Genre-hopping musician Jon Batiste started off his busy year with an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song, before popping up as a collaborator on Beyoncé‘s Cowboy Carter —and now he’s pulling double duty on the new movie Saturday Night, composing its score and playing the late musician Billy Preston. The …
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It was never going to work. They couldn’t give enough tickets away to fill the seats. There were sound issues, lighting issues, drug issues, ego issues. Some of the crew walked out. A key cast member wouldn’t sign his contract, then went missing right before the show was supposed to …
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The chaotic first night of Saturday Night Live — and how the show was almost dead-on-arrival — is the focus of the upcoming “thriller-comedy” Saturday Night, which depicts the hours leading up to the premiere broadcast. “At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers …
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Jason Reitman‘s forthcoming film about the inaugural broadcast of Saturday Night Live, titled Saturday Night, will be released in theaters Oct. 11 — the same date the late-night sketch show debuted in 1975. The movie, distributed by Sony, was directed by Reitman and co-written by Reitman and his Ghostbusters: Frozen …
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“I don’t like this movie,” the journalist said, “and you’ve got five minutes to prove to me that it is worth watching.” The cast of Ghostbusters was on a press junket somewhere in Europe, and some guy with a German or Scandinavian or Russian accent or whatever had just had …
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