[ad_1] Who’s going to play Mr. McGee? Photo: Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images Ryan Coogler is set to produce a jukebox musical film featuring the music of Prince for Universal Pictures, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project has been in development since 2018 and has a script from Bryan Edward Hill, but the details — including […]
Zach Woods on ‘In the Know’ and Making Fun of NPR
[ad_1] In the second episode of In the Know, Peacock’s new stop-motion animated workplace comedy set at a parodic version of NPR, the show’s ensemble is struggling to solicit donations when Fabian (Caitlin Reilly), the office’s researcher, hops on the air in a fit of rage and begins berating the station’s “needle-dicked, neoliberal, piss-pants” listeners […]
Netflix Is Making Another ‘Fear Street’ Movie
[ad_1] Photo: Amy Sussman/Getty Images for Netflix R.L. Stine took to Twitter to announce that Netflix is adapting yet another one of his Fear Street books, 1992’s The Prom Queen, into a film. “Movie News: I can finally announce that a new Fear Street movie is about to go into production for Netflix. It’s based […]
How the NFL is making data-driven progress on leg muscle injury prediction and prevention
[ad_1] MINNEAPOLIS — The NFL ‘s health and safety initiatives focus heavily on concussions, the face of football’s ever-present danger. Torn knee ligaments are instant headlines, ending seasons for star players in a split second. There’s an even bigger thief of time lurking within every team in the league. Lower extremity injuries — those pesky […]
No Dogs Got Sad While Making Strays, Right? An Investigation
[ad_1] I became fixated on this image: someone being mean to a little dog that is so full of love. Photo: Universal Pictures Maybe you have big feelings about your mom, so you’ve been sobbing over Barbie. Maybe you have big feelings about being part of humanity’s last chapter, so have been sobbing over Oppenheimer. […]
Talking Heads’ ‘Stop Making Sense’ Rerelease Trailer
[ad_1] Does anybody have any questions?! Photo: A24 And you may find yourself in the year 2023And you may find yourself topping lists of the best concert documentaries of all timeAnd you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large indie-film distributorAnd you may find yourself in a beautiful (Alamo Draft)houseWith a beautiful 4K […]
Talking Heads & David Byrne to Reunite for Stop Making Sense
[ad_1] Photo: Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns And you may find yourself succumbing to the idea of a nostalgia exercise. More than 20 years since they last tolerated one another in a public setting, the members of Talking Heads will reunite at the Toronto International Film Festival to celebrate the extraordinary legacy of Stop Making Sense. The festival […]
The Making of ‘Alone,’ the History Channel’s Reality TV Show
[ad_1] Illustration: Patrick Leger In late February, a team from Leftfield Pictures, the production company that makes the History Channel’s Alone, convened over Zoom to view an early version of an episode from the show’s tenth season. The series, which premiered in 2015, is a competition reality show. Each season, ten contestants are dumped in […]
Flipping a Switch and Making Cancers Self-Destruct
[ad_1] Within every cancer are molecules that spur deadly, uncontrollable growth. What if scientists could hook those molecules to others that make cells self-destruct? Could the very drivers of a cancer’s survival instead activate the program for its destruction? That idea came as an epiphany to Dr. Gerald Crabtree, a developmental biologist at Stanford, some […]