Tag: Billions
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Back To One Episode 195: Kelly AuCoin
You know him as Pastor Tim on The Americans, or “Dollar” Bill Stearn on Billions, or maybe Kelly AuCoin has wowed you as a regular on the New York stage for many years. In this episode he lifts the hood and lets us peek in on what keeps his acting engine running, or (because he…
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Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Billions’ Fandom Led Him to Become Narrator on Showtime’s ‘Super Pumped’
What do you get when you mix Manhattan district attorneys, corrupt billionaires, and Silicon Valley unicorns? Well, apparently that all adds up to Quentin Tarantino.The “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood” auteur signed on to narrate Showtime’s limited series “Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber,” premiering February 26 — and that’s mostly because of his love…
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‘Super Pumped’: Quentin Tarantino To Narrate The First Season Of Showtime’s Anthology Series
Quentin Tarantino is making the jump to TV! Well, not as a filmmaker. And not really as an actor. But hey, he’s going to be the narrator for one of our most anticipated series of 2022, so that’s cool, right?According to Deadline, Quentin Tarantino has signed on to act as narrator for the first season…
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‘Inventing Anna’ Review: Shonda Rhimes’ Netflix Creation Is Gaudy, Muddled, and Just a Bit Damning
Stories of the rich and entitled are cashing in on TV. “Succession” and “The White Lotus” skewer the power of wealth with relentless satire. “The Crown,” “The Great,” and “The Gilded Age” lounge in their lavish period backdrops. “And Just Like That…,” “Gossip Girl,” and “Billions” spend big bucks on soap (of varying amounts and…
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The Best Business Movies to Ease Your ‘Succession’ Withdrawal
The worlds of big business and high finance have spawned many successful movies and TV shows for a simple reason: when massive amounts of money are involved, intense human drama is bound to arise. “Succession” just wrapped its third season and “Billions” just launched its sixth, but those who still need more to scratch their…
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Quentin Tarantino Has Never Seen All of Oliver Stone’s Version of His ‘Natural Born Killers’
Quentin Tarantino’s disdain for “Natural Born Killers,” the movie Oliver Stone made from the script he sold to the director, has become well-known in the 27 years since it was released. Though still the story of psychopathic killers Mickey and Mallory Knox (Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis), the script was heavily revised by Stone, along…
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‘Super Pumped’: Joseph Gordon-Levitt to Play Former Uber CEO in Showtime Anthology Series From ‘Billions’ Creators
When you see the words Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Super Pumped in the same headline, it might be reasonable to assume the Inception actor is making a sequel to his 2013 movie Don Jon, which saw him star as a muscle-bound lughead who is struggling with a porn addiction. But I regret to inform the Don…
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Utopia Buys Tribeca Award Winner ‘Materna’ (Exclusive)
Utopia has acquired worldwide rights to David Gutnik’s “Materna” ahead of the film’s in-person debut at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.The movie looks at four women, whose lives intersect during an incident on a New York City subway. Kate Lyn Sheil (“She Dies Tomorrow”), Jade Eshete (“Billions”), Lindsay Burdge (“Black Bear”), Assol Abdullina (“First Snow”),…
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Another GameStop Film in the Works, This Time From Jason Blum and Andrew Ross Sorkin at HBO
There is another project from Hollywood based on the GameStop saga in the works, this one set at HBO. The pay-cable network is in development on a scripted project based on the “short squeeze” movement regarding GameStop’s stock that took place over the last two weeks.This one is from Jason Blum and “Billions” co-creator and…
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Asia Kate Dillon Urges SAG Awards to Remove Gender-Specific Categories
“Billions” star Asia Kate Dillon wrote an impassioned essay on Wednesday that called for the SAG Awards to abolish its gender-specific categories.Dillon’s open letter, which was published by Variety, was addressed to SAG-afrta’s SAG Awards committee members JoBeth Williams, Daryl Anderson, Jason George, Elizabeth McLaughlin, and Woody Schultz in response to the organization informing them…