Month: January 2019

For all its inclusion of raunchy dialogue, seriocomic carnality, and oral sex (implied to be happening beneath a strategically placed bedsheet), there is something oddly quaint about “The Unicorn,” director Robert Schwartzman’s lightly amusing trifle about two long-engaged millennials who contemplate a walk on the wild side — specifically, a threesome with another man or
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Ultraviolet, a cloud movie locker once hailed as Hollywood’s best bet to get consumers hooked on digital movies, is shuttering. The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE), the industry consortium that has been tasked with running Ultraviolet, will shut down the service on July 31. DECE will start to inform its users of the wind-down this
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Canadian rap ambassador Drake, who has worked with dozens of homegrown artists on his albums and regularly touts his native Toronto — and Canada overall — in his music and onstage banter, appears to be shunning the country’s biggest awards show, the Junos. For the second year in a row, the rapper’s record label and
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Here are the top trailers for movies coming out in February 2019! What will you go see? Watch All the Best New Trailers from January 2019: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLScC8g4bqD44Gd0io55vBL39LAsbic4bk?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc 0:00 Miss Bala: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZbXA4lyCtqqqhFeST5oy7448QzGWSPhd 2:26 Arctic: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZbXA4lyCtqpeTj2ipI6XQC2RrzSaVzUm 4:44 Cold Pursuit: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZbXA4lyCtqouyZtgxMP_CfUpNDxDqT2g 7:03 The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZbXA4lyCtqphor_DCHePKIFOt9CcHC27 9:28 The Prodigy: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZbXA4lyCtqrE7hY6uHUhtsP1n3r706U6 10:57 What Men Want:
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CBS and CBS All Access took their turns at the winter Television Critics Assn. press tour on Wednesday (with a bonus appearance from PopTV’s upcoming publicist drama, “Flack,” starring Anna Paquin). Only two panels were devoted to new upcoming shows — including Super Bowl leadout competition show “World’s Best” and limited series “The Red Line”
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January 30, 2019 5:10PM PT WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division will hold a two-day workshop to look at how online advertising affects the competitive landscape for local TV stations. That is potentially significant for broadcasters, who argue that the competition from tech giants should be weighed as regulators and government attorneys assess
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UPDATED: The Chicago Police Department has released two images from surveillance video of “potential persons of interest” in the alleged attack of “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett. “Photos of people of interest who were in area of the alleged assault & battery of Empire cast member,” the Chicago PD’s chief communications officer tweeted alongside the photos. “While video
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One of the biggest discoveries out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival is Gurinder Chadha’s “Blinded by the Light.” The coming-of-age tale set in 1987 England not only received one of the most enthusiastic standing ovations in Park City, but it also landed one of the biggest deals, selling for $15 million to New Line
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Celebrated Colombian television scribe Fernando Gaitan, whose original telenovela “Yo Soy Betty, La Fea” (“Ugly Betty”), a global franchise hit, changed general perceptions about Colombian TV, died Tuesday of a heart attack. He was 58. Considered by the Guinness World Records as the most successful telenovela in history, “Ugly Betty” aired in some 180 countries, was dubbed
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January 30, 2019 2:08PM PT Priyanka Chopra is developing a feature film based on “Wild Wild Country,” the hit Netflix docu-series following the Rajneesh cult. Chopra will star as the Indian religious guru Bhagwan Rajneesh’s (also known as Osho) highly influential (and polarizing) assistant Ma Anand Sheela. The “Quantico” actress announced the plans during her appearance on
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The Jan. 3 debut of the Lifetime docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly” dealt a swift blow to R. Kelly’s career. One week after the premiere of the incendiary exposé covering longstanding sexual abuse allegations against him and uncovering new ones, Lady Gaga cemented his persona non grata status by joining Team #MuteRKelly. Gaga apologized for working
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January 30, 2019 1:41PM PT Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has picked up all international rights to “Them That Follow,” a drama about an obscure American Pentecostal sect that premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film stars Oscar nominee Olivia Colman (“The Favourite”) and Walton Goggins (“Justified”). The Orchard picked up domestic rights earlier
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