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Exclusive: Universal Content Productions (UCP) has unveiled its latest slate of podcasts for its UCP Audio division including an art heist series, a missing persons case and a series based around the Olympics.

The company is adding Alligator Candy, Loot: Scandalous Stories Of The Art World and the unnamed Olympics project to its slate of shows, which will all be eyed for TV adaptations down the line. They join previously announced Do You Know Mordechai? and The End Up and come after the launch of The Lost Kids and The Followers: House of Prayer.

UCP is using its podcast slate as a development tool and springboard to birth new projects that could end up in scripted or non-fiction television. The company is currently developing a docuseries adaptation of The Lost Kids, for instance.

Alligator Candy follows the mysterious 1973 disappearance of writer and producer David Kushner’s older brother, Jon, who...

Exclusive: Actress-singer Pepi Sonuga (Famous in Love) has been tapped as a series regular opposite Eve and Naturi Naughton in Queens, ABC’s hourlong pilot from Zahir McGhee, Sabrina Wind and ABC Signature.

Sonuga is joining Queens after having been cast in McGhee and ABC Signature’s 2020 drama pilot Harlem’s Kitchen.

In Queens, written by McGhee and directed by Tim Story, four estranged and out-of-touch women in their 40s — two of them played by Eve and Naughton — reunite for a chance to recapture their fame and regain the swagger they had as the Nasty Bitches – their ’90s group that made them legends in the hip-hop world.

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Sonuga plays “Lil Muffin” aka Lauren Rice, a sweet young woman from Atlanta. But she’s better known as Lil Muffin, a brash, colorful emcee. Ever since her debut record, Candy Cane, dropped — Muffin has been on a nonstop rocket ship to superstardom.

Mumbai, March 2 (Ians) Actor Ronit Roy says he loves to work on the small screen and that he owes his career to television.

Ronit shot to fame with his portrayal as the suave Rishabh Bajaj in the show Kasautii Zindagi Kay. He was later seen in shows such as Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, Bandini and Adaalat among many others. Over the years, he has also made his space in Bollywood with roles in films such as Udaan, Boss, Sarkaar 3, Kaabil, 2 States, Student Of The Year, and Shootout At Wadala, among others

Ronit, however, says he never left television. "I never left television and this is not a full length role, I am a host. I always love to work on television and the way people react to it. I owe my career to television," he told Ians.

The actor is currently busy with his upcoming crime show...

After nearly two months of voice-modulated clues, Craig Robinson’s puns and the same snippet of Cameo’s “Word Up” played on a loop, The Masked Dancer has reached its first finale.

Heading into Wednesday’s conclusion, only Tulip, Cotton Candy and Sloth remained in the competition — and the dozens of clues offered to viewers since December have had me convinced it’s TikTok star Mackenzie Ziegler, Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas and Dancing With the Stars alum Maks Chmerkovskiy under those respective costumes. But are those guesses accurate? And which judge ultimately racked up the season’s most correct predictions?...

Exclusive: Two-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner Elisabeth Moss has joined the cast of Barry Levinson’s film about the making of The Godfather. Moss will play Eleanor Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola’s wife.

As previously reported, the film is based on a blacklist screenplay by Andrew Farotte that’s been re-developed with Levinson, who will direct and produce. Moss joins previously announced actors Oscar Isaac (Francis Ford Coppola) and Jake Gyllenhaal (Robert Evans). Despite the chaotic, Shakespearean behind-the-scenes drama, The Godfather went on to become a huge box office success for Paramount and is widely considered one of the best movies of all time.

Moss most recently starred in the critically acclaimed films The Invisible Man and Shirley, and she is currently in production on Season 4 of The Handmaid’s Tale, where she will also be making her directorial debut.

“I’ve wanted to work with her for a long time,...

“It’s all come to this,” teases Craig Robinson in Fox’s preview trailer for Episode 7 of “The Masked Dancer” (watch above). The semifinals episode, titled “It’s All About The Dance,” will spotlight the Final 4 contestants still in the competition: Cotton Candy, Sloth, Tulip and Zebra. After a group performance, the secret celebs will each get to strut their stuff one by one. At the end of the hour, the person with the lowest number of votes will have to unmask and reveal their true identity. Find out how it all plays out on Wednesday, February 10.

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“Lego Masters” host Will Arnett will serve as the guest judge this week, joining regular regular panelists Ashley Tisdale, Brian Austin Green, Ken Jeong and Paula Abdul. For those keeping track at home, Paula is the judge with the best...

While “The Masked Singer” is only two episodes old, it is one of our favorite new shows of the year. We are having so much fun watching these celebrities perform elaborate dance routines while clad in cumbersome costumes that conceal their faces. We love trying to figure out which famous faces are hidden behind these masks. Keep reading for all “The Masked Dancer” spoilers, including our best guess as to the Sloth.

The Sloth is one of the most athletic of the 10 contestants on season 1 of “The Masked Dancer.” His costume consists of workout gear and he is able to leap and bound around the stage. The Sloth readily admits to “a very special love for The Nutcracker.” On its surface, that reads like a reference to the ballet, which is often performed at Christmas.

But alongside this video posted on the show’s official Instagram account, there is the...

Jimmy Kimmel’s annual Nov. 1 YouTube prank, “Hey Jimmy Kimmel, I Told My Kids I Ate All Their Halloween Candy” was called off this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

It didn’t take.

“So every year, as you may know, we do a YouTube Challenge. We ask parents to pretend they ate all their kids’ Halloween candy,” Kimmel said on Monday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” “This year we decided not to do it because kids have suffered enough. And guess what? The parents went ahead and did it anyway, so what the hell, here it is.”

Watch the video above.

The dad who tries to offer toast to his sobbing kid is the worst.

Fortunately for the future of humanity, there are always a few unbelievably sweet children who immediately forgives their parents for the transgression. Those are typically the girls, but not all of them take the prank in stride.

Dawn Olmstead is leaving her perch at Ucp to become chief executive officer and partner at Anonymous Content, marking the first new head of the company since the death of Anonymous founder Steve Golin in 2019. Meanwhile, David Levine has been elevated to chief creative officer of the management and production company.

“Dawn is an accomplished leader who will usher in a new and exciting chapter for Anonymous by focusing on powerful content and stories that speak to this moment,” said Laurene Powell Jobs, founder and president of Emerson Collective, the majority owner of Anonymous Content. “She is not only entrepreneurial, strategic, and a producer at heart, she also embodies the soul of Anonymous Content—original, ambitious, boundary-pushing.”

She called Olmstead a “champion of diverse storytellers and emerging voices” and believes the longtime TV exec “will build on the legacy of its beloved founder, our friend Steve Golin, while stewarding the...

Exclusive: Tim Pastore is stepping down at All3Media America. The former Nat Geo exec, who was CEO of the U.S. division of the Fleabag and Gold Rush production group, is leaving after two years at the helm.

Pastore joined the Discovery and Liberty Global-backed super-indie in September 2018, having previously been President of Original Programming and Production at National Geographic Channels. He replaced Greg Lipstone.

Deadline understands that the company, which is run by All3Media Group CEO Jane Turton in London, is not seeking to hire a direct replacement for Pastore. This is due to the federal nature of the business; in the UK, the production companies that make up the company, including the likes of Studio Lambert, Objective Media Group and Maverick TV, are independently run with business and logistical support from the central group.

This is similarly the plan in the U.S., where the company...

Lilly Hiatt will release her new album Walking Proof on March 27th. It’s the follow-up to 2017’s acclaimed Trinity Lane and teams the Nashville songwriter, singer, and guitar player with guests like Amanda Shires, Aaron Lee Tasjan, and her own father, the troubadour John Hiatt.

Ahead of Walking Proof‘s arrival, Hiatt unveiled the song “Brightest Star,” an irresistible slice of jangle-rock that finds Hiatt pushing her voice into its highest register and using a subtle trill to great effect. It’s an empowering song, about walking through life...

We may only have several home entertainment releases for this Tuesday, but as the saying goes, “quality over quantity,” because this bunch of Blu-rays and DVDs are a stellar lot of films. One of my favorite horror films of 2017, Mark Duplass’ Creep 2, makes its way home on November 28th courtesy of The Orchard, and Scream Factory has given Rob Reiner’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Misery the Collector’s Edition treatment (and deservedly so).

For you cult film fans, both Death Laid an Egg and Deathdream (aka Dead of Night) get the HD treatment this week, and other notable releases this Tuesday include M.F.A., Rememory, Super Dark Times, Woodshock, and Trailer Trauma 4: Television Trauma.

Creep 2 (The Orchard, DVD)

Sara, a video artist primarily focused on creating intimacy with lonely men, thinks she may have found the subject of her dreams after coming across a stranger’s online post.

I’m not particularly well-versed in comic book-ese, so you’ll have to forgive when I say that the Mother Boxes from the DC Film universe are essentially their version of Marvel‘s Infinity Stones. Um….right? At least they are to me. Essentially, they are some powerful doodads and, more importantly, the villain Steppenwolf in “Justice League” will apparently be looking for them in the upcoming film. That’s probably all you need to know to get this new epilogue to “Wonder Woman.”

As director Patty Jenkins explains, this summer’s blockbuster didn’t have much in the way of deleted scenes, but this new sequence — featuring Lucy Davis’ Etta Candy, Saïd Taghmaoui’s Sameer, Ewen Bremner’s Charlie, and Eugene Brave Rock’s Chief Napi — creates a little connective tissue between “Wonder Woman” and “Justice League.”

Read More: Patty Jenkins Had No Input In ‘Justice League’ & Shares What...

Thanks to Yahoo, we have a deleted scene from Wonder Woman for you to watch, which is a part of the upcoming Home Entertainment release. The clip would have helped set up Justice League as it features Lucy Davis’s Etta Candy meeting up with Steve Trevor’s team where she briefs them on their next mission. That mission refers to them going out to find a powerful artifact that is most likely one of the Mother Boxes, which may play a big role in Justice League. These Mother Boxes are closely tied to the villain Darkseid.

I wonder if they cut this scene because of the story changes that are rumored to have taken place during Joss Whedon's Justice League reshoots. It has been previously reported that the end of Justice League has been changed. It was explained:

"Originally this movie is all about the Mother Boxes Ya know.

Etta Candy's back in @WonderWoman Blu-ray bonus; exclusive sneak peek at pic.twitter.com/Ptd4Sao0ar

— Yahoo Movies (@YahooMovies) August 28, 2017

Wonder Woman hit theaters earlier this year, and it proved to be quite the hit among fans. After having two films that were less than well received, it certainly was a breath of fresh air. One of the aspects that truly worked in its favor was its standalone nature. Yes, it was connected to the larger universe, but thanks to its taking place in World War I, it managed to steer clear of any unnecessary connections with the rest of the films.

However, in a new epilogue revealed in the digital release of the film, that all changes. Yahoo! Movies was able to share the first 40 seconds of the scene (which you can check out above), but that only gives you a flavor.

In the scene, Etta Candy...

As we prepare for Wonder Woman to arrive on Digital HD on August 29th, a brief clip from a previously unseen Epilogue has now surfaced, and it focuses on the character of Etta Candy, played by Lucy Davis.

Details of the scene have already been announced, and it was actually teased earlier today, but this snippet is our first proper glimpse of a moment that’s potentially very significant for the cohesion of the DC Extended Universe. And that’s because it looks like the Epilogue is laying the foundation for Justice League.

Titled Etta’s Mission, the scene involves Etta Candy getting “the boys back together for a secret mission that could impact humanity’s future.” From the clip above, we can see that Sameer (Said Taghmaoui) and Charlie (Ewen Bremner) are the boys in question, and Etta seems to assemble them in the same London pub in which...

With the death of Anita Pallenberg , the world lost an icon of the Swinging Sixties. The Italian-German model became a fashion It Girl of the age and her friendship with Andy Warhol integrated her into the cutting edge art world. She appeared in cult movie classics including Candy (featuring Ringo Starr) and Jane Fonda’s Barbarella, but her most famous role is undoubtedly that of muse for the Rolling Stones. Her high-profile relationships with two of the band’s guitarists, Brian Jones and Keith Richards, made her an enduring part of the Stones’ mythology. It became one of rock ‘n...

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has paid tribute to his former longtime companion Anita Pallenberg, who died Tuesday at age 75, calling her a “most remarkable woman.” In a statement provided to TheWrap, Richards said, “A most remarkable woman. Always in my heart.” According to a spokeswoman for the Rolling Stones, Pallenberg died peacefully at St. Richard’s Hospital, Chichester, and had been ill “for some time.” Also Read: Prince Is No Longer an 'Overrated Midget' in Keith Richards' Eyes, Apparently Pallenberg will be cremated with a memorial service to follow at a later date. Italian-German actress Pallenberg had roles in “Barbarella,...

Anita Pallenberg, an actress, model and longtime girlfriend of Rolling Stones founding member Keith Richards, has died. She was 73. The Italian-German had roles in “Barbarella,” “Performance” — with Stones singer Mick Jagger — and “Candy” starring Marlon Brando and Richard Burton. Pallenberg’s friend Stella Schnabel announced news of her death on Instagram Tuesday, writing: “I have never met a woman quite like you Anita. I don’t think there is anybody in this universe like you.” Also Read: Adam West, TV's Batman in the '60s, Dies at 88 Born in German-occupied Rome towards the end of World War II, Pallenberg met...

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Kevin Costner headlined an all-star cast in Oliver Stone's JFK. It was a film that led to an act of Congress being passed...

Oliver Stone’s epic conspiracy-thriller JFK, surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the case brought about by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison in relation to his murder, was released in 1991 to an astonishing level of critical backlash. Even before JFK arrived in theatres it was being pilloried and attacked by many in the media. The attacks were kick-started by Washington Post correspondent George Lardner, an investigative reporter who wrote a piece called On the Set: Dallas In Wonderland; How Oliver Stone’s Version Of The Kennedy Assassination Exploits The Edge Of Paranoia, which was actually based solely on a leaked copy of Stone’s first draft of the script.

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Though his music can be heard in all corners of the globe, Paul McCartney’s songwriting process is impressively homegrown. When he teamed with Elvis Costello for sessions that would ultimately yield his 1989 album Flowers in the Dirt, the pair met at McCartney’s personal studio: a converted corn mill dubbed Hog Hill Mill, a short drive from his farm in rural southern England. Armed with nothing more high-tech than a pencil, paper and acoustic guitar, two of the world’s most influential composers climbed the steps to a small office tucked above the studio and pulled tunes out of thin air.

When Paul McCartney shocked the world in April 1970 with his announcement of the Beatles' break-up, drummer Ringo Starr added a surprise of his own by becoming (initially, at least) the most musically active member of the former Fab Four.

As he would later recount in the lyrics of "Early 1970," the deceptively jaunty b-side of his 1971 hit "It Don't Come Easy," Starr was the only Beatle who didn't have any serious beef with any other member of the band at the time. Feeling lost without the family dynamic of the musical...

When the Stooges split up in 1974, they had every reason to think they'd be completely forgotten by history. Their debut LP peaked at Number 106 in 1969 – and that was their best seller. They spent their final shows dodging beer bottles hurtled by angry bikers that had little interest in seeing a wild, shirtless singer named Iggy Pop screaming out songs like "Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell" and "Open Up and Bleed." Soon after splitting, guitarist Ron Asheton and his brother, drummer Scott Asheton, moved back in with their parents.

I think everyone in this country should be aware by now that our race relations are at an all time low. It seems every time we hear the news another black citizen has been shot by the police or police have been shot by someone angry about these shootings. It cannot continue. We as a nation cannot keep going down this road.

I have always sympathized with Black Americans. In fact as a Scot and Irish American I have always sympathized with anyone who ever got pushed around, starting with Native Americans, Asians, Jewish immigrants, women of any ethnic group, Hispanics from any country.

I also sympathize with the people who are tasked with law enforcement. It’s a tough job. I had some training in that area. A couple of years ago I was hired by a Security company and was trained in unarmed, and armed, uniformed security. I...

The dirty book of the '60s became an all-star dirty movie with Brando, Burton, Starr, Coburn, Matthau, Astin, Aznavour and Huston all wanting a taste of the Swedish nymphet Ewa Aulin. Camerawork by Rotunno, designs by Dean Tavoularis, effects by Doug Trumbull -- and the best material is Marlon Brando making goofy faces as a sub-Sellers Indian guru. Candy Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1968 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 124 min. /Candy e il suo pazzo mondo / Street Date May 17, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Ewa Aulin, Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando, James Coburn, Richard Burton, John Astin, John Huston, Walter Matthau, Ringo Starr, Anita Pallenberg, Elsa Martinelli. Cinematography Giuseppe Rotunno Production Designer Dean Tavoularis Opening and closing designed by Douglas Trumbull Film Editor Giancarlo Cappelli, Frank Santillo Original Music Dave Grusin Writing credits Buck Henry from the book by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg Produced by Robert Haggiag Directed by Christian Marquand

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The Festival de Cannes has announced the lineup for the official selection, including the Competition and Un Certain Regard sections, as well as special screenings, for the 69th edition of the festival:COMPETITIONOpening Night: Café Society (Woody Allen) [Out of Competition]Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar)American Honey (Andrea Arnold)Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)La Fille Inconnue (Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne)Juste La Fin du Monde (Xavier Dolan)Ma Loute (Bruno Dumont)Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)Rester Vertical (Alain Guiraudie)Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho)Mal de Pierres (Nicole Garcia)I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)Ma' Rosa (Brillante Mendoza)Bacalaureat (Cristian Mungiu)Loving (Jeff Nichols)Agassi (Park Chan-Wook)The Last Face (Sean Penn)Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu)Elle (Paul Verhoeven)The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding-Refn)The Salesman (Asgha Farhadi)Un Certain REGARDOpening Film: Clash (Mohamed Diab)Varoonegi (Behnam Behzadi)Apprentice (Boo Junfeng)Voir du Pays (Delphine Coulin & Muriel Coulin)La Danseuse (Stéphanie Di Giusto)La...

After 63 years somebody has taken a crack at Arthur C. Clarke's monumental sci-fi novel. This interpretation throws the emphasis way out of whack but succeeds too frequently to ignore. Charles Dance is the alarming Overlord Karellen, who comes from the stars to escort humanity through its next stage of development... and to announce the end of the world as we know it. Childhood's End Blu-ray Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2015 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 247 min. / Street Date March 1, 2016 / 34.98 Starring Charles Dance, Mike Vogel, Osy Ikhile, Daisy Betts, Georgina Haig, Ashley Zukerman, Hayley Magnus, Charlotte Nicdao, Peretta, Lachlan Roland-Kenn, Julian McMahon, Colm Meany, Robert Morgan. Cinematography Neville Kidd Film Editor Sean Albertson, Yan Miles, Eric A. Sears Original Music Charlie Clouser Written by Matthew Graham from the novel by Arthur C. Clarke Produced by Nick Hurran, John C. Lenick, Paul M. Leonard Directed by Nick Hurran

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This year has already seen several extraordinary feature-length documentaries, many of which were pulled from the popular arts. Actually some excellent examples focused on the music world, with Lambert & Stamp and Amy attracting a great deal of acclaim (and quite a bit early Oscar-buzz). This new release delves into another art, the art (and it really is one) of acting, by giving us a peek at a true legend of stage and screen. Often actors become a touchstone, a symbol for the decade in which they garnered their greatest triumphs. In the 1950’s, the two actors who truly exploded onto the scene were James Dean and Marlon Brando. While Dean was a bright, shooting star snuffed out by tragedy after just three films, Brando rode a bumpy rocket, with highs and lows, into the next century. Biographies have filled the bookshelves through the years, but what did he think of his life and work?...

After the marching bands and giants balloon characters parade by on TV… After all the college and NFL football games are played out… After the plates are cleaned of the last turkey drumstick and final piece of pumpkin pie… what better than to cuddle up with our loved ones and watch some good, wholesome family favorites on Thanksgiving!

In honor of the holiday and before you head out the door to catch all the Black Friday sales, check out Wamg’s list of some of our favorite family-friendly movies to watch on Thanksgiving Day.

Wizard Of Oz

For many years this 1939 masterpiece was truly event television. Before home video and cable TV, the only way to see this (outside of revival movie theatres and colleges), was once a year (usually on CBS). Families would gather around the tube for a chance to visit that magical enchanted land (just think of...

Trains in cinema have always made for an excitable source within the realm of the comedy, drama, mystery or suspense pertaining to the plot of a particular film. The setting for the featured trains as the driving force of entertainment serves as the heart and soul of the action for the most part.

In some cases using trains as a last minute symbolic theme for a film can generate great impact that thrives and questions the motives and urgency of the characters and storyline (i.e. the climax scene in The Defiant Ones where the salt-and-pepper escaped convicts Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier try and make a desperate dash for permanent freedom on a speeding train en route to permanent freedom). Perhaps a train could also add an extra element of action-packed excitement in a film’s conclusive ending such as the uncontrollable commuter train in Speed?

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Top twenty. Now we start to see the more widely recognizable films that people have some emotional attachment to. World War II gets a few mentions in this portion of the list, but this is one of the more diverse sections, overall. We get a mention of the Boer War, the Algerian War, and the Korean War, as well as the only movie about the American Civil War on this list.

20. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

Directed by: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

Conflict: Boer War, World War I, World War II

The only film on the list that spans multiple wars is also probably the least battle-focused film on the list. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is told through an extended flashback, following Major-General Clive Wynne-Candy (Roger Livesey) as he rises through the ranks of the British military from war to war. The flashback is...

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Gail Gerber passed away on March 2, 2014 due to complications from lung cancer. Gerber was born on October 4, 1937 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and began studying ballet at age seven. Extremely talented, at fifteen she became the youngest member of Les Grandes Ballets Canadiennes in Montreal. Quitting the ballet troupe in the late 1950s and abandoning a husband who was a jazz musician, she moved to Toronto to work as an actress. She appeared on stage and in many live CBC television dramas. As part of the act of legendary vaudeville entertainers Smith and Dale (who were the basis for The Sunshine Boys), she appeared on The Wayne and Schuster Show and The Ed Sullivan Show. Moving to Hollywood in 1963, the talented blonde with a flair for comedy quickly snagged the lead role in the play Under the Yum Yum Tree...

Some people debate the value of film school. I’m not one of them.Terry Southern’s Nyu master screenwriting class was held on Tuesday nights at Remington’s Bar, a basement dive on Waverly Place. Trudging through the ice-hardened sidewalk, I noticed his beat up Ford Mustang with the broken canvas top barely covering up the snow from the storm night before. I always wondered how he’d made it back to Connecticut in that thing.Terry was one of a kind, a truly badass screenwriter. Even in the revolutionary times of the 1960’s and ‘70’s, the author of the geared to shock novel, "Candy," also wrote screenplays for "Dr. Strangelove," "Easy Rider," "Barbarella," and many other films that scored bull’s-eyes at shaking up the status quo.I nodded to my classmates, who each nursed a coke or a beer at the counter. In turns, we sauntered over to Terry’s table,...

Sex sells, and I’m buying! I have a confession to make that shames me. I have never read 50 Shades of Grey. It just got so mainstream and the ‘done thing’ to do. I couldn’t even tell you what its about. However, I am very acquainted with classic erotic literature which has long been a passion of mine for years.

Erotica has been around for centuries – from the bawdiness of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (beautifully brought to life in Pasolini’s cinematic version of the work) right up to feminist neurotica erotica novel Fear of Flying. And a lot of us have had a gander at it over the years. Has it made corrupt perverts out of us? We will be discreet about that issue and take up our prime positions for filth mongering at 10 classic works of erotic fiction…

10. Candy – Terry Southern

18 years old Candy Christian is a...

Every week, EW will imagine a sequel to a movie that we wish would happen — no matter how unlikely the idea really is.

There’s a great scene in the opening moments of Robert Altman’s The Player where Tim Robbins’ puddle-deep studio exec is taking pitches from a grizzled old screenwriter played by Buck Henry. “Okay, here it is…,” the hack begins. “The Graduate… Part II. … 25 years later.” It’s supposed to be funny, and it is, especially since Buck Henry himself was nominated for an Oscar for co-writing The Graduate in 1967. It became even funnier — or sadder? — in...

Once again, Candice Glover blew off the roof with her performance during Beatles Week of "American Idol" Season 12. Candice strayed away from the norm -- almost everyone else chose the more somber songs from the Fab Four -- and gave a spirited rendition of "Come Together." We talked to Candice after the performance to see how she felt.

You did a fantastic job tonight.

Candice Glover: Thank you!

You were one of the few people to do an up-tempo song. What factored into that song choice?

Candice Glover: I did not grow up listening to The Beatles at all, so it was really hard for me when I heard that the theme was going to be The Beatles. I knew that being on the show you were going to come across things that you didn't really know, but I was just kind of dreading it. The Beatles are amazing,...

We’ve watched the marching bands and giants balloon characters parade by on TV, we’ve watched college football, we’ve had our fill of turkey and all the trimmings… now, what better than to cuddle up with our loved ones and watch some good, wholesome family favorites on Thanksgiving Day? After all, we need our rest so we can rise and shine before the sun comes up on Black Friday to catch all the sales. So, in honor of the holiday and as a way to give you a jump on your holiday viewing schedule, we’ve compiled a list of some of our favorite family-friendly movies to watch on Thanksgiving Day.

Wizard Of Oz

For many years this 1939 masterpiece was truly event television. Before home video and cable TV, the only way to see this (outside of revival movie theatres and colleges), was once a year (usually on...

Robbie Williams has scored his tenth UK number one album with Take the Crown. The Take That star scored a chart double by also staying at the top of the singles chart with 'Candy'. It is the first time he has topped both charts simultaneously since 2001, where he achieved the feat with 'Somethin' Stupid' and Swing When You're Winning. Williams has now equalled U2 in terms of most number one albums in the UK, with only The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, Madonna and The Beatles ahead of him. Dutch violinist Andre Rieu lands at two with his Magic of the Movies collection, while Jls settle for third place with their latest LP Evolution. Calvin Harris drops three from last week's summit to four with 18 Months. The Military Wives enter at five with their second album Stronger Together. (more)...

Help! us explore the many ways in which John, Paul, George and Ringo have influenced film, then and now

With Magical Mystery Tour getting the bells-and-whistles reissue treatment this week, here's a look back at the multifaceted and often downright bizarre impact the Beatles have made on the moving image.

1) The Beatles as Oscar-winners

Let It Be was filmed in January 1969, but remained unreleased until May 1970, by which point the band had officially announced its split. The Beatles were keen to see the film buried; they had little desire to return to this testing period in their career or to air some of the more fractious moments it contains – most famously the tiff between Paul and George ("I'll play, you know, whatever you want me to play or I won't play at all"). And yet, ultimately, they're probably happy they did. In April 1971 the Beatles picked up their one and only Academy award,...

 

Before the advent of Pixar, Walt Disney Animation Studios was the leader in quality family entertainment. Now that they're both a part of the same company, it's even better. But back then, the Disney Company attempted to differentiate their movies by asking different famous actors to come in and perform their characters in a film. Inspired by Robin Williams' fantastic performance as the Genie in Aladdin, Disney Feature Animation (at the time) decided to get more ambitious with their casting. These are ten actors who were asked to be a part of a film and never got to make it; either due to scheduling conflicts, money issues or even death!

10. Joe Pesci as Mushu in Mulan

In a weird form of typecasting, Academy Award-winner Joe Pesci was originally cast as the little dragon, Mushu. After a few tries at the character, the filmmakers just felt his voice wasn't appropriate...

Los Angeles: It’s this Saturday!

Larry Karaszewski is a busy man, but that hasn’t stopped him from presenting great screenings of great films. As part of that ongoing series of impossibly cool American Cinematheque screenings, Larry Karaszewski will host Tony Richardson’s hilarious, morbid comedy The Loved One at the Egyptian Theater on Saturday, February 4.

So sayeth The Cinematheque:

Marketed as “the motion picture with something to offend everyone!” this achingly funny, pitch-black comedy could only have been released in the anything-goes era of the 1960s. Judged unfilmable for more than a decade (Luis Buñuel was trying to set it up for years), writer Evelyn Waugh’s spot-on satire of Southern California – specifically the funeral business – finally was brought to the screen in the mid-’60s by director Tony Richardson (Tom Jones) with a screenplay by Terry Southern (Candy, Easy Rider) and Christopher Isherwood (!). Robert Morse, a British...

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Hello Lee Pfeiffer and Crew:

I purchased the current issue of Cinema Retro on the promise of its insights into the obscure film, Candy.  Instead, I was punished with a four-page rant by Dean Brierly who, in his brief bio, could not supply the name of a single film he liked (his "favourite films are the ones nobody's heard of") nor the name of any article of note. You do list magazines he's written for, including Men's Health.  Why I make mention of his scarce credentials is because he so severely botched the opportunity to discover in a film its many treasures -- foregoing the requisite fairness called upon when assessing someone else's work.

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For one, Brierly fails to mention the inspired Dave Grusin soundtrack (in fact, so inspired that Steven Soderbergh uses it in Ocean's Twelve), which makes effective use of Steppenwolf prior to Easy Rider.  The music serves...

Cinema Retro reader Harvey Chartrand has a bone to pick with Cinema Retro's Dean Brierly regarding his cover story in our latest issue:

Dean Brierly has an obvious hate-on for Candy which is unwarranted. His critique is unbalanced and excessively negative. I do not consider Candy an “all-star fiasco” or one of the worst movies ever made. Far from it. If you want to see a bad movie, check out Otto Preminger’s Middle East “thriller” Rosebud with Peter O’Toole (who looks like a dying man in this picture). Sure, Candy isn’t as good as the book, but so what? Neither was Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, now acknowledged to be superior to the more faithful Stephen King-scripted TV-movie adaptation with Steven Weber and Rebecca De Mornay.

I do recall enjoying Candy as a cultural artifact of its era (and I saw it quite recently). It’s emblematic of the swinging sixties.

The latest issue of Cinema Retro (#20) is now shipping to subscribers all around the world. As we publish in the UK, those subscribers always get their copies first. However, the latest issue just arrived from the other side of the pond and has now been shipped out to all other regions. Readers will have it in their hot little hands very soon.

Cover story on Candy starring Ewa Aulin as the sexy teen nymph in an all-star fiasco that involved Marlon Brando, Ringo Starr, James Coburn and Walter Matthau. Dean Brierly examines how such a sure-fire project turned into one of the worst movies ever made. This issue's Film in Focus is Earthquake, the 1974 blockbuster starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner and many other familiar faces in one of the most successful films of the genre. Ross Warner reminds why the film remains a guilty pleasure and Thomas Hauerslav of the web site In70mm.

Optimum Releasing have been in touch and given us three copies of their new movie, The Man Who Fell to Earth on Blu-ray to give away.

The film is Directed by Nicolas Roeg and stars David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clarck, Buck Henry and is released in UK stores, 4th April.

Synopsis: Crash landing on Earth from his dying planet, an alien humanoid traveling by the name of Thomas Jerome Newton (Bowie) uses his superior intelligence to build a vast business empire. As he takes on, and beats, every major Us corporation, people can only guess his true purpose – to save his dying world from drought. Newton’s ageless fall from grace, as he becomes prey to lust, alcohol, business rivals and the Us Government makes The Man Who Fell To Earth not only a bitingly caustic indictment of the modern world but also a poignant commentary on the loneliness of the outsider.

DVD Playhouse—March 2011

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Allen Gardner

127 Hours (20th Century Fox) Harrowing true story of Aron Ralston (James Franco, in another fine turn), an extreme outdoorsman who finds himself trapped in a remote Utah canyon, his arm pinned between two boulders, with no help nearby, no communication to the outside world, and dim prospects for survival, to say the least. Director Danny Boyle manages to prove again that he’s one of the finest filmmakers working today by making a subject that is seemingly uncinematic a true example of pure cinema. Inventive, breathtaking, funny, and horrifying, often all at once. Amber Tamblyn and Kate Mara make a memorable, brief appearance as hikers who connect with Ralston during his journey. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Commentary by Boyle, producer Christian Colson, co-writer Simon Beaufoy; Deleted scenes; Featurettes. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS-hd 5.1 surround.

Amarcord (Criterion) Federico Fellini’s Oscar-winning, autobiographical classic might...

Just how good are the pick ‘n’ mix sweets in your local multiplex? We taste test every single piece of candy we could find at our nearest cinema, so you don’t have to...

What happens when two people attempt to carry out a taste test on every single sweet in a cinema’s pick ‘n’ mix section? Read on to find out - and expect scenes of a high calorie, high cholesterol, slightly nauseating nature. Don’t try this at home, kids...

Wriggly Worms

First up in the Den Of Geek pick ‘n’ mix taste test, we have Wriggly Worms - just under three inches of colourful jelly shaped like a psychedelic earthworm.

Sarah: It looks too nice to eat.

Ryan: It won’t soon. It’s quite chewy, and sticks to your teeth.

S: It is quite chewy. I don’t like this one.

R: We need some kind of palate-cleanser between courses.

.Not available on DVD. column since it began nine months ago and I realize that 19 of the previous 24 films I.ve written about are from the decade of the 1970.s. It.s not that there aren.t worthy forgotten films of the 50.s, 60.s or 80.s that have yet to see life in digital format, it.s just that, being born in 1961, it was the .70.s when I came of age and I.ve always had a fixation with the many films I saw at the drive-in in the last half of that decade. Besides, only from the politically incorrect .70.s could have come a disco musical comedy about a woman with a talking vagina.

Chatterbox, made in 1977, is no porn film (though bare breasts abound), but a silly R-Rated comedy based on a ridiculous but titillating situation that today doesn.t seem at all sleazy or dirty but really funny and kind of innocent.

Chicago – Peter Fonda, part of Hollywood acting royalty, made his mark with the counterculture classic “Easy Rider” in 1969. Fonda made an appearance last weekend at the Hollywood Palms Cinema in Naperville to introduce that seminal film.

Emerging from the shadow of his movie legend father Henry and the rising earlier tide of his sister Jane’s career, Peter Fonda carved a special niche in film history with his evolution in the counterculture films of the 1960s, which culminated in Easy Rider.

This seemingly simple film about bikers finding America revitalized the careers of co-stars Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper, and launched a cinema movement that continued into the 1970s, with emerging directors tackling themes of questioning both authority and the American Dream.

Peaceful, Easy Rider: Peter Fonda in Chicago, January 28, 2010.

Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

HollywoodChicago.com got the honor of spending a few moments with Peter Fonda,...

Robert Duvall first met Jeff Bridges in the late 1960s, when the latter was only 18. "He was just a kid with a guitar," Duvall recalls. "This was back when his dad was 50 and I was pushing 40. Look at us now." Indeed, 40 years later finds both actors with illustrious careers behind—and likely still ahead of—them. With iconic roles in movies like "Apocalypse Now," "The Great Santini," and the first two "Godfathers," Duvall has become a film institution. And he shows no signs of slowing down, currently appearing on screens in the post-apocalyptic drama "The Road." Bridges began his career with appearances on his father Lloyd's TV shows and has established himself as one of America's best and most beloved actors in films such as "The Last Picture Show," "Iron Man," and "The Big Lebowski." Now the two are sharing the screen for the first time in writer-director Scott Cooper's lyrical drama "Crazy Heart,...