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Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence finds a whole new dystopia to bum people out with

You don’t go to Francis Lawrence for depictions of happy societies; as the director of The Long Walk, I Am Legend, four Hunger Games movies, and a whole host of music videos that ask hair-raising que…

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Judge throws out sexual abuse charges against Timothy Busfield over prosecutor's conduct

A New Mexico judge has thrown out two charges of criminal sexual contact with a minor and child abuse against actor Timothy Busfield, Deadline reports. The charges against Busfield—a veteran actor an…

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The Coen brothers plan to reunite, but not for a fantasy

For the 10th anniversary of Hail, Caesar!, the Coen brothers have reiterated that they plan to work together again. Speaking to AFP (via CTV) and ahead of their appearance at the Lumière Film Festiva…

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Patrick Stewart-obsessive James McAvoy reveals he pitched a "young Picard" Star Trek show

The line between fan-fiction and just, well, fiction can get a little blurry at times, especially when you have the power to make (or nearly make) official projects set in your preferred pop culture …

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Selma Blair's team releases lengthy, surprisingly wide-ranging statement about her plane arrest

Actress Selma Blair was arrested at JFK International Airport last week, charged with two counts of assault in the second degree after reports that she became “physically abusive” during a flight. Al…

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Nicolas Cage and Antonio Banderas are your new True Detectives

After a season in the female-fronted Night Country, now, to the delight of series creator Nic Pizzolatto and boys on the internet, men are returning to True Detective. The Hollywood Reporter broke th…

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Kal Penn says there's still enough stupid in the chamber for Harold & Kumar 4

When we last saw Harold and Kumar, they were enjoying A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas some 15 years ago. Yet, despite the unstoppable march of time, our heroes are still finding roaches to spark. …

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Gregg Araki wraps The Decline Of Fucking Western Civilization with enlarged cast

After making audiences blush with his genially provocative comedy I Want Your Sex, filmmaker Gregg Araki’s feature resurgence continues apace with The Decline Of Fucking Western Civilization, which h…

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Billy Joel won't perform again until his shows stop basically concussing him

Billy Joel is doing better, thank you very much, but still not quite good enough to step under the bright lights again. Joel announced a break from performing after a scary on-stage fall in February …

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Whalefall restores the lost art of the movie tagline

Movie taglines are an underappreciated art. Most of them are forgettable and generic—a bit of lazy, focus-group-tested text that adds nothing of value to a movie poster. The best ones, however, are p…

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Chad Powers might join "basketball team or something" in season three

The journey of Chad Powers is one of constant swerves and surprises. Just when you think you’re going to watch a show starring Glen Powell’s perfectly symmetrical face, BAM, he puts a big, funny honk…

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David Fincher and Netflix split reportedly due to budgetary beefs

David Fincher’s split with Netflix is due to a beef with Netflix film chairman Dan Lin, according to a new report from Page Six. The entertainment vertical recently dove into the fallout from this we…

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Street Fighter makes video game adaptations a punchline again

It’s actually surprising that so few unabashed foot fetishists have directed martial arts movies, considering the sheer amount of kicks to faces they get to film. That particular slice of Venn diagra…

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James Watkins says he "auditioned the hell out of" Tom Rhys Harries for Clayface

DC Studios’ latest film, Clayface, is attempting to nail a few things at once: A supervillain origin story, a body-horror movie, and a crowd-pleasing October release, besides. That fusion seems like …

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Mike Flanagan says he's "figured out" his Dark Tower TV series

Mike Flanagan thinks he’s cracked his much-ballyhooed TV series adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower—only, don’t get too excited about any movement on the series just yet. The director is curr…

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Everyday enchantments: TV's best use of magical realism

Apple TV’s British import Small Prophets is already one of the best-reviewed series of the year on both sides of the pond, and one of the best examples of the powerful ways that magical realism can b…

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Amazon has found the leads for its Fourth Wing TV show

If you haven’t been near a bookstore (or Goodreads) (or BookTok) (or, basically, large chunks of the modern internet) recently, you might not be aware of just how massive a franchise Rebecca Yarros’ …

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Norm Macdonald didn't want to be defined by his SNL firing, but it informed everything

In Norm: The Tale Of Norm Macdonald, director Judd Apatow lovingly identifies and helps to explain the moment that, for many, wound up defining the former Saturday Night Live comedian’s career. A tho…

How to be a (Roman) man

Cicero’s ideal of manly virtue stressed the performance of self-control and bravery, not boastful egotism and domination- by Catharine EdwardsRead on Aeon

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HAL yes: Cupertino's surprising AI case is a tip of the hat to the granddaddy of all villainous computers

Cupertino may be a legal drama firmly rooted in the reality of Big Tech’s intrusions on our day-to-day lives, but its second episode dips a toe in science fiction. In CBS’ legal drama, lawyers Michae…

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In a thrilling second episode, Cupertino wisely plays the ace up its sleeve

Cupertino‘s premiere entertainingly sets up its resonant premise: Two lawyers, Michael Price and Olivia Siffre, team up to take down their former Silicon Valley employer and start a law firm that goe…

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In this week’s The Traitors: New Blood, the Faithfuls lose their heads

Welp, we were certainly overdue for an episode of The Traitors: New Blood that actually gave us something to talk about and, for better or worse, “A Murder Of Necessity” gave us just that in the form…

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Anna Faris responds to Chuck Lorre saying he never should have hired her for Mom: "Yikes"

TV mega-producer Chuck Lorre has a new memoir, Sitcom, coming out, and it apparently pulls very few punches on the people he’s worked with over the years. Here, for instance (per Deadline), is Lorre …

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Steven Soderbergh to pitch in and help finish The Batman: Part II

Last week, we reported that Matt Reeves’ long-gestating The Batman: Part II had been put on pause, as Reeves stepped away from the film to deal with what’s been referred to in press statements as an …

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Netflix dumps the person responsible for pretty much all its TV shows and movies over the last few years

Earlier this week, we reported that Netflix—one of the most successful streaming companies on the planet—was apparently not successful enough, announcing that it was going to be laying off about 6 pe…

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AI, the inevitable future of entertainment, reportedly deletes upcoming season of Sweden's The Challenge

Good news, Hollywood: You no longer have to blame lost Nicolas Cage movies on theft. AI will do the dirty work for you. The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet (via Futurism) reports an AI agent deleted th…

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The '85 Chicago Bears are getting the limited series treatment

Just days after the death of Coach Mike Ditka—and with the tremors of the kielbasa-gorging grief fugue that has gripped the city of Chicago since last Friday only just starting to subside—Hollywood h…

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Michael Che declines to get into the Shane Gillis of it all on The Today Show

Since Shane Gillis‘ controversial Saturday Night Live monologue last weekend, Michael Che has dreaded being asked about it while promoting his new stand-up special for Netflix (he even joked about it…

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Other Mummy movie—the Brendan Fraser one—gets a cliché title

In a year that’s brought us Lee Cronin’s The Mummy and Blumhouse’s Other Mommy, we were hoping for a little more originality from the other Mummy movie lurching into theaters next year. Unfortunately…

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Sony seeks to hide how much more popular John is than Ringo with Beatles movie rollout

Eight days a week? How about four movies a day? That’s still the idea for the Sam Mendes-directed Beatles anthology series, which is inching ever closer to its April 2028 release. Earlier this week, …