Category: Film
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‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Filming Halted in Italy Due to Coronavirus Concerns
Filming didn’t even begin on Mission: Impossible 7 for the film’s first production hiccup to arrive. The highly anticipated sequel had planned to kick off production with a three-week leg of shooting in Venice, Italy, but the crew have been sent home and the plans halted due to the spread of the Coronavirus. An outbreak…
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Harvey Weinstein Accusers React to Rape Conviction: ‘We’re Never Going Back’
Validation, relief, gratitude and pride — those were some of the emotions expressed by a group of women who came forward with allegations of sexual assault at the hands of Harvey Weinstein in response to the disgraced producer’s conviction on Monday for rape and sexual assault.
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Katherine Johnson, ‘hidden figures’ at NASA during 1960s space race, dies at 101
When Katherine Johnson began working at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1953, she was classified as “subprofessional,” not far outranking a secretary or janitor.
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‘Sonic’ Ready to Fend Off ‘Call of the Wild’ for Second Weekend at #1
Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog looks to keep things rolling this weekend as it faces incoming competition from 20th Century’s The Call of the Wild and STX’s Brahms: The Boy II. Sonic will have no trouble holding on to the top spot following its strong start last weekend as it looks to top $110 million after…
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‘The Batman’ May Draw Inspiration From ‘Batman: Year One’ and ‘The Long Halloween’, Could Introduce the Flying Graysons
Since Robert Pattinson stepped into the cape and cowl, it was clear that Matt Reeves‘ The Batman would follow a younger Caped Crusader. But just how early? We still know very few details about the plot of The Batman
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Best Picture Winner ‘Parasite’ Heading to IMAX Theaters for a Week
Hot off its Best Picture win at the Academy Awards, Bong Joon-ho‘s incredible genre-bending social thriller Parasite was given a wide release into 2,000 theaters in the United States, essentially doubling its theatrical reach even though the film has been available on home video since the end of January.
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‘Knives Out 2’: Don’t Expect to Learn About Benoit Blanc’s Backstory
If you were mesmerized by Daniel Craig‘s Southern detective Benoit Blanc in Knives Out and thought to yourself, “I really hope a possible sequel sheds more light on where that character came from,” I have some bad news. Writer/director Rian Johnson, who is hard at work on a follow-up that will reunite him with Craig,…
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Justin Bieber’s ‘Cupid’ Movie Adds ‘Greatest Showman’ Director Michael Gracey as Producer
“The Greatest Showman” director Michael Gracey is joining the production team of Justin Bieber’s animated film “Cupid.”
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Tessa Thompson on the Power of ‘Sylvie’s Love,’ an ‘Irresistible’ Story of Black Love
In “Sylvie’s Love,” Tessa Thompson stars as an aspiring TV producer named Sylvie opposite Nnamdi Asomugha’s young musician Robert, who meet and fall in love in the New York summer of 1957. The 1950s and 1960s-set film — written and directed by Eugene Ashe — is a romantic tale of love found, lost and possibly…
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Tiffany Haddish, Willem Dafoe and Tye Sheridan Join Oscar Isaac in ‘The Card Counter’
Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan, and Willem Dafoe have been cast in “The Card Counter,” a casino-set revenge thriller starring Oscar Isaac.