Amazon is looking to expand its capitalist girth by acquiring MGM’s library of film and TV titles. As Republican governors across the U.S. have begun opting out of federal unemployment aid in an effort to force people to accept low-paying jobs,
Variety reports that Amazon is looking to spend $9 billion to purchase MGM. That may seem like an absurd amount of money to us poor folk, but Amazon recently spent $11 billion on film, TV, and music for its Prime platforms in 2020, so $9 billion is chump change, really. It’s enough to buy over 4,000 movies and 17,000 episodes of television, but it’s not
Jonah Hill is teaming up with screenwriter William Monahan for a miniseries that follows two of the 20th century's most powerful men in Hollywood, Lew Wesserman and Sidney Korshak.
has big
Jaws energy: It’s that suspense. It’s the fin cutting through the water, or the aliens’ clicks back and forth. That’s what creates that “jump out of your seat” energy, and what Blunt hopes audiences get from the
Blunt’s thoughts on that and more can be found in the video above. We talked to her (pre-pandemic, hence the no masks and no social distancing) about why she almost opted out of the sequel, and the jangling sound her kids make that has become one of her favorite auditory experiences.
A Quiet Place: Part II
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The Devil’s Advocate (1997)
It may be hard to believe now, basking in the joy of Al Pacino’s recent performances in
Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, but there was a time in the 1990s when his gifts for hammy bombast were regarded with a stern wariness. After winning an overdue Oscar for, yes, hammy bombast personified in