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Emma Stone, Steve Carell to Play Tennis Stars Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs in ‘Battle of the Sexes’
6 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Emma Stone and Steve Carell are set to star in “Battle of the Sexes,” a Fox Searchlight project about the epic tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. “Little Miss Sunshine” filmmakers Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris will direct from a script by Simon Beaufoy. Danny Boyle will produce under his Decibel Films banner along with Christian Colson and his company Cloud Eight. Beaufoy has been working on the script for several years and King has been cooperating with the project, though Riggs died in 1995. Also Read: Emma Stone in Negotiations to Star in Musical ‘La La Land’ From. »
- Jeff Sneider
Happy 4/20: HBO Is Picking Up High Maintenance
8 hours ago | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
In news so well-timed, it probably sent executives into giggle fits, HBO announced today that it was picking up pot-delivery web series High Maintenance for a new six-episode season. It's unclear how long each episode of the HBO High Maintenance will be — webisodes ran between 5 and 12 minutes each — or whether the new version will maintain the series' anthologized narrative. Rest assured, though, that the old High Maintenance will still be around: HBO also announced that the show's first 19 installments, previously available on Vimeo, will go up on HBO Go and HBO Now eventually. Anyway, with this and Broad City, it's clear you need to stop procrastinating on writing your own Brooklyn web series. Go download Final Draft — riches await you! »
- Nate Jones
Batman Lego Movie, ‘Lego’ Sequel Get Release Dates
6 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Warner Bros. has set the release dates for the next three “Lego” films through 2018, with the first being an untitled Batman Lego movie which will bow on Feb. 10, 2017.
Warners has also moved the Lego spinoff “Ninjago” from fall 2016 to Sept. 22, 2017, and dated “The Lego Movie Sequel” for May 18, 2018.
“We are very excited about dating our upcoming Lego animated features, which already have a worldwide fan following, built on the foundation of the first film,” said Dan Fellman, president of domestic distribution at Warner Bros. “These three films already in the pipeline are just the beginning of a creative and diverse animation slate that will be delighting audiences for years to come.”
Last October, Warner Bros. chairman and CEO Kevin Tsujihara unveiled a slate that included ten DC pics, three “Harry Potter” spinoffs and a slew of “Lego” features and made it clear that these franchises would play a major role »
- Justin Kroll
Outrage Watch: Conan O'Brien shames one of his writers on Twitter
7 hours ago | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Welcome to a new bite-size version of Outrage Watch, HitFix's daily rundown of all the things folks are peeved about in entertainment. Not anxious enough already? Get your fix of indignation below, and stay posted for outrage updates throughout the week. "Conan" writer Andrés du Bouchet took down late-night hosts Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, James Corden and others (though he didn't name any of them) in a since-deleted late-night/early morning Twitter rant about the state of late-night television over the weekend -- and now he's being put in check by his boss. "Comedy in 2015 needs a severe motherfucking shakeup. No celebrities, no parodies, no pranks, no mash-ups or hashtag wars...and shove your lip-synching up your ass," tweeted the writer and comedian on Friday, before continuing: "Prom King Comedy. That’s what I call all this shit. You’ve let the popular kids appropriate the very art form that helped you deal. »
- Chris Eggertsen
From 'Constantine' to 'Mindy' to 'Agent Carter' - TV Shows on the Bubble 2015
16 minutes ago | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
It's an odd BubbleWatch year. There isn't a "Chuck" or "Parks and Recreation" or "Community" that I'm going to get worked up about, nor am I expecting any word on "Hannibal" in mid-May, since Season 3 starts in late-May. What I'm saying is that I don't especially care what NBC does and that's unusual. [I guess I'm curious about what happens with "Constantine," since the pure numbers don't come close to justifying a renewal and yet producers are determined to keep fan hope alive and the DC Comics factor can't be ignored.] Once again, four of the five networks have been aggressive with their renewals already. The CW has renewed everything that aired in the fall and even tossed a pity renewal at "Beauty and the Beast," even though the current season is being dumped in the summer where nobody will watch it, at least not by those stodgy traditional measurements that The CW pretends don't exist or matter. [I'll hold out hope for "Hart of Dixie" even though we all know darned well that the most recent "Hart of Dixie" season finale was 100 percent a series finale and a good one at that.] Fox has renewed most of the stuff you care about, leaving only poor Hart Hanson on the Bubble with one show that probably will be back and another show that »
- Daniel Fienberg
Theater Review: A Domesticated Renée Fleming in Living on Love
16 minutes ago | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
It’s not fair to judge a play by its bloopers; almost everything that has ever appeared onstage has had its share of dropped lines, missed entrances, Parkinsonian sets, or plummeting Spider-Men. And yet sometimes the bloopers are too expressive of a play’s overall blooperishness to resist. At a recent preview of Living on Love, a comedy starring Renée Fleming and Douglas Sills, two bottles of Champagne, meant to contribute to the fizzy, farcical atmosphere of a mismatched romantic dinner, turned out, upon uncorking in the second act, to be empty. Symbolic enough, but when the actor Jerry O’Connell, also in the scene, hustled the bottles offstage to be refilled, and Sills then tried to pour a toast, a few glugs of what was evidently tap water was all that fell into his glass. “Flat!” he ad-libbed, to a big laugh. It may have been the only genuine laugh of the night. »
- Jesse Green
Christopher Nolan Says His Filmmaking Process a ‘Combination of Intuition and Geometry’
21 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Christopher Nolan described his filmmaking process as “some combination of intuition and geometry” in one of the Tribeca Talks series of public conversations at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival.
“I don’t write a story outline,” he told a packed house of festivalgoers during the discussion with fellow director Bennett Miller (“Foxcatcher,” “Moneyball”). “Usually my answer right off the bat is that I work intuitively, but I draw a lot of diagrams when I work. I do a lot of thinking about etchings by Escher, for instance. That frees me, finding a mathematical model or a scientific model. I’ll draw pictures and diagrams that illustrate the movement or the rhythm than I’m after.”
Intuition, he noted, comes to the fore in his editing process. “I’ve always edited in a huge hurry, tried to catch that lightning in a bottle, just so the energy is there,” he said. “I »
- Gordon Cox
Cathy Schulman Joins Stx Entertainment as Top Production Executive
38 minutes ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Cathy Schulman has joined Stx Entertainment as a top production executive, TheWrap has learned. The former president of Mandalay Pictures began her new role Monday and will report to Stx Motion Picture Group President and Chief Content Officer Oren Aviv. Schulman won an Academy Award for Best Picture and the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Film for 2004’s “Crash,” which she produced. She also produced “The Illusionist,” written and directed by Neil Burger, starring Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti and Jessica Biel. Also Read: Stx Entertainment Chief Robert Simonds on Why He's Spending $750 Million Making Movies This Year: 'We Believe »
- Debbie Emery
Jessie James Decker Admits She Has a Name Picked Out for Her Baby Boy, Reveals Plans for Even More Children
46 minutes ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Talk about baby fever! After Eric Decker and Jessie James Decker exclusively revealed to E! News that they are expecting a baby boy in just a few short months, the happy couple had a few more details to share about the pregnancy. Guess what? This may not be the last kid for the two. "Two or three," Jessie revealed to Alicia Quarles when asked how many little ones she hopes to raise. "It used to be four but who knows with this one. He might be trying for a fifth and he'll be sneaking in again." She added, "It was eight months after giving birth to Vivianne when he knocks me up again." Lol! Don't worry, Jessie. Your man isn't in a big rush. Instead, »
Prince Harry Plays Wheelchair Football in Australia: See the Pics from Down Under!
46 minutes ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Work hard, play hard seems to be Prince Harry's motto. While on military duty in Australia these past two weeks, the redheaded royal managed to dedicate some of his time Down Under to one of the country's favorite pastimes. The 30-year-old royal and some other members of the 1st Brigade worked up a sweat playing wheelchair Australian Football with ill and injured veterans from the Soldiers Recovery Centre, a cause near and dear to Harry's heart no matter which country he's in. And judging by video footage of the royal playing the competitive contact sport, it sure looked like the prince enjoyed the game, throwing passes to his teammates and flashing plenty of smiles. Capt. Harry »
Rumored 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' spinoff gets its rumored stars
51 minutes ago | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Per media reports -- let's cite The Hollywood Reporter -- ABC and Marvel have settled on the two characters to serve as the focus of its untitled "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." spinoff. And I'm of two minds. One mind says that it's terrific that Adrianne Palicki and Nick Blood will star in the potential "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." spinoff project that ABC and Marvel haven't said they're making. Palicki's Bobbi "Mockingbird" Morse and Blood's Lance Hunter have been two of the more consistently appealing characters in the second season of "S.H.I.E.L.D." and there is absolutely no question that I would watch an hour of TV each week more focused around their characters, former spouses still working together as flirting, bickering badasses. The other mind says that "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." has been better in its second season, but the additions of Palicki »
- Daniel Fienberg
Cissy Houston Disputes Bobby Brown’s Claims, Says Bobbi Kristina Has ‘Irreversible Brain Damage’
56 minutes ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Add another entry into the seemingly endless he-said, she-said exchange surrounding Bobbi Kristina Brown’s condition. Just hours after an attorney for Bobby Brown — Bobbi Kristina’s father — issued a statement saying that the 22-year-old has shown “improvement,” Bobbi Kristina’s grandmother Cissy Houston pretty much dashed any hopes for a happy ending. Houston told TMZ on Monday that the daughter of Brown and deceased singer Whitney Houston is no longer in a medically induced coma. However, Houston said, Bobbi Kristina has “global and irreversible brain damage.” Also Read: Bobbi Kristina Brown's Fate 'Will Not Be Known for Years to Come, »
- Tim Kenneally
Conan O'Brien Reminds Writer to Focus on Their Own Show After Scribe's Rant About ''Prom King Comedy''
1 hour ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Apparently there's someone who wouldn't mind another round of late-night wars. Conan O'Brien took to Twitter yesterday to wrist-slap one of his writers after the scribe in question went on a since-deleted rant about what in his eyes is the sorry state of comedy, from what sounded like Conan's competitors in late-night TV to the lip sync battles we've grown to love to the A-lister-packed sketches regularly employed by the likes of Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel. And, quite often, Conan O'Brien. "Comedy in 2015 needs a severe motherf--king shakeup," wrote Andrés du Bouchet. "No celebrities, no parodies, no pranks, no mash-ups or hashtag wars. I'm »
Gotham Recap: Riddler Begins, Kind of!
1 hour ago | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Take this with several handfuls of salt, but "Under the Knife" is probably one of the most ambitious installments of Gotham yet. As the second part of what might end up being a four-part finale (we do only have two episodes left in season one), tonight's episode feels like (wait for it) a set-up for future episodes. But, unlike last week's episode, the criss-crossing subplots of "Under the Knife" feel uniformly important. That doesn't mean that every story is consistently good: Edward Nygma's pseudo-origin story incident is important without being interesting and Oswald Cobblepot's unplanned confrontation with Sal Maroni feels rushed and inconsequential. On the bright side, Barbara Kean's story is surprisingly involving. When graded on a Gotham-specific curve, her seduction by Milo Ventimiglia's still-charmless Ogre (I'm sure Ventimiglia is capable of being more compelling than an inanimate plank of wood...he just hasn't been on Gotham yet. »
- Simon Abrams
Sanjay Gupta’s ‘Weed 3’ Scores Time Slot Win Over Fox News in Key Demo
1 hour ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
CNN has an especially good reason to celebrate 4/20 this year: The premieres of “Weed 3: The Marijuana Revolution” and the new original series “High Profits” created a heavy buzz on Sunday night, giving the news network some head-spinning ratings. “Weed 3: The Marijuana Revolution,” reported by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, premiered at 9 p.m. and averaged 299,000 viewers in the key 25-54 news demo, versus Fox News’ 188,000 demo viewers in the time period and 98,000 demo viewers during the period. See video: John Oliver Crushes CNN's Doomsday Clip With Martin Sheen's Version At 10 p.m., the eight-part docu-series “High Profits” — »
- Tim Kenneally
The Originals Boss Reveals Why They Killed Off the Latest Victim—and We Are Crying. So. Hard!
1 hour ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Oh, The Originals. *Sniff* Why you gotta do us so dirty like that?! Warning: major spoilers below! Do not continue reading until you have watched "When the Levee Breaks!" Another episode of The Originals, another death, another night spent crying into our glasses of wine. You'd think we'd be used to this routine by now, but this time, the CW supernatural drama took the life of Aiden (Colin Woodell), aka one-half of the beautifully romantic vampire/werewolf gay relationship that we've been loving ever since Josh (Steven Krueger) first got his star-crossed boyfriend. It hurt even worse since during the whole episode, we watched as these two boyfriends professed their love for each other and made »
China Box Office: ‘Furious 7′ Runs to $250 Million 8-Day Total
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
China’s box office told only one tale over the past week – the blistering pace of “Fast and Furious 7,” which broke records and left all competing titles standing.
The past seven days saw the film add $186 million to its huge first-day score, bringing the eight-day total to $250 million, according to Chinese data service Ent Group. The film was watched by some 29 million Chinese spectators, who paid an average of $6.3 per ticket for the privilege.
While the cinema owners and fans may have been cheering, the massive score sent shivers around other sections of the industry. Chinese filmmaker Feng Xiaogang, speaking at the Chinese directors awards a week ago, said that it sets the bar ever higher for the locals to compete.
And many in the industry have been wondering if “Furious 7” will at some stage be removed from screens by regulators who judge that it has taken enough »
- Patrick Frater
Kate Middleton's Mom Carole Is Ready to Help Out When Royal Baby No. 2 Arrives
1 hour ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Plenty of people can't wait to meet the royal baby, but few are as excited as grandma Middleton! Kate Middleton's mother, Carole, has reportedly been counting down the days until the spare heir's birth by keeping busy at Anmer Hall preparing for her new grandchild. There's been word that Carole has been taking charge when it comes to the baby's nursery at Kate and Prince William's newly renovated digs. Meanwhile, once the baby is born, Carole will be on deck and ready to help her daughter as she figures out how to juggle two children at the Sandringham estate. The 60-year-old was hands-on after Prince George's birth, and reports say she will most likely continue her focus on the young »
Find Out Who's Going to Star in the New Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Spinoff Series!
1 hour ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Are you craving more Marvel comics on your TV screen? Then you're in luck! ABC is reportedly planning an Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. spinoff series, and we just learned some interesting scoop on what—or more accurately who—the potential new series is going to be about! Deadline is reporting that season two additions to the S.H.I.E.L.D. cast Adrianne Palicki and Nick Blood are currently finalizing deals to star in the spinoff. That means as much as these two ex-spouses may hate each other on the ABC show right now, they're going to be spending quite a lot of time together in the future. Palicki plays the kickass Bobbi Morse, aka Mockingbird, on the ABC comic book show. When she was first »
‘Living on Love’ Theater Review: Picking Up Opera Where the Marx Brothers Left It Off
1 hour ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
“Living on Love,” which opened Monday at the Longacre Theatre in New York, harks back to a Broadway era that probably never existed: A real-life opera diva makes her Broadway debut in a play fashioned around her oversized talent and persona. It sounds like the kind of thing that must have been done all the time in the 1930s and earlier, and yet wasn’t. Call it instant nostalgia, like opening a time capsule planted only yesterday. Renee Fleming is the opera singer playing an opera singer on the verge of retirement in “Living on Love,” which Joe Dipietro has radically. »
- Robert Hofler
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