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Fox is pouring old wine into new bottles. It’s a new large-scale experiment that the company hopes will yield valuable new insights into the microdrama epidemic. In a first for Fox, the entertainment company is taking an entire season of one of its prime-time TV reality shows, “The Farmer Wants a Wife,” and reformatting it into shorter episodes, each averaging less than two minutes. The episodes will then be posted on Holy Water’s My Drama app, which specializes in microdramas. The company said the microseries version of “The Farmer Wants a Wife” Season 3 will be a “completely re-edited” vertical…
Jennifer Aniston has made a rare comment about her ex-husband Brad Pitt’s cameo on Friends, more than 20 years after their divorce. “When Brad was on, he was so funny,” Lisa Kudrow told Aniston, 57, during an appearance on the variety show “Actors on Actors” on Wednesday. “I know. How funny,” Aniston added, leading the conversation to other famous cameos on the show. “The movie stars who were on Friends. Brad, Bruce Willis, Julia Roberts. Isabella Rossellini. Sean Penn, there were a lot of them.” Jennifer Aniston (pictured above with Brad Pitt at the premiere of Troy in May 2004)…
Director Wim Wenders released an official statement this morning announcing that his foundation would not release the 1975 film Wrong Move due to a topless scene featuring Nastassja Kinski, who was 13 years old at the time of filming. German director Wenders, known for such classics as “Paris, Texas,” “Wings of Desire,” and the recent “Perfect Days,” said in a statement posted on Instagram by the Wim Wenders Foundation: “As the only person responsible for Wrong Move at the time and still here today, I recognize that Nastassja Kinski should have been better protected at the time. For that, I…
The manga industry has a big problem, and it’s not a lack of demand, it’s a lack of formal supply. “There’s a global demand for manga all over the world, much more demand than any content currently being officially translated, and this is a huge problem,” Shoko Ugaki, CEO of manga translation company Orange, told Variety in an interview through an interpreter last month. According to a recent study by Orange, there are approximately 30,000 manga titles translated into English, while the number of pirated English-translated manga is “approximately five times the number of officially translated manga,” according to Ugaki.…
Shia LaBeouf pleaded guilty to simple assault after being arrested at Mardi Gras in New Orleans in February. A representative for the Orléans Parish Criminal District Court told Page Six that the troubled actor, 39, pleaded guilty in court Wednesday to simple assault in connection with an altercation at a Marigny bar earlier this year. He was given a six-month suspended sentence and a two-year suspended sentence. Anger management and sensitivity training must also be completed as part of the conditions. The case has been resolved. Shia LaBeouf pleaded guilty to simple assault after being arrested in New Orleans. Stephen…
Cynthia Erivo, Emilia Clarke, Suki Waterhouse, Emma Corrin and Hannah Waddingham took center stage at Variety’s inaugural Power of Women London, presented by Lifetime, where the five women reflected on their careers, the importance of their communities and the causes they champion. The event, held at the Chancery Rosewood Hotel on Wednesday and hosted by Saturday Night Live UK star Ania Mariano, began with a performance of Waterhouse’s new single ‘Back in Love’. Dee Lawrence, publisher and co-president of Variety magazine, gave opening remarks touting London as “probably the largest entertainment capital outside of the United States,” followed by Variety…
“Please understand the truth.” That was the simple instruction director and executive producer Alexandria Stapleton received from Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson when she began work on Sean Combs: The Reckoning. The four-part Netflix documentary explores the allegations of sexual assault, human trafficking and legal battles surrounding Sean “Diddy” Combs. Stapleton and Jackson had begun working together behind the scenes to learn the truth behind the allegations, but none of them could be told without the larger story of Combs’ rise to power in the music industry. This was the focus at the beginning of the document. However, when we dug…
Cara Delevingne spoke on Wednesday’s “Call Her Daddy” show, reflecting on her years battling addiction and hiding her sexuality. YouTube/Call her daddy Cara Delevingne’s time at Victoria’s Secret wasn’t all smiles and angel wings. The British supermodel and musician, 33, opened up about walking the brand’s runway more than a decade ago on Wednesday’s episode of “Call Her Daddy,” telling host Alex Cooper that that runway moment was the darkest time of her life. Delevingne, 33, has been open about her struggles with addiction and mental health in recent years, including a public low point in 2022 that led to…
Tom Holland made headlines in 2021 when he told GQ magazine, “If you’re playing Spider-Man over 30, you’ve done something wrong.” Now, not only is Holland officially 30 years old now, but he also has a new Spider-Man movie, Brand New Day, set to hit theaters on July 31st, and has no plans to quit playing the webslinger anytime soon. So does Holland believe his word? Not exactly. “It’s funny, I saw this quote come up somewhere recently and it kind of upset me because I was trying to remember what I meant,” Holland recently told GQ magazine in the…
Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke was honored at Lifetime’s Power of Women London, where she gave a moving speech about surviving two brain haemorrhages in her 20s. Clark detailed her survival from the massive hemorrhage in last week’s cover story, but she maintained a sense of humor even 15 years after her health scare. “For years I felt like I was cheating death. Death was coming for me,” she said. “I really felt like I had done something wrong. I shouldn’t have been here. I also thought it messed up my ability to function. Some people may agree with…