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Before superhero movies, directors were masters of the universe – now you can find them cowering in their trailers

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 19 October - 10:55

When I started looking at how the superhero movie sausage gets made for a new HBO comedy, I found a world of dysfunction, missed deadlines and utterly frazzled film-makers

When the wheels are coming off, there is no more exquisite humiliation that can be visited upon an adult human than being the director of a big-budget superhero franchise movie. Not even working as the guy who had to wipe a medieval king’s arse. “Groom of the Stool” is sometimes a more covetable credit than “Directed by”. And as even the most fearsome talent agent will tell you, both guarantee you get shit on the back end.

But that’s confusing, you might think, because aren’t directors supposed to be god tier? That’s definitely what I thought, back when I started as one of the writers on The Franchise, a new HBO comedy set behind the scenes in the world of superhero movies. Except the more we talked to people inside the comic-book movie machines of Marvel and DC – and we talked to huge numbers of people – the more dysfunctional the picture that emerged became.

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Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor: ‘I was told I’d never do well as an actor unless I changed my name’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 19 October - 08:30

The 12 Years a Slave star on hoarding, lying about running, and getting torn to shreds for driving badly

Born in London, Chiwetel Ejiofor, 47, trained at the National Youth Theatre and Lamda. In 2008, he won an Olivier for his Othello at the Donmar Warehouse, London. His performance in the 2013 film 12 Years a Slave gained him an Oscar nomination and the best actor Bafta. His other work includes Rob Peace, which he also wrote and directed, Endgame and Doctor Strange. His latest Marvel movie is Venom: The Last Dance, out on 25 October. He lives in London with his partner and child.

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Elizabeth Olsen: ‘I’m not the sexy one. I’m not the nerd. I don’t know where I fit’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 29 September - 06:00 · 1 minute

She thought acting was ‘silly’, despite having A-list sisters. Her interests lay in dance, accountancy, agriculture, construction. Here she explains how she conquered her anxiety and embraced being a Hollywood star

The actor Elizabeth Olsen and I are in a London hotel, staring down at her dinner. She lifts the lid from one plate: a bowl of plain black beans. She lifts another: a bowl of similarly spare couscous. You wouldn’t know it, but Olsen is something of a foodie. She takes a set of knives around the world when filming, makes her own ricotta, knows what brand of caviar is best, and records the name of every restaurant she visits. She’s been engaged for years in an LA “croissant crawl” to find the best French pastry in the city, though she takes the hunt international every chance she gets. This past week she’s eaten a huge amount of red meat, she tells me, and developed high cholesterol as a result. Hence the simple grain and pulse dishes before her. Carefully she returns the lids. Then she says, “I am probably not going to eat while we talk.”

In person, Olsen, who is 35, manages the curious combination of being at once unnerving and disarming. Those wide eyes – so expressive and searching on screen – would be unsettling if it weren’t for her easy wit. It’s the eyes that Hollywood has latched on to: they have been deployed to reveal the trauma of an ex-cult member (her indie breakout Martha Marcy May Marlene ), a wife in a loveless marriage driven to murder ( Love & Death ), a grieving widow ( Sorry For Your Loss ). As Wanda Maximoff , appearing in the Marvel films that have dominated her last decade, her eyes have been used to portray a virtual assault course of loss.

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Marvel angry about Ant-Man dialogue leak, demands names of Reddit and Google users

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 13 March, 2023 - 18:54

Movie poster for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.

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Marvel is seeking the identities of Reddit and Google users involved in the leak of dialogue from Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania . Marvel says that before the Ant-Man film's release, movie dialogue was leaked in a Google Docs file and that the link to the document was posted in a Reddit thread.

Marvel on Friday asked a federal court to issue Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) subpoenas to both Reddit and Google demanding the identities of people allegedly involved in the pre-release dialogue reveal, including Reddit moderators whom Marvel suspects of being behind the leak. The requests were filed in US District Court for the Northern District of California.

The Google document was deleted after Marvel owner Disney filed a copyright complaint to Google. The link to the Google document was also deleted from the Reddit thread. But Marvel still wants to find out who posted the Google Doc and who shared it to Reddit.

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Despite big Marvel and Star Wars shows, Disney+ falls short of its goals

Samuel Axon · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 14 May, 2021 - 18:47

Meta-sitcom/adventure series <em>WandaVision</em> was one of Disney+

Enlarge / Meta-sitcom/adventure series WandaVision was one of Disney+'s most successful recent shows. (credit: YouTube/Disney+)

Analysts expected Disney+ to reach 109 million subscribers in Disney's most recent financial quarter, but the streaming service fell short, landing at 103.6 million. The shortfall resulted in lower revenues than expected for the company and a small stock price stumble.

Alongside word that Netflix also saw fairly slow growth in its quarter, the news suggests that there is, in fact, a limit to the explosive growth that streaming platforms have experienced amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Still, Disney is staying the course with its current strategy of pumping out TV series in established Disney brands like Marvel and Star Wars, as well as releasing new motion pictures on the platform at the same time they premiere in theaters.

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WandaVision, épisode 7 : enfin de vraies réponses !

Marcus Dupont-Besnard · news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 19 February, 2021 - 13:00

Ce septième épisode de WandaVision, disponible sur Disney+, avance à toute vitesse dans les révélations sur des personnages clé de l'intrigue. Attention, spoilers. [Lire la suite]

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WandaVision : 6 questions en suspens après l’épisode 4

Marie Turcan · news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 3 February, 2021 - 08:01

Un petite épisode par semaine : voilà le rythme très espacé que Disney+ impose à WandaVision, nourrissant de nombreuses théories de fans. L'épisode 4 est venu apporter quelques réponses, mais il reste encore beaucoup de mystères. On fait le point. [Lire la suite]

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WandaVision : quels films Marvel faut-il voir avant de regarder la série ?

Maxime Claudel · news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 29 January, 2021 - 17:08

Après quatre épisodes, WandaVision, série disponible sur Disney+, est loin d'avoir livré tous ses secrets. Et il vaut mieux avoir vu certains films du Marvel Cinematic Universe pour ne pas être totalement largué. Nos conseils, garantis sans spoiler. [Lire la suite]

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WandaVision, épisode 3 : les jumeaux et Geraldine, de nouveaux indices pour vos théories

Marcus Dupont-Besnard · news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 22 January, 2021 - 14:30

Les indices importants de l'épisode 3 de WandaVision, diffusé ce vendredi 22 janvier 2021 sur Disney Plus. [Lire la suite]

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