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SPORTS - From NYTimes: Sloane Stephens wins the women's tennis singles title at the 2017 U.S. Open Women.
From HuffPost: American tennis is alive because of Black women.
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STREAMING - From ArsTechnica: Disney is pulling its "Star Wars" and Marvel Studios films from Netflix, beginning in 2019.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Spike Lee and Jordan Peele ("Key & Peele") are uniting for the film, "Black Klansman," based on the true story of a Black man who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan.
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BOX OFFICE - From Variety: "Spider-Man: Homecoming" opens strong in China.
From Fortune: "Spider-Man: Homecoming" may be the highest grossing straight-reboot film at the worldwide box office.
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COMICS-FILM - From THR: Drew Goodard will write and direct "X-Force," a spin-off from Fox's awful X-Men film franchise.
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STREAMING - From TheWrap: Christina Ricci's Amazon series, "Z: The Beginning of Everything" has cancelled.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Armie Hammer joins Felicity Jones in the Ruth Bader Ginsburg (a current Supreme Court Justice) biopic, "On the Basis of Sex."
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COMICS-FILM - From THR: "Suicide Squad 2" finally has a director. Gavin O'Connor of "The Accountant" (with Ben Affleck) will write and direct the film.
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TELEVISION - Variety: CBS is developing a TV series based on James Ellroy's classic novel, L.A. Confidential. The book was previously developed into a critically acclaimed, Oscar-winning 1997 film writer-director Curtis Hanson.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Jude Law joins Elle Fanning and Selena Gomez in a Woody Allen film due next year.
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CELEBRITY - From YahooCelebrity: A rare photo of Jamie Foxx and Katie Holmes, long rumored to be a couple, has surfaced.
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COMICS-FILM - From TheWrap: In terms of domestic box office, "Wonder Woman" is now one of the top five highest grossing superhero movies of all time.
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STREAMING - From Deadline: Chris Pine to take the lead in Robert F. Kennedy project at Hulu.
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Paramount has acquired rights to "authorized prequel" to Bram Stoker's "Dracula," entitled "Dracul."
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STAR WARS - From TheWrap: Colin Trevorrow "steps down" as the director of Star Wars Episode 9.
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TELEVISION - From TheWrap: "American Horror Story: Cult" - frenzied mess or metaphor for Trump-induced madness.
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MOVIES-FILM FESTIVALS - From Variety: Angelina Jolie gets a standing ovation at the Telluride Film Festival for her new film, "Cambodia."
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POLITICS - From NYDailyNews: The selfish reason Donald Trump has made several film cameos.
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COMICS-FILM - From CBR: 15 things wrong with the X-Men film franchise, according to Comic Book Resources. [Yeah, those movies are a stanky hot mess. - Ed.]
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MOVIES - From Variety: Luc Besson's "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" was a big disappointment at the box office. That has cost the deputy CEO of Besson's EuropaCorp is job.
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WGA - From Variety: The incoming president of the Writers Guild of America, West says that Hollywood writers will have to make a 2020 strike threat to get a decent contract.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The number one film at the 9/1 to 9/3/2017 weekend box office is "The Hitman's Bodyguard" with an estimated total of $10.25 million. This is the film's third consecutive weekend at the top of the box office.
From Variety: "Dunkirk" wins the most recent international box office period.
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CELEBRITY - From BBC: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (Prince William of Great Britain and his wife, Kate) are expecting a third child.
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MOVIES - From YahooMovies: A slideshow of the 50 most anticipated films of Fall 2017.
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SPORTS - From BET: Tennis great Serena Williams has given birth to a baby girl.
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COMICS-FILM - From CBR: Spike Lee may be involved in a Sony Pictures film based on Marvel Comics character, Nightwatch," who is part of the "Spider-Man" line.
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COMICS-FILM - From ScreenRant: Cate Blanchett gives the three reasons she wanted to be in "Thor: Ragnarok."
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COMICS-FILM - From SideshowToy: A first look at Evangeline Lilly in costume as "The Wasp" during filming of Marvel's "Ant-Man and the Wasp."
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COMICS-FILM - From Variety: Warner Bros. would love Leo DiCaprio to play the Joker in its "Joker" stand alone film to be directed by Todd Phillips.
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MOVIES - From THR: "The Crow" reboot, entitled "The Crow Reborn," is not at Sony Pictures.
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STREAMING - From Variety: Netflix teams up with Damien Chazelle ("Best Director Oscar" for "La La Land") for a Paris-set musical series, "The Eddy."
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MOVIES - From YahooMovies: Director Andy Muschietti says that the sequel to "It," the highly-anticipated adaptation of the Stephen King novel, will focus on the 1986 novel's "cosmic dimension."
From CinemaBlend: Muschietti would like to make a new film adaptation of King's 1983 novel "Pet Semetary," which was previously adapted by director Mary Lambert in 1989.
From TheWrap: Muschietti talks about the origin of Pennywise the Clown's distinctive look in the new "It."
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CELEBRITY - From YahooCelebrity: Robert Pattison of "Twilight" fame once lived with Dustin Diamond a.k.a. "Screech" from "Saved by the Bell."
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TELEVISION - From Variety: HBO's limited series, "True Detective," will return for a third season, with Mahershala Ali as its star. Nic Pizzalatto and Jeremy Saulnier will direct. No air date announced as of yet.
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CELEBRITY - From YahooCelebrity: Taylor Swift's friend, the dancer, Todrick Hall, getting trolled over his relationship with Swift and his appearance in her new video.
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MOVIES - From TheWrap: Sam Rockwell in final talks to play George W. Bush in Dick Cheney biopic from director, Adam McKay.
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MOVIES - From THR: Lily Collins joins Nicholas Hoult in Fox Searchlight and Chernin Entertainment's biopic about J.R.R. Tolkien, the creator of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.
OBIT:
From TheWrap: Blake Heron, former child star, has died at the age of 35, Friday, September 8, 2017. He was best known for the 1996 film, "Shiloh."
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From TheWrap: Rock musician and recording artist, Walter Becker, has died at the age of 67, Sunday, September 3, 2017. Becker was the guitarist and co-founder of the rock-jazz fusion band, Steely Dan.
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From Variety: The actor and comedian Shelley Berman has died at the age of 92; Friday, September 1, 2017. The Grammy Award he won in 1959 for "Best Comedy Performance, Spoken Word," was the first given for a non-musical performance. In recent years, he played Larry David's father on "Curb Your Enthusiasm," which earned him a 2008 Emmy nomination.
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Monday, July 31, 2017
Negromancer News Bits and Bites from July 23rd to 31st, 2017 - Update #51
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BLM - From YahooNews: NAACP issues a travel advisory for minorities and women heading to the state of Missouri.
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COMICS-FILM - From ShadowandAct: First look at Zazie Beetz as "Domino" in "Deadpool 2," as posted to Instagram by Deadpool himself, Ryan Reynolds.
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TELEVISION - From Deadline: HBO responds to protests over its early-in-development show, "Confederate" from "Game of Thrones show-runners, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.
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MOVIES - From YahooTV: Angelina Jolie denies that the casting staff on her upcoming film, "First They Killed My Father," abused Cambodian orphans and poor kids during auditions.
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WALKING DEAD - From THR: SPOILERS -Season 8 will answer the time jump fans saw at San Diego Comic-Con International.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 7/28 to 7/30/2017 weekend box office is "Dunkirk" with an estimated take of $28.1 million.
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MOVIES - From BleedingCool: A Marvel Studios executive has defected to 20th Century Fox.
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ANIMATION - From Indiewire: "The Simpsons Movie 2" is in its earliest stage of development.
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POLITICS - From BuzzFeed: The most influential racist you have never heard of, William Regnery II.
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SDCC - From SideshowToys: Did you see Lupita Nyong'o at 2017 Comic-Con International?
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TELEVISION - From Variety: Starz has order a series, "The Rook," a thriller "Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer, Lionsgate, and Liberty Global.
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MOVIES - From THR: Amazon will begin self-distributing its film with Woody Allen's "Wonder Wheel."
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TELEVISION - From BleedingCool: Several producers from "The Walking Dead" will attend the funeral of series stuntman John Bernecker. Bernecker died in June after sustaining injuries from a fall during film for Season 8.
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TELEVISION - From ShadowandAct: Jordan Peele and Tracy Morgan have created a comedy series, "The Last O.G.," in which Morgan will star. TBS has set the premiere date for Thurs., October 24th.
COMICS-FILM - From ScreenRant: Ryan Coogler says he had creative freedom while directing Marvel's upcoming "Black Panther."
From ScreenRant: 15 characters scheduled to appear in Marvel's "Black Panther."
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SPORTS - From YahooSports: Los Angeles Lakers General Manager Rob Pelinka says that current Lakers are like early Taylor Swift.
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TELEVISION - From TVLine: Chris Pine and Patty Jenkins, both of the hit movie, "Wonder Woman," are re-teaming a TNT television series, "Black Dahlia."
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COMICS-FILM - From ThePlaylist: Joss Whedon will be a major part of the DC Extended Universe films, while others may see their roles reduced.
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COMICS-FILM - From ThePlaylist: Damon Lindelof, who was announced as developing an HBO series based on the comic book "Watchmen," says that he is uncertain about the project.
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MOVIES - From Collider: James Cameron considering a new producing a new "Terminator" trilogy, as the rights to the franchise revert to him in 2018.
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BOOKS - From Vulture: Former President Bill Clinton and prolific novelist James Patterson have a mystery novel coming out Summer 2018, and they are courting A-list directors to helm the film adaptation.
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COMICS-FILM - From Variety: The release date for "Wonder Woman 2" is December 13, 2017. Still no word on whether Patty Jenkins will return to direct the sequel.
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MOVIES - From THR: Ultimate pretty actor Nicholas Hoult in early talks to play J.R.R. Tolkien in a biofilm.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Ric Roman Waugh will direct "Angel Has Fallen," the third film in the "Olympus Has Fallen" series.
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MOVIES - From ShadowandAct: Will Packer, the producer behind hit films like the recent "Girls Trip" and the "Ride Along" franchise, has started Will Packer Media with Discovery Communications and Universal Pictures.
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COMICS-FILM - From ShadowandAct: In Marvel's film "Black Panther" (due 2018), Michael B. Jordan says that the relationship between his character, "Killmonger," and Chadwick Boseman's "T'Challa" is like that of Professor X and Magneto in the "X-Men."
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MOVIES - From ShadowandAct: Chris Nolan's "Dunkirk" continues the whitewashing of the history of World War II.
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MOVIES - From ShadowandAct: Netflix has picked up the thriller "Message from the King," starring Chadwick Boseman, Luke Evans, Teresa Palmer, and Alfred Molina.
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TELEVISION - From ShadowandAct: Malcolm Jamal-Warner and Tatyana Ali join USA crime comedy-drama, "Olive Forever."
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JAMES BOND - From YahooMovies: The 25th Eon Productions James Bond movie is scheduled to hit theaters November 8, 2019.
From NewYorkTimes: Details on the return of Daniel Craig as James Bond.
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COMICS-FILM - From Variety: Extensive re-shoots for "Justice League" causing headaches for some.
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COMICS-FILM - From YahooMovies: Concept art shows Brie Larson as "Captain Marvel."
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CELEBRITY - From BET: After going after Rob Kardashian, celebrity attorney Lisa Bloom is taking on Usher because of his herpes scandal.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 7/21 to 7/23/2017 weekend box office is Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk" with an estimated take of $50.5 million.
From ShadowandAct: "Girls Trip" has the largest opening weekend for a live-action comedy this year.
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SDCC:
From BleedingCool: New footage from Marvel Studios' "Black Panther" stuns crowd at Comic-Con.
From YahooMovies: Olivia Munn talks about the Predator reboot, 2018's "The Predator."
From ShadowandAct: More casting news from Marvel's "Ant Man and the Wasp," including a probably villain and Michelle Pfeiffer.
From YahooMovies: Marvel unveils new "Thor: Ragnarok" trailer. The film is due November 3rd, 2017.
From TheWrap: Marvel Studio's "Captain Marvel" movie will be a prequel to the first Iron Man movies (2008). Samuel Jackson will appear as Nick Fury. Oscar-winner Brie Larsonis Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel.
From Variety: The "Iron Giant" will appear in Steven Spielberg's film, "Ready Player One."
MOVIES - From BleedingCool: Laurence Fishburne is joining Marvel's "Ant Man and the Wasp" as the character "Bill Foster."
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TELEVISION - From Variety: Tom Welling, who played Clark Kent for 10 seasons in The WB's "Smallville" will join Seaon 3 of Fox's "Lucifer."
OBIT:
From YahooMovies: Actor and playwright, Sam Shepard, died at the age of 73, Thursday, July 27, 2017. He was an Oscar-nominated and Emmy-nominated actor. He won the 1979 "Pulitzer Prize for Drama" for his 1978 play, "Buried Child."
From THR: Legendary French actress Jeanne Moreau has died at the age of 89, Monday, July 31, 2017. Her films include, "The Lovers" and "Jules et Jim."
From NewYorkTimes: The musician and singer, D.L. Menard, died at the age of 85, Thursday, July 27, 2017. A recording artist of contemporary Cajun music, Menard was also known as the "Cajun Hank Williams."
From Variety: Voice actress and performer June Foray at the age of 99, Thursday, July 27, 2017. Foray was known for providing the voice for such animated characters as Rocky the Flying Squirrel on "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show" and Natasha Fatale of "Boris and Natasha." She was a key figure in the animation industry and created the prestigious "Annie Awards" for achievement in film and television animation.
From YahooSports: Hall of Fame NBA head coach, John Kundla, has died at the age of 101, Sunday, July 23, 2017. He lead the Minneapolis Lakers to five BBA/NBA championships.
BLM - From YahooNews: NAACP issues a travel advisory for minorities and women heading to the state of Missouri.
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COMICS-FILM - From ShadowandAct: First look at Zazie Beetz as "Domino" in "Deadpool 2," as posted to Instagram by Deadpool himself, Ryan Reynolds.
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TELEVISION - From Deadline: HBO responds to protests over its early-in-development show, "Confederate" from "Game of Thrones show-runners, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.
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MOVIES - From YahooTV: Angelina Jolie denies that the casting staff on her upcoming film, "First They Killed My Father," abused Cambodian orphans and poor kids during auditions.
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WALKING DEAD - From THR: SPOILERS -Season 8 will answer the time jump fans saw at San Diego Comic-Con International.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 7/28 to 7/30/2017 weekend box office is "Dunkirk" with an estimated take of $28.1 million.
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MOVIES - From BleedingCool: A Marvel Studios executive has defected to 20th Century Fox.
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ANIMATION - From Indiewire: "The Simpsons Movie 2" is in its earliest stage of development.
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POLITICS - From BuzzFeed: The most influential racist you have never heard of, William Regnery II.
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SDCC - From SideshowToys: Did you see Lupita Nyong'o at 2017 Comic-Con International?
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TELEVISION - From Variety: Starz has order a series, "The Rook," a thriller "Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer, Lionsgate, and Liberty Global.
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MOVIES - From THR: Amazon will begin self-distributing its film with Woody Allen's "Wonder Wheel."
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TELEVISION - From BleedingCool: Several producers from "The Walking Dead" will attend the funeral of series stuntman John Bernecker. Bernecker died in June after sustaining injuries from a fall during film for Season 8.
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TELEVISION - From ShadowandAct: Jordan Peele and Tracy Morgan have created a comedy series, "The Last O.G.," in which Morgan will star. TBS has set the premiere date for Thurs., October 24th.
COMICS-FILM - From ScreenRant: Ryan Coogler says he had creative freedom while directing Marvel's upcoming "Black Panther."
From ScreenRant: 15 characters scheduled to appear in Marvel's "Black Panther."
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SPORTS - From YahooSports: Los Angeles Lakers General Manager Rob Pelinka says that current Lakers are like early Taylor Swift.
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TELEVISION - From TVLine: Chris Pine and Patty Jenkins, both of the hit movie, "Wonder Woman," are re-teaming a TNT television series, "Black Dahlia."
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COMICS-FILM - From ThePlaylist: Joss Whedon will be a major part of the DC Extended Universe films, while others may see their roles reduced.
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COMICS-FILM - From ThePlaylist: Damon Lindelof, who was announced as developing an HBO series based on the comic book "Watchmen," says that he is uncertain about the project.
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MOVIES - From Collider: James Cameron considering a new producing a new "Terminator" trilogy, as the rights to the franchise revert to him in 2018.
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BOOKS - From Vulture: Former President Bill Clinton and prolific novelist James Patterson have a mystery novel coming out Summer 2018, and they are courting A-list directors to helm the film adaptation.
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COMICS-FILM - From Variety: The release date for "Wonder Woman 2" is December 13, 2017. Still no word on whether Patty Jenkins will return to direct the sequel.
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MOVIES - From THR: Ultimate pretty actor Nicholas Hoult in early talks to play J.R.R. Tolkien in a biofilm.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Ric Roman Waugh will direct "Angel Has Fallen," the third film in the "Olympus Has Fallen" series.
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MOVIES - From ShadowandAct: Will Packer, the producer behind hit films like the recent "Girls Trip" and the "Ride Along" franchise, has started Will Packer Media with Discovery Communications and Universal Pictures.
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COMICS-FILM - From ShadowandAct: In Marvel's film "Black Panther" (due 2018), Michael B. Jordan says that the relationship between his character, "Killmonger," and Chadwick Boseman's "T'Challa" is like that of Professor X and Magneto in the "X-Men."
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MOVIES - From ShadowandAct: Chris Nolan's "Dunkirk" continues the whitewashing of the history of World War II.
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MOVIES - From ShadowandAct: Netflix has picked up the thriller "Message from the King," starring Chadwick Boseman, Luke Evans, Teresa Palmer, and Alfred Molina.
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TELEVISION - From ShadowandAct: Malcolm Jamal-Warner and Tatyana Ali join USA crime comedy-drama, "Olive Forever."
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JAMES BOND - From YahooMovies: The 25th Eon Productions James Bond movie is scheduled to hit theaters November 8, 2019.
From NewYorkTimes: Details on the return of Daniel Craig as James Bond.
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COMICS-FILM - From Variety: Extensive re-shoots for "Justice League" causing headaches for some.
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COMICS-FILM - From YahooMovies: Concept art shows Brie Larson as "Captain Marvel."
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CELEBRITY - From BET: After going after Rob Kardashian, celebrity attorney Lisa Bloom is taking on Usher because of his herpes scandal.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 7/21 to 7/23/2017 weekend box office is Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk" with an estimated take of $50.5 million.
From ShadowandAct: "Girls Trip" has the largest opening weekend for a live-action comedy this year.
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SDCC:
From BleedingCool: New footage from Marvel Studios' "Black Panther" stuns crowd at Comic-Con.
From YahooMovies: Olivia Munn talks about the Predator reboot, 2018's "The Predator."
From ShadowandAct: More casting news from Marvel's "Ant Man and the Wasp," including a probably villain and Michelle Pfeiffer.
From YahooMovies: Marvel unveils new "Thor: Ragnarok" trailer. The film is due November 3rd, 2017.
From TheWrap: Marvel Studio's "Captain Marvel" movie will be a prequel to the first Iron Man movies (2008). Samuel Jackson will appear as Nick Fury. Oscar-winner Brie Larsonis Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel.
From Variety: The "Iron Giant" will appear in Steven Spielberg's film, "Ready Player One."
MOVIES - From BleedingCool: Laurence Fishburne is joining Marvel's "Ant Man and the Wasp" as the character "Bill Foster."
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TELEVISION - From Variety: Tom Welling, who played Clark Kent for 10 seasons in The WB's "Smallville" will join Seaon 3 of Fox's "Lucifer."
OBIT:
From YahooMovies: Actor and playwright, Sam Shepard, died at the age of 73, Thursday, July 27, 2017. He was an Oscar-nominated and Emmy-nominated actor. He won the 1979 "Pulitzer Prize for Drama" for his 1978 play, "Buried Child."
From THR: Legendary French actress Jeanne Moreau has died at the age of 89, Monday, July 31, 2017. Her films include, "The Lovers" and "Jules et Jim."
From NewYorkTimes: The musician and singer, D.L. Menard, died at the age of 85, Thursday, July 27, 2017. A recording artist of contemporary Cajun music, Menard was also known as the "Cajun Hank Williams."
From Variety: Voice actress and performer June Foray at the age of 99, Thursday, July 27, 2017. Foray was known for providing the voice for such animated characters as Rocky the Flying Squirrel on "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show" and Natasha Fatale of "Boris and Natasha." She was a key figure in the animation industry and created the prestigious "Annie Awards" for achievement in film and television animation.
From YahooSports: Hall of Fame NBA head coach, John Kundla, has died at the age of 101, Sunday, July 23, 2017. He lead the Minneapolis Lakers to five BBA/NBA championships.
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Negromancer News Bits and Bites from February 19th to 28th, 2017 - Update #47
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MOVIES - From Variety: "Moonlight" to expand to 1500 theaters after its "Best Picture" win at Sunday's 89th Academy Awards.
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STAR TREK - From THR: CBS CEO Les Moonves says that "Star Trek Discovery" will debut late summer or early fall.
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OBIT - From YahooMovies: The 7-foot-7 actor Neil Fingleton has died at the age of 36. Great Britain's tallest man, he was best known for playing "Mag the Mighty" on "Game of Thrones."
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MOVIES - From BleedingCool: "Bright" is Will Smith's new film, and it has a trailer.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 2/24 to 2/26/2017 weekend box office is "Get Out" with an estimated total of $30.5 million.
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OSCAR:
From THR: A closer look at the 89th Oscar that were overshadowed by the Best Picture fiasco.
From YahooMovies: And the winner isn't... "La La Land" "Moonlight" correctly announced as "Best Picture" Oscar winner after a historic gaffe.
From YahooCelebrity: This picture is worth a thousand words... the look on their faces over the "Best Picture" Oscar fiasco.
From YahooMovies: No, "Moonlight" won.
From YahooMovies: Warren Beatty explains his part in the "Best Picture" Oscar fiasco.
From Polygon: Yeah, "Suicide Squad" has an Oscar.
From Variety: Stars make political statements on the Oscar red carpet, including support for the ACLU and in remembrance of Trayvon Martin.
From YahooNews: "Good Morning America" offers an extended video interview with Viola Davis.
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OBIT - From Variety: The actor Bill Paxton has died at the age of 61, Saturday, February 25, 2017. Paxton's long career included appearing in several James Cameron films, including "Aliens" and "Titanic." He was one of my favorites; I send my prayers to his family.
From THR: Hollywood mourns acclaimed film and television actor, Bill Paxton.
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OBIT - From TheWrap: Judge Joseph Wapner has died at the age of 97, Sunday, February 26, 2017. Wapner was the original judge on the long-running, syndicated courtroom series, "The People's Court."
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POLITICS - From YahooNews: President Trump skipping annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner on April 29th. Heat-kitchen, man.
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BLM - From YahooCelebrity: Muhammad Ali's son, 44-year-old Muhammad Ali, Jr. was detained at at a Florida airport for several hours... because of his Arabic-sounding name.
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AWARDS - From Variety: The winners of the Frances's 2017 Cesar Awards announced.
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ANIME - From CBR: Hayao Miyazaki comes out of retirment... again. He is apparently directing a film entitled "Boro the Caterpillar."
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COMICS-FILM - From ComicsAlliance: X-Men writer-producer Simon Kinberg says that "Gambit" moving could begin filming in 2018.
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COMICS - From BleedingCool: Batman will meet "Rorschach" of "The Watchmen."
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TELEVISION - From Variety: Freddie Highmore ("Bates Motel") to star in ABC pilot, "The Good Doctor."
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TELEVISION - From TheWrap: Starz TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman's seminal novel, "American Gods," is set for April 30th, 2017.
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COMICS-FILM - From YahooMovies: After various swings of fortune, Matt Reeves has signed a deal to direct "The Batman" movie starring Ben Affleck.
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MOVIES - From THR: Angelina Jolie is still hot, landing acting and directing gigs. Her latest directorial endeavor, "First They Killed My Father," has had its premiere.
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OBIT - From THR: Leah, the mother director Steven Spielberg, has died at the age of 97, Tuesday, February 21, 2017.
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COMICS-FILM - From Deadline: Jamie Chung has been cast as "Blink" in Fox/Marvel's X-Men themed pilot.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Another "Game of Thrones" star has a new job. Alfie Allen is part of "The Predator" reboot.
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COMICS-FILM - From Variety: "Game of Thrones"star Iwan Rheon has been cast as the lead in ABC/Marvel's "Inhumans."
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TELEVISION - From YahooTV: Demi Moore will have a recurring role in Season 4 of FOX's "Empire."
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MOVIES - From YahooMovies: While filming in Europe, Jamie Foxx is apparently the target of racial slurs at a restaurant.
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COMICS-FILM - From BleedingCool: A dinner and hints at shooting a new X-Men flop starting Summer 2017.
From Movieweb: Will Simon Kinberg make his directorial debut with this next X-Men movie a.k.a. "X-Men 7?"
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OBIT - From THR: Cinematographer Gerald Hirschfeld died at the age of 95, Monday, February 13, 2017. Hirschfeld may be best known for his beautiful black and white photography on Sidney Lumet's "Fail-Safe" and Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein."
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HISTORY - From DemocracyNow: George Takei speaks on the 75th anniversary of the order to place Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II. Takei, then 5 years-old, was placed in a camp with his parents and siblings.
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MOVIES - From ThePlaylist: Shane Black reveals the cast to his film, "The Predator," which is some kind of reboot of / not-a-sequel-to 1987's "Predator." It looks like Arnold Shwarzenegger will not be part of the film...
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 2/17 to 2/19/2017 weekend box office is "The LEGO Batman Movie" with an estimated take of $34.2 million.
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AWARDS - From Variety: Cinema Audio Society Awards announced with "La La Land" and "Game of Thrones" leading wins.
From Variety: "Golden Reel Sound Editing Awards" winners announced
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MUSIC - From Vulture: Drake does not want his two weird "Grammy" wins from the 2017 Grammys a week ago.
From Vulture: Black artists don't win Grammy "Album of the Year," not often - been 10 years.
From Vulture: And Neil Portnow loves his head in the sand. Grammys are overrated anyway.
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COMICS - From Vulture: Warren Ellis talks about the rebirth of Jim Lee's WildStorm as "The Wild Storm."
From Patreon: Here is my review of "The Wild Storm #1."
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COMICS - From THR: Trailblazing editor Karen Berger, who brought Neil Gaiman (The Sandman) to DC Comics, has signed a deal with Dark Horse Comics, trailblazing independent comics publisher.
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COMICS-FILM - From Variety: So maybe Matt Reeves won't direct Ben Affleck-Batman movie.
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MOVIES - From TheWrap: He's playing young Lando and now, Donald Glover will play "Simba" in a live-action version of "The Lion King."
TRAILERS:
From YouTube: "Prologue: Last Supper" from "Alien: Covenant," which is due May 19, 2017.
MOVIES - From Variety: "Moonlight" to expand to 1500 theaters after its "Best Picture" win at Sunday's 89th Academy Awards.
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STAR TREK - From THR: CBS CEO Les Moonves says that "Star Trek Discovery" will debut late summer or early fall.
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OBIT - From YahooMovies: The 7-foot-7 actor Neil Fingleton has died at the age of 36. Great Britain's tallest man, he was best known for playing "Mag the Mighty" on "Game of Thrones."
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MOVIES - From BleedingCool: "Bright" is Will Smith's new film, and it has a trailer.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 2/24 to 2/26/2017 weekend box office is "Get Out" with an estimated total of $30.5 million.
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OSCAR:
From THR: A closer look at the 89th Oscar that were overshadowed by the Best Picture fiasco.
From YahooMovies: And the winner isn't... "La La Land" "Moonlight" correctly announced as "Best Picture" Oscar winner after a historic gaffe.
From YahooCelebrity: This picture is worth a thousand words... the look on their faces over the "Best Picture" Oscar fiasco.
From YahooMovies: No, "Moonlight" won.
From YahooMovies: Warren Beatty explains his part in the "Best Picture" Oscar fiasco.
From Polygon: Yeah, "Suicide Squad" has an Oscar.
From Variety: Stars make political statements on the Oscar red carpet, including support for the ACLU and in remembrance of Trayvon Martin.
From YahooNews: "Good Morning America" offers an extended video interview with Viola Davis.
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OBIT - From Variety: The actor Bill Paxton has died at the age of 61, Saturday, February 25, 2017. Paxton's long career included appearing in several James Cameron films, including "Aliens" and "Titanic." He was one of my favorites; I send my prayers to his family.
From THR: Hollywood mourns acclaimed film and television actor, Bill Paxton.
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OBIT - From TheWrap: Judge Joseph Wapner has died at the age of 97, Sunday, February 26, 2017. Wapner was the original judge on the long-running, syndicated courtroom series, "The People's Court."
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POLITICS - From YahooNews: President Trump skipping annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner on April 29th. Heat-kitchen, man.
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BLM - From YahooCelebrity: Muhammad Ali's son, 44-year-old Muhammad Ali, Jr. was detained at at a Florida airport for several hours... because of his Arabic-sounding name.
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AWARDS - From Variety: The winners of the Frances's 2017 Cesar Awards announced.
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ANIME - From CBR: Hayao Miyazaki comes out of retirment... again. He is apparently directing a film entitled "Boro the Caterpillar."
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COMICS-FILM - From ComicsAlliance: X-Men writer-producer Simon Kinberg says that "Gambit" moving could begin filming in 2018.
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COMICS - From BleedingCool: Batman will meet "Rorschach" of "The Watchmen."
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TELEVISION - From Variety: Freddie Highmore ("Bates Motel") to star in ABC pilot, "The Good Doctor."
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TELEVISION - From TheWrap: Starz TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman's seminal novel, "American Gods," is set for April 30th, 2017.
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COMICS-FILM - From YahooMovies: After various swings of fortune, Matt Reeves has signed a deal to direct "The Batman" movie starring Ben Affleck.
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MOVIES - From THR: Angelina Jolie is still hot, landing acting and directing gigs. Her latest directorial endeavor, "First They Killed My Father," has had its premiere.
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OBIT - From THR: Leah, the mother director Steven Spielberg, has died at the age of 97, Tuesday, February 21, 2017.
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COMICS-FILM - From Deadline: Jamie Chung has been cast as "Blink" in Fox/Marvel's X-Men themed pilot.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Another "Game of Thrones" star has a new job. Alfie Allen is part of "The Predator" reboot.
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COMICS-FILM - From Variety: "Game of Thrones"star Iwan Rheon has been cast as the lead in ABC/Marvel's "Inhumans."
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TELEVISION - From YahooTV: Demi Moore will have a recurring role in Season 4 of FOX's "Empire."
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MOVIES - From YahooMovies: While filming in Europe, Jamie Foxx is apparently the target of racial slurs at a restaurant.
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COMICS-FILM - From BleedingCool: A dinner and hints at shooting a new X-Men flop starting Summer 2017.
From Movieweb: Will Simon Kinberg make his directorial debut with this next X-Men movie a.k.a. "X-Men 7?"
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OBIT - From THR: Cinematographer Gerald Hirschfeld died at the age of 95, Monday, February 13, 2017. Hirschfeld may be best known for his beautiful black and white photography on Sidney Lumet's "Fail-Safe" and Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein."
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HISTORY - From DemocracyNow: George Takei speaks on the 75th anniversary of the order to place Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II. Takei, then 5 years-old, was placed in a camp with his parents and siblings.
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MOVIES - From ThePlaylist: Shane Black reveals the cast to his film, "The Predator," which is some kind of reboot of / not-a-sequel-to 1987's "Predator." It looks like Arnold Shwarzenegger will not be part of the film...
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 2/17 to 2/19/2017 weekend box office is "The LEGO Batman Movie" with an estimated take of $34.2 million.
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AWARDS - From Variety: Cinema Audio Society Awards announced with "La La Land" and "Game of Thrones" leading wins.
From Variety: "Golden Reel Sound Editing Awards" winners announced
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MUSIC - From Vulture: Drake does not want his two weird "Grammy" wins from the 2017 Grammys a week ago.
From Vulture: Black artists don't win Grammy "Album of the Year," not often - been 10 years.
From Vulture: And Neil Portnow loves his head in the sand. Grammys are overrated anyway.
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COMICS - From Vulture: Warren Ellis talks about the rebirth of Jim Lee's WildStorm as "The Wild Storm."
From Patreon: Here is my review of "The Wild Storm #1."
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COMICS - From THR: Trailblazing editor Karen Berger, who brought Neil Gaiman (The Sandman) to DC Comics, has signed a deal with Dark Horse Comics, trailblazing independent comics publisher.
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COMICS-FILM - From Variety: So maybe Matt Reeves won't direct Ben Affleck-Batman movie.
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MOVIES - From TheWrap: He's playing young Lando and now, Donald Glover will play "Simba" in a live-action version of "The Lion King."
TRAILERS:
From YouTube: "Prologue: Last Supper" from "Alien: Covenant," which is due May 19, 2017.
Saturday, January 7, 2017
Negromancer News Bits and Bites from January 1st to 7th, 2017 - Update #37
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ECO - From YahooNews: A zombie apocalypse would wipe out humanity in 100 days.
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TELEVISION - From YahooTV: Comedy duo, Key and Peele, bring back one of their most popular routines, the "Obama anger translator," for one last hurrah.
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LGBT - From Variety: Sony Pictures Classics buys hot gay love story, "Call Me by Your Name," before it makes its Sundance 2017 debut.
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CELEBRITY - From YahooCelebrity: After battling a mysterious illness, Val Kilmer makes his first red carpet appearance in over a year.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Ralph Fiennes and Hugh Laurie are joining Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly's "Holmes and Watson."
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MOVIES - From Variety: Keegan-Michael Key joins the cast of "The Predator" (the reboot of the Predator film franchise). The film is due February 2018.
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TELEVISION - From TheWrap: Kirsten Dunst will star and executive produce with George Clooney a dark comedy for AMC, entitled "On Becoming a God in Central Florida."
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OBIT - From Variety: The actress Francine York has died at the age of 80, Friday, January 6, 2017. She has more than 150 film and TV credits. That includes an appearance in the cult film, "The Doll Squad" and playing Lydia Limpet, the hench-woman of the Bookworm on the 1960s "Batman" TV series.
From Variety: Veteran Indian actor, Om Puri, has died at the age of 66, Friday, January 6, 2017. You might recognize a younger him in the Oscar-winning "Gandhi."
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POLITICS - From NYDailyNews: Ann Coulter hits rock bottom, but at least we learn that she is a Nazi-Bitch.
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CELEBRITY-STAR WARS - From YahooCelebrity: "People" offers details into the memorial for Carrie Fisher held, Thursday, January 5, 2016.
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COMICS-FILM - From THR: In "Thor: Ragnarok," Thor and Hulk will fight in the gladiator ring.
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COMICS-FILM - From THR: Sterling K. Brown, who had a star-making turn in FX's "The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story," has joined the cast of Marvel Studios' "Black Panther."
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TELEVISION - From Deadline: The team behind the TV series, "Jane the Virgin," is working on a reboot of "Charmed," The WB TV series that ran from 1998 to 2006.
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CELEBRITY - From People: Jessica Biel and husband Justin Timberlake's antics at a recent Los Angeles Lakers game cause a stir.
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AWARDS - From TheWrap: Writers Guild of America has announced its WGA nominees for 2016.
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MOVIES - From THR: Rachel McAdams and Jason Batemon are teaming for the comedy, "Game Night."
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MOVIES - From TheWrap: Sylvester Stallone and Adam Driver (Kylo Ren in "The Force Awakens") are teaming for the film project, "Tough as They Come."
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OBIT - From Variety: George Kosana has died at the age of 81, Monday, January 2, 2017. Kosana's most famous role was as "Sheriff McClelland" in "Night of the Living Dead." He was also one of 10 investors originally involved in the film.
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CELEBRITY - From YahooCelebrity: Although Angelina Jolie has agreed to Brad Pitt's request to keep divorce documents concerning child custody sealed, she says that he is terrified that the truth will come out. What truth, girl?
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CELEBRITY - From YahooNews: There was apparently a fight at the funeral of comedian Ricky Harris on Tuesday, January 3, 2017. Comedian/actress Sherri Shepherd filmed the bout. Harris, known for his recurring role on "Everybody Hates Chris," died Monday, December 26, 2016.
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CELEBRITY - From CNN: 50-year-old Janet Jackson has given birth to a baby boy.
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LGBT - From YahooNews: Anti-gay bigot, Kim Burrell, will not appear on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" as scheduled.
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NEWS - From YahooNews: FOX News hosts Megyn Kelly is moving to NBC.
From YahooNews: Is Kelly's departure a catastrophe for Fox?
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STAR WARS - From YahooNews: Actress Joely Fisher, sister of Carrie Fisher, says "We lost our hero."
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: "Rogue One" won the three-day New Year's weekend box office, 12/30/2016 to 1/1/2017, with an estimated take of $49.5 million. Over the four-day New Year's holiday weekend, which includes Monday, 1/2/2017, "Rogue One" took in $64.3 million.
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COMICS-FILM - From BleedingCool: Leslie Jones, of "Saturday Night Live" and the recent "Ghostbusters" reboot, is campaigning to be Ryan Reynolds sidekick in "Deadpool" sequel.
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COMICS-ANIMATION - From BleedingCool: Miles Morales (the "Black" Spider-Man) and Spider-Gwen are featured prominently in merchandising for upcoming Spider-Man Disney XD animated series.
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COMICS-FILM - From Variety: Ben Affleck seems ambivalent about directing his superhero movie, "The Batman," according to some.
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COMICS-FILM - From SlashFilm: Just two months off his big screen debut, Marvel's Doctor Strange has been confirmed to appear in Marvel Studios' "Thor: Ragnarok."
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MOVIES - ThePlaylist: Ridley Scott worries about the future of cinema. Says that he has been asked several times to direct superhero movies.
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Don Cheadle talks about his 10-year quest to bring the life of Miles Davis to the big screen.
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CELEBRITY - From Deadline: A photo gallery of film, TV, and media people who died during 2016.
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BOX OFFICE - From Variety: "Rogue One" ($50 million) and "Sing" ($41.4) are topping the New Year's Day holiday weekend so far.
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OBITUARY - From Variety: The actor William Christopher has died at the age of 84, Saturday, December 31, 2016. He was best known for playing "Father John Mulcahy" on the long-running TV series, "M*A*S*H."
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DISNEY - From BleedingCool: Tyrus Wong, an acclaimed Disney artist, has died at the age of 106, Friday, December 30, 2016. Named a "Disney Legend" in 2001, Wong's paintings were the inspiration for Walt Disney's animated feature film, "Bambi."
TRAILERS AND VIDEOS:
From YouTube: The video for "In My Foreign," the lead single from the "xXx: The Return of Xander Cage" soundtrack.
From YouTube: Just cause I like it, here is another chance to see A.O.A.'s "Afraid of Americans," a remake of a 1990s David Bowie song.
ECO - From YahooNews: A zombie apocalypse would wipe out humanity in 100 days.
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TELEVISION - From YahooTV: Comedy duo, Key and Peele, bring back one of their most popular routines, the "Obama anger translator," for one last hurrah.
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LGBT - From Variety: Sony Pictures Classics buys hot gay love story, "Call Me by Your Name," before it makes its Sundance 2017 debut.
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CELEBRITY - From YahooCelebrity: After battling a mysterious illness, Val Kilmer makes his first red carpet appearance in over a year.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Ralph Fiennes and Hugh Laurie are joining Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly's "Holmes and Watson."
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MOVIES - From Variety: Keegan-Michael Key joins the cast of "The Predator" (the reboot of the Predator film franchise). The film is due February 2018.
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TELEVISION - From TheWrap: Kirsten Dunst will star and executive produce with George Clooney a dark comedy for AMC, entitled "On Becoming a God in Central Florida."
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OBIT - From Variety: The actress Francine York has died at the age of 80, Friday, January 6, 2017. She has more than 150 film and TV credits. That includes an appearance in the cult film, "The Doll Squad" and playing Lydia Limpet, the hench-woman of the Bookworm on the 1960s "Batman" TV series.
From Variety: Veteran Indian actor, Om Puri, has died at the age of 66, Friday, January 6, 2017. You might recognize a younger him in the Oscar-winning "Gandhi."
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POLITICS - From NYDailyNews: Ann Coulter hits rock bottom, but at least we learn that she is a Nazi-Bitch.
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CELEBRITY-STAR WARS - From YahooCelebrity: "People" offers details into the memorial for Carrie Fisher held, Thursday, January 5, 2016.
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COMICS-FILM - From THR: In "Thor: Ragnarok," Thor and Hulk will fight in the gladiator ring.
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COMICS-FILM - From THR: Sterling K. Brown, who had a star-making turn in FX's "The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story," has joined the cast of Marvel Studios' "Black Panther."
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TELEVISION - From Deadline: The team behind the TV series, "Jane the Virgin," is working on a reboot of "Charmed," The WB TV series that ran from 1998 to 2006.
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CELEBRITY - From People: Jessica Biel and husband Justin Timberlake's antics at a recent Los Angeles Lakers game cause a stir.
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AWARDS - From TheWrap: Writers Guild of America has announced its WGA nominees for 2016.
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MOVIES - From THR: Rachel McAdams and Jason Batemon are teaming for the comedy, "Game Night."
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MOVIES - From TheWrap: Sylvester Stallone and Adam Driver (Kylo Ren in "The Force Awakens") are teaming for the film project, "Tough as They Come."
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OBIT - From Variety: George Kosana has died at the age of 81, Monday, January 2, 2017. Kosana's most famous role was as "Sheriff McClelland" in "Night of the Living Dead." He was also one of 10 investors originally involved in the film.
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CELEBRITY - From YahooCelebrity: Although Angelina Jolie has agreed to Brad Pitt's request to keep divorce documents concerning child custody sealed, she says that he is terrified that the truth will come out. What truth, girl?
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CELEBRITY - From YahooNews: There was apparently a fight at the funeral of comedian Ricky Harris on Tuesday, January 3, 2017. Comedian/actress Sherri Shepherd filmed the bout. Harris, known for his recurring role on "Everybody Hates Chris," died Monday, December 26, 2016.
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CELEBRITY - From CNN: 50-year-old Janet Jackson has given birth to a baby boy.
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LGBT - From YahooNews: Anti-gay bigot, Kim Burrell, will not appear on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" as scheduled.
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NEWS - From YahooNews: FOX News hosts Megyn Kelly is moving to NBC.
From YahooNews: Is Kelly's departure a catastrophe for Fox?
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STAR WARS - From YahooNews: Actress Joely Fisher, sister of Carrie Fisher, says "We lost our hero."
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: "Rogue One" won the three-day New Year's weekend box office, 12/30/2016 to 1/1/2017, with an estimated take of $49.5 million. Over the four-day New Year's holiday weekend, which includes Monday, 1/2/2017, "Rogue One" took in $64.3 million.
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COMICS-FILM - From BleedingCool: Leslie Jones, of "Saturday Night Live" and the recent "Ghostbusters" reboot, is campaigning to be Ryan Reynolds sidekick in "Deadpool" sequel.
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COMICS-ANIMATION - From BleedingCool: Miles Morales (the "Black" Spider-Man) and Spider-Gwen are featured prominently in merchandising for upcoming Spider-Man Disney XD animated series.
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COMICS-FILM - From Variety: Ben Affleck seems ambivalent about directing his superhero movie, "The Batman," according to some.
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COMICS-FILM - From SlashFilm: Just two months off his big screen debut, Marvel's Doctor Strange has been confirmed to appear in Marvel Studios' "Thor: Ragnarok."
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MOVIES - ThePlaylist: Ridley Scott worries about the future of cinema. Says that he has been asked several times to direct superhero movies.
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Don Cheadle talks about his 10-year quest to bring the life of Miles Davis to the big screen.
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CELEBRITY - From Deadline: A photo gallery of film, TV, and media people who died during 2016.
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BOX OFFICE - From Variety: "Rogue One" ($50 million) and "Sing" ($41.4) are topping the New Year's Day holiday weekend so far.
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OBITUARY - From Variety: The actor William Christopher has died at the age of 84, Saturday, December 31, 2016. He was best known for playing "Father John Mulcahy" on the long-running TV series, "M*A*S*H."
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DISNEY - From BleedingCool: Tyrus Wong, an acclaimed Disney artist, has died at the age of 106, Friday, December 30, 2016. Named a "Disney Legend" in 2001, Wong's paintings were the inspiration for Walt Disney's animated feature film, "Bambi."
TRAILERS AND VIDEOS:
From YouTube: The video for "In My Foreign," the lead single from the "xXx: The Return of Xander Cage" soundtrack.
From YouTube: Just cause I like it, here is another chance to see A.O.A.'s "Afraid of Americans," a remake of a 1990s David Bowie song.
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Negromancer News Bits and Bites from September 18th to 24th, 2016 - Update #25
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POLITICS - From ThinkProgress: First the Mus-lambs hated white people because of their freedoms. Now, the darkies hate white people because of their success.
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OBIT - From YahooMovies: The actor Bill Nunn has died at the age of 62, Saturday, September 24, 2016. He was best known for playing "Radio Raheem" in Spike Lee's 1989 film, "Do The Right Thing." He also had a minor role in Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man" trilogy.
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MUSIC - From YahooMusic: The baby on the iconic cover of Nirvana's "Nevermind" album is now 25-years-old. He's never made a dime on an LP that has sold over 30 million copies worldwide.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan join acclaimed actor Paul Dano's directorial debut, "Wildlife."
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CELEBRITY - From YahooCelebrity: Brad Pitt tells his side of the messiness.
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CELEBRITY - From YahooCelebrity: More on allegations about substance abuse, spousal abuse, and more in the ongoing Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
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ECO - From Variety: Shailene Woodley to be honored at Environmental Media Association Awards.
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CELEBRITY - From YahooCelebrity: How Angelina Jolie told Brad Pitt it was over.
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BLACK LIVES MATTER - From TheFreeThoughtProject: Massachusetts state supreme courts says Black men justified in running away from cops.
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SPORTS - From Steelers: Terry Bradshaw talks about playing QB for the Steelers and his biggest regrets.
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COMICS - From ScreenRant: Is Agents of SHIELD connected to "Doctor Strange?"
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MOVIES - From RSN: Can Oliver Stone's film, "Snowden," help Edward Snowden gain a pardon?
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CRIME - From RSN: Connecticut cops are caught on camera fabricating criminal charges against a man who was recording them at a DUI checkpoint.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Rooney Mara to star in pop drama, "Vox Lux."
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MOVIES - From Variety: Deadpool villian, Ed Skrein, in talks to join "Alita: Battle Angel," which Robert Rodriguez is directing and James Cameron is producing.
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CELEBRITY - From TMZ: Angelina Jolie files for divorce from Brad Pitt.
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OBIT - From Deadline: Screenwriter and director Curtis Hanson has died at the age of 71, Tuesday, September 20, 2016. He won an Oscar for his screenplay for his 1997 film, L.A Confidential.
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BLACK LIVES MATTER - From YahooNews: African-American Terence Crutcher was unarmed and did not shoot at the cops, but was shot to death by a white cop.
CRIME - From YahooNews: Ahmad Khan Rahami planted bombs in New York City and shot at the cops, but he is still alive.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Jamie Dornan will play "Will Scarlet" in "Robin Hood: Origins."
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Johnny Depp's thriller "Labyrinth" has a distributor.
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STAR WARS-COMICS - From YahooMovies: Marvel's "Star Wars" comics will dig into Yoda's history.
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POLITICS - From Truthout: Here, what's (who's) in Donald Trump's "Basket of Deplorables."
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EMMYS - From LATimes: A complete list of 2016 Emmy Award winners.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 9/16 to 9/18/2016 weekend box office is Sully with an estimated take of $22 million.
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EMMYS - From TheWrap: In case you missed it, Night 1 of the 2016 Creative Arts Emmys - from last week.
From Deadline: Night 2 of those 2016 Creative Arts Emmys.
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OBIT - From TMZ: Charmain Carr, who played one of the Von Trapp children in "The Sound of Music," has died at the age of 73, Saturday, September 17, 2016.
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POLITICS - From ThinkProgress: Donald Trump trying to rewrite his Birther history about President Obama.
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COMICS-FILM - From WeGotThisCovered: See Oscar-winner J.K. Simmons as "Commissioner James Gordon" in next year's "Justice League."
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COMICS-TV - From ScreenRant: The "Ghost Rider" is a different kind of threat on this season's "Marvel's Agents of SHIELD."
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POLITICS - From teleSUR: Julian Assange offers himself in exchange for Chelsea Manning's freedom.
POLITICS - From ThinkProgress: First the Mus-lambs hated white people because of their freedoms. Now, the darkies hate white people because of their success.
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OBIT - From YahooMovies: The actor Bill Nunn has died at the age of 62, Saturday, September 24, 2016. He was best known for playing "Radio Raheem" in Spike Lee's 1989 film, "Do The Right Thing." He also had a minor role in Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man" trilogy.
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MUSIC - From YahooMusic: The baby on the iconic cover of Nirvana's "Nevermind" album is now 25-years-old. He's never made a dime on an LP that has sold over 30 million copies worldwide.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan join acclaimed actor Paul Dano's directorial debut, "Wildlife."
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CELEBRITY - From YahooCelebrity: Brad Pitt tells his side of the messiness.
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CELEBRITY - From YahooCelebrity: More on allegations about substance abuse, spousal abuse, and more in the ongoing Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
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ECO - From Variety: Shailene Woodley to be honored at Environmental Media Association Awards.
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CELEBRITY - From YahooCelebrity: How Angelina Jolie told Brad Pitt it was over.
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BLACK LIVES MATTER - From TheFreeThoughtProject: Massachusetts state supreme courts says Black men justified in running away from cops.
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SPORTS - From Steelers: Terry Bradshaw talks about playing QB for the Steelers and his biggest regrets.
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COMICS - From ScreenRant: Is Agents of SHIELD connected to "Doctor Strange?"
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MOVIES - From RSN: Can Oliver Stone's film, "Snowden," help Edward Snowden gain a pardon?
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CRIME - From RSN: Connecticut cops are caught on camera fabricating criminal charges against a man who was recording them at a DUI checkpoint.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Rooney Mara to star in pop drama, "Vox Lux."
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MOVIES - From Variety: Deadpool villian, Ed Skrein, in talks to join "Alita: Battle Angel," which Robert Rodriguez is directing and James Cameron is producing.
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CELEBRITY - From TMZ: Angelina Jolie files for divorce from Brad Pitt.
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OBIT - From Deadline: Screenwriter and director Curtis Hanson has died at the age of 71, Tuesday, September 20, 2016. He won an Oscar for his screenplay for his 1997 film, L.A Confidential.
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BLACK LIVES MATTER - From YahooNews: African-American Terence Crutcher was unarmed and did not shoot at the cops, but was shot to death by a white cop.
CRIME - From YahooNews: Ahmad Khan Rahami planted bombs in New York City and shot at the cops, but he is still alive.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Jamie Dornan will play "Will Scarlet" in "Robin Hood: Origins."
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Johnny Depp's thriller "Labyrinth" has a distributor.
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STAR WARS-COMICS - From YahooMovies: Marvel's "Star Wars" comics will dig into Yoda's history.
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POLITICS - From Truthout: Here, what's (who's) in Donald Trump's "Basket of Deplorables."
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EMMYS - From LATimes: A complete list of 2016 Emmy Award winners.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 9/16 to 9/18/2016 weekend box office is Sully with an estimated take of $22 million.
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EMMYS - From TheWrap: In case you missed it, Night 1 of the 2016 Creative Arts Emmys - from last week.
From Deadline: Night 2 of those 2016 Creative Arts Emmys.
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OBIT - From TMZ: Charmain Carr, who played one of the Von Trapp children in "The Sound of Music," has died at the age of 73, Saturday, September 17, 2016.
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POLITICS - From ThinkProgress: Donald Trump trying to rewrite his Birther history about President Obama.
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COMICS-FILM - From WeGotThisCovered: See Oscar-winner J.K. Simmons as "Commissioner James Gordon" in next year's "Justice League."
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COMICS-TV - From ScreenRant: The "Ghost Rider" is a different kind of threat on this season's "Marvel's Agents of SHIELD."
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POLITICS - From teleSUR: Julian Assange offers himself in exchange for Chelsea Manning's freedom.
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.
----------
MOVIES - From WeGotThisCovered: "Bad Boys 3" is now called "Bad Boys for Life." The release date has also been removed from 2017 to 2018.
----------
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.
----------
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.
----------
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.
----------
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.
----------
POLITICS - From BostonGlobe: Louisiana's new Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards has saved lives since he accepted the Medicaid expansion under "Obamacare."
----------
OLYMPICS - From YahooSports: U.S. women make history in capturing Rio Olympic gymnastics team gold, the remarkable Simone Biles.
----------
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.
----------
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."
----------
MOVIES - From YahooCelebrity: Dwayne Johnson calls some of his "Fast 8" male co-stars "candyasses."
----------
MOVIES - From BleedingCool: Breck Eisner is in talks to direct a new Friday the 13th film.
----------
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.
----------
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.
----------
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.
----------
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.
----------
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
----------
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.
----------
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).
----------
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.
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?
----------
TELEVISION - From TheWrap: Classic Nickelodeon cartoon, "Rocko's Modern Life" will return in a special.
----------
MOVIES - From WeGotThisCovered: "Bad Boys 3" is now called "Bad Boys for Life." The release date has also been removed from 2017 to 2018.
----------
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.
----------
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.
----------
TELEVISION - From YahooTV: Ousted "Saturday Night Live" cast members, Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah, have new gigs at Showtime.
----------
CELEBRITY - From YahooCelebrity: Mel Gibson escapes settlement payments with is baby mama, Oksana Grigorieva.
----------
MOVIES - From Variety: Dammit. Angelina Jolie has decided not to appear in Kenneth Branagh's remake of "Murder on the Orient Express."
----------
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."
----------
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.
----------
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.
----------
MOVIES - From YahooMovies: So the all-female "Ghostbusters" reboot looks to be a box office flop.
----------
OBITS - From YahooSports: John Saunders, longtime ESPN anchor, died today, Wednesday, August 10, 2016. He was 61.
----------
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.
----------
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.
----------
POLITICS - From BostonGlobe: Louisiana's new Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards has saved lives since he accepted the Medicaid expansion under "Obamacare."
----------
OLYMPICS - From YahooSports: U.S. women make history in capturing Rio Olympic gymnastics team gold, the remarkable Simone Biles.
----------
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.
----------
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."
----------
MOVIES - From YahooCelebrity: Dwayne Johnson calls some of his "Fast 8" male co-stars "candyasses."
----------
MOVIES - From BleedingCool: Breck Eisner is in talks to direct a new Friday the 13th film.
----------
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.
----------
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.
---------
TELEVISION - From DeadlineTV: Director David O. Russell ("Silver Linings Playbook," "American Hustle") is prepping a TV series starring Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore.
----------
COMICS-FILM - From WeGotThisCovered: Set photos from "Spider-Man: Homecoming" shows off Spider-Man's web-shooters.
----------
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.
----------
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.
----------
CULTURE - From RSN: Renee Zellwegger on against her: "We can do better."
----------
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.
----------
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
----------
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.
----------
CELEBRITY - From PopSugar: Angelina Jolie will be a visiting professor at the London School of Economics next year.
----------
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).
----------
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.
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Negromancer News Bits and Bites from November 22th to 30th, 2015 - Update #35
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NEWS:
From BoxOfficeMojo: The 2015 Thanksgiving weekend box office champ is "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2" with an estimated take of $51.6 million.
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From YahooMovies: Inside Pixar's tech evolution.
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From YahooTV: 35 years of "Bosom Buddies"
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From Deadline: This time "Peter Hammond's Notes" concern the award season.
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From Deadline: Lionsgate and Alex Proyas release statements concerning the all-white casting of "Gods of Egypt."
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From Adele: 12 mind-blowing facts about Adele's smash hit album 25
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From Variety: Roman Polanski will not be extradited to the United States from Poland to face sex crime charges.
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From LATimes: Stars talk about the appeal of made-for-TV Christmas movies.
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From YahooMusic: Sole copy of Wu-Tang album, "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin," sells for at least one million dollars. The owner cannot, an unnamed American collector, cannot be released for 88 years.
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From GuardianUK: Garrison Keillor is retiring.
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From Fox: "War of the Planet of the Apes" contest announces.
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From Time: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the special effect of Hollywood diversity.
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From Slate: See Adele prank some fans/impersonators.
From Variety: Chiwetel Ejiofor will be honored at the British Independent Film Awards on Dec. 6, 2015, where he will receive the "Richard Harris Award," which recognizes an outstanding contribution to British film by an actor.
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From IndieWire: Universal apparently financed Angelina Jolie's vanity film, "By the Sea," so that she would agree to "Wanted 2" (why, Lord, why?) and a "Bride of Frankenstein" remake/re-imagining.
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From TheReelWord: Netflix is reportedly behind a new "Lost in Space" television series.
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From TheReelWord: Vin Diesel announces a new "Riddick" film and television series set in the "Riddick" universe.
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From YahooMusic: Adele talks about the song "Hello" and its importance to her new album, "25."
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From HitFix: "Toy Story" is 20 years old, and it is as wonderful as ever.
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From BoxOfficeMojo: The #1 movie at the 11/20 to 11/22/2015 weekend box office is The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 with an estimated haul of $101 million.
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From CinemaBlend: Brad Pitt is involved in a new sci-fi film.
HARD NEWS:
From RSN: Native Hawaiians rise.
From InformedConsent: White terrorism and abortion clinics.
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From RollingStone: Matt Taibbi: America is too dumb for TV News.
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From TalkingPointsMemo: President's state on Planned Parenthood shooting.
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From WashPost: Anne Frank and her family were immigrants who were turned away.
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From TheVox: Perfect response to the black-on-black crime meme.
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From Outlook: John Cusack talks to Arundhati Roy.
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From Slate: The shooting of Laquan McDonald in Chicago... the video.
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From Slate: Go John Bel!
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From RollingStone: Yeah, what the hell is going on with Ben Carson?
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From ThinkProgress: Donald Trump retweets racist lies; media cowers before calling him a liar and a racists.
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From YahooFinance: McDonald's is lowering prices, including bringing back more $1 menu items.
COMICS - Films and Books:
From YahooNews: "The Green Lantern Corps." movie might be a Lethal Weapon-styled buddy movie.
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From CNET: More details on Doctor Strange film.
From YahooMovies: You can get Joker's "Suicide Squad" car.
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From Negromancer: The first issue of "The Dark Knight III" is in comic book stores today.
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From Slate: On Netflix's "Jessica Jones" and its relation to "Gamergate."
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From CinemaBlend: Remember George Miller (Mad Max) had planned to direct a Justice League movie (Justice League: Mortal)? It was cancelled, but here is a look at that film's Wonder Woman (Megan Gale).
STAR WARS:
From YahooMovies: Katherine Timpf had to play with Roger Ailes' "little space nerd stick" to get a job at Fox.
TRAILER:
From YouTube: First trailer for a creepy upcoming movie, "The Other Side of the Door."
MISC:
From GoodHousekeeping: An amazing story about an adopted young woman who discovered that her biological father was a deceased 9/11 hero.
NEWS:
From BoxOfficeMojo: The 2015 Thanksgiving weekend box office champ is "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2" with an estimated take of $51.6 million.
---------------
From YahooMovies: Inside Pixar's tech evolution.
---------------
From YahooTV: 35 years of "Bosom Buddies"
---------------
From Deadline: This time "Peter Hammond's Notes" concern the award season.
---------------
From Deadline: Lionsgate and Alex Proyas release statements concerning the all-white casting of "Gods of Egypt."
---------------
From Adele: 12 mind-blowing facts about Adele's smash hit album 25
.---------------
From Variety: Roman Polanski will not be extradited to the United States from Poland to face sex crime charges.
---------------
From LATimes: Stars talk about the appeal of made-for-TV Christmas movies.
---------------
From YahooMusic: Sole copy of Wu-Tang album, "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin," sells for at least one million dollars. The owner cannot, an unnamed American collector, cannot be released for 88 years.
---------------
From GuardianUK: Garrison Keillor is retiring.
---------------
From Fox: "War of the Planet of the Apes" contest announces.
---------------
From Time: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the special effect of Hollywood diversity.
---------------
From Slate: See Adele prank some fans/impersonators.
From Variety: Chiwetel Ejiofor will be honored at the British Independent Film Awards on Dec. 6, 2015, where he will receive the "Richard Harris Award," which recognizes an outstanding contribution to British film by an actor.
---------------
From IndieWire: Universal apparently financed Angelina Jolie's vanity film, "By the Sea," so that she would agree to "Wanted 2" (why, Lord, why?) and a "Bride of Frankenstein" remake/re-imagining.
---------------
From TheReelWord: Netflix is reportedly behind a new "Lost in Space" television series.
---------------
From TheReelWord: Vin Diesel announces a new "Riddick" film and television series set in the "Riddick" universe.
---------------
From YahooMusic: Adele talks about the song "Hello" and its importance to her new album, "25."
---------------
From HitFix: "Toy Story" is 20 years old, and it is as wonderful as ever.
---------------
From BoxOfficeMojo: The #1 movie at the 11/20 to 11/22/2015 weekend box office is The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 with an estimated haul of $101 million.
---------------
From CinemaBlend: Brad Pitt is involved in a new sci-fi film.
HARD NEWS:
From RSN: Native Hawaiians rise.
From InformedConsent: White terrorism and abortion clinics.
---------------
From RollingStone: Matt Taibbi: America is too dumb for TV News.
---------------
From TalkingPointsMemo: President's state on Planned Parenthood shooting.
---------------
From WashPost: Anne Frank and her family were immigrants who were turned away.
---------------
From TheVox: Perfect response to the black-on-black crime meme.
---------------
From Outlook: John Cusack talks to Arundhati Roy.
---------------
From Slate: The shooting of Laquan McDonald in Chicago... the video.
---------------
From Slate: Go John Bel!
---------------
From RollingStone: Yeah, what the hell is going on with Ben Carson?
---------------
From ThinkProgress: Donald Trump retweets racist lies; media cowers before calling him a liar and a racists.
---------------
From YahooFinance: McDonald's is lowering prices, including bringing back more $1 menu items.
COMICS - Films and Books:
From YahooNews: "The Green Lantern Corps." movie might be a Lethal Weapon-styled buddy movie.
---------------
From CNET: More details on Doctor Strange film.
From YahooMovies: You can get Joker's "Suicide Squad" car.
---------------
From Negromancer: The first issue of "The Dark Knight III" is in comic book stores today.
---------------
From Slate: On Netflix's "Jessica Jones" and its relation to "Gamergate."
---------------
From CinemaBlend: Remember George Miller (Mad Max) had planned to direct a Justice League movie (Justice League: Mortal)? It was cancelled, but here is a look at that film's Wonder Woman (Megan Gale).
STAR WARS:
From YahooMovies: Katherine Timpf had to play with Roger Ailes' "little space nerd stick" to get a job at Fox.
TRAILER:
From YouTube: First trailer for a creepy upcoming movie, "The Other Side of the Door."
MISC:
From GoodHousekeeping: An amazing story about an adopted young woman who discovered that her biological father was a deceased 9/11 hero.
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Review: "Maleficent" is Not Just Another Hollywood Fantasy Film
Maleficent (2014)
Running time: 97 minutes (1 hour, 37 minutes)
Rating: MPAA – PG for sequences of fantasy action and violence, including frightening images
DIRECTOR: Robert Stromberg
WRITER: Linda Woolverton (based on the screenplay, Sleeping Beauty, by Joe Rinaldi, Winston Hibler, Bill Peet, Ted Sears, Ralph Wright, and Milt Banta; and the story adaptation by Erdman Penner; based on the story “La Belle au bois dormant” by Charles Perrault)
PRODUCER: Joe Roth
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Dean Semler (D.o.P.)
EDITORS: Chris Lebenzon and Richard Pearson
COMPOSER: James Newton Howard
FANTASY/ACTION/DRAMA with elements of adventure
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley, Lesley Manville, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple, Sam Riley, Brenton Thwaites, Kenneth Cranham, Isobelle Molloy, and Ella Purnell
Maleficent is a 2014 fantasy and action film from director Robert Stromberg and writer Linda Woolverton. Released by Walt Disney Pictures and produced by Joe Roth, the film re-imagines Walt Disney's 1959 animated feature film, Sleeping Beauty, and focuses on the point of view of Maleficent, the villain in Sleeping Beauty and a classic Disney villain. In Maleficent the movie, a vengeful fairy curses an infant princess and becomes fascinated with the child as she grows up.
Maleficent is set in a land where there are two kingdoms, the Moors, the magical realm of the faeries, and a human kingdom that borders it. An ambitious human monarch, King Henry (Kenneth Cranham), covets the Moors, but finds his efforts to conquer it stymied by Maleficent (Angelina Jolie), the queen fairy.
Stefan (Sharlto Copley), a human who has known Maleficent since they both were children, believes that he has a solution to the conflict between the humans and the denizens of the Moors. However, this solution leads Maleficent to place a curse on Aurora, an infant human princess. Years later, Maleficent discovers that Aurora (Elle Fanning) may be the only one who can restore peace and hope to the troubled land.
One the books that I have had in my possession for the longest time is the 1980 edition of The Classic Fairy Tales by the husband-and-wife folklorists team, Ioan and Peter Opie. The book contains some of the best-known fairy tales in the English language, including “Sleeping Beauty” (as “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood”). The emphasis of The Classic Fairy Tales is on the earliest English publications of stories like “Sleeping Beauty,” “Cinderella,” and “Beauty and the Beast,” rather than reprinting, as the text on the back cover declares, later “prettified” versions of those classic fairy tales.
Maleficent is certainly pretty, even gorgeous. The costumes, clothing, head-wraps, and jewelry that Angelina Jolie dons as Maleficent can be described as “classic couture.” The production design is lavish and simply beautiful; in fact, the director of Maleficent, Robert Stromberg, is an Oscar-winning production designer for how work on Avatar (2009) and Alice in Wonderland (2010). The creature design and CGI on the fairies of the Moors and on the dragon in the final battle have qualities that make them both tangible and magical; they're quite lovely.
However, Maleficent is not prettified. It is not the prettiness and beauty or the baroque wonderland that is the Moors that make Maleficent a unique and splendid film. The thematic richness that digs beneath the pretty and simplified surface of classic fairy tales makes Maleficent something that is rare in modern film – a fairy tale that is an allegory about the complexities of the human condition. Linda Woolverton composes a screenplay that offers a feminist reinterpretation of Sleeping Beauty, and the result is Maleficent. This is a film that does not portray women as princesses waiting for the prince-hero or knight-hero who will save them and then, marry them happily-ever-after. This film is about women, but it portrays them with complexity and subtly in depicting their relationships with other women, with the world, and with themselves.
That is not to say that this movie does not kick-ass. The battle scenes in Maleficent are far more exciting and visually interesting, even striking, than all those fantasy movies that desperately tried to copy Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films. Somehow, the man versus magical creature battles in Maleficent manage to seem fresh and new.
I do have some complaints about Maleficent. Much of the first half-hour of this film lacks a sense of direction and is stiff. [Perhaps, that is why writer/director John Lee Hancock assisted on the re-shoots of the opening scenes.] The pixie trio and Stefan are under-realized characters, exemplifying the character missteps that keep this film from being a truly exceptional fantasy masterpiece.
Overall, however, I like this movie a lot. Angelina Jolie proves her star power and talent, because this movie could not exist without her playing the lead. Maleficent is not a Disney classic, but I think it will be memorable, because it is a distinctive dark fantasy film, where as so many other American epic fantasy films seem as if they come from the same bag of stale cookies.
7 of 10
B+
Friday, October 31, 2014
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Saturday, August 30, 2014
Negromancer News Bits and Bites for August 24th to August 30th 2014 - Update #15
NEWS:
From TheWrap: Team behind 22 Jump Street to reboot old ABC television series, "The Greatest American Hero," for television.
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From DeadlineHollywood: A&E cancels its most popular scripted television series, "Longmire."
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From DeadlineHollywood: Emma Roberts is set for the horror-thriller "February."
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From TheHuffingtonPost: See Miley Cyrus' bathing suit for the cover of V Magazine. You can't swim with that!
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From the AP via Yahoo: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie reportedly, secretly married in the France on Saturday, August 23, 2014.
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From TheHollywoodReporter: A complete list of winners at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards
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From the WashingtonPost: Fix the Emmys?
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From PostandCourier: Emma Stone set to make Broadway debut in "Cabaret."
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From TheTelegraph: Idris Elba and Chiwetel Ejiofor renew awards "rivalry" at tonight's (Monday, August 25, 2014) 66th Primetime Emmy Awards.
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From TheVox: "True Blood" never figured out what it wanted its vampires to be
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From YahooMusic: Amber Rose's chain-link dress at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards
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From TheWrap: Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy is not gone, nor is it forgotten. It stole the August 22nd to 24th, 2014 weekend box office, according to early estimates. It returns to #1 after spending two weeks at #2 behind Paramount's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot, which is at #2 for this weekend. Guardians won the box office for its debut weekend, before the Turtles returned to cinemas. Guardians is also the #1 box-office hit of the Summer 2014, moving past Transformers: Age of Extinction.
The teen-oriented, If I Stay, opens at #3, according to early estimates and could end up battling the Turtles for #2, when the finally tally comes about sometime Monday afternoon. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For," a sequel to the 2004 film, Sin City, is likely a bomb with its $6.6 million debut.
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From BleedingCool: With all the good news Marvel is getting, I thought that I'd bring back this classic bit of bad press.
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From TheWrap: Five Freaky Facts about the Fractured Summer Box Office.
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From YahooCelebrity: "Sleepy Hollow" actor, Orlando Jones, puts a powerful twist on the "ice bucket" challenge. Call it "Bullet Bucket Challenge."
STAR WARS:
From HuffingtonPost: Episode VII cast members take "ice bucket challenge," including Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford.
COMIC BOOKS - Movies and Comics:
From EW InsideMovies: Marvel still trying to talk Joaquin Phoenix into portraying the title character in their planned "Doctor Strange" film. It's a close call, apparently.
From Yahoo: Images from the set of "Avengers: Age of Ultron."
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From CinemaBlend: Rumors, spoilers, and speculation about "Captain America 3."
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From YahooMovies: See Evangeline Lilly's "wasp-y" haircut for "Ant-Man."
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From The Hollywood Reporter via YahooMovies: "Ant-Man" adds new cast members: Rapper T.I., John Slatterly, Judy Greer, and Bobby Cannavale.
OBITS:
From Variety: Actor, director, and producer, Sir Richard Attenborough died today, Sunday, August 24, 2014. He was 90 years old. In 1982, Attenborough won two Oscars for producing and directing the 1982 film, Gandhi. [Sir Ben Kingsley won the best actor for playing the title role.] Attenborough was probably best known for playing park creator John Hammond in the 1993 film, Jurassic Park, and in the sequel, The Lost World.
Attenborough's other directorial efforts included Cry Freedom, Chaplin, and Shadowlands. In the 1960s, he won a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe for his acting.
Attenborough chronicled his 20 year struggle to make Gandhi (which won 8 Oscars) in the book, In Search of Gandhi. Negromancer sends condolences to Attenborough's family and friends. R.I.P. Sir Richard.
TRAILERS AND PREVIEWS:
From 20thCenturyFox: First official trailer for Alexandre Aja's The Pyramid.
MISC:
From GMA via Yahoo: A great story about two men who were friends as boys in Ottawa, Canada, who found out six decades later that they were brothers.
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From TheVox: This pie chart GIF shows how we have paid for music over the last 30 years.
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