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Among the competition titles: Gus Van Sant's
Sea of Trees, 1950’s romantic drama
Carol by Todd Haynes, Denis Villeneuve's cartel thriller
Sicario, Cannes regular Nanni Moretti's autobiographical drama
Mia madre, which opens Thursday in Italy; and fellow Italian auteur Paolo Sorrentino's second foray into English-language filmmaking,
Youth. Click the link for the full roster of pictures.
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After MacLaren left the project two days ago over creative differences, it now appears as though
Monster director Patty Jenkins has come aboard to helm the film for Warner Bros. This is a development made all the more interesting since Jenkins herself departed
Thor: The Dark World because of those aforementioned creative differences before that Marvel project could begin shooting.
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SMOSH: The Movie, the latest low-budget film stuffed with YouTube stars and set for a multi-platform distribution blitz, will premiere July 23 in Anaheim, alongside the massive fan convention. The film is co-produced and financed by Defy Media and Awesomeness TV, which is owned by DreamWorks Animation and Hearst. Film is described, appropriately enough, as a high-concept
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
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The company’s stock shot up more than 13% yesterday, hitting an all-time high of $541.43 per share in early trading, after the No. 1 subscription-video player packed on about 860,000 more streaming customers than expected in the first quarter of 2015. The company added 4.9 million streaming subs worldwide in the period, including 2.28 million in the U.S.
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Rick Famuyiwa has landed himself a job helming
Confirmation, HBO Films’ upcoming picture about the 1991 Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill scandal. Kerry Washington is already set to play Hill. Susannah Grant wrote the
Confirmation script and will executive produce with Washington, Michael London, and Janice Williams. The role of Thomas has yet to be cast.
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The network’s first talk show,
StarTalk, is premiering on Monday night, the 20th, and the cable net has already announced a second season for the talk-show, obviously implying great confidence that it will be a ratings hit. Based on Dr. Tyson’s prominent podcast of the same name, the weekly series will infuse pop culture with science, while bringing together comedians and celebrities to delve into a wide range of topics.
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Was Tony Soprano's quiet meal with his family in a local ice cream parlor his last supper? Whether or not he was whacked gangland style in the "Made in America" finale of
The Sopranos is not a question that concerns Chase, creator of the series and director of the last episode. Chase is far more interested in larger philosophical issues about the choices we make in life that lead us to that point, and enjoying the good times, fleeting though they may be.
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Shows like
Transparent and
Orange Is the New Black are solidifying a reputation for artistic, innovative content, and web-enabled binge-watching is becoming a respected form of TV consumption. There have been plenty of notable recent releases, but here’s a list of the most-anticipated web series right now, including wacky comedies, superhero stories and a lot of sci-fi.
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From keeping tabs on friends via social media to skipping lines at the store by shopping online, technology continues to reshape our everyday habits. In fact, nearly seven-in-10 (69%) global respondents to a recent survey think face-to-face interactions are being replaced with electronic ones. Today, we have more control over when, where and how we watch video programming, but scheduled viewing hasn’t gone away for most of us.
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Filmed as
Untitled 50 Cent Project, this is the 120-page script by Terence Winter, draft labeled “Winter’s 2nd Revision” and dated September 12th, 2004.
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