Posts by Zach Dionne
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Chelsea Handler To Host the First Talk Show on Netflix, Whatever That Will Mean
In order for the onetime mail-order DVD company to call itself “the world’s leading Internet TV network” — as it does in today’s press release — one issue had to be addressed: immediacy.
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Cameron Crowe, J.J. Abrams, and ‘My So-Called Life’ Creator Winnie Holzman Making ‘Roadies’ for Showtime
The comedy will follow the touring life of a major band “through the eyes of the crew members working behind the scenes.” Crowe will write and direct the pilot; Abrams and Holzman will executive produce.
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Jack White Debuts at No. 1, Sells a Ton of Something Called ‘Vinyl’
Also in the Afternoon Links: Ghostface Killah emojis, Ewan McGregor will star in ‘American Pastoral,’ and a one-handed guitarist nails “Eruption.”
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Zorro and Quentin Tarantino’s Django Are Going on a Comic-Book Adventure Together
Tarantino and Matt Wagner are creating ‘Django/Zorro’ — and yes, it’s that Zorro, the masked vigilante of 19th-century California.
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Time for a New ‘Scooby-Doo’ Movie
It’s been a decade since the second of two ‘Scooby-Doo’ movies, gross-CGI-Scooby and all, hit theaters. So, as the saying goes, IT’S REBOOT O’CLOCK.
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OK Go Are Coming for Your Views Again, Internet
Also in the Afternoon Links: Mark Ruffalo’s talking about a standalone Hulk project, Anna Kendrick is doing a Trolls movie, and ‘Boardwalk Empire’ has a big time-jump coming up.
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‘The Knick’ Trailer: Steven Soderbergh and Clive Owen Help Us Live Longer
The title’s a reference to Knickerbocker Hospital, a boundary-pushing early 20th-century New York City institution. At its head was the troubled Dr. John W. Thackeray, played by Clive Owen.
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Lifetime Casts 17-Year-Old Disney Channel Star As Aaliyah
It’s ‘Shake It Up!’ actress Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman, who performs, Aaliyah-style, as simply Zendaya.
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Steven Spielberg’s Next Two Movies Will Premiere Nine Months Apart
Also in the Afternoon Links: Mike Will Made It cobbles together another superjam, ‘Father of the Bride’ might be getting a gay-marriage threequel, and Samuel L. Jackson still knows his lines from ‘Pulp Fiction.’
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My Sun and Stars and King of the Seven Seas: Jason ‘Khal Drogo’ Momoa Will Play Aquaman
DC and Zack Snyder would love for us to get excited about ‘Justice League,’ but we haven’t had a single strong reason to go past obligatory interest yet. That might have just changed.
