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Sep172024 by cineverseNo Comments

Tyler, the Creator Joins Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow in Josh Safdie’s ‘Marty Supreme’ From A24

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By Ethan Shanfeld Six years after Tyler, the Creator rapped, “Tell Tim Chalamet to come get at me,” the Grammy winner has joined the “Dune” star in the cast of A24’s “Marty Supreme.” From director Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme” marks Tyler’s film debut. The fashion designer and “See You Again” singer previously co-created and starred in Adult Swim’s “Loiter Squad” series alongside his Odd Future cohorts. He also co-created the Adult Swim animated show “The Jellies!” as well as the Viceland docuseries “Nuts + Bolts.” Tyler joins Chalamet and Gwyneth Paltrow in the A24 title, which is said to center on a professional ping pong pro. Plot details for “Marty Supreme” are kept under wraps, but A24 posted an image of a table tennis ball with the words “coming soon” after&nbs...

Sep162024 by cineverseNo Comments

A Humdrum Emmys Are Weighed Down by Sparse Crowds and Sponsored Content: TV Review

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By Alison Herman According To The variety It’s hard to make a yearly awards show feel special when it’s staged twice in one year. Such was the challenge facing the 76th annual Emmy Awards, which aired just eight months after its warmly nostalgic predecessor due to the prior show’s strike-related delay. (Both shows were helmed by the same producing team.) Factor in the Television Academy’s tendency toward repeat honorees — and more recently, select shows to sweep all awards in their category within a given year — and it’s understandable why Sunday’s broadcast was a relatively muted affair. But drab is drab. Whatever the justifications, the 76th Emmys were a far less dynamic and more stilted watch than the January show. ake the signature flourish of a night t...

Sep142024 by cineverseNo Comments

Beloved Tropic’ Review: Paulina García Shines in Tender Drama

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By Stephen Saito According To The variety Being a mother won’t save you from anything,” Mechi (Paulina Garcia) confides in Ana Maria (Jenny Navarrete) in “Beloved Tropic” during a rare moment of clarity, turning attention away from her own health as she is slowly succumbing to dementia. The two are brought together by the precarious immigration status of Ana Maria, Mechi’s pregant caregiver who requires a steady job to remain in Panama after leaving her home of Columbia three years prior. The nurse thinks a child might help if the paperwork doesn’t come through. But in director Ana Endara’s compassionate drama, her characters find a safe haven where they least expect it. A good old-fashioned tearjerker with some enlivening flourishes, like the orchids that peek out of the shrubb...

Sep112024 by cineverseNo Comments

Denis Villeneuve Says ‘Dune 3’ Is ‘Not Like a Trilogy’ and Will Be His Last ‘Dune’ Movie: Other Directors Could Take Over So ‘I’m Not Closing the Door’ on the Franchise

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By Zack Sharf According To The variety Denis Villeneuve appeared on Vanity Fair’s “Little Gold Men” podcast and stressed that an upcoming third “Dune” movie based on Frank Herbert’s novel “Dune Messiah” is not being developed as the completion of a trilogy in his eyes. Legendary confirmed in April that development on “Dune 3” was underway following the blockbuster success of “Dune: Part 2,” which grossed $711 million worldwide earlier this year. “First, it’s important that people understand that for me, it was really a diptych,” Villeneuve said of the first two “Dune” movies. “It was really a pair of movies that will be the adaptation of the first book. That’s done and that’s finished. If I do a third one, which is in the writing process, it’s not like a tril...

Sep102024 by cineverseNo Comments

Harvey Weinstein Undergoes Emergency Heart Surgery

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By Pat Saperstein According To The variety Harvey Weinstein was taken to Bellevue Hospital in New York City on Sunday night for emergency heart surgery. He was being held at Rikers Island and had been experiencing chest pains. According to Weinstein’s representatives Craig Rothfeld and Juda Engelmayer, “Mr. Weinstein was rushed to Bellevue Hospital last night due to several medical conditions. We can confirm that Mr. Weinstein had a procedure and surgery on his heart today however cannot comment any further than that.” They added: ‘”As we have extensively stated before, Mr. Weinstein suffers a plethora of significant health issues that need ongoing treatment. We are grateful to the executive team at the New York City Department of Correction and Rikers Island for acting swift...

Sep102024 by cineverseNo Comments

James Earl Jones, Distinguished Actor and Voice of Darth Vader, Dies at 93

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By Adam B. Vary, Carmel Dagan According To The variety James Earl Jones, the prolific film, TV and theater actor whose resonant, unmistakable baritone was most widely known as the voice of “Star Wars” villain Darth Vader, died Monday morning at his home in Dutchess County, N.Y., his rep confirmed to Variety. He was 93. After overcoming a profound stutter as a child, Jones established himself as one of the pioneering Black actors of his generation, amassing a bountiful and versatile career spanning over 60 years, from his debut on Broadway in 1958 at the Cort Theatre — renamed the James Earl Jones Theatre in 2022 — to his most recent performance in 2021’s “Coming 2 America.” For that film, Jones reprised his role as King Jaffe Joffer from the 1988 Eddie Murphy...

Sep92024 by cineverseNo Comments

Eden’ Review: Ron Howard’s Historical ‘Thriller’ Strands Us On an Island with Characters Who Grow More Dislikable by the Minute

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By Owen Gleiberman According To The variety Ron Howard has always taken pride in being an eclectic filmmaker — in the last 40 years, he has made movies about mermaids, cocoons, auto factories, astronauts, firefighters, newspapers, beautiful minds, cave rescuers, the Grinch, the Da Vinci Code, the Beatles, and Pavarotti. But at the Toronto Film Festival premiere of his latest movie, “Eden,” he declared that the film stands farther apart from his other work than anything he has ever done. He’s right, though not for the reason he thinks. “Eden,” which is based on events that unfolded 100 years ago on one of the Galápagós Islands, is a difficult movie to characterize. It’s been labeled as a “thriller,” but I would describe it as a misanthropic survivalist “Robinson Crusoe” meets “Wh...