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It’s been a bleak year for Marvel Studios. On Monday, Marvel cut ties with Jonathan Majors after a New York jury found the actor guilty of assaulting and harassing his former girlfriend, Grace Jabbari. (Majors was acquitted of a different assault charge and of aggravated harassment.) It was the first public acknowledgment that the studio will be altering course in response to its once-promising star’s legal troubles. Majors, who made his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut during the first season of…
5 months ago
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When Sydney Freeland was in high school, she would often get in trouble for doodling characters like Spider-Man and Venom in her notebooks. The Navajo filmmaker grew up reading comics — “specifically Marvel comic books,” she says — and as a teenager would think about how those superhero stories would make great movies. (Hollywood would eventually agree, with multiple studios releasing multiple superhero comic book-based tentpoles a year nowadays.) Freeland’s love for comics and drawing even play…
4 months ago
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“The Last of Us” has cast one of its key new players for Season 2. Kaitlyn Dever will play Abby in the acclaimed post-apocalyptic survival drama, HBO announced Tuesday. The characters is described as “a skilled soldier whose black-and-white view of the world is challenged as she seeks vengeance for those she loved.” “Our casting process for Season 2 has been identical to Season 1: We look for world-class actors who embody the souls of the characters in the source material. Nothing matters more t…
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Six months after the nominations for the 75th Emmy Awards were announced, the Television Academy is finally ready to celebrate the best of the 2022-23 television season. Hit shows such as “The Last of Us,” “The Bear” and “The White Lotus” have already notched a few early wins at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, held earlier this month. Actors Nick Offerman and Storm Reid were recognized for their guest roles on HBO’s “The Last of Us,” which also took home wins for picture editing, main title desig…
4 months ago
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PaleyFest L.A. 2024 will celebrate good old-fashioned values and a man who makes us laugh and cry. The cast and crew of “Family Guy” will assemble for a special live table read celebrating the animated sitcom’s 25th anniversary as part of the 41st PaleyFest L.A., the Paley Center for Media announced Monday. The long-running event celebrating the best of television will run from April 12 through 20. Taking place at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre, PaleyFest L.A. 2024 will kick off with a screening and…
4 months ago
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This story contains spoilers for “Avatar: The Last Airbender.” One of the most emotional callbacks in Netflix’s “Avatar: The Last Airbender” is in the music. The fourth episode of the series, “Into the Dark,” features a flashback to a funeral. As young Prince Zuko offers his condolences to his Uncle Iroh on the death of his son Lu Ten, the score transitions into an orchestral version of the familiar melody, “Leaves From the Vine.” The song, first heard in the animated “Avatar” series, has long b…
3 months ago
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One of the first questions Anna Sawai had for showrunner Justin Marks when they first met to discuss “Shōgun” was, “Why are you remaking this?” Co-created by Marks and Rachel Kondo, FX’s adaptation of James Clavell’s bestselling novel has been a long-gestating project. But at the time, Sawai’s perspective was limited to what she could glean from her audition materials, which included a character description, a synopsis and a portion of a script involving a bathing scene that was anything but rev…
3 months ago
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Get your Oscars bingo card ready: The 96th Academy Awards is opening for “Abbott Elementary” this weekend. The film industry’s biggest stars will gather at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday for the 2024 Oscars, or, as this reporter calls it, the one (film) awards show to rule them all. Will “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s epic look at the man considered the father of the atomic bomb, come out on top, as many awards prognosticators expect? Will Ryan Gosling’s live performance of…
2 months ago
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Beginning in the late ’90s, Nickelodeon flourished with back to back hits in the kids’ television space with shows like “All That,” “The Amanda Show” and more. Sitcoms like “Zoey 101,” “Drake & Josh” and “iCarly” followed, making the network a kids’ entertainment powerhouse. “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,” the upcoming ID documentary series airing over two nights beginning Sunday, pulls back the curtain on this golden era of children’s television to reveal that the realities behind the…
2 months ago
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Sue Bird is still not used to being described as a former basketball player. It’s not that the longtime Seattle Storm point guard, who called a wrap on her WNBA career in 2022 after more than two decades in the league, was worried about finding something to fill her time. Instead, she says, “the scariest part” of retiring was the question it raised: “Who am I without this?” In a sense, the new documentary “Sue Bird: In the Clutch” is her answer. Or at least an answer. The film, which premiered a…
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When Calvin Wong learned that Cartoon Network Studios would be moving out of its longtime home in Burbank last year, he was overwhelmed by sadness. The storied building was the launching point for numerous animated favorites over the years, including “Samurai Jack,” “Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends,” “Adventure Time” and more. It was also where Wong started his first animation job years ago as a storyboard revisionist on “Regular Show.” But what most concerned the “We Baby Bears” showrunner…
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