SAG-AFTRA members have pressed pause on film and TV production for the past three weeks, aside from some greenlighted indie projects, in an effort to get Hollywood studios and streamers, or the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), to offer them a fair deal. Last week, the Writers …
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His “retirement” a decade ago didn’t last. It couldn’t possibly. Steven Soderbergh is just too curious, too prolific, and far too in love with the work — the process of assembling a team to complete a herculean task, in particular — to hang it up. It’s a big reason why …
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When Gilmore Girls originally aired on The WB then later The CW from 2000 until 2007, the show was popular with audiences. But when the series started streaming on Netflix in 2014, its relevance skyrocketed and awakened a massive fandom, ultimately leading to the show’s 2016 revival Gilmore Girls: A …
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It’s not a movie chase scene so much as the movie chase scene: a breakneck race against time between a criminal on an elevated subway and a cop in a commandeered car, careening through the streets of Brooklyn at ridiculous speeds. The bad guy works for a European drug cartel, …
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“I wanted to make a movie of pleasure,” offers Ira Sachs. “For me, that means skin is revealed. Skin is part of what cinema can offer in a way that creates a kind of… horny environment for the audience and the actors.” Sachs, the veteran indie filmmaker behind intimate dramas …
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Naked is not something I want to be at work. But it happens kind of regularly at my job. So regularly that I once requested a “substitute” naked body to fill in for mine. When I had just given birth to twins. And was still breastfeeding them. ‘Cause I didn’t …
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When David Allen Singletary isn’t at a casting call or on set for a TV series, he’s pushing a cart of snacks down the aisle of a Southwest Airlines plane, asking passengers for their trash and identifying the emergency exits. He became a flight attendant on Valentine’s Day last year …
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This week’s episode of And Just Like That… picks up where we left off twenty years ago: Carrie Bradshaw and Aidan Shaw are in bed together in a fancy hotel. They can’t seem to get room service delivered, but it seems like they’re having a lot of sex. Later on, …
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You’ve seen him ripping a motorboat through the canals of Venice, Italy, during the opening heist of The Italian Job, dodging flying cars in the Fast and the Furious films, and doubling for Harrison Ford, most recently in the blockbuster Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. He was even …
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Most of Hollywood is at a standstill while members of the Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild are striking against the studios and streaming services. Besides projects that have obtained waivers to continue working through the historic strike, work has come to a halt not just for writers …
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