Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
This morning, we received the rarest of gifts: a genuinely candid interview with a celebrity. Noah Galvin, the 22-year-old star of the ABC sitcom The Real O’Neals, spoke with E. Alex Jung of New York’s entertainment vertical Vulture about being a young, out gay actor in Hollywood. The story was headlined “Noah Galvin Has Nothing…
View this image › Louisa (Emilia Clarke) and Will (Sam Claflin) dance at a wedding in Me Before You. MGM / New Line Cinema ID: 8849944 Disability rights activists were ready for Me Before You in part because, as one put it, the problems they saw in the movie were “depressingly familiar.” Protests of the…
Getty Image Stephen Colbert is having a bad week. I think it’s fair to say this is one of the worst weeks we’ve seen a late night talk show host have since the Conan O’Brien The Tonight Show fiasco in 2010. This is not to say things are just going swimmingly everywhere else – Trevor…
Mike Coppola / Getty Images ID: 8851184 An independent filmmaker has filed a federal lawsuit against Beyoncé and several studios for allegedly lifting images from his short film to use in the viral trailer for Lemonade. Matthew Fulks, a filmmaker who also works as the creative director of a TV station in Louisville, Kentucky, claims…
EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Lawrence is attaching herself to Adam McKay’s drama about medical company Theranos and its 32-year-old founder Elizabeth Holmes. Theranos is the blood-testing startup that once had Silicon Valley investors salivating over its commercial potential with a $9 billion valuation as recently as two years ago. Founded in 2003 by Holmes, Theranos claimed to have revolutionized blood…
That alone is a tall order, but Jones’ ambitions reach much higher. He’s trying to tell a story about people driven equally by duty and personal need. He’s trying for something denser and more realistic than the usual fantasy binaries of pure, simple good and evil. He’s also finding resonance with his favorite themes, as…
That being said, I won’t be seeing the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Why would I? It’s just more warmed over nostalgia, souped up with computer-generated graphics replacing practical effects and Michael Bay explosions. The turtles’ vocabulary alone—bogus, cowabunga, radical—prevents them from making any sort of sense in the 21st century. Plus, 3D movies…
From ‘spin rage’ to expiration date drama — cycling studios don’t just need good instructors, they also need good lawyers. SoulCycle has raced into the hearts of the Hollywood elite, but a first-time rider says she was injured because an instructor bullied her and now the company is facing the latest in a series of…
There’s been a lot of concern lately about violence coming from Donald Trump protestors, but Bruce Campbell is pouring cold water on the mogul’s supporters for using a picture from his TV show as Twitter propaganda. The presumptive nominee recently held an event in San Jose, California, where things took a nasty turn as protestors…
I’m not going to get too far into the weeds of this thing, but here’s the basic deets: out of the current $420 million credit for film and TV productions in New York State, the amendment would allot less than 1 percent ($5 million) to be used as a credit for productions that hire qualified…