The “No Time to Die” star spoke out against the viral coverage of Johnny Depp’s defamation lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard. Harris, who previously worked with Depp on the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films, slammed the “disturbing” amount of coverage for the “very private case” in an interview with The Independent. “It’s hard not to have followed that case because it was so rammed down our throats every day,” Harris said....
“Debris” definitely stands on the shoulders of legends and if you’ve enjoyed series like “The X-Files” and, especially, creator J.H. Wyman’s previous show, “Fringe,” then odds are this will similarly capture your attention. The series follows Bryan Beneventi (Jonathan Tucker) and Finola Jones (Riann Steele), two operatives for competing international government agencies. They’re investigating a series of mysterious debris falling down to Earth from a spacecraft encountered three weeks ago....
Potential subscribers may be getting answers very soon, as a new report from Bloomberg reveals that the streaming giant is getting closer to finalizing the details of its ad-supported model. The company reportedly plans to add four minutes of commercials to every hour of programming, and is aiming for a price point between $7 and $9 per month when it launches later this year. By comparison, Netflix’s standard subscription currently costs $15....
Netflix’s first Tudum event will be held September 25. Per the company, Tudum will feature Netflix’s biggest stars and creators from around the world, representing over 70 series, films and specials. Guests will join the virtual stage for a day full of exclusives and first-looks. The live stream will begin at 9 a.m. PT and will be broadcast across Netflix’s YouTube channels worldwide, in addition to Twitter and Twitch. There will also be pre-shows spotlighting Korean and Indian series and films, along with anime content that will kick-off at 5 a....
Even Hollywood, usually behind the curve on consumer technology, is starting to catch up: Last week, Disney promoted an executive to lead “Next Generation Storytelling and Consumer Experiences,” while Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine signed a partnership with NFT collective World of Women to turn its characters into movies and TV shows. The non-fungible token has started to reveal its utility. In the entertainment world, NFTs give creators new ways to interact with their audiences, raise money, create new distribution windows, and turn all of it into a proof of concept to sell their movies and TV shows....
Here’s the breakdown, courtesy of GQ: Apparently, Seth Rogen and his longtime creative collaborator and “Green Hornet” screenwriter Evan Goldberg “spoke to Nicolas Cage about him possibly playing the Russian crime boss villain in ‘The Green Hornet,’ only for Cage to inform them he wanted to play him as a bald man, with hair tattooed on, large prosthetic lips and a voice like Edward G Robinson. They later met Cage in person and he informed them that, actually, he wanted to play him as a ‘white Bahamian,’ with a thick Caribbean accent, and proceeded to act out a scene in which he would be dumping pigs’ blood on Rogen’s ‘Green Hornet’ in a ‘creepy voodoo ritual....
That’s certainly what he’s achieved in 2021, with both the successful first season of FX’s “Reservation Dogs” (already renewed for a second season) and freewheeling new film “Love and Fury.” The Oklahoma-based Harjo’s fifth feature film, it’s a globetrotting documentary that follows Native artists as they navigate their careers, finding camaraderie with Indigenous people everywhere. “I think there is a humanizing that we as Native Americans have to do for non-Native people, as we’re trying to get an audience that might not know our world to meet us halfway,” Harjo said of his projects....
