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‘Summertime’ Review: ‘Blindspotting’ Director Carlos Lopez Estrada Takes A Poetic Look At Millennial Life In Los Angeles [Sundance 2020] Carlos Lopez Estradareturns to the Sundance Film Festival two years after directing his feature debut,Blindspotting, a love letter to Oakland which included a few scenes of its lead characters freestyle rapping their emotions aloud to each other. InSummertime, his spiritual follow-up, Estrada turns his lens on Los Angeles and makes lyricism the movie’s dominant form of communication....

Amazon, WarnerMedia, And Discovery Have Joined The Russia Boycott The above boycotts all followed other media boycotts from The BBC, CNN, and German broadcasting giant Deutsche Welle. As reported by The Hollywood Reporterjust this morning, Discovery, Amazon, the whole of WarnerMedia will also ban Russia from consuming their channels. Discovery operates The Discovery Channel, The Food Network, HGTV, TLC, Animal Planet, Motor Trend, The Oprah Winfrey Network, and several other channels....

Brody And Whitaker In Remake Of German Psychological Thriller The Experiment Adrien BrodyandForest Whitakerhave joined the cast ofThe Experiment, which is a remake of Oliver Hirschbiegel’s 2001 breakout filmDas Experiment. Hirschbiegel’s film was based on the Stanford Prison Experiment, which was was run by Stanford’s Professor Philip Zimbardo in 1971 to evaluate the psychological effects of being a prison guard or inmate.Paul Scheuring, creator of the showPrison Break, has scripted and will direct....

Cable Companies Are Starting To Crack Down On Sharing Streaming Passwords It looks like the days of you using your roommate’s boyfriend’s parents HBO Go account are numbered. Bloombergreports that Charter Communications is leading an industry-wide “crackdown” against password-sharing following a recent industry conference where an example was shared of a single account being used to play 30,000 simultaneous streams. Charter reportedly approached Viacom, Inc., which owns popular channels like Comedy Central and MTV, to join the fight against password-swapping by reducing the number of allowed simultaneous streams and force more frequent logins for paid users, according to Bloomberg....

Cameos: Brad Pitt In Angelina Jolie’s War Film; Another Big Name For ‘The Hangover Part II’ Film news is turning into a micro-reporting culture, so here’s word on two cameos (or, more properly, possible cameos) that have been shot for notable films. The first report putsBrad Pittin a brief scene in the filmAngelina Joliewrote and is now directing. Plus, there’s another big cameo report forThe Hangover Part II. On the off chance that you haven’t seen it reported in ten other places already, we’ve kept the info out of the headline and after the break, so you can keep it a surprise if you want....

Casting Notes: Thomas Haden Church In ‘Killer Joe’; Melanie Griffith In ‘The Grief Tourist’; Matthew McConaughey In ‘Bernie’ One of the pictures with the most potential right now isWilliam Friedkin’spitch-black comedyKiller Joe, written byTracy Lettsfrom his own play of the same title, which won Pulitzer and Tony prizes in 2008. The story is about “a brother (Emile Hirsch) and sister combo who plot the death of their mother for the insurance money and hire “Killer Joe” Cooper, a cop and contract killer (Matthew McConaughey) to do the deed....

Christian Bale Won’t Be Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah;’ Michael Fassbender Next In Line? Here’s the trade-off for two new Terrence Malick movies going into production withChristian Balein 2012: the actor now won’t have time to star inDarren Aronofsky’sNoah. Bale was never officially cast, but we’ve known since this summer that he was the actor Darren Aronofskyreally wanted to leadthe cast of hisbig event-filmretelling of the biblical story. With Bale set to do two Malick films in 2012, however, he’s well out of the running forNoah....

Cobra Kai Composers On The Joyous Process Of Working On The Show [Interview] I grew up watching the “Karate Kid” trilogy, so those movies have always held a special place in my heart. My dad used to quote Mr. Miyagi to me and my older brother, whether it was a smirking “wax on, wax off” or “beginner’s luck!” with a scoff, or something more profound like “Never put passion in front of principle — even if you win, you lose,” “No such thing as bad student, only bad teacher,” or “When you feel life out of focus, always return to basic of life — breathing....

Cool Stuff: Tomer Hanuka’s Star Wars Poster “Father: Encounter On Dagobah” The Alamo Drafthouse’s Mondo Tees has given us an EXCLUSIVE look at their next officially licensedStar Warsposter:Tomer Hanuka’s “Father: Encounter on Dagobah”. The 19"x25" poster print is a limited edition of only 250, each hand numbered. The poster will go on sale on Thursday July 29th on theMondoTees website. Please note: the last 2 posters from theStar Warsline have sold out in 1 hour and 30 minutes respectively....

David Goyer Developing ‘100 Bullets’ For Showtime If given the opportunity to take lethal, consequence-free, revenge on someone who did you wrong, would you do it? That’s the question that kicks off the award winning DC/Vertigo comic book100 Bullets, a dark, pulpy series written byBrian Azzarelloand illustrated byEduardo Risso. The series, which ran for 100 issues from 1999-2009, has long been rumored for alive action adaptationand now it’s finally happening. Superhero screenwriterDavid Goyer(The Dark Knight, Blade, Man of Steel) will executive produce a television version of the comic book series for Showtime....

Disney’s ‘Moana’ Is Now A ‘Hamilton’ Reunion: Phillipa Soo Joins Voice Cast ScoringHamiltontickets went from difficult to impossible last week, following news that star and creatorLin-Manuel Mirandawould take his last bow in July. But if you’re bummed about missing out, maybe today’s news will offer some small measure of consolation. AHamiltonmini-reunion is headed to big screens this fall, in the form of Disney Animation’sMoana. As previously reported, Manuel is writing original music for the Disney adventure....

Early Buzz: Neveldine/Taylor’s Game Lakeshore Entertainment held a test screening ofGamelast week in Southern California. Game is the latest film fromNeveldine/Taylor, the mad men behindCrank. It starsGerard Butler, as a prisoner who is implanted with nano-technology which allows a video gamer to control him in a first-person shooter-like game called Slayers. A bunch of reviews have leaked out across the interwebs. Lets take a look at the early buzz: Collider: “if you want action, Game has it....

Emily In Paris Season 2: Release Date, Cast, And More (Welcome to…And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) You have to give Netflix this much credit, at least. No, we may never get a reliable and transparent look at theirratings and viewership numbers. No, their “Quantity over quality” plan to release at leastone movie per weekfor the entirety of 2021 hasn’t exactly done much to dispel the notion that the streamer prioritizes “content” above all else....