Posts by Zach Dionne
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The Wolf of Wall Street Has a Number of Opportunities to Be Vaguely Controversial
Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street will be the longest film of the 71-year-old auteur’s career and of the 2013 holiday season, clocking in one minute shy of three hours. If running times don’t count as scandalous, though, here’s what might: Scorsese flew to Marrakesh, Morocco, last week to judge a nine-day film festival immediately […]
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Afternoon Links: Lindsay Lohan Is Ready for Her Share of the GTA V Money Now
It appears Lindsay Lohan finds a similarity between herself and one or more blondes portrayed in Grand Theft Auto V. TMZ writes that LiLo is taking legal action over parts of the game that she feels appropriate her persona — quests like helping a starlet escape the paparazzi and photographing another starlet having sex at […]
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TNT Is Tweeting Frank Darabont’s Mob City Pilot, Line by Line
TNT’s been watching your pool party, Twitter. It sees your TV hashtags and live-tweeted finales splashing in the shallow end, your blue-checkmark-verified actors doing fancy tricks off the diving board. And now TNT’s jumping in with its own cannonball, tweeting a complete multimedia adaptation of Mob City‘s pilot script. A press release first coins the […]
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Box Office Top Five: Catching Fire and Frozen Lead Record-Breaking Thanksgiving Weekend
You thought you were just escaping your family and catching a flick over the holiday weekend, but you were actually MAKING HISTORY. The five-day nationwide box office total climbed to $294 million, setting an all-time Thanksgiving record. Thus we’re giving you the five-day grosses rather than the usual weekend tallies. 1. The Hunger Games: Catching […]
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Afternoon Links: Tarantino’s Doing Another Western
Quentin Tarantino visited Jay Leno on Tuesday night and had a subtle announcement to share: He’s not making a Django Unchained sequel, but he is doing another Western next. “The thing is, I had so much fun doing Django and I love Westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it’s like, […]
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Baz Luhrmann May Direct a Kubrick-Written Napoleon Miniseries for HBO
Stanley Kubrick once spent a long while crafting a script about Napoleon Bonaparte, a project he was never able to film. Then Steven Spielberg swooped in as a producer this year, and apparently HBO took interest shortly thereafter. Now, according to Deadline, Baz Luhrmann is in talks to direct the miniseries. “Deals are a long way from being […]
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Afternoon Links: Maybe Family Guy’s Bringing Brian Back, Maybe Not
Less than 48 hours after Brian Griffin’s demise and immediate replacement on Family Guy, a countdown site appeared. Promising “A Special Announcement from Brian” and underscored as “A Fox Production,” the clock hinted at a major Griffin-related development in 10 days. Now the digits have zipped down to zero days and 18 hours, and Deadline has […]
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Vince Gilligan Thinks Jesse Went to Prison After Breaking Bad
This may come as a surprise to you, but Vince Gilligan, the man who created the methstrosity we once affectionately and anxiously referred to as Breaking Bad, is one of GQ’s Men of the Year. In a brief interview, Gilligan chats about Heisenberg’s intentions coming into the neo-Nazi shootout, saying “he definitely went there to kill Jesse […]
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Now X-Men’s Magneto Is Part of the JFK Conspiracy
Mere days after Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Connelly dug into the 50-year-old conspiracy theories surrounding the JFK assassination, we’ve got a real, fictional answer. Erik Lehnsherr, alias Magneto, did it! Yeah, the single-bullet theory, a.k.a. the magic bullet theory, the one about how a bullet was mysteriously “bent laterally and distorted at its base, enough so […]
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Afternoon Links: There Will Be Plenty of The Wolf of Wall Street
The Wolf of Wall Street will reportedly run at three hours, making it Scorsese’s longest movie. Speaking of The Wolf of Wall Street, you’re absolutely cheating yourself if you don’t watch this It’s a Wonderful Life mash-up. [h/t]
