Friday, September 30, 2016

Negromancer News Bits and Bites from September 25th to 30th, 2016 - Update #30

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JAMES BOND - From Variety:  Daniel Craig is absolutely the first choice to play James Bond in the next film, according to executive producer of last four films.

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TELEVISION - From YahooTV:  Long-time (and near legendary) television critic Ken Tucker does not like Woody Allen's new TV series for Amazon, "Crisis in Six Scenes."

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MOVIES - From Variety:  More people are joining Kenneth Branagh's "Murder on the Orient Express," including Daisy Ridley and Judi Dench, among others.

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MOVIES - From Bustle:  Tim Burton tries and strangely explains why their or so few "people of color" in his films.

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BLACK LIVES MATTER - From LAWeekly:  Henry Rollins: White America Couldn't Handle What Black America Deals With Every Day.

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ECO - From Time:  Robert Redford says he is standing with Standing Rock Sioux.

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COMICS-FILM - From CinemaBlend:  Someone paid $400,000 for the "Batpod," the motorcycle-like vehicle actually used in the 2012 film, "The Dark Knight Rises," which is a terrible-ass movie.

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MOVIES - From ThePlaylist:  Kenneth Branagh is eyeing Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer for his remake of "Murder on the Orient Express."

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MOVIES - From Variety:  Jon Favreau is set to direct Disney's live-action remake of "The Lion King."  Favreau directed Disney's smash hit remake of "The Jungle Book."

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MOVIES - From YahooMovies:  Charlize Thereon gained 31 pounds for her new movie, "Tully."

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TELEVISION - From YahooTV:   As his lawsuit goes forward, former showrunner of "The Walking Dead," Frank Darabont wants $280 million dollars in denied profits from the show.

From THR:  Hot details from Darabont's deposition in his suit against AMC over profits for "The Walking Dead."

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COMICS-FILM - From CinemaBlend:  Filming those Stan Lee superhero movie cameos ahead of time.

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COMICS-FILM - From CinemaBlend:  Is this Tom Holland changing into his Spider-Man duds in this video.

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TELEVISION - From Variety:  FX's "The Strain" to end next year with season four.

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COMICS-FILM - From SlashFilm:  "Doctor Strange" to appear in "Avengers: Infinity War."

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MOVIES - From Variety:  Viola Davis will star in Steve McQueen's ("12 Years a Slave") upcoming heist thriller, "Widows."  "Gone Girl" screenwriter and novelist, Gillian Flynn, will write the script for "Widows" with McQueen.

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MOVIES - From Variety:  Martin Scorsese's "Silence" enters the Oscar race.

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OBIT - From NYTimes:  Musician Stanley Dural, Jr., better known as "Buckwheat Zydeco" (also the name of his band), has died at the age of 68, Saturday, September 24, 2016. He was one of the few zydeco (a musical genre born in Louisiana) musicians to achieve mainstream success.  He won a Grammy Award in 2010.  In 2002, he shared an Emmy Award with Brian Keene.

CELEBRITY - From YahooCelebrity:  Goldie Hawn explains why she has not married her partner of 33 years, Kurt Russell.

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COMICS - From IGN:  DC Comics has announced that its Batman event comic book miniseries, Dark Knight III: The Master Race, will be 9 issues long instead of 8 as originally planned.  Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello are writing.

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MOVIES - From Variety:  Daisy Ridley and Elizabeth Debicki have joined the animation/live-action hybrid "Peter Rabbit."

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SPORTS - From YahooSports:  How LSU football coach, Les Miles, went from champ to fired.

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BOX OFFICE - BoxOfficeMojo:  The winner of the 9/23 to 9/25/2016 weekend box office is "The Magnificent Seven" with an estimated take of $35 million.

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BOOKS - From BleedingCool:  James Patterson was actually publishing a work of fiction that centered on the murder of Stephen King!  He has cancelled it.

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CELEBRITY - From SFGate:  Who is the A-lister who raped Corey Haim.

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MOVIES - From FlickeringMyth:  John Carpenter has some harsh words for Rob Zombie and his 2007 remake of Carpenter's classic film.  I like quite a few things about both of Zombie's Halloween films, although I think Carpenter's 1978 original is far better than the remake and remake/sequel/re-imagining of "Halloween 2."

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OBIT - From YahooSports:  Golf legend Arnold Palmer has died at the age of 87, Sunday, September 25, 2016.

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OBIT - From YahooSports:  Major League Baseball pitcher, Jose Fernandez (Miami Marlins), has died at the age of 24, Sunday, September 25, 2016.  He died in a boating accident.

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TELEVISION - From Variety:  Jim Parsons ("The Big Bang Theory") tops list of highest paid TV actors.

From Variety:  Sofia Vergara ("Modern Family") tops list of highest paid TV actresses.

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TECH-POLITICS - From Variety:  California OKs law requiring removal of actor ages by database sites.

TRAILERS:

From YahooMovies:  See Denzel Washington and Viola Davis square off in "Fences."

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