Actor Ayub Khan, who is known for his versatile portrayal of characters on the screen, shared how Hindi language has played an instrumental role in his showbiz journey. The senior actor is currently seen playing the role of Bijoy Bagchi in the show ‘Neerja….Ek Nayi Pehchaan’. The country is set to celebrate ‘Hindi Diwas’ on September 14. One of the most widely spoken languages, Hindi rules the hearts of citizens of the world. ‘Hindi Diwas’ stands out as an occasion that underlines the significance of the Hindi language.
Talking about the same, Ayub shared: “I’m fluent in Hindi and Urdu, but I try to speak in Hindi most of the time. This endearing language has played an instrumental role in making my journey fruitful in the world of Hindi cinema and television.”
Known for his works in projects like ‘Dil Chahta Hai’, ‘Gangaajal’, ‘Mela’, ‘Uttaran’, among many others, Ayub...
Talking about the same, Ayub shared: “I’m fluent in Hindi and Urdu, but I try to speak in Hindi most of the time. This endearing language has played an instrumental role in making my journey fruitful in the world of Hindi cinema and television.”
Known for his works in projects like ‘Dil Chahta Hai’, ‘Gangaajal’, ‘Mela’, ‘Uttaran’, among many others, Ayub...
- 9/13/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
After disaster struck the two Independence Day long weekend releases — Aamir Khan’s long-awaited, mega-hyped ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ and the Akshay Kumar-starrer ‘Raksha Bandhan’ — a wag commented that Bollywood has become like the Congress: it has only its past to live on and stares at a dim future, unless a miracle happens.
For Aamir, ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ has been his worst commercially since his 2000 film ‘Mela’, despite getting a five-day holiday weekend, starting with Raksha Bandhan on August 11 and ending with Independence Day. And it has been his second successive flop after the ‘Thugs of Hindostan’, which bombed despite the additional presence of Amitabh Bachchan.
For Akshay Kumar, ‘Raksha Bandhan’ has been his third successive dud — starting with ‘Bachchan Pandey’, which got wiped out by ‘The Kashmir Files’, and ‘Samrat Prithviraj’, despite the film being endorsed by the Bjp top brass and made tax-free in three states.
Neither of...
For Aamir, ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ has been his worst commercially since his 2000 film ‘Mela’, despite getting a five-day holiday weekend, starting with Raksha Bandhan on August 11 and ending with Independence Day. And it has been his second successive flop after the ‘Thugs of Hindostan’, which bombed despite the additional presence of Amitabh Bachchan.
For Akshay Kumar, ‘Raksha Bandhan’ has been his third successive dud — starting with ‘Bachchan Pandey’, which got wiped out by ‘The Kashmir Files’, and ‘Samrat Prithviraj’, despite the film being endorsed by the Bjp top brass and made tax-free in three states.
Neither of...
- 8/16/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Video Version of this Article Video: Hollywood Insider YouTube Channel Patty Jenkins directed 2017’s 'Wonder Woman', one of the most successful and critically-acclaimed superhero movies, and for that, she is a real-life superhero herself. Beginning her career as a painter at the Cooper Union in New York City, Jenkins later progressed to filmmaking, spending eight years as an assistant cameraperson on several commercials and music videos. After attending the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, she wrote and directed the film Monster, which was her directorial debut, gaining her attention especially through Charlize Theron’s performance for which she won an Oscar in 2003. She later directed the pilot episode of the drama The Killing, receiving a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and winning the Directors Guild of America award for Outstanding Directing in Dramatic Series. Related article: A Tribute to Charlize Theron: Her Career,...
- 9/24/2020
- by Christine Feeley
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
Kate Winslet is sounding off on her regrets over working with Woody Allen on “Wonder Wheel” and Roman Polanski on “Carnage.” Allen has been accused of molesting his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow when she was a child, while Polanski was arrested in 1977 for raping a 13-year-old girl. Ahead of the world premiere of her new romance “Ammonite,” Winslet tells Vanity Fair it’s disgraceful that Hollywood held the two controversial filmmakers in high regard for so long.
“It’s like, what the fuck was I doing working with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski?” Winslet said. “It’s unbelievable to me now how those men were held in such high regard, so widely in the film industry and for as long as they were. It’s fucking disgraceful. And I have to take responsibility for the fact that I worked with them both. I can’t turn back the clock. I...
“It’s like, what the fuck was I doing working with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski?” Winslet said. “It’s unbelievable to me now how those men were held in such high regard, so widely in the film industry and for as long as they were. It’s fucking disgraceful. And I have to take responsibility for the fact that I worked with them both. I can’t turn back the clock. I...
- 9/10/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
CBS All Access has set a date for its new The Stand limited series. The adaptation of the 1978 Stephen King novel will premiere on Dec. 17, bringing a new vision of the apocalypse to our TV screens just in time for the holidays.
The Stand, which is considered by many Constant Readers to be King’s absolute masterpiece, is the story of two groups of survivors living in a post-apocalyptic United States after a super flu known as Captain Trips has completely decimated 99 percent of the world’s population. In the book, these two groups — one representing the light led by the faithful Mother Abigail (Whoopi Goldberg), and the other the darkness within all men led by the sinister Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgard) — find themselves on a collision course that will decide the fate of what’s left of humanity.
A global pandemic that wipes out humanity. Two sides, one representing...
The Stand, which is considered by many Constant Readers to be King’s absolute masterpiece, is the story of two groups of survivors living in a post-apocalyptic United States after a super flu known as Captain Trips has completely decimated 99 percent of the world’s population. In the book, these two groups — one representing the light led by the faithful Mother Abigail (Whoopi Goldberg), and the other the darkness within all men led by the sinister Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgard) — find themselves on a collision course that will decide the fate of what’s left of humanity.
A global pandemic that wipes out humanity. Two sides, one representing...
- 8/25/2020
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
Ben Affleck will don the cape and cowl once again, returning as Batman in Ezra Miller’s “The Flash” for Warner Bros.
Director Andy Muschietti revealed the news in an interview with Vanity Fair. He told the magazine that Affleck got the script last week and agreed this week to join the project. Affleck starred as the Caped Crusader in 2016’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and 2017’s “Justice League.”
“The Flash” will feature Miller’s Barry Allen appearing in parallel dimensions and meeting different versions of DC’s heroes. Michael Keaton, who played Batman/Bruce Wayne in Tim Burton’s 1989 pic and returned to collaborate with the director in 1992’s “Batman Returns,” is also due to appear in “The Flash.”
Affleck had been planning to direct and star in a standalone Batman film for Warner Bros., but stepped down from helming in 2017, handing over that job to Matt Reeves.
Director Andy Muschietti revealed the news in an interview with Vanity Fair. He told the magazine that Affleck got the script last week and agreed this week to join the project. Affleck starred as the Caped Crusader in 2016’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and 2017’s “Justice League.”
“The Flash” will feature Miller’s Barry Allen appearing in parallel dimensions and meeting different versions of DC’s heroes. Michael Keaton, who played Batman/Bruce Wayne in Tim Burton’s 1989 pic and returned to collaborate with the director in 1992’s “Batman Returns,” is also due to appear in “The Flash.”
Affleck had been planning to direct and star in a standalone Batman film for Warner Bros., but stepped down from helming in 2017, handing over that job to Matt Reeves.
- 8/20/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Following several major announcements surrounding the future of the Dceu, it looks like we’re about to end up with more Batmen than we know what to do with.
Not only is Michael Keaton suiting back up as the Caped Crusader for the first time in nearly 30 years in The Flash as Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson continue to put together The Batman, but Ben Affleck has recently been spotted getting back into superhero shape as rumors continue to swirl that he’s set to return to the iconic role for at least a few more appearances.
And now, after endless speculation and constant back-and-forth, Vanity Fair has confirmed We Got This Covered’s earlier scoop, telling us that yes, Ben is indeed returning as Batman for a role in The Flash. No word yet on how exactly he’ll factor into the story, but again, this shouldn’t come...
Not only is Michael Keaton suiting back up as the Caped Crusader for the first time in nearly 30 years in The Flash as Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson continue to put together The Batman, but Ben Affleck has recently been spotted getting back into superhero shape as rumors continue to swirl that he’s set to return to the iconic role for at least a few more appearances.
And now, after endless speculation and constant back-and-forth, Vanity Fair has confirmed We Got This Covered’s earlier scoop, telling us that yes, Ben is indeed returning as Batman for a role in The Flash. No word yet on how exactly he’ll factor into the story, but again, this shouldn’t come...
- 8/20/2020
- by Matt Joseph
- We Got This Covered
Ben Affleck is returning as Bruce Wayne/Batman in Andy Muschietti’s upcoming Flash movie, Vanity Fair confirms. The casting comes as a bit of a shock since Affleck walked away from the Batman role following “Justice League” and in the middle of developing a standalone film he was set to act in and direct. That project morphed into Matt Reeves’ “The Batman,” starring Robert Pattinson in the title role. As for Affleck’s return in the Flash movie, Muschietti tells Vanity Fair it makes sense since the film is set in the same timeline as “Justice League” and will star Affleck’s co-star Ezra Miller as the speedy superhero.
“He’s a very substantial part of the emotional impact of the movie,” Muschietti said. “The interaction and relationship between Barry and Affleck’s Wayne will bring an emotional level that we haven’t seen before. It’s Barry’s movie,...
“He’s a very substantial part of the emotional impact of the movie,” Muschietti said. “The interaction and relationship between Barry and Affleck’s Wayne will bring an emotional level that we haven’t seen before. It’s Barry’s movie,...
- 8/20/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Today marks the tenth anniversary of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, and although it was something of a box-office bomb back in the day, the Edgar Wright flick has gained quite a lot of fans over the years. It certainly helps that Scott Pilgrim is packed with great visual gags and more up-and-coming stars than you can shake a Sex Bob-Omb at. During an interview with Vanity Fair, Scott…...
- 8/14/2020
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
Netflix’s list of upcoming films includes highly anticipated collaborations with Charlie Kaufman (“I’m Thinking of Ending Things”) and David Fincher (“Mank”), and near the top of this list is the return of writer-director Andrew Dominik. The filmmaker behind “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” and “Killing Them Softly” is back after nearly a decade hiatus with “Blonde,” an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ 2000 novel of the same name that takes a fictionalized look at the inner life of Marilyn Monroe. The author revealed on Twitter she has seen Dominik’s first cut of “Blonde,” and she has nothing but praise to share about it.
“I have seen the rough cut of Andrew Dominick’s [sic] adaptation and it is startling, brilliant, very disturbing and perhaps most surprisingly an utterly ‘feminist’ interpretation,” Oates wrote. “Not sure that any male director has ever achieved anything [like] this.”
Ana de Armas,...
“I have seen the rough cut of Andrew Dominick’s [sic] adaptation and it is startling, brilliant, very disturbing and perhaps most surprisingly an utterly ‘feminist’ interpretation,” Oates wrote. “Not sure that any male director has ever achieved anything [like] this.”
Ana de Armas,...
- 8/11/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Sarah Paulson’s career-defining collaboration with Ryan Murphy has resulted in seven Emmy nominations and a win for her performance in “American Crime Story: The People v O.J. Simpson.” Their acclaimed partnership is set to continue this fall with the Netflix series “Ratched,” a prequel to “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” that traces the origins of the villainous Nurse Mildred Ratched. The character was created by author Ken Kesey and then brought to life by Louise Fletcher in an Oscar-winning performance in Miloš Forman’s 1975 “Cuckoo’s Nest” film adaptation. Now Paulson takes on the role, and expectations are sky high.
“Ratched” is set in 1947 after World War II and follows Mildred (Paulson) as she arrives in Northern California to seek employment at a leading psychiatric hospital. The medical facility is where unsettling experiments have begun on the human mind. Mildred presents herself as the perfect image of what a dedicated nurse should be,...
“Ratched” is set in 1947 after World War II and follows Mildred (Paulson) as she arrives in Northern California to seek employment at a leading psychiatric hospital. The medical facility is where unsettling experiments have begun on the human mind. Mildred presents herself as the perfect image of what a dedicated nurse should be,...
- 8/4/2020
- by Zack Sharf and Libby Hill
- Indiewire
It’s common for channels to make hyperbolic claims when introducing a new show, but when Sky’s drama heads describe Little Birds as ‘not like anything else on telly,’ they’re not wrong.
The drama’s six 45-minute episodes inspired by a series of erotic short stories combine to form a lavish period melodrama with few points of TV comparison. Little Birds is an exploration of female sensuality and liberation set against a backdrop of colonial violence and simmering rebellion. It’s a provocative, heightened, almost cartoonish fairy tale about struggles for personal and political independence. It’s colourful and stylised, tongue-in-cheek yet earnest, with a killer 1950s soundtrack.
Take a look at the trailer:
If that appealed, then here’s everything you need to know:
Where was it filmed?
Little Birds was largely filmed in summer 2019 in the Spanish town of Tarifa, on the southernmost tip of Spanish Andalusia,...
The drama’s six 45-minute episodes inspired by a series of erotic short stories combine to form a lavish period melodrama with few points of TV comparison. Little Birds is an exploration of female sensuality and liberation set against a backdrop of colonial violence and simmering rebellion. It’s a provocative, heightened, almost cartoonish fairy tale about struggles for personal and political independence. It’s colourful and stylised, tongue-in-cheek yet earnest, with a killer 1950s soundtrack.
Take a look at the trailer:
If that appealed, then here’s everything you need to know:
Where was it filmed?
Little Birds was largely filmed in summer 2019 in the Spanish town of Tarifa, on the southernmost tip of Spanish Andalusia,...
- 8/4/2020
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
During the pandemic, we’ve seen some projects resume production with strict safety protocols (including secret shoots), but when it comes to some films where directors and actors are in a higher-risk category, we’ve wondered if they would forge ahead or wait it out. When it comes to Martin Scorsese’s $200 million western Killers of the Flower Moon, it looks like plans are indeed moving ahead and cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto is rethinking his usual approach to consider the safety measures.
Speaking to Vanity Fair about shooting Taylor Swift’s cardigan music video, he revealed he experimented with a camera trick for close-ups, which would normally require the cinematographer and camera operator to be face-to-face with the actor. He instead utilized remote heads on the cameras so social distancing guidelines could be followed.
“Certainly, [Killers of the Flower Moon] will be very delicate too because, well, even Martin Scorsese as a director,...
Speaking to Vanity Fair about shooting Taylor Swift’s cardigan music video, he revealed he experimented with a camera trick for close-ups, which would normally require the cinematographer and camera operator to be face-to-face with the actor. He instead utilized remote heads on the cameras so social distancing guidelines could be followed.
“Certainly, [Killers of the Flower Moon] will be very delicate too because, well, even Martin Scorsese as a director,...
- 8/2/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The nurse will see you now soon.
Netflix has announced that Ratched — the Ryan Murphy/Ian Brennan-produced prequel series starring Murphy muse Sarah Paulson as the titular asylum nurse from hell — will premiere on Sept. 18. Season 1 will consist of eight episodes.
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Inspired by the iconic One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest character,...
Netflix has announced that Ratched — the Ryan Murphy/Ian Brennan-produced prequel series starring Murphy muse Sarah Paulson as the titular asylum nurse from hell — will premiere on Sept. 18. Season 1 will consist of eight episodes.
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Inspired by the iconic One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest character,...
- 7/29/2020
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
Following the firing of MacGyver showrunner Peter Lenkov earlier this month, star Lucas Till has now opened up about the toxic environment on the set of the CBS series that left him feeling “suicidal.”
While speaking to Vanity Fair Magazine, Till – also known for playing Alex Summers/Havok in the X-Men movies – says he was the victim of bullying, verbal abuse and body shaming by Lenkov, who was severed from his deal with the network this July following a complaint and subsequent investigation against him.
Till recalled his terrible experience making the first season of the hit show, a revival of the classic 80s/90s series starring Richard Dean Anderson in the title role, as so:
“I’ve never worked this hard in my life, and I am fine with hard work. But the way Peter treats people is just unacceptable. I was suicidal that first year on the show,...
While speaking to Vanity Fair Magazine, Till – also known for playing Alex Summers/Havok in the X-Men movies – says he was the victim of bullying, verbal abuse and body shaming by Lenkov, who was severed from his deal with the network this July following a complaint and subsequent investigation against him.
Till recalled his terrible experience making the first season of the hit show, a revival of the classic 80s/90s series starring Richard Dean Anderson in the title role, as so:
“I’ve never worked this hard in my life, and I am fine with hard work. But the way Peter treats people is just unacceptable. I was suicidal that first year on the show,...
- 7/20/2020
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
“MacGyver” star Lucas Till said that he felt “suicidal” during the first season of the CBS reboot because of “unacceptable” verbal abuse from showrunner Peter Lenkov, who was recently fired by the network.
“I’ve never worked this hard in my life, and I am fine with hard work,” Till said in an interview published Monday by Vanity Fair Monday, two weeks after Lenkov — who was also showrunner on “Magnum Pi” and the recently ended “Hawaii Five-0” — was fired by CBS for creating a toxic work environment. “But the way Peter treats people is just unacceptable. I was suicidal that first year on the show, because of the way he made me feel. But the way he’s treated the people around me — that’s just my breaking point.”
Till told Vanity Fair that he had been verbally abused, bullied and body-shamed by Lenkov, adding that Lenkov fostered the show...
“I’ve never worked this hard in my life, and I am fine with hard work,” Till said in an interview published Monday by Vanity Fair Monday, two weeks after Lenkov — who was also showrunner on “Magnum Pi” and the recently ended “Hawaii Five-0” — was fired by CBS for creating a toxic work environment. “But the way Peter treats people is just unacceptable. I was suicidal that first year on the show, because of the way he made me feel. But the way he’s treated the people around me — that’s just my breaking point.”
Till told Vanity Fair that he had been verbally abused, bullied and body-shamed by Lenkov, adding that Lenkov fostered the show...
- 7/20/2020
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Image Source: Dario Calmese / Vanity Fair
When Viola Davis was younger, she "did not exert [her] voice because [she] did not feel worthy of having a voice." Now, the 54-year-old actress knows the importance of speaking up. In an interview for Vanity Fair's July/August issue, she discussed the recent social justice protests, the challenges of being a Black actress, and how she found her self-worth. Shot by Dario Calmese, Viola's gorgeous spread made history, as it marks the first time a Black photographer shot a Vanity Fair cover.
Viola has been vocal about the obstacles Black women face for years. In a recently resurfaced interview, she opened up about how she's had to hustle her whole career, yet she's nowhere near where her white counterparts are. "Not as far as money, not as far as job opportunities - nowhere close to it," Viola explained. She recently participated in a neighborhood...
When Viola Davis was younger, she "did not exert [her] voice because [she] did not feel worthy of having a voice." Now, the 54-year-old actress knows the importance of speaking up. In an interview for Vanity Fair's July/August issue, she discussed the recent social justice protests, the challenges of being a Black actress, and how she found her self-worth. Shot by Dario Calmese, Viola's gorgeous spread made history, as it marks the first time a Black photographer shot a Vanity Fair cover.
Viola has been vocal about the obstacles Black women face for years. In a recently resurfaced interview, she opened up about how she's had to hustle her whole career, yet she's nowhere near where her white counterparts are. "Not as far as money, not as far as job opportunities - nowhere close to it," Viola explained. She recently participated in a neighborhood...
- 7/15/2020
- by Grayson Gilcrease
- Popsugar.com
Viola Davis has commented before on her regret for playing a part in 2011’s “The Help.”
But in a new interview with Vanity Fair, and within the context of the recent Black Lives Matter protests, she took the time to further elaborate on how the film’s storyline caters primarily to its white viewers.
“Not a lot of narratives are also invested in our humanity,” she said. “They’re invested in the idea of what it means to be Black, but…it’s catering to the white audience.”
Davis went on to explain that while the movie might provide some insight into some of the experiences of Black Americans, its structure and the voices it chooses to centralize do not contribute to a greater culture of understanding.
She doesn’t regret working with the cast and writer-director, she says in the interview. Rather, it’s the film’s faux-deep insight into her character,...
But in a new interview with Vanity Fair, and within the context of the recent Black Lives Matter protests, she took the time to further elaborate on how the film’s storyline caters primarily to its white viewers.
“Not a lot of narratives are also invested in our humanity,” she said. “They’re invested in the idea of what it means to be Black, but…it’s catering to the white audience.”
Davis went on to explain that while the movie might provide some insight into some of the experiences of Black Americans, its structure and the voices it chooses to centralize do not contribute to a greater culture of understanding.
She doesn’t regret working with the cast and writer-director, she says in the interview. Rather, it’s the film’s faux-deep insight into her character,...
- 7/14/2020
- by Eli Countryman
- Variety Film + TV
Viola Davis made headlines in September 2018 after admitting she regretted starring in “The Help,” Tate Taylor’s 2011 drama that earned Davis an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Nearly two years later, Davis tells Vanity Fair in a new interview that she continues to feel betrayed by the movie. “The Help” reentered the national conversation in a big way at the beginning of June when it topped Netflix’s most-watched charts amid global protests over the death of George Floyd. The resurgence of “The Help” reignited backlash against the film (cast member Bryce Dallas Howard even suggested not to stream it), and Davis said to Vanity Fair the movie was “created in the filter and the cesspool of systemic racism.”
“Not a lot of narratives are also invested in our humanity,” Davis said. “They’re invested in the idea of what it means to be Black, but…it’s catering to the white audience.
“Not a lot of narratives are also invested in our humanity,” Davis said. “They’re invested in the idea of what it means to be Black, but…it’s catering to the white audience.
- 7/14/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Three months after Chris Matthews resigned over sexual harassment accusations he later admitted were ‘highly justified,’ MSNBC is close to naming his successor in the old “Hardball” time slot: Joy Reid, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
Citing unnamed individuals with knowledge of the matter, WSJ reports that MSNBC is “close” to announcing Reid as the new host of the network’s 7:00 p.m. Et slot, establishing her as the lead-in to its liberal-leaning block of prime time programming that includes “All In With Chris Hayes,” “The Rachel Maddow Show” and “The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell.” Reid currently hosts MSNBC’s weekend show “Am Joy” and serves as a frequent fill-in host for Hayes and Maddow.
Representatives for MSNBC didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from TheWrap, but WSJ reports that negotiations are ongoing and the final decision has not been made.
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Citing unnamed individuals with knowledge of the matter, WSJ reports that MSNBC is “close” to announcing Reid as the new host of the network’s 7:00 p.m. Et slot, establishing her as the lead-in to its liberal-leaning block of prime time programming that includes “All In With Chris Hayes,” “The Rachel Maddow Show” and “The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell.” Reid currently hosts MSNBC’s weekend show “Am Joy” and serves as a frequent fill-in host for Hayes and Maddow.
Representatives for MSNBC didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from TheWrap, but WSJ reports that negotiations are ongoing and the final decision has not been made.
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- 6/25/2020
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
Amazon Studios has acquired worldwide rights to a currently “untitled voting rights documentary” from production company Story Syndicate. The documentary, which prominently features insights from politician, lawyer and author Stacey Abrams, is directed by Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Liz Garbus and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lisa Cortés. Currently in post-production, the timely film is produced by Garbus, Cortés, Academy Award-winning producer Dan Cogan and Abrams. The documentary is slated for release on Amazon Prime Video this year with a theatrical run prior.
The documentary examines the often overlooked, yet insidious issue of voter suppression in the United States in anticipation of the 2020 presidential election. The film interweaves personal experiences with current activism and historical insight to expose a problem that has challenged our democracy from the very beginning. With the perspective and expertise of Abrams, the former Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives, the documentary will offer an insider’s...
The documentary examines the often overlooked, yet insidious issue of voter suppression in the United States in anticipation of the 2020 presidential election. The film interweaves personal experiences with current activism and historical insight to expose a problem that has challenged our democracy from the very beginning. With the perspective and expertise of Abrams, the former Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives, the documentary will offer an insider’s...
- 6/19/2020
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
A federal judge scheduled a hearing for early Friday afternoon on the Justice Department’s effort to obtain an emergency order to halt the release of John Bolton’s memoir, even though a number of journalists already have obtained the book and reported on some of its explosive claims about Donald Trump’s White House.
U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth set a videoconference for 1 Pm Et, after the DOJ filed a motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction, claiming that the memoir includes confidential information that Bolton failed to complete a required national security review process for his book. The DOJ believes that such an order against Bolton ultimately would require that publisher Simon & Schuster delay plans for the memoir’s release on Tuesday.
But Bolton has been forging ahead with a planned publicity blitz next week. He’s doing a one-hour ABC News special on Sunday evening,...
U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth set a videoconference for 1 Pm Et, after the DOJ filed a motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction, claiming that the memoir includes confidential information that Bolton failed to complete a required national security review process for his book. The DOJ believes that such an order against Bolton ultimately would require that publisher Simon & Schuster delay plans for the memoir’s release on Tuesday.
But Bolton has been forging ahead with a planned publicity blitz next week. He’s doing a one-hour ABC News special on Sunday evening,...
- 6/18/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Lin-Manuel Miranda has weighed in on John Bolton’s lift of a Hamilton lyric for use as the title of his memoir The Room Where It Happened.
Since the former national security adviser announced the title last year, Hamilton fans took notice of the reference to the musical’s song “The Room Where It Happens.” Earlier this year, the show’s producer, Jeffrey Seller, told a California newspaper, “I don’t even know how to describe it; it’s just strange.”
Miranda knows how to describe it: By adding a lyric to another Hamilton number, “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story.” The composer tweeted – with the additions in brackets – today:
Let me tell you what I wish I’d known
When I was young and dreamed of glory
You have no control
Who lives, who dies, who
[borrows your song title to write a cash-in book when they could have testified before Congress]
tells your story…
Bolton’s book is set for release on...
Since the former national security adviser announced the title last year, Hamilton fans took notice of the reference to the musical’s song “The Room Where It Happens.” Earlier this year, the show’s producer, Jeffrey Seller, told a California newspaper, “I don’t even know how to describe it; it’s just strange.”
Miranda knows how to describe it: By adding a lyric to another Hamilton number, “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story.” The composer tweeted – with the additions in brackets – today:
Let me tell you what I wish I’d known
When I was young and dreamed of glory
You have no control
Who lives, who dies, who
[borrows your song title to write a cash-in book when they could have testified before Congress]
tells your story…
Bolton’s book is set for release on...
- 6/18/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSSteve McQueen on the set of Small Axe.The Cannes 2020 official selection is now announced. Though the festival has been cancelled, the selected titles will receive additional support from the festival when cinemas re-open. Steve McQueen, who has two films (part of his upcoming Small Axe series) selected by Cannes this year, dedicated the films to "George Floyd and all the other black people that have been murdered, seen or unseen, because of who they are, in the U.S., U.K. and elsewhere." Both the Telluride Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival have also announced that festivities will proceed as planned. Recommended VIEWINGIn support of the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests worldwide, Vanity Fair's K. Austin Collins has provided the first part of a survey centering "100 years of Black defiance at the movie.
- 6/10/2020
- MUBI
Spike Lee is a filmmaker who likes to speak his mind very clearly and forcefully. You probably knew that if you saw one of his movies, which on the big screen can be downright exhilarating. But these days, Lee has no plans of going to a movie theater or any other major public gathering until there is a vaccine to deal with the current coronavirus pandemic.
“They ain’t doing a thing,” Lee told Vanity Fair while discussing Covid-19’s effect on the movie industry and movie theaters. “I know I’m not going to a movie theater. I know I’m not going to a Broadway show. I know I’m not going to Yankee Stadium…. Corona is a bitch. Corona is not playing. You fuck around, you’re going to get killed, you’re going to die. I’m not ready to go.”
As a filmmaker Lee seems...
“They ain’t doing a thing,” Lee told Vanity Fair while discussing Covid-19’s effect on the movie industry and movie theaters. “I know I’m not going to a movie theater. I know I’m not going to a Broadway show. I know I’m not going to Yankee Stadium…. Corona is a bitch. Corona is not playing. You fuck around, you’re going to get killed, you’re going to die. I’m not ready to go.”
As a filmmaker Lee seems...
- 5/29/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Before being accused of heinous sex crimes in the early 2000s, millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein worked very closely with the head of L Brands, Les Wexner. Not only did Epstein have almost full control of Wexner's finances for several years but he seemed to consider the businessman a close friend, some of which is depicted in Netflix's new documentary Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich.
Wexner grew up in Ohio, and after building his retail empire, became known as the Merlin of the Mall per The New York Times. He started his L Brands with The Limited before adding Express, Henri Bendel, Lane Bryant, Abercrombie & Fitch, Bath & Body Works, and Victoria's Secret. While some of his major brands were acquisitions, Bath & Body Works was one his company launched. The retail portfolio - and Wexner - quickly became worth a ton of money, and soon after Wexner met Epstein in the 1980s,...
Wexner grew up in Ohio, and after building his retail empire, became known as the Merlin of the Mall per The New York Times. He started his L Brands with The Limited before adding Express, Henri Bendel, Lane Bryant, Abercrombie & Fitch, Bath & Body Works, and Victoria's Secret. While some of his major brands were acquisitions, Bath & Body Works was one his company launched. The retail portfolio - and Wexner - quickly became worth a ton of money, and soon after Wexner met Epstein in the 1980s,...
- 5/28/2020
- by Hedy Phillips
- Popsugar.com
Image Source: Getty / Rick Friedman
In 2003, journalist Vicky Ward wrote a colorful and lengthy profile of millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein for Vanity Fair. Back before Epstein became heavily embroiled in a sex-trafficking ring that sent him to jail more than once, Epstein was a mere financial mastermind with his hands deep in working with some of the world's most high-profile businessmen. The profile, which features much of the content also depicted in Netflix's Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich documentary, just barely touches on Epstein's history of women. That story will play out more on screen, but it bears noting that Ward said years later that she wanted to go into more detail about allegations against Epstein in her Vanity Fair piece, but was blocked by her editors. She said she had on-the-record allegations from three accusers who said they were involved in a sex scandal with Epstein. Vanity Fair's...
In 2003, journalist Vicky Ward wrote a colorful and lengthy profile of millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein for Vanity Fair. Back before Epstein became heavily embroiled in a sex-trafficking ring that sent him to jail more than once, Epstein was a mere financial mastermind with his hands deep in working with some of the world's most high-profile businessmen. The profile, which features much of the content also depicted in Netflix's Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich documentary, just barely touches on Epstein's history of women. That story will play out more on screen, but it bears noting that Ward said years later that she wanted to go into more detail about allegations against Epstein in her Vanity Fair piece, but was blocked by her editors. She said she had on-the-record allegations from three accusers who said they were involved in a sex scandal with Epstein. Vanity Fair's...
- 5/27/2020
- by Hedy Phillips
- Popsugar.com
The Covid-19 pandemic may have some horror fans thinking about Captain Trips from Stephen King's The Stand, and perhaps as timely as ever, a new adaptation of King's epic novel is coming soon from CBS All Access.
Ahead of its release, the first photos of the limited event series have been revealed by Vanity Fair, giving us our first look at Whoopi Goldberg as Mother Abagail, Odessa Young as Frannie Goldsmith, Owen Teague as Harold Lauder, Owen Teague as Harold Lauder, Heather Graham as Rita Blakemoor, Jovan Adepo as Larry Underwood, Amber Heard as Nadine Cross, Gordon Kyle Diez Cormier as Joe, Alexander Skarsgård as Randall Flagg, and Nat Wolff as Lloyd Henreid.
The cast also includes James Marsden as Stu Redman, Greg Kinnear as Glen Bateman, and Henry Zaga as Nick Andros.
As previously revealed, Stephen King will write a new final chapter for the event series that won't be from the book,...
Ahead of its release, the first photos of the limited event series have been revealed by Vanity Fair, giving us our first look at Whoopi Goldberg as Mother Abagail, Odessa Young as Frannie Goldsmith, Owen Teague as Harold Lauder, Owen Teague as Harold Lauder, Heather Graham as Rita Blakemoor, Jovan Adepo as Larry Underwood, Amber Heard as Nadine Cross, Gordon Kyle Diez Cormier as Joe, Alexander Skarsgård as Randall Flagg, and Nat Wolff as Lloyd Henreid.
The cast also includes James Marsden as Stu Redman, Greg Kinnear as Glen Bateman, and Henry Zaga as Nick Andros.
As previously revealed, Stephen King will write a new final chapter for the event series that won't be from the book,...
- 5/21/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
A new article from Vanity Fair gives fans their first look at the new The Stand TV series, which is set to air on CBS All Access later this year. Among the details revealed in the piece is one interesting tidbit about how the nine-episode miniseries will open. Unlike “The Complete and Uncut” version of the Stephen King novel and the 1994 CBS adaptation, this miniseries won’t begin during the initial outbreak.
Instead, the story starts in media res, with most of the world’s population already dead from the virus known as Captain Trips. The first episode, which was directed by Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars), “opens with survivors in masks and protective gear cleaning up a neighborhood full of the dead in Boulder, Colorado,” according to Vanity Fair.
This opening scene could be a bit disorienting for fans of the novel who were likely expecting to...
Instead, the story starts in media res, with most of the world’s population already dead from the virus known as Captain Trips. The first episode, which was directed by Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars), “opens with survivors in masks and protective gear cleaning up a neighborhood full of the dead in Boulder, Colorado,” according to Vanity Fair.
This opening scene could be a bit disorienting for fans of the novel who were likely expecting to...
- 5/20/2020
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
Too soon…?
First photos are circulating of CBS All Access’ nine-part adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand, which presents an apocalyptic vision of a world decimated by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil. Though production fell four days short due to the real-world pandemic, and a precise release date has not been set, King himself penned the final installment — which will include a new coda that didn’t exist in his original best-selling novel.
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First photos are circulating of CBS All Access’ nine-part adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand, which presents an apocalyptic vision of a world decimated by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil. Though production fell four days short due to the real-world pandemic, and a precise release date has not been set, King himself penned the final installment — which will include a new coda that didn’t exist in his original best-selling novel.
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- 5/20/2020
- TVLine.com
How many children did Scarlett O’Hara have? That’s the question George R.R. Martin always raises when asked about the differences between his literary series, “A Song of Ice and Fire,” and HBO’s television adaptation, Game of Thrones. He mentioned it on his blog when defending the TV series surpassing the books’ narrative in 2015, and he repeated it more than once in 2019 when Game of Thrones ended, seemingly by revealing the final betrayals and tragedies Martin has planned for the novels.
So just how many children did Scarlett have?
For those who’ve never read the book or seen the movie version of Gone with the Wind, the answer is three in Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction the following year, and one in the David O. Selznick movie adaptation from 1939. “I think they’re both true to the spirit of the work,” Martin...
So just how many children did Scarlett have?
For those who’ve never read the book or seen the movie version of Gone with the Wind, the answer is three in Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction the following year, and one in the David O. Selznick movie adaptation from 1939. “I think they’re both true to the spirit of the work,” Martin...
- 5/19/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
A couple weeks after the first character photos from Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” dropped online, now comes a first taste of what the director’s big-budget action scenes will look like on screen. Empire magazine has premiered a new still from “Dune” (see below) that shows Timothée Chalamet and Josh Brolin in the midst of one of the film’s big action moments. Chalamet’s protagonist Paul Atreides is seen balancing on an airborne ornithopter alongside Brolin’s Gurney Halleck, Paul’s weapons teacher. The characters are flying over the desert planet Arrakis.
In a statement to Empire magazine, Villeneuve called the scene being depicted below one of the pivotal moments for Chalamet’s lead character. “It’s Paul’s first contact with the deep desert, where he’s mesmerized by it,” the filmmaker told Empire. “He has a strange feeling of being home. There’s a lot of action at this specific moment,...
In a statement to Empire magazine, Villeneuve called the scene being depicted below one of the pivotal moments for Chalamet’s lead character. “It’s Paul’s first contact with the deep desert, where he’s mesmerized by it,” the filmmaker told Empire. “He has a strange feeling of being home. There’s a lot of action at this specific moment,...
- 5/11/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
With a killer flu sweeping the globe and forcing radical changes in everyday life, many people are thinking of Stephen King‘s The Stand. His story has some eerie parallels with our own, with King himself even saying he can’t help but be reminded of it.
In a new interview with Vanity Fair, he stated:
“When you hear reports that 100,000 or 240,000 people are going to die, you’ve got to take notice, and it is going to be bad. It’s bad right now. It’s brought the economy to a complete stop. In a lot of ways, I mean, you see the pictures of Times Square or London, and you say, ‘It really is like The Stand.’”
But King also says that the current situation is reminding him of another of his novels, specifically in how the Coronavirus lockdown is affecting him.
“I’m working on a book,...
In a new interview with Vanity Fair, he stated:
“When you hear reports that 100,000 or 240,000 people are going to die, you’ve got to take notice, and it is going to be bad. It’s bad right now. It’s brought the economy to a complete stop. In a lot of ways, I mean, you see the pictures of Times Square or London, and you say, ‘It really is like The Stand.’”
But King also says that the current situation is reminding him of another of his novels, specifically in how the Coronavirus lockdown is affecting him.
“I’m working on a book,...
- 4/29/2020
- by David James
- We Got This Covered
Chris Matthews acknowledges that former HuffPost reporter Laura Bassett’s accusation that he “inappropriately flirted” with her when she was guest on his MSNBC show “Hardball” in 2016 was “highly justified,” and he has “accepted the credibility of the complaint.”
In his first interview since stepping down as host of “Hardball” on March 2, Matthews told Vanity Fair‘s Inside the Hive podcast that the allegations Bassett made about him in a February GQ article were accurate. “I didn’t argue about it, I didn’t deny it,” he told Vanity Fair.
In the essay published in GQ on Feb. 28, Bassett said she was invited to appear on Matthews’ show in 2016 to discuss sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump. She said she was sitting in a makeup chair when Matthews approached her and said, “Why haven’t I fallen in love with you yet?” She went on to write that he repeated...
In his first interview since stepping down as host of “Hardball” on March 2, Matthews told Vanity Fair‘s Inside the Hive podcast that the allegations Bassett made about him in a February GQ article were accurate. “I didn’t argue about it, I didn’t deny it,” he told Vanity Fair.
In the essay published in GQ on Feb. 28, Bassett said she was invited to appear on Matthews’ show in 2016 to discuss sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump. She said she was sitting in a makeup chair when Matthews approached her and said, “Why haven’t I fallen in love with you yet?” She went on to write that he repeated...
- 4/26/2020
- by Rosemary Rossi
- The Wrap
U.S. streamer BritBox is planning for fall after boarding Keeley Hawes-fronted British crime drama Honour.
The digital platform will launch the two-parter, which is written by Vanity Fair’s Gwyneth Hughes, in October, as an original co-production with ITV. The series was filmed last year, so has not been interrupted by the Coronavirus production shutdown.
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The two-parter will see Bodyguard star Hawes play the real-life detective who brought five killers to justice in the true story of Banaz Mahmod, the young Londoner murdered by her own family for falling in love with the wrong man. It tells the powerful story of Detective Chief Inspector Caroline Goode’s passionate search to discover the fate of missing 20-year old Banaz.
The digital platform will launch the two-parter, which is written by Vanity Fair’s Gwyneth Hughes, in October, as an original co-production with ITV. The series was filmed last year, so has not been interrupted by the Coronavirus production shutdown.
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The two-parter will see Bodyguard star Hawes play the real-life detective who brought five killers to justice in the true story of Banaz Mahmod, the young Londoner murdered by her own family for falling in love with the wrong man. It tells the powerful story of Detective Chief Inspector Caroline Goode’s passionate search to discover the fate of missing 20-year old Banaz.
- 4/24/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Casey Affleck and Joaquin Phoenix have sold a New York City apartment they purchased together before a falling out for $3.135 million.
Affleck was married to Joaquin’s sister, Summer Phoenix, for 11 years and the brothers-in-law became close friends. But by the time the marriage ended in 2017, they were no longer close, according to Joaquin. The Joker star told Vanity Fair in a November 2019 cover story they hadn’t spoken “in many years.” Adding, “My sister and him divorced. And I haven’t spoken directly to him or indirectly in a long time. Three or four years.”
Now the pair have...
Affleck was married to Joaquin’s sister, Summer Phoenix, for 11 years and the brothers-in-law became close friends. But by the time the marriage ended in 2017, they were no longer close, according to Joaquin. The Joker star told Vanity Fair in a November 2019 cover story they hadn’t spoken “in many years.” Adding, “My sister and him divorced. And I haven’t spoken directly to him or indirectly in a long time. Three or four years.”
Now the pair have...
- 4/23/2020
- by Mackenzie Schmidt
- PEOPLE.com
London-based Pulse Films has built its business on a steady diet of slick rock docs by the likes of LCD Soundsystem and the Beastie Boys, music videos including Beyoncé’s transcendent “Lemonade” and Andrea Arnold’s feature film “American Honey.” As it readies for a transformative year, the Vice Media Group-backed outfit is rolling out its first major scripted series, Sky and Cinemax’s dizzyingly violent and stylish “Gangs of London.”
Pulse CEO Thomas Benski is as much a rock star as the veteran musicians he’s immortalized through his 16-year-old production company. The Brazil-born French executive, who works closely with creative partner and Pulse chief creative officer Lucas Ochoa, is synonymous with the edgy brand, whose early music docs have evolved into evocative non-scripted fare, including films on U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning (“Xy Chelsea”), nefarious hot yoga founder Bikram Choudhury (“Bikram”) and missing toddler Madeleine McCann.
“In our business,...
Pulse CEO Thomas Benski is as much a rock star as the veteran musicians he’s immortalized through his 16-year-old production company. The Brazil-born French executive, who works closely with creative partner and Pulse chief creative officer Lucas Ochoa, is synonymous with the edgy brand, whose early music docs have evolved into evocative non-scripted fare, including films on U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning (“Xy Chelsea”), nefarious hot yoga founder Bikram Choudhury (“Bikram”) and missing toddler Madeleine McCann.
“In our business,...
- 4/23/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
We got our first real look at Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Frank Herbert's "Dune" earlier this week in a handful of Vanity Fair photos, and they successfully reaffirmed why the film is one of my most anticipated of the year. The cast of Dune is almost an embarrassment of riches, and they all seem incredibly pumped to be involved in the film. While…...
- 4/16/2020
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
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While we wait for cinemas to re-open to moviegoers, Warner Brothers Pictures has released the first images for Dune. The studio is hoping to release it by the end of the year.
(L-r) TIMOTHÉE Chalamet as Paul Atreides, Stephen McKinley Henderson as Thufir Hawat, Oscar Isaac as Duke Leto Atreides, Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica Atreides, Josh Brolin as Gurney Halleck and Jason Momoa as Duncan Idaho in Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ action adventure “Dune,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.
Dune is set for release on December 18, 2020.
Oscar nominee Denis Villeneuve directs Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ “Dune,” the big-screen adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal bestseller of the same name.
A mythic and emotionally charged hero’sjourney, “Dune” tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding,...
While we wait for cinemas to re-open to moviegoers, Warner Brothers Pictures has released the first images for Dune. The studio is hoping to release it by the end of the year.
(L-r) TIMOTHÉE Chalamet as Paul Atreides, Stephen McKinley Henderson as Thufir Hawat, Oscar Isaac as Duke Leto Atreides, Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica Atreides, Josh Brolin as Gurney Halleck and Jason Momoa as Duncan Idaho in Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ action adventure “Dune,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.
Dune is set for release on December 18, 2020.
Oscar nominee Denis Villeneuve directs Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ “Dune,” the big-screen adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal bestseller of the same name.
A mythic and emotionally charged hero’sjourney, “Dune” tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding,...
- 4/15/2020
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
As promised yesterday, following up the release of the first image of Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides Vanity Fair unvealed more images from Denis Villeneuve`s upcoming sci-fi epic Dune, adapted from Frank Herbert`s seminal sci-fi novel. You can always count on the publication to deliver a dazzling gallery of images of the cast of the film and this article is no exception. The article features characters from the House Atreides and the Freman. No sign yet of their nemeses, House Harkonnen or the Sardaukar. We do get to see the latest version of the stillsuits, suits the Freman use to preserve their body moisture, and some really cool armor for House Atreides. We also have our first look at Sharon Duncan-Brewster as Dr....
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- 4/14/2020
- Screen Anarchy
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is set to be the most ambitious science fiction film of 2020. Many directors have tried to adapt Frank Herbert’s classic novels. Alejandro Jodorowsky’s attempt was chronicled in the excellent documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune. David Lynch managed to get his Dune to the screen, only for it to be a huge flop and one of the worst films of his career. And Syfy even had a stab with their own miniseries, but failed to capture the grandeur of the novels. But where they failed, Villeneuve may succeed.
Yesterday, we got our first look at the film courtesy of Vanity Fair, who revealed Timothée Chalamet as central figure Paul Atreides. That lone picture didn’t give much away, but today we have a much more comprehensive set of shots. These showcase Oscar Isaac as Duke Leto Atreides, Jason Momoa as Duncan Idaho, Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica Atreides,...
Yesterday, we got our first look at the film courtesy of Vanity Fair, who revealed Timothée Chalamet as central figure Paul Atreides. That lone picture didn’t give much away, but today we have a much more comprehensive set of shots. These showcase Oscar Isaac as Duke Leto Atreides, Jason Momoa as Duncan Idaho, Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica Atreides,...
- 4/14/2020
- by David James
- We Got This Covered
Denis Villeneuve wowed everyone with Arrival in 2016 and cemented his position as one of the finest contemporary science fiction directors with 2017’s astonishing Blade Runner 2049. So, when it was announced that he’d be directing a new adaptation of Frank Herbert’s iconic novel Dune, expectations were sky high.
The film is now in the middle of post-production and apparently still on course for its December 18th release. And now, Vanity Fair has released the first official promo still, showing star Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides, the protagonist of the movie and one of the central figures in the Dune series.
The moody picture sees Atreides walking along a desolate beach on his homeworld of Caladan with mysterious spacecraft floating in the air above him. The drizzly, gloomy image is a stark contrast to the desert environments usually associated with the series, so the characters will face quite a...
The film is now in the middle of post-production and apparently still on course for its December 18th release. And now, Vanity Fair has released the first official promo still, showing star Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides, the protagonist of the movie and one of the central figures in the Dune series.
The moody picture sees Atreides walking along a desolate beach on his homeworld of Caladan with mysterious spacecraft floating in the air above him. The drizzly, gloomy image is a stark contrast to the desert environments usually associated with the series, so the characters will face quite a...
- 4/13/2020
- by David James
- We Got This Covered
Ahead of the Revenge of the Sith premiere back in 2005, the cast of Star Wars got together for a Vanity Fair cover shoot, but Mark Hamill has just revealed that he was included in the pic via the magic of photoshop.
It’s a strange time for the fandom of that galaxy far, far away. Now that The Rise of Skywalker has officially concluded the saga, the future of Star Wars projects remains in an ambiguous state. Of course, Lucasfilm has already prepared for such an occasion, and the publishing initiative, titled Star Wars: The High Republic, will fill the void until the next major cinematic feature comes out in 2022.
Still, it’s a shame that many Legacy characters didn’t get a proper reunion in the Sequel Trilogy. Of course, with Han dying in The Force Awakens, Luke in The Last Jedi, the tragic passing of Carrie Fisher in...
It’s a strange time for the fandom of that galaxy far, far away. Now that The Rise of Skywalker has officially concluded the saga, the future of Star Wars projects remains in an ambiguous state. Of course, Lucasfilm has already prepared for such an occasion, and the publishing initiative, titled Star Wars: The High Republic, will fill the void until the next major cinematic feature comes out in 2022.
Still, it’s a shame that many Legacy characters didn’t get a proper reunion in the Sequel Trilogy. Of course, with Han dying in The Force Awakens, Luke in The Last Jedi, the tragic passing of Carrie Fisher in...
- 4/9/2020
- by Jonathan Wright
- We Got This Covered
Mild spoilers for Netflix’s “Tiger King.” Don’t read until you finish.
If you’ve seen “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” on Netflix, then you already know that one of the most wonderful things about this almost unbelievable true-crime docuseries is the extremely corny, low-rent pop and country music that keeps popping up again and again.
If you’ve finished all seven episodes, we’re happy to confirm that these songs are all real, like, actually real. Not parodies, not tongue in cheek, but all recorded and shared with deadly seriousness by the two people whose conflict is at the center of the series: Joe Exotic of Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park in Oklahoma, and Carole Baskin of Big Cat Rescue in Florida.
And because we assume that like us you’re now hellbent on watching the full-length videos, we’ve stepped in to help. Below, please enjoy all the weird,...
If you’ve seen “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” on Netflix, then you already know that one of the most wonderful things about this almost unbelievable true-crime docuseries is the extremely corny, low-rent pop and country music that keeps popping up again and again.
If you’ve finished all seven episodes, we’re happy to confirm that these songs are all real, like, actually real. Not parodies, not tongue in cheek, but all recorded and shared with deadly seriousness by the two people whose conflict is at the center of the series: Joe Exotic of Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park in Oklahoma, and Carole Baskin of Big Cat Rescue in Florida.
And because we assume that like us you’re now hellbent on watching the full-length videos, we’ve stepped in to help. Below, please enjoy all the weird,...
- 3/28/2020
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
With his bottle-blond mullet, tacky shirts, and this-close-to-offensive catchy songs (like “Pretty Woman Lover”), zookeeper-country singer Joe Exotic looks and sounds like he emerged from country’s less-polished past.
And for that, as quarantined viewers who are as captive as Exotic’s own lions and tigers, we’re oh-so grateful.
The narcissistic star of Netflix’s big-cats-meet-crime-docuseries Tiger King, unleashed on the streaming service just as the world went into self-isolation, believes in himself as much as he does in his wild beasts. Along with serenading them in on-the-nose country...
And for that, as quarantined viewers who are as captive as Exotic’s own lions and tigers, we’re oh-so grateful.
The narcissistic star of Netflix’s big-cats-meet-crime-docuseries Tiger King, unleashed on the streaming service just as the world went into self-isolation, believes in himself as much as he does in his wild beasts. Along with serenading them in on-the-nose country...
- 3/25/2020
- by Hunter Kelly
- Rollingstone.com
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSGoodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)Cancellations, closures, and cuts continue in the wake of Covid-19. Box Office Pro, Cineuropa, and Complex will be regularly updating timelines of the virus's impact on theatres and the film industry. In response to these events, website Screen Slate and New York City-based cinema Light Industry have launched the Cinema Worker Solidarity Fund, which seeks to help movie theater workers whose jobs have been affected by the closure of local cinemas. Meanwhile, the fate of this year's Cannes Film Festival remains indeterminate, with film companies planning a virtual market (and online screenings) should the festival be cancelled. Elsewhere, SXSW pushes forward by opting to distribute screening links to its jurors for award decisions. Recommended VIEWINGAll of avant-garde filmmaker Sky Hopinka's short films are now available for free, including Fainting Spells...
- 3/18/2020
- MUBI
On Fox News Channel’s The Five on Monday, co-host Jesse Watters admitted he “didn’t take social distancing seriously” on Friday, Saturday and Sunday night, before waking up the next morning and realizing “that was not the right move.”
“I am no longer going out to dinner. I was trying to help my local restaurants,” he said.
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As President Donald Trump has retreated from downplaying the threat of the coronavirus to calling the situation “bad” and urging the public to take on a dramatic series of steps, so too have some of his biggest defenders on the news network.
The shift in tone has been apparent on shows like Hannity, in...
“I am no longer going out to dinner. I was trying to help my local restaurants,” he said.
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As President Donald Trump has retreated from downplaying the threat of the coronavirus to calling the situation “bad” and urging the public to take on a dramatic series of steps, so too have some of his biggest defenders on the news network.
The shift in tone has been apparent on shows like Hannity, in...
- 3/17/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Warning: contains major spoilers for Westworld season two.
Westworld’s season two finale left an eddy of questions in its wake. Some will only be answered in season three (starting this Sunday and Monday respectively on HBO and Sky Atlantic), but two years’ worth of publicity circuit interviews with the showrunners and cast over have already provided answers to the others.
We may not yet know, for instance, which five consciousness pearls Dolores smuggled out of the park, or who’s ‘driving’ the Charlotte Hale host, but we have had a steer on whether Stubbs is a host, when the Man in Black’s post-credits sting takes place, if Emily was human when she was killed and more, all straight from the horse’s mouth (or at least from a horse-adjacent mouth).
Below then, are the facts as we’ve been told they stand…
Stubbs is a host Luke Hemsworth...
Westworld’s season two finale left an eddy of questions in its wake. Some will only be answered in season three (starting this Sunday and Monday respectively on HBO and Sky Atlantic), but two years’ worth of publicity circuit interviews with the showrunners and cast over have already provided answers to the others.
We may not yet know, for instance, which five consciousness pearls Dolores smuggled out of the park, or who’s ‘driving’ the Charlotte Hale host, but we have had a steer on whether Stubbs is a host, when the Man in Black’s post-credits sting takes place, if Emily was human when she was killed and more, all straight from the horse’s mouth (or at least from a horse-adjacent mouth).
Below then, are the facts as we’ve been told they stand…
Stubbs is a host Luke Hemsworth...
- 3/13/2020
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
While Cole Sprouse has spent the past three years playing Jughead Jones on Riverdale, his twin brother, Dylan Sprouse, has spent far less time in the limelight. Save for his starring role in the 2017 indie thriller Dismissed, Dylan has done very little acting since The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (though you can expect to see him playing "F*cking Trevor" in the upcoming movie After We Collided). So what exactly has the other Sprouse twin been up to? Believe it or not, Dylan has spent most of his time since his Disney days making mead in Brooklyn, NY.
After graduating from NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 2015 with a degree in video game design, Dylan went on to open All-Wise Meadery in the basement of Williamsburg's William Vale Hotel three years later. During an August 2018 interview with Vanity Fair, Dylan explained that brewing his own mead was...
After graduating from NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 2015 with a degree in video game design, Dylan went on to open All-Wise Meadery in the basement of Williamsburg's William Vale Hotel three years later. During an August 2018 interview with Vanity Fair, Dylan explained that brewing his own mead was...
- 3/6/2020
- by Corinne Sullivan
- Popsugar.com
David Crow Feb 21, 2020
Donald Trump whined about Parasite winning Best Picture. But for a man with a fake Oscar, this is long-simmering resentment.
It took nearly two weeks after the Academy Awards telecast before President Donald Trump weighed in with his less than urgent Oscar night analysis. Standing before a fawning crowd of “Keep America Great Hats” in Colorado on Thursday evening, Trump had a seemingly sudden impulse to share his sour grapes about Parasite winning Best Picture at the Oscars—a first for a foreign language film.
“How bad were the Academy Awards this year?” Trump rhetorically asked a crowd that quickly booed in agreement. “Did you see it? And the winner is… a movie from South Korea!? What the hell was that all about? We got enough problems with South Korea with trade. On top of it, they give him [Bong Joon-ho] best movie of the year? Was it good.
Donald Trump whined about Parasite winning Best Picture. But for a man with a fake Oscar, this is long-simmering resentment.
It took nearly two weeks after the Academy Awards telecast before President Donald Trump weighed in with his less than urgent Oscar night analysis. Standing before a fawning crowd of “Keep America Great Hats” in Colorado on Thursday evening, Trump had a seemingly sudden impulse to share his sour grapes about Parasite winning Best Picture at the Oscars—a first for a foreign language film.
“How bad were the Academy Awards this year?” Trump rhetorically asked a crowd that quickly booed in agreement. “Did you see it? And the winner is… a movie from South Korea!? What the hell was that all about? We got enough problems with South Korea with trade. On top of it, they give him [Bong Joon-ho] best movie of the year? Was it good.
- 2/21/2020
- Den of Geek
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