Tag: Black Mirror
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‘Death to 2020’ Trailer: ‘Black Mirror’ Creators Send Off This Terrible Year With a Biting Netflix Satire
Everyone is ready to get the hell out of 2020. It’s been one of the worst years in recent memory, and it deserves to be shot into the sun. Unfortunately, some of the nastiness of 2020 will linger into early 2021 as we continue to battle the coronavirus pandemic, but Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker…
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U.K.’s Twickenham Studios Taps Cara Sheppard as Managing Director (Exclusive)
Cara Sheppard is joining the U.K.’s Twickenham Studios (TW1), where she will lead and guide all aspects of production, post-production and emerging technology as managing director.Sheppard joins from post-production facility Warner Bros De Lane Lea, where she was managing director for the last four years. She previously spent some five years with Sky as a…
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Anthony Mackie Says Marvel Movies Need to Do Better About Diversity
Anthony Mackie has played Falcon seven times in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starting with 2014’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.” In an interview for Variety‘s Actors on Actors issue, Mackie talked to Daveed Diggs about the need for more diversity in Disney’s Marvel movies.The conversation started out with both actors talking about their most recent…
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Anthony Mackie Says Marvel Movies Need to Do Better About Diversity
Anthony Mackie has played Falcon seven times in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starting with 2014’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.” In an interview for Variety‘s Actors on Actors issue, Mackie talked to Daveed Diggs about the need for more diversity in Disney’s Marvel movies.The conversation started out with both actors talking about their most recent…
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Is ‘Black Mirror’ Emmy Dominance Over? Series Booted From 2020 TV Movie Race
The Television Academy has confirmed to IndieWire that “Black Mirror” will not be eligible to compete in the 2020 Emmy race for Outstanding Television Movie, a category the Netflix science-fiction anthology series has dominated for the last several years. A source close to Netflix also confirmed the show had been booted from the Television Movie…
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Alice Eve: ‘When I was growing up I wanted to be Cleopatra’
The actor on bringing Jesus back, the Oxford University rowing team and why she wants to say sorry to her teachersBorn in London, Alice Eve, 38, studied at the Beverly Hills Playhouse before reading English at Oxford University. In 2006 she starred in Tom Stoppard’s Rock ’N’ Roll at the Royal Court in London and…
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‘Trying’ Trailer: Rafe Spall Tries to Adopt in Apple TV+ British Comedy Series
Apple TV+ is trying its hand at British comedy with its new series staring Black Mirror alums Rafe Spall and Esther Smith. Trying comes from writer Andy Wolton (The Coopers vs the Rest) and is directed by Jim O’Hanlon (Catastrophe), the latter of which feels like a big influence on the adoption comedy. Watch the…
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‘Dispatches From Elsewhere’: Jason Segel’s Mixes ‘Black Mirror,’ Leos Carax & Iffy Social Commentary [Berlin Review]
What do you get if you combine the bleak social discourse of “Black Mirror,” the wittingly jarring voice of Peter Strickland, and the dreamlike sensibility of Leos Carax–before adding an unwelcome squeeze of out-of-date social commentary? Jason Segel’s “Dispatches From Elsewhere,” apparently: An anthology series which yields a fascinating metatextual spine and great performances, yet…
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Gugu Mbatha-Raw: ‘It’s an actor’s duty to help the culture to evolve’
From an Lgbtq+ romance in Black Mirror to the first woman of colour to win Miss World, the star is breaking down cultural barriers with her rolesThe hotel drawing room where Gugu Mbatha-Raw sits is stately but casual. We are on a plump sofa and behind us a man fills the space with a loud…
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‘Mission: Impossible’ 7 and 8 Add ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Star Pom Klementieff
It’s time for yet another very attractive person to accept a Mission (or two). Pom Klementieff, who plays Mantis in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise and was recently seen in the new season of Black Mirror, has joined the Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 casts, according to director Christopher McQuarrie. Specifics of Klementieff’s role…