Please read our updated and , effective on December 19, 2019.While you’ve been shoveling peeled grapes into your bionic maw, growing ever more weary with the six existing films they’ve already given you, Paramount Pictures has been hard at work. According to Deadline, the studio is now simultaneously for the wildly-successful Hasbro robots.One of the screenplays, created by Zodiac and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 screenwriter James Vanderbilt, reportedly delves into the world of Beast Wars, a Transformers spin-off that features the descendants of Autobots and Decepticons who can morph into...…Please read our updated and , effective on December 19, 2019.While you’ve been shoveling peeled grapes into your bionic maw, growing ever more weary with the six existing films they’ve already given you, Paramount Pictures has been hard at work. According to Deadline, the studio is now simultaneously for the wildly-successful Hasbro robots.One of the screenplays, created by Zodiac and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 screenwriter James Vanderbilt, reportedly delves into the world of Beast Wars, a Transformers spin-off that features the descendants of Autobots and Decepticons who can morph into...WW…

“If there’s not a Reddit message board about this movie, I would be shocked and frankly appalled,” Alison Brie tells me on a sunny afternoon in Park City, a day before the Sundance Film Festival premiere of her feature screenwriting debut, Horse Girl. “I want Reddit fans to know we were keeping them in mind while making it.” To say her twist-filled movie, co-written and directed by Jeff Baena, is difficult to unpack is a bit of an understatement. The surreal, genuinely strange, and often sad film follows Sarah (Brie), the titular horse girl, an awkward young woman whose primary activities...…“If there’s not a Reddit message board about this movie, I would be shocked and frankly appalled,” Alison Brie tells me on a sunny afternoon in Park City, a day before the Sundance Film Festival premiere of her feature screenwriting debut, Horse Girl. “I want Reddit fans to know we were keeping them in mind while making it.” To say her twist-filled movie, co-written and directed by Jeff Baena, is difficult to unpack is a bit of an understatement. The surreal, genuinely strange, and often sad film follows Sarah (Brie), the titular horse girl, an awkward young woman whose primary activities...WW…

Please read our updated and , effective on December 19, 2019.This article was featured in , New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. to get it nightly.I worked at various start-ups for eight years beginning in 2010, when I was in my early 20s. Then I quit and went freelance for a while. A year later, I returned to office life, this time at a different start-up. During my gap year, I had missed and yearned for a bunch of things, like health care and free knockoff Post-its and luxurious people-watching opportunities. (In 2016, I saw a co-worker pour herself a bowl of cornflakes, add...…Please read our updated and , effective on December 19, 2019.This article was featured in , New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. to get it nightly.I worked at various start-ups for eight years beginning in 2010, when I was in my early 20s. Then I quit and went freelance for a while. A year later, I returned to office life, this time at a different start-up. During my gap year, I had missed and yearned for a bunch of things, like health care and free knockoff Post-its and luxurious people-watching opportunities. (In 2016, I saw a co-worker pour herself a bowl of cornflakes, add...WW…

Please read our updated and , effective on December 19, 2019.Constance Wu’s Method work for Hustlers appears to have paid off, and I absolutely mean literally: The actor that she made $600 in a single night spent researching at a strip club. As reminds us, stripping can be an extremely lucrative craft one day (particularly for young dancers who have a to guide them, and who are willing to bend some laws to up their tips) and a bust the next, so I am impressed. Wu’s would be a sizable take even for someone who wasn’t making her first (and possibly also only? Unclear.) public appearance...…Please read our updated and , effective on December 19, 2019.Constance Wu’s Method work for Hustlers appears to have paid off, and I absolutely mean literally: The actor that she made $600 in a single night spent researching at a strip club. As reminds us, stripping can be an extremely lucrative craft one day (particularly for young dancers who have a to guide them, and who are willing to bend some laws to up their tips) and a bust the next, so I am impressed. Wu’s would be a sizable take even for someone who wasn’t making her first (and possibly also only? Unclear.) public appearance...WW…

Please read our updated and , effective on December 19, 2019.This article was originally published in 2019. We are republishing the piece ahead of the , during which Parasite will compete in the Best Picture field, among other categories.Bong Joon-ho movies tend to end where they begin: The detective in Memories of Murder returns to the ditch where he discovers one of the serial killer’s first victims; the titular mother in Mother dances, her arms swaying like wheatgrass; the little girl Mija returns to the countryside after saving her pet from a slaughterhouse in . The world appears...…Please read our updated and , effective on December 19, 2019.This article was originally published in 2019. We are republishing the piece ahead of the , during which Parasite will compete in the Best Picture field, among other categories.Bong Joon-ho movies tend to end where they begin: The detective in Memories of Murder returns to the ditch where he discovers one of the serial killer’s first victims; the titular mother in Mother dances, her arms swaying like wheatgrass; the little girl Mija returns to the countryside after saving her pet from a slaughterhouse in . The world appears...WW…

Please read our updated and , effective on December 19, 2019.Convicted rapist “displayed a staggering lack of empathy, treating others with disdain and inhumanity” and “consistently advanced his own sordid desires and fixations over the well-being of others” for decades, Manhattan prosecutors said in advance of his March 11 sentencing.Their statement was part of a Friday letter to Justice James Burke in which they spell out Weinstein’s alleged past misdeeds, which range from sexual harassment and assault, as well as non-sexual physical abuse and threats, in the hopes of securing a lengthy...…Please read our updated and , effective on December 19, 2019.Convicted rapist “displayed a staggering lack of empathy, treating others with disdain and inhumanity” and “consistently advanced his own sordid desires and fixations over the well-being of others” for decades, Manhattan prosecutors said in advance of his March 11 sentencing.Their statement was part of a Friday letter to Justice James Burke in which they spell out Weinstein’s alleged past misdeeds, which range from sexual harassment and assault, as well as non-sexual physical abuse and threats, in the hopes of securing a lengthy...WW…

Please read our updated and , effective on December 19, 2019.Nothing’s final yet, but executives at the major broadcast TV networks are now working under the assumption that few — if any — of the because of the coronavirus pandemic will be returning anytime soon. Per multiple TV industry insiders, it now seems almost certain most series already on the air will end their seasons early, anywhere from one to four episodes short of their planned full-season orders. “Realistically, every show that shut production down is done,” one exec told Vulture.When networks, studios, and streaming...…Please read our updated and , effective on December 19, 2019.Nothing’s final yet, but executives at the major broadcast TV networks are now working under the assumption that few — if any — of the because of the coronavirus pandemic will be returning anytime soon. Per multiple TV industry insiders, it now seems almost certain most series already on the air will end their seasons early, anywhere from one to four episodes short of their planned full-season orders. “Realistically, every show that shut production down is done,” one exec told Vulture.When networks, studios, and streaming...WW…

Please read our updated and , effective on December 19, 2019.Well. Contrary to what everyone else is beseeching us to do during the pandemic and , Evangeline Lilly will not be staying inside during the health crisis. She posted to Instagram today, letting folks know that her kids are continuing to attend gymnastics camp and that it is “business as usual” at her house. A number of people took issue with her stanceto her post, but Lilly says she’s choosing liberty. “I am also immune compromised at the moment,” she told one person. “I have two young kids. Some people value their lives over...…Please read our updated and , effective on December 19, 2019.Well. Contrary to what everyone else is beseeching us to do during the pandemic and , Evangeline Lilly will not be staying inside during the health crisis. She posted to Instagram today, letting folks know that her kids are continuing to attend gymnastics camp and that it is “business as usual” at her house. A number of people took issue with her stanceto her post, but Lilly says she’s choosing liberty. “I am also immune compromised at the moment,” she told one person. “I have two young kids. Some people value their lives over...WW…

Please read our updated and , effective on December 19, 2019.I realize the world has other, far more important things on its mind — as do I — but I need to get something off my chest.Guys, I’m worried about Mark Wahlberg’s career.I’ve actually been concerned for several years, but after seeing his new Netflix movie Spenser Confidential (which prophetically went straight to streaming a couple of weeks ago), I cannot stay silent any longer.First, some context: In the spring of 1995, my senior year of college, I scored an invite to an early screening of a new film called The Basketball...…Please read our updated and , effective on December 19, 2019.I realize the world has other, far more important things on its mind — as do I — but I need to get something off my chest.Guys, I’m worried about Mark Wahlberg’s career.I’ve actually been concerned for several years, but after seeing his new Netflix movie Spenser Confidential (which prophetically went straight to streaming a couple of weeks ago), I cannot stay silent any longer.First, some context: In the spring of 1995, my senior year of college, I scored an invite to an early screening of a new film called The Basketball...WW…

Please read our updated and , effective on December 19, 2019.Prosecutors on Tuesday showed jurors in ’s rape and sexual-assault trial five photos of him, and at least one of showed the disgraced movie producer in full-frontal nudity,Although the photos were shown to the jurors, they were not shown to the public. Two sketch artists seated on the right side of the courtroom were able to see and draw several of these images as jurors passed them from one to another.The possibility that photos of this nature would make their way into the trial was on January 6. At the time, prosecutor Joan...…Please read our updated and , effective on December 19, 2019.Prosecutors on Tuesday showed jurors in ’s rape and sexual-assault trial five photos of him, and at least one of showed the disgraced movie producer in full-frontal nudity,Although the photos were shown to the jurors, they were not shown to the public. Two sketch artists seated on the right side of the courtroom were able to see and draw several of these images as jurors passed them from one to another.The possibility that photos of this nature would make their way into the trial was on January 6. At the time, prosecutor Joan...WW…