Month: January 2020

January 31, 2020 9:17AM PT “Indebted,” NBC’s new sitcom, has the virtue of a top-of-the-line cast. Now if only it could figure out what to do with them. Fran Drescher makes a return to network comedy as half of a couple (along with Steven Weber) who’ve blown through their savings on luxuries with no clear
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UPDATED: Billionaire philanthropist George Soros is slamming Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg again — arguing that the social giant and its founder may be poised to give Donald Trump an unfair advantage in this year’s U.S. presidential election. Facebook’s decision not to require fact-checking in political advertising has “flung the door open for false, manipulated,
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Production spend in Ireland rose by 162% to €357 million ($395 million) in 2019, according to the country’s TV, film and animation agency Screen Ireland. Inward investment projects such as Netflix’s “Nightflyers,” BBC3 and Hulu drama “Normal People,” Apple TV Plus sci-fi series “Foundation,” and feature film “The Green Knight” accounted for €261 million (€289
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Geoffrey Zakarian, a chef and restaurateur who is regular on Food Network, has set a podcast pact with iHeartMedia. Zakarian’s Corner Table Entertainment banner will produce a podcast featuring Zakarian interviewing “best in class” notables from various sectors with a focus on the elements of success. Zakarian plans to record the first batch of episodes
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Watch all the 2020 SUPER BOWL SPOTS & TRAILERS: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLScC8g4bqD45TDxhlzPWC4Rjjx4xozhV3&cmp=sb_fanalert_youtube Check out the official Mulan Super Bowl Teaser starring Yifei Liu! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Sign up for a Fandango FanAlert for Mulan: https://www.fandango.com/mulan-2020-219442/movie-overview?cmp=sb_fanalert_youtube Want to be notified of all the latest movie trailers? Subscribe to the channel
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Watch all the 2020 SUPER BOWL SPOTS & TRAILERS: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLScC8g4bqD45TDxhlzPWC4Rjjx4xozhV3&cmp=sb_fanalert_youtube Check out the official A Quiet Place Part II Super Bowl TV Spot starring Emily Blunt! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Sign up for a Fandango FanAlert for A Quiet Place: https://www.fandango.com/a-quiet-place-part-ii-221936/movie-overview?cmp=sb_fanalert_youtube Want to be notified of all the
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Watch all the 2020 SUPER BOWL SPOTS & TRAILERS: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLScC8g4bqD45TDxhlzPWC4Rjjx4xozhV3&cmp=sb_fanalert_youtube Check out the official A Quiet Place Part II Super Bowl Featurette starring Emily Blunt! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Sign up for a Fandango FanAlert for A Quiet Place: https://www.fandango.com/a-quiet-place-part-ii-221936/movie-overview?cmp=sb_fanalert_youtube Want to be notified of all the latest
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“The Nowhere Inn,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, is a music mockumentary that stars Carrie Brownstein, one of the founding members of the rock band Sleater-Kinney. In the film, Brownstein plays the director of a documentary chronicling Annie Clark’s music persona St. Vincent on a fictionalized version of her Masseduction tour, but to
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GÖTEBORG, Sweden — Home to the most dynamic streaming markets in Western Europe, the Nordic region still posted solid box office returns in 2019, especially from Hollywood tentpoles “The Lion King,” “Avengers: Endgame” and “Joker,” which ruled on all top ten charts, except in Denmark. Local fare, however, lost ground in all five territories. DENMARK
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Entertainment One and animation studio Astley Baker Davies have cast a new voice artist for the role of Peppa Pig. Nine-year-old Amelie Bea Smith makes her debut voicing the title character of the animated hit in new episodes that launch next month in the U.K., U.S., Australia and international territories that air episodes in English.
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China’s streaming and online games companies have received a boost from the cancelation of seven major film releases that were expected to have dominated the Chinese New Year holidays, and the enforced closure of the country’s cinemas. Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, and a dozen other Chinese cities are under government-mandated lockdown, causing
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The Japanese film “37 Seconds” is deceptively delicate and quietly tough. Not unlike its protagonist. We first glimpse Yuma as she rides a crowded commuter train in Tokyo. From the camera’s angle, you might think she’s a kid. Her face is tentative, youthful. She’s shorter than the people around her because she’s in a wheelchair.
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January 30, 2020 10:21PM PT A residential ‘Disneyland for seniors’ in Central Florida is the subject of Lance Oppenheim’s delightful feature documentary debut. Those nostalgic for the fond portraits of eccentric Americana in Errol Morris’ early work — and pretty much everyone else — will be delighted by “Some Kind of Heaven.” Lance Oppenheim’s first
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“Do we actually need another recording of the Goldberg Variations?” The question, at once impudently cheeky and playfully taunting, is posed in “Coda” by the long-time manager and friend of a world-famous classical pianist during an intimate outdoor lunch with, among others, his bemused client. Ironically, a similar question could be asked about the movie
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Heather Young’s drama “Murmur” has been selected as the winner of the narrative feature  grand jury prize at the Slamdance Film festival. The movie, which won the Fipresci Discovery Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival, stars Shan MacDonald as an older woman who, while performing community service at an animal shelter, begins compulsively adopting
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Laika’s latest stop-motion feature, “Missing Link,” recently won a Golden Globe for animated film, and picked up an Oscar nomination as well. It’s the story of late Victorian-era Sir Lionel (voiced by Hugh Jackman), who discovers a creature resembling a yeti in the Pacific Northwest (Zach Galifianakis). They travel to the Himalayas with Adelina Fortnight
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January 30, 2020 9:40PM PT Predation of would-be illegal immigrants is the subject of Fernanda Valadez’s intriguing but cryptic drama. While U.S. attention in recent years has focused on the supposed hordes of “invading” illegal immigrants seeking to cross the southern border, “Identifying Features” is about a separate but related concern: The alarming if unknowable
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