Showing posts with label entertainment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label entertainment. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 30, 2016
I'm putting my butt on the tanline
Demi Lovato made sure the rays caught all her good parts while lounging poolside in Miami.
We'd say she looked bent out of shape over her recent breakup with longtime BF Wilmer Valderrama, but these pics prove otherwise.
Everyone wins when Demi's watching out for tan lines.
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Dead of Summer Is Not Just a Standard Slasher Series, It's Your Next Anthology Obsession
With a title like that, Freeform’s vacation offering “Dead of Summer” is inviting any number of headline puns: “dead on arrival,” “dead in the water,” “dead boring,” et cetera, ad nauseum. The puns would not be entirely wrong, either; “Dead Of Summer” is a very silly new show that samples nearly every available cliché in the summer-camp-horror genre all at once, making for a messy homage to “Friday The 13th” that reads partly as satire and partly as meditative gothic horror. Nearly every scene in the first three episodes sent to critics is laden with some kind of terrible portent, which I know because the score histrionically hits the strings every time something is supposed to be shocking. That, and usually someone screams. In the astonishingly bad first episode, our bland protagonist Amy (Elizabeth Lail) screams in horror upon encountering: a mouse, a ghost holding a balloon, her own memories, a cute cop she already has a crush on, a dead body, a boy holding a video camera and a bloody deer.
But “Dead of Summer” does have a satisfying campy layer — new headline pun: “putting the camp back in summer camp!” — which lays it on thick with the lurking horror of the woods around Camp Stillwater and the implausibly sophisticated secrets of this batch of horny teenagers. The story follows a group of camp counselors who stumble into a small town teeming with demon worshippers and disgruntled ghosts. The teens are quickly plagued by nightmares that stir up both their own individual demons and create encounters with the haunted spiritual plane of the cursed Lake Stillwater. But of course, no one goes home, because they are too excited to be teenagers free of their parents for a few weeks. In the grand tradition of moralizing terror, alcohol use, drug use and eating disorders each get dinged for creating vulnerabilities for evil to prey on innocents in the first few episodes, though I am putting that a lot more succinctly than the episode manages to. Mostly, “Dead of Summer” is insinuation and visual tricks, where paper-thin characters are either supposed to be scary or scared.
Beyond the crowded, confusing pilot — which shoves characters’ secrets, standing feuds and clandestine romances at the viewer with all the delicacy of a speeding truck — later episodes of “Dead of Summer” are more comprehensible.
Disney’s Zootopia has become the studio’s second $1B
With an additional $4.4M worldwide this weekend, Disney’s Zootopia has become the studio’s second $1B grosser of the year at the global box office. Judy Hopps & Co have an offshore cume of $662.8M and a domestic take of $337.22M for a total $1,000.020M. This is the 11th Disney film (out of an industry total 26) to ever hit the milestone.
Zootopia, from directors Byron Howard and Rich Moore, is the No. 1 animated film of the year and the No. 2 movie of 2016. It falls in line behind the Mouse (& Marvel’s) Captain America: Civil War which recently hit the mark and is currently at $1,131.54M global. The numbers also make it only the 4th animated film ever to to cross $1B. Frozen, Minions and Toy Story 3 are ahead of it.
The top market cumes on the charmer are: China $235.6M, Japan $56.2M, Germany $33.4M, the UK $33.4M and Russia $32.2M
Monday, June 27, 2016
Beyoncé makes a surprise appearance
Beyoncé makes a surprise appearance at the BET Awards, before being joined on stage by Kendrick Lamar for a duet.
Jesse Williams' inspiring speech BET 2016
Jesse Williams' inspiring speech The "Grey's Anatomy" star blew everyone away when he accepted the 2016 BET Humanitarian Award with a speech calling society to task for racism. Speaking on police-involved shootings of people of color, the actor/activist said he and others have been "looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people every day." "So what's going to happen is we are going to have equal rights and justice in our own country or we will restructure their function and ours," said Williams, who was out front during protests in Ferguson following the 2014 shooting death of teen Michael Brown. Williams went on to add, "We've been floating this country on credit for centuries, and we're done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind, while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil, black gold."
