Posts by Zach Dionne
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Afternoon Links: Led Zeppelin Says Screw It, Joins Spotify
Led Zeppelin, one of the very last iconic bands to withhold their songs from streaming services, finally caved. Spotify added the first two albums today and will continue adding two releases per day until Sunday, when the rest of the catalogue will be added. Strange strategy, but terribly exciting for the 450 people who’ve been […]
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Adam Sandler Was the Most Overpaid Actor of 2013, Sort of, If You Don’t Count That One Terrible Movie That Made a Ton of Money
Forbes gives celebrities numerous annual opportunities to stunt on the Jumbotron that is the Internet. The Most Overpaid Actors list is not one of these opportunities. This year’s winner/loser is Adam Sandler, who Forbes says is “one of the few actors in Hollywood who can still demand a paycheck north of $15 million.” From there on it’s […]
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Mitch Hurwitz Will Direct Guinea Pigging, His First Movie
Whether or not you liked Arrested Development’s fourth season, the execution occupied a gray area somewhere between television, short-story collection, and big long movie. So it’s not with total surprise that we find Mitch Hurwitz, Arrested’s creator and superbrain, signing on with Fox 2000 to direct his first feature. Guinea Pigging will be written by […]
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Afternoon Links: Whatever Happened to the Great Romances of Love Actually?
Love Actually is often hailed as the preeminent rom-com of our era. So why hasn’t there been a sequel? It might look a little disjointed, but it could work, no? Real fans won’t mind that Alan Rickman became a Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher and Andrew Lincoln became a postapocalyptic anti-zombie sheriff. True love […]
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Jupiter Ascending Trailer: Mila Kunis Is the Wachowskis’ New Chosen One
“Feast your eyes on this” is an empty cliché — unless we’re talking Andy and Lana Wachowski, the sibling duo whose imagery amounts to cinematic Thanksgiving every time, even when the actual narratives are just undercooked side dishes. Jupiter Ascending, the first original Wachowskis effort since the final Matrix film dropped a decade ago (Cloud Atlas and […]
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Tom Cruise Is Doing a Jack Reacher Sequel
Ready to embrace his potential as a franchise beast beyond the gadgety confines of Mission: Impossible, Tom Cruise is adding a second Jack Reacher movie to his docket. A sequel to the 2012 film is reportedly being fast-tracked by Paramount and Skydance; it’ll be based on Never Go Back, Lee Child’s most recent novel and his 18th about […]
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Afternoon Links: Tim Meadows Tells SNL to Shove It
SNL brought back their 1990s sketch about infamous salesman Bill Brasky over the weekend. Will Ferrell came back for the bit, but Tim Meadows — who participated four times from ’96 to ’98 — was nowhere to be seen. Meadows quickly detailed his feelings on the matter on his Facebook wall: “I guess it just […]
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Stop Hoping for a Friday Night Lights Movie; Peter Berg Says It’s Not Happening
Clear eyes and full hearts don’t mean jack when it comes to the Friday Night Lights movie, the one that would pick up where the TV series left off, the one we’ve been hearing about since the show wrapped its five-year run in 2011. Peter Berg, who directed and cowrote the original 2004 film and went […]
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Box Office Top Five: Frozen Asks Katniss to Take a Seat
1. Frozen, $31.6 million (last week: no. 2; $134.3 million cumulative) Was I talking about The Best Man Holiday potentially sticking around in the top five through mid-January last week? Can I change my vote to Frozen? After playing sidekick to the Catching Fire–led Thanksgiving box office bonanza, Frozen jumped ahead to first place this weekend and pulled […]
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Afternoon Links: Terminator Will Be Back (on TV)
The future has not been written, except for the part where humanity ends up with a second Terminator TV show in six years. Following The Sarah Connor Chronicles — and completely breaking away from it — Skydance Productions and Annapurna Pictures are working on a new series to launch in tandem with their 2015 franchise reboot. Zack […]
