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‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ Will Be 5 Movies
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“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” will expand from a three-movie franchise to five movies, author and screenwriter J.K. Rowling announced Thursday at a fan event broadcast worldwide on the internet. The first film, due in theaters next month set in the same universe as “Harry Potter,” takes place in 1920s New York and stars Eddie Redmayne as a British magizoologist named Newt Scamander who travels across the pond to hunt for magical creatures. Producer David Heyman also teased that several characters from the Harry Potter films, including Aldus Dumbledore and Grendel, would play roles in “Fantastic Beasts” — and that. »
- Beatrice Verhoeven
Quentin Tarantino Reveals He’s Researching 1970 For A New Project
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If you asked Quentin Tarantino which decade he’d choose to live in permanently, the answer would likely be the 1970s. The director has always shown an immense passion for various movie movements of the era — Blaxploitation, the explosion of martial arts films, New American cinema — and recently shared that his preferred vision of Luke Cage would be from that time. And of course, his movies have always nodded heavily to those influences as well, so it’s not a big surprise that Tarantino is diving deep into the start of the decade for a new project.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
13 October 2016 4:43 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first American to win the top honor since Toni Morrison in 1993 and the first musician to be recognized.
The 75-year old singer-songwriter was honored for his intricate, evocative lyrics, and for his alternately political and phantasmagoric anthems such as “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “Forever Young,” “Like a Rolling Stone,” “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands,” “Rainy Day Women#12 & 35,” and “The Times They Are a-Changin’.” He joins the ranks of William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Saul Bellow, William Butler Yeats, and Ernest Hemingway — all previous laureates.
In selecting Dylan, the Nobel committee praised the singer and songwriter “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” His prize comes with 8 million Swedish kronor, which roughly equals $900,000. He will be honored in Stockholm, Sweden, in December.
Dylan’s selection is a break with tradition. Although he has authored a book of poem, »
- Brent Lang
Dario Fo Obituary (1926-2016)
13 October 2016 5:03 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Nobel prize-winning dramatist and satirist who touched the heights of genius
The dramatist, director, actor, painter and political provocateur Dario Fo has died aged 90. When Fo was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1997, the Swedish committee praised his achievement in reviving the traditions of the giullari – the jester-cum-minstrels of the middle ages who improvised their comedy, jibing at the establishment of the times. His greatest achievement as an actor-author was Mistero Buffo (1969), a reworking of medieval mystery plays, which he performed with masterly skill as a one-man show, making exhilarating use of an onomatopoeic language called grammelot and a mixture of dialects. Other actors have since done their best to emulate him, with varying degrees of success, and his texts will continue to inspire lively theatrical invention.
Related: Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist – a heady blend of vaudeville and politics
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- John Francis Lane
‘American Horror Story’ Recap: ‘Chapter 5’ Sets Stage for Major ‘Roanoke’ Plot Change
12 October 2016 9:15 PM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Spoiler Alert: Do not read on unless you’ve seen Season 6, episode 5 of “American Horror Story,” titled “Chapter 5.”
Four score and fives episodes later, “American Horror Story” vet Evan Peters has finally made his “Roanoke” debut… and he’s killed within the first ten minutes.
But fans can rest assured, because this is “AHS,” where no one is ever truly dead, especially this season. He returns as an unlikely aid to Shelby, Matt, and Flora, who, by the end of the episode, manage to escape their Roanoke nightmare. But let’s break it all down.
We first learn who Peters actually is, and in line with some speculation, he is Edward Philippe Mott, the man who built the house. He’s an interesting man, to say the least: escaping city life in favor of the country, he buys the cursed plot of land and builds his mansion on it. He also escaped the city for fear, it »
- Alex Stedman
‘Teen Wolf’ Creator to Develop ‘War of the Worlds’ Series at MTV
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“Teen Wolf” creator Jeff Davis is executive producing a series adaptation of “The War of the Worlds” currently in the works at MTV. Based on the H.G. Wells novel, the drama series will be written by “Teen Wolf” writer Andrew Cochran and executive produced by Davis, alongside Josh Barry and Jeff Kwatinetz of The Firm. First published in 1898, “The War of the Worlds” details an invasion of Earth by Martians, and has been adapted multiple times, including a hysteria-inducing radio broadcast in 1938 and a 2005 movie directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise. Also Read: 'Let the Right One In'. »
- Reid Nakamura
Pantelion Prepping ‘No Manches Frida’ Sequel (Exclusive)
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Lionsgate-Televisa joint venture Pantelion is prepping a sequel to its second highest grossing Spanish-language release in the U.S., “No Manches Frida,” which has grossed up to $11 million Stateside. Lead-produced by Pantelion, along with Alcon Entertainment, “Frida” lead Martha Higareda’s NeverEnding Media, and Germany’s Constantin Film, “No Manches Frida” is a Mexican version of Constantin’s 2013 box office hit “Fack ju Gohte,” which follows the travails of an ex-con, played by comic Omar Chaparro, who takes a job at a rowdy high school to gain access to his buried loot.
“There was some resistance to the idea of a Spanish director for a Mexican remake of a German film,” said Pantelion COO Edward Allen, “but Velilla hit the right comedic tone that has worked on both sides of the border.” To date, “No Manches Frida,” which bowed Sept. 16 in Mexico, is the fourth highest-grossing Mexican pic of all time. »
- Anna Marie de la Fuente
Busan: Festival Director Kang Soo-youn Hails 21st Biff a ‘Miracle’
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“The fact that we successfully managed to host this year’s edition against all odds itself is a miracle,” Busan Film Festival director Kang Soo-youn told Variety.
The two-year struggle between festival organizers and city authorities ended up costing the festival in terms of lost sponsorship and lower star power. It also tore the local film industry into two.
“We had to largely downsize the Asian Film Market and skip sidebar events, because we didn’t manage enough sponsorship,” said Kang. She added that there were more practical difficulties. “In the morning of Oct. 5, I woke up, feeling that the hotel was shaking. I went straight to the Haeundae beach in the storm to check the Biff Village only to witness debris floating in the sea. The first thing that came to my mind was ‘maybe we’re not meant to make it happen this year’.”
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- Sonia Kil
Lumière Festival: 90% of U.S. Films Shot Before 1914 Have Disappeared, Warns Gaumont President Nicolas Seydoux
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Lyon, France — The global market for restored cinema classics is improving, but preservation efforts need to be stepped up before a larger portion of humanity’s cinematic heritage vanishes, warned Gaumont president Nicolas Seydoux speaking at the Grand Lyon’s Lumière Festival in France dedicated to vintage cinema.
“We estimate that in the U.S. 90% of movies made before 1914 have disappeared,” Seydoux cautioned. “In France we don’t know the amount we’ve lost, but I think the fact we can reproduce them [digitally] gives us new hope,” he added.
French film journalist Fabrice Leclerc in a presentation noted that, by his count, “one fourth of America’s cinematic heritage is now preserved outside the U.S.”
Seydoux pointed out that while in France the prime market for film restoration is television, thanks in part to the proliferation of digital distribution channels “it’s clear today that there are markets for restored films. »
- Nick Vivarelli
Mipcom: Copyright Disputes Cast Shadow Over Reality TV Deals
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Despite the end of American Idol this summer, after a 15-year, record-setting run, reports of the death of reality TV are greatly exaggerated. Non-fiction shows, from NBC's Little Big Shots to the U.K.'s pastry-based hit The Great British Bake Off, to countless international iterations of singing competition formats Got Talent, The X Factor and The Voice, are testament to the genre's staying power. The next big thing in reality TV could be on display in France next week, as TV producers and networks from around the world crowd into the overpriced hotel rooms and
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- Scott Roxborough
‘Deutschland83’ Renewed for Season 2 on SundanceTV and Amazon
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The Cold War will rage anew on SundanceTV now that the cabler and FremantleMedia International have set a deal for season two of period drama “Deutschland83.”
The German-language drama set in 1983 bowed last year on SundanceTV to generally rave reviews and a small but devoted audience. Creators Anna and Joerg Winger envision the political thriller running three seasons, taking viewers up to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
The series stars Jonas Nay as an earnest East German soldier who is reluctantly recruited to go undercover in West Berlin as a spy for the Stasi. “Deutschland86” will jump three years into 1986, when Nay’s Martin Rauch is sent off to Africa to fight in the last gasp of combat waged in the name of Communism, in Angola.
“Deutschland83,” which earned a Peabody Award, debuted with much fanfare last year on German broadcaster Rtl. The show garnered generally strong reviews but the ratings were a disappointment. The »
- Cynthia Littleton
Amazon Takes ‘Deutschland83’ Sequel in Germany
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“Deutschland86,” the sequel to hit Cold War thriller series “Deutschland83,” will premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in Germany in 2018.
German free-to-air broadcaster Rtl Television, which commissioned “Deutschland83” in 2014 and aired the show in autumn 2015, has secured a first-look option for the linear TV rights to “Deutschland86,” and expects to air the sequel in 2018/2019 after Amazon’s first window. Amazon Prime has made all episodes of “Deutschland83” available for streaming for subscribers in Germany and Austria.
FremantleMedia Intl., the global sales arm of FremantleMedia, continues to sell the series to broadcasters and streaming services around the world. Other buyers include SundanceTV (U.S.), which will co-produce, Hulu (U.S.), Channel 4 and Walter Presents (U.K.), Sundance Channel (Canada), Crave (Canada), Super Ecran (French-speaking Canada), Dr (Denmark), Yle (Finland), Nrk (Norway), Svt (Sweden), Ruv (Iceland), CMore (Scandinavia), Rte (Eire), Canal Plus (France), Movistar+ (Spain), Sky Italia (Italy), Paramount (Italy), Ote (Greece), Telenet (Belgium), Rtl Klub (Hungary), Hrt »
- Leo Barraclough
‘How to Get Away With Murder': One of the Keating 5 Is Pregnant, Leaving Fans Shook
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(Spoilers: Stop reading if you’re not caught up on the latest episode. Just get out of here.) As if “How to Get Away With Murder” wasn’t already laced with enough twists to keep your stomach turning for days, now fans are burdened with one more–who is the father of Laurel’s baby?! “I’m shook,” tweeted one viewer. Us too, us too. Oh, yeah… Laurel is pregnant and basically everyone besides her is freaking out. Also Read: 'How to Get Away With Murder': Characters Who Could Be the One Under the Sheet (Photos) Folks seem »
- Rasha Ali
Michelle Obama Tackles Donald Trump in Monumental Speech (Video)
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Michelle Obama did not hold back when addressing Donald Trump and the recent revelations about his conduct with women. The First Lady delivered a heartfelt and flawlessly-delivered condemnation of the Gop presidential candidate on Thursday in a speech from Manchester, New Hampshire. While she didn’t name him by name — she didn’t need to. Also Read: Melania Trump Demands Retraction From People Regarding Reporter's Claims About Donald “The fact is that in this election, we have a candidate for president of the United States who, over the course of his lifetime and the course of this campaign, has said »
- Debbie Emery
Inside Hillary Clinton's Final, Star-Studded L.A. Fundraiser Before Election
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In the most volatile week of the entire presidential campaign — an unprecedented one in American politics that has seen Republican nominee Donald Trump accused of sexually assaulting multiple women over the course of several decades — his rival Hillary Clinton is taking nothing for granted. That was the Democratic frontrunner's message on Thursday night at what was billed as her "final Los Angeles dinner" prior to the election on Nov. 8. And it was a big one. Clinton held court at the Los Angeles home of Casey and Laura Wasserman, who co-hosted the private fundraiser along with Clinton's
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- Chris Gardner
Nancy O’Dell Separates From Her Husband of Over a Decade
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Nancy O’Dell has separated from her husband of 10 years, Keith Zubchevich. Currently the focus of the Donald Trump and Billy Bush hot mic video, in which the Gop presidential nominee made lewd comments about her, the “Entertainment Tonight” host filed for separation in September — a month before the tape was published by The Washington Post. According to Us Weekly, the demise of their marriage is completely unrelated to the controversy. Also Read: Nancy O'Dell Addresses Donald Trump's Lewd Remarks on 'Et' (Video) After releasing a statement about the video over the weekend, O’Dell — who was an host for “Access Hollywood” when. »
- Debbie Emery
Busan: Festival Trio in Contention for Apsa Unesco Prize
8 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Three films premiering this week at the Busan Film Festival are among the five titles shortlisted by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards for the Unesco-sponsored Apsa Cultural Diversity Award.
The three are: “Knife in the Clear Water” (aka “Qingshui Li De Daozi”) in the New Currents section; “The Bonfire” (aka “Kostior na Vetru”) in the Flash Forward program; and “The Dark Wind” (aka “Reseba”,) which is set as the festival’s closing night gala presentation.
They are joined by Egyptian documentary filmmaker Tamer El Said’s debut narrative feature “In The Last Days Of The City” (aka “Akher Ayam El Madina”) and Turkish director Mustafa Kara’s second feature film and Turkey’s official submission for the 89th Academy Awards “Cold of Kalandar” (aka “Kalandar Sogugu”) in the running for the prize. All five are the works of first, second or third feature filmmakers.
“This important and prestigious award is »
- Patrick Frater
The Gore-Gore Guy: Herschell Gordon Lewis, Rest in Pieces
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You can’t always take a film director at his word. Herschell Gordon Lewis, the self-proclaimed “Wizard of Gore” who passed away, at the age of 90, on Sept. 26, was way far down on the totem pole of filmmaker respectability — in fact, he probably occupied its second-to-last rung, with Edward D. Wood Jr. on the very bottom. When it came to discussing the art of directing, Lewis made no claims for himself. At all. Next to him, even a low-budget exploitation mercenary like Roger Corman came off as a bohemian artiste. Lewis’ theory of filmmaking revolved around one thing and one thing only: He was in it for the money. He repeated this in countless interviews, like the one he gave to John Waters for Waters’ great first book, “Shock Value,” in 1981. Lewis, who invented the gore film, talked about movies in strictly utilitarian terms, and that became part of his legend. »
- Owen Gleiberman
‘How To Get Away With Murder’: Who Is Pregnant? And Who Is Dead? (Spoilers)
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Spoiler Alert: Do not read ahead, if you have not watched Season 3, episode 4, of “How To Get Away With Murder,” which aired Thursday, Oct. 13 on ABC.
Each week of “How To Get Away With Murder” this season reveals who will not be killed off in the night of the house fire — but tonight’s “lucky” victim, though alive, winds up in the hospital.
Last week, the flash-forward revealed that aside from the dead body under the sheet, firefighters found an additional body in Annalise’s (Viola Davis) basement, but there’s still a pulse.
Turns out, that person is Laurel (Karla Souza). And she’s pregnant.
Tonight’s flash-forward scenes, which bookend the episode, show someone being rushed from the house fire to the hospital. By episode’s end, none other than Wes’ girlfriend Meggy (Corbin Reid) who works in the hospital, brings in the charts of the unconscious female patient, which »
- Elizabeth Wagmeister
7 Controversial Nobel Prize-Winning Writers, From Bob Dylan to Dario Fo (Photos)
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It may be literature’s greatest honor, but the Nobel Prize has sometimes drawn negative attention to writers, too. Bob Dylan Some critics claim the 2016 Nobel winner was undeserving because his songs contain unattributed work from others. Others believed the groundbreaking folk artist belonged more to the world of pop music than to that of letters. Harold Pinter The English playwright was slammed for his left-wing politics and sometimes scatological point of view. Elfriede Jelinek One Nobel member was so upset about the consideration given to this “chaotic and pornographic” Austrian writer that he refused to participate in the deliberations. »
- Scott Collins
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