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Quentin Tarantino

Is Emma Roberts Dating Garrett Hedlund?

–Emma Roberts and Evan Peters have reportedly called off their engagement — and she’s been spotted looking cozy with Garrett Hedlund.

–Pete Davidson joined Kate Beckinsale and her family on the anniversary of her dad’s death. (Sidenote: I’ve been staring at this photo of them for the last five minutes. I just don’t get it.)

-Who’s criticizing Gemma Chan? Let that precious unicorn alone!

-According to Us Weekly, Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman haven’t quite wrapped their heads around the fact that they might actually end up going to prison.

-Ouch! 90% of Ariana Grande’s “7 Rings” royalties are going to the composers of “My Favorite Things.”

-This is a really fascinating deep dive into the writers room on The Good Place.

-When Sophie Turner realized she was on the Jumboton at MSG, she chugged a glass of red wine. Which is both gross and awesome.

-Five years after it first aired Andy Daly revisits the pancakes episode of Review, which might be my favourite half-hour of television ever.

-The Stranger Things season 3 trailer is here. The bit with Steve geeking out with imaginary lightsabers with Dustin in front of the hot girl warmed my heart.

–Jordan Peele hid three Corey Feldman Easter eggs in Us.

-Bill & Ted 3 is finally, officially happening. I don’t know how Keanu Reeves is making this haircut work, but he really is.

–Mindy Kaling just got a straight-to-series Netflix comedy inspired by her childhood.

–Ricky Gervais‘ new Netflix show After Life, about a grieving widower whose suicide attempt is interrupted by a dog, is getting rave reviews.

-Speaking of rave reviews, critics are digging Jann Arden’s six-part series, which debuts tonight.

-Today Disney closed their $71 billion acquisition of Fox entertainment business, one of the biggest media consolidations in Hollywood history. It brings nearly all Marvel heroes and villains under one owner, with the Fox-owned X-Men and Deadpool now in the Disney-controlled MCU. (It’ll be interesting to see if they’ll be able to keep the Deadpool movies profane despite Disney’s squeaky clean rep.) On the TV side, Disney now has a massive TV studio with A-list showrunners like Seth MacFarlane, Lee Daniels and Kurt Sutter.  They also acquired Fox’s 30% stake of Hulu, which now gives Disney a controlling interest of 60%.

-Here’s the first trailer for Quentin Tarantino‘s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. People are going crazy for it, but I’m not sold yet.

-Also, this video on the Easter eggs you may have missed in the film’s poster made me laugh a lot.

-Here’s the first trailer for Lucy in the Sky, starring Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, Zazie Beetz and Dan Stevens. It’s produced by Reese Witherspoon and is the directorial debut of Legion/Fargo creator Noah Hawley.  So yeah, I’m in.

Angelina Jolie Talks Politics and Passion Projects in Elle

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-This might be my favourite Angelina Jolie cover in a long time. Interviewed by John Kerry, the topics are heavy (they discuss her political passion projects, her UN Global Citizen of the Year Award, violence against women and climate change), while the black and white portraits are divine. I love that one of her on the phone.

–Quincy Jones is on a roll when it comes to bananas interviews. In his chat with GQ, he says he once saw Ray Charles shoot heroin into his balls, he bought drugs from Malcolm X, and he was invited to Sharon Tate’s house the night they were all murdered by the Manson family.

–Andrew Garfield says he’s open to the idea of a same-sex relationship and now I can’t stop fantasy casting his new boyfriend in my head. I’m leaning towards John Boyega but would also accept Jake Gyllenhaal as a suitable option.

-This thread on the history of Twitter’s most popular GIFs is the best.

-HBO’s new Alan Ball series Here and Now is getting terrible reviews. Vulture calls it “a mess of a series,” Variety says the show “strands its cast in episodes that are as undercooked as they are interminable,” and Sepinwall calls it “alternately suffocating and baffling, making almost every character as miserable to each other as they are to watch.” I’ve been side-eyeing Ball since I saw him at TIFF for his premiere of Towelhead and his post-film Q&A about sexual abuse was…questionable.

-In better TV news, this review of the first three episodes of Atlanta’s new season has me hyped!

-The Black Panther press tour continues to be a fashion delight.

-Heartbreaking news from Catastrophe star and creator Rob Delany, who revealed that his 2 year old son passed away from a brain tumor.

–Omarosa and Keshia Knight Pulliamd compared their respective loyalty to Trump and Cosby on a recent episode of Big Brother.

–Quentin Tarantino keeps apologizing and that’s all well and good. Now  it’s time for him to DO something about it to change the industry.

-Thanks to his Twitter bet, Stranger Things David Harbour is embarking on a mission to Antarctica with Greenpeace.

-The new Fifty Shades movie is actually getting decent reviews (for what it is), but I’m not sure I’m down with recasting the entire trilogy as an ode to the idea of consent. I only read the first book, but that is NOT the impression I was left with.

–Jeff Goldblum makes out with some alien tentacles in this Thor: Ragnarok deleted scene. “You’re Thor! You can kill your sister!”

–Taraji P. Henson is a woman scorned in the Acrimony trailer.

 

 

Britney Spears Shows Off Her Hot Boyfriend

-I don’t know if Britney Spears intentionally timed this photo drop on the same day that Justin Timberlake was facing all the bad press over his Super Bowl performance, but I’m gonna go ahead and assume she did.

–Chris Carter says he won’t return to another season of The X Files without Gillian Anderson. You’re goddamn right you won’t. If you even attempt to, we’ll riot.

–Tom Hardy’s dog deserves an Oscar for this reaction face.

-The Good Place exists in the same world as Parks and Rec and I couldn’t be happier.

-It’s been a bad week for Quentin Tarantino. He responded to Uma Thurman’s claims in Deadline (which was a crazily fawning interview by Mike Fleming Jr.  and included shit like, “I offered Tarantino the opportunity to clarify because at this moment, stories get written and then picked up across the globe, often getting twisted to suit convenient narratives in this #MeToo moment”). Tarantino said “It’s the biggest regret of my life, getting her to do that stunt. I start hearing from the production manager, Bennett Walsh, that Uma is trepidatious about doing the driving shot. None of us ever considered it a stunt. It was just driving. None of us looked at it as a stunt. Maybe we should have, but we didn’t.” I don’t know how you watch that video, even without knowing that she was warned that the car wasn’t operating well and her seat wasn’t bolted in correctly, and not think “stunt.”

-Also, an older Tarantino interview on Howard Stern‘s show has surfaced, which features the director defending Roman Polanski. “He didn’t rape a 13-year-old. It was statutory rape…He had sex with a minor. That’s not rape…Look, she was down with this.” When Stern and his cohost Robin Quivers pointed out that she was given booze and drugs, he went on to call the child a “party girl.” You know you’ve crossed a line when even Howard freakin’ Stern is disgusted by your answers!

–Busy Philipps angrily recalled auditioning for Quentin Tarantino in ‘short shorts’.

-I like Roxanne Gay‘s take on artistic legacies and shitty geniuses.

–Reese Witherspoon opened up to Oprah Winfrey about a past abusive relationship. “It changed who I was on a cellular level, the fact that I stood up for myself.”

-First Cloverfield, now Annihilation. It seems that dumping big movies that will probably be flops onto Netflix is the new trend.

-Game of Thrones’ David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are going from Westeros to a galaxy far, far away. They’ll write and produce a new series of Star Wars films.

-I like this article on how Black Panther is a showcase for natural hair.

–David Tennant is very scary in the Bad Samaritan trailer. It stars Nathan from Misfits so I’m so in!

-I’m glad that Netflix’s Everything Sucks! is getting good early reviews. The trailer could have gone either way.