Month: October 2019

Mythos Studios, the year-old content venture from Marvel Studios founding chairman David Maisel and manager-mogul Scooter Braun, announced Thursday the group of creatives who are overseeing three films in pre-production. Foremost is “Cupid,” the first film in a planned universe based on Greek and Roman mythology. The titular matchmaker, to be voiced by Justin Bieber,
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October 24, 2019 10:58AM PT Microsoft’s streaming platform Mixer has nabbed another superstar from Amazon’s Twitch. Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek, a former pro “Counter-Strike: Global Offensive” player, is joining Mixer as an exclusive streamer, and announced the move on Thursday with a Twitter video. It comes after Mixer previously landed exclusivity with Twitch’s former bigger streamer,
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Anthony Xavier There are some boots that will never go out of style. This reason in itself justifies the investment—if it’s something you can wear for years, it’s absolutely worth the splurge. But how do you make something so timeless feel fresh? We asked style influencer Brittany Xavier to style four classic boot silhouettes in
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October 24, 2019 10:20AM PT The new drama based on Philip Pullman’s ‘The Golden Compass’ has star power but little imagination of its own. Adapting a beloved property is as delicate a task as it is unenviable. You have to justify the shift of mediums, make smart adjustments to the source material accordingly, and perhaps
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Some of CNN’s best-known female political journalists may find themselves inadvertently taking part in Hollywood’s streaming wars. HBO Max, the WarnerMedia streaming service slated to launch next year, has greenlit four unscripted projects from CNN Films, and one of them will follow the cable-news outlet’s female political reporters as they cover the campaign to win
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More media orgs are looking to rake in some quick bucks over President Donald Trump’s expected impeachment. BuzzFeed News launched “Impeachment Today,” a new daily podcast covering the Trump impeachment process, co-produced with iHeartMedia and distributed across the iHeartPodcast Network beginning Thursday (Oct. 24). NPR earlier this month launched a daily impeachment podcast, hosted by
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If you’ve ever wanted a mashup of Disney princess movies and “The Stepford Wives” or imagined “The Handmaid’s Tale” as a swoony YA fantasy, “Paradise Hills” is absolutely the movie for you. This first feature by young Spanish commercials director Alice Waddington expands upon the template of her well-traveled 2015 short “Disco Inferno” in offering
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The National Academy of TV Arts and Sciences is spreading out next year’s Daytime Emmy Awards over three days — mirroring what its west-coast counterpart already does with the Primetime Emmys. NATAS, the East Coast-based academy handling most non-Primetime Emmys, announced Tuesday that the 47th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards will be divided into three awards
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October 24, 2019 9:00AM PT Live streaming service Caffeine has a famous new broadcaster: Offset, best known for being part of Migos, is joining the service for two weekly live shows starting this coming Sunday. Offset’s first show will have him play his favorite videos games, while a second show is going to feature celebrity
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October 24, 2019 9:00AM PT A killer app kills in a horror melodrama even lamer than that sounds. Even the lowly jump scare can be a source of pleasure. But at its most mechanical, this least imaginative of stock devices in current horror cinema elicits less fright than annoyance — rather like a repetitive, low-level
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Not long ago, it would have been difficult for Greek production outfit Heretic to board a project such as “Do Not Hesitate,” an ambitious, Afghanistan-set war drama that is partly being filmed on the island of Crete. But for Giorgos Karnavas, who is producing “Hesitate” alongside the Netherlands’ Lemming Film, the calculus has changed since
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As they began preparing “The Trip to Greece,” the fourth installment in Michael Winterbottom’s acclaimed comedy franchise starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, the creative team returned to the time-tested formula that made the previous three chapters so successful: a combination of food, wanderlust and the comedians’ impeccable improv skills. But with Winterbottom insisting this
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October 24, 2019 8:44AM PT “Vikings” star Alyssa Sutherland will lead the cast of upcoming action-thriller “Avarice.” The Australian actor will play Jane, a woman who must rescue her husband, a cryptocurrency specialist, after he is abducted by two ex-soldiers during a home invasion. Sutherland starred as Aslaug in History’s original  drama series “Vikings.” She
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A remarkable trove of cinematic riches from Ukraine, much of it rarely seen outside the country, is headlining several sections of the Ji.hlava docu fest this year, with especially strong showings in the Fascinations section, dedicated to experimental work. That genre has long been a signature element of Ji.hlava, which invariably screens experimental, essay and
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October 24, 2019 8:01AM PT Taylor Kitsch will star in “Inferno,” Neill Blomkamp’s upcoming science-fiction thriller. AGC Studios has boarded the project and agreed to fully finance and produce the film. Blomkamp is best known for his Oscar-nominated debut “District 9.” He also oversaw “Elysium” and “Chappie,” both of which were less financially and critically
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