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Focus Features’ official “Promising Young Woman” synopsis reads: “Everyone said Cassie (Mulligan) was a promising young woman… until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future. But nothing in Cassie’s life is what it appears to be: she’s wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she’s living a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs of the past in this thrilling and wildly entertaining story....

Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” book is due out in summer 2021 and will “start as a Harper Perennial mass market paperback, alongside e-book and digital audio editions. A deluxe hardcover edition will follow in the fall.” Per Deadline, the novelization of the film will follow Rick Dalton (played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the film) and Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt in an Oscar-winning performance) “both forward and backward in time....

In a recent, wide-ranging podcast interview with “Billions” co-creator and showrunner Brian Koppelman (director of 2009’s “Solitary Man”), Tarantino opened up about his negative feelings toward the film, which were first prompted by Koppelman himself. (Via The Playlist.) Koppelman said he “hated it so much because what you ended up doing with Honey Bunny [in ‘Pulp Fiction’], the crime as a sacrament of love, is in your script of ‘Natural Born Killers....

Rock was slapped by “King Richard” Best Actor winner Smith while presenting the award for Best Documentary following a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s bald head. And Questlove was in a pre-award haze. “They tell you ahead of time, ‘This is your category,’” Questlove said on “The Tonight Show” following his win for “Summer of Soul”. “And so in that moment, you’re either going to be full of anxiety or, like for me, I’ve been doing transcendental meditation the past couple years....

“He called me into a room and pulled down his pants,” Wilson explained to People, saying that, in front of his friends, the co-star asked her to perform a lewd act. “It was awful and disgusting,” Wilson continued. “And all the behavior afterwards — this was all before #MeToo — where they kind of tried to destroy me and my career. If it had happened after #MeToo, then I could have just blasted them....

“Given the recent demise or transformation of some of our most beloved places for moviegoing in Los Angeles, it feels more urgent than ever to celebrate and support the rebirth of Vidiots. We hope you’ll join us in helping the women of Vidiots build an inclusive shrine to movies — both projected in a community setting, and preserved on physical media,” Longworth and Johnson said. “The past year has only solidified our belief that film spaces designed to foster human interaction and artistic discovery are vital to inspiring the next generation of storytellers and audiences....

But some of the show’s stars are still bitter about Darabont’s firing. One of those stars is Sarah Wayne Callies, who played Lori Grimes on the first three seasons of “The Walking Dead.” Even though she didn’t last much longer on the show than Darabont did, the actress still thinks her old boss was treated unfairly by the cable network. In a new appearance on Jon Bernthal’s Real Ones podcast (via The Wrap), Callies slammed AMC’s decision to part ways with the former showrunner....