When Margot Robbie, who produced and stars in the Barbie movie out this summer, and director Greta Gerwig were casting the movie, they wanted actresses who could exude what they describe as “Barbie energy.” But as Robbie told Vogue in an in-depth, new feature on the making of the film, …
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Max — the not-exactly new streaming service from Warner Bros. Discovery, formerly known as HBO Max, HBO Now, and HBO Go — got off to a strong start by briefly infuriating the writers and directors that make all their films and TV shows possible. As the Max rollout began Tuesday, …
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Imagine you’re a filmmaker, and you’ve assembled a dream cast of A-list stars, crack character actors, and your usual stock company of famous faces. Your production-design team has gifted you with a set that’s evocative of a 1950s Southwestern desert landscape, complete with Monument Valley vistas and Route 66 iconography. …
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Every couple of years, Tim Robinson seems to find himself in one cringy situation after another on his Netflix sketch series, I Think You Should Leave — and since two years have passed since season two, he has the trailer for season three on deck. In the clip, he road …
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When Vanderpump Rules premiered on Bravo in 2013, it turned the network’s winning reality TV formula on its head. The Real Housewives shows, which followed the lives of wealthy women in America’s elite communities, had already become a cultural phenomenon. Here, it would often feel like the women were playing …
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Angela Bassett has paid tribute to the late Tina Turner, whom she portrayed in the 1993 movie What’s Love Got to Do With It?, in the wake of the singer’s death on Wednesday after a long battle with illness. In a statement published in The Hollywood Reporter, Bassett praised Turner’s …
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Wanda Sykes doesn’t mind if you call her a “woke comic.” Speaking to Variety ahead of the release of her I’m an Entertainer comedy special on Netflix, the comedian addressed controversy surrounding Dave Chappelle and his transphobic jokes. During her special, Sykes called out some of the laws that aim …
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Barely a scene passes in the rarefied world of Succession without mention of money, the dollar amounts typically quite large. Connor Roy torches $100 million in his deluded presidential campaign. The other Roy siblings outmatch their father, Logan, in a bidding war for Pierce Global Media by offering $10 billion. …
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Filming on Rust, the upcoming western film starring Alec Baldwin, has wrapped after nearly two full years. Production had initially planned to have the film completed in 21 days, but on the 12th day of shooting, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot on set and director Joel Souza was injured …
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The title might give the game away a little, but that doesn’t lessen the impact of How to Create a Sex Scandal. The new Max docuseries, brisk, brief, and damning, makes a convincing case that an East Texas pedophilia case that sent seven people to prison was in fact a …
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