Month: March 2022

“My favorite book growing up was Harriet the Spy,” Erika Krouse says, speaking by phone from her home in Colorado. “It’s funny because that’s what I ended up doing. [Harriet] wanted to be a writer, and she wanted to be a spy, and I did too.” In 2002, years after Krouse’s Harriet the Spy phase,
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American director David Dodson talks about directing Zelensky in three films and watching him secretly campaign for president.  By Michael Idov March 4, 2022 Courtesy of Maya Maksimova A rare bright spot amid the nightmare Putin’s Russia unleashed on the world last week has been the steady, fearless, and subtly wry leadership of Ukraine’s president,
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Los Angeles local Amy Smart was in her early 20s when she blasted her way into the entertainment biz back in 2000 with some top-notch breakout roles including the college hottie Beth — who gets involved in a wild night of partying, sex and camcorders — in the 2000 college comedy “Road Trip.” Around that
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Gigi Hadid told her followers that she’s making generous donations from PFW ‘to aid those suffering’ in both Ukraine and Palestine. Gigi Hadid is the latest celebrity to pledge her support towards the people of Ukraine. The 26-year-old model took to Instagram on Sunday, March 6 and promised that her earnings from Paris Fashion Week 2022
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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+’s international drama commissioning spree continues and Deadline can reveal New Pictures/Viacom International Studios (VIS) thriller The Blue, with filming set to commence in Thailand later this year. The Blue comes fresh off the back of announcements for UK shows Flatshare, Kenneth Branagh’s A Gentleman in Moscow and the Sexy Beast remake, along with dramas from Germany and South Korea,
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EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of AMC CEO Adam Aron’s announcement during a recent earnings call that he’s raised ticket prices specifically on The Batman, there are some studio executives and producers who are miffed. It’s an audacious move at a time when moviegoing is desperate for a rebound following a financially disastrous pandemic, which saw circuits
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An Oscar nominee for Best International Feature, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom marks a first for the country of Bhutan, which has only ever submitted two films for consideration (and actually entered Lunana two years in a row following its earlier disqualification on a technicality). Filmmaker Pawo Choyning Dorji and star Sherab Dorji joined
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Hot on the heels of the 2022 SAG Awards, the 37th Film Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best independent films and television series of 2021, kicked off Sunday, March 6 in Santa Monica, Calif. Traditionally held the Saturday before the Academy Awards, the 2022 date marks a shift in the season, placing the Spirit Awards front and center leading
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For most of her adult life, Britney Spears’ social media use was carefully monitored by the conniving manipulators who controlled her conservatorship. Prior to that, her public life was strictly controlled by a team of handlers who ensured that she projected the most profitable image possible at all possible. So in a sense, we’re just
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This week, Hulu’s The Dropout premiered. This adaptation of Elizabeth Homes’s story features Amanda Seyfried as Holmes and actor Naveen Andrews playing Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, the Theranos founder’s much older ex-boyfriend. Holmes hired Balwani as the president of her company and then the COO before its very public crash. The big promise of Theranos was
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