Month: May 2019

The capricious ocean is a recurrent, mesmerizing image in Mati Diop’s feature debut “Atlantics,” but given its perfidious connotations for the people of Senegal, who’ve lost so many souls to its depths, the director ensures the rolling waves remain hypnotic rather than beautiful. It’s the right decision for this romantic and melancholy film, more apt
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The CW will enter “Crisis” mode during the 2019-2020 TV season. The TV network will tackle one of the most complicated stories in mainstream superhero comics next season, using the annual cross-over it orchestrates among its various superhero dramas to  take on “Crisis on Infinite Earths,” the landmark DC comic-book series that radically changed the
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Check out the official Always Be My Maybe trailer starring Keanu Reeves! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Sign up for a Fandango FanAlert for Always Be My Maybe: https://www.fandango.com/always-be-my-maybe-190813/movie-overview?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc Want to be notified of all the latest movie trailers? Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to
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Check out the official Angel Has Fallen trailer starring Gerard Butler! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Sign up for a Fandango FanAlert for Angel Has Fallen: https://www.fandango.com/angel-has-fallen-218538/movie-overview?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc Want to be notified of all the latest movie trailers? Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to stay up
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Soundgarden, along with The Chris Cornell Estate, UMe and Artists Den, announced today a series of immersive events and a set of products titled “Soundgarden: Live from the Artists Den.” According to the announcement, the events will feature a “reimagined experience” of the Artists Den’s previous 2013 concert taping of the legendary Seattle band Soundgarden and its late frontman Chris
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Jazz artist and film composer Terence Blanchard was presented with the BMI Icon award at Wednesday night’s Film, TV and Visual Media Awards of performing-rights society Broadcast Music Inc. in Beverly Hills. Blanchard, composer for many of Spike Lee’s films (including “Malcolm X,” “Inside Man” and the recently Oscar-nominated “BlacKkKlansman”), was honored for his “unique
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May 16, 2019 9:02AM PT Two female directors co-sign this involving adaptation of Yasmina Khadra’s elegant literary fiction about life under Taliban control in the Afghan capital. The long-awaited, graphically rich, 2D watercolor-style animation “The Swallows Of Kabul” from French helmers Zabou Breitman and Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec provides an involving adaptation of Yasmina Khadra’s elegant literary
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May 16, 2019 9:00AM PT YouTube is bringing its virtual reality (VR) app to Facebook’s Oculus Quest headset. The Google-owned video service announced Thursday that its VR app would be available on the Quest when the headset launches later this month. YouTube VR is already available on the Oculus Go and Rift, Samsung Gear VR,
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Fandango Exclusive: See The Secret Life of Pets 2 two weeks early, on in select theaters! https://www.fandango.com/fandango-early-access-the-secret-life-of-pets-2-218596/movie-overview?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_TheSecretLifeofPets2EA In theaters everywhere June 7th. Check out the official The Secret Life of Pets 2 trailer starring Patton Oswalt! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Buy Tickets to The Secret Life of Pets 2:
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May 16, 2019 8:18AM PT The second season of “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman” on Netflix will feature five episodes — in which the former late-night star raps with guests Kanye West, Ellen DeGeneres, Tiffany Haddish, Melinda Gates and Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton. On Wednesday, Netflix announced Letterman’s show would
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May 16, 2019 7:54AM PT The second half of the first season of “Disenchantment,” from “The Simpsons” creator Matt Groening, will be sailing to Netflix subscribers this September. The 10-episode part 2 of season 1 of the animated “un-fairytale” comedy launches Friday, Sept. 20, exclusively on Netflix worldwide. “Dying for more ‘Disenchantment’ but perhaps your
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May 16, 2019 7:15AM PT German media giant ProSiebenSat.1 has promoted Thomas Lasarzik to head up its group content acquisitions and sales, the company announced Thursday. Lasarzik will be responsible for the negotiation and acquisition of all licensed content, including films and TV series across all group channels and platforms. Lasarzik’s new title will be
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Even in a pop landscape where half the new artists on the Hot 100 seem to have sprung from reality shows and viral videos, the ascendancy of Carly Rae Jepsen has been an unexpected ride. Going from a folky singer-songwriter hosting open-mic nights to a “Canadian Idol” runner-up and then a presumptive one-hit wonder thanks
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May 16, 2019 6:18AM PT Another big-ticket independent animated feature is coming to market in the shape of “Ladybug & Cat Noir Awakening.” Sierra/Affinity has boarded sales and has the project at Cannes. Six-time Grammy-winning  producer and composer Harvey Mason Jr. (“Dreamgirls”) is composing the music for the movie project with Jeremy Zag, who directs.
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Sony/ATV Music Publishing Chairman and CEO Jon Platt announced today that David Ventura and Tim Major will head up the company’s U.K. operations. Ventura is promoted to president & co-managing director and Major to co-managing director, replacing previous managing director Guy Moot (who in January took over Platt’s previous role as CEO of Warner/Chappell Music Publishing). Both
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May 16, 2019 5:32AM PT There are few fireworks in Franco Lolli’s lived-in study of a single mother in personal and professional turmoil, but it delivers slower-burning rewards. Colombian writer-director Franco Lolli wrongfoots us a little with the title of his sophomore feature “Litigante”: Unsuspecting audiences may go in expecting a courtroom drama, not least
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