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- Variety· 7 Oct‘Will You Still Be My Friend’ Director Lu Po-Shun on Finding Common Ground From San Sebastian to Busan
When Variety spoke with Taiwanese director Lu Po-Shun in March, he was seeking final financing for his debut feature, “Will You Still Be My Friend,” a coming-of-age drama weaving adolescent friendship with local politics and solar energy development.
- Deadline· 7 OctWalmart-Owned Vizio Sets Original Film Starring Rachel Bilson And Scott Foley, Adds Film & TV Titles In Big Expansion
EXCLUSIVE: Smart-TV maker Vizio, which was acquired by Walmart in 2024, is bringing to market an original holiday movie and more programming from premium suppliers and creators in a major content expansion.
- TVLine· 7 OctWhy Netflix's East Of Eden Made Florence Pugh's Cathy The Central Character
Netflix's East of Eden takes a significant departure from John Steinbeck's novel by making Cathy Ames the protagonist. So, why did the show make this change?
- Deadline· 7 OctSkydance CEOs Meet The Press On Day One Post-Merger With String Of Promises & Few Answers
David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz spent a big chunk of their first day as CEO and co-CEO of Skydance, respectively, being interviewed. First by CNN’s Anderson Cooper at the company town hall on the Warner Bros.
- Book Riot· 7 Oct📚 And the finalists are…
You can give half a star on Goodreads now. Do you feel better?
- Variety· 7 OctChinese Landscape Painting Film Series Will Run to a Fourth Installment, Says ‘First Taste of Loneliness’ Director Gu You (EXCLUSIVE)
Chinese filmmaker Gu You’s films modeled on Chinese landscape painting will not stop at three. The director of “The First Taste of Loneliness,” which world premiering in competition at the Busan International Film Festival, tells Variety that a fourth installment is already in…
- Literary Hub· 7 OctOn the Life-and-Death Cycles at the Heart of Sylvia Plath’s Work
In 1971, eight years after Sylvia Plath died, a dispute over the backstory of her death broke out between her husband Ted Hughes and the poet and critic Al Alvarez. Alvarez, a friend of Plath, published a book which, in
- Literary Hub· 7 OctWriting in Times of War: Oleksandr Mykhed on Losing Ukrainian Books to Russian Bombs
Beginning on Thursday, August 27, all days blur into one long, endless air raid alarm. 13 air alarms a day, lasting 872 minutes. The next day—12 alarms, lasting 634 minutes. The next—10 alarms, lasting 644 minutes. And so it goes
- Literary Hub· 7 OctAn Undocumented War: Inside Deportation’s Machinery of Violence
If a body is undocumented, should we be surprised if the war against that body is undocumented too? The ugly truth of deportation is it is a war. An American war predicated on the same things as previous American wars:
- Literary Hub· 7 OctLeigh Bardugo on 50 Years of Interview with the Vampire and the Immortality of Anne Rice’s Lestat
I’m not really interested in wrestling with what defines a classic. It’s the kind of question that fills up think pieces and podcasts with bouts of teeth gnashing and hand-wringing and endless rumination on the Western canon. But let’s agree
- Deadline· 7 OctAndrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Phantom Of The Opera’ To Be Recorded Live & Released In Cinemas
Universal Pictures Content Group (UPCG), LW Entertainment and Cameron Mackintosh have partnered to produce a live recording of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom Of The Opera, which will be released in cinemas in 2027.
- Literary Hub· 7 OctWhat Brazil’s Political Convulsions Reveal About the Global Far-Right
If there is one thing that the last decade ought to have taught us, it is that strong objective factors do not automatically translate into powerful movements, let alone into the spontaneous discovery of the correct line by the masses.
- Literary Hub· 7 OctA Brief History of Iconic Women Spies in the Comics
Señorita Rio stands out as a particularly groundbreaking character, an actor of Latinx heritage who gives up the glitz of Hollywood for the danger of espionage. Created by writer Joe Hawkins and artist Nick Viscardi (also known as Nick “Cardy”)
- Literary Hub· 7 OctBill McKibben Talks Activism, Democracy and the Struggle For the Earth
It is quite rare to find someone who is a first-class academic and analyst, and is also able to become a first-class activist, but Leah Stokes is a triple threat. A political scientist at UC Santa Barbara, she wrote the
- Literary Hub· 7 OctTrans Becoming and the Failure of Language
Nine months ago, a surgeon cut into my chest to remove my breasts because this is what I had come to want and need. The road to this arrival was wending, wooded, years of observing my relationship to the image
- Book Riot· 7 OctCover Trend: Plastic Bags as Treasure, Not Trash
The hot new cover trend? Plastic bags.
- Literary Hub· 7 OctBook of Hours
The woman first saw the stranded pilgrim, babe in arms, on a poster on the wall of the Medieval Center at the University of Bordeaux the year she finally studied abroad. The black-and-white illustration showed a mother kneeling on the
- The Hollywood Reporter· 7 Oct’Harry Potter’-Themed Christmas Lights Takeover Coming to London’s Oxford Street
The partnership is timed to celebrate the Christmas launch of the new HBO original TV series, which kicks off with the eight-episode season of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, and the opening of the Harry Potter Shop Oxford Street.
- Variety· 7 OctSingapore Film Festival Stands by ‘The Assassin(s)’ After Korean Conservatives Demand It Be Dropped
The Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) is keeping Hur Jin-ho’s “The Assassin(s)” as its opening film, a day after all 109 lawmakers of South Korea’s conservative People Power Party (PPP) asked the festival to pull it.
- TVLine· 7 OctQuote Of The Day By Michael J. Fox: 'If You Don't Think You Have Anything To Be Grateful For, Keep Looking. Because You Don't Just...'
Michael J. Fox shares his perspective on how making an effort to be grateful is all about your mindset.
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