, high...More »
  
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• Matthew Rhys Will Star in HBO’s Perry Mason Remake

  14-01-2019 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Matthew Rhys is jumping from Soviet spycraft in The Americans to an iconic All-American role: Perry Mason. The actor has signed on to play the famed fictional defense attorney in HBO’s long-in-the-works limited series from executive producers Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey.The new take on will be an origin...More »
  
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• Conan Returns Next Week With Tom Hanks and the Cast of The Good Place

  14-01-2019 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  After taking a long hiatus to go on tour and start a podcast, Conan O’Brien returns to TBS this month to launch the reworked and slimmer version of his late-night show. The network confirmed today that the half-hour Conan returns next Tuesday, January 22, and O’Brien will be kicking off...More »
  
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• At BroadwayCon, Fans Get a Curtain Call

  14-01-2019 20:51 via nytimes.com
  Started in 2016, the three-day expo provides singalongs, meetups, workshops and, of course, “marketplace” booths targeting theater buffs.
  
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• Megan Fox Looks Unrecognizable While Filming New Movie Role

  14-01-2019 20:50 via feeds.eonline.com
  We're not one to place bets, but you likely haven't seen Megan Fox look like this before.As the actress prepares for a whole new project on the big screen, photographers spotted...
  
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• Bradley Whitford on Valley of the Boom and Why You Should Ignore Those West Wing Revival Rumors

  14-01-2019 20:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bradley Whitford rarely wraps up one gig without already knowing what his next is going to be. Of course, that’s what’s supposed to happen when you’ve been a dependably working actor for as long as Whitford has. Not that it always does, but thankfully for Whitford, it’s absolutely what’s happened...More »
  
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• The Oscars Are Feuding With the SAG Awards Over Famous Presenters

  14-01-2019 20:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  When we look back on the biggest feuds of this awards season, it won’t be Kevin Hart versus apologizing, Green Book versus facts, or Jackson Maine warriors versus Bradley Cooper’s refusal to start using that Tom Ford bronzer again. It will surely be SAG-AFTRA’s surprise statement released Monday afternoon, calling...More »
  
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• Screen Actors Guild accuses Academy of ‘intimidation’ over Oscars ceremony

  14-01-2019 19:51
  SAG-AFTRA union criticised the Academy over its ‘graceless pressure tactics’ to secure presenters for this year’s awards showThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been accused of intimidation by the Screen Actors Guild (SAG).In a statement, SAG-AFTRA has claimed that an “extraordinary and unwarranted pressure” is being placed on their members to appear on stage at this year’s Oscars without previously presenting at this month’s SAG awards.
  
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• US newspapers: headline risk

  14-01-2019 19:32 via ft.com
  The sorry state of local US news is leaving incumbents vulnerable
  
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• Watch a Spooky and Star-Studded Clip From Drunk History Season 6

  14-01-2019 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Derek Waters returns to Comedy Central tomorrow night with a brand-new season of Drunk History, but thankfully you don’t have to wait that long to get a taste of season six. In this extremely star-studded clip from the premiere, Drunk History veteran narrator Rich Fulcher provides the drunken tale of...More »
  
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• Black Monday Isn’t Worth the Investment

  14-01-2019 18:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Wall Street during the 1980s was wild, chaotic, and brash, and the new Showtime series Black Monday wants to make sure you never forget it. Everything in this half-hour comedy — created by David Caspe of Happy Endings fame and Jordan Cahan, who worked with Caspe on NBC’s Marry Me...More »
  
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• How Torturous Is A Dog’s Way Home for Animal Lovers?

  14-01-2019 18:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Near the end of Mary Harron’s 2000 film American Psycho, as Patrick Bateman’s insanity reaches fevered heights, the (maybe) serial killer picks up a kitten and appears to be on the verge of shooting it at the insistence of an ATM’s instruction screen. We’ve seen Bateman commit one unspeakable act...More »
  
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• Watch the Bone-chilling Trailer for Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes

  14-01-2019 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the 1970s, Ted Bundy sexually assaulted and murdered at least 30 women in multiple states, and finally confessed in detail to his crimes in the days leading up to his execution in 1989. In the upcoming Netflix docuseries Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, director Joe Berlinger...More »
  
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• RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars 4, Episode 5: We (and Willam and Alaska!) Have Thoughts

  14-01-2019 17:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  What The Tuck?, still the first and only RuPaul’s Drag Race podcast, is infiltrated this week by the hosts of another upstart podcast Joel and Nicole’s fans might have heard of — that’s right, Willam and Alaska of the Race Chaser podcast (and, oh yeah, a little show called RuPaul’s...More »
  
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• Brush Up Your Civics, Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me Is Transferring to Broadway

  14-01-2019 17:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Broadway season stuffed with plays is getting a very exciting new addition. What the Constitution Means to Me, in which playwright and star Heidi Schreck re-creates the lectures she gave on the Constitution for scholarship money as a teenager, will transfer to the Helen Hayes Theater, previously home to...More »
  
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• Céline Dion Reportedly Pulling R. Kelly Collab ‘I’m Your Angel’ From Streaming

  14-01-2019 16:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  The list of artists who want nothing to do with R. Kelly is growing. TMZ reports that Céline Dion will also pull her collaboration with the accused abuser following Lady Gaga’s decision to do the same last week. Her team is reportedly in the process of yanking Dion and Kelly’s...More »
  
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• Nicole Byer Demands You Laugh at Her Fat Jokes

  14-01-2019 16:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s normal for a comedian to come out and address their appearance. It has been proven to be the quickest way to get the audience on the same page as you. But for Nicole Byer, host of Nailed It! and Why Won’t You Date Me? podcast, as well as co-host...More »
  
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• R. Kelly and His Label Are Reportedly at a Bitter Stalemate

  14-01-2019 16:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The legal consequences of R. Kelly’s alleged behavior remain uncertain, and so does his future as an artist. TMZ reports that Kelly has been all but blacklisted at his label RCA and its parent Sony, with the company refusing to finance, produce, market, or release any new music from Kelly...More »
  
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• Downton Abbey creator plots to make ITV hit out of forgotten novel

  14-01-2019 16:27
  Julian Fellowes will adapt his historical novel, Belgravia, about the secrets of the nouveau riche – though it failed to capture the imagination in book formDownton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes is set to return to ITV with an adaptation of his historical novel Belgravia.The six-part series – a tale of scandal and intrigue set in 1840s London, around three decades before Downton – will explore tensions between the rich and the nouveau riche. It will go into production with Carn
  
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• ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ to Open on Broadway in March

  14-01-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The play, written by and starring Heidi Schreck, is about gender and American legal history.
  
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• Glenn Close and Timothée Chalamet Are Best Friends Now, Can You Believe It

  14-01-2019 15:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  The greatest gift this awards season has given us isn’t Nicholas Britell’s Beale Street score, a series of botched Green Book sound bites, or even so much Brian Tyree Henry: It is Glennothée. Meet the most ambitious crossover event in cinematic history. Before our very eyes, veteran actor and cool...More »
  
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• Rami Malek and Nicole Kidman Reunited After She Ignored Him at the Globes, So You Can All Relax Now

  14-01-2019 15:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  In terrible, earth-shaking, near-cataclysmic entertainment news last week, Nicole Kidman didn’t seem to notice Rami Malek when he tried to talk to her onstage after Bohemian Rhapsody won Best Drama at the Golden Globes. The awkward video clip of it happening went viral, and surely it has kept you up...More »
  
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• 90 Day Fiancé Recap: Hate Is Where the Heart Is

  14-01-2019 15:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Wow, what a season of celebration! 90 Day Fiancé has come and gone and we are all the wiser for it. I think if there is one thing we can take from this season it’s that true love conquers all — it conquers objective reason, rational thought, and one’s biological...More »
  
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• The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Fire Escape

  14-01-2019 15:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  This is a classic “We need one more episode before the big trip” episode. The only thing that made it even remotely different than every other “We need one more episode before the big trip” episode is that they hadn’t even announced the big trip yet. We can’t even get...More »
  
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• New Year, New Verse: 4 Poetry Collections That Change the World

  14-01-2019 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Poetry ought to be the preeminent form of this age — hell, every age. In a smattering of words, a poem can eulogize, satirize, criticize, proselytize.The greatest verse clues us into what Jane Hirshfield calls “poetry’s knowing,” its function of “clarification and magnification.” It’s the quintessential hybrid form: an amalgam...More »
  
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• Ghosn’s wife condemns Japan’s system as ‘draconian’

  14-01-2019 14:39 via ft.com
  Carole Ghosn writes to Human Rights Watch over husband’s ‘harsh treatment’
  
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• Ghosn’s wife condemns Japan justice system as ‘draconian’

  14-01-2019 14:39 via ft.com
  Carole Ghosn writes to Human Rights Watch over husband’s ‘harsh treatment’
  
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• The Zoe Ball breakfast show review – no rivalry here, babes

  14-01-2019 14:04
  The first BBC Radio 2 breakfast show front-woman is a canny, worthy successor to Wogan – and apparently there’s no hard feelings with Chris Evans or Sara CoxAfter choosing Aretha Franklin’s Respect as the first record of her Radio 2 breakfast tenancy, Zoe Ball earned it for herself in a warm and fluent debut, in which she cannily bigged up her listeners, kickstarting their households and cars on a cold day, as the true “morning superstars”.As it dawned that she was
  
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• Roma victory at Critics' Choice awards strengthens Oscar hopes

  14-01-2019 14:00
  Alfonso Cuarón’s drama picks up four awards, while The Americans and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel dominate the TV section with three eachAlfonso Cuarón’s nostalgic evocation of a 1970s Mexican childhood emerged as the big winner at the Critics’ Choice film awards on Sunday, picking up four awards including best film, and solidifying its place as a serious contender for the big Oscar prizes next month.As well as best picture, Roma won best director and best cinematogra
  
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• How ER went from the ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ to the misery medics

  14-01-2019 14:00
  From ‘white saviour’ stories to killer helicopters, the once-life-affirming drama’s final five seasons oscillated between the tedious and unintentionally hilariousIt is easy now to forget just what a cultural force US hospital drama ER was. This was a show powerful enough to get George Clooney named Sexiest Man Alive, a position he has since parlayed into a lucrative career as a coffee-pod salesman. Over 15 seasons, pretty much every American “Oh, I recognise them!”
  
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• MNG unveils $1.4bn bid for USA Today owner Gannett

  14-01-2019 13:46 via ft.com
  Hedge fund-backed owner of US newspapers has reputation for cost-cuts and firing journalists
  
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• MNG Enterprises reveals bid for USA Today owner Gannett

  14-01-2019 13:46 via ft.com
  Hedge fund-backed owner of US newspapers has reputation for slashing costs and firing journalists
  
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• How Alice Nutter went from Chumbawamba to prestige TV

  14-01-2019 13:36
  She spent two decades in the anarchist band who drenched John Prescott at the Brits. Now she’s writing big-budget shows starring Hilary SwankThe scruffy camper van in the drive looks promising. Apart from that though, there’s little to suggest that this handsome former vicarage on a sleepy cul-de-sac in a working-class area of Leeds is home to an anarchist. One who once, along with some of her bandmates, very publicly poured a bucket of icy water over the deputy prime minister’
  
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• Netflix earnings to highlight big bet on content spending

  14-01-2019 13:35 via ft.com
  Investors seek reassurance that streaming service can attract and keep subscribers
  
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• Netflix earnings aim to show ‘Bird Box’ effect pays off

  14-01-2019 13:35 via ft.com
  Investors seek reassurance that streaming service can attract and keep subscribers
  
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• When fake news purveyors visit Sark

  14-01-2019 13:30 via ftalphaville.ft.com
  She came to cover an energy crisis, she came back with a tale about a little island bitterly divided by economic interests and the nature of its autonomy.
  
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• Friends from College: has TV's most hateable show become … good?

  14-01-2019 13:21
  Its first series was named ‘a near-total misfire’ but now it’s back, and it’s no longer terrible. How on Earth did this happen?There are many ways the second series of Friends from College could have begun. A bus crash, for example. Or an asteroid strike. Or an earthquake or a contagious bleeding disorder or some sort of super aggressive wolf attack. Any of these would have perfect, because every single character on Friends from College is a full-blast turbo git and this
  
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• Game of Thrones: creepy new trailer reveals release date for final season

  14-01-2019 10:20
  Jon, Sansa and Arya venture into the Winterfell crypts in an ominous first teaser for the fantasy drama’s eighth and final run The much-anticipated final season of Game of Thrones will premiere on 14 April, HBO has confirmed. The announcement was made at the end of a new trailer for the fantasy series that aired ahead of the premiere for True Detective.Created by long-time Game of Thrones director David Nutter, the trailer is an ominous, darkly lit effort that sees Jon Snow and Sansa and A
  
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