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IndieWire: The National Board of Review has announced its 2019 film awards and name Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman" as its "Best Film of 2019."
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THR: Disney is developing its first spinoff from its hit, live-action film, "Aladdin." The Disney+ project would focus on "Prince Anders," the dim-witted royal who wanted to marry Jasmine. Actor Billy Magnussen, who played the role in the film, would return for the spinoff.
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THR: HBO has picked up Adam McKay's drama about the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers of the professional basketball league, the National Basketball Association (NBA). McKay is executive producing the series that would focus on the "Showtime" era of the Lakers, led by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson.
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Deadline: Jason Reitman's "Ghostbusters" film now has a title, "Ghostbusters: Afterlife." There is also a first poster for the film, which is scheduled for a July 10, 2020 release. There may also be a first trailer of some sort released Mon. Dec. 9th.
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POLITICS - From
TheHill: Oscar-nominated actor, Mark Ruffalo, endorses Senator Bernie Sanders in the 2020 U.S. presidential race.
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YahooNews: Georgia college student, Tommia Dean, and a representative of Georgia's Department of Administrative Services have signed a settlement that gives Dean $145,000. Dean, a former Kennesaw State University cheerleader, was disciplined for taking a knee during the national anthem during a September 2017 football game.
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YahooGMA: "Star Wars" actress Daisy Ridley says that she does not take selfies with fans for reasons of privacy.
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TheDailyBeast: The Egyptian-born, Canadian actor, Mena Massoud, played "Aladdin," in Disney's billion-dollar-grossing live-action remake, "Aladdin." Massoud says that he has not been able to get an audition since Aladdin debuted in theaters.
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JAMES BOND-TRAILER - From
THR: The first official trailer for the next James Bond movie, "No Time to Die," makes it debut.
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MOVIES - From
THR: 20th Century Fox has reportedly hired Wes Ball, the filmmaker behind "The Maze Runner" series, to redevelop the "Planet of the Apes" franchise. This would be the first historically Fox property to get the redevelopment treatment since the Walt Disney Company acquired Fox.
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Variety: The New York Film Critics Circle name "The Irishman" the "best film of 2019."
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SPORTS - From
NBA: Los Angeles Lakers Coach Frank Vogel has been named the "NBA Western Conference Coach of the Month" for game played in October and November 2019.
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JAMES BOND - From
Newsarama: There are new character posters for the next James Bond film, "No Time to Die." The film is due April 8, 2020.
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COMICS-FILM TRAILER - From
EW: Marvel Studios releases the first official teaser trailer and a poster for its next feature film, "Black Widow," which is set for release, May 1, 2020.
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Deadline: The winners of the 2019 IFP "Gotham Awards" were announced last night (Mon., Dec. 2nd). Noah Baumbach's "Marriage Story" won four awards including for "best feature," "best actor" (Adam Driver), and "best screenplay."
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MOVIES - From
Deadline: Two-time Oscar-winner Alexander Payne is attached to a "re-imagining" of the Oscar-winning Danish film, "Babette's Feast" (1987).
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SCANDAL - From
Deadline: The actor's union, SAG-AFTRA, has gotten involved in Gabrielle Union's firing from the reality competition TV series, "America's Got Talent" (NBC)," by launching their on probe.
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Deadline: The nominations for the 47th / 2020 Annie Awards have been announced. The Annies are considered the most important honor in the animation film industry... after the Academy Awards, which currently dedicates two Oscars to animated filmmaking.
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BOX OFFICE - From
BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 11/29 to 12/1/2019 weekend box office is "Frozen 2" with an estimated take of 85.2 million dollars.
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Variety: "Frozen 2" grossed 123.7 million dollars over the five-day Thanksgiving 2019 weekend. That is a record for that frame, besting previous record holder, "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" (2013), which made 109 million dollars over the five-day period.
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IndependentUK: 2019 seems to be the year directors and stars of film bombs and flops have been apologizing in public for them. Why? The article offers a reason.
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TorontoSun: The "Toronto Sun" suggests 10 films to see this month, in December 2019.
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AVATAR - From
Deadline: The "Avatar" sequel marks the end of filming for 2019 with a set photo.
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ECO - From
Deadline: Leonardo DiCaprio responds to the ridiculous claims from Jair Bolsonaro, president of Brazil, that the Oscar-winning actor is bankrolling the fires currently raging through the Amazon rain forest.
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OBITS:
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Deadline: Veteran TV and film executive and producer,
Leonard Goldberg, has died at the age of 85, Wednesday, December 4, 2019. He was the former president of 20th Century Fox and Head of Programming at ABC. Goldberg was an executive producer of such TV series as "Charlie’s Angels" (1976-1981) and "Blue Bloods" (2010 to present).
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Deadline: The actor,
Robert Walker, Jr., has died at the age of 79, Thursday, December 5, 2019. He was the son of Hollywood stars, Robert Walker (best known for Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train") and Jennifer Jones (who won an Oscar for her performance in "The Song of Bernadette"). Although he made numerous film and TV appearances, Walker is best known for appearing in the "Charlie X," the second episode of the first season of the original "Star Trek" TV series.
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THR: Television writer Dorothy Catherine Fontana, better known as
D.C. Fontana, has died at the age of 80, Monday, December 2, 2019. Once a secretary, Fontana moved into writing scripts for television in the 1960s. She is best known for her association with the original "Star Trek" TV series, being credited for writing or co-writing 10 episodes and working as the series "story editor" for the first two seasons.
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Deadline: Actress
Shelley Morrison has died at the age of 83, Sunday, December 1, 2019. She had a 50-year career in film and television, but Morrison was best known for playing fan-favorite character, "Rosario Salazar," on the NBC television series, "Will & Grace" (1999-2006).
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BBC: The African-American songwriter and musician, Irving Louis Burgie - better known as
Lord Burgess - has died at the age of 95, Friday, November 29, 2019. Burgess is best known for co-writing a version of the Jamaican folk song, "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)," that Harry Belafonte made famous. He also wrote eight of the 11 songs on Belafonte's 1956 album, Calypso, which was the first album to sell one million copies.
