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• Watch Taylor Swift and More Stars Embrace Their Inner Feline in First Cats Trailer

  18-07-2019 23:38 via feeds.eonline.com
  Listen, if you're unfamiliar with the Cats musical, brace yourself...this may be a little weird...The trailer for the upcoming movie adaptation of the hit Broadway show was released...
  
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• Gannett in advanced talks to combine with GateHouse Media

  18-07-2019 23:16 via ft.com
  Deal would merge the two largest owners of newspapers across the US by circulation
  
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• Gannett in advanced deal talks with GateHouse Media

  18-07-2019 23:16 via ft.com
  Deal would merge the two largest owners of newspapers in the US by circulation
  
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• As America Debates Abortion, Hollywood Seeks the Realities

  18-07-2019 23:09 via nytimes.com
  Series and films depicting abortion in a matter-of-fact way have markedly increased, a scholar finds. Writers say they’re showing what they know.
  
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• See Top Gun: Maverick and More Trailers as They Premiere at Comic-Con 2019

  18-07-2019 22:21 via feeds.eonline.com
  Comic-Con never fails to impress!From horror films, to thrilling action flicks, there is truly something for everyone. And this year was no different.Tom Cruise delighted the...
  
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• ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Trailer: Tom Cruise Unveils Clip at Comic-Con

  18-07-2019 22:20 via nytimes.com
  The promo shows the star reprising his role as Maverick, with a glimpse of Miles Teller as the son of Goose, the first film’s sidekick.
  
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• Tom Cruise returns to the skies in trailer for Top Gun: Maverick

  18-07-2019 22:02
  The actor is reprising his role as a hotshot fighter pilot in the long-awaited sequel also starring Jennifer Connelly and Jon HammThe first trailer for long-awaited sequel Top Gun: Maverick has been released, teasing Tom Cruise’s return to his fan favourite role as a hotshot fighter pilot. Related: The top 20 Tom Cruise movies – ranked!Continue reading...
  
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• Everything We Know About Top Gun: Maverick Starring Tom Cruise

  18-07-2019 22:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  After all of these years, there's still a huge need for speed.More than three decades after the release of the blockbuster smash Top Gun, moviegoers can look forward to a brand-new...
  
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• Still Aiming to Confound, the Scrappy Brick Turns a Page

  18-07-2019 21:31 via nytimes.com
  A new leader is about to take over from the Williamsburg theater’s founders. A festival there now offers a sense of her transgressive, slightly bonkers vision (sour cream included).
  
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• Sheila Atim's Cleopatra show: 'I'm not freaking out! I won't hang up!'

  18-07-2019 21:00
  Soon to star in the Game of Thrones prequel, the Olivier-winning actor presents Anguis at the Edinburgh fringe‘The last thing I did in any kind of creative-writing capacity would have been my English GCSE,” Sheila Atim laughs. The 28-year-old actor, who won an Olivier award for the Bob Dylan musical Girl from the North Country and has landed a role in the hotly anticipated Game of Thrones prequel, has now turned writer. Her debut play, Anguis, is at the Edinburgh fringe this summer.&
  
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• Apollo 11 Anniversary: How to Celebrate This Weekend

  18-07-2019 20:37 via nytimes.com
  Around New York, all roads lead to the moon: Here’s a roundup of events honoring the small steps and giant leaps that made the mission possible.
  
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• Kennedy Center Honors Go to ‘Sesame Street’ and Earth, Wind & Fire

  18-07-2019 20:33 via nytimes.com
  Sally Field, Michael Tilson Thomas and Linda Ronstadt round out the honorees.
  
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• An Apollo 11 ‘Oratorio,’ Told by Those Who Were There

  18-07-2019 20:22 via nytimes.com
  The “Oslo” playwright J.T. Rogers found himself moved stitching a story he thought he knew well: “It is a piece about hope and wonder.”
  
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• Netflix strategy questioned after US subscriber loss

  18-07-2019 20:01 via ft.com
  Analyst recants a forecast for customer growth he says now looks ‘downright psychedelic’
  
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• Mirror parent in talks to buy former Johnston assets

  18-07-2019 19:00 via ft.com
  UK publisher Reach confirms discussions to buy some of the titles
  
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• It Chapter Two's New Trailer Will Give You Nightmares

  18-07-2019 18:50 via feeds.eonline.com
  Pennywise is back.After giving fans a sneak peek at It Chapter Two at Comic-Con's Wednesday preview night, Warner Bros. released the trailer for all the world to see on Thursday....
  
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• ‘Point Blank’ Review: A Buddy Flick That Hobbles Along

  18-07-2019 17:27 via nytimes.com
  Starring Anthony Mackie and Frank Grillo, Netflix’s 86-minute would-be thriller somehow manages to feel interminable.
  
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• Film foundation set up by Alexander Sokurov to close after claims of government hostility

  18-07-2019 17:19
  The director of Russian Ark has accused Russia’s culture ministry of “unfriendliness and aggressiveness” Russian film director Alexander Sokurov has shut down his film foundation citing hostility from Russia’s ministry of culture.In comments reported by Russian news agency Interfax (via the Hollywood Reporter), Sokurov said the ministry’s “unfriendliness and aggressiveness” was behind his decision to close Primer Inotnatsii (Example of Intonation). Conti
  
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• ‘The Great Society,’ About L.B.J., Is Coming to Broadway

  18-07-2019 16:38 via nytimes.com
  The playwright, Robert Schenkkan, also wrote the Tony-winning “All the Way,” about an earlier chapter of the Johnson presidency.
  
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• Venice to open with Kore-eda's The Truth, Toronto with film about the Band

  18-07-2019 16:14
  Palme d’Or winner’s new film starring Catherine Deneuve to kick off the Venice film festival, while Toronto gets a documentary about the legendary folk-rockersThe Truth, the new film from multi-award-winning Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, will open the 2019 edition of the Venice film festival.Filmed in French and English, and starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke, The Truth is described by festival director Alberto Barbera as “a poetic reflection on
  
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• What Disney Risked to Make ‘The Lion King’ in 1994

  18-07-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The animated original was hardly the anticipated film the remake is now. But that release 25 years ago changed so much for Disney — and Hollywood.
  
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• From Russia, With Despair, Self-Loathing and Love

  18-07-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  What do two contemporary playwrights have in common with Anton Chekhov? A bunch.
  
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• ‘Will Allah be OK with this?’: inside the BBC's first British-Muslim sketch show

  18-07-2019 15:28
  They joke about airport security and overindulging over Ramadan. Meet the creators of Muzlamic, the trailblazing comedy exploring the contradictions of modern Muslim lifeAs Ali Shahalom and Aatif Nawaz scan the faces on the walls of the boardroom we’re in, their faces light up. “The BBC have put us in the brown room!” laughs Shahalom, gazing up at the cast of Goodness Gracious Me. It feels fateful that this is where we meet in Broadcasting House, given the impact the pioneering
  
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• Michael Winterbottom: I never watch Bond, or blockbusters – and theatre directors should steer clear of film

  18-07-2019 14:59
  The film director answered your queries about The Trip’s posh nosh, the best bands on 24 Hour Party People and more • More of your questions for Michael Winterbottom 1.59pm BST Thanks for all the great questions. Much better than talking to journalists. The Wedding Guest is out on Friday and available on various platforms! 1.55pm BST Gretsch83 asks:Who does the best Michael Caine in your opinion? Coogan or Brydon?Do you think I'm crazy? If I picked either Rob or Steve that would mean
  
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• Kyoto Animation studio fire: at least 25 dead after arson attack in Japan

  18-07-2019 14:42
  Dozens more injured after ‘man threw liquid and set fire’ to building, police sayAn arson attack on an anime studio in Japan has left at least 33 people dead and dozens injured in Japan’s worst mass murder in nearly two decades.The perpetrator, who was also injured and has been taken into police custody, walked into the 1st Studio building of Kyoto Animation in Fujimi ward, Kyoto, at about 10.30am. He poured what is suspected to be petrol in multiple areas of the building befor
  
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• Venice film festival to open with Kore-eda's The Truth, starring Catherine Deneuve

  18-07-2019 14:08
  The movie from the award-winning director is described as a ‘poetic reflection on the relationship between mother and daughter’The Truth, the new film from multi-award-winning Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, will open the 2019 edition of the Venice film festival.Filmed in French and English, and starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke, The Truth is described by festival director Alberto Barbera as “a poetic reflection on the relationship between a moth
  
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• At Avignon Festival, Competition Comes From the Fringe

  18-07-2019 13:06 via nytimes.com
  An underwhelming official lineup led many festivalgoers to branch out into the less well-known complimentary program.
  
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• ‘She’s Just a Shadow’ Review: Tokyo Grift

  18-07-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Gangsters, prostitutes and a murderous pervert collide in Adam Sherman’s lurid, orgiastic blood bath.
  
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• ‘Rosie’ Review: Lean Streets

  18-07-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  A remarkable Sarah Greene anchors this moving drama about a suddenly homeless Irish family.
  
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• Review: Making a Spectacle of History (and Herself)

  18-07-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Radu Jude’s “I Do Not Care if We Go Down in History as Barbarians” is a complicated meditation on the responsibilities — and limits — of art in the face of horror.
  
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• ‘Luz’ Review: Crazed and Confused

  18-07-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Tilman Singer’s surreally experimental take on demonic possession is as baffling as it is beautiful.
  
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• ‘Cassandro the Exotico!’ Review: A Gay Luchador Body Slams Life

  18-07-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Marie Losier’s documentary steps into the ring with a Mexican professional wrestler, whose world is equal parts glamour and grunge.
  
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• ‘Bottom of the 9th’ Review: A Stroll Around the Baseball Diamond

  18-07-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Joe Manganiello stars as a minor-league baseball player recently returned home from prison in Raymond De Felitta’s congenial film.
  
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• ‘A Faithful Man’ Review: Low Key. Low Fidelity.

  18-07-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Louis Garrel stars in and directs this film about two women competing for his affections.
  
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• Game of Thrones: the stars forced to nominate themselves for Emmys

  18-07-2019 12:55
  Gwendoline Christie and Alfie Allen have had go it alone after HBO chose not to put them up for awards consideration. But can they win, against the odds?Unless you actively enjoy excruciatingly drawn-out scenes of roundtable policy minutiae, the Game of Thrones finale was a bit of a disappointment. However, don’t be sad, because that was simply a fake-out. The real Game of Thrones finale will come during the Emmys, where eight different cast members will vie for supporting drama categories
  
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• Kyoto Animation studio fire: at least 23 dead after arson attack in Japan

  18-07-2019 12:00
  Dozens more injured after ‘man threw liquid and set fire’ to building, police sayAn arson attack on an anime studio in Japan has left at least 23 people dead and dozens injured.The perpetrator, who was also injured and has been taken into police custody, walked into the 1st Studio building of Kyoto Animation in Fujimi ward, Kyoto, at about 10.30am. He poured what is suspected to be petrol in multiple areas of the building before igniting it.I’m heartbroken seeing what happened
  
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• Brussels clears Vodafone’s Liberty Global deal

  18-07-2019 11:52 via ft.com
  UK company’s May deal with Telefónica Deutschland helped ease EU competition concerns
  
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• Brussels clears Vodafone’s €19bn Liberty Global deal

  18-07-2019 11:52 via ft.com
  UK telecoms group wins regulatory backing after concessions ease competition fears
  
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• Thor 4: Taika Waititi drops Akira for second bite at God of Thunder

  18-07-2019 11:45
  The problematic Warner remake of the classic anime is put on hold while the Ragnarok director returns to Marvel’s Cinematic UniverseIf ever one needed proof that Hollywood can be prone to supping rather too enthusiastically from the electric Kool-Aid, let us look at the curious case of Taika Waititi and Warner Bros’ glacially gestating remake of the classic 1988 anime Akira. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the celebrated Kiwi japester has removed himself from the project, at lea
  
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• Mirror parent in talks to buy former Johnston Press assets

  18-07-2019 11:26 via ft.com
  UK publisher Reach confirms discussions to buy some of i publisher’s titles
  
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• Michael Winterbottom webchat – put your questions to the celebrated British film-maker

  18-07-2019 11:24
  The director of BBC’s The Trip, 24 Hour Party People and new thriller The Wedding Guest joins us from 1pm BST for a live question and answer session 10.23am BST Michael Winterbottom has been making films for nearly 25 years, and in that time has earned a reputation as one of the UK’s most dazzlingly varied film-makers. Winterbottom’s work has encompassed the hypernaturalist migrant travelogue In This World and the bleak Thomas Hardy adaptation Jude; the committed hostage drama
  
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• Tonight’s TV: Britain’s Brexit shambles unscrambled

  18-07-2019 07:20
  Panoroma invites politicians and negotiators to comment on the key mistakes made by Theresa May. Plus: should circumcision be given the chop? The first task of the nation’s new prime minister (whose identity will be disclosed on Tuesday 23 July following the final Conservative members’ ballot) will be to find a solution to Britain’s Brexit shambles. To help us comprehend the history and scale of the problem, Nick Robinson invites politicians and negotiators on both sides of the
  
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• Review: A Mexican Medea Heads to New York in ‘Mojada’

  18-07-2019 06:25 via nytimes.com
  In this retelling of Euripides’ tragedy of an abandoned lover, the heroine is a shy seamstress in seclusion in the Queens neighborhood of Corona.
  
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• ‘Beautiful’ to Close at the End of October

  18-07-2019 05:53 via nytimes.com
  The Carole King musical has grossed nearly $250 million since opening on Broadway in 2014.
  
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• Netflix: house of cards

  18-07-2019 03:54 via ft.com
  Losing subscribers punches a hole in the streaming service’s debt-driven business model
  
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• Paul McCartney writes first musical, stage version of It's a Wonderful Life

  18-07-2019 01:05
  Former Beatle is to write songs for Frank Capra’s ‘universal story’, working with Lee Hall, author of Billy Elliot He has written perhaps the greatest canon of pop music, collaborated with everyone from Elvis Costello to Rihanna, and even soundtracked a video game, but at 77, Paul McCartney is ticking off another career first: writing a musical.His first stage musical is to be an adaptation of Frank Capra’s 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life, and will open late in 2020
  
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• Netflix subscriber growth falls short after price rises

  18-07-2019 00:28 via ft.com
  Shares tumble as much as 12% after service loses US customers for first time in 8 years
  
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• Netflix stumbles as competitors prepare to swoop

  18-07-2019 00:28 via ft.com
  Shares drop as much as 12% after service loses US customers for first time in 8 years
  
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