by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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MOVIES - From YahooHuffPost: Eddie Murphy still regrets turning down the lead role in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
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POLITICS - From WashPost: Rep. Matt Shea, a Washington state GOP state legislator, has been found to have participated in a act of domestic terrorism.
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BOX OFFICE - From THR: At the Chinese box office, "The Rise of Skywalker" is being beaten by local blockbusters.
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STREAMING - From Variety: Hulu's planned TV series based on novelist Anne Rice's "Vampire Chronicles" book series (which begins with "Interview with a Vampire") is not happening. The rights are being shopped around... at a high price.
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TELEVISION - From Variety: Epix is producing a TV series based on Stephen King's short story, "Jerusalem's Lot." Adrien Brody is set to star.
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TELEVISION - From TheWrap: A jury has award 8.6 million dollars to the parents of John Bernecker, the stuntman who died in July 2017 during the filming of a stunt for "The Walking Dead."
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TRAILER - From SlashFilm: Here is the first official trailer for Christopher Nolan's next mind-bending film, "Tenet," with a breakdown of the contents of the trailer by the article's writer. "Tenet" opens July 17, 2020.
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Focus Features will distribute Paul Thomas Anderson's next film, an untitled high school film set in the 1970s. Anderson's previous film was the Oscar-nominated, "The Phantom Thread."
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MOVIES - From Esquire: Adam Sandler, getting rave reviews and Oscar buzz for his film, "Uncut Gems," says he got a phone call from Oscar-winning actor, Daniel Day-Lewis, who praised Sandler for his performance in the film.
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TELEVISION - From YahooEntertainment: Comedian/talk show host Wayne Brady is the winner of Fox's competition reality show, "The Masked Singer" Season Two.
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ANIMATION - From Variety: Dave Green will direct the animation/live-action hybrid, "Wile E. Coyote" movie, "Coyote vs Acme."
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MOVIES- From EW: The site has an exclusive first look at Christopher Nolan's secret film project, "Tenet," starring John David Washington and Robert Pattinson.
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TELEVISION - From Deadline: The CW is looking to reboot its former TV series, "The Game," which it debuted in 2006 and cancelled in 2009. BET revived the series, where it ran from from 2011 to 2015.
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STREAMING - From Deadline: Morfydd Clark has been cast as a young "Galadriel" in Amazon's "The Lord of the Rings." Galadriel is the character played by Cate Blanchett in Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy.
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MOVIES - From EW: Here, is a first look, some images from the third "Bill & Ted" film, "Bill & Ted Face the Music." The film, starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, is due August 21, 2020.
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POLITICS - From TheWhiteHouse: Well... President Trump to Speaker Pelosi.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions have tapped Keith Thomas to direct their "Firestarter" remake. Both the 1984 original film (which starred a 9-year-old Drew Barrymore) and the reboot are based on Stephen King's 1980 novel of the same name.
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MOVIES - From ScreenRant: David Ayer ("Suicide Squad") will direct Warner Bros' remake of "The Dirty Dozen" (1967), the classic World War II action film.
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DISNEY+ - From Variety: Disney+ is in early development of a TV series based on the 1989 Tom Hanks' man-dog buddy comedy, "Turner & Hooch."
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Viola Davis are among the actors added to Sandra Bullock's Netflix drama about life after incarceration.
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STAR TREK - From Variety: The streaming service, CBS All Access, has renewed "Star Trek: Picard" for a second season, although the first season has not yet debuted.
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MOVIES - From IndieWire: Quentin Tarantino is apparently leaving his R-rated "Star Trek" behind, and if he makes one more film, it will be "smaller."
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SCANDAL - From THR: Disgraced movie mogul, Harvey Weinstein, says that he is a "forgotten man," meaning people have forgotten the great things that he has done in the American movie business. Harvey is scheduled to go to trial in January 2020 for charges of rape, predatory sexual assault and criminal sexual act against two women.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 12/13 to 12/15/2019 weekend box office is "Jumanji: The Next Level" with an estimated take of 60.1 million dollars.
From Variety: "Frozen II" becomes the sixth Disney movie to reach one billion dollars in global box office in 2019.
From Variety: The Emilia Clarke-Henry Golding holiday film, "Last Christmas," has now grossed the 100 million dollar mark in global box office.
From Forbes: New box office release, "Richard Jewell" and "Black Christmas," fail in their box office debuts.
From Patreon: My "Queen & Slim" review.
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CELEBRITY - From BleedingCool: Did you know actor Samuel L. Jackson's voice can be your Amazon "Alexa" voice.
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SPORTS - From CBSSports: The 2019 Heisman Trophy winner as the best player in college football is Joe Burrows, quarterback for the #1 ranked LSU Tigers. Burrows, the second Louisiana State University football player to win the Heisman, won the award by the largest margin in the history of Heisman voting. His 2608 points were 1846 points higher than the second place finisher, Jalen Hurts, QB of the Oklahoma Sooners.
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MOVIES - From Vulture: Yes, what is the best Adam Sandler movie?
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Saturday, December 21, 2019
Saturday, July 6, 2019
Negromancer News Bits and Bites from July 1st to 6th, 2019 - Update #26
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SCANDAL - From THR: Celebrity sex offender and financier, Jeffrey Epstein, 66, has been arrested for sex trafficking of minors.
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TELEVISION - From THR: There has been an arrest (reportedly the handyman) in the strange case of the death of Dennis Day, 76, who was one of the founding members of the "Mickey Mouse Club."
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SCANDAL - From Deadline: The divorce between Amazon co-founders Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos has been finalized. MacKenzie gets 19.7 million shares of Amazon, which represent a 4% stake in Amazon and are valued at $38.3 billion. Jeff Bezos, who remains the founder and CEO, holds a 12% Amazon stake worth $114.8 billion, leaving him still the world’s wealthiest person.
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STREAMING - From HitFix: Netflix says it will cut down on depictions of people smoking cigarettes and such in its productions.
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BOX OFFICE - From Deadline: "Aladdin" has crossed the $900 million mark at the global box office.
POLITICS - From YahooNews: Captain America's Chris Evans tweets a July 4th message to counter President Trump's rhetoric.
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SCANDAL - From Deadline: The young man who accused Kevin Spacey of groping him has dropped his civil suit. The criminal case continues... for now.
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BOX OFFICE - From Deadline: "Spider-Man: Far From Home" looks to set a Marvel Cinematic Universe record for Wednesday box office.
From Patreon: My review of "Spider-Man: Far From Home."
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ECO - From BBC: A young female fox traveled 2176 miles from Norway to Canada, leaving scientists speechless.
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SCANDAL - From YahooEntertainment: Disgraced actor Jeremy Piven says that he is #MeToo collateral damage.
From YahooEntertainment: Speaking of which, in May, Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush won his defamation suit against Australia's Nationwide News which reported sexual harassment allegations against the actor.
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DISNEY - From Variety: R&B singer, Halle Bailey (Chloe x Halle), has been cast as Ariel in Disney's live-action remake of "The Little Mermaid."
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STREAMING - From Variety: Director J.A. Bayona ("Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom") will direct to episodes of Amazon's "Lord of the Rings" TV series.
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COMICS-FILM - From Variety: Warner Bros. is in talks with Andy Muschietti, director of "It," to direct its film, "The Flash," based on the DC Comics' character.
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COMICS-TELEVISION - From THR: "The Walking Dead" comic book series, which spawned AMC's "The Walking Dead" TV series, ends with a surprise finale.
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MOVIES - From ET: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are spotted filming the third installment of "Bill and Ted" film.
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ACADEMY AWARDS - From Variety: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which hands out the "Oscars," has announced the names of the 842 people invited to join the Academy. Half of the invitees are women. Current Academy membership counts 8,946 active members, with 8,733 eligible to vote on the Oscars. The total membership including retired members is 9,794. This year’s number falls short of 2018’s record of 928 invitations.
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Director Baz Lurhman is about to start testing young actors for his "Elvis Presley" film. The contenders are Ansel Elgort, ("The Fault in Our Stars" and "Baby Driver"), Miles Teller ("Fantastic Four," "Top Gun: Maverick"), Austin Butler (Quentin Tarantino’s "Once Upon a Time In Hollywood") Harry Styles (the former lead singer of the boy-band, One Direction, "Dunkirk").
BOX OFFICE - From THR: Movie theater box office is down midyear 2019 ten percent from midyear 2018.
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MUSIC - From YahooMusic: Rolling Stones' Bill Wyman talks about his late band mate, Brian Jones. On Wednesday, July 3rd, it will be the 50th anniversary of Jones' death.
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Wes Ball talks about "Mouse Guard," his $170 million film for Fox that was a casualty of the Disney/Fox deal, when Disney later decided not to finance the film.
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STREAMING - From Deadline: Netflix is near a deal with Warner Bros. TV to produce a television series based on the legendary DC Comics series, "The Sandman," which was written and co-created by Neil Gaiman. Gaiman would executive produce the series.
TRAILERS AND VIDEO:
From EW: Here is the first trailer for the "Rabid," a remake of the 1977 David Cronenberg film. The remake, directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska, will premiere at Frightfest in August.
From YouTube: Here is the first official trailer for director Rian Johnson's whodunit, "Knives Out."
OBITS:
From Variety: Actor Paul Benjamin died at the age of 81, Friday, June 28, 2019. Benjamin played "ML," one of the "men on the corner" in Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing." Another memorable role was "A Trip Upstate," the 11th episode in Season 2 of "In the Heat of the Night" in which Carroll O'Connor's Chief Bill Gillespie makes a trip upstate to witness the execution of Benjamin's George Brownlow, at the request of Brownlow.
From THR: Legendary French cinematographer, Pierre Lhomme, has died at the age of 89, Thursday, July 4, 2019. He was known for his work shooting films by such directors as Jean Pierre-Melville, Jean Eustache, Chris Marker, and James Ivory. He won two Cesar Awards.
From Variety: Comedian and actor, Arte Johnson, has died at the age of 90, Wednesday, July 3, 2019. He was best known for appearing on the 1960s-1970s sketch comedy show, "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" (1968-73). He won an Emmy Award for his work on the series and was nominated three more times.
From NFL: Former NFL quarterback Jared Lorenzen has died at the age of 38, Wednesday, July 3, 2019. Lorenzen, a standout of the University of Kentucky, was a back-up quarterback on the 2007 New York Giants team that won Super Bowl XLII 17 to 14 against the then-undefeated New England Patriots.
SCANDAL - From THR: Celebrity sex offender and financier, Jeffrey Epstein, 66, has been arrested for sex trafficking of minors.
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TELEVISION - From THR: There has been an arrest (reportedly the handyman) in the strange case of the death of Dennis Day, 76, who was one of the founding members of the "Mickey Mouse Club."
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SCANDAL - From Deadline: The divorce between Amazon co-founders Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos has been finalized. MacKenzie gets 19.7 million shares of Amazon, which represent a 4% stake in Amazon and are valued at $38.3 billion. Jeff Bezos, who remains the founder and CEO, holds a 12% Amazon stake worth $114.8 billion, leaving him still the world’s wealthiest person.
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STREAMING - From HitFix: Netflix says it will cut down on depictions of people smoking cigarettes and such in its productions.
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BOX OFFICE - From Deadline: "Aladdin" has crossed the $900 million mark at the global box office.
POLITICS - From YahooNews: Captain America's Chris Evans tweets a July 4th message to counter President Trump's rhetoric.
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SCANDAL - From Deadline: The young man who accused Kevin Spacey of groping him has dropped his civil suit. The criminal case continues... for now.
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BOX OFFICE - From Deadline: "Spider-Man: Far From Home" looks to set a Marvel Cinematic Universe record for Wednesday box office.
From Patreon: My review of "Spider-Man: Far From Home."
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ECO - From BBC: A young female fox traveled 2176 miles from Norway to Canada, leaving scientists speechless.
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SCANDAL - From YahooEntertainment: Disgraced actor Jeremy Piven says that he is #MeToo collateral damage.
From YahooEntertainment: Speaking of which, in May, Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush won his defamation suit against Australia's Nationwide News which reported sexual harassment allegations against the actor.
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DISNEY - From Variety: R&B singer, Halle Bailey (Chloe x Halle), has been cast as Ariel in Disney's live-action remake of "The Little Mermaid."
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STREAMING - From Variety: Director J.A. Bayona ("Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom") will direct to episodes of Amazon's "Lord of the Rings" TV series.
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COMICS-FILM - From Variety: Warner Bros. is in talks with Andy Muschietti, director of "It," to direct its film, "The Flash," based on the DC Comics' character.
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COMICS-TELEVISION - From THR: "The Walking Dead" comic book series, which spawned AMC's "The Walking Dead" TV series, ends with a surprise finale.
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MOVIES - From ET: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are spotted filming the third installment of "Bill and Ted" film.
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ACADEMY AWARDS - From Variety: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which hands out the "Oscars," has announced the names of the 842 people invited to join the Academy. Half of the invitees are women. Current Academy membership counts 8,946 active members, with 8,733 eligible to vote on the Oscars. The total membership including retired members is 9,794. This year’s number falls short of 2018’s record of 928 invitations.
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Director Baz Lurhman is about to start testing young actors for his "Elvis Presley" film. The contenders are Ansel Elgort, ("The Fault in Our Stars" and "Baby Driver"), Miles Teller ("Fantastic Four," "Top Gun: Maverick"), Austin Butler (Quentin Tarantino’s "Once Upon a Time In Hollywood") Harry Styles (the former lead singer of the boy-band, One Direction, "Dunkirk").
BOX OFFICE - From THR: Movie theater box office is down midyear 2019 ten percent from midyear 2018.
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MUSIC - From YahooMusic: Rolling Stones' Bill Wyman talks about his late band mate, Brian Jones. On Wednesday, July 3rd, it will be the 50th anniversary of Jones' death.
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Wes Ball talks about "Mouse Guard," his $170 million film for Fox that was a casualty of the Disney/Fox deal, when Disney later decided not to finance the film.
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STREAMING - From Deadline: Netflix is near a deal with Warner Bros. TV to produce a television series based on the legendary DC Comics series, "The Sandman," which was written and co-created by Neil Gaiman. Gaiman would executive produce the series.
TRAILERS AND VIDEO:
From EW: Here is the first trailer for the "Rabid," a remake of the 1977 David Cronenberg film. The remake, directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska, will premiere at Frightfest in August.
From YouTube: Here is the first official trailer for director Rian Johnson's whodunit, "Knives Out."
OBITS:
From Variety: Actor Paul Benjamin died at the age of 81, Friday, June 28, 2019. Benjamin played "ML," one of the "men on the corner" in Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing." Another memorable role was "A Trip Upstate," the 11th episode in Season 2 of "In the Heat of the Night" in which Carroll O'Connor's Chief Bill Gillespie makes a trip upstate to witness the execution of Benjamin's George Brownlow, at the request of Brownlow.
From THR: Legendary French cinematographer, Pierre Lhomme, has died at the age of 89, Thursday, July 4, 2019. He was known for his work shooting films by such directors as Jean Pierre-Melville, Jean Eustache, Chris Marker, and James Ivory. He won two Cesar Awards.
From Variety: Comedian and actor, Arte Johnson, has died at the age of 90, Wednesday, July 3, 2019. He was best known for appearing on the 1960s-1970s sketch comedy show, "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" (1968-73). He won an Emmy Award for his work on the series and was nominated three more times.
From NFL: Former NFL quarterback Jared Lorenzen has died at the age of 38, Wednesday, July 3, 2019. Lorenzen, a standout of the University of Kentucky, was a back-up quarterback on the 2007 New York Giants team that won Super Bowl XLII 17 to 14 against the then-undefeated New England Patriots.
Saturday, May 12, 2018
Negromancer News Bits and Bites from May 6th to 12th, 2018 - Update #8
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CANNES - From ScreenDaily: Cate Blanchett and Agnes Varda lead a silent protest at Cannes 2018 over the lack of female participation at the festival over its history.
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MOVIES - From TheVillageVoice: There is a documentary, "Filmworker," about Stanley Kubrick's right hand man, Leon Vitali.
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MOVIES - From TheRinger: Jordan Peele is not slowing down anytime soon.
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TELEVISION - From TheNewYorker: How Ryan Murphy Became the Most Powerful Man in TV
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MOVIES - From TheWrap: Burt Reynolds is in talks to join Quentin Tarantino's "Manson murders" film, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."
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MOVIES - From THR: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are teaming up for the long-awaited third "Bill & Ted," which is apparently being shopped around at 2018 Cannes Film Festival. The film is being called "Bill & Ted Face the Music."
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 5/4 to 5/6/2018 weekend box office is "Avengers: Infinity War" with an estimated take of $112.4 million.
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ANIMATION - From Offspring: How to introduce your kids to Studio Ghibli.
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MUSIC - From TheRinger: This article interviews members of (Black) rock band, Living Colour, on the 30th anniversary of the release of their hit debut LP, "Vivid," and the band's cult fave song, "Cult of Persoanlity."
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From Vulture: The Most Anticipated Movies at This Year’s Cannes Film Festival
TRAILERS-VIDEOS:
From YouTube: Child Gambino's "This is America" video for new single.
OBIT:
From LATimes: The former California Governor George Duekmejian has died at the age of 89, Tuesday, May 8th, 2018. Duekmejian was elected governor in 1982 and 1986 and was the first person of Armenian heritage to be elected governor in the U.S., and he remains the only one.
CANNES - From ScreenDaily: Cate Blanchett and Agnes Varda lead a silent protest at Cannes 2018 over the lack of female participation at the festival over its history.
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MOVIES - From TheVillageVoice: There is a documentary, "Filmworker," about Stanley Kubrick's right hand man, Leon Vitali.
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MOVIES - From TheRinger: Jordan Peele is not slowing down anytime soon.
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TELEVISION - From TheNewYorker: How Ryan Murphy Became the Most Powerful Man in TV
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MOVIES - From TheWrap: Burt Reynolds is in talks to join Quentin Tarantino's "Manson murders" film, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."
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MOVIES - From THR: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are teaming up for the long-awaited third "Bill & Ted," which is apparently being shopped around at 2018 Cannes Film Festival. The film is being called "Bill & Ted Face the Music."
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 5/4 to 5/6/2018 weekend box office is "Avengers: Infinity War" with an estimated take of $112.4 million.
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ANIMATION - From Offspring: How to introduce your kids to Studio Ghibli.
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MUSIC - From TheRinger: This article interviews members of (Black) rock band, Living Colour, on the 30th anniversary of the release of their hit debut LP, "Vivid," and the band's cult fave song, "Cult of Persoanlity."
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From Vulture: The Most Anticipated Movies at This Year’s Cannes Film Festival
TRAILERS-VIDEOS:
From YouTube: Child Gambino's "This is America" video for new single.
OBIT:
From LATimes: The former California Governor George Duekmejian has died at the age of 89, Tuesday, May 8th, 2018. Duekmejian was elected governor in 1982 and 1986 and was the first person of Armenian heritage to be elected governor in the U.S., and he remains the only one.
Friday, March 20, 2015
Negromancer News Bits and Bites for the Week of March 15th to 21st, 2015 - Update #19
NEWS:
From Variety: Joseph Gordon-Levitt to headline a live-action "Fraggle Rock" movie.
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From YahooMovies: First Spectre poster reveals new-look James Bond, but in a retro way.
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From YahooMovies: First Furious 7 review.
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From YahooMovies: Alex Winter at SXSW on "Bill & Ted 3."
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From RollingStone: The time Matt Taibbi saw American Sniper.
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From NYT: The much ado about nothing article about "The View."
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From Variety: The winner of the 3/13 to 3/15/2015 box office is Walt Disney's live-action Cinderella with an estimated take of $70.1 million.
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From RollingStone: Kevin Smith confirms a sequel to his early film, Mallrats.
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From YahooMovies: Classic heartthrob and actor, Tab Hunter, talks about his life and his SXSW doc.
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From YahooCelebrity: The Justin Bieber roast - one joke had him thinking "That shit ain't funny."
COMIC BOOKS - Movies and Comics:
From SlashFilm: Mark Millar's just-released comic book, Chrononauts, is currently being developed for feature film by Universal Pictures. I couldn't get a copy of the first issue because it was already sold out by the time I got to the store.
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From SlashFilm: Future flop, Deadpool, is supposedly actually filming right now, and is due in theaters, Feb. 12, 2016. Ryan Reynolds is back as Deadpool... unfortunately.
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From YahooMovies: New Avengers: Age of Ultron spot.
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From YahooMovies: Joss Whedon teases even more characters in Avengers: Age of Ultron.
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From NerdReactor: Don't say "F***, Marvel, Jason. Help Warner Bros. get like Marvel with their DC movies.
STAR WARS:
From ThePlaylist: J.J. Abrams may return to direct "Star Wars 9."
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From RopesofSilicon: Recent Oscar winner, Alexandre Desplat will reportedly score "Star Wars: Rogue One."
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From YahooMovies: Alan Dean Foster talks about his superb Star Wars novel, Splinter of the Mind's Eye."
TRAILERS:
From 20th Century Fox: Paper Towns trailer. The movie is based on a book by the author of The Fault in Our Stars.
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Keanu Reeves Set to Narrate Alex Winters' "Deep Web" Doc
Keanu Reeves to Narrate “Deep Web,” the Upcoming EPIX Original Documentary Investigating Ross Ulbricht — Convicted Creator and Operator of Online Black Market Silk Road
First time Keanu Reeves and director Alex Winter collaborate in 22 years
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Keanu Reeves has joined the anticipated new EPIX Original Documentary, Deep Web, as narrator. From director Alex Winter, the film chronicles one of the most important and riveting digital crime sagas of the century — the arrest of Ross William Ulbricht, the 30-year-old entrepreneur recently convicted of being 'Dread Pirate Roberts,' creator and operator of online black market Silk Road. This is the first time Reeves and Winter have worked together since 1993’s Freaked, which followed their co-starring roles in the successful Bill and Ted films. Deep Web will world premiere at South by Southwest this Sunday, March 15 and will make its World Television Premiere on EPIX Spring 2015. Content Media handles the film’s international sales and distribution.
“The Silk Road and trial of Ross Ulbricht involve many important and complex issues that impact the life of Mr. Ulbricht and us all.”
“I'm honored to be working with Alex Winter on his timely and vital documentary, Deep Web,” said Reeves. “The Silk Road and trial of Ross Ulbricht involve many important and complex issues that impact the life of Mr. Ulbricht and us all.”
Deep Web seeks to unravel a tangled web of secrecy, accusations, and criminal activity, and explores how the outcome of Ulbricht's trial will set a critical precedent for the future of technological freedom around the world. The film features exclusive interviews with the Ulbricht family, including Ross’ parents Lyn and Kirk Ulbricht. Additional interviewees include: Joshua Dratel, Ulbricht’s lawyer; Andy Greenberg, technology writer for Wired, author of This Machine Kills Secrets and the first reporter to interview “Dread Pirate Roberts”; Cody Wilson, a crypto-anarchist known for his development of the “3D printed gun;” Cindy Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation; James Chaparro, the former Assistant Director for Intelligence at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); and Christopher Soghoian, a privacy and online security advocate who works for ACLU as their principal technologist.
Deep Web is an EPIX Original Documentary written, directed and produced by Alex Winter with Marc Schiller and Glen Zipper also serving as producers. Winter and Schiller previously worked together on the documentary Downloaded, about the rise and fall of Napster. Zipper’s prior credits include the Academy Award® winning Undefeated and the Grammy Award® winning Foo Fighters: Back and Forth. Seth Gordon (Print the Legend, Mitt, Freakonomics and Undefeated) is the executive producer, Andy Greenberg is the consulting producer, and Dan Swietlik (Sicko and An Inconvenient Truth) is the editor. Jill Burkhart and Ross Bernard are the executive producers for EPIX.
About EPIX
EPIX is a premium movie and original programming entertainment service delivering the latest movie releases, classic film franchises, original documentaries, comedy and music events on TV, on demand, online and on devices. Launched in October 2009, EPIX has pioneered the development and proliferation of “TV Everywhere.” It was the first premium network to provide multi-platform access to its content online at EPIX.com and was the first premium network to launch on XBOX 360, PlayStation®, iOS, Android tablets, Windows 8.1 and Roku® players. EPIX is available to authenticated subscribers on hundreds of devices including Apple® iPads® and iPhones® and is the only premium service providing all its programming on all platforms, delivering more movies than any other premium network, with thousands of titles available for streaming.
EPIX is a joint venture between Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA and VIA.B), its Paramount Pictures unit, Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM). Through relationships with cable, satellite and telco partners, EPIX is available to over 50 million homes nationwide. For more information about EPIX, go to www.EPIX.com. Follow EPIX on Twitter @EpixHD (http://www.twitter.com/EpixHD) on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/EPIX), YouTube (http://youtube.com/EPIX), Instagram (http://instagram.com/EPIX), Google+ (http://plus.google.com/+EPIX), Pinterest (http://pinterest.com/EPIX) and Vine (https://vine.co/EPIX).
About Content Media Corporation
Content Media Corporation Ltd is a London and LA based private company that owns and distributes a significant library of film, television, and digital assets. The Company’s library of rights includes over 4,000 hours of television programming, 200 hours of digital programming and 275 feature films.
Content Media recently closed a multi-faceted deal with Bruno Wu’s Beijing-based Seven Stars Entertainment and Media, Ltd., in which Content acquired the Alive Group of companies allowing Content to distribute its extensive library of film and television rights through the Alive Group to the Chinese market, as well as a direct equity investment by Seven Stars into Content
The Film sales division launched in 2002 and represents high profile, commercial feature films with great artistic and theatrical ambition. In addition to handling worldwide sales, marketing, and publicity, the company assists film producers in securing financing.
In addition to “Deep Web,” Content’s impressive international sales slate includes two other highly anticipated documentaries - Academy Award® winning director Alex Gibney’s documentary “Going Clear: Scientology and The Prison of Belief”, and Rodney Ascher’s acclaimed horror documentary “The Nightmare.” Additional titles include the new action/thriller “Pandemic” starring Rachel Nichols, Mekhi Phifer, and Missi Pyle, and Alfie Allen; the intense horror film “The Diabolical” starring Ali Larter; the gripping drama “The Eichmann Show” starring Martin Freeman and Anthony LaPaglia; the uplifting emotional drama “Life at these Speeds” starring Billy Crudup, Graham Rogers and Sam Rockwell; Academy® Award winning director Mike van Diem’s return romantic comedy “The Surprise”; “Janis: Little Girl Blue” directed by Academy® Award nominated Amy Berg; the spy thriller “Newcomer” starring James Floyd and Anthony LaPaglia; the Caradog James directed supernatural thriller 'Don't Knock Twice'; the supernatural heist thriller “The Trust”; the extraordinary, moving and white-knuckle drive with one of the greatest movie stars of all time documentary “Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans”; Oscar Wilde's “The Canterville Ghost” voiced by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie; and the romantic comedy “Comet” starring Justin Long and Emmy Rossum.
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First time Keanu Reeves and director Alex Winter collaborate in 22 years
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Keanu Reeves has joined the anticipated new EPIX Original Documentary, Deep Web, as narrator. From director Alex Winter, the film chronicles one of the most important and riveting digital crime sagas of the century — the arrest of Ross William Ulbricht, the 30-year-old entrepreneur recently convicted of being 'Dread Pirate Roberts,' creator and operator of online black market Silk Road. This is the first time Reeves and Winter have worked together since 1993’s Freaked, which followed their co-starring roles in the successful Bill and Ted films. Deep Web will world premiere at South by Southwest this Sunday, March 15 and will make its World Television Premiere on EPIX Spring 2015. Content Media handles the film’s international sales and distribution.
“The Silk Road and trial of Ross Ulbricht involve many important and complex issues that impact the life of Mr. Ulbricht and us all.”
“I'm honored to be working with Alex Winter on his timely and vital documentary, Deep Web,” said Reeves. “The Silk Road and trial of Ross Ulbricht involve many important and complex issues that impact the life of Mr. Ulbricht and us all.”
Deep Web seeks to unravel a tangled web of secrecy, accusations, and criminal activity, and explores how the outcome of Ulbricht's trial will set a critical precedent for the future of technological freedom around the world. The film features exclusive interviews with the Ulbricht family, including Ross’ parents Lyn and Kirk Ulbricht. Additional interviewees include: Joshua Dratel, Ulbricht’s lawyer; Andy Greenberg, technology writer for Wired, author of This Machine Kills Secrets and the first reporter to interview “Dread Pirate Roberts”; Cody Wilson, a crypto-anarchist known for his development of the “3D printed gun;” Cindy Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation; James Chaparro, the former Assistant Director for Intelligence at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); and Christopher Soghoian, a privacy and online security advocate who works for ACLU as their principal technologist.
Deep Web is an EPIX Original Documentary written, directed and produced by Alex Winter with Marc Schiller and Glen Zipper also serving as producers. Winter and Schiller previously worked together on the documentary Downloaded, about the rise and fall of Napster. Zipper’s prior credits include the Academy Award® winning Undefeated and the Grammy Award® winning Foo Fighters: Back and Forth. Seth Gordon (Print the Legend, Mitt, Freakonomics and Undefeated) is the executive producer, Andy Greenberg is the consulting producer, and Dan Swietlik (Sicko and An Inconvenient Truth) is the editor. Jill Burkhart and Ross Bernard are the executive producers for EPIX.
About EPIX
EPIX is a premium movie and original programming entertainment service delivering the latest movie releases, classic film franchises, original documentaries, comedy and music events on TV, on demand, online and on devices. Launched in October 2009, EPIX has pioneered the development and proliferation of “TV Everywhere.” It was the first premium network to provide multi-platform access to its content online at EPIX.com and was the first premium network to launch on XBOX 360, PlayStation®, iOS, Android tablets, Windows 8.1 and Roku® players. EPIX is available to authenticated subscribers on hundreds of devices including Apple® iPads® and iPhones® and is the only premium service providing all its programming on all platforms, delivering more movies than any other premium network, with thousands of titles available for streaming.
EPIX is a joint venture between Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA and VIA.B), its Paramount Pictures unit, Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM). Through relationships with cable, satellite and telco partners, EPIX is available to over 50 million homes nationwide. For more information about EPIX, go to www.EPIX.com. Follow EPIX on Twitter @EpixHD (http://www.twitter.com/EpixHD) on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/EPIX), YouTube (http://youtube.com/EPIX), Instagram (http://instagram.com/EPIX), Google+ (http://plus.google.com/+EPIX), Pinterest (http://pinterest.com/EPIX) and Vine (https://vine.co/EPIX).
About Content Media Corporation
Content Media Corporation Ltd is a London and LA based private company that owns and distributes a significant library of film, television, and digital assets. The Company’s library of rights includes over 4,000 hours of television programming, 200 hours of digital programming and 275 feature films.
Content Media recently closed a multi-faceted deal with Bruno Wu’s Beijing-based Seven Stars Entertainment and Media, Ltd., in which Content acquired the Alive Group of companies allowing Content to distribute its extensive library of film and television rights through the Alive Group to the Chinese market, as well as a direct equity investment by Seven Stars into Content
The Film sales division launched in 2002 and represents high profile, commercial feature films with great artistic and theatrical ambition. In addition to handling worldwide sales, marketing, and publicity, the company assists film producers in securing financing.
In addition to “Deep Web,” Content’s impressive international sales slate includes two other highly anticipated documentaries - Academy Award® winning director Alex Gibney’s documentary “Going Clear: Scientology and The Prison of Belief”, and Rodney Ascher’s acclaimed horror documentary “The Nightmare.” Additional titles include the new action/thriller “Pandemic” starring Rachel Nichols, Mekhi Phifer, and Missi Pyle, and Alfie Allen; the intense horror film “The Diabolical” starring Ali Larter; the gripping drama “The Eichmann Show” starring Martin Freeman and Anthony LaPaglia; the uplifting emotional drama “Life at these Speeds” starring Billy Crudup, Graham Rogers and Sam Rockwell; Academy® Award winning director Mike van Diem’s return romantic comedy “The Surprise”; “Janis: Little Girl Blue” directed by Academy® Award nominated Amy Berg; the spy thriller “Newcomer” starring James Floyd and Anthony LaPaglia; the Caradog James directed supernatural thriller 'Don't Knock Twice'; the supernatural heist thriller “The Trust”; the extraordinary, moving and white-knuckle drive with one of the greatest movie stars of all time documentary “Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans”; Oscar Wilde's “The Canterville Ghost” voiced by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie; and the romantic comedy “Comet” starring Justin Long and Emmy Rossum.
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Review: "The Lost Boys" is Eternally Youthful and Forever a Winner
The Lost Boys (1987)
Opening date: July 31, 1987
Running time: 97 minutes
MPAA – R
DIRECTOR: Joel Schumacher
WRITERS: Janice Fischer & James Jeremias and Jeffrey Boam, story by Janice Fischer & James Jeremias
PRODUCER: Harvey Bernhard
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Michael Chapman
EDITOR: Robert Brown
HORROR/COMEDY
Starring: Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, Edward Herrmann, Bernard Hughes, Kiefer Sutherland, and Dianne Wiest, Jamison Newlander, Brooke McCarter, Billy Wirth, Alex (Alexander) Winter, and Chance Michael Corbitt
“Sleep all day. Party all night. It’s fun to be a vampire.” was the tagline to The Lost Boys, a Joel Schumacher film that heavily re-imagines J.M. Barrie’s classic play and novel, Peter Pan. The film was a minor hit back when it was released in 1987, but the film has become even more popular (even a kind of cult hit) through its release on home video and later DVD, and its numerous appearances on various cable TV channels. The Lost Boys
also cleverly tweaks and twists some classic vampire myths, folklore, and legends – including some that were invented by Hollywood.Financial troubles force recent divorcee Lucy Emerson (Dianne Wiest) and her two teenage sons, Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam Emerson (Corey Haim), to move to Santa Carla, CA (actually filmed in Santa Cruz, CA) to live with her father (Bernard Hughes). At first, her younger son, Sam laughs off the rumors of vampires in Santa Carla that he hears from the two brothers, Edgar (Corey Feldman) and Alan Frog, (Jamison Newlander) who run their parents comic book shop on the Santa Carla Boardwalk. However, when Michael starts acting strange (stays out all night, sleeps all day, and tries to attack Sam) and showing classic signs of vampirism, Sam joins forces with the Frog Brothers to find and destroy the head vampire, which she free Michael of the vampire’s curse. Meanwhile, Michael has fallen for a half-vampire teenager named Star (Jami Gertz) and promises to help her and half-vampire boy, Laddie Thompson (Chance Michael Corbitt), for whom she cares. He’s also fallen in with a quartet of brash, teen vampires led by the charismatic David (Kiefer Sutherland).
I’ve seen The Lost Boys so many times, and I’m such a big fan that I don’t know if I can fairly review it for a viewer who hasn’t seen it. Heck, I’d recommend it to anybody. What do I like about it? Hmmm, where to start? It’s a fun, comic horror film, and puts a hip, cool spin on vampires – as they relate to Hollywood productions. It was not quite an MTV-type movie, but it did tap into the early to mid-80’s youth, cultural zeitgeist, if only to get some nice establishing shots of Santa Carla’s youth. Tapping into the style of young people in the mid-80’s also resulted in some flashy costumes of The Lost Boys’ teen characters. Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, and Jamison Newlander looked as if they’d step off the set of a Lionel Richie video (for either of the songs “All Night Long” or “Dancing on the Ceiling”). Jami Gertz and the Lost Boys (even the little half-vampire boy, Laddie) have mounds of big hair to go with the puffy shirts, faux Pirates of Penzance costumes, and Amadeus-vomit-leather ensembles. Somehow, it all looks and feels right – especially the handsome and alluring Kiefer Sutherland who plays a kind of teen rebel/pied piper vampire. He’s the real Peter Pan in this Lost Boys set.
As far as the filmmaking goes: Thomas Newman’s score is a smooth, crisp, and tight suite of music to suggest creepiness. The rewrites that director Joel Schumacher demanded of the original script (and likely done by Jeffrey Boam) turned the story into a tight little thriller with a slight fairy tale feel to it. Once upon a time, two boys and their mother moved to a town of vampires… and everybody was hip, cool, and now.
8 of 10
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