Saturday, February 17, 2018

Negromancer News Bits and Bites from February 11th to 17th - Update #17

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#PARKLANDSHOOTING - From RSN/NPR:  17 People Died in the Parkland Shooting. Here Are Their Names

From TheDailyBeast:  White Supremacists Claim Nikolas Cruz Trained With Them; Students Say He Wore Trump Hat in School

From Yahoo: Neil deGrasse Tyson Drops Science on ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ Crowd After Florida School Shooting

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AWARDS - From Deadline:  Humanitas Prize 2018 winners include "Mudbound," "The Post," and "Lady Bird."

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BDS - From RSN: Actors Rosario Dawson and Danny Glover, novelist Alice Walker, and activist Angela Davis Among 27 U.S. Figures Calling for Release of Jailed Palestinian Teen Ahed Tamimi

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OSCARS - From THR: Viola Davis, Margot Robbie, and Mahershala Ali among first presents at Oscars 2018.

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STREAMING - From Variety:  "Jeffrey Tambor officially leaves Amazon's "Transparent" in the wake of misconduct allegations against him.

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DISNEY - From BleedingCool:  "The Lion King" live-action reboot could have a new song by Elton John and Beyonce.

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TELEVISION - From TVLine:  "It's possible," Jerry Seinfeld says a revival of his beloved former NBC series, "Seinfeld."

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MOVIES - From THR:  Fox changes release dates for some of its upcoming films, including its "Murder on the Orient Express."

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CRIME - From RSN:  Does Your State Allow Police to Have Sex With People They Arrest?

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CULTURE - From LATimes:  Do some Disneyland super-fans act like gangsters.  A lawsuit says so.

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ANIMATION - From BleedingCool:  Super Mario Bros. creator Shigeru Miyamoto explains why he went with Illumination to make the recently announced "Super Mario Bros." animated film.

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COMICS-FILM - From Deadline:  Fox has put director Tim Miller and writer Brian Michael Bendis together for an X-Men film project.  Miller directed the first "Deadpool" movie, and Bendis is a longtime and popular comic book writer, best known (so far) for his work at Marvel Comics.  Bendis recently began an exclusive arrangement with DC Comics.

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STREAMING - From ShadowandAct:  Oscar-nominee Mary J. Blige joins Netflix's "The Umbrella Academy."

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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo:   The winner of the 2/9 to 2/11/2018 weekend box office is "Fifty Shades Freed" with an estimated take of $38.8 million.

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MOVIES - From Forbes:  Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is a $20 million per picture action star.

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FESTIVALS - From Junkee:  Coming out of Sundance 2018, the new horror movie, "Heriditary," is being called "the scariest movie ever."

OBIT:

From TheGuardian:  The Icelandic musician, producer, and film composer, Johann Johannsson, died at the age of 48, Friday, February 9, 2018.  Johannsson earned Academy Award nominations for his film scores on the movies, "The Theory of Everything" and "Sicario."  He won the Golden Globe Award for "The Theory of Everything."


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