Posts by Nathan Pine
French Culture Wars Erupt Over Municipal Cinema As Right-Wing Mayor Removes Name Commemorating Anti-Colonial Director
France’s growing culture wars have its hit arthouse circuit after a right-wing mayor in the small town of Elne in southwest France rebaptized the municipal cinema theater, previously named after late radical anti-colonial director René Vautier. Elne Mayor Steve Fortel said he was renaming the theater to “La Bobine Illibérienne” for the sake of “neutrality”…
Read MoreGypsy Rose Blanchard’s Partner Ken Urker Had Drug Paraphernalia at Time of Death
The Life After Lock Up shared that she would remember Ken as “an amazing father and a man who was deeply loved.” “He will forever be my soulmate and my red string, a connection that time, distance, and even death can never erase,” she continued. “Above all, Ken loved our daughter, Aurora. She is a…
Read MoreJack Reynor, John Magaro & Natalia Dyer Join The Trial of Louise Woodward
EXCLUSIVE: The Trial of Louise Woodward, HBO‘s true-crime limited series from creator Matthew Barry, has added three more to its starry cast: Jack Reynor (Lee Cronin’s The Mummy), John Magaro (The Agency), and Natalia Dyer (Stranger Things). Reynor plays Gerry Leone, the lead prosecutor in the show’s central trial. Magaro plays lead defense counsel Barry…
Read More‘Thou Shalt Not Steal’ & ‘The Trio’ Land At Free Streamer The Network
EXCLUSIVE: The Network, the free streamer founded by Aram Rappaport, has snapped up U.S. rights to two international drama series. The service has picked up Thou Shalt Not Steal, which stars Miranda Otto, and Scandi drama The Trio. The Network operates a strategy of debuting one show at a time and has previously picked up…
Read MoreKennedy Center Honors To Move To Capital One Arena Amid Closure
The Kennedy Center Honors will move to a new location for the first time in its history, as it will be held at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. The ceremony will take place at the new venue on Dec. 7, a center spokesperson said. The honorees have yet to be announced, and a broadcast…
Read MoreBen Affleck Reveals How His Kids Reacted to Story of Them Trolling Him
Ben Affleck’s kids one, Ben Affleck zero. Sometimes you just can’t win as a parent, something Affleck—who shares kids Violet, 20, Seraphina, 17, and Samuel, 14, with ex-wife Jennifer Garner—learned recently after sharing what he thought was an amusing anecdote about his middle kid trolling him about his failed relationships. “Actually, today, they clowned me…
Read More‘Baywatch’ Unveils Four New Teasers With Stephen Amell, Livvy Dunne
Fox has released four new teaser promos for its upcoming Baywatch reboot. In them, we see Stephen Amell and Jessica Belkin; Hassie Harrison and Noah Beck; Shay Mitchell and Brooks Nader and Livvy Dunne and Thaddeus LaGrone. You can watch all four below. Amell stars in the series lead role of Hobie Buchannon, wild child…
Read MoreElon Musk’s Partner Shivon Zilis Reveals Sudden Breakup, Says It Came With “No Warning”
Exa Dark Sideræl Musk & Techno Mechanicus Musk (Kids) In her 2022 Vanity Fair interview, Grimes revealed she and Elon privately welcomed a baby girl via surrogacy. “Exa is a reference to the supercomputing term exaFLOPS (the ability to perform 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second),” she said. “Dark, meanwhile, is the unknown. People fear it but…
Read MoreRhys Ifans, Lily Rabe, Sarah Catherine Hook’s ‘Capsized’ In Sales Deal
EXCLUSIVE: The Yellow Affair has boarded world sales on Lindsey Ryan’s Capsized starring Rhys Ifans, Lily Rabe, Sarah Catherine Hook and Griffin Gluck. In the film, “a family’s ‘vacation’ spirals into a turbulent journey as they grapple with lost homes, fractured identities and the grip of a troubled patriarch.” The movie is set to make…
Read MoreJennifer Lawrence Gets Her ‘One Month Mark’ Director In Gene Stupnitsky
EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Lawrence has found a familiar face to direct her upcoming comedy One Month Mark, as sources tell Deadline that Gene Stupnitsky is in final negotiations to direct the Apple Original Films and Chernin Entertainment pic that has Lawrence attached to star and produce through her Excellent Cadaver banner. Sophie Fleur de Bruijn penned…
Read MoreJames Gunn & Peter Safran Staying At DC Studios After WBD Merger
James Gunn and Peter Safran, the bosses of Warner Bros’ owned label DC Studios, will continue to lead the film, TV, comic book production hub and do what they do best. We hear the duo had a meeting with new Skydance co-CEO David Ellison about their future and it went well. Per this morning’s news,…
Read More‘Spring Awakening’ Revival’s Broadway Run Extended Into Spring
The Spring Awakening off Broadway will continue into the spring. Citing “unprecedented demand,” the musical revival’s producers said Friday that the show from Steven Sater and the late Duncan Sheik is extending its run at Studio Seaview through Sunday, April 4. It had been set to wrap on Valentine’s Day at the venue. Previews start…
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