Month: January 2024

In a lull for specialty openings early in the new year, three foreign-language films are taking a shot. The Settlers, winner of the Cannes Un Certain Regard FIPRESCI Prize, and Inshallah A Boy are Cannes alumns and Oscar submissions from, respectively, Chile and Jordan (neither short-listed in a competitive field). Driving Madeleine is a crowd
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News Watch Ariana Grande’s New “Yes, And?” Video Grande wins over a crowd of snooty critics in the Christian Breslauer–directed video By Jazz Monroe January 12, 2024 Facebook X Ariana Grande in“Yes, And?,” directed by Christian Breslauer Facebook X Last night, Ariana Grande returned with her first solo single since 2020, and, now, “Yes, And?”
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Poor Matt Damon. Sure, the Oscar winner is one of the most successful actors around, having most recently starred in the Christopher Nolan awards juggernaut Oppenheimer. Conversely, he’s so often the butt of the joke when it comes to his old Ocean’s Eleven buddies George Clooney and Brad Pitt.  The dashing duo has been known
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England’s Morrisons, a 470-store British supermarket chain, has tried something innovative but disturbing. In a few of its stores over the Christmas season, it installed a robotic intrusion detector designed to act as a night watchman on construction sites, in mines, and on farms.  Morrisons tried this machine to detect, not trespassers, but shoplifters. The robotic
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By the time she was 12, Ámbar Mondragón knew how to treat bullet wounds. When she turned 13, her father, Victor, gave her a sawed-off shotgun plus shooting and hot-wiring lessons. And as Nicolás Ferraro’s My Favorite Scar opens, 15-year-old Ámbar is tending to her father’s latest injury: He’s returned from a night out with
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Paramount’s next iteration of Mean Girls has minted $3.25M in previews. That figure includes 4pm showtimes from yesterday as well as the “On Wednesdays We Wear Pink” early access screenings. A reminder that Paramount pivoted the release of Mean Girls: It was originally intended for Paramount+, and the test scores screamed, ‘Release this movie theatrically!’.
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Oppenheimer will finally arrive on Peacock on Feb. 16., right smack dab in the middle of Oscar season. Oscar nominations come out Jan. 23. The Christopher Nolan directed movie just won five Golden Globes including Best Director, Best Feature Drama, Best Actor Drama Cillian Murphy, Best Supporting Actor Robert Downey Jr, and Best Original Score
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Hillary Clinton had +300 odds. Jared Kushner was at +2,000. You could bet more broadly on the presence of “any current congressman.” A several-years-old half-joke was spreading anew, and the gambling site BetOnline seemed to see an opportunity. In late December, the company listed high-profile politicians, actors, and athletes and their odds of showing up
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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM‘s Head of Specialty Theatrical Distribution, Mark Boxer, was among the notables cuts yesterday at the streaming theatrical studio. Among some of Boxer’s highlights at Amazon, he oversaw the specialty theatrical releases of such Oscar nominated titles as Being the Ricardos, Poland’s 2018 International film entry Cold War, and 2x Oscar winner Sound
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Gary Busey fue encontrado orinando en público sin una preocupación en el mundo. El veterano actor fue visto bajándose los pantalones y haciendo sus necesidades el jueves en Malibu, orinando en un arbusto a lo largo de una pared cerca de un quiosco de prensa. Gary aparentemente sintió un cosquilleo por debajo del cinturón y
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