A Cautionary Tale for Swaggering Hollywood Indie Studios

“They want crap,” Carolco executive Peter Hoffman once told the Los Angeles Times, “Every time people tell you they don’t, it’s bull. They want crap.” Hoffman was reflecting on the lackluster audience response to the Oscar-nominated Music Box (1989), while sci-fi action blockbusters such as Total Recall (1990) were filling coffers like mad. Long before independent production houses like Skydance, A24, and Blumhouse were making …

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Darren Mann Grieved After Season 2 Shock

[This story contains major spoilers from the penultimate episode of 1923 season two, “The Mountain Teeth of Monsters.”] There’s a reason Jack Dutton was so trusting of Clyde when he came upon him in the woods during the dark of night. The Dutton played by Darren Mann, whose great uncle is Harrison Ford’s Jacob Dutton, had actually interviewed Clyde for …

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Jason Momoa, Jack Black Hit Play at World Premiere

Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Jennifer Coolidge and Danielle Brooks have hit play on A Minecraft Movie. The main cast members, as well as Emma Myers and Sebastian Eugene Hansen, were all in attendance at the film’s world premiere on a sunny spring day in London’s Leicester Square on Sunday, where the green grass carpet stretched in front of the Cineworld …

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‘Dr. Kildare’ and ‘Shogun’ Star Was 90

Richard Chamberlain, the handsome leading man who thrilled women as the young star of Dr. Kildare and then centered the epic, melodramatic miniseries Shogun and The Thorn Birds, has died. He was 90. Chamberlain died on Saturday night in Waimanalo, Hawai’i of complications following a stroke, his publicist Harlan Boll told The Hollywood Reporter. He was one day shy of his 91st birthday. “Our beloved Richard …

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Amy Sherman-Palladino Recalls ‘Weird’ Network Notes For Gilmore Girls

The worlds of Gilmore Girls, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Étoile collided on Saturday night as PaleyFest LA hosted a celebration of creator Amy Sherman-Palladino. The event, dubbed a toast to “The Amy Sherman-Palladino Multiverse,” welcomed Lauren Graham and Kelly Bishop from Gilmore Girls, Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Borstein and Luke Kirby from Maisel and Charlotte Gainsbour and Lou de Laâge …

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Teen Girls Get Added to Text Chain on Yemen Attack Plans

National security leaders have inadvertently leaked Yemen attack plans again… only this time, it was to teen girls on Saturday Night Live. The NBC sketch comedy show’s cold open spoofed the Trump administration’s scandal this week, where the highest-ranking national security officials added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine to a Signal group text chain in which leaders discussed plans for an airstrike in …

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Justine Bateman, Decrying OpenAI, Has Launched a No-AI Film Festival

When it comes to Hollywood’s AI future, few have been more vocal —  or critical — than Justine Bateman. Armed with a computer science degree from UCLA, the veteran actor-filmmaker has sounded an alarm about the dangers of replacing human work with machine fabrication. She became a lead voice, particularly during the strikes, when she advised SAG-AFTRA on the issue and was often …

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Ron Howard Reveals Who Could ‘Compel’ Him to Return to Acting

While Ron Howard has focused on directing for most of his Hollywood career, there’s one person who could get him to return to acting. The Oscar-winning filmmaker recently told People magazine that he would “love to do some acting” again but that “it’s hard to make time for.” “I happen to play myself in an upcoming episode of The Studio, and …

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Why Helen Mirren Says She ‘Never Liked’ the James Bond Franchise

Helen Mirren has always been a fan of the actors who played 007, but not necessarily the James Bond franchise itself. The Oscar winner, who stars as former 007 Pierce Brosnan’s wife in their new series MobLand, was recently asked by The Standard for her thoughts on Amazon MGM Studios taking over creative control of the film franchise. “I have to …

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Mr. Wint in ‘Diamonds Are Forever’ Was 92

Bruce Glover, the unorthodox actor who portrayed Mr. Wint, the assassin with the distinctive aftershave who partnered with Putter Smith’s Mr. Kidd in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, has died. He was 92. His son, Back to the Future actor Crispin Glover, shared on Instagram that he died on March 12. His cause of death wasn’t immediately available. …

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