579 posts tagged ‘entertainment culture’
Wonka's Surprisingly Sweet Box Office Helped Cure Warner's Aquaman Blues
Gizmodo,
We snickered at the concept when we first heard about Wonka, and we scratched our heads once we saw the trailers—especially the parts revealing Hugh Grant’s Ooompa-Loompa character. But one should never doubt the power of chocolate... or a singing, dancing, Timothée Chalamet, because Wonka is a hit. Read more...
Ricky Gervais isn’t David Brent from The Office. He’s worse
AV Club,
Ricky Gervais no longer does comedy. He does grievance. Two minutes into his latest, hourlong outrage bait for Netflix, Armageddon, he’s talking about the backlash he generates and how he’s putting “woke” in his Twitter bio. Later, amid adlibbing about Chinese people eating dogs, taking an applause break for saying… Read more...
Barry Keoghan, You Have Nothing to Be Hesitant About
Jezebel,
Barry Keoghan is shy, but if you’ve seen Saltburn then you know that he has absolutely zero reason to be. Read more...
Hannah Waddingham has a "real problem" with Tom Cruise haters
A lot of Hollywood people really love Tom Cruise. He’s been deemed the Savior of Cinema by everyone from Steven Spielberg to Glen Powell, after all. But a lot of regular people still really don’t like him, like anyone aware of his connections to Scientology, newly single folks who really vibe with Nicole Kidman’s… Read more...
The Last of Us Was the Most-Pirated Show of 2023
Piracy is a fact of life in the entertainment industry, no matter how much studios try to fight it—and in an age where the streaming industry is feeling more and more like cable television by the day—it’s going to remain that way for the foreseeable future. But that doesn’t mean it’s not interesting to see what… Read more...
Rebel Moon's Ed Skrein on Co-Starring With His Game of Thrones Replacement
Fans of Game of Thrones will remember that a key character, hunky sellsword Daario Naharis, looked rather different in season four after debuting in season three—and now the two actors who played him, Ed Skrein and Michiel Huisman, are sharing the screen in Zack Snyder’s new Netflix film Rebel Moon. Read more...
Honorable mentions: 19 other TV shows we loved in 2023
At the start of the month, we unveiled our 30 favorite TV shows of 2023, which included sendoffs like Succession and Reservation Dogs, worthy returns such as The Bear and Heartstopper, and the confident debuts of Poker Face and Beef. But you know what? There was a lot of great television this year. Here, in… Read more...
Gypsy Rose Blanchard has been released from prison and hopes to meet Taylor Swift
In the immortal words of Taylor Swift, “Karma is my boyfriend, karma is a god, karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend.” While the pop star was ostensibly writing about her emancipation from manager Scooter Braun, these lyrics could also easily be about today’s emancipation of tabloid star Gypsy Rose Blanchard… Read more...