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Review: 'Southside With You' turns the Obamas' first date into something larger
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First dates aren’t easy.
There are so many variables that go into determining whether or not something is a “good” date that it’s impossible to control. If I’ve learned anything about dating during my 46 years on Earth (and that is debatable), I have learned that you have to give yourself up to it if it’s going to work at all. You cannot force a good date. You can only go into it open to whatever experience you’re going to have, and to whoever the person is that you’re spending that time with.
On the surface, Southside With You is simply a film about a first date, opening with both people getting ready and ending as they say goodnight and head their own ways again. In this particular case, the first date is noteworthy because it’s between Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson, the future
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- Drew McWeeny
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Chris Rock's deeply-ignorant 'Kill the Messenger' has been banned by Delta
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Delta, the same airline that received blowback after deeming Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara's tasteful love scenes in Carol too risqué for your delicate sensibilities, has now banished the 2008 Chris Rock comedy special Kill the Messenger from its planes, owing to the comedian's use of an anti-gay slur.
The removal followed a complaint by Jeremy Foreshew, an employee of the gay "dating app" Grindr, who -- while watching the film on a Delta flight -- was appalled by a prolonged routine in which Rock explains how the relative offensiveness of the gay slur "faggot" depends on the "context" in which the word is used. In addition to alerting a flight attendant, who subsequently referred him to a Delta Human Resources manager to lodge a formal grievance, Foreshaw tweeted the following at the airline and Rock:
Dear @Delta and @chrisrock: here's a list of when Faggots deserve to be called Faggots.
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- Chris Eggertsen
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Revolt CEO Keith Clinkscales Departs Company After Three Years
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Revolt CEO Keith Clinkscales has stepped down from his role at the company, TheWrap has learned.
In a memo sent to staffers on Thursday, Clinkscales announced his departure from the music-themed network that was founded by Sean “Puffy” Combs, thanking his team and assuring them that the company remains on “exceptional footing.”
Chief Operating Officer Derek Ferguson will temporarily take the reins while Revolt searches for Clinkscales’ replacement.
Also Read: Sean 'Diddy' Combs' Revolt TV Names Derek Ferguson COO
Clinkscales has served as CEO at Revolt since 2013, when he was appointed to the position by Combs, who is the company’s chairman.
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- Reid Nakamura
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Toronto: Covert Media Launches Lexica as Foreign Sales Label
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In a pre-Toronto Film Festival move, year-old Covert Media has launched Lexica Films as an international sales label for foreign-language feature film titles for the worldwide marketplace.
Covert is aiming to launch five-ten films per year through Lexica and will also be handling English-language remake rights, in many cases. Covert’s president of international, Liz Kim Schwan, will lead the division.
“Broadening our reach into foreign language films is a natural step for Covert Media and we are proud to announce the Lexica label,” said CEO Paul Hanson. “The quality and commercial appeal of these films from some of the most talented filmmakers from all corners of the world enables us to expand the range of the distinctive projects we can offer to the worldwide marketplace.”
The first title announced under the new label is disaster film “Earthquake,” which will be presented to buyers in Toronto. Covert is handling all international sales outside of Russia,
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- Dave McNary
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Fans: Mike Tirico Sidelining Is an ‘Absolute Crime’
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Enjoy Mike Tirico while you can, football fans, because once the regular season starts on Sept. 9 he’ll be sidelined.
The Espn veteran commentator, who moved over to NBC earlier this year, is calling the “Thursday Night Football” preseason matchup tonight between the Atlanta Falcons and the Miami Dolphins. But he won’t be joining Cris Collinsworth in the analyst booth during the regular season because he wasn’t named in the network’s initial bid.
That has sparked an outcry among fans who grew to love Tirico’s distinctive and enlightening play-calling when he shared duties with Jon Gruden
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- Debbie Emery
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Are You Ready for the Las Vegas Raiders?
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Oakland may soon be without its football team as the Raiders organization has applied for a trademark application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the name “Las Vegas Raiders,” according to Forbes.
Adding fuel to the speculation that owner Mark Davis is committed to relocating the team that was once in Los Angeles, the Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee also released a report that features renderings of a proposed Raiders stadium (above) in Sin City.
The stadium is estimated to cost $1.4 billion and the effort is led by billionaire Sheldon Adelson, the CEO and chairman of Sands.
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- Debbie Emery
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‘American Horror Story’ Gets Corny With Latest Promo (Video)
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“American Horror Story” is wishing fans out to the cornfield with its latest promo.
The FX series, which heads into its sixth season on September 14, has been heavy on tease and almost nonexistent with actual explanation in its latest round of promos, as exemplified by the “?” sign that’s been prominently displayed throughout them.
One promo dropped heavy hints that all of the seasons are somehow connected.
Also Read: 'American Horror Story' Season 6 New Teaser: A Monster Emerges (Video)
But then, FX boss John Landgraf has stated that some of the trailers were purposefully created to mislead viewers.
And now we have.
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- Tim Kenneally
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Kelly Ripa’s Season 29 Guest Co-Hosts: Who Has Best Odds for Permanent Gig? (Photos)
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Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan spent four seasons together on “Live.” But ABC announced this spring it would move Strahan to “Good Morning America.” ABC spent the summer trying out guest hosts, with six – presumably finalists? – sharing the love seat in early September. Who has the best odds to turn a guest host stint into a regular job? We take a look.
Michael Weatherly
The actor is sitting in with Ripa on Sept. 13. But there is no way he’s going to be a regular daily host – not this year at least. He’s the star of “Bull,” CBS’
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- Scott Collins
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Why did the ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’ visionary leave the ‘Kubo’ animation studio?
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Kubo and the Two Strings hit theaters this past weekend to ecstatic praise from critics and audiences alike, giving the many artists in Kubo’s closing credits cause to celebrate. But there is one notable filmmaker whom close watchers of the animation world will notice is not in those closing credits: Henry Selick.
The celebrated animation director (known for The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach) helmed Coraline, the first feature from Kubo stop-motion studio Laika. That film put the unique company on the map.
After Coraline’s success, Selick was expected to work on more Laika films, but he departed the Oregon-based studio about half a year after the movie’s release. According to a 2009 Variety report, the filmmaker moved on after his contract expired, as no new project emerged at Laika. A rep for Selick confirmed this account to HitFix. (Now the days of Laika
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- Emily Rome
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‘The Night Of': If Naz Didn’t Do It, Who Did? (Updated)
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We don’t think Naz killed Andrea on “The Night Of.” But if he didn’t, who did? Let’s look at the possible suspects.
Naz
Let’s get this out of the way. We guess it’s possible that “The Night Of” lead character Naz (Riz Ahmed) blacked out and killed Andrea. But he seemed truly shocked and horrified to find her dead, and like too nice a guy to do something so horrible. Or at least that’s what the show wants us to think.
Andrea
Again, we have to raise this possibility just to dismiss it. If Andrea killed herself,
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- Tim Molloy
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Sam Mendes in Talks to Direct Disney’s Live-Action ‘James and the Giant Peach’
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Sam Mendes is in “very early” negotiations with Disney to direct a live-action version of “James And The Giant Peach.”
Nick Hornby is also in preliminary talks to write the screenplay for the project, 20 years after Disney released the animated movie, directed by Henry Selick and based on the Roald Dahl book.
The original book, both fanciful and macabre, was published in 1961 and centered on 4-year-old James Henry Trotter, who lives in England with his loving parents until his parents are killed by a rhinoceros. He’s taken in by his two cruel aunts and leaves several years later thanks to an old man giving him magic crocodile tongues which produce a massive single peach — which contains human-like insects who befriend James.
The 1996 film, a combination of live-action and stop-motion animation, generated $29 million at the domestic box office. Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi produced with Paul Terry starring as
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- Dave McNary
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Film Review: ‘Hermia & Helena’
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There’s a reason why petits fours are a patisserie staple, and grands fours are not: what’s puffily perfect at bite size can turn cloying in a larger slice. So it proves, in a sense, with “Hermia & Helena,” in which Argentinian writer-director Matias Piñeiro repeats the recipe behind his previous, scarcely feature-length Shakespearean cupcakes (all loosely drawn from the Bard’s comedies), only for the winsomeness to spread itself a little thin across 90 minutes. Riffing very liberally on “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” — directly invoked here as a text to be translated into Spanish — this tale of a Buenos Aires theater director finding her feet and potentially losing her heart in New York City lopes along with the same idle, chatty charm as Piñeiro’s hour-long “Viola” and “The Princess of France.” But with its tricksy timeline and waifish subplots, the film feels unduly stretched even to reach its modest length,
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Chinese Media Lobby Against Cinema Blackout Periods for Hollywood Films
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State-owned media in China this week have lobbied against the so-called ‘blackout period’ in mid-summer in which Hollywood movies are not allowed to receive mainstream theatrical releases.
“It has never been officially confirmed, but it is widely recognized that domestic (Chinese) films are carefully protected from foreign competition every summer,” the China Youth Daily wrote this week. The opinion piece was reprinted as an editorial leader Friday in The People’s Daily.
The piece was careful not to frame the case for abolition of the blackout period as benefiting Hollywood movies, but rather as an argument helping the Chinese film industry. The piece was headlined “Competition is good for movies,” and argued “one cannot become a running champion by always racing with a snail. Similarly, domestic (Chinese) films cannot become powerful if they always fear the competition from foreign blockbusters.”
The editorial suggested that some “certain protection” is still needed for Chinese movies.
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Frances Bean Cobain’s Ex Wants $25,000 a Month in Spousal Support
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Frances Bean Cobain’s soon-to-be-ex husband is asking for a whopper of an allowance, as the estranged couple moves further down the road to divorce.
In court papers obtained by TheWrap, musician Isaiah Silva, who wed Kurt Cobain’s daughter in June 2014, asks for $25,000 in monthly spousal support.
In a declaration, the Eeries frontman claimed that he’s just a broke musician, while Cobain is the heir to a vast fortune.
Also Read: Frances Bean Cobain Seeks to Protect Nirvana Frontman's $450 Million Fortune in Divorce Filing
“he has net assets well in excess of $100 million. I am a musician with little income.
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‘James and the Giant Peach’ gets an Oscar-winning director for its live-action take
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Disney doesn’t look to be pulling the reins in on their live-action remakes anytime soon. (And who can blame them with The Jungle Book sitting pretty in spot no. 3 at the 2016 box office?)
Now the House of Mouse is in early development on a live-action James and the Giant Peach. Oscar winner Sam Mendes is in talks to direct, Deadline reported Thursday.
No word yet on whether a live-action take on the tale of James and the bugs he befriends would be more directly based on the 1996 Disney stop-motion film or on the source material, Roald Dahl’s 1961 children’s novel.
This comes shortly after the release of another Dahl adaptation that Disney placed in the hands of another Oscar-winning director, Steven Spielberg’s The Bfg.
Mendes is better known for his adult-geared fare — like American Beauty, Road to Perdition, and the two most recent 007 films — but he has delved into family-friendly entertainment.
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ShortList 2016: Finalists Talk About Selling Wedding Rings to Pay for Projects (Video)
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No matter the length of your finished product, there’s nothing easy — or cheap — about making a movie.
That was the lesson the finalists in TheWrap’s fifth annual ShortList Film Festival shared at an awards ceremony Wednesday night at YouTube Space La.
Jim Cummings discussed the lengths to which he went to raise money for his short, “Thunder Road,” the winner of the Creators League Prize.
At one point, he said, he even sold the wedding rings from his recently dissolved marriage to help fund the project.
Also Read: 'Slingshot,' 'Maman(s)' and 'Thunder Road'
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Homeland Security on Leslie Jones Site Hack: 'Investigation is Currently Ongoing'
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is investigating the hack of Leslie Jones' website, JustLeslie.com, as Mashable reports. On Wednesday, hackers commandeered her site and released personal material.
"The investigation is currently ongoing. In order to protect the integrity of the case, no further details are available at this time," the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in a statement to Mashable on Thursday.
The hackers leaked personal information and a number of photos including nudes, passport and driver's license scans, as well as the Saturday Night Live
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Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs Says ‘People Need to See’ Nate Parker’s ‘Birth of a Nation’ (Video)
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Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs said that the personal history of Nate Parker should not dissuade people from seeing the first-time director’s acclaimed new drama “The Birth of a Nation.”
“The important thing is for people to see it and enjoy the film, be impressed by the film,” she told TMZ on Thursday. “People need to see this movie… Just by the conversation that has gone on at Sundance, it’s clearly a movie that filmgoers should go and see.”
On Tuesday, the American Film Institute’s Conservatory canceled a screening of the
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Sam Mendes Is in Early Discussions to Direct Live-Action ‘James and the Giant Peach’
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Sam Mendes, who helmed the last two James Bond films, is in very early talks to direct Disney’s upcoming live-action “James and the Giant Peach,” a source with knowledge of the film confirmed to TheWrap.
Nick Hornby is also in early talks to write the screenplay.
Disney released an animated version of the 1961 Roald Dahl novel back in 1996, and it made $28.9 million at the box office. That movie was live action for the first 20 minutes, and then it transitioned into stop-motion animation while the title character is inside the peach. Susan Sarandon starred as the main voice
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