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Kerry Washington joined in on a mini “Scandal” reunion on Friday in New York City in support of the SAG-AFTRA strike.

Washington shared photos on Instagram of herself, Tony Goldwyn and Bellamy Young creating signs for the picket lines.

“Volunteered with some fellow [SAG-AFTRA] members that I LOVE today,” Washington captioned the photos.

The actors look chummy today, but their characters on the ABC drama — Goldwyn’s Fritz, Washington’s Olivia and Young’s Mellie — were caught in a seasons-long love triangle.

Washington took the opportunity to shout out ways to help those taking part in the work stoppage: “If you want to get involved, there are soooooo many ways to support this labor strike. Help spread our message, volunteer, donate what you can donate to the Emergency Financial Assistance Program, and more! … Any bit helps! We’re in this together.”

SAG-AFTRA joined the picket lines officially on July 14 after weeks of talks with the The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents the studios and streamers, ended with no new contract agreement. A few of the issues most in contention are residual payments, more transparency on streaming viewing numbers and rules around the use of artificial intelligence.


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The Marvel Cinematic Universe has convinced countless Hollywood A-listers to participate in its sprawling superhero saga over the past 15 years. But don’t expect Seth Rogen to join the stable any time soon.

In a new interview with Polygon, Rogen explained that he is hesitant to work on a massive franchise due to fears about compromising the writing process he has developed with longtime partner Evan Goldberg.

“Honestly, probably fear,” Rogen said when asked about what has stopped him from making a Marvel or DC movie. “We really have a pretty specific way we work; me and Evan [Goldberg] have been writers for 20 years at this point. It’s a fear of the process, honestly. And I say that knowing nothing about the process. There are a lot of Marvel things I love.”

While Rogen and Goldberg have written and produced a variety of comic book properties including “The Boys” and “Preacher,” they have always controlled their projects as producers. (Rogen also starred in the critically-panned 2011 film “The Green Hornet,” which he co-wrote with Goldberg). That allows them to control their writing process — a privilege that Rogen says they’re unwilling to give up.

“It’s mostly a fear of how would we plug into the system they have in place, which seems like a very good system, and a system that serves them very well,” he said. “But is it a system that we would ultimately get really frustrated with?”

He cited their upcoming animated film “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” as a positive example of their process in action. Despite the film being based on a massive piece of preexisting IP, Rogen says that he and Goldberg were able to develop the project at their own pace.

“And what’s nice about [‘Mutant Mayhem’] is that we’re the producers of this. So we dictated the system, and we dictated the process in a lot of ways. We are creating the infrastructure and process for them, not plugging into someone else’s infrastructure and process. We’re control freaks!”

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Haim had some tricks up their sleeves for their second weekend on Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour. Este, Danielle and Alana arrived on stage wearing dresses like their “Bejeweled” video gowns when they joined Swift on “No Body, No Crime” in Santa Clara, California, on Friday (July 28).

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“hi from the step sisters!” the real-life sisters wrote Saturday (July 29) on Instagram. They shared a series of photos and a backstage video from the night before at Levi’s Stadium that featured a look at their “Bejeweled”-inspired dresses. The trio guest-starred in Swift’s self-directed music video that was released in October.

“we literally filmed this on our way to stage,” Haim added in a caption on TikTok about Friday night’s hijinks.

“No Body, No Crime” has been a new Evermore-era song on the setlist since Haim joined the tour as an opening act. Swift and Haim debuted it live together on July 22 in Seattle. Their collab replaced “‘Tis the Damn Season” on the setlist.

Swift will play Levi’s Stadium again Saturday night before heading to Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium to wrap the North American leg of her tour with six concerts. Haim is among the opening acts for the remaining dates.

Watch a clip of Friday night’s “No Body, No Crime” performance below.

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Viola Davis is stepping away from producing “G20,” announcing the decision in a statement signaling support for Hollywood’s ongoing strikes. Like over 100 other independent films, the upcoming action thriller received an interim agreement from SAG-AFTRA to continue production through the ongoing actors strike. But Davis won’t move forward with filming, setting a precedent for A-list talent negotiating the prospect of continuing work as the actors’ guild and AMPTP wait to reach an agreement.

“I love this movie, but I do not feel that it would be appropriate for this production to move forward during the strike,” Davis said Saturday in a statement. Davis is also credited as a producer on the film. “I appreciate that the producers on the project agree with this decision. JuVee Productions and I stand in solidarity with actors, SAG/AFTRA and the WGA.”

As an MRC production, “G20” received a waiver, despite the project’s affiliation with Amazon Prime Video, which is set to distribute the film.

The subject of interim waivers has been hotly contended since the SAG-AFTRA strike began two weeks ago. Davis’s announcement comes two days after actor Sarah Silverman slammed Hollywood stars for continuing to work on indie projects amid the strike, calling it an act of “scabbing.”

“We should see every movie star out there striking along because you have insurance because of your union,” Silverman said in a video she posted to Instagram Thursday night. “You get residuals because of your union. All these things that you get because of your union, and you can’t stand with your union?”

She ended her video by saying: “So, I don’t know if I’m mad at these movie stars that are making these indie movies that are obviously going to go to streaming, or am I mad at SAG for making this interim deal for these indie movies?”

Despite Silverman’s harsh criticism and Davis’ pointed decision to pump the breaks on “G20,” other indie projects still hustle on. Apple TV+’s “Tehran” and A24’s “Mother Mary” and “I Dream of Unicorns” are among the production that have received waivers from SAG-AFTRA to continue filming, while actors like Glenn Close, Anne Hathaway, Dakota Fanning and others are still working under waivers.

Deadline was first to report on Viola Davis’ statement about pausing work on “G20.”

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A large wildfire in B.C.’s Shuswap region was downgraded in size on Saturday.

Located around 20 kilometres north of Chase, the Lower East Adams Lake wildfire was downsized to 1,821 hectares from an estimated 2,000 hectares.

The Columbia Shuswap Regional District said the new sizing is a result of more accurate fire mapping.


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“The fire along the southern flank is not showing any significant growth towards populated areas,” the CSRD said on Saturday.

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The blaze was first spotted on July 12 and is thought to have been sparked by lightning. It’s also still deemed to be out of control, though the regional district says the fire is showing reduced demeanour with Rank 1 and 2 behaviour.

“These are the lowest levels on the wildfire ranking scale and indicate a smouldering ground fire,” said the CSRD.

BC Wildfire says the fire is being managed by an incident management team that’s been assigned to the Adams complex wildfires (Rossmore Lake, Lower East Adams Lake and Bush Creek East).

Eight helicopters are assigned to the zone, with nine pieces of heavy equipment battling the blaze.


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Structure protection crews are also deploying and testing a mass-water delivery system if needed.

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The fire has spawned evacuation alerts from the Adams Lake Indian Band, the CSRD and the Thompson-Nicola Regional District.

The regional district added that Shuswap residents may experience increased smoke this weekend and into next week from the northwestern and western flank of the Lower East Adams Lake fire, as well as others burning in the region.


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Kerry Washington posted several snapshots with her Scandal costars Tony Goldwyn and Bellamy Young on Instagram on Friday. The reunion showed them filing out picket signs in support of the strike initiated by SAG-AFTRA.

“Volunteered with some fellow @sagaftra members that I LOVE today,” Washington captioned an image of her holding a sign that read, “Guild vs. Evil.”

Washington played Olivia Pope for seven seasons on the ABC drama. She offered her fans a few suggestions on ways they can show their support.

“If you want to get involved, there are soooooo many ways to support this labor strike. Help spread our message, volunteer, donate what you can donate to the Emergency Financial Assistance Program, and more! I’ll link to all in my stories. Any bit helps! We’re in this together.”

Washington also posted a TikTok set to the tune of Montell Jordan’s “This Is How We Do It.” The footage showed the trio folding T-shirts, taking photos, and dancing as they volunteered together.

In the clip, Goldwyn, who played President Fitz Grant, explained how the union arrived at its unanimous decision. “We are on strike to get a fair deal for all the workers in our industry who put so much on the line,” he said. “And we’re just asking for fairness for each other.”

“For fairness and equity,” Washington added. “And so that we don’t get replaced by computers.”

Goldwyn replied, “Yeah, that too.”

Young previously posted photos of her and Goldwyn on the picket line as they marched through Times Square in New York City.

“I’ve been a proud @sagaftra #UnionMember since 1992,” she captioned her post. “I’m so grateful for the family & protections that our union has given me & I’m proud to stand vigilant so that those protections can continue to keep this family strong as our industry moves into a new paradigm.”

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Jigsaw lives! So do all of his deadly puzzle traps in the first official trailer for “Saw X.” Lionsgate pulled the curtain back on the new installment in the horror series at Midsummer Screen Festival on Saturday evening.

While the plot for the 10th entry in the “Saw” franchise has been kept under wraps, the project has long teased the return of Tobin Bell as the series killer kidnapper Jigsaw. The actor originated the role in 2004’s “Saw” but died at the end of “Saw 3.” Even so, the character was a driving creative force and Bell signed on for several sequels, appearing in flashbacks as the series contorted itself into one of the most labyrinthine chronologies in modern franchise filmmaking.

“Saw X” arrives only two years after the series’ previous installment, “Spiral: From the Book of Saw.” Led by Chris Rock, that entry bore few connections to the existing series.

Series veteran Shawnee Smith, who plays Amanda Young, also returns for “Saw X.” Additionally, Steven Brand, Synnøve Macody Lund, Michael Beach, Renata Vaca, Paulette Hernandez, Octavio Hinojosa and Joshua Okamoto join the forthcoming film.

Lionsgate confirmed Bell’s return to the “Saw” series in a statement last October: “The return of Tobin Bell to the franchise furthers Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures’ goal of a film that captures everything ‘Saw’ fans love about the franchise, while also keeping them guessing with all-new traps and a new mystery to solve.”

The studio, too, has affirmed that “Saw X” will capture fans’ “hearts — and other body parts — with all-new twisted, ingenious traps and a new mystery to solve.”

The 10th installment in the franchise will see the return of director Kevin Greutert, who helmed “Saw VI” (2009) and “Saw: The Final Chapter” (2010) and served as editor for the first five installments and “Jigsaw” (2017). Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger are writers, while Daniel J. Heffner, Ketura Kestin and James Wan executive produce.

“Saw X” is set to hit theaters on Sept. 27, 2023. Watch the official trailer below.

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Attendees of this year’s Midsummer Scream got an early look at “Saw X.” The hook, as explained earlier this month, is that it’s a prequel set between the events of “Saw” and “Saw II.” That means we’ll get Tobin Bell’s alive (but not well) Jigsaw without having to awkwardly pretzel him into a story taking place after his on-screen demise.

“Saw X” follows Kramer traveling to Mexico for a risky and experimental medical procedure that he hopes will cure his cancer. Spoiler alert: The entire operation is a scam aimed at the most vulnerable. More spoilers: John is going to get his righteous revenge, Jigsaw-style.

Kevin Greutert, who directed the quite popular “Sav VI” and the less beloved “Saw: The Final Chapter,” is back in the director’s chair. “Saw X,” which like “Saw VI” concerns the morality within the insurance industry, looks to be a continuity-drenched installment compared to “Jigsaw” and “Spiral: From the Book of Saw.” The 2017 release was a very loose continuation with a brief Tobin Bell cameo. The 2021 release attempted an in-continuity soft relaunch courtesy of producer and star Chris Rock.

Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger, who wrote the last two installments, are returning screenwriters with franchise vets Oren Koules and Mark Burg sticking around as producers.


While both “Jigsaw” ($103 million on a $10 million budget in 2017) and “Spiral” ($40 million on a $20 million budget plus whatever it earned on PVOD amid the COVID summer of 2021) were profitable, neither was necessarily a glorious franchise relaunch. The latter pushed the whole series past $1 billion worldwide. That is still a rare feat for an R-rated franchise.

Can Lionsgate relaunch “Saw” on the third try?

It could just be that the “Saw” series, which initially ran over seven movies from 2004 to 2010, was just the right horror franchise at the right time. Its grindhouse mentality and ruthless brutality personified the post-9/11 decade in horror, just as “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “The Last House on the Left” spoke to a generation ravaged by participating in or witnessing the real-life carnage of the Vietnam War. It gave Hollywood its first new iconic onscreen boogie man since “Scream”s Ghostface or – since it was a different murderer every time in those films — Tony Todd’s Candyman.

Tobin Bell’s Jigsaw died in “Saw III,” a death that stuck even as the later sequels pretzeled themselves trying to keep him around in spirit. Its increasingly insane pinball continuity — which makes “The Fast Saga” look like a simple straight line — both became a key part of its popularity and a huge challenge in ensnaring new fans.

The “bad” news is that this in-continuity prequel doesn’t exactly scream “welcome new fans.” The “good” news is that presumably audiences may only have to be familiar with the first and maybe the second installment. That may be a smart play for enticing casual fans who checked out when John Kramer clocked out.

Whether “Saw X” can succeed where “Jigsaw” and “Spiral” comparatively failed, there’s really no harm in Lionsgate periodically trying as long as they aren’t spending more than $20 million on each attempt. Hey, maybe generational nostalgia for those first seven films will finally do the trick when “Saw X” opens on September 29, or just under 19 years after the first one. After all, as real ones know, if it’s Halloween, it must be “Saw.” Or, in this case, it’s its a month out from Halloween, it, well, you get the idea.


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Andrew Jeffrey joined Realscreen in 2021 as its news editor. Here, he helps to oversee assignment, reporting and editing for Realscreen’s daily newsletter. Prior to his work covering documentary and non-fiction film and TV, he worked as a reporter and associate producer for CBC Edmonton, and as a reporter for The Star Calgary, where he covered daily news on beats such as local and provincial politics, health care and harm reduction, sports and education. His work has appeared in other Canadian news outlets such as TVO, the Edmonton Journal and Avenue Magazine.

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Snow-bordered highways, a cat winking its jade eye, the tentative yet always observant expressions of the main character Tana (Lily Gladstone) are among the low-key pleasures of “The Unknown Country,” the director-writer Morrisa Maltz’s luminously photographed, delicately paced road movie.

After the death of her grandmother, whom she cared for, Tana accepts an invitation to attend her cousin’s wedding in South Dakota. She hasn’t been with her Oglala Lakota family since she was eight.

Tana’s wintry drive from Minneapolis to her cousin Lainey Bearkiller Shangreaux’s in Spearfish, S.D., is just the first leg in a journey that will take her to the Pine Ridge Reservation and southward to Texas, as she traces an itinerary taken from her grandmother’s photo album. One picture shows Tana’s grandmother as a young woman, a craggy vista in the distance, and finding where the photo was taken starts to shape Tana’s sojourn.

Shangreaux, her husband, Devin, and their daughter, Jasmine, are among the performers here portraying themselves. In the film’s most inventive, gently disruptive gesture, the nonprofessional cast members’ actual stories are recounted in their voice-overs. Think of these mini-documentary profiles — of a waitress (Pam Richter), a gas station attendant (Dale Leander Toller), a motor lodge owner (Scott Stampe), and the nonagenarian Florence R. Perrin, a two-stepping mainstay at the Western Kountry Klub in Midlothian, Texas, as rest stops in Tana’s trip.

Gladstone, who stars in Martin Scorsese’s upcoming “Killers of the Flower Moon,” delivers a performance that is hushed and anchoring. But the film’s gentle detours into the real-life stories remind us that it is the people met on the road that so often make the trip memorable.

The Unknown Country
Not rated. Running time: 1 hour 25 minutes. In theaters.

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Regarding “50 Years at the Roxy,” July 23: I was one of the lucky ones who was there opening night for Neil Young, with Graham Nash subbing for Grin. (“Nils can’t sing”). It wasn’t until years later that I understood whom he was referring to and that he was ill. Thank goodness I was able to see Nils Lofgren and his trampoline-defying performance on the same stage a few years later. Reading the article brought back many, many memories of the incredible shows I saw there over the years, several of which were mentioned in the article. It also brought me to my scrapbook filled with the really cool ads that used to promote concerts and were themselves worthy of mention.

David Rosen
Solana Beach, Calif.

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One of the unlikeliest bookings at the Roxy was Bobby Short, who took the stage commenting, “Would you believe Bobby Short in jeans at the Roxy?”

Les Traub
Beverly Hills

Cherry-picking moments to be outraged

Regarding Lorraine Ali’s “How Summer Blockbuster ‘Sound of Freedom’ Became a Battlefield in the Culture War,” July 21:

Can you oppose child-trafficking but also oppose asylum and the protection of child migrants in general? Sure you can, in today’s polarized society.

Fans of the sleeper hit “Sound of Freedom” are cherry-picking their outrage over child trafficking, tethering it to QAnon conspiracies and partisan politics but ignoring how migration policy can, albeit with many flaws, provide children and others their day in immigration court.

Just read the comments section of any article or post about the film. Virtue-signaling fans of star Jim Caviezel trade in anti-immigrant rhetoric and support Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott shipping unsuspecting migrants to “woke” destinations. Abbott has set floating barriers in the river border with Mexico, and DeSantis recently signed a sweeping anti-immigrant law in his state. Where’s the outrage?

If you are supporting these laws, you are not against child trafficking. You are merely cherry-picking one aspect of a real issue and tying it to conspiracies and partisan policies that will undermine the protection of children.

David Hernandez
Northampton, Mass.

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“The Sound of Freedom” might be thought of as the new QAnon action movie. Everyone I know who has seen it emerges from the theater in a state of extreme distress and anger — anger springing from the movie’s assertion that 2 million children a year have gone “missing,” kidnapped and forced into sex work. But no one knows how many children fall victim to child sex trafficking. It is all a guess. Obviously, if it happens to one child, that is one too many, but we don’t need QAnon’s disturbing obsession with child sex abuse to muddy the water. Let’s direct this newfound concern for the world’s children into actually helping real children, beginning with those facing poverty and starvation.

JJ Flowers
Dana Point

Comic-Con was just fine

Despite the gloomy picture painted in Tracy Brown and Jevon Phillips’ article (“The Show Must Go On”), San Diego Comic-Con 2023 was a huge success. In fact, I’d wager a majority of the attendees (like me and my friends) thought this might be the best Comic-Con experience in perhaps 20 years.

Hollywood’s presence really affects only the devoted denizens of Hall H, which holds about 6,000 seats. The rest of the attendees had the convention center to themselves — to cosplay, to attend informative panels and screenings, to preview hundreds of toys and games and to collect and celebrate physical comic books.

I’ve been attending comic cons in New York (since 1968) and San Diego (since 1977). A lot of us were invigorated by this year’s event and would welcome future conventions just like this one.

Jerry Beck
Glendale

Sparks’ moment to shine

Big miss on you for not covering the triumphant Hollywood Bowl concert by L.A. brothers Sparks. After a 50-year career that has influenced dozens of bands, Sparks achieved this milestone. In their 70s, Ron and Russell Mael are more potent and vital than ever and have released the album “The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte.” Come on, L.A. Times.

Peter Knego
Oceanside

Our own Ernie Kovacs

I enjoyed reading Robert Lloyd’s piece on the legacy of film and television pioneer Ernie Kovacs (“Ernie Kovacs Was TV’s Original Madcap Genius. A New Book Tells Why His Influence and Legacy Matter,” July 20). But I think another pioneer who also twisted the TV control dials is worth mentioning: Jim Hawthorne. Steve Allen called him “the West Coast Ernie Kovacs” because Hawthorne was doing similar things as Kovacs on Los Angeles TV and radio as early as 1949.

Hawthorne’s madcap radio antics included playing records backward and sped up, while he and his imaginary recorded friend, Skippy, would comment about the music.

Hawthorne took his act to television, on Channel 13. Clips of that late-night live-audience program show a man who used the camera as a character named Eggbert, who would react to whatever stunt Hawthorne acted out on his junk-cluttered set. He would converse with Eggbert, and the camera would either tilt up and down in agreement or pan left and right in disapproval.

During the 1950s and early ’60s Hawthorne gave weather casts on Los Angeles TV stations while continuing a busy career on radio. He, like Kovacs, stretched the boundaries of early television, and in doing so, was a local legend.

Mitch Waldow
Broadcast archivist and retired journalist (KTTV, KCOP, KFWB and others)

A moving tribute to Tony Bennett

An absolutely enlightening and moving story of the legendary performer Tony Bennett (“Across Generations, the Irrepressible Joy of Tony Bennett Could Never Be Unplugged,” Mikael Wood, July 21). It was pointed out how he managed to transcend so many generations of different, evolving musical tastes. I would say it was not only his superb delivery and interpretation of American standards but also the quality of those songs themselves.

Unfortunately, much of today’s synthesized, monotonous, cookie-cutter and somewhat vapid music will be lucky to last a year, maybe 10, but certainly not 60 years or more, as is the case with Bennett’s repertoire.

It was a bittersweet tribute in the fact that all the great crooners (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole) are no longer with us. Fortunately, Bennett’s voice will live on for eternity.

Rick Solomon
Lake Balboa

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Somewhere high on a hill halfway to the stars, above the blue and windy sea, a man sits in the morning fog. He calls to me.

Rest in peace, Tony Bennett. The golden sun will shine for you.

Larry Hersh
Huntington Beach

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With Deadpool 3 set to release next summer, fans are still wondering who might be the film’s villain.

Audiences are stoked for Deadpool 3. 

Not only will Ryan Reynolds’ titular hero be returning to the screen, but so will Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. He’s even going to be sporting a bright yellow and blue, comic-accurate outfit, as seen in set photos.

While it’s plenty exciting to think about those two bickering with each other, one would think that the two will be going up against some sort of antagonist force. But who?

Possible Villains for Deadpool 3

Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch

Elizabeth Olsen

Yes, Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch was the villain for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness—but that movie set her up to be a baddie in another timeline as well.

Remember Earth-838’s Wanda? Perhaps the whole ordeal fractured her mind, causing the Scarlet Witch to continue to go off the rails.

This could result in an extremely messed up timeline for all everyone on her Earth, especially given her reality-warping powers.

Maybe after escaping the TVA, who will almost certainly detain him at some point in the movie, Deadpool stumbles into this collapsing reality. This could even be where Wade Wilson properly teams up with Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine.

There’s one problem, though: how in the world would the good guys be able to win?

Ian McKellen’s Magneto

Ian McKellen, Magneto, X-Men: The First Stand
Ian McKellen

Given the many rumors about all the returning mutants from the original X-Men films, making Ian McKellen’s Magneto the villain would make perfect sense.

He could possibly be leading a timeline where mutants have “won” and become the predominant force on the planet. This dystopian reality would also be a great way to bring in all of those older supporting X-Men characters.

If Deadpool 3 still chose to involve Wanda somehow, this would be Marvel’s chance to explore their father-daughter dynamic that the MCU could never touch upon before.

Michael Fassbender’s Magneto

Michael Fassbender, Magneto, X-Men: Days of Future Past
Michael Fassbender

If Marvel Studios decides not to go with Ian McKellen’s Magneto, why not choose the next best thing: Michael Fassbender?

Fassbender’s portrayal of the mutant has always been revered as one of the best elements of Fox’s later X-Men movies. Placing him in some alternate timeline where he has gone to extremes to protect mutantkind sounds like something audiences would absolutely love to see.

Sadly, there’s hardly been any talk about any of the First Class era cast returning for Deadpool 3, which doesn’t bode well for Fassbender’s chances.

Benedict Cumberbatch’s Evil Doctor Strange Variant

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Benedict Cumberbatch

Similar to how Multiverse of Madness set up the Scarlet Witch as a Multiversal threat, the same was done for Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange.

The Illuminati seemed convinced that Doctor Strange is a blight on the Multiverse. Why not show audiences this in Deadpool 3 and have some version of the former Sorcerer Supreme completely wipe out and destroy Fox’s timelines?

This also perfectly paves the way for Doctor Strange 3 and Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.

Though, much like Scarlet Witch, it’s hard to see how Deadpool or Wolverine would be able to truly go up against Stephen Strange and win.

Jonathan Majors’ Kang Variant

Jonathan Majors, Kang, Silver Centurion, Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania
Jonathan Majors

One possibility that has likely come to everyone’s mind once or twice is Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror.

The Multiverse is Kang’s plaything, so with Deadpool 3 so involved in those concepts, it might feel strange to leave Kang out altogether.

At the same time, given the actor’s legal troubles, if the character had a role in the upcoming threequel, word of it would almost certainly have already made its way out to the public.

At the very least, though, and depending on how Majors’ issues work themselves out, perhaps fans should probably expect a post-credits cameo at the very least.

Emma Corrin’s Mystery Marvel Character

Emma Corrin
Emma Corrin

Emma Corrin joined Deadpool 3 back in February, and no details on their character were revealed except for that they play a villain. But are they the key antagonist?

Many fans thought they’d end up being the physical embodiment of the X-Men’s training room, aka Danger. Sadly, that theory was debunked by Deadline’s Justin Kroll.

Another possibility for Corrin would be Lady Deadpool. Seeing as this is the Multiverse, it would be hard to believe that Ryan Reynolds wouldn’t want to have his hero meet other versions of himself.

Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine Variant

Hugh Jackman, Logan
Hugh Jackman

A huge part of Deadpool 3 centers around the return of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. But what’s better than one Wolvie? Two!

While one of these Wolverines would be the heroic, classic type, another could be a twisted, darker version of himself who learned all the wrong lessons while traveling the rocky road that was his life.

Or, maybe the single Logan that audiences are following along with for the whole movie ends up becoming the bad guy by the end. But why?

Many fans are confident that timelines will die within the course of the film—so, potential incursions. Wolverine could end up trying his hardest to save an already doomed timeline, even if it might cost Deadpool’s life or any number of other realities.

Ryan Reynolds Himself

Ryan Reynolds
Ryan Reynolds

It seems relentlessly clear that Deadpool 3 will be extremely meta. With that in mind, what if the villain is Ryan Reynolds himself?

Ever since the 20th Century Fox logo showed up on set, fans dug their heels in and became convinced that the project was some adaptation of Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe.

The third film could see Wade Wilson going around to various timelines erasing stories Wade feels dropped the ball (ala, most of the Fox Universe films for fans). In doing this, perhaps the meta element continues to multiply until the Merc With A Mouth is forced up against Reynolds—who is a producer on the film and obviously the man behind Deadpool’s live-action existence.

Can Deadpool’s caretaker reign in his own golden boy?

Deadpool 3 is currently slated to hit theaters on May 4, 2024.

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Susan Sarandon will try and give the Blue Beetle a run for his money this summer. A stalwart in Hollywood — she started acting in 1970 — Sarandon has never appeared in either the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) or even the now defunct DCEU films that officially took their curtain call with The Flash. However, Sarandon didn’t hesitate to sign on and play the evil, power-hungry Victoria Kord in the Blue Beetle because of the film’s director, Angel Manuel Soto.


Sarandon said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly:

I just was so impressed by his [Soto] passion. He has this art background, so he was this nerdy fan of superheroes.

In addition to working with Soto, Sarandon was impressed by her character’s ambitions and motivations. And if being the first actor to portray Victoria Kord on the big screen wasn’t enough incentive, Sarandon was also captivated by the complex themes explored in Blue Beetle.

Sarandon also told Entertainment Weekly:

[Victoria Kord personifies] the theme of imperialism in the name of democracy. My character’s really the one who’s driving that charade in order to get wealth and uranium and what other natural resources, under the guise of making the world safe for democracy. That rang a bell. All of those themes I thought would really be fun to dabble in.

Victoria Kord is a unique character in the DC Universe as she was created as an original character for the film Blue Beetle. However, prior to the movie’s release, Kord did appear in the pages of Blue Beetle: Graduation Day No. 2 in February 2023.

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Susan Sarandon plays the Blue Beetle’s (Xolo Maridueña) nemesis, Victoria Kord, in director Angel Manuel Soto’s first foray into the DC universe. And Kord has a singular focus when it comes to what she wants in life. And the leader of Kord Industries doesn’t intend to let anyone get in the way of what she wants most: power!

Sarandon said in the same interview:

Here she is, the only one who really made [the family business] her life. She has no family, she has no friends. She’s not interested in anything but Kord Industries. She doesn’t shop, she doesn’t hang out with her girlfriends. She doesn’t have a lover; if she does, it’s nobody important. So, everything has gone towards the building of power.

In addition to enjoying the chance to play her character, Sarandon was impressed by the diversity of the Blue Beetle cast. And she was also thrilled to find out that everyone involved had a passion for the material, rather than simply being involved for a payday.

Sarandon also told EW:

It means a lot to have that representation. You really felt that people were there understanding that this was a chance to do something that hadn’t happened before, which was this Latino superhero having his own movie. We didn’t have anyone who came late or was in it for the money.

Speaking of money, it — or the lack thereof — has played an ominous part in recent DC projects, whether they’ve seen the light of day or not. CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, David Zaslav, famously took a bath when he shelved the $90-million Batgirl film that featured Micheal Keaton’s Batman.

Worst yet, The Flash was released theatrically and it absolutely tanked at the box office. And, at the time of this writing, Blue Beetle is forecast to fail, too. Soto’s film is projected to only make between $27 million and $55 million total domestically against its $120-million budget.

Blue Beetle opens in theaters on Friday, August 18.

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Meta has just launched a new game for Horizon Worlds called Super Rumble, and it’s unlike any other game released for the social VR application. Previously known as Titanborne in beta, Super Rumble is the the first game out of Meta’s in-house studio, Ouro Interactive. It could also herald a new era for the Horizon Worlds platform, one embodied by experiences with better graphics and more complex gameplay. Vishal Shah, Meta’s VP of Metaverse, called the shooter “more than just a new world” and described it as “the next generation of Horizon Worlds” to Janko Roettgers of Lowpass 

Roettgers said everyone he played the beta version with “seemed awestruck by the level of fidelity the game offered.” Apparently, that’s because it was built using imported objects, assets and textures, which wasn’t possible in the past. Shah said Meta rebuilt the VR platform’s underlying technology to give it the ability to support higher-quality games and to allow developers to import assets created using third-party tools. The company has reportedly given Ouro and select partners the capability to use the import feature so they could develop new Horizon Worlds games to be released over the next six months. 

Shah told Lowpass that the company’s metaverse team has been working on improvements for Horizon Worlds over the past year. “As consumers come to Horizon, we want to make sure there’s a bunch of compelling content that they can find on day one. We’re going to seed the ecosystem, bootstrap it with stuff that we build both in-house, but also with some studios that we’re working with,” he said.

In addition to building an improved version of the platform, the Horizon team has also apparently been developing a mobile app. They’d reportedly finished creating one a year ago but weren’t happy with the result, so they chose to build it again. Super Rumble will be one of the first titles to be available when the mobile app comes out, and Shah said it will feature cross-platform play. 

A mobile app with cross-platform capabilities could help Meta reach new audiences who can’t afford or aren’t interested enough to get a VR headset. The company’s VR business unit, Reality Labs, posted a $3.7 billion operating loss in the second quarter of 2023. In all, the division has lost $21 billion since the beginning of 2022 and had to axe some projects last year. A mobile app could make Horizon Worlds more accessible, which in turn could translate into greater revenue. 

Shah’s team has been working on other improvements for the VR platform, as well, including investing in generative AI tools for creation. The idea is to give more creators the ability to build new worlds even if they don’t know how to use professional 3D tools. He didn’t tell Lowpass when the mobile app or generative AI tools will be available, though, so we’ll have to wait for their official announcements.

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Relive the highlights of the 70th Sydney Film Festival which took over Sydney screens from June 7 – 18, 2023.

A LETTER FROM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
NASHEN MOODLEY

For our 70th edition, we invited you to SEE IT ALL and I want to thank you deeply for generously accepting that invitation and celebrating cinema with us. You came in huge numbers, with over 100 sessions sold out, helped us premiere nearly 250 films, and welcomed filmmakers from around the globe with open minds and enthusiastic applause. Relive some of our favourite moments and watch our highlights video. 
 
I had my own highlights: Warwick Thornton being moved to tears at the incredible response to his film THE NEW BOY; Jane Campion speaking with David Stratton about her remarkable career at The Hub; the sheer joy radiating from all in attendance at RED, WHITE & BRASS; and applauding Asmae El Moudir as she collected the Sydney Film Prize for her astonishing film THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES. 
 
We’d love to hear your highlights too. Tell us all about them in our audience survey, which plays a really important part in helping us plan for next year (yes, we’re already planning for SFF71! See you June 5 – 16, 2024!).
 
I also want to extend a huge thank you to our big family of volunteers, our donors who make it possible, our Subscribers and Flexipass holders whose loyalty and film fandom is the heart of the Festival, all the participating filmmakers for all their daring works, and our partners who we couldn’t make the Festival without. 
 
For now, we’re on the road with SFF hits to regional cinemas with the Travelling Film Festival. Tell your friends to catch Festival favourites like PAST LIVES, FALLEN LEAVES and HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE – or head there yourself to catch what you missed!
 
See you at the cinema,
 
Nashen Moodley
Festival Director

 

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Venice Classics is the section that since 2012 has presented world premiere screenings at the Venice Film Festival of a selection of the best restorations of film classics carried out over the past year by film archives, cultural institutions and production companies around the world. Curated by Alberto Barbera with the collaboration of Federico Gironi, Venice Classics also presents a selection of documentaries about cinema or its practitioners.

 

“Once again this year, the line-up of Venice Classics seeks to offer its audiences a wide and overarching cross-section of the history of cinema, spanning genres and currents, exploring cinema styles and celebrating great filmmakers and anniversaries”. – said Alberto Barbera and Federico Gironi – “It rightly begins with the tribute to one of Italian cinema’s greatest and most popular stars. The pre-opening night, dedicated to Gina Lollobrigida, will feature La provinciale (The Wayward Wife) by Mario Soldati in which she offers one of her finest performances, and the rarely seen documentary dedicated to her by Orson Welles in 1958, Portrait of Gina, with which he hoped to initiate a series of portraits of people and places for the American broadcasting network ABC, but which was never followed up. Another tribute proposes to celebrate one of the masters of Italian genre cinema, Ruggero Deodato, who passed away in December last year, with the restoration of one of his most extreme and recherché films: Ultimo mondo cannibale.

Last February, we lost one of the greatest Spanish directors as well, Carlos Saura. We will see the restored version of one of his first and finest films, which marked the renascence of Spanish cinema: La caza (The Hunt) was an award-winner at the 1965 Berlin Film Festival.

Another of the anniversaries we will be celebrating this year is that of Anna Magnani, who left us fifty years ago. On this occasion, there will be a screening of the newly-restored 4K version of Bellissima, the remarkable film by one of the greatest directors in the history of Italian cinema, Luchino Visconti.

It is also the 120th anniversary of Yasujiro Ozu’s birth, and we will be seeing a rare film of his, mutilated by the censorship of the time, at the height of World War II: the recent rediscovery of part of the clips that were cut will make it possible to rediscover Chichi Ariki (There Was a Father) in a version that is not complete but is undoubtedly closer to the original release than the version we have known to date.

“We will follow with a series of great films that  rightfully belong to the history of cinema and its pantheon”, continued Alberto Barbera and Federico Gironi, “Les Créatures (The Creatures) by Agnès Varda (in competition at the Venice Film Festival in 1966); Days of Heaven, Terrence Malick’s second film; King and Country by Joseph Losey and Tini zabutych predkiv (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors) by Sergei Parajanov, which revealed to the world the remarkable qualities of the great Armenian-Ukrainian director despised by Soviet authorities for his work, which takes a visionary surrealistic approach to the popular traditions of the Caucasian peoples.

 

“Not just restored, but also revised by the filmmakers themselves in what are genuine Director’s Cuts, are One from the Heart by Francis Ford Coppola and Profundo Carmesí (Deep Crimson) by Arturo Ripstein, while the masterpiece Andrei Rublev by Andrei Tarkovsky will be presented in the reconstruction of the complete original version, which was censored before its release and has never been seen until now.

 

“2023 marks the 100th anniversary of both Warner Bros. and Disney. To celebrate them, fifty years after its production, a masterpiece of not just horror films, The Exorcist by William Friedkin, returns in a restored version, while for those looking for something softer and more reassuring, the screenings will feature Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, the film with the legendary Shirley Temple directed by the prolific and sometimes brilliant Allan Dwan.

 

“From America’s indie scene, we have Roger Corman‘s pupil Stephanie Rothman, who gave a feminist boost to 1970s sexploitation. The Festival will present The Working Girls, a recently restored movie from her filmography that has joined the collection of New York’s MoMA. Always on the topic of taboos, the director Yonfan takes us to Singapore’s red light district to meet a group of irresistible transvestites, in the brightly coloured Bugis Street. Children are the protagonists of one of Amir Naderi‘s first movies, Harmonica (Saaz Dahani, not seen for years), set in a sunny, coastal Iran that you wouldn’t expect. There will be an opportunity to discover, or rediscover, two films that are truly unfamiliar to us: Life of a Shock Force Worker (Slike iz života udarnika) by Bosnian director Bahrudin Čengić, a film considered by many critics to be one of the masterpieces of cinema from the former Yugoslavia, and Ohikkoshi (Moving) by Japanese director Shinji Sōmai, the unjustly underestimated director of only 13 remarkable films, made between 1980 and 2000.”

 

Below is the complete line-up of the restored films in Venice Classics selected for the 80th Venice Film Festival:

 

VENICE CLASSICS

 

SLIKE IZ ŽIVOTA UDARNIKA (LIFE OF A SHOCK FORCE WORKER)

by BAHRUDIN BATO ČENGIĆ (Yugoslavia, 1972, 78’, Colour / B/W)

restored by: Slovenska kinoteka / Filmski centar Sarajevo / Hrvatski državi arhiv – Hrvatska kinoteka / Ōsterreichisches Filmmuseum with the supporto f the EU Creative Europe Medie Programme / ACE – Association des Cinémathèques Européennes / Ministrstvo za kulturo Republike Slovenije

 

ULTIMO MONDO CANNIBALE (JUNGLE HOLOCAUST) – Midnight screening

by RUGGERO DEODATO (Italy, 1977, 90’, Colour)

restored by: Minerva Pictures

 

REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM

by ALLAN DWAN (USA, 1938, 81’, B/W)

restored by: Walt Disney Studios / The Film Foundation

 

ONE FROM THE HEART: REPRISE

by FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA (USA, 1982, 95’, Colour)

restored by: American Zoetrope

 

THE EXORCIST

by WILLIAM FRIEDKIN (USA, 1973, 132’, Colour)

restored by: Warner Bros.

 

KING & COUNTRY

by JOSEPH LOSEY (UK, 1964, 88’, B/W)

restored by: StudioCanal

 

DAYS OF HEAVEN

by TERRENCE MALICK (USA, 1978, 94’, Colour)

restored by: Criterion / Paramount

 

SAAZ DAHANI (HARMONICA)

by AMIR NADERI (Iran, 1973, 76’, Colour)

restored by: Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young adults – KANOON / Roashana Laboratory

 

CHICHI ARIKI (THERE WAS A FATHER)

by YASUJIRO OZU (Japan, 1942, 92’, B/W)

restored by: Shochiku / National Film Archive of Japan

 

TINI ZABUTYKH PREDKIV (SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS)

by SERGEI PARAJANOV (Ukraine, 1965, 99’, Colour / B/W)

restored by: Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Studio

 

PROFUNDO CARMESÍ (DEEP CRIMSON) – DIRECTOR’S CUT

by ARTURO RIPSTEIN (Mexico, Spain, France, 2023, 136’, Colour)

restored by: Alebrije Producciones / Wanda Films

 

THE WORKING GIRLS

by STEPHANIE ROTHMAN (USA, 1974, 80’, Colour)

restored by: The Museum of Modern Art, New York

 

LA CAZA (THE HUNT)

by CARLOS SAURA (Spain, 1966, 87’, B/W)

restored by: Video Mercury Films

LA PROVINCIALE (THE WAYWARD WIFE)

by MARIO SOLDATI (Italy, 1953, 113’, B/W)

restored by: CSC – Cineteca Nazionale, in collaboration with Compass Film

 

OHIKKOSHI (MOVING)

by SHINJI SÔMAI (Japan, 1993, 124’, Colour)

restored by: Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation

 

ANDREI RUBLEV – DIRECTOR’S CUT

by ANDREI TARKOVSKY (USSR, 1966, 191’, Colour / B/W)

restored by: Istituto Internazionale Andrei Tarkovsky in collaboration with Coevolutions and Cloudpost

 

LES CRÉATURES (THE CREATURES)

by AGNÈS VARDA (France, 1965, 94’, Colour / B/W)

restored by: Ciné Tamaris / CNC with the support of SHE ECHOES and Chanel

 

BELLISSIMA

by LUCHINO VISCONTI (Italy, 1951, 114’, B/W)

restored by: CSC – Cineteca Nazionale in collaboration with Compass Film

 

BUGIS STREET

by YONFAN (Hong Kong, 1995, 98’, Colour)

restored by: L’immagine ritrovata / Far Sun Film

 

OUT OF COMPETITION

 

PORTRAIT OF GINA

by ORSON WELLES (USA, 1958, 27’, B/W)

restored by: Munich Filmmuseum, in collaboration with Cinecittà

 

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Completing the Venice Classics section will be a selection of documentaries about cinema and its practitioners, with a line-up to be announced at the press conference on July 25th.

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Director Andrea Pallaoro President of the Jury of film students

Director and screenwriter Andrea Pallaoro (Medeas, Hannah, Monica)  will chair the Jury of Film Students which – for the tenth year – will award the Venice Classics prizes for the respective competitions for Best Restored Film and for the Best Documentary About Cinema. The Jury chaired will be composed of 24 students, each of them recommended by professors of film studies from various Italian universities, DAMS and from Ca’ Foscari University in Venice.

Andrea Pallaoro – biographical notes

Born in Trento, Italy in 1982, Andrea Pallaoro holds an MFA in Film Directing from the California Institute of the Arts and a BA from Hampshire College. His first feature film, Medeas, starring Catalina Sandino Moreno and Brian O’Byrne, premiered at the 70th Venice Film Festival and won several awards at prestigious international film festivals including Marrakech, Tbilisi, Palm Springs, and CamerImage. Hannah, Pallaoro’s second feature film, starring Charlotte Rampling, world premiered in the Official Competition of the 74th Venice Film Festival where Ms. Rampling won the Coppa Volpi for best actress. Hannah went on to receive many prestigious international awards and recognitions including a César nomination for best foreign film. His most recent film, Monica, starring Trace Lysette, Patricia Clarkson, Adriana Barraza and Emily Browning world premiered in the Official Competition of the 79th Venice film festival and went on to win numerous international prizes. Pallaoro has served on the juries of prominent film festivals including Venice, Chicago, and Black Nights – Tallinn. He lives between Los Angeles and New York City.

 

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Viola Davis won’t begin filming her new movie “G20” until the actors strike is resolved, despite receiving a SAG-AFTRA waiver that would have allowed production to take place. In a statement provided to Deadline, Davis explained why she and her partners at JuVee Productions decided to halt work on the film.

“I love this movie, but I do not feel that it would be appropriate for this production to move forward during the strike,” David said. “I appreciate that the producers on the project agree with this decision. JuVee Productions and I stand in solidarity with actors, SAG/AFTRA and the WGA.”

“G20” is a thriller that stars Davis as an American president who is forced to deal with terrorists overtaking the G20 summit. The film will be directed by Patricia Riggen and written by Noah and Logan Miller. The film is set to be distributed by Amazon Studios, but received a waiver because production is being handled by the independent studio MRC.

Davis is one of the first major actors to refuse to work on a guild-approved project during the strike. While all major studio and streaming productions are shut down, over 100 films have received “interim agreements” that allow them to continue filming. Films have to be truly independent, without any ties to the 350 producing organizations that make up the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, to be considered eligible for the waivers.

“The Strike Order extends to productions produced under the Codified Basic and Television Agreements as well as related contracts like the Low Budget Theatrical Agreement, Moderate Low Budget Project Agreement, Ultra Low Budget Project Agreement, and Special New Media Agreements. However, producers that otherwise fall within the scope of the strike order may apply for an interim agreement,” the guild wrote on its website. “Once such applications are vetted and, if approved by SAG-AFTRA, the union offers an Interim Agreement, and the producer accepts it by returning a signed copy. Once that process is complete, performers may render services on that specific production without being in violation of the strike order.” 

Notable projects that have received permission to film include the A24 films “Death of a Unicorn” starring Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega and “Mother Mary” starring Anne Hathaway.

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The core message of Good Omens Season 2 Episode 4 is one of trust.


On the periphery here — but soon to take center stage, it seems — Nina’s relationship with Lindsay is falling apart because there is no foundational trust. Can she and Maggie do better if their connection is jumpstarted with meddling?


Crowley and Aziraphale’s relationship is rooted in an unspoken trust that has developed over the millennia they’ve known each other, while it is clear that trust will only be betrayed when dealing with Hell’s workforce. You’d think Nazi zombies might know better.


Shax kicks it off by pretending to be a hitchhiker to get close to Aziraphale as he returns to London from Edinburgh.


Picking up a hitchhiker is a pretty intense trust exercise on both sides. Driver and hitchhiker must both trust the other to not be a serial (or even a one-off) killer.

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Of course, Aziraphale — as an angel driving a magical car — has little to fear.


You could wonder why Shax bothered with the deception of changing her appearance when she and Aziraphale have never met before.


Save for the excessive pointy teeth, her regular appearance is misleadingly docile.


She does have that tendency to overdo things, like showing up mysteriously and phoning simultaneously.

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The overachieving and ambitious bent parallels Heaven’s Michael, who tries to appoint herself to interim Supreme Archangel when Gabriel goes missing.


However, while Michael seeks to step into a vacated role, Shax takes a bit more initiative and proposes carving out a position for herself as a general in command of a Hell Legion.

Shax: To be clear, you are hereby authorizing me to storm the angel’s bookshop, sending wave after wave of demons to besiege it until it falls and we capture the archangel, destroying anything and everything that stands in our way?
Beelzebub: No. I am not authorizing you to do that. I am commanding you to do it. I want you there, Shax, on the ground, bravely leading the attack into the bookshop, leading the army of the damned.
Shax: I can do that.


Beelzebub doesn’t initially look all that convinced of Shax’s plan, but once she gives the command, it’s a done deal.


The keen timeline buff will realize that the planned siege of the bookshop will probably coincide with the Business Owners’ monthly meeting Aziraphale has decided to host.

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Speaking of our enthusiastic hobbyist of an angel, his interest in human magic tricks is rather bemusing.


I’d like to know why he settled on an inkwell for the potato’s final form. Did it just happen to be the item closest at hand when he was developing the trick?


It’s 1941, after all. Watching a magician disappear a good staple food like a potato seems the height of wastefulness.


Firing guns, however, is perfectly in keeping with the times.

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I love that Crowley and Aziraphale have known each other for nearly four thousand years at this point, and they’re still capable of making erroneous assumptions about each other.


Granted, Crowley seems to understand what makes the angel tick better than Aziraphale is at sussing out the demon’s motivations.

Aziraphale: You could’ve walked away. If you were truly as evil as you like to paint yourself, you would’ve done.
Crowley: Nah. That’s the trouble with you lot. You tend to see things in black and white. Sometimes, you just gotta blur the edges.


Although we never learn why the Nazis were threatening the bookselling Mr. Fell with a gun when Mr. Crowley diverted a Luftwaffe payload to their building, the fact that Crowley made sure to protect Aziraphale’s books from the explosion while forgetting about his own bootlegged booze smacks of un-demon-like selflessness.


He also seems genuinely concerned that the magic act won’t go well, which would devastate Aziraphale.


It’s all very sweet, really.

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Now, despite the magic show being the novelty act, the Nazi trio are the headliners.


As spies, they are not a successful lot, seeing as they end up dead. As zombies, they’re marginally more successful spies, although the tendency to eat the brains of their marks probably draws more attention than spies should.


Of course, the whole ensemble is quite a League of Gentlemen reunion, seeing as Jeremy Dyson wrote the script, Mark Gatiss and Steve Pemberton play Nazi zombies, and Reece Shearsmith is Furfur.


Of the four, I’ll admit that I’m most familiar with Mark Gatiss, although Mr. Harmony is a far cry from  Mycroft Holmes.

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Now, if you aren’t privy to the League of Gentlemen inside joke, you might feel like there’s an awful lot of time devoted to watching the Nazi trio shamble about, eating brains, and trying to be unobtrusive.


Like Elsbeth on Good Omens Season 2 Episode 3, I’m curious where the Nazi zombies go off to after Furfur lets them know the deal they struck was to remain zombies for eternity.


On the balance of things, living as a zombie with your friends is preferable to being eaten and pooped out and eaten again by a giant spider.


But considering they’re settled in London, what are the chances they’re still around in the present day?

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There’s got to be some sort of accounting in Hell that takes a census every hundred years to check up on the undead they’ve released to nature.


It’s a little surprising that Aziraphale was so okay with Crowley bombing the church they were in and killing the people he was with, even if they were threatening him with violence.

Aziraphale: I knew you’d come through for me. You always do.
Crowley: Well, you said, ‘Trust me.’
Aziraphale: And you did.


But the point of this outing is to focus on the magic between the two friends, not to get distracted by inconsistencies and musing about Nazi zombies hanging out in the West End for a few decades.


What are your thoughts, Fanatics? Will Aziraphale’s minor omission about running into Shax become problematic now that she’s on her way with a legion of demons?

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Considering no one seeking Gabriel sees him as anything but Jim, will they be able to bargain with the sieging forces when they can’t show them Gabriel?


Let us know your thoughts on how Shax’s siege will go. Will her training as an admissions clerk and emissary hold up when commanding a legion?


Hit our comments with your best speculative scenarios!

Diana Keng is a staff writer for TV Fanatic. She is a lifelong fan of smart sci-fi and fantasy media, an upstanding citizen of the United Federation of Planets, and a supporter of AFC Richmond ’til she dies. Her guilty pleasures include female-led procedurals, old-school sitcoms, and Bluey. She teaches, knits, and dreams big. Follow her on Twitter.

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“And Just Like That” showrunner Michael Patrick King told John Corbett he had to lose weight before shooting Aidan’s return on Max’s “Sex and the City” spin-off’s second season.

King says it wasn’t about aesthetics, per se, but about story and part of a makeover to make his return for the show make sense.

“We cut his hair we took the turquoise jewelry away, we told him he had to be rock-hard when he came back,” King said on the “And Just Like That… The Writers Room” podcast this week.


And what was Corbett’s response?

“He was eating fried chicken when I told him,” King recalled, “and he dropped the fried chicken on the plate and fell down in the booth that we were sitting in and said, ‘I knew I was a fatty.’ And then he came back rock-hard with short hair.”

Viewers who watched the episode may have caught a line by Aidan that may have been a gesture to King’s demand. Just after reuniting, Aidan tells Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie after she marvels at how much he hadn’t changed physically since she last saw him nearly two decades ago, “I lost 40 pounds since I emailed you last week.” That rings differently now that we know about King’s request.

King went on to explain why Aidan’s appearance was so important for the storyline. “If we’re bringing somebody back, we have to find some way to bring them back in a new way,” he explained.


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“So here we are now, bringing Aiden back again,” King continued, “and we have tricks up our sleeves as to how he is new and what we can actually do with the storyline considering — and it’s a very big consider — all the water under the bridge, all the pain they’ve already been through, how much Carrie has hurt him in the past — according to fan boards, right? — and now twice and how badly he took the breakup. So in order to wrestle all those realities and not throw them away, this would be the emotional equivalent of saying you we have to do something new with this dynamic that we haven’t done before.”

Parker, who is not only a star on the show but one of its executive producers, found out about Aidan’s return from King during a pre-production meeting.

“I tend to trust Michael, almost implicitly, about his instincts,” Parker previously told TheWrap. “I could easily recognize and understand that the Carrie-Aidan relationship is worthy of revisiting and that they might find one another again, given that Carrie is now single and that relationship was important and probably ended not in an ideal way.”


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This would be the third time Corbett reprised the role of Aidan in the “Sex and the City” universe. His original storyline extended over season 3 and 4 of the original series. He would later return in Season 6. His last appearance was in the movie “Sex and the City 2” when they ran into each other in Abu Dhabi, went out to dinner and shared a kiss. Not a good thing as they were both married at the time.

Now both single, this new iteration of their relationship unfurls on “And Just Like That” season 2 with new episodes every Thursday on Max.


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JUL 28,2023

JoJo Fletcher and Jordan Rodgers on Bachelor Nation and Why Shows Need On-Set Therapy (Exclusive)

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JUL 28,2023

Melanie Lynskey and Jason Ritter's Sweetest Couple Moments

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JUL 28,2023

Inside Todd Chrisley's 'Horrendous' Prison: No AC, No Plumbing and Possible Mold, Lawyer Says

Inside Todd Chrisley’s ‘Horrendous’ Prison: No AC, No Plumbing and Possible Mold, Lawyer Says

JUL 28,2023

Travis Scott Seemingly Dishes Kylie Jenner's Rumored Boyfriend Timothée Chalamet

Travis Scott Seemingly Dishes Kylie Jenner’s Rumored Boyfriend Timothée Chalamet

JUL 28,2023

Cardi B and Offset Channel ‘Baby Boy’ While Addressing Cheating Rumors in Music Video ‘Jealousy’

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JUL 28,2023

Khloé Kardashian Reveals Son Tatum’s Face to Celebrate 1st Birthday

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JUL 28,2023

‘Strays’: Watch Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx Record the R-Rated Dog Comedy! (Exclusive)

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JUL 28,2023

Megan Fox Shuts Down Critics Over Posting Her Nail Tech's GoFundMe Instead of Paying for It Herself

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JUL 28,2023

'The Parent Trap' Turns 25: Lindsay Lohan Explains How She Played Twins in First ET Interview

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JUL 28,2023

JoJo Fletcher and Jordan Rodgers on Marriage, Babies and Life in Puerto Rico (Exclusive)

JoJo Fletcher and Jordan Rodgers on Marriage, Babies and Life in Puerto Rico (Exclusive)

JUL 27,2023

‘Naked & Afraid’s Candice and Na’im on Why They Returned and How Their Families Feel (Exclusive)

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JUL 27,2023

Mick Jagger Celebrates 80th Birthday With Leonardo DiCaprio, Lenny Kravitz and More!

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JUL 27,2023

Featured

Bryan Cranston Rallies Fellow Actors During SAG-AFTRA Strike at Protest in New York City

Bryan Cranston Rallies Fellow Actors During SAG-AFTRA Strike at Protest in New York City

JUL 25, 2023

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JUL 25, 2023

Inside 'Barbie's Set, the Pink Shortage, Margot's Favorite and More Behind-the-Scenes Secrets!

Inside ‘Barbie’s Set, the Pink Shortage, Margot’s Favorite and More Behind-the-Scenes Secrets!

JUL 13, 2023

Margot Robbie's 'Barbie' Fashions: All the Real Dolls She Channeled

Margot Robbie’s ‘Barbie’ Fashions: All the Real Dolls She Channeled

JUL 11, 2023

Why Robert Downey Jr. Calls Cillian Murphy's 'Oppenheimer' Transformation 'Bananas' (Exclusive)

Why Robert Downey Jr. Calls Cillian Murphy’s ‘Oppenheimer’ Transformation ‘Bananas’ (Exclusive)

JUL 17, 2023

Serena Williams’ Daughter Olympia is Not Impressed by Dad Doing Her Hair

Serena Williams’ Daughter Olympia is Not Impressed by Dad Doing Her Hair

JUL 17, 2023

Aubrey Plaza’s Best Deadpan and Self-Deprecating ET Interview Moments

Aubrey Plaza’s Best Deadpan and Self-Deprecating ET Interview Moments

JUL 18, 2023

Lindsay Lohan Is Officially a Mom! Learn the Little One’s Name

Lindsay Lohan Is Officially a Mom! Learn the Little One’s Name

JUL 17, 2023

Prince George and Princess Charlotte Scream in the Stands at Wimbledon

Prince George and Princess Charlotte Scream in the Stands at Wimbledon

JUL 17, 2023

Khloé Kardashian Clarifies Why She Called Herself Dream's Third Parent

Khloé Kardashian Clarifies Why She Called Herself Dream’s Third Parent

JUL 13, 2023

Suspect Arrested in Connection to Robert De Niro's Grandson Leandro's Death

Suspect Arrested in Connection to Robert De Niro’s Grandson Leandro’s Death

JUL 14, 2023

Mama June and Daughters on Anna ‘Chickadee’s ‘Terminal’ Cancer Diagnosis (Exclusive)

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JUL 13, 2023

Kim Kardashian Says She’s Grateful for Lamar Odom’s Public Support

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JUL 13, 2023

'The Summer I Turned Pretty': Go Behind the Scenes of Season 2 With Lola Tung (Exclusive)

‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’: Go Behind the Scenes of Season 2 With Lola Tung (Exclusive)

JUL 12, 2023

Zayn Malik Opens Up About Co-Parenting With Gigi Hadid and Alleged Yolanda Hadid Incident

Zayn Malik Opens Up About Co-Parenting With Gigi Hadid and Alleged Yolanda Hadid Incident

JUL 12, 2023

'Mission: Impossible 7': Tom Cruise Shares What Ethan Hunt Taught Him (Exclusive)

‘Mission: Impossible 7’: Tom Cruise Shares What Ethan Hunt Taught Him (Exclusive)

JUL 11, 2023

'Australia's Thunder From Down Under' Dancers Spill on HGTV's 'Flip the Strip' (Exclusive)

‘Australia’s Thunder From Down Under’ Dancers Spill on HGTV’s ‘Flip the Strip’ (Exclusive)

JUL 10, 2023

Simu Liu Admits ‘Barbie’ Choreography Is Tougher Than ‘Shang-Chi’ Fight Scenes! (Exclusive)

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JUL 10, 2023

'The Witcher' Season 3 Cast on Henry Cavill's Departure and What to Expect From Vol. 2 (Exclusive)

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JUN 30, 2023

News

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JUL 27, 2023

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JUL 27, 2023

Tori Kelly ‘Overwhelmed by All of the Love’ as She Remains Hospitalized

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JUL 27, 2023

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Sinéad O’Connor Dead at 56: New Details

JUL 27, 2023

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Sinéad O’Connor Shared Heartbreaking Message About Son’s Suicide Days Before Her Death

JUL 27, 2023

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Selena Gomez Praises ‘Special Human Being’ Francia Raísa Following Public Feud

JUL 27, 2023

Tristan Thompson and Brother Amari Move in With Khloé Kardashian After Mom's Death

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JUL 27, 2023

Kylie Jenner Reveals She Got a Boob Job Years After Denying It

Kylie Jenner Reveals She Got a Boob Job Years After Denying It

JUL 27, 2023

Why Kimora Lee Simmons Burst Into Tears on Disneyland Trip With Her Kids

Why Kimora Lee Simmons Burst Into Tears on Disneyland Trip With Her Kids

JUL 27, 2023

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Tori Kelly Health Update: Star ‘Smiling Again’ After Hospitalization for Blood Clots

JUL 26, 2023

Sinéad O'Connor Addresses Tearing Photo of Pope During 'SNL' Performance (Flashback)

Sinéad O’Connor Addresses Tearing Photo of Pope During ‘SNL’ Performance (Flashback)

JUL 26, 2023

Beyoncé’s Mom Tina Knowles Splits From Richard Lawson After 8 Years of Marriage

Beyoncé’s Mom Tina Knowles Splits From Richard Lawson After 8 Years of Marriage

JUL 26, 2023

On Entertainment Tonight

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JUL 27, 2023

Why Anthony Mackie Says ‘Twisted Metal’ Is Full of ‘90s Nostalgia (Exclusive)

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JUL 27, 2023

Madonna's Debut Album Turns 40! Watch Rare Moments From Her ‘80s Era

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JUL 27, 2023

Watch 'The Morning Show' Season 3 Trailer Introduce Jon Hamm's Guest Star Role

Watch ‘The Morning Show’ Season 3 Trailer Introduce Jon Hamm’s Guest Star Role

JUL 27, 2023

‘Big Brother’ Turns 25! Why the Show Almost Didn’t Make It Past the First Season

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JUL 26, 2023

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JUL 26, 2023

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JUL 26, 2023

Rapper Latto Adds Spice to 'Grown-ish' in Final Season Sneak Peek (Exclusive)

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JUL 26, 2023

Britney Spears Gushes Over Being a ‘New Auntie’ After Meeting Lance Bass’ Babies

Britney Spears Gushes Over Being a ‘New Auntie’ After Meeting Lance Bass’ Babies

JUL 25, 2023

Sheryl Lee Ralph Reveals She ‘Collapsed’ After Son's Shooting

Sheryl Lee Ralph Reveals She ‘Collapsed’ After Son’s Shooting

JUL 25, 2023

‘Step Brothers’ Turns 15! John C. Reilly Reveals Which Scene Was Based on His Own Brother

‘Step Brothers’ Turns 15! John C. Reilly Reveals Which Scene Was Based on His Own Brother

JUL 25, 2023

Watch Vin Diesel Explain Dwayne Johnson's Surprise 'Fast X' Cliffhanger (Exclusive)

Watch Vin Diesel Explain Dwayne Johnson’s Surprise ‘Fast X’ Cliffhanger (Exclusive)

JUL 25, 2023

Seth Rogen Admits to Being ‘Obsessed’ With Ninja Turtles as a Kid (Exclusive)

Seth Rogen Admits to Being ‘Obsessed’ With Ninja Turtles as a Kid (Exclusive)

JUL 24, 2023

Porsha Williams on Conquering 'Stars on Mars' and What It Would Take to Return to 'RHOA' (Exclusive)

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JUL 24, 2023

Zooey Deschanel Reacts to Her Best Roles: From ‘Almost Famous’ to ‘New Girl’ (Exclusive)

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JUL 24, 2023

TV

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JUL 27, 2023

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JUL 27, 2023

Madonna's Debut Album Turns 40! Watch Rare Moments From Her ‘80s Era

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JUL 27, 2023

Watch 'The Morning Show' Season 3 Trailer Introduce Jon Hamm's Guest Star Role

Watch ‘The Morning Show’ Season 3 Trailer Introduce Jon Hamm’s Guest Star Role

JUL 27, 2023

'When Calls the Heart's 100th Episode Celebration: Go Behind the Scenes! (Exclusive)

‘When Calls the Heart’s 100th Episode Celebration: Go Behind the Scenes! (Exclusive)

JUL 27, 2023

‘Big Brother’ Turns 25! Why the Show Almost Didn’t Make It Past the First Season

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JUL 26, 2023

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JUL 26, 2023

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JUL 26, 2023

Ryan Gosling's Awkward Interaction With Simu Liu at 'Barbie' Premiere Explained

Ryan Gosling’s Awkward Interaction With Simu Liu at ‘Barbie’ Premiere Explained

JUL 26, 2023

'When Calls the Heart': Rosemary Doesn't Want to Wear Elizabeth's Maternity Clothes! (Exclusive)

‘When Calls the Heart’: Rosemary Doesn’t Want to Wear Elizabeth’s Maternity Clothes! (Exclusive)

JUL 26, 2023

Rapper Latto Adds Spice to 'Grown-ish' in Final Season Sneak Peek (Exclusive)

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JUL 26, 2023

Dulé Hill and Bradley Whitford Have a Mini 'West Wing' Reunion on 'The Wonder Years' (Exclusive)

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JUL 26, 2023

'Twisted Metal': Samoa Joe on Crafting Sweet Tooth With Will Arnett (Exclusive)

‘Twisted Metal’: Samoa Joe on Crafting Sweet Tooth With Will Arnett (Exclusive)

JUL 25, 2023

Awards

ESPY Awards: Damar Hamlin Dances the Night Away as Shawn Johnson Shows Off Baby Bump

ESPY Awards: Damar Hamlin Dances the Night Away as Shawn Johnson Shows Off Baby Bump

JUL 13, 2023

Shawn Johnson Kisses Husband Andrew East on ESPYs Red Carpet After Baby No. 3 Announcement

Shawn Johnson Kisses Husband Andrew East on ESPYs Red Carpet After Baby No. 3 Announcement

JUL 12, 2023

H.E.R. Describes ‘Inspiring’ Advice From Oprah on ‘The Color Purple’ Musical Set (Exclusive)

H.E.R. Describes ‘Inspiring’ Advice From Oprah on ‘The Color Purple’ Musical Set (Exclusive)

JUL 12, 2023

Megan Rapinoe’s Partner Sue Bird on What's Next for the Soccer Star After Retirement (Exclusive)

Megan Rapinoe’s Partner Sue Bird on What’s Next for the Soccer Star After Retirement (Exclusive)

JUL 12, 2023

Why Nikki and Brie Garcia Will Never Be the ‘Bella Twins’ Again (Exclusive)

Why Nikki and Brie Garcia Will Never Be the ‘Bella Twins’ Again (Exclusive)

JUL 12, 2023

Coco Jones on New Collab With Justin Timberlake for Song ‘ICU’ Remix (Exclusive)

Coco Jones on New Collab With Justin Timberlake for Song ‘ICU’ Remix (Exclusive)

JUL 12, 2023

Mike Tyson on Dad Jokes and Who His Daughter Thinks Is Cooler Than Him (Exclusive)

Mike Tyson on Dad Jokes and Who His Daughter Thinks Is Cooler Than Him (Exclusive)

JUL 12, 2023

How Becky Lynch Played a Part in Making Women's Wrestling the 'Coolest Thing' on TV (Exclusive)

How Becky Lynch Played a Part in Making Women’s Wrestling the ‘Coolest Thing’ on TV (Exclusive)

JUL 12, 2023

75th Primetime Emmy Awards: Watch the Nominee Reveals!

75th Primetime Emmy Awards: Watch the Nominee Reveals!

JUL 12, 2023

2023 BET Awards: Best Performances of the Night

2023 BET Awards: Best Performances of the Night

JUN 26, 2023

BET Awards: Busta Rhymes Gets Emotional Reflecting on Fatherhood After Lifetime Achievement Win

BET Awards: Busta Rhymes Gets Emotional Reflecting on Fatherhood After Lifetime Achievement Win

JUN 25, 2023

Patti LaBelle on 'Giving It Up’ for Tina Turner During BET Awards Tribute Performance (Exclusive)

Patti LaBelle on ‘Giving It Up’ for Tina Turner During BET Awards Tribute Performance (Exclusive)

JUN 25, 2023

How Latto’s Getting Sexy With Her ‘Man’ After Best Female Hip Hop Artist Win (Exclusive

How Latto’s Getting Sexy With Her ‘Man’ After Best Female Hip Hop Artist Win (Exclusive

JUN 25, 2023

Why Ray J and Princess Love Couldn’t Go Through With Divorce (Exclusive)

Why Ray J and Princess Love Couldn’t Go Through With Divorce (Exclusive)

JUN 25, 2023

BET Awards 2023: Quavo and Offset React to Surprise Onstage Reunion (Exclusive)

BET Awards 2023: Quavo and Offset React to Surprise Onstage Reunion (Exclusive)

JUN 25, 2023

Coco Jones Shares Emotional Reaction After Winning Best New Artist at BET Awards (Exclusive)

Coco Jones Shares Emotional Reaction After Winning Best New Artist at BET Awards (Exclusive)

JUN 25, 2023

BET Awards: How GloRilla Feels After Being Honored With Six Nominations (Exclusive)

BET Awards: How GloRilla Feels After Being Honored With Six Nominations (Exclusive)

JUN 25, 2023

Jamie Foxx's Co-Star Porscha Coleman Gives Update on His Recovery After Medical Emergency

Jamie Foxx’s Co-Star Porscha Coleman Gives Update on His Recovery After Medical Emergency

JUN 25, 2023

Diddy’s Son King Combs Dishes on Family’s Upcoming Reality Show (Exclusive)

Diddy’s Son King Combs Dishes on Family’s Upcoming Reality Show (Exclusive)

JUN 25, 2023

How Abbott Elementary’s Janelle James Is ‘Standing in Solidarity’ With Writers Amid Strike

How Abbott Elementary’s Janelle James Is ‘Standing in Solidarity’ With Writers Amid Strike

JUN 25, 2023

Royals

Where Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Stand Amid Divorce Rumors (Royal Expert)

Where Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Stand Amid Divorce Rumors (Royal Expert)

JUL 19, 2023

Inside Prince George's 'Surprisingly Normal' Life (Royal Expert)

Inside Prince George’s ‘Surprisingly Normal’ Life (Royal Expert)

JUL 19, 2023

Wimbledon: Ariana Grande, Kate Middleton, Nick Jonas and More Stars Attend

Wimbledon: Ariana Grande, Kate Middleton, Nick Jonas and More Stars Attend

JUL 17, 2023

Prince George Eats Pizza and Smiles With Dad Prince William During Cricket Match

Prince George Eats Pizza and Smiles With Dad Prince William During Cricket Match

JUL 2, 2023

Meghan Markle Accused of Faking Spotify Interviews After $20M Deal Abruptly Ends

Meghan Markle Accused of Faking Spotify Interviews After $20M Deal Abruptly Ends

JUN 20, 2023

Prince William Responds After Troops Faint During Outdoor Rehearsal Ceremony

Prince William Responds After Troops Faint During Outdoor Rehearsal Ceremony

JUN 12, 2023

Watch Prince William's Reaction to a Man's Cheeky Comments About Kate Middleton

Watch Prince William’s Reaction to a Man’s Cheeky Comments About Kate Middleton

JUN 9, 2023

Prince Harry Gets Visibly Choked Up After Second Day of Testifying in Court

Prince Harry Gets Visibly Choked Up After Second Day of Testifying in Court

JUN 7, 2023

Prince Harry and Meghan's Daughter Lilibet's Birthday Was Not Publicly Acknowledged by Royal Family

Prince Harry and Meghan’s Daughter Lilibet’s Birthday Was Not Publicly Acknowledged by Royal Family

JUN 5, 2023

Prince Harry Loses Legal Challenge to Pay for Police Protection When He Visits the U.K.

Prince Harry Loses Legal Challenge to Pay for Police Protection When He Visits the U.K.

MAY 23, 2023

How Lionel Richie Pulled Off King Charles and Camilla's 'American Idol' Cameo (Exclusive)

How Lionel Richie Pulled Off King Charles and Camilla’s ‘American Idol’ Cameo (Exclusive)

MAY 15, 2023

Sir Karl Jenkins Speaks Out After Internet Thought He Was Meghan Markle in Disguise at Coronation

Sir Karl Jenkins Speaks Out After Internet Thought He Was Meghan Markle in Disguise at Coronation

MAY 10, 2023

Ryan Seacrest and Luke Bryan React to Katy Perry's Viral Moment at King's Coronation (Exclusive)

Ryan Seacrest and Luke Bryan React to Katy Perry’s Viral Moment at King’s Coronation (Exclusive)

MAY 8, 2023

Prince Harry's Facial Expressions Steal the Spotlight During King Charles' Coronation

Prince Harry’s Facial Expressions Steal the Spotlight During King Charles’ Coronation

MAY 8, 2023

Pretty Yende Reflects on ‘Wonderful’ Experience at King Charles’ Coronation (Exclusive)

Pretty Yende Reflects on ‘Wonderful’ Experience at King Charles’ Coronation (Exclusive)

MAY 6, 2023

King Charles' Coronation Composer 'Pinching' Himself Over 'Incredible Occasion' (Exclusive)

King Charles’ Coronation Composer ‘Pinching’ Himself Over ‘Incredible Occasion’ (Exclusive)

MAY 6, 2023

Prince Harry Leaves Coronation Alone, Skips Royal Family Procession

Prince Harry Leaves Coronation Alone, Skips Royal Family Procession

MAY 6, 2023

Watch King Charles and Queen Camilla Greet the Crowd After Coronation Ceremony

Watch King Charles and Queen Camilla Greet the Crowd After Coronation Ceremony

MAY 6, 2023

Watch Queen Camilla Get Crowned at Coronation

Watch Queen Camilla Get Crowned at Coronation

MAY 6, 2023

Princess Charlotte and Kate Middleton Share Sweet Moment While Singing at King Charles’ Coronation

Princess Charlotte and Kate Middleton Share Sweet Moment While Singing at King Charles’ Coronation

MAY 6, 2023

Movies

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‘Haunted Mansion’ Blooper Reel: Watch Outtakes With the Cast! (Exclusive)

JUL 27, 2023

'Haunted Mansion': Inside the Set's Disney Ride Inspiration

‘Haunted Mansion’: Inside the Set’s Disney Ride Inspiration

JUL 26, 2023

Owen Wilson Reacts to Being Slapped by Danny DeVito in ‘Haunted Mansion’

Owen Wilson Reacts to Being Slapped by Danny DeVito in ‘Haunted Mansion’

JUL 25, 2023

‘Haunted Mansion’: Rosario Dawson on Feeling the ‘Presence’ of Past Loved Ones (Exclusive)

‘Haunted Mansion’: Rosario Dawson on Feeling the ‘Presence’ of Past Loved Ones (Exclusive)

JUL 25, 2023

'The Exorcist: Believer' Trailer No. 1

‘The Exorcist: Believer’ Trailer No. 1

JUL 25, 2023

Ice Cube on His Villainous Turn in 'TMNT' & Possible Return to 'Friday' and 'Ride Along' Franchises

Ice Cube on His Villainous Turn in ‘TMNT’ & Possible Return to ‘Friday’ and ‘Ride Along’ Franchises

JUL 25, 2023

Watch Jason Momoa, Vin Diesel and More Crack Up in 'Fast X' Gag Reel (Exclusive)

Watch Jason Momoa, Vin Diesel and More Crack Up in ‘Fast X’ Gag Reel (Exclusive)

JUL 25, 2023

‘TMNT: Mutant Mayhem’: Seth Rogen on Casting Actual Teenagers and Having Dreadlocks in High School

‘TMNT: Mutant Mayhem’: Seth Rogen on Casting Actual Teenagers and Having Dreadlocks in High School

JUL 24, 2023

Ayo Edebiri on Bringing April O'Neil to Life in 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' (Exclusive)

Ayo Edebiri on Bringing April O’Neil to Life in ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ (Exclusive)

JUL 24, 2023

BTS' Jimin Thanks Ryan Gosling for Gifting Him His 'Barbie' Guitar After Outfit Twinning

BTS’ Jimin Thanks Ryan Gosling for Gifting Him His ‘Barbie’ Guitar After Outfit Twinning

JUL 24, 2023

'Abducted By My Teacher: The Elizabeth Thomas Story' Official Trailer (Exclusive)

‘Abducted By My Teacher: The Elizabeth Thomas Story’ Official Trailer (Exclusive)

JUL 21, 2023

'The Marvels' Trailer No. 2

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Director-co-writer Areel Abu Bakar pairs with lead actor Megat Sharizal to bring the pain in the action/adventure morality play Walid. Our main character, Walid (Sharizal), is a kindly, soft-spoken language teacher. He instructs underprivileged children on the Arabic and English alphabets and reading, as well as sharing his Malaysian national loyalty. He mentors the students on the value of humane principles of society. His loyalty is tested when he encounters an undocumented immigrant girl named Aisha (Putri Qaseh), whose father was killed. Walid decides to teach Aisha and help her mother out as well. However, not all of the members of his community approve of his gentleness toward immigrants.

The film’s first part focuses on social and political issues and establishes the characters and culture of their villages in Malaysia. Then we meet the villains, who are truly the scum of the Earth. We often hear in scriptwriting that all villains are the heroes of their own stories. Not these guys. These are child trafficking, slave trading, subhuman pieces of garbage, and damn proud of it. When these child molesters snatch Aisha, Walid springs into action, going immediately to the brick-making factory where kids are being held until they can be sold off.

“When these child molesters snatch Aisha, Walid springs into action…”

The back half of Walid completely dispenses with ruminating on religion, politics, culture, and chaos. This portion of the film favors a good solid stretch of time devoted to wholesale a*s-kicking. We switch from a moral fable to Saturday afternoon kung-fu theater, and it is glorious to behold. The martial art is a Malaysian specialty called “Silat.” Silat adherents can study many different styles, and there are as many schools as there are sub-categories of the art. No matter the version, the movements are distinctive, focusing on a fluid motion with an opponent, countering attacks with a flowing defense.

Sharizal doesn’t look particularly fit, but the big man moves like a cat as he throws down with the quickness and strength in dealing with any enemy. In key stressful moments, he does reflect on his teachings from the Quran and his mentors. These thoughts guide his mind into better attack/defense modes. When the action starts, it is relentless. Of course, the first 20 seconds of any of these face-offs would kill a mere mortal, but as movie fighters, the combatants can take a staggering amount of damage and pop back up for the next round. The fights involved fists, feet, knives, bricks, and whatever else is at hand.

The factory setting provides an endless array of improvised weapons. Then, just when one thinks all the implements have been deployed, Walid pulls out two small wicked-looking axes with curved handles. A quick search tells me that this weapon is called a Kapak Siam (for any cosplayers with an urge to bring out a Malaysian Silat fighter character). I’ve never seen them before, but more martial arts scenes would benefit from their inclusion.

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JAILED sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell fears she has lost millions in property and jewels.

The shamed Brit socialite’s former £4.5million mansion has been sold.

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Ghislaine Maxwell fears having been left penniless as her former £4.5million mansion has been sold, and her million dollar jewellery collection has vanishedCredit: Supplied

And she does not know the whereabouts of her million dollar jewellery collection.

Maxwell, 61, serving 20 years, now faces representing herself in her appeal against conviction as she cannot afford lawyers.

Sources close to her say the US beachfront property was bought in 2016 with her money but held in the name of her former hubby Scott Borgerson.

But he has always insisted his ex has no ownership stake in the house, which was purchased by a limited company under his control.

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Maxwell and the 47-year-old tech millionaire divorced earlier this month.

An insider said: “There is not a penny left. There’s nothing to pay any lawyers. She feels Scott has left her high and dry.

“He says he’s behaved honourably but that is the last word Ghislaine would use to describe his behaviour.

“Now she is facing her appeal with limited funds.”

The sale of the house in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, went through last Wednesday.

Maxwell is also said to fear expensive kitchen equipment has been damaged or disappeared.

Maxwell was found guilty in 2021 of luring girls for paedo tycoon Jeffrey Epstein.

He was found dead in jail in 2019 before his sex trafficking trial.

Earlier tonight, Scott told The Sun on Sunday: “Your facts are false.”

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Johnny Depp, 60, kept up his spirit up on Friday despite having a fractured ankle. The actor was photographed arriving at the Boch Center’s Wang Theatre in Boston, MA  for a show with his band, Hollywood Vampires, when he used a cane and flashed a smile to cameras. He was also hanging around some other people as he wore a comfortable-looking outfit and sunglasses.

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Johnny’s outfit included a blue and white plaid blazer over a dark blue plaid top and T-shirt, matching pants, and boots. He also wore a blue newsboy hat over his long hair, and multiple necklaces. His show at the venue was the Hollywood Vampires’ first stop since he had to cancel multiple international dates due to his ankle injury.

In addition to Johnny, the Hollywood Vampires includes Alice Cooper, Joe Perry and Tommy Henriksen, and they all rocked on the stage in front of a sold-out crowd of 3,500 during the show. Johnny also took the time to take selfies, sign autographs, and give hugs to at least 20 of more than 60 screaming fans waiting for him outside, according to PEOPLE. One fan shared a photo with the outlet and opened up about the experience meeting him.

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Johnny before he fractured his ankle. (SplashNews)

“He smiled at me and all I could get out was `hi’,” Molly Smith said. “My mom got me into his movies and into his music. I can’t believe I just met him.”

The band performed a 19-song setlist that included a cover of David Bowie‘s song “Heroes,” and fans took to Twitter to share their excitement over attending the show. “Amazing night at the @hollywoodvamps show in Boston. Hung out behind the venue and got to see Johnny leave and met some great people. I have certainly checked some boxes on my bucket list on this trip with more to come,” one fan wrote while posting a video taken outside the venue.

Another video showed Johnny accepting a custom jacket that one fan made. “Thank you to the person that took and posted this video of Johnny accepting my custom made jacket that I gifted to him!” the fan wrote while reposting the video.

The Hollywood Vampires’ next show is on July 29 in Manchester, NH.

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Viola Davis stands in solidarity with the actors.

The actress publicly stepped away from her upcoming project, G20, despite SAG-AFTRA providing the film with a waiver that allowed it to start production amid the actors strike.

“I love this movie, but I do not feel that it would be appropriate for this production to move forward during the strike,” Davis said in a statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. “I appreciate that the producers on the project agree with this decision. JuVee Productions and I stand in solidarity with actors, SAG/AFTRA and the WGA.”

The Oscar winner’s decision comes one day after the performers union noted that the project could begin filming — despite the involvement of Amazon Studios — because it hails from the non-AMPTP-affiliated studio MRC and is only being distributed by Amazon.

G20 joins a long list of TV shows and movies that have been granted waivers amid the actors strike to continue or begin production under different interim agreements and designations with independent productions.

Davis’ step back from the film follows comments made by comedian and actress Sarah Silverman about the projects that have been allowed to move forward.

“I feel fucking pissed off, and I know I just must not be understanding something,” Silverman said in a video posted to her Instagram on Thursday. “Movie stars are making movies because they’re independent movies, and SAG is allowing it because if they do sell it to streaming, it has to be because streaming is abiding by all the things we’re asking for. That’s just working. The strike ends when they come to the table, and we make a deal in agreement.”

She continued by explaining that when actors joined the strike, she believed it would force studios and streamers to act faster to reach a deal because they couldn’t work at all. Now that some actors are being allowed to star in TV shows and movies, she thinks it’s going to prolong the strike.

Silverman also noted that she doesn’t know whether she should be “mad” at SAG for allowing interim deals for certain indie projects or “at these movie stars making these indie movies that are obviously going to go to streaming.”

“It’s scabbing, you’ve made that so clear that it’s scabbing,” she concluded. “Now, all of a sudden, movie stars can make movies if they’re indie movies where they promise they’ll only sell it if X, Y and Z. That’s called the end of the strike, motherfuckers!”

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Despite his ongoing legal troubles — with more indictments still expected to come — Donald Trump is still the frontrunner to become the Republican nominee for president in 2024. But, CNN political commentator Geoff Duncan thinks that would be “a lot like peeing in your pants” for the party.

Duncan appeared on “CNN This Morning Weekend” on Saturday with that assertion, saying that what the GOP really needs is “somebody that’s got the whole package.” And Trump, he asserted, is definitely not that.

“Nominating Donald Trump for the Republican party is a lot like peeing in your pants,” Duncan said. “It’s going to feel good for a couple seconds, but then you wake up and you realize the realities of what you just did. We’re going to get beat in the general because we picked the wrong candidate. We couldn’t get out of our own way.”

Duncan argued that there are “certainly some” candidates that are doing what they need to do to possibly break through, including Chris Christie and Will Hurd. But, he added, there’s one thing that every Republican needs to do in order to have a chance.

“Look, they should all be unanimous in rebuking anything Donald Trump has to do and say,” Duncan argued. “He’s hijacked our Republican party.”


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Jeremy Allen White might be getting divorced, but he’s still on great terms with his estranged wife — as seen in these pics … which show them playing nice with their cubs.

The ‘Bear’ star hit up a park in L.A. Saturday, where he reunited with Addison Timlin and their 2 young daughters, Ezer and Dolores. We’re hearing there was some kind of soccer practice going down … and that Jeremy showed up for what seems to be a little daddy time.

As you can see, he was playing with their kids … and the 4 of them actually walked to the parking lot together. More importantly, though — JAW embraced Addison … quite lovingly.

The exes were seen hugging it out a few different times, and it looks like Jeremy even planted a kiss on Addison’s head at one point as they were departing. On its face, it looked like they were all kumbaya — and yes, this is a very clear example of solid co-parenting.

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We know that, for now, they’re going their separate ways … but it’s just evidence that not every Hollywood divorce has to be ugly. They oftentimes are (see Costner), but it looks like Jeremy and Addison got this thing figured out, at least when it comes to their little ones.

Jeremy and Addison married in 2019, but were together for a while before that. Of course, Jeremy’s star is on the rise because of his hit show … but it’s still all love for the fam.

That’s how you do it, cousin.

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SPOILER ALERT: This interview discusses the events of “Command Z,” now available to purchase on its official website.

AI anxieties are only getting higher. Global temperatures are skyrocketing. Billionaires are challenging each other to mixed martial arts duels. Like everybody else, Steven Soderbergh and Kurt Andersen are wondering how to hit “undo” on the trajectory of civilization.

Available to purchase for $8 on its own official website, Soderbergh and Andersen’s “Command Z” begins in the year 2053. The story follows a trio of jumpsuit-sporting time-travelers (Chloe Radcliffe, Roy Wood Jr., and JJ Maley), who influence the minds of the inhabitants of 2023 to nudge the world’s most powerful individuals into pumping the brakes on their world-dooming habits. The wisecracking coworkers are employed by deceased billionaire Kerning Fealty (Michael Cera) — or, at least an eldritch hologram AI with his likeness that doesn’t exactly scream collective interests. Sound familiar?

The conspicuous timing for the themes of “Command Z” aren’t lost on executive producer and writer Andersen, whose 2020 book “Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History” explores how the wealthiest people in the U.S. played a self-serving long-game over the past 50 years to hoard money and power. Soderbergh contacted the journalist and author after reading “Evil Geniuses”; in its end credits, “Command Z” cites itself as being “suggested by” the book.

“With the release, the climate cooperated in terms of being unequivocally weird and terrible right now,” Andersen says, speaking to Variety on a video call. “The two biggest tech billionaires in America — Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk — continue to be like characters in a satire. We lucked out.”

Indeed, the pair of CEOs — who both rank among the top seven wealthiest individuals in the world, per Forbes — have challenged one another to a “cage match.” Perhaps it’s all a social media stunt, but the rivalry has attracted the involvement of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and rumors of the Colosseum in Rome as a potential venue.

“This is the death of metaphor,” says Soderbergh, who directed all eight episodes of the series. “I don’t know how else to describe this upcoming event if it takes place. Creative people should be terrified.”

Even if metaphors do wind up extinct, it’d be difficult to imagine Soderbergh stumped on how to continue telling stories. After a college try at filmmaking retirement, the Oscar-winning director is now more prolific than ever. The romantic dance fantasia “Magic Mike’s Last Dance” hit theaters in February, putting a cap on the Channing Tatum trilogy he started over a decade ago. And just this week, Max dropped the finale of “Full Circle,” a suspense series that Soderbergh helmed each episode of.

Now, there’s “Command Z” — a project that the public didn’t even know existed more than two weeks ago. Shot last summer, the self-financed production largely pulled from New York talent and kept things hush-hush through filming. In fact, Soderbergh played it so close to the chest that he shot in his own residence: the spiral staircase that serves as the climbing entrance into the time-travelers’ workplace can be seen behind the director during his Zoom with Variety.

JJ Maley, Roy Wood Jr. and Chloe Radcliffe in “Command Z”
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Before releasing “Command Z” online, the series pulled back the curtain with a surprise July 16 screening at the Metrograph cinema in New York. After the theater’s online ticketing system recovered from crashing, admissions were sold out within 20 minutes. The event also featured a Q&A with Congressman Maxwell Frost of Florida, previously the national organizing director for the student-led gun control advocacy group March for Our Lives. He’s the first member of Generation Z to be elected to Congress.

“He really did a great job of demystifying the process of getting politically engaged,” Soderbergh says. “Our default mode now — generally, in this country — is overwhelmed… Just pick one thing that you’re interested in and want to participate in. Of the myriad problems that we’re all confronting, you don’t have to deal with all of them. If you just pick one and do something, that’s fantastic.”

That’s the structuring sentiment of “Command Z,” which follows its characters tackling one issue at a time in comic vignettes. Through a brisk 96 minutes, the series dips its toes into mega-churches, energy bills and corporate greed. That philosophy of improving the world one issue at a time is also key to the series’ release — all proceeds are being donated to Children’s Aid and Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.

During their first interview together, Soderbergh and Andersen discuss keeping “Command Z” a secret, their original plans to distribute the project on TikTok and whether it matters if billionaires are good people, as long as they’re not destroying the world.

Promoting “Full Circle,” Steven, you shared that you had two projects on the horizon — one a comedy. Was this that?

STEVEN SODERBERGH: No! That’s next spring, I hope. This was something that I kept holstered as long as possible and tried to be schtum about the whole thing. I’m glad, ultimately, that it worked out this way. It fits the intention.

How did you two decide on an independent online release being the appropriate distribution plan for this project?

SODERBERGH: As we looked at it in something approaching its finished form, it was obvious to us that this was not a movie and not a series, in the traditional sense. Having a traditional buyer or brand present didn’t seem perfectly aligned with our intentions. That started to bug us — the idea of a giant company’s logo on this thing.

KURT ANDERSEN: I love “Black Mirror.” But in this most recent season, there’s an episode about a Netflix-like company being evil. I guess that’s kind of funny as triple-coated irony, but we have this political message.

And yet, the series is called “Command Z” — though maybe you’re both just used to Macbooks.

SODERBERGH: I think so. The good news is that that giant corporation has enough of a footprint that it’s generally understood. Like Kleenex.

Liev Schreiber in “Command Z”
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Steven, in your Reddit AMA promoting the series, you shared that it was originally shot as a group of videos intended for release on TikTok. Were you coming into that medium as outsiders?

SODERBERGH: Yeah. Ultimately, I felt that I was putting on the clothes of a young person that I can’t really pull off. There’s a very specific grammar to that world that we were trying to ape. You’ve got to be really fluent to make sure those things land and have the immediate reaction that allows them to survive in the TikTok ecosystem.

ANDERSEN: There are many TikToks that I think are brilliant, but writing one-minute stories is certainly not my strong suit.

SODERBERGH: There are actually a couple of images in the series that are from the TikTok videos that we shot. You see Mike Birbiglia briefly, and a couple other people. Those were repurposed visual material.

ANDERSEN: I love that they’re there as part of the general speedy clutter of the mediascape of 2053. Chef’s kiss.

There’s something very disheartening about imagining what an internet post in the future would like.

SODERBERGH: Did you see that picture when the AI text-to-image thing first came out? Somebody said, “Show me the last selfie ever taken.” You ever seen that image? It was truly disturbing.

Were these videos supposed to be TikToks made by characters in the series? Or was the show itself edited and formatted for TikTok?  

SODERBERGH: It was things made by these characters. We described them as visual leaflets that were dropped from the future.

ANDERSEN: To be clear, we didn’t say it was TikTok. We were going to put them on TikTok.

SODERBERGH: What we gained from that first iteration was what we didn’t want to do — which is often as important as figuring out what you do want to do. It also established a rapport that would serve us. It’s not always happy when you’ve done something and you throw that away, but I’ve been through enough to know that when you’ve got to do that you’ve got to do it.

ANDERSEN: It’s not as though we made a hundred of them. Maybe I just put a happy spin on things, but I don’t even think of it as a failure. You workshop it. It was an indispensable phase.

I imagine that’s the advantage of being a self-financed production.

SODERBERGH: Under normal circumstances, you’d be burning a lot of calories trying to explain to people what you’re doing or what you’re not doing. It’s why I continue to self-produce and produce things for other filmmakers, where I’m protecting them from having those conversations. The danger­ of this type of production is creating an environment that turns into an echo chamber. I try to surround myself with people who make that impossible. Of course, there are days where I go, “Wow, can people stop telling me the truth for 10 minutes?” But having a brain trust in which people can speak frankly and stress-test ideas — that’s how you get to the good stuff.

Would you two consider making more episodes?

SODERBERGH: My gut reaction is that if we were going to continue these ideas that we’d probably try to find a new context. Still, I would hope for humorous. Humor is a wonderful delivery system.

One of my favorite running jokes in the series is the recommendations for additional viewing that appear at the end of each episode. “For more information about dogs, watch ‘Hotel for Dogs.’” “For more information about Wall Street, watch ‘Wall Street.’”

SODERBERGH: That was a late addition. They needed some kind of button. They’re half-serious.

ANDERSEN: I love them so much. At first, I saw them and went, “Really?” But I learned to trust the master. The Metrograph screening was interesting; they got laughs. There was talk about a serious, two-minute “to learn more” thing about these various issues. I’m not glad we didn’t do that, but I love that we did what we did. It’s not like, “Oh, now comes the homework part.”

SODERBERGH: There was an article today about the fact that scientists are becoming convinced that the Atlantic Ocean’s currents are going to be completely altered, as is theorized in “The Day After Tomorrow,” which is one of the films that we urge people toward. It’s funny, but also we’re kind of onto something.

ANDERSEN: There’s a film called “Contagion.” I don’t know if you’re aware of it.

Yeah, I lived it. I still see conspiracy theorists like Jude Law’s character online.

SODERBERGH: That was a lack of imagination on our part. Jude Law’s character was just this one note in a chord — we never would’ve imagined that he would be the President of the United States.

ANDERSEN: The book I wrote, “Fantasyland,” was written before Trump was nominated or elected. I thought, “Is anybody really going to get this? Am I overdoing it by calling the Republican Party the fantasy party?” Well, no – that’s the answer.

It’s about trusting your ability to read the room.

SODERBERGH: You’ve got to have your antenna up. One of the reasons I initially reached out to Kurt was that if I’m having this idea, somebody else is having this idea. I’m not under the illusion that I think of things first; what I can do is act quickly and decisively. All these themes are out there being addressed. Is there a new wrapping that we can put around them to make it distinct?

JJ Maley and Roy Wood Jr. in “Command Z”
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The series ends on a bit of a sick punchline. The AI incarnation of Kerning Fealty orders one of the time-travelers to inhabit the 2023 Fealty’s body to help him get laid. The story concludes with a reveal that this 2023 Fealty sent this group of employees into the future, wiping their memories in the process. It’s a revelation that underlines that this group’s ability to improve the world was only possible because of the technological apparatus and selfish intentions of their boss.

ANDERSEN: Is that true though? The rich and powerful do control much of technology. Certainly, they shouldn’t. But Kerning, as some billionaires do, tries to do a few good things to assuage his guilt… It’s not that only wealth allows them to do good things. In our system, where the very wealthy exist — and will no doubt continue to exist — it’s better that they should do good. And let’s not leave all the good up to them. In the end, all three team members basically say “Fuck you, billionaires! We can’t depend on you.”

Why don’t you think there are billionaires who are interested in devoting their resources to resolve the world’s most obvious issues?

ANDERSEN: Well, there’s George Soros. Bill Gates, you could argue has devoted his life and billions to improving the world.

SODERBERGH: George Soros has tried to dedicate himself to being on the right side of social and progressive issues. As a result, his life is hell. The lives of his family are hell. Nobody wants to withstand this jet exhaust that happens when you put yourself out in front. There used to be an argument in the show that got cut. It was about whether someone’s intentions really matter. I certainly fall on the side of it being past the point where we have the time to parse people’s intentions. We need to pay attention to what they actually do, and hold them to account for that. I don’t care if they’re doing it for a tax break or to get laid — as long as they’re doing something helpful.

Even if they’re openly courting a positive brand for the history books.

ANDERSEN: Who isn’t? I grade everything in the world on a curve.

SODERBERGH: There’s no reason anymore to be ashamed of one’s activist motives. We did this thing that’s designed to get people activated in some way. We’ve got to start doing stuff. The people pushing shit in the wrong direction aren’t ashamed about what they’re doing.

ANDERSEN: They’re the ones that have been saying for 20 years, “We have a sense of humor.”

[Andersen begins gesticulating his arms.]

“Duh-duh-buh! Liberals, they have no sense of humor!” We’ll fight that battle.

Was that a Trump impression, Kurt?

ANDERSEN: No. That’s just an asshole impression.

This interview has been edited and condensed. The conversation with Kurt Andersen was organized by contacting him directly, in accordance with WGA strike rules.

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Secret Invasion‘s director revealed that the climactic fight in the Disney+ series’ finale was the idea of Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige.

Warning – The rest of this article contains spoilers for Secret Invasion.

Emilia Clarke and Kinglsey Ben-Adir squared off in an epic final fight to end the Secret Invasion Season 1, or, at least, it was supposed to be epic.

Now Super Skrulls with the powers of dozens of the most powerful MCU superheroes, G’iah and Gravik battled to the end, leading to the series’ main antagonist’s demise.

This controversial CGI battle, which was part of the lowest-rated MCU project ever, put Carol Danvers, Abomination, Mantis, and more powers on display.

Kevin Feige Wanted the Super Skrull Fight

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While speaking with Deadline, Secret Invasion director Ali Selim confirmed that the Super Skrull CGI fight “starts with Kevin Feige.”

Selim said that Feige was set on the battle, saying “We’re gonna have a Super Skrull fight and all superpowers are fair game:”

“It starts with Kevin Feige, who says ‘We’re gonna have a Super Skrull fight and all superpowers are fair game.’ I think that is actually best communicated in the moment where Gravik takes the vial from Fury and puts it in the computer for analysis. We see oh, it is all the superpowers scrolling up here.”

From there, Selim said it was “a discussion of paper, scissors rock” when determining which MCU superpowers G’iah and Gravik would use on each other:

“Then honestly, it’s a discussion of paper, scissors rock, which superpower from G’iah is going to dominate a superpower from Gravik? Paper, scissors rock, which superpower from Gravik is going to dominate G’iah momentarily?

The director added that there were some abilities they wanted either character to use, but it “just didn’t look good:”

“It’s also just a little bit of choreography and visual elegance or beauty, just making it work. There were some transitions from a superpower to another superpower that made sense in story that just didn’t look good. So we shifted the story to accommodate the choreography.”

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Selim was asked a similar question about the MCU powers on display when speaking with Variety and reconfirmed that “it comes from Kevin Feige, who says, ‘It’s all fair game.'”

The director added that “the decisions are Kevin Feige, then story and then just practicality” are what he and the creative team have to figure out.

The CGI-filled sequences were storyboarded for a month, and Selim was helped by comic book creator Aaron Sows and artist Ian McCaffery:

“We storyboard those sequences for month. I had two storyboard artists working on it — Aaron Sows in L.A., who’s a Marvel fanatic, and Ian McCaffrey in Dublin, Ireland, who is a little more of a choreographer and less involved in the MCU. And together, the two of them found a rhythm between superpowers that had meaning and superpowers that had choreography and elegance.”

Following the storyboards, it headed into stunt work, leading to the controversial over-use of visual effects. Selim confirmed that one transition “from this arm to a different arm” was an attempt “to be more elegant:”

“Then those storyboards go to stunts, and stunts work out that some of those movements are impossible to do. And then it goes to visual effects [who] say, ‘I know this is what we planned, but it looks funny, so let’s maybe go from this arm to a different arm, because we want it to be more elegant.'”

What’s the Future of Super Skrulls in the MCU?

Keeping Emilia Clarke’s G’iah alive, fully equipped with an arsenal of abilities, and making her the most powerful character in the MCU was a surprising choice.

This is especially true when considering she will now be working with Olivia Colman’s Sonya Falswroth character. There’s clearly a plan for the over-powers alien to reappear in the universe.

Based on the final fight in the finale, G’iah could possibly take over the entire Earth as Gravik seemingly wanted to do in the name of Skrull liberation.

With that being said, G’iah isn’t meant to be a villain, but is she now an Avenger? That doesn’t seem likely, despite her unbelievable powerset.

One theory is that G’iah will be the Sentry replacement in the Thunderbolts movie. Currently, Steven Yeun is rumored to be cast as Sentry, a superpowerful villain when becomes the Void.

Why have the Thunderbolts take down a brand-new character like Sentry when a Superman-like character in G’iah now exists?

Secret Invasion is now streaming on Disney+.

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Batman will go through a major change in Season 4 of Harley Quinn, according to comments on spoilers for the new season from a producer on the show.

Batman is on a major hot streak this year in terms of appearances across the DC Universe, with two different Caped Crusaders popping up in The Flash before he returns to the animated Harley Quinn show on Max.

And along with Harley Quinn’s blossoming romance with Poison Ivy, Kaley Cuoco’s antihero is set to cross paths with plenty more of DC’s biggest names as Bruce Wayne lurks in the background.

Batman Plot Points Spoiled for Harley Quinn Season 4

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Harley Quinn Season 4 producer Cecilia Aranovich Hamilton spoke with Screen Rant about the upcoming season, revealing a minor spoiler that Batman will be seen in jail moving forward.

This comes after the Caped Crusader was arrested for tax evasion at the end of Harley Quinn‘s A Very Problematic Valentine’s Day Special.

Hamilton noted how interesting it is to “[remove] Batman from the equation” for the time being, with the Bat Family now taking over the spotlight and seeing “a lot of comedic situations:”

“It’s great having the Bat Family. And it’s interesting because we removed Batman from the equation. Bruce is in jail, as we saw at the end of season 3. So, this is the younger members of the Bat Family… Night Wing and Bat Girl and Robin, and now you have this X factor, which is Harley. They’re put in a lot of comedic situations.”

She added that fans will spend “a lot of time with Bruce in jail” in this upcoming season as he appears in different episodes, with both he and Harley Quinn learning more about themselves along the way:

“We spend a lot of time with Bruce in jail. He’s checkered throughout the entire season, and I think he gets to be more Bruce Wayne. As Harley Quinn sort of discovers, ‘Who exactly is Harley Quinn?’ Bruce also gets to spend more time thinking about, “Who is Bruce Wayne, and what is Bruce Wayne up to?”

This also comes with other confirmed Batman shenanigans planned for Season 4, with one picture showing a version of the Bat-Signal with Harley Quinn’s silhouette lit up instead of the Bat-Logo.

How Will Batman Play Into Harley Quinn Season 4?

Although Batman is mostly a minor character in the Harley Quinn series, having him in prison will put things in a different perspective as Harley rampages through Gotham with her usual round of antics.

The Dark Knight will be one of more than two dozen characters highlighted in this upcoming season, although he’ll likely be seen less this year than in the past because he’s incarcerated.

However, having him play this big of a role will only add to the insanity that Harley Quinn brings on such a regular basis, especially with Harley doing her best to be a hero in her unique way.

The first three episodes of Harley Quinn Season 4 are now streaming on Max.

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Super Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai has discussed the future of Nintendo’s fighting game series in a new video.

Since completing Smash Bros. Ultimate’s extensive DLC run last year, Sakurai has been running his new YouTube channel in which he shares game design tips, and claimed that he’s “semi-retired” from game development.

With the latest Smash Bros. having sold over 31 million units, the series is almost certainly set to continue, but Sakurai has previously said he’s unsure if he’ll work on another himself.

In his latest YouTube video published on Friday, Sakura further discusses the future of Smash Bros, in addition to the origin stories of Smash Bros. Brawl – the first entry in which he lead development as an external freelancer, outside of Nintendo.

Sakurai reiterated previous statements that he does not believe the series could continue without his input. Regardless, he said that it was “safe to assume” there would be another game and said Nintendo would need to “figure out” how to create it.

“For an ongoing game series, not using the original development studio and instead assembling a new team around a freelance director is an extremely rare occurrence,” he said of Wii’s Smash Bros. Brawl.

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“The question now is, what happens next time? I mean whatever comes after Smash Bros. Ultimate. One option would be to separate the series from the original creator. But for now, at least, I can’t really imagine a Smash Bros. title without me.”

He added: “You might think that’s a natural stance for someone in my role, but I say so speaking objectively. I feel the same way President Iwata did when we formed the team for Smash Bros. Brawl. At present, we don’t have someone who can simply take the reins…

“Smash Bros. is a massive, important title for Nintendo, so it’s fair to assume there will be another one at some point, but it’s going to take some work to figure out exactly how to make that happen. For my part, I’d like to keep working with Nintendo however I’m able.”

The Smash Bros. director has discussed his punishing work-life balance many times in the past, including claims that he would use an IV drip and “go to work like normal” during the development of Ultimate, to avoid taking time off.

In 2020, the designer said in a column that he passed out during a trip to the gym because he was tired and dehydrated.

During a 2019 interview with Nintendo Dream, Sakurai claimed that he had, however, taken some action to improve his working conditions during the development of Ultimate.

“I made some changes from what I used to do compared to now. For example, as a principle, I always left the office by 10 PM, no matter what. Many companies are discouraging extreme overtime these days, too,” he said.