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• MoviePass shut down as company runs short of options

  13-09-2019 23:22 via ft.com
  Subscription service turned off after failing to find financially sustainable model
  
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• Review: Isabelle Adjani, Raging and Aging in ‘Opening Night’

  13-09-2019 19:50 via nytimes.com
  A French stage adaptation of the John Cassavetes film misses the #MeToo moment.
  
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• Mardik Martin, Collaborator With Scorsese, Is Dead at 84

  13-09-2019 19:41 via nytimes.com
  A screenwriter known for gritty realism, he helped write “Mean Streets,” “New York, New York” and the original drafts of “Raging Bull.”
  
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• Onscreen in Toronto: Reasons for Hope at the Movies This Fall

  13-09-2019 19:31 via nytimes.com
  The dark and bright offerings at the Toronto International Film Festival eased our critic’s anxieties about the future of moviegoing.
  
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• Google’s original thinking on news

  13-09-2019 18:59 via ft.com
  WeWork soothes investors, Netanyahu chatbot suspended, Imax Enhanced
  
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• Here's What Drake Does When He's Bored and Drunk--Hint: Degrassi Is Involved

  13-09-2019 18:48 via feeds.eonline.com
  When the alcohol's flowing, sometimes Champagne Papi remembers Jimmy Brooks.
  Late Thursday, Drake shared a personal tidbit with his near-60 million Instagram followers....
  
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• ‘Downton Abbey’ and the History of Difficult Royal Visits

  13-09-2019 18:13 via nytimes.com
  In the new film, a visit from the king and queen upends Downton. In reality, a royal coming to stay could be even more dramatic.
  
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• 50 Fascinating Facts About Tyler Perry: From Living in His Car to Owning a Studio and Hanging Out With Oprah

  13-09-2019 18:01 via feeds.eonline.com
  Tyler Perry has simply become one of the most important people working in all of entertainment today.A prolific studio mogul who acts, writes, directs and, above all, produces out of his...
  
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• ‘Freaks’ Review: A Child’s-Eye View of a World Gone Mad

  13-09-2019 16:20 via nytimes.com
  Emile Hirsch stars as the paranoid father of a cloistered girl in this sci-fi debut feature.
  
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• ‘Hustlers’: The Story Behind the Headlines

  13-09-2019 16:15 via nytimes.com
  In 2014, members of a criminal ring drugged men, brought them to strip clubs and stole their money. The scandal, chronicled in the tabloids, is now a movie starring Jennifer Lopez and Cardi B.
  
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• Coppola takes revenge for Boris Johnson’s Godfather tribute

  13-09-2019 16:07
  Director of PM’s favourite film scene denounces ‘foolish’ rush towards no-deal BrexitWestminster trembled in July when Boris Johnson told the Daily Mail his favourite movie scene was “the multiple retribution killings at the end of The Godfather”. But now the film’s director, Francis Ford Coppola, has taken his revenge on the prime minister, ruthlessly denouncing his “foolish” rush towards a potentially catastrophic no-deal Brexit.Coppola pointed o
  
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• Unbelievable review – grimly credible story of trauma, power and injustice

  13-09-2019 16:05
  Netflix’s drama about a retracted rape allegation is a fiercely feminist look at the nature of truth and whose stories get heardAccording to the latest figures, convictions for rapes and sexual assaults are at their lowestin the UK for more than a decade. There are just 919 convictions for the 60,000 reported attacks. The situation in the US is even bleaker, with an estimated five people convicted for every 1,000 offences.It doesn’t help that some people still believe that rape isn&r
  
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• Jennifer Garner's Daughter Has Declared She's a "Fun-Killing Mom"

  13-09-2019 15:34 via feeds.eonline.com
  If your mom is Jennifer Garner, let's just say you're going to hear the word "no" a lot.
  The star admitted it herself on The Tonight Show Thursday. "If you're...
  
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• How ‘The Goldfinch’ Seeks Authenticity

  13-09-2019 14:50 via nytimes.com
  The director John Crowley narrates a scene featuring Oakes Fegley and Jeffrey Wright.
  
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• ‘The Goldfinch’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  13-09-2019 14:45 via nytimes.com
  John Crowley narrates a sequence from his film, featuring Oakes Fegley and Jeffrey Wright.
  
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• Superheroes and streaming crowd out indy cinema

  13-09-2019 14:19 via ft.com
  String of box office flops leaves distributors wary of buying anything but sure-fire hits
  
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• In conversation: Lionel Barber and top journalists discuss media

  13-09-2019 14:08 via ft.com
  FT Weekend Festival looks at the increasingly shrill and polarised world and the need for balance
  
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• Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande & Lana Del Rey Gift Us With Their Girl Power Anthem "Don't Call Me Angel"

  13-09-2019 13:31 via feeds.eonline.com
  Back in 2009, a little band called Destiny's Child gifted us with the anthem "Independent Women" in honor of a little movie called Charlie's Angels. You know, the epic Cameron...
  
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• This week’s best home entertainment: from Criminal to Between Two Ferns

  13-09-2019 12:59
  David Tennant leads the British end of a global police drama, while Zach Galifianakis’s internet parody-talkshow hits NetflixNetflix goes global in this new police drama set across four countries and filmed in four different languages (subtitles at the ready). The casts span France, Germany and Spain with episodes set in the dingy confines of interview rooms. The British cast is led by David Tennant and Hayley Atwell – expect multilingual intrigue and tense interrogations.
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• After a Renovation, a Storied Theater Hopes to Entice Paris

  13-09-2019 12:45 via nytimes.com
  The Théâtre du Châtelet is reopening after a two-and-a-half-year makeover, with a new artistic director and an inclusive new mission.
  
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• ‘Tall Girl’ Review: Struggling to Rise Above

  13-09-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Status anxiety reaches new heights in this unremarkable teen comedy.
  
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• ‘For Colored Girls’ Returns, as a Celebration and as a Weapon

  13-09-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Ntozake Shange’s play, with its unflinching depiction of black women’s experience, is coming back to the Public Theater more than 40 years after opening there.
  
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• Top Boy review – more violent, more gripping, more shocking than ever

  13-09-2019 08:00
  Thanks to superfan Drake, Netflix has brought the London drug-gangs drama back with a new generation of cutthroat criminals – and it’s a searing indictment of our timesIt has been six years since Top Boy (Netflix) was last on our screens. Like Black Mirror, it enjoyed cult success for two series when it originally aired on Channel 4, before having to be rescued by Netflix – in this instance with the help of Drake, who was enough of a fan to push for its return and has executive
  
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• Secrets of ‘Downton Abbey’ Style

  13-09-2019 07:32 via nytimes.com
  They may not be on the London Fashion Week catwalks, but the film’s clothes are going to matter.
  
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• TV tonight: Gogglebox is back

  13-09-2019 07:00
  More strangely addictive viewing from the Gogglebox clan. Plus: the extraordinary Fosse/Verdon finale. Here’s what to watch this evening“New York. All That Jazz, pre-production. Nine years left.” So the opening captions ominously state, in the final part of this excellent drama with Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams. As the unforgiving clock ticks down, Paddy Chayefsky, himself the recipient of a recent heart attack, lectures a doubtful Bob; Gwen considers moving away from New
  
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• How Turkish TV is taking over the world

  13-09-2019 07:00
  Shows such as Magnificent Century have come to rival US TV for international popularity, sweeping through the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. What explains their global success? By Fatima Bhutto‘The first agreement we should make is: don’t call them soap operas,” Dr Arzu Ozturkmen, who teaches oral history at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, scolds me. “We are very much against this.” What Turkey produces for television are not soap operas, or telen
  
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• Fans of The Office, are you ready? – podcasts of the week

  13-09-2019 07:00
  Office Ladies, fronted by Pam and Angela from the smash US comedy, is about to start spilling the show’s secrets. Plus: podcasts come over all InceptionFans of The Office, unite! Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey, who played Pam and Angela in the hit US cringe-com and are friends in real life, will be fronting the new re-watch podcast Office Ladies, which kicks off on 16 October on Earwolf. Every week the pair will dissect an episode, spilling secrets and on-set gags for superfans. “As
  
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• Le Monde’s editorial independence crisis deepens

  13-09-2019 06:01 via ft.com
  Leading shareholder Daniel Kretinsky not ready to sign deal with journalists
  
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• Megyn Kelly Reacts to Charlize Theron's Portrayal in Upcoming Bombshell Movie

  13-09-2019 02:54 via feeds.eonline.com
  As far as casting decisions go, Megyn Kelly should consider herself lucky that Charlize Theron is playing her in the movie, Bombshell.But the newscaster was cool as a cucumber when asked...
  
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• Does Jennifer Lopez Have a Path to an Oscar for ‘Hustlers’?

  13-09-2019 02:01 via nytimes.com
  The 50-year-old actress is earning career-best reviews for playing a stripper turned criminal mastermind. Can the role result in her first Oscar nomination?
  
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