Saturday, July 7, 2018

Negromancer News Bits and Bites from July 1st to 7th, 2018 - Update #15

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TELEVISION - From BleedingCool:  Don Mancini thanks fans for supporting a TV series based on the "Child's Play" film.  MGM is moving ahead of a reboot of the film series without the involvement of Mancini and "Chucky" film series producer, David Kirschner.

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LGBTQ - From HarpersBizarre:  Scarlett Johansson Faces Major Backlash for Being Cast as a Trans Man in a New Movie

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MOVIES - From Variety:  The "Gundam" giant-robot franchise is getting a live action movie.

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MOVIES - From Deadline:  Idris Elba will play the villain in Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham's "Fast & Furious" spinoff, "Hobbs and Shaw."

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COMICS-FILM - From SlashFilm:  Nicolas Cage joins voice cast of Sony's "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse."

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MOVIES - From JoBlo:  The prequel film to the television series, "The Soprano's" (HBO), has a director, Alan Taylor.

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MOVIES - From Variety:  Miles Teller will play "Goose's" son in the Top Gun sequel, "Top Gun: Maverick."

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SPORTS - From ESPN:  Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is one of several highly-successful entertainers and athletes helping the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers rebuild their winning culture.

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DISNEY - From TechCrunch:  Disney Imagineering has created autonomous robot stunt doubles

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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo:  The winner of the 6/29 to 7/1/2018 weekend box office is "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" with an estimated take of $60 million.

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SPORTS - From YahooSports:  July 1st in "Bobby Bonilla Day."

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CULTURE - From Jacobin:  "The Rise of Bullshit Jobs."  Comes with definition of "bullshit jobs" which are different from "shit jobs."

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MOVIES - From VanityFair:  Michael Moore talks about his upcoming President Trump documentary, "Fahrenheit 11/9."

From TheDailyBeast:  Another piece about Moore's "Fahrenheit 11/9."  Michael Moore says, "We Have to ‘Put Our Bodies on the Line’ to Stop Trump."

OBITS:

From Variety:  The cartoonist and comic book writer-artist Steve Ditko died at the age of 90, sometime in late June.  His death just came to light today, Friday, July 6th, 2018.  Ditko is best known for co-creating Spider-Man and Doctor Strange with comic book writer-editor, Stan Lee.

From Deadline:  Former MSNBC host, Ed Schultz, died at the age of 64, Thursday, July 5, 2018.  He was currently working for RT America.


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