Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer cast was prepared for the SAG-AFTRA strike to be called on Thursday. The London premiere of the film was moved up by an hour to buy themselves more time to complete interviews and press opportunities on the red carpet before they would be indefinitely barred from doing …
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Forget pumpkin picking — the hottest activity of the fall is going to be the Stranger Things haunted house at Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood. The Halloween Horror Nights attraction will open at both locations on Sept. 1 and Sept. 7, respectively. It’s been a long time coming, …
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Smiling cheek to cheek with Kim Kardashian “had nothing to do with being at a party or having fun,” according to Fran Drescher, the former Nanny star who’s now president of the labor union for actors, SAG-AFTRA. Drescher had to defend the company she keeps up with on Thursday, after …
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Black Mirror is going to have to stick around for many more decades before it even gets within spitting distance of The Simpsons for eerily predicting future events. But the speed with which Holywood life imitated Black Mirror art was lightning quick this time. Think back to the bygone days …
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Hollywood is officially a Black Mirror episode come to life. That was the sentiment several members and non-members of SAG-AFTRA shared with Rolling Stone following Thursday’s announcement that the 160,000-member union would join the WGA union on the picket lines after failing to secure a new contract with movie studio …
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“My brain desperately wants to forget all of this. But the camera will not let it happen.” The voice on the soundtrack belongs to Mstyslav Chernov, a longtime war correspondent for the Associated Press. He had grown up in Ukraine, in the town of Kharkiv, and was part of a …
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Kevin Spacey repeatedly rebuffed groping claims during his second day of testimony at his London sexual assault trial, July 14, leading to one particularly contentious exchange with a prosecutor. Per The Associated Press, Spacey responded to one complainant’s claim that the actor grabbed him backstage at a charity event by …
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Midway through Steven Soderbergh’s new thriller miniseries Full Circle, Sam Browne (Claire Danes) asks her brooding husband Derek (Timothy Olyphant), “Is there something else going on?” The query comes as the Brownes are dealing with a kidnap threat against their son, an apparent murder, and someone targeting the corporate empire …
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SAG-AFTRA agreed to bring in a federal mediation agency in its tense negotiations with major Hollywood studios, but declined to extend negotiations beyond Wednesday night, when the current contract expires. In a statement released on Tuesday, the union said it had agreed to a “last-minute request for federal mediation” from …
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Upcoming film InThe Summers starring Puerto Rican rapperRené “Residente” Pérez Joglar, in his acting debut, and Leslie Grace has wrapped production in New Mexico, Deadline reports. Exile Content Studio, a Candle Media Company, worked with Lexicon Development, 1868 Studios and LUZ Films to produce the indie feature. Along with Residente …
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