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You Might Be Waiting Until 2019 For The Final Season Of ‘Game Of Thrones’
12 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
To say that people are wildly anticipating “Game of Thrones” season 7 would be an understatement. The trailer for the penultimate season broke the record for the most watched television trailer in 24 hours, and there’s no doubt fans are eager to see how their years spent in Westeros are finally going to wrap up. However, they may be waiting a bit longer than expected.
Speaking with EW, HBO programming president Casey Bloys revealed that season eight won’t necessarily be coming next year, as creators/writers David Benioff and D.B.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
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Tom Cruise Reveals ‘Top Gun’ Sequel’s Title
13 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Tom Cruise has revealed the title for the upcoming “Top Gun” sequel: “Top Gun: Maverick.”
The actor made the announcement during an interview with Access Hollywood, saying “you don’t need a number” in all sequel titles. “Maverick” was Cruise’s character’s nickname in the film in which he played Naval aviator Lt. Pete Mitchell.
“Aviators are back, the need for speed. We’re going to have big, fast machines. It’s going to be a competition film, like the first one … but a progression for Maverick,” Cruise teased.
He also said that Harold Faltermeyer will return to score the movie, which will be “stylistically” similar to the original. »
- Justin Kroll
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Blu Hunt to Play Danielle Moonstar in X-Men Spinoff ‘New Mutants’
13 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Blu Hunt has been cast as Danielle Moonstar in Fox’s X-Men spinoff “New Mutants.”
She joins Anya Taylor-Joy, Maisie Williams, Charlie Heaton, and Henry Zaga in the movie with Josh Boone directing. Rosario Dawson has been in negotiations. The project will focus on mutant teens learning to cope with their superpowers who must escape a secret facility. »
- Dave McNary
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Leah Remini Joins ‘Kevin Can Wait’ Season 2 as Series Regular
10 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Leah Remini is joining the Kevin James sitcom “Kevin Can Wait” as a series regular for Season 2, Variety has learned.
The series stars James as a New York cop who retires after 20 years on the force, only to discover retirement is not as easy as he thought it would be. Remini previously appeared in the Season 1 finale as Vanessa Cellucci, an undercover cop and the former partner of James’ character. She will reprise that role for the show’s second season this fall. James and Remini previously starred together as husband and wife for nine seasons on the hit series “The King of Queens,” which also aired on CBS.
Remini has been in the news frequently the past few years for her very public departure from the Church of Scientology. She has become an outspoken critic of the Church, publishing her memoir “Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology” in 2015. In 2016, her docu-series “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath” debuted »
- Joe Otterson
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Paul Dano Joins Showtime's Ben Stiller Limited Series 'Escape at Dannemora'
16 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - TV News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - TV News news »
Showtime is rounding out the cast for its prison escape drama from Ben Stiller.
Paul Dano is the latest film actor to join Escape at Dannemora, the network's upcoming limited series based on the 2015 prison escape in upstate New York starring Oscar winners Benecio Del Toro and Patricia Arquette. While news of the eight-episode series — then titled Escape at Clinton Correctional — was first reported in May, Showtime has now given an formal production order to it.
The show, which will be directed and executive produced by Stiller, will tell the real-life story of Richard Matt and David Sweat, two inmates who were »
- Bryn Elise Sandberg
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M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Tales From the Crypt’ Reboot Dead in the Ground
17 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Tales From the Crypt‘s resurrection from the dead, helmed by horror connoisseur M. Night Shyamalan, has been cut short. TNT’s planned reboot of the horror-camp anthology series that ran from 1989 to 1996 had a 10-episode order with Shyamalan on board to curate short and long-form horror stories, and a new Cryptkeeper planned to host. But […]
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- Hoai-Tran Bui
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‘Sense8′ Fans Petition Netflix to Bring Back the Wachowskis’ Inclusive Sci Fi Hit
17 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
An online petition to for the return of “Sense8” has garnered 93,000 signatures since news hit yesterday that Netflix’s globe-spanning, LGBT-inclusive, science fiction thriller series would not get a third season.
The series, created by “Matrix” directors Lana and Lilly Wachowski along with J. Michael Straczynski, has been celebrated for its message of global interconnectedness, racially inclusive cast, and multiple LGBTQ characters — including a prominent transgender character whose storyline does not merely revolve around their being trans.
“The cancellation of ‘Sense 8’ – season 3 has been completely unexpected,” reads the Change.org petition. “We don’t know any reasons yet, however it’s quite strange that a show that has received such positive response from a wide and heterogeneous audience, gets cancelled.”
Netflix notoriously does not release streaming numbers for any of its content, leaving the reasons for the cancellation murky. »
- Jude Dry
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‘Valerian’ Adds ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’s’ Elizabeth Debicki in Voice-Over Role
1 June 2017 5:04 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Elizabeth Debicki will voice one of the characters in Luc Besson’s “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.”
Debicki’s casting was done during the film’s post-production following filming of the project as the film from STXfilms and EuropaCorp is set to hit theaters July 21.
Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Kris Wu, John Goodman, and Ethan Hawke round out the film’s core cast.
Besson will write and direct, while his wife, Virginie Besson-Silla, will produce.
“Valerian” is based on a graphic novel — set in the 28th Century, when humanity discovered how to time travel — which was created by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mezieres in 1967, and has since sold more than 10 million copies in 21 languages. In the comics, Valerian (DeHaan) and Laureline (Delevingne) are agents of the Spatio-Temporal Service, which protects the planets of the Terran Empire.
Debicki is currently filming Steve McQueen’s “Widows” opposite Viola Davis. »
- Justin Kroll
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Weekend Box Office: 'Wonder Woman' Heading for $94M-Plus Debut
19 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Director Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman is impressing at the box office, according to early Friday returns.
The female-centric tentpole, from Warner Bros., is headed for a North American opening in the $94 million range, thanks to pent-up demand for a satisfying summer tentpole and rapturous reviews.
Wonder Woman is a defining moment for Hollywood's much-debated gender gap and could land the biggest three-day domestic opening ever for a female director, supplanting Sam Taylor-Johnson's Fifty Shades of Grey. That film debuted to $93 million over the four-day Valentine's Day/Presidents Day weekend in 2015, including a three-day haul of »
- Pamela McClintock
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‘Wonder Woman’ Clobbers ‘Thor’ Debut Day in Overseas Box Office
15 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
“Wonder Woman” has landed in major markets around the world, and it’s sizing up to be an Amazonian-sized hit overseas, raking in an estimated $12.1 million abroad on its Thursday debut in 32 markets, pushing its international total to $18.7 million. The DC Films movie out of Warner Bros. starring Gal Gadot is already out ahead of the 2011 Marvel hit “Thor,” starring Chris Hemsworth, in at least three major international markets: Brazil (by a whopping 79 percent), the UK (by 17 percent) and more than double in Russia. What’s more, the new superheroine flick directed by Patty Jenkins has lassoed »
- Meriah Doty
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Film Review: ‘Letters from Baghdad’
22 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
After the misfire of biopic “Queen of the Desert,” it was clear that intrepid traveler and influential Arabist Gertrude Bell, reductively known as “the female T.E. Lawrence,” needed her reputation rescued from Werner Herzog’s ill-advised effort. In stepped directors Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbühl with “Letters From Baghdad,” a carefully researched documentary that uses an extraordinary wealth of appealing archival footage accompanied by Tilda Swinton’s voiceover as Bell. The directors’ backgrounds as editor (Krayenbühl) and photographer (Oelbaum), together with their appreciation for the lands Bell felt most attached to, are clearly on display in the largely sensitive way they handle the material on visual and historical levels.
Getting Swinton on board doing double duty as voiceover actor and executive producer was a wise marketing decision, while the involvement of Thelma Schoonmaker and Kevin Brownlow assured appropriate attention would be given to the artistic and archival sides. The film »
- Jay Weissberg
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‘Real Time’ Host Bill Maher Uses the N-Word
4 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Bill Maher used the N-word on Friday night’s episode of “Real Time,” drawing outrage on social media.
His guest on the show was Senator Ben Sasse, who asked the host, “Would you like to come work in the field with us?
Maher responded, “Work in the fields? Senator, I am a house n—.”
The comment drew laughs and groans from the audience, but Sasse laughed along.
He quickly added, “It was a joke.” But social media was not amused, with many calling for Maher to be fired.
Deray McKesson, a leader of the Black Lives Matter movement, wrote on Twitter, “But really, @billmaher has got to go. There are no explanations that make this acceptable.”
But really, @BillMaher has got to go. There are no explanations that make this acceptable. pic.twitter.com/K5XlEjekQ9
— deray mckesson (@deray) June 3, 2017
He then added a follow-up tweet: “And why did the audience think it was okay to laugh »
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‘The Deuce’: 10 Things We Learned From Split Screens Festival Screening
4 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
“The Deuce,” the HBO drama from “The Wire” and “Treme” vets George Pelecanos and David Simon, transports viewers back to Times Square in all its grungy, seedy, early 1970s glory.
The show toplined by Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Franco revolves around a colorful clutch of hookers, pimps, bartenders, cops and sundry hustlers trying to make a living on the trash-ridden streets of New York. “Deuce” ultimately explores the growth of the modern pornography industry (although the first episode does not delve into the X-rated film biz). The premiere screening of “Deuce’s” pilot was the kickoff event for the Split Screens Festival, which runs through June 8 at IFC Center.
Here are 10 things we learned from the screening and Q&A with Gyllenhaal and director Michelle MacLaren, moderated by festival programming director Matt Zoller Seitz.
1. Prostitution is a lot like acting. Gyllenhaal plays a streetwalker named Candy who dons a curly blonde wig when she plies her trade »
- Cynthia Littleton
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Bill Maher’s N-Word Draws Outrage: ‘I’m a House N—er’
4 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Did Bill Maher just try to take the heat off of Kathy Griffin? His out-of-nowhere use of the N-word on Friday’s “Real Time” brought instant rebukes and calls for him to be fired. The former “Politically Incorrect” host proved he’s still politically incorrect when Republican Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse jokingly invited him to “work in the fields.” “Senator, I’m a house n—-a,” Maher said, immediately adding: “It’s a joke.” Also Read: Is Kathy Griffin's Career Over? Top Crisis Managers Weigh In Many didn’t take it that way. “He said ‘n—er’ with a Hard Ass Rrrrrrrrrruh, »
- Rosemary Rossi
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HBO Clarifies 'Game of Thrones' Prequel Spin-Off Plans
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With the second-to-last season of Game of Thrones set to premiere in July, HBO has shared some more details about the prequel spin-off that will follow the series' Season 8 conclusion.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, HBO president of programming Casey Bloys said, "Making Game of Thrones as good as possible is the Number One goal, and then we'll see about these [spin-off] scripts. You're not going to see a situation where the next show in the Thrones universe launches off the back of this one."
In early May, HBO revealed plans to »
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How Showtime’s ‘I’m Dying Up Here’ Recreates ’70s Comedy Club Scene
7 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Comedian Judy Gold appears in episode three of “I’m Dying Up Here,” the Jim Carrey-produced Showtime ensemble series premiering Sunday that fictionalizes the infamous early 1970s Los Angeles comedy scene, where a slew of real-life icons like David Letterman, Jay Leno, Andy Kaufman, Richard Pryor, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal and Elayne Boosler first rose to prominence and thousands of other young hopefuls followed suit on the heels of Johnny Carson’s decision to move “The Tonight Show” to the West Coast in 1972.
On the new show, Gold plays an aging comic named Judy Elder, who’s vying for a second shot at stardom on the stage of her childhood friend Goldie Herschlag—the tough-as-nails owner of an L.A. comedy club that bears a striking resemblance to The Comedy Store and its real-life proprietor Mitzi Shore.
Yet “I’m Dying Up Here” co-creator and executive producer Dave Flebotti says “Goldie has an entirely different energy »
- Tripp Whetsell
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Cannes Film Review: ‘Promised Land’
8 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Documentaries about the current state of America, as good as some of them are, often have the effect of news headlines: They come and go, leaving a slight blur. But “Promised Land” isn’t like other politically and socially inflamed documentaries. Written and directed by Eugene Jarecki (“The House I Live In,” “Why We Fight”), it’s a meditation on the current American crisis (and if you don’t think we’re in one, you should probably stop reading now) that’s built around a revisionist portrait of Elvis Presley. The two elements — America and Elvis — come together in ticklish, surprising ways that expand and delight your perceptions.
If “Promised Land” has a thesis, the short version of it — it’s declared in the opening 15 minutes — is that America has entered its Fat Elvis period. We’re bloated, addicted, going through the motions, coasting on our legend, courting self-destruction. Yet »
- Owen Gleiberman
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‘Black Prince’ to Open London Indian Film Festival
8 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
For its eighth edition, the London Indian Film Festival will present award-winning pics from Cannes, Berlin, and Venice. This year, the fest puts the focus on Lgbtq and Brexit themes.
Opening June 22 with “The Black Prince,” by Kavi Raz and starring Shabana Azmi and Jason Flemyng, the event runs until June 29 with films unspooling at 11 theaters around London. The closing night film is Sanal Kumar Sasidharan’s “Sexy Durga,” which has been winning acclaim on the fest circuit.
“We are delighted to bring London audiences a carefully curated selection of the very best new Indian and South Asian independent cinema; all films are English subtitled, offering a rare window into over a billion South Asian lives,” said fest director Cary Rajinder Sawhney. “This year’s selection includes premieres of new comedies, gripping thrillers, shocking horror and insightful true life documentaries as well as bringing together UK previews of major award-winning »
- Shalini Dore
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Fox News Panel Ponders If ‘Wonder Woman’ Is Patriotic Enough
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A panel on Fox News’ “Your World With Neil Cavuto” discussed on Friday whether “Wonder Woman” is patriotic enough. “‘Wonder Woman’ is out in theaters right now. Some are calling it less American because her outfit isn’t red, white and blue — and, in order to appeal for foreign audiences, very little reference to America at all,” host Neil Cavuto said. “I think, nowadays, sadly, money trumps patriotism,” panelist Dion Baia responded. “Especially, recently, I personally feel like we’re not really very patriotic, the country, in a certain sense. They want these movies to succeed internationally, so they’re going to. »
- Umberto Gonzalez
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Cannes Film Review: ‘Plot 35’
8 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Small is rather beautiful, and also deceptively deep, in Eric Caravaca’s family-history documentary “Plot 35.” Across its slender 65-minute running time it packs the emotional resonance of many a longer feature, if only because, as much as it does describe an arc of change (by its close, there is a photograph on a gravestone where previously there was a gaping absence), it also understands that not all questions have satisfactory answers, and no matter how directly we confront our loved ones, they are their own people, and their secrets belong to them. “Plot 35” doesn’t just explore a family tragedy — it explores the tragedy of family, the way that loving our parents is not the same as understanding them, just as for them, loving their children does not always mean telling them the truth.
It’s noteworthy that Caravaca is an established French actor (he also heads up Philippe Garrel »
- Jessica Kiang
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