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Mary Tyler Moore, TV Icon, Dies at 80
10 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Television great Mary Tyler Moore, the beloved star of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” died Wednesday in Connecticut, her publicist confirmed. She was 80.
“Today, beloved icon, Mary Tyler Moore, passed away at the age of 80 in the company of friends and her loving husband of over 33 years, Dr. S. Robert Levine,” read the statement from Mara Buxbaum, her longtime rep. “A groundbreaking actress, producer, and passionate advocate for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Mary will be remembered as a fearless visionary who turned the world on with her smile.”
The vivacious brunette performer transformed the image of women on television first as Van Dyke’s sexy, vulnerable wife Laura Petrie and then as single career girl Mary Richards in her own series. Her work in the two series brought Moore five Emmy Awards, in 1965, 1966, 1973, 1974 and 1976. She won another Emmy for 1993 TV special “Stolen Babies. »
- Carmel Dagan
‘Stranger Things’ Star David Harbour Reveals Season 2 Plot Details
14 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
“Stranger Things” star David Harbour has finally allowed Season 2 details to slip, including who “Goonies” alum Sean Astin will be playing. “We have Sean Astin… he’s Winona’s new boyfriend–much to the chagrin to the Chief of Police,” Harbour said during a Fan2Sea Comic Con panel, via Hollywood Life. Also Read: Donald Glover, 'Stranger Things' Lead DGA Television Nominations We previously knew that Astin would play a former classmate of both Hopper and Joyce (Ryder), but this is the first time we know the nature of his relationship with latter. He also said that the »
- Joe Otterson
Oscar Box-Office Bump: 'La La Land,' 'Moonlight' Plot Major Expansions
15 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Director Damien Chazelle's La La Land will dance into a total of 3,000 theaters Friday after scoring 14 Oscar nominations Tuesday, tying with Titanic for the most noms of any film in history.
The Lionsgate musical, starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, isn't the only film hoping to spin Oscar nominations into box-office gold in the walk up to the Academy Awards ceremony Feb. 26. Fellow best-picture contender Moonlight (A24) expands nationwide for the first time Friday into more than 1,000 cinemas. Arrival (Paramount) and Manchester by the Sea (Amazon Studios/Roadside »
- Pamela McClintock
Sundance: Netflix Buys Global Rights for ‘To The Bone’
24 January 2017 9:36 PM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
As the first week of the Sundance Film Festival comes to a close, Netflix continued its buying spree, picking up worldwide rights to the drama “To The Bone,” starring Keanu Reeves and Lily Collins, Variety has confirmed.
The movie, directed and written by Marti Noxon, follows a 20-year-old anorexic girl (Collins) who tries to get the medical help she needs at a group home. Reeves plays her doctor. The rest of the cast includes Carrie Preston, Lili Taylor and Alex Sharp.
The deal, estimated to be around $8 million, will allow the streaming giant to show the movie in regions around the world.
“To the Bone,” which debuted in the festival’s U.S. dramatic competition, was produced by Julie Lynn, Bonnie Curtis, Karina Miller, Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi. It was executive produced by Talal Al Abbar, Matthew J. Malek and Anita Gou.
Netflix has had a very active Sundance, »
- Ramin Setoodeh
Megan Mullally Talks 'Top Secret' 'Will & Grace' Episode, Show Revival
16 hours ago | Rollingstone.com | See recent Rolling Stone news »
In 2012, in the midst of a North Carolina ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage in the state, then-Vice President Joe Biden went on Meet the Press to discuss the bill. "I think Will & Grace probably did more to educate the American public than almost anything anybody has ever done," he told host David Gregory. At the time, the show had been off the air for six years, yet remained a cultural landmark for its depiction of openly gay characters to a nationwide audience not yet accustomed to hearing lines like, »
X-Men Vet Bryan Singer to Direct Fox's Mutant-Themed Drama Pilot
12 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
This is not entirely uneXpected: X-Men auteur Bryan Singer has signed on to direct the pilot episode of Fox’s untitled Marvel series about mutants on the run.
The Untitled Marvel Action-Adventure Series — on which Singer already serves as an Ep — focuses on two ordinary parents who discover their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive. Fox officially ordered the pilot earlier this week.
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James McAvoy on Learning of 'Split' Twist, Prospect of Joining Another Franchise
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[Warning: The following story contains spoilers from M. Night Shyamalan's Split.]
In the final minutes of M. Night Shyamalan's Split, viewers become aware that the new movie about a kidnapper with multiple personalities, played by James McAvoy, is connected to one of Shyamalan's earlier films.
A well-timed surprise cameo from Bruce Willis reveals that Split exists in the same world as Unbreakable. At a recent press screening, that moment earned cheers from the audience.
Speaking with THR earlier this month, McAvoy was reluctant to divulge too many spoilers, but he did talk in vague terms about the twist, revealing that »
- Hilary Lewis
‘Girl on the Train’ Rides to No. 1 on DVD, Blu-ray Disc Charts
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The Universal Pictures suspense thriller “The Girl on the Train” debuted at No. 1 on both national home video sales charts the week ended Jan. 22, while Warner’s “The Accountant” remains in second place.
“The Girl on the Train,” with a domestic box office gross of just over $75 million, stars Emily Blunt as an alcoholic divorcee who becomes embroiled in a missing person (and then murder) investigation,
Lionsgate’s “Deepwater Horizon,” the dramatization of the April 2010 explosion of the offshore drilling rig of the same name, slipped to No. 3 on both the Npd VideoScan overall disc sales chart, which tracks combined DVD and Blu-ray Disc sales, and the dedicated Blu-ray Disc sales chart.
Warner’s “Suicide Squad” slipped to No. 4 from No. 3, also on both charts.
Rounding out the top five on the overall disc sales chart was the newly released 20th Century Fox comedy “Keeping Up with the Joneses,” a »
- Thomas K. Arnold
6 Journalists Charged With Felony Rioting in Wake of Anti-Trump Protests During Inauguration
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Six journalists have been slapped with felony charges related to the waves of anti-Trump protests during the presidential inauguration on Friday, The New York Times reported Wednesday. If convicted, the media members — named Evan Engel, Alexander Rubinstein, Jack Keller, Matthew Hopard, Shay Horse and Aaron Cantu — could be sentenced up to 10 years in prison and receive $25,000 fines. All six have denied participating in the violence. Having gotten involved in the police action against demonstrators, they have been charged with the most serious level of offense under Washington DC’s law against rioting, according to the Times. Those charged include a documentary producer, »
- Debbie Emery
Disney Picks Up ‘Yes, Family’ for Korea Release
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Walt Disney has picked up comedy “Yes, Family” as its first Korean title for distribution.
Directed by script editor-turned-director Ma Dae-yun, the story revolves around three siblings who encounter their previously unknown youngest brother. Starring Lee Yo-won (“Perfect Number”,) Jung Man-sik (“Asura: The City of Madness”,) E Som (“Scarlet Innocence”) and Jeong Jun-won (“A Melody to Remember”,) the film is set for a February 15 release.
“Disney picked up this film because the company thought its family theme would fit their motto (in selecting titles),” said Ma at a press event on Wednesday (Jan 25.)
With Korean films consistently dominating the local market, Hollywood studios Fox and Warner have sought to become more involved in the local production and distribution scene. Warner was last year a producer on Korea’s Oscar contender “Age of Shadows.”
Disney was the third biggest distributor in South Korea in 2016. The company’s “Captain America: Civil War »
- Sonia Kil
‘Roxanne Roxanne’ Director on Shooting in Notorious Queensbridge Housing Project (Video)
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Even though she stars opposite the wildly talented, Oscar-nominated Mahershala Ali, newcomer Chanté Adams steals the show as the titular character in the hip-hop biopic “Roxanne Roxanne.” Writer-director Michael Larnell (“Cronies”), aided by producers Forest Whitaker and Pharrell Williams, tells a powerful true story of a spirited girl who must survive a hard life of poverty, absent parents, assault and spousal abuse. Set mostly in the 1980s, this engaging story focuses on a decade in the life of rapper Roxanne Shanté (Adams). A girl from the projects in Queens, she went from shoplifting to provide for her family to a glamorous hip-hop. »
- Umberto Gonzalez
Writers Guild Leaders Seek Member Donations to Battle Trump Policies
2 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Leaders of the Writers Guild of America West have asked members to contribute to the guild’s political action committee to battle President Donald Trump’s policies.
The letter was sent to the WGA West’s 8,000 members and signed by 12 members of the Pac’s board, including WGA West President Howard A. Rodman, VP David Goodman, Secretary-Treasurer Aaron Mendelsohn and Executive Director David Young.
“We can’t stand idly by,” the pitch letter said. “Donate today to the Writers Guild Pac. Your donation allows us to support candidates who will protect our rights. We will work with receptive members of Congress to fight for our issues, whether it’s advocating for healthcare and pension reform, protecting net neutrality, resisting media consolidation or working to ensure our right to collectively bargain.”
The missive, titled “Our Work Begins Now,” began arriving on Wednesday — the sixth day of Trump’s administration. Here’s »
- Dave McNary
Sundance Film Review: ‘Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower’
2 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Leadership can be acquired or be innate, but sometimes it emerges as a phenomenon that could hardly be stopped if the individual tried — although displeased authorities may try hard to. “Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower” charts the public career to date of a Hong Kong student who, at age 13, started agitating against the intrusion of policies from mainland China, and has turned into an iconic advocate for democracy. The rare protest documentary that’s genuinely exciting as well as inspiring, Joe Piscatella’s sophomore feature should appeal to distributors and viewers around the globe (albeit not in China). Netflix picked up the doc at Sundance.
The director’s prior feature, 2013’s “#chicagoGirl: The Social Network Takes on a Dictator,” was also about an outwardly ordinary teenager assuming an extraordinary role in political action — in that case a U.S. college freshman coordinating revolutionaries in Syria online. By contrast, rail-thin, bespectacled Joshua Wong »
- Dennis Harvey
'Golden Exits': Film Review | Sundance 2017
2 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Alex Ross Perry writes films with a great many words in them, and Golden Exits is no exception. However, in this, his fifth feature, the words have very little to do with what’s really going on between the emotionally fraught characters. Instead, the unstated angst, desire, suspicion, frustration and emotional turmoil is almost entirely expressed by Keegan DeWitt’s extraordinary musical score, which runs like an underground river through this elegant and supremely expressive gem of a film. Given its lack of incident and mostly grumpy and/or off-putting characters, this will not be the film that expands Perry’s small audience. But »
- Todd McCarthy
Mary Tyler Moore to Be Honored With TV Specials, Tributes & Marathons
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Following the death of TV icon Mary Tyler Moore, the television industry will honor the star through a series of special programming. The beloved star of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” died Wednesday, Jan. 25 in Connecticut at the age of 80.
Here are the TV tributes to watch this week, in remembrance of Moore…
“Mary Tyler Moore: Love Is All Around,” CBS, Thursday, Jan. 26, 9 p.m.
Gayle King of “CBS This Morning” will anchor the new one-hour special on the life and legacy of the legendary actress, which will feature original reporting and materials from CBS’ archives. Also, the special will include interviews with Oprah Winfrey, newsmakers, admirers, and others expressing their thoughts about Moore’s influence on acting, women in the media, and work outside of the entertainment biz. Susan Zirinsky is senior executive producer of the special.
“The Mary Tyler Moore Show” Marathon, SundanceTV »
- Elizabeth Wagmeister
TV Review: ‘Shots Fired’ on Fox
3 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
A police officer stops a motorist, bullets fly — and almost everything that follows from that moment is contradictory, challenging and influenced by competing agendas.
That’s the premise of “Shots Fired,” a worthy and excellent new series that works as both a television drama and an interlocking array of engagements with some of the most thorny issues of our time. “Shots Fired” resists easy villains and simple answers, even as it knits its many pointed questions into an accessible narrative that is laudably brisk and generally efficient.
In many notable incidents of police brutality in recent years, there has been footage of the encounter between the cop and the civilian. But “Shots Fired” doesn’t depict that moment: As it follows several characters affected by and understandably agitated by the incident, we hear versions of what happened, but viewers don’t get to see it unfold.
What the audience does see hews to a number of cop-drama »
- Maureen Ryan
DGA Members Ratify New Deal by ‘Overwhelming Margin’
3 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Directors Guild of America members voted by an “overwhelming margin” to ratify new collective bargaining agreements, the union said on Wednesday. The new deal was negotiated with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers last year, and approved by the DGA National Board of Directors on Dec. 29, and was sent to members for ratification voting on Jan. 4. It will see significant royalty hikes for directors in streaming film and TV, as well as top-budgeted theatrical releases. The new agreement also establishes, for the first time, residuals payments for related foreign Svod services and increases the residuals for high budget. »
- Reid Nakamura
‘Frequency’ Finale Recap: One Last Confrontation With the Nightingale
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Raimy and Frank prepare for one more confrontation with the serial killer they’ve been chasing all season, in the Season 1 finale of “Frequency.” As the CW’s “cross-time communication” show wraps up its first season, Raimy (Peyton List) in 2016 had just discovered her mom Julie (Devin Kelley) had returned, meaning that at some point in the past, her father Frank (Riley Smith) had managed to put a stop to the Nightingale, the serial killer who had taken Julie’s life in the original timeline. The cross-time father-daughter duo thought it was because they put the Nightingale behind bars, but as we. »
- Linda Ge
‘Walking Out’ Star Matt Bomer On Playing “A Traditionalist” Father (Video)
3 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
“Walking Out” is a tense survival thriller that offers much more than nail-biting adventure. While it has plenty of edge-of-your-seat suspense, the film written and directed by Alex and Andrew Smith (“The Slaughter Rule”) is just as noteworthy for its terrific, spare dialogue, stunning cinematography, stirring musical score and poignant narrative arc. Also Read: 'Walking Out' Sundance Review: Matt Bomer Anchors Powerful Father-Son Drama Based on a short story by David Quammen, “Walking Out” is a tale of a father and son who must battle the elements in the Montana mountains. But it’s also a relatable rumination »
- Umberto Gonzalez
Laura Vandervoort, Hannah Anderson Join ‘Saw: Legacy’ (Exclusive)
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Laura Vandervoort and Hannah Anderson have become the first actors signed on for Lionsgate’s “Saw: Legacy,” the eighth film in the horror franchise.
The film — the first “Saw” title in seven years — is directed by the sibling team of Peter and Michael Spierig from a script by Pete Goldfinger, Josh Stolberg, James Wan, and Leigh Whannell. Producers are Mark Burg, Gregg Hoffman, and Oren Koules, the trio that has produced all eight films.
Lionsgate has long specialized in genre fare such as the “Saw” franchise, produced by Twisted Pictures. The original “Saw” cost $1.2 million in 2004 and was Wan’s feature film directorial debut from a screenplay by Whannell with Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Monica Potter, Michael Emerson, Ken Leung, Tobin Bell, and Whannell starring.
The seven “Saw” films grossed more than $870 million worldwide combined.
The franchise revolves around the fictional character John Kramer, also called the “Jigsaw Killer” or “Jigsaw, »
- Dave McNary
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