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HBO lands ‘Doomsday Machine’ Facebook Limited Series Starring Claire Foy As Sheryl Sandberg

HBO has bought the rights for Doomsday Machine, a limited series about Facebook that will star Claire Foy as embattled tech giant chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg. The premium cable network’s acquisition comes after multiple outlets placed bids on the project, Deadline is reporting. Doomsday Machine was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright-novelist, Ayad Akhtar, whose…

Sundance Film Festival Review – Evan Rachel Wood Opens Up and Advocates in ‘Phoenix Rising’

While modern civilization has evolved in certain respects, it is still horrifying and disturbing to see how people continue to be led to believe that they occupy a particular rank or place where they must do what is asked or expected of them. Too often, young individuals – and individuals of any age – are…

TV Review – ‘Euphoria’ Season 2 is Just as Gripping and Intense as Ever

In June 2019, season one of HBO’s Euphoria presented a staggering, deeply interesting look at high school life today, based on an Israeli series of the same name that premiered several years earlier. Star Zendaya took home an Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series, becoming the youngest performer ever to win the…

Singer Lisa Gentile Alleges Chris Noth Sexual Assaulted Her in 2002, Urges Support for Statute of Limitations Law Change

Country-pop singer-songwriter, Lisa Gentile is the latest Hollywood entertainer who’s alleging that Chris Noth sexually assaulted her over the course of his acting career. The musician is claiming that the Sex and the City star attacked her in 2002 in her New York City apartment, during the height of the acclaimed HBO comedy-drama’s six-season run,…

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty | Official Teaser / Starring John C. Reilly, Quincy Isaiah, Jason Clarke, Adrien Brody, Gaby Hoffman, Tracy Letts

HBO’s new drama series WINNING TIME: THE RISE OF THE LAKERS DYNASTY will debut March 2022 with ten episodes on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max. A fast-break series chronicling the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of sports’ most revered and dominant dynasties — a team that…

Benedict Cumberbatch to Play Poisoned KGB Agent Alexander Litvinenko in HBO Limited Series ‘Londongrad’

Benedict Cumberbatch has been cast as KGB Agent Alexander Litvinenko in HBO’s upcoming limited series, Londongrad. The Oscar-nominated actor and his company, Sunnymarch, are also executive producing the drama, which is currently in development, Variety is reporting. The show is based on Alan Cowell’s 2008 book, The Terminal Spy, which recounts Litvinenko’s life story. He…

Cary Joji Fukunaga Confirms He is Still Working on Stanley Kubrick Napoleon Project

As his blockbuster James Bond movie No Time to Die is set to hit theaters tomorrow, director Cary Joji Fukunaga has news about what’s next on his docket. In an interview with Collider, Fukunaga spoke about a long-awaited project about Napoleon Bonaparte, which was originally set to be made by filmmaker Stanley Kubrick back in…

Film Review: Should you pray to “The Many Saint of Newark?”

Fifteen minutes into The Many Saint of Newark, Aldo “Hollywood Dick” Moltisanti (Ray Liotta) kicks his new, off the boat, Italian wife down a flight of stairs. Later that morning, Aldo’s son, Richard “Dickie” Moltisanti (Alessandro Nivola) sees his new mother in law outside, smoking a cigarette. “I thought I heard someone fall down this…

Toronto International Film Festival Review – Alanis Morissette Biopic ‘Jagged’ is Weakened by the Singer’s Rejection of the Film

The music that artists, and particularly singers, create can be highly influential on their audiences and fans. Lyrics may be memorized and repeated often, and associated with causes and ideas. Those ties may not be intentional or at all representative of the true feelings of the artist, and it’s impossible to know what they really…

WarnerMedia Removing HBO Subscriptions From Amazon Prime Channels

HBO is set to to lose approximately five million of its subscribers through Prime Video’s channels platform today, as Amazon is canceling all of the premium cable network’s subscriptions. HBO’s loss of subscribers comes after its parent company, WarnerMedia, left its channels service, which allows Prime users to subscribe to streaming services via Amazon, according…

Friends and Co-Stars Pay Tribute to Emmy Award-Nominated Actor Michael K. Williams

Film and television actor, Michael K. Williams was found dead in his Brooklyn home yesterday afternoon at the age of 54, the NYPD confirmed to CBS News. Following the public confirmation of the Emmy Award-nominated performer’s death, his friends, former co-stars and filmmakers he worked with expressed their condolences to honor his memory on social…