Новости за 22.04.2018

Prison Mike on The Office taught everyone how scary life can be on the inside, but it sounds like things might not be quite so harrowing for Martin Shkreli, the extremely hateable “Pharma Bro” who recently got seven years in prison for defrauding investors. The internet had a little schadenfreude party after Shkreli…

Back in March, Sherlock star Martin Freeman suggested that the show’s fans had loved it too much, with their expectations eventually becoming so high that it became “kind of impossible” for Freeman to have any fun making the show. Combined with the poor reception of the show’s fourth season, and it all basically…

David Fincher’s World War Z was a fairly big hit, but Fincher, Paramount, and original star Brad Pitt have had a surprisingly difficult time getting a sequel off the ground.For one thing, the original came out in 2013—which is like 12 Marvel movies ago, if that’s how you keep track of time—and the sequel burned…

Recently, Netflix has found itself in a bit off a tiff with the Cannes Film Festival over its general refusal to screen its original movies in theaters, with Beatrice Welles stepping in to try and calm the hostilities (because Netflix is releasing a long-lost film made by her father, Orson Welles, and it was supposed…

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Westworld (HBO, 9 p.m.): Westworld season one ended in pretty spectacular fashion, with a robot revolution resulting in the death of their own creator. Now the shattered landscape of Westworld returns for its sophomore season, which Alex McLevy is pretty positive about, giving it a B+. He says that even though …

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Verne Troyer, best known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers franchise of films, has died. The news was announced via the actor’s Facebook page, which had previously reported on a recent hospitalization at the beginning of the month. Troyer, who also had a role in the first Harry Potter film as Griphook the…