Does Francis Ford Coppola thrive on chaos? Not exactly, the director claims in the new trailer for Megadoc, Mike Figgis’ behind-the-scenes documentary on the tumultuous making of Coppola’s 2024 film Megalopolis: “I’m confronting chaos.” Coppola spent $120 million of his own money on Megalopolis, a script he’d been working on …
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Down these mean streets of Bakersfield, California, a woman must go, who is not herself mean, who is neither tarnished (well, a little self-admittedly tarnished) nor afraid. She is the hero; she is everything. She is Honey O’Donoghue, and as played by Margaret Qualley in Honey Don’t! — a title …
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Aubrey Plaza made a rare public appearance as a guest on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast, where she briefly discussed the grief she’s experienced since her husband Jeff Baena died by suicide in January. “Overall, I’m here and I’m functioning,” Plaza told Poehler, who asked about her “terrible, terrible, tragic …
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Aubrey Plaza called on a friend to perform a welfare check on her late husband Jeff Baena in October 2024, according to new reports from the Los Angeles Country Medical Examiner. At the time, around three months before the writer and director died by suicide at 47, Baena reportedly made …
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Aubrey Plaza is speaking out for the first time since her husband, Jeff Baena, died by suicide Friday. In a brief statement on Monday, on behalf of Plaza and the Baena and Stern family, the actress asked for privacy and thanked everyone for their support. “This is an unimaginable tragedy,” …
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Jeff Baena, the writer-director of indie films like Life After Beth and Horse Girl and husband of actress Aubrey Plaza, has died at the age of 47. TMZ first reported that police responded to a death investigation at a Los Angeles home on Friday morning, with Baena pronounced dead at …
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This post contains spoilers for the finale of Agatha All Along, now streaming on Disney+. For a show where the power of witches’ circles was so prominent, Agatha All Along felt like an appropriately full-circle moment for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It was a direct sequel to the very first …
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Aubrey Plaza, whose family is from Puerto Rico, had strong words for comedian Tony Hinchcliffe after he proclaimed the U.S. territory to be a “floating island of garbage.” During an appearance at the WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards on Tuesday night, Plaza took aim at Hinchcliffe. “I just wanted to very …
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What were you like when you were 18 years old, high on the feeling that your life was a blank canvas spread out in front of you, and you could throw whatever paint splatters you wanted on it? Maybe, like Elliott (Maisy Stella), the hero of My Old Ass, you …
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When we last left Agatha Harkness — centuries-old alpha witch, Salem trials OG, subject of the catchiest fake-TV theme song since “Too Many Cooks” — she’d been imprisoned by Wanda Maximoff (a.k.a. the Scarlet Witch) in an illusion of small-town Americana, and left to play the part of the nosy …
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