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A tally by TheWrap found 22 consecutive films from Fox — not counting Fox Searchlight — and 25 from Paramount had no women directors in sight Female directors in Hollywood have spoken out about gender discrimination again and again and again. So it is surprising that not a single female director appears on the upcoming release slate…
On Monday, April 18, a man sued Kanye West and TIDAL for “duping” fans into having to pay for a subscription to the music streaming service. A story, originally reported by the AP, and then by Pitchfork, states that Justin Baker-Rhett has filed a class-action lawsuit against the pop-culture icon and the struggling streaming company. According…
Reed Hastings got it right. It just took longer than he thought. “We expect Amazon to continue to offer their video service as a free extra with Prime domestically but also to brand their video subscription offering as a standalone service at a price less than ours,” the Netflix CEO told his investors in a…
Twenty years ago, Sesame Street ran a special segment warning US children about the risks of lead. And 20 years later, Last Week Tonight‘s John Oliver brought the Sesame Street cast to his show to highlight America’s continuing lead epidemic. As Oliver told Elmo (who offered $1.76 from his piggy bank to help), America’s lead…
LOS ANGELES — Sorry Paramount Pictures: Fans of Ghost in the Shell are still mad about Scarlett Johansson being cast instead of an Asian actress as the lead. So mad, in fact, that many are utilizing Instagram to Photoshop Asian actresses into the recent still provided by the studio. Ghost in the Shell, based on the popular Japanese…
There’s an untapped market for droid therapists in the Star Wars universe, apparently, as evidenced in R2-D2’s crushing depression—described as “low-power mode” in typical degrading droid terminology—in The Force Awakens. The obvious lack of droid mental health awareness is also seen in C-3PO’s red arm, until now a puzzling but innocuous detail that’s never explained…
This article contains spoilers for comics in the Civil War arc of Captain America, so if you haven’t read that arc and you want to remain potentially unspoiled for the upcoming film, maybe don’t read this one! We talk a lot about what’s expected of girls, right from the time they’re born. We give them…
First Look: Scarlett Johansson In ‘Ghost In The Shell’ Is A Stone Cold Killer https://t.co/qqGnB5ClyK — Deadline Hollywood (@Deadline) April 14, 2016 This morning, Deadline shared a first peek at Scarlett Johansson as the lead in the upcoming live-action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell. As we’ve said many, many, many times before, this is a casting decision that…
Courtesy of 20th Century Fox Start Article Post Content UPDATED: James Cameron will make four “Avatar” sequels, promising that the films will start hitting theaters in 2018. The creator of the original “Avatar,” the 2009 fantasy epic that remains the all-time worldwide box office champion, said that his vision for a followup has expanded over…
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