It’s Marathon Monday in New York City, after yesterday’s race where even if you didn’t run, you could feel the electricity on the streets. Good luck to all those marathoners tackling any stairs today! * A medal of a different kind was earned by those who worked on Star Wars: Episode 7 as the film wrapped this weekend. Director JJ Abrams sent a note of thanks to the cast and crew, and pics of the wrap party circulated around the internet. * Prince took over SNL on Saturday with an 8-minute performance (of course he ditched the traditional 2-song format), playing three tracks from his two new albums live –…
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Entertainment Express: 22 Jump St, Ruby Dee, Tom Hiddleston, Kelly Rowland, Star Wars
* It’s the sequel to the hugely successful and very funny remake – 22 Jump Street releases in the US today. Directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have brought back the Channing Tatum/Jonah Hill bromance, and by most accounts, it’s still fun, if not as funny as the first one. Meanwhile John Turturro’s directorial debut, a film in which he wrote the very likely scenario of Sharon Stone and Sofia Vergara having to pay his character for sex -aka Fading Gigolo – releases in South Africa today. * Tributes have been aplenty for Ruby Dee, the award-winning actress and civil rights-upholding activist, who died at the age of 91 – peacefully, according to those who were…
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Entertainment Express: The Fault in Our Stars, Ant-Man, Star Wars, Michael Stipe
Hello from a rainy NYC, where I’ll be getting a sneak peak of MTV’s 9 Days and Nights of Ed Sheeran later today. * The Fault in Our Stars is preparing for a big opening weekend, with it already becoming the top-selling love story in ticket-site Fandango’s 14-year history. The Washington Post speculates the film based on John Green’s best-seller should bring in good numbers for a non-action movie, but all I know is when I saw it at a fan screening a few weeks ago, the tears were a-plenty, and I’m not sure how you’d quantify that. * On Instagram on Wednesday, the Bad Robot feed contained a picture of a note written…
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Visting Pinewood Studios – aka The Place Where Star Wars is Shooting
It all started with a bit of that magical force called coincidence. On the very day the news came out that Star Wars Episode VII would be filming at Pinewood Studios in the UK, a friend of mine sent me an email. He saw I was heading to London for an in-and-out visit to interview the cast of another big blockbuster film. “Hey, while you’re in town, why don’t you come visit me at Pinewood Studios,” he wrote. “I’ll give you a tour.” “Yes!” I replied, knowing how lucky I’d be to get an inside-glimpse of the place where the very eagerly awaited first film from The Walt Disney Company’s…
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Entertainment Express: Star Wars, Time 100 Gala, Courtney Love, Patrick Stewart, Almost Human
* Ahead of May the Fourth this Sunday, the Star Wars Episode VII cast was finally revealed on Tuesday. There will be, and there are, many, many opinions about who is there (original main cast!), who isn’t (where are the women?) and the value of the franchise today. It’s great to see John Boyega, from Attack the Block, and also, more recently Half of a Yellow Sun, and Oscar Isaac, the wonderfully woeful folk singer from Inside Llewyn Davis as part of the cast. * Film stars and finance ministers walked the red carpet for the Time 100 gala, which took place last night. Cover star Beyonce wasn’t there, but plenty of influential…
