Month: December 2021

Apax Capital Group, a new film fund backed by the Italian government, an Italian insurer and a consortium of other investors, says it plans to spend €1.5 billion (about $1.7 billion) over 10 years on films shot and/or completed in Europe, primarily Italy. The venture is led by producer Yona Wiesenthal (Shtisel, Footnote, Beaufort, Allegiance,
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Joan Didion died at home in New York this morning at 87 from complications of Parkinson’s Disease, said Knopf, her publisher. Her accolades included a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and being a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, among many others. She also wrote one of the first mainstream media articles
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Planning your Christmas Day outfits? It’s the ideal time to follow the fashion formula effortlessly stylish dressers swear by: the high/low mix. It’s easy! Just take something boujee then wear it with something more basic.  I’ve always adored planning a festive *lewk* that is jolly – but not kitsch – and cosy, yet not casual.
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Content Warning: This article contains PLOT SPOILERS for the Disney+ show Hawkeye. If there’s one thing that differentiates Disney+’s Hawkeye from the rest of the MCU series released this year, it’s the show’s brutally honest portrayal of Clint Barton’s experience as a superhero. This approach doesn’t sit well with some fans who have expressed their unpopular
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Stay in and catch up on all the new shows and movies your timeline won’t shut up about. By Nathaniel Houston December 22, 2021 The last two weeks of the year, otherwise known as “the holidays,” are always a good time to stay inside, lay low and catch up on the entertainment that end of
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UPDATE 12/23: LA County’s Public Health Department has updated their Covid Outbreak database to include 21 cases at WME’s Beverly Hills headquarters. The positive tests were produced last week, resulting in the agency closing the office, with employees working remotely for a couple of days until the start of agency’s holiday break this past Monday.
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The fury with which public-health experts greeted Psaki’s comments reflected their longstanding frustration with an administration that, in their view, has put almost all its focus on vaccinating the American public, at the expense of other critical aspects of the response, from getting shots into arms overseas to making high-quality masks widely available. The rapid-test
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“Deliver a good entertainment, and the audience will come.” That’s what the venerable director Robert Wise told me after defying Hollywood doubters with his hit musical West Side Story (yes, the 1961 version). Courtly and gracious, Wise also was a tough realist who, following his success, decided to turn to disaster movies like The Hindenburg and
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The shadowy, untamed forests of Lower Saxony provide a suitably eerie backdrop for Dark Woods, the latest German crime drama to hit British screens. Even in the summer, the tall evergreens block out the sun, leaving walkers feeling disorientated. Add some weird, primeval sculptures and the desiccated corpses of a couple who were bound, shot
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Three big event movies –Illumination/Universal’s Sing 2, Warner Bros’ Matrix Resurrections, and 20th Century Studios’ The King’s Man– were no match for Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home which continued to dominate Wednesday with an amazing $27.8M. The Jon Watts-directed MCU title has a running U.S/Canadian total of $356.5M over six days, which is the third best for that
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Sky Studios has signed a development deal with Be Water producer Dorothy Street Pictures to co-produce a slate of high-end series and feature docs mainly told from the female gaze. The projects that arise from the partnership will target Sky’s factual channels across Europe and Sky’s owner Comcast’s distributor NBCUniversal will take a first-look option for
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News Watch the LCD Soundsystem Holiday Special on Amazon Prime Video Starring Macaulay Culkin, Aparna Nancherla, and director Eric Wareheim as James Murphy By Nina Corcoran December 22, 2021 Facebook Twitter LCD Soundsystem, photo by Amazon Music Facebook Twitter LCD Soundsystem’s new special, the LCD Soundsystem Holiday Special, just premiered on Amazon Music’s Twitch channel
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If you sat around for the end credits sequence on Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, you’ve already seen this trailer for Disney/Marvel’s Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness and know what will be happening to Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) after casting that nasty spell for Peter Parker that messes with the multiverse. It’s clear that the
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