Month: October 2023

Never split your tens is a bedrock rule of blackjack. For filmmakers, the rule may be never split your source material. In a People interview, The Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence rued that the final films of the series based on the Suzanne Collins books were split into two movies. “I totally regret it,” filmmaker
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A new volume from the master spy novelist’s longtime biographer reveals a string of the author’s previously unreported affairs. In this exclusive excerpt, le Carré begins a correspondence with a fan and aspiring fiction writer that eventually shows how tightly his work and his emotional life were intertwined. By Adam Sisman October 20, 2023
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[10/16/2023 – Los Angeles, CA / Brisbane, Australia] 90’s pop icon Vanilla Ice stars as himself alongside Australia’s darling Sophie Monk, who is also playing herself in the upcoming action-comedy, “Zombie Plane”. Radioactive and Entertainment Squad (subsidiary of Studio Dome) revealed this morning in The Hollywood Reporter the cast which includes Chuck Norris, starring as
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Taylor Swift will return to her Eras Tour next month for her international leg, while Travis Kelce will continue his NFL season. Busy work schedules and long distance won’t halt their romance though, a source told Entertainment Tonight. Kelce is already planning to attend some international Eras Tour dates, specifically during Swift’s three-night stint performing
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What would Hansel and Gretel be like as adults? Kell Woods’ inventive retelling explores the answer to this question, following Hans and Margareta “Greta” Rosenthal as down-on-their-luck German peasants struggling to make a living in a world still recovering from the Thirty Years’ War. Greta has never felt like she fit into Lindenfeld, a little
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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar and BAFTA-winning VFX firm Framestore has hired industry veteran and former MPC exec Gary Brozenich. He will take up the new position of international production supervisor.  Brozenich spent 22 years at MPC and has worked on box office tentpoles such as Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, The Lone Ranger, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil,
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Thanks, George. But your proposal to take the cap off union dues in order to end SAG-AFTRA‘s strike isn’t legally compatible with the union’s contract. So said SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher in a video posted to Instagram in response to George Clooney and other A-List actors‘offer to pay more into the union coffers. The Clooney
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Malaysian filmmaker Amanda Nell Eu has distanced herself from the cut of her feature film Tiger Stripes, which is being released theatrically in Malaysia on October 19 for one week in an Oscars-qualifying run.  The film, which Malaysia has submitted as its entry for the Best International Feature category of the Academy Awards, also won
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Burt Young, the Oscar-nominated actor who played Paulie, the rough-hewn, mumbling-and-grumbling best friend, corner-man and brother-in-law to Sylvester Stallone in the Rocky franchise, has died. Young died Oct. 8 in Los Angeles, his daughter, Anne Morea Steingieser, told the New York Times on Wednesday. No cause was given. He was 83. Young had roles in
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The Ohio rep told colleagues on Thursday he will support giving interim Speaker Patrick McHenry the job through January 3, while he attempts to shore up support to ultimately win the gig. It’s not clear that the colleagues who were subject to strong-arm tactics the first time around will be convincible.  By Bess Levin October 19,
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Writer and actor Mark Gatiss (Dracula, A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story) is keeping the Christmas ghost story tradition going with Lot No. 249, a new BBC adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle‘s short story. Deadline reports that Gatiss will reunite with “Game of Thrones” alum Kit Harrington for the project. Lot No. 249 will air
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