Later today, the first Tuesday in August, the board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will meet to install newly elected governors and reorganize its officers, pretty much as usual. As usual, the governors will almost certainly elect casting director David Rubin , the Academy’s current president, to another term. Re-election of presidents who aren’t termed out is almost automatic. Also as usual, the group will probably choose a financially competent executive or producer to replace Paramount’s Jim Gianopulos , who is leaving the board, as treasurer. My money is on Participant’s David Linde , who will inherit the headaches that come with a large institution that has been wrestling for several years with growing debt, increased expenses and flat-to-declining income. So here’s a question: Once having done the expected, will this new board and its officers turn to confront some of the less-expected challenges that have risen since the audience for …
Netflix Greenlights ‘Inspiration4’ All Civilian Space Mission Docuseries From ‘The Last Dance’ Team
Netflix has greenlighted Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space , a near real-time docuseries following the September launch and mission of the first all-civilian flight crew aboard the SpaceX capsule. The docuseries hails from Time Studios ( Black Gold, Big Vape), The Last Dance director Jason Hehir , Known and Connor Schell and Chernin Entertainment’s Words & Pictures . Additionally, Netflix will premiere StoryBots Space Adventure, a hybrid live-action animation special for kids and families to watch together before the mission. The privately chartered space flight funded, led and commanded by billionaire Jared Isaacman, is also intended to support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Isaacman, the 38-year-old founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, will be joined by civilians Hayley Arceneaux, Christopher Sembroski, and Dr. Sian Proctor (see their bios below). The crew was selected to represent the four pillars of the mission: Leadership, Hope, Prosperity, and …
Free Guy Is a Movie for Non-Gamers Too Insists Ryan Reynolds
Video games are a dense and complicated sub-culture of entertainment with its own set of rules, terminology, and history. Ryan Reynolds' upcoming video-game based movie Free Guy takes place in a fictional game and features references to actual video games. In an interview with Collider, Reynolds explained that while the basic premise of his movie centers on gaming, the story being told speaks to a broader human experience that most audience members can relate to. "I always look at it like, sports movies are good metaphors. The greatest sports movies ever made are not actually about sports. Field of Dreams , I wouldn't characterize that as a baseball story. They used baseball as a vehicle to tell a really beautiful story about a son and a father trying to connect. I think that we're doing the same thing. We're using the video game world, the Free City world, and video game culture as a sort of vehicle to tell this really beautiful and powerful human story." The trailer for …
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Nirmal Pandey was a man of dignity: Rahil Azam
Humility is a virtue that is found in few and late Nirmal Pandey was one such person who would be remembered for modesty. Nirmal left a deep impact on the conscious of actors he worked with by his down-to-earth nature. Television artiste and co-actor Rahil Azam, who worked with Nirmal in the serial 'Hatim", remembers him as a man of dignity who never threw his weight around and was for fair treatment to all. Narrating an incident which amplifies his sentiments, Rahil says emotionally, “I remember while we were shooting for 'Hatim" in Gujarat, he (Nirmal) would travel with us in trains despite being given the option of air-travel." Admitting that he was rather amazed at such gesture, Rahil says, “He was a senior actor after all, we were in awe of him and he used to travel with us. He always used to travel by trains for outdoor shoots, and would brush off amenities of air travel saying 'I am not special; everyone should be treated equally"." “The incident had …
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