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With Blonde, premiering this week in the Tokyo International Film Festival’s main competition, rising 38-year-old director Yuichiro Sakashita delivers a sharp, quietly damning satire of conformity in Japan’s education system. The film centers on a meek junior-high teacher (popular singer-turned-actor Takanori Iwata) whose life unravels when his students stage a “blonde-hair protest” against the school’s…
As Puck, the media company led by co-founder and editor-in-chief Jon Kelly, scales up with the acquisition of Air Mail, founder Graydon Carter is stepping back. On Thursday, Puck announced that it has bought Air Mail, the culture and lifestyle media company founded by Carter, the former editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Amid the sale, Julia…
Vince Gilligan knew it was time for a palate cleanser. It turns out that plotting the criminal ambitions of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) and Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) for 17 years can take its toll. That’s not to say that Gilligan isn’t proud of his life’s work that includes the 16-time-Emmy-winning…
Actors’ Equity has voted to ratify its contract with the Broadway League. The vote comes after the union for actors and stage managers reached a tentative agreement with the Broadway League over a new contract Oct. 18, after threatening to strike if a deal could not be reached. After weeks of negotiations, Equity had voted…
At some point over the past year, dogs quietly became the most pampered passengers in the sky. They stretch their legs during layovers. They have spa appointments after landing. They travel with concierges, snack on calming chews and go home with curated gift baskets. Bark Air, a new airline designed exclusively for canine passengers, flies…
Mia Goth, Dan Stevens and Zach Galifianakis have signed on to star in Hey Bear, the feature directoral debut of Portlandia co-creator Jonathan Krisel. Described as a “coming of rage” story, from a script written by Emmy Award-winner Carrie Kemper (Beef), Hey Bear follows Claire (Goth), a woman who seeks revenge on a bear after…
The newest ebook edition of Slow Horses author Mick Herron‘s novel Down Cemetery Road begins with a foreword by Emma Thompson. She recalls first coming across one of Herron’s books on a London bookstore’s “staff recommends” shelf and tearing through it, after which “I instantly read the rest of his work,” she writes. Thompson is…
Steven Paul is bringing Kevin Spacey back to American cinemas. Paul, producer on the Baby Geniuses franchise, and one of the architects of the Trump-backed “Make Hollywood Great Again” plan to renationalize runaway production, has taken North American rights to Spacey-starrer The Contract. Paul’s SP Releasing picked up the film and is planning a theatrical…
The pioneering media mogul John Malone is stepping aside from the empire he created. Malone announced Wednesday that he is stepping down as chairman of his holding companies Liberty Media and Liberty Global, effectively capping off a half-century-plus career that helped create and define the modern media and telecommunications business. Malone will shift to a…
Betsy Brandt is joining the coven of Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches. The AMC Networks series has tapped the Breaking Bad alum as a series regular for season three. Brandt’s role only has a name: Katherine. The third season of the series starring Alexandra Daddario begins production this week in Vancouver, Canada. Per AMC, season three…
