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Author Sally Rooney Says Her TV Adaptations Like for ‘Normal People’ Is ‘Not Where I Belonged’
Sorry, Sally Rooney fans: There won’t be more TV adaptations of her work anytime soon. After 20 Years, the 'Lost' Score Still Rules the Island After the success of “Normal People” and “Conversations With Friends,” author Rooney told the New York Times that she has “decided not to accept any offers to option the rights” for her third book, “Beautiful World, Where Are You?.” The novel was released in 2021; Rooney’s fourth book “Intermezzo” is being released in September 2024. “I felt like it was just time to take a break from that and let the book be its own thing for...
Mariska Hargitay Says She’s ‘Definitely a Victim of Secondary Trauma’ from Starring in ‘Law and Order: SVU’
Mariska Hargitay’s 25 years on “Law and Order: SVU” has impacted her own psyche.After 20 Years, the 'Lost' Score Still Rules the Island The actress/producer told Selena Gomez for Interview magazine that bringing her character Olivia Benson to life for more than two decades has taken its toll on her personal life. She has played the character for more than 550 episodes of the “Law and Order” spinoff series, which is the longest-running primetime drama series of all-time. “That’s been a process. When I started the show, I wasn’t aware of how deeply it would go into me,” Hargitay said. “My...
Da’Vine Joy Randolph Hopes Angelina Jolie’s ‘Maria’ Helps Get Her Leontyne Price Biopic Greenlit
Da’Vine Joy Randolph has already brought her vocal chops to “Rustin,” “High Fidelity,” and the upcoming Pharrell Williams biopic, but the Academy Award winner is ready to fully showcase her opera background onscreen.2025 Oscars: Best Supporting Actress Predictions Randolph told IndieWire while attending the “Through Her Lens” cocktail reception, hosted by Tribeca and Chanel, that Pablo Larraín’s buzzy Maria Callas film “Maria” has opened the door for opera biopics — and Randolph is more than ready to bring history-making Leontyne Price’s story to the screen. “It’s ironic because Angelina Jolie has the Maria Callas biopic [‘Maria’] coming up,” Randolph said. “I’m a...
‘Gladiator II’ New Trailer: Russell Crowe Returns in an Unexpected Way as Paul Mescal’s Paternity Is Revealed
Russell Crowe may not be in “Gladiator II,” but his late character Maximus has been revealed at last to be the father of Paul Mescal’s lead Lucius.'Thunderbolts' Teaser: Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan Are Putting a New Gang of Marvel Baddies Together The latest trailer for Ridley Scott’s highly-anticipated epic sequel has confirmed that Crowe’s Maximus fathered Lucius with Lucilla (Connie Nielsen), as long suspected. Lucius is the nephew of Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) who was killed by Russell Crowe’s Maximus; the character is also the grandson of Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris). Maximus died in “Gladiator.” Spencer Treat Clark played Lucius in the...
‘Thunderbolts’ Teaser: Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan Are Putting a New Gang of Marvel Baddies Together
Marvel’s “Thunderbolts” hasn’t exactly had the easiest transition from comic book to screen. Natasha Lyonne Has a Lot of Opinions on 'How We're Doing Life Wrong' The film has been teased since 2021 with the release of “Black Widow” and introduction of characters Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Red Guardian (David Harbour), and Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), all of whom are featured in various iterations of the “Thunderbolts” comics. Further hints were made in the Disney+ series “The Falcon and The Winter Soldier.” However, with Marvel fare like “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and “The Marvels” underperforming at the box office and last...
‘English Teacher’ Creator and Star Brian Jordan Alvarez Wants Gun Episode to ‘Surprise the Audience’
Brian Jordan Alvarez isn’t trying to start a riot, but if he were, he’d at least want it to be a funny one. Don’t get him wrong, the creator and star of the new FX high school comedy “English Teacher” wants his series to be a conversation starter, but in taking on tough topics, he’s mostly concerned with making audiences come together and laugh. Take the show’s most recent episode, “School Safety,” which deals with the school, located in the suburbs of Austin, starting a gun club on campus. Obviously, guns in schools are no laughing matter, but in a...
‘Matlock’ Creator Explains Big Twist of New Kathy Bates Show
Editor’s note: This story contains spoilers for the first episode of CBS’s “Matlock.”Author Sally Rooney Says Her TV Adaptations Like for 'Normal People' Is 'Not Where I Belonged' “That’s the thing about older women — no one sees us coming.” That’s Madeline Matlock (Kathy Bates) in the first episode of CBS’s rebooted “Matlock,” inspired, of course, by the iconic lawyer TV show. But this is a fresh take on the character — Bates’ Matlock isn’t a long-lost daughter of the fictional icon. No, she’s just a lawyer who suddenly has a grandson to raise and therefore needs a new job at a...
Natasha Lyonne Has a Lot of Opinions on ‘How We’re Doing Life Wrong’
In Azazel Jacobs’ recently released Netflix film “His Three Daughters,” an anticipatory grief hangs over the drama like a shroud falling in agonizing slow motion. This is a concept Natasha Lyonne knows well. Her own life has hung precariously in the balance on more than one occasion, with her heroin addiction in the early 2000s and subsequent open-heart surgery in 2012 well documented, but in a recent piece for The New York Times, Lyonne expanded on her understanding, describing it as something that’s much larger than just death.Demi Moore Says She and Margaret Qualley Created a 'Real Sense of Safety'...
Joe Wright Took on Mussolini in ‘M. Son of the Century’ to ‘Counter’ the Creation of ‘False Narratives’
In crafting “M. Son of the Century,” a limited series about the rise of fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, “Atonement” and “Cyrano” director Joe Wright was looking to make a statement. This was a tougher proposition than some may think, as trying to wade into political discussions in film and television has widely become passé in the age of Trump and other far-right leaders taking rise throughout the world. Rather than be dissuaded, however, Wright felt this was the perfect reason to explore a time in history when large swathes of humanity became enraptured in cruel ideology espoused by charismatic...
‘Teacup’ Trailer: Spooky Series from James Wan Offers Up Scares on Peacock in Time for Halloween
Produced by horror maestro James Wan, the man behind “The Conjuring” and “Insidious” franchises, and developed and showrun by “Yellowstone” and “Chicago Fire” writer/producer Ian McCulloch, Peacock’s upcoming thriller “Teacup” is looking to frighten audiences right in time for Halloween. The series is adapted from Robert McCammon’s New York Times bestseller, “Stinger,” which follows a collection of differing personalities as they unite to fight against a horrifying creature set on destroying a small, rural community. Moving the narrative from Texas to Georgia, “Teacup” stars Yvonne Strahovski (“The Handmaid’s Tale”), Scott Speedman (“Grey’s Anatomy”), Rob Morgan (“Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty”), and Chaske Spencer (“Banshee”) and premieres...
‘Transformers One’ Opens to #2 as ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Leads in Weekend 3
“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” (Warner Bros.) is #1 for an unexpected third week. Its $26 million gross (down 49 percent) met projections for a domestic total of $227 million. But Paramount’s animated “Transformers One,” with an anticipated opening of $30 million or over, fell short at $25 million.Demi Moore Says She and Margaret Qualley Created a 'Real Sense of Safety' While Making 'The Substance' Two films producing over $50 million means a not-bad September weekend of $82 million in U.S./Canada, a 51 percent improvement over last year. Year to date remains steady, about 12 percent lower. The top 10 also saw three other new...
Demi Moore Says She and Margaret Qualley Created a ‘Real Sense of Safety’ While Making ‘The Substance’
“On paper, this could have been a disaster,” Demi Moore said in a recent interview with The Independent. She was speaking, of course, of her highly acclaimed performance in Coralie Fargeat‘s recently released body horror satire “The Substance.” The film, which won the Best Screenplay award at Cannes and the People’s Choice Midnight Madness award at TIFF, follows Moore’s character, a popular aerobics show host named Elisabeth Sparkle, as she starts using a black market drug to make herself appear younger. Brilliantly skewering the beauty industrial complex, the film and Moore’s performance have been widely lauded, garnering her serious Oscar...
Eric Roberts Issues ‘Public Apology’ to Sister Julia Roberts Over Past Comments
Eric Roberts is an iconoclast, both in performance and in his personal life. As the older brother of Academy Award winner Julia Roberts, he watched his sister surpass the prominence of his own acting career and has often been vocal about how her rise would not have come without him having laid a path for her to follow. Now, while Julia can stand to be picky about the roles she chooses, in a recently published memoir entitled “Runaway Train: Or, The Story of My Life So Far,” Roberts admitted that his life still exists paycheck-to-paycheck and he often can’t afford...
‘Emmanuelle’ Review: Audrey Diwan’s Erotic Drama Is More Aloof than Alluring
Partway through “Emmanuelle,” the French filmmaker Audrey Diwan’s third feature, a sleazy producer strikes up a conversation with the title character in a hotel spa. “Only two types of guests frequent luxury hotels,” he purrs to Emmanuelle, “those on the prowl and those on the run.”Natasha Lyonne Has a Lot of Opinions on 'How We're Doing Life Wrong' The fact that Emmanuelle (a simmering Noémie Merlant) is of the former type is one of the foundational principles of this sporadically sexy, frequently aloof, and occasionally ridiculous movie, which marks something of a departure for Diwan. Like her excellent character study “Happening”...
Kathryn Hahn ‘Came Up’ With ‘Agatha All Along’ Nude Scene, a First for a Woman in the MCU
For those who’ve watched the first episode of the “WandaVision” spinoff “Agatha All Along,” you’ll know there’s an unexpected moment around the halfway mark that will make you wonder if you’re watching it on Disney+ or HBO (sorry, Max). Episode 1 starts with Kathryn Hahn’s Agatha Harkness trapped in a true-crime version of life similar to “Mare of Easttown,” a result of the spell Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) put on her at the end of “WandaVision.” Thankfully, Rio (Aubrey Plaza) invades the spell to remind her of who she is, pushing her to strip through all the characters she’s played in...
Aaron Sorkin Says Monica Lewinsky Scandal Delayed Season 1 of ‘The West Wing’: ‘There Was a Sense That Everyone’s Going to Roll Their Eyes’
On September 20, creator Aaron Sorkin, executive producer and director Thomas Schlamme, and some of the cast of “The West Wing,” including the show’s fictional president, Martin Sheen, celebrated the 25th anniversary of their beloved political TV series with a special event at The White House hosted by the First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden. It was part of a reunion lap the show has been having the last few months, both in relation to the upcoming election and the release of “What’s Next: A Backstage Pass to ‘The West Wing'” by co-stars of the show Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack....
‘Industry’ Standout Marisa Abela Is Getting So Famous, She’s Got ‘Real Housewife’ Dorinda Medley in Her DMs
Marisa Abela is not well, bitch. Not just because the third season of her hit HBO series “Industry” is averaging 1.6 million cross-platform viewers per episode and was recently renewed for a fourth season, but also because one of the show’s fans happens to be a TV personality she’s a fan of herself. In a recent interview with The Cut, Abela revealed the “Real Housewife” who reached out over social media to show her support and some other sources of entertainment for when she’s not lighting up screens big and small. 'English Teacher' Creator and Star Brian Jordan Alvarez Wants...
Lorne Michaels on Why This Season of ‘Saturday Night Live’ Will ‘Reinvent’ Their Parody of Trump: ‘All of These Characters Have to Be Reexamined’
Will this be the last season of “Saturday Night Live” to skewer former President Donald Trump? That remains to be seen, but what is known now is that the classic sketch comedy show has no plans to take its foot off the gas when it comes to knocking him down to size. Speaking in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the show’s creator and longtime producer, Lorne Michaels, discussed how he, the writers, and the cast are choosing to shift their parody of the infamous presidential nominee but maintains that comedy will always come before politics.'English Teacher' Creator and Star Brian...
‘Chain Reactions’ Review: This ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Doc Explores Our Evolving Relationship with Onscreen Terror
Every once in a while, a movie comes around that’s so viscerally different from what came before it that the fabric of cinema is permanently altered. To say that future filmmakers were “influenced” by it almost feels like an understatement, as its legacy has less to do with inspiring specific aesthetic innovations than reconceptualizing the way we think about moving images. Natasha Lyonne Has a Lot of Opinions on 'How We're Doing Life Wrong' It’s somewhat ironic that a movie titled “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” went on to become such a film. Tobe Hooper’s 1974 slasher masterpiece embraced its lowbrow status...
Sean Baker Used ‘Tonal Jumps’ in ‘Anora’ as a Way of ‘Covering Different Genres’
To box the work of Sean Baker into a neat genre classification would be to miss what is so authentic and spontaneous about his unequivocally human and heartfelt storytelling. Of the same token, in elevating the narratives that exist on the margins of society to new, bold, cinematic heights, he allows many who’ve never been granted any importance to feel the only kind of value that being centered in a movie can offer. In this way, he’s using the various forms of cinema to expand the kind of stories the world is exposed to and with his latest, the Palme...
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