He’ll be back: Netflix and Skynet Skydance are collaborating to turn the iconic Terminator franchise into an anime series. Netflix will be producing the series with The series is being produced with with Japanese animation studio Production I.G., which has produced the Ghost in the Shell series, Guilty Crown, Psycho-Pass, and Eden of the East,
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“We fixed it!” Amy Poehler exclaimed after best supporting actor winner Daniel Kaluuya conquered a bad connection and was finally able to give his acceptance speech. She was, of course, referring to Kaluuya’s video conference issue. But one could almost hear the Hollywood Foreign Press Association saying it through Poehler, issuing a sigh of relief
This story is part of GQ’s Modern Lovers issue. GQ: You’ve been writing about climate change and environmental disasters for more than 15 years. How has that shaped the way you think about love?NAOMI KLEIN: Love, broadly defined, is central to whether or not we are going to survive the shocks ahead. I think the
Awards season starts out Sunday night with the 2021 Golden Globes, the 78th version of the annual TV-and-movies ceremony — though this’ll be an unusual one. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ceremony was delayed two months; normally taking place in January as the first awards show of the season, for the first time, this
Wearing Gucci. Andra Day By Myriam Santos/Courtesy of HFPA. Kate Hudson A flash Q&A with Kate Hudson What are you most looking forward to from this year’s show? Well, that’s actually a hard question to answer because we’re doing the show remotely, so I don’t even know what to expect or what’s ahead of us,
If you came of age musically in the 1970s and ’80s, you probably spent a lot of money on audio equipment. And I mean a lot. If you’re a guy — and this was an overwhelmingly male thing — a sizeable portion of your disposable income went to things like speakers, amps, turntables, tape decks,
If you’ve been a fan of English folk rock band Mumford & Sons since their early days, you probably know of their lead singer, Marcus Mumford. But not everyone was singing “Little Lion Man” at the top of their lungs in 2010 or spent way too much money on tickets to their “Gentlemen of the
Paris Hilton appeared on Friday’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to hype her new podcast This is Paris and accept some congratulations concerning her recent engagement to her venture capitalist boyfriend Carter Reum. (“I mean, stop it, right now …” Jimmy Fallon gushed while looking at the lovely down-on-one-knee snaps.) In Hilton’s recent biographical
Saturday Night Live (SNL) took aim at America’s rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine in its newest cold-open, this time using a game show hosted by the country’s top public health doctor in order to determine who gets inoculated next. Hosted by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the show featured three U.S. governors as judges and several contestants
[embedded content] Ever since Game of Thrones ended in 2019, studios have been scrambling to find the next fantasy series with global appeal. Amazon Prime is working on their Lord of the Rings series, HBO is developing multiple GOT spinoffs and prequels, and now Netflix is placing their bets on Shadow and Bone, a new
On Monday Governor Cuomo made a surprise announcement that movie theaters in America’s biggest market, New York City, could reopen on March 5. They would be restricted to 25 percent capacity, with no more than 50 people per screen, and audience members would be asked to wear masks and maintain social distancing. Further guidelines of
There’s no shortage of good crime dramas to watch or rewatch—Breaking Bad, Ozark, Sopranos, The Shield, The Wire, Fargo, and True Detective (all three seasons, to be honest). And you can never forget the infinite catalog of CSI and Law and Order episodes which are perfect for lazy Sundays and lulling you to sleep after
Prince Harry said he and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, stepped back from their royal duties because of the toll that British tabloids were taking on their mental health, in his first interview since the couple’s high-profile move to North America. “It was destroying my mental health,” Harry told British TV host James
On Friday, Joe Biden’s administration released a CIA report concerning the murder of Saudi dissident (and U.S. resident) Jamal Khashoggi that confirmed what everyone has known for more than two years: The grisly killing was approved by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has continually denied that he had anything to do with it, claiming
Lady Gaga’s two French bulldogs, which were stolen by thieves who shot and wounded the dog walker, were recovered unharmed Friday, Los Angeles police said. A woman brought the dogs to the LAPD’s Olympic Community Police Station, just northwest of downtown, around 6 p.m, said Capt. Jonathan Tippet, commanding officer of the department’s elite Robbery-Homicide
Let’s talk about WandaVision’s Agatha, now that we know more about her. ** Spoilers for WandaVision‘s “Previously On” lie within.** Agatha Harkness has been around for a long time, not just in the life of Wanda Maximoff but in general, and this week’s episode of Marvel’s WandaVision showed us her struggle for power and the life she’s led. This
Executives from Canada’s major broadcasters and a Netflix official spoke before a parliamentary committee on Friday, saying changes need to be made to bring Canada’s broadcasting landscape into the 21st century. Read more: Liberals propose new rules for streaming platforms like Netflix, Spotify Where they differed, however, was in how best to go about it.
You would think doing business with Saudi Arabia has always been a dicey proposition for many of America’s biggest and best-known corporations, what with, among other human rights violations, the Saudis’ penchant for impromptu incarcerations, random killings, and the second-class treatment afforded most women in the oil-rich nation. But it really wasn’t. Most American corporations did
You mentioned in an article with your fiancée [poet Rachel Rabbit White] that in terms of writing you’re “fucking miserable if I’m not doing it.” Has that changed at all? And do you and Rachel bounce ideas off one another? I try to write every day. I always try to get something out of it.
What are some projects that you wanted to try aside from music? Permaculture, farming, cirque du soleil, cob building, park ranger, woofing around the world (woofing is Live and learn on organic and sustainable properties) Honestly there’s so many curiosities we all have as individuals and as a group. Life is full of endless possibilities as
As the Grammys once again snubbed several racialized artists, some wonder if music’s biggest night still matters. Several artists of colour blasted The Recording Academy for being shut out of nominations for the 2021 ceremony, including Canadian R&B crooner The Weeknd, who took to Twitter after receiving zero nods for his highly successful record, After
The sight of a royal on Zoom has become almost commonplace in the year since the coronavirus pandemic began, but there was something especially striking about the Queen’s virtual meeting on Thursday with the health officials who are leading vaccination efforts across the United Kingdom. Her Majesty, who received the COVID vaccine last month, opened
Homegrown reality show Big Brother Canada is back for a ninth season. Global revealed the Season 9 cast on Wednesday, one week after announcing the show will return on Wednesday, March 3 at 7 p.m. ET/PT. Big Brother Canada, hosted by Arisa Cox — now one of the show’s executive producers — is set to premiere
From the day she stepped foot into the Amazon warehouse, Jennifer Bates could tell this was going to be a difficult job. Bates works in the fulfillment center in Bessemer, AL, where she says she works long, physically-challenging shifts with short breaks. Other employees have reported needing to meet demanding production quotas, with Amazon closely
The standard “coming to America” story is nothing new, and all of the typical elements are there in Minari: the fish-out-of-water alienation, the isolation, the mistrust of the denizens, the difficulty in starting anew. What stands out about director Lee Isaac Chung’s version of this much-told story is the authenticity of it, the realness. From
At 3 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, hundreds of Washington Post employees logged on to a video call for a pandemic-safe virtual farewell to Marty Baron, whose last day as executive editor is Sunday, February 28. Baron, who is retiring at age 66 after eight years at the Post and more than four decades in the
If there is one redeeming feature about Twitter, it’s that it’s free. Sure we have to scroll past promoted tweets once in a while, but the service doesn’t cost anything to use and it’s always been that way. Well, the folks at Twitter are now asking “what if … it wasn’t?” No, they’re not proposing
A gunman allegedly shot a dog-walker four times in the chest late Wednesday in Los Angeles, then stole two dogs from him that reportedly belong to Lady Gaga. An “unknown male” shot the victim at 9:40 p.m. Wednesday before fleeing the scene in a white sedan, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement
Lee Daniels felt a sense of urgency to direct and produce The United States vs. Billie Holiday after reading the script (and the Johann Hari book, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, that it was based on) a few years ago. Before that, he didn’t really know that
Once again, Gwyneth Paltrow and actual scientists are going to have to agree to disagree—this time on the best techniques to deal with the side effects of contracting the coronavirus. Last week, the Goop founder revealed that, as with everything in her life, she was also an early adopter to COVID-19. Since coming down with