In Apple TV’s The Studio, Continental Studios specializes in big-budget movie blockbusters — not indie, arthouse films. Top executive Matt, played by Seth Rogen, and his team are tasked with reinvigorating the increasingly commercialized art form, but in the trailer for The Studio, released Tuesday, viewers watch as his empire …
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It was a wonderful day in Oz when the Wicked Witch of the West died, or so you’d think from the celebratory mood of the residents of Munchkinland. Every man, woman and child were whooping with joy, crying tears of relief, tearing down terrifying posters of the green-hued tyrant like …
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H e’s traveling through the north country today. Eighty miles from Canada, where the winds, it’s been said, hit heavy on the borderline. As his rented Toyota pickup truck reaches a tree-shaded suburban intersection, he kills the engine and bounds out into late-January air. He’s layered a down jacket over …
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AI-cloned versions of legendary U.K. broadcaster David Attenborough‘s voice are multiplying online — and he’s not happy about it. “Having spent a lifetime trying to speak what I believe to be the truth,” the 98-year-old naturalist and Planet Earth narrator told BBC News, “I’m profoundly disturbed to find that these …
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There’s no place like home, and Judy Garland‘s daughter Lorna Luft couldn’t have felt more comfortable at a recent screening of the Wizard of Oz prequel musical Wicked. “The movie is astounding,” Luft wrote on Instagram. “It’s epic, brilliant, touching and honest.” Her mother played Dorothy Gale in the 1939 …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) sat down with President Joe Biden (Dana Carvey) and explained his reasoning for picking some of the most unqualified candidates for his cabinet and other positions in his forthcoming administration. “Thanks for your advice, but I already know how to do president,” …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update tackled some of Donald Trump’s most troubling cabinet picks. On Wednesday, Trump said he would nominateMatt Gaetz for attorney general. When the then-congressman was first asked about the role, co-anchor Colin Jost joked, he “said the same thing hedoes when he sees a teenagegirl: ‘I’ll …
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The most popular Saturday Night Live sketch so far in Season 50 was a musical bit lovingly referred to as “Domingo,” featuring four bridesmaids — including Ariana Grande — singing about the bride’s bachelorette party debauchery to the tune of Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso.” Given the viral success of the sketch …
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The Star Wars cinematic universe has put yet another planned film on the back burner as a movie revolving around Daisy Ridley’s Rey has been removed from its placeholder 2026 release date. The untitled movie — which would have seen the character from Episodes VII, VIII and IX continuing her …
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The Substance director Coralie Fargeat announced that she’s pulling the film from Camerimage Film Festival in Poland over controversial comments the festival’s CEO had made about female cinematographers last week. “After discovering the highly misogynistic and offensive words of the director of theCamerimage Film Festival, I have decided to pull …
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