Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images (Alan Chapman/Dave Benett, Slaven Vlasic) We now have confirmation on who will play Anthony Bourdain in the highly anticipated A24 biopic, and the chef’s choice is 100 percent USDA-certified grade-A Angus Tully. Variety confirms that Dominic Sessa, who made his film debut as Tully in 2023’s The Holdovers, will …
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Photo: Warner Bros./Everett Collection Earlier this April, Max announced the first wave of cast members joining its big-budget television adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, including John Lithgow as Dumbledore, Nick Frost as Hagrid, and Paapa Essiedu as Snape. The draw of the series, which will reiterate the events of books and movies …
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Photo: Apple TV+ A sentiment you might see expressed about the Apple TV+ satire The Studio is that the show is a testament to how well art can imitate life. But the show’s legacy may actually be the opposite. Real life, it appears, has begun imitating The Studio. HBO is developing a series about …
Photo: Angela Weiss/POOL/AFP via Getty Images For 30 years, Harvey Weinstein “decided who was in and who was out” in movies and TV — deploying this immense influence to prey on women, prosecutors said at his Manhattan rape retrial on April 23. “The script was Harvey Weinstein’s most powerful tool — the movie script, the …
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Photo: Philippe Antonello/Prime Video The television fan raised on Gilmore Girls and still demanding justice for Bunheads is intimately familiar with the tropes of Amy Sherman-Palladino’s aesthetic universe: fast talking, overflowing pop-culture references, and parental dynamics pulled so taut they could be plucked like a harpsichord string. There’s probably a lot of coffee, as …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Ryan Bakerink/WireImage, Jed Cullen/Dave Benett/Getty Images The year 2012 has aftershocks that scientists are still working to observe: Not only was it the year that saw the premiere of HBO’s Girls, it is also the year that “Call Me Maybe” took over the entire summer. Now, those things are colliding in …
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Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images Throughout his rise in music, Jelly Roll has been open about the time he spent in prison for robbery and drug charges. But now, he’s one step closer to being pardoned for those crimes. Tennessee’s Board of Parole unanimously recommended a pardon for the rapper turned country singer (born Jason …
Photo: MTV RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars is going supersized, with not only more queens than ever before, but also a lot more rules. The All-Stars season-ten cast features 18 queens, branded as “Tournament of All-Stars.” “The queens will be divided into three groups of six, each competing in their own bracket across three episodes,” …
Photo: Netflix Get ready to dance, dance, dance with your hands above your head, Wednesday fans. The Jenna Ortega–led show is finally heading back to Netflix in 2025, after first premiering way back in 2022. “It’s been incredible to create a show that has connected with people across the world. Thrilled to continue Wednesday’s tortuous …
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Photo: Brandon Todd/NBAE via Getty Images In his 2006 short-story collection Tales of the Out & the Gone, Amiri Baraka details the Afrofuturist concept of “rhythm travel,” in which a man can journey within refrains of music to legacies past, present, and future. It’s a powerful piece of speculative fiction rooted in concepts Baraka previously …
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