Saturday, August 13, 2016

Negromancer News Bits and Bites from August 7th to 13th, 2016 - Update #51

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OBIT - From Deadline:  The actor Kenny Baker has died at the age of 81 (although some reports are listing him at 82 or 83).  The 3-foot, 8-inch actor is best known for playing R2-D2 in six Star Wars movies.  Baker also appeared in "The Elephant Man," "Time Bandits," and "The Goonies."

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ANIME-FILM - From TheTrackingBoard:  One of my favorite anime, "Tiger & Bunny, is being developed as a live-action American film.  "Tiger & Bunny" follows a veteran hero and his partner, the hot new thing.

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TELEVISION - From TheTrackingBoard:  The creators of the long-running CBS TV series, "How I Met Your Mother," is developing a family comedy for the network.

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MOVIES - From YahooNews:  On the set of "Fast 8," Vin Diesel and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson are greatly at odds with one another.

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SPORTS - From CTVNews:  Brazil receives its first gold medal of the Rio Olympics.  Brazilian Rafaela Silva won gold in judo (57 kiogram division).  Born in a favela (slum), Silva had been the target of horrible racists taunts.  She has also come out as gay.

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BOX OFFICE - From Variety:  "Suicide Squad" looks to hold onto first place at the weekend box office, despite a seeming big debut from the animated "Sausage Party."

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MOVIES - From Variety:  Patty Jenkins, who is directing 2017's "Wonder Woman" movie, does not like this open letter that calls her film a mess.

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SPORTS - From YahooSports:  The United States' unlikeliest gold medal is a comeback story about swimmer, Anthony Ervin.

MOVIES - From Polygon:  "Suicide Squad" has a problem that may also be a problem for other films based on DC Comics characters.

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SPORTS - From YahooSports:  Michelle Carter becomes the first U.S. woman to win gold in the Olympic shot put.

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TELEVISION - From DeadlineTV:  Long-time "Criminal Minds" cast member, Thomas Gibson, is no longer with the series, following a suspension for an on-set confrontation.

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MOVIES - From Vulture:  Former employee sends an open letter to top Warner Bros. executives and is highly critical to say the least.

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SPORTS - From YahooSports:  Simone Manuel becomes the first African-American woman to win an Olympic gold medal for an individual swimming event (100 meter freestyle).  She tied for the gold with Canadian Penny Oleksiak - the first tie for a gold medal since 2000.  In fact, the last time an American woman won gold in the 100 meter freestyle, it was a tie involving 2 Americans.

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COMICS - From EntertainmentWeekly:  In celebration of the birthday of Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Chris Evans (Captain America) posts a gag video featuring Hemsworth having trouble with a hammer.

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MOVIES - From EntertainmentWeekly:  Hugh Jackman posts a photo on social media that has fans talking about how old he looks.  "Old Man Logan" anyone?

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TELEVISION - From TheWrap:  Classic Nickelodeon cartoon, "Rocko's Modern Life" will return in a special.

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MOVIES - From WeGotThisCovered:  "Bad Boys 3" is now called "Bad Boys for Life."  The release date has also been removed from 2017 to 2018.

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STAR WARS - From BleedingCool:  Lando Calrissian reportedly to appear in the Han Solo spinoff movie in which Alden Ehrenreich.

From TheWrap:  7 actors who would be great as young Lando Calrissian.

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TELEVISION - From IGN:  Gabriel Luna is the new "Ghost Rider," who will appear on the fourth season on ABC's "Marvel's Agents of SHIELD.  Nicolas Cage played the character in two films.

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TELEVISION - From YahooTV:  Ousted "Saturday Night Live" cast members, Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah, have new gigs at Showtime.

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CELEBRITY - From YahooCelebrity:  Mel Gibson escapes settlement payments with is baby mama, Oksana Grigorieva.

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MOVIES - From Variety:  Dammit.  Angelina Jolie has decided not to appear in Kenneth Branagh's remake of "Murder on the Orient Express."

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MOVIES - From Variety:  Brad Pitt is courting David Fincher to direct the "World War Z" sequel.  Fincher and Pitt worked together on "Se7ev," "Fight Club," and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

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STAR TREK - From Variety:  CBS' new "Star Trek" series, "Star Trek: Discovery" will have a female lead, who will not be the captain.

From IndieWire:  More details on "Discovery" including the show having a larger contingent of aliens and a gay character.

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MOVIES - From Variety:  Speaking of all-girl reboots, there is "Ocean's 8," an all-female reboot of "Oceans Eleven."  Rihanna and Anne Hathaway are in talks to join a cast that already includes Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett.

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MOVIES - From YahooMovies:  So the all-female "Ghostbusters" reboot looks to be a box office flop.

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OBITS - From YahooSports:  John Saunders, longtime ESPN anchor, died today, Wednesday, August 10, 2016.  He was 61.

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TELEVISION - From Variety:  Three cast members, including Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah, are leaving "Saturday Night Live" (SNL) or were fired.  One of them, Killam, is not sure why.

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MOVIES - From HitFix:  There is a planned remake of the classic horror film, "Suspiria."  The director of the original, Dario Argento, isn't impressed by those plans, although he is not against the film.

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POLITICS - From BostonGlobe:  Louisiana's new Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards has saved lives since he accepted the Medicaid expansion under "Obamacare."

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OLYMPICS - From YahooSports:  U.S. women make history in capturing Rio Olympic gymnastics team gold, the remarkable Simone Biles.

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BLACK LIVES MATTER - From YahooNews:  In Ferguson, Michael Brown's parents are still waiting for secret files in their lawsuit against his killer, former police officer Darren Wilson, the city, and it former police chief.

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MOVIES - From Deadline:  Tri-Star is leading the revival of "The Chronicles of Narnia" film series.  The new will film be based on "The Silver Chair."

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MOVIES - From YahooCelebrity:  Dwayne Johnson calls some of his "Fast 8" male co-stars "candyasses."

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MOVIES - From BleedingCool:  Breck Eisner is in talks to direct a new Friday the 13th film.

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BLACK LIVES MATTER - From TheRoot:  High fives and orders to make sure the body camera are off after Chicago pigs... I mean... cops shot an unarmed Black teen.

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MOVIES - From Variety:  The Tom Cruise-Doug Liman film previously known as "Mena" is now entitled "American Made."  It also moves from Jan. 2017 to a Sept. 2017 release date.

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TELEVISION - From DeadlineTV:  Director David O. Russell ("Silver Linings Playbook," "American Hustle") is prepping a TV series starring Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore.

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COMICS-FILM - From  WeGotThisCovered:  Set photos from "Spider-Man: Homecoming" shows off Spider-Man's web-shooters.

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TELEVISION - From TheWrap:  Woody Allen's series for Amazon has a name, "Crisis in Six Scenes."  The series debut on Amazon Prime Video on September 30th and will be comprised of six episodes.

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MOVIES - From Variety:  Joseph David-Jones has been cast in Kathryn Bigelow's untitled 1967 Detroit Riots film.  David-Jones plays "Connor Hawke" in "DC's Legends of Tomorrow" for The CW.

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CULTURE - From RSN:  Renee Zellwegger on against her: "We can do better."

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POLITICS - From NYMag:  Former Fox News boss, Roger Ailes, used Fox's budget to finance a "Black Room" campaign against his personal enemies.  He may have used the network's budget and profits to pay off sexual harassment claims against him.

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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo:  The winner of the 8/5 to 8/7/2016 weekend box office is "Suicide Squad" with an estimated take of $135.1 million.

From YahooMovies:  "Suicide Squad" sets three August box office records - largest opening weekend ($135.1 million) and largest single day ($65.2 million) and largest Thursday preview ($20.5 million), which is part of the Friday haul

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BOOKS-FILM - From RollingStone:  George R.R. Martin's books are the source material for HBO's Emmy-winning hit, "Game of Thrones."  Now, his anthology series, "Wild Cards," which he shares with other writers, is being developed for television.

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CELEBRITY - From PopSugar:  Angelina Jolie will be a visiting professor at the London School of Economics next year.

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OBIT - From YahooCelebrity:  Ricci Martin, the youngest son of legendary actor and singer, Dean Martin, has died at the age of 62, Wednesday, August 3, 2016.  Ricci was a musician and also a singer, and he toured a tribute show to his late father (who died in 1995).

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BLACK LIVES MATTER - From IBT:  I have heard it said that America is driving Black people crazy.  Here, is some proof or at least an article about it.

TRAILERS-VIDEO CLIPS:

From YouTube:  First teaser trailer for "Allied," a new film from Robert Zemeckis, starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard.

From YouTube:  Marvel's Captain America: Civil War - Black Panther Featurette

From YouTube:  From the "Ben-Hur" remake, "You Should Have Killed Me."

From YouTube:  "Office Christmas Party" trailer.


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