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Winona Ryder ’s acting chops are not the only contribution she makes to Stranger Things . The Eighties icon also makes sure the scripts stay true to the era. In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar , Ryder’s costar David Harbour said she gives feedback to creators Matt and Ross Duffer on the scripts to keep the 1980s accuracy in check, and the Duffer Brothers have modified the scripts after she fact-checks them. “She’d tell them, ‘This song actually came out in ’85, and you have it in ’83,’”  Harbour said. “She knew all of these minute, tiny details they didn’t even know, and they had to change things in the script based on that…It’s just kind of epic how wild her mind is and how it goes to all these different corners.” Ryder made her film debut in 1986’s Lucas and went on to star in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice, cult teen classic Heathers , and the Jerry Lee Lewis biopic, Great Balls of Fire . The Nineties saw her in such classics as Mermaids , Edward Scissorhands … [Read more...] about Winona Ryder Checks ‘Stranger Things’ Scripts to Keep Them on Eighties Point

Every journalist who covered Hollywood in the Golden Era that stretched roughly from Risky Business (1983) through Top Gun: Maverick ( now ) has had a Tom Cruise moment. I had mine in 2002. My father had just died. It was a rough death, not quick, and as I was driving back for the last time from attending him in Sacramento, I made myself a promise: I would be at peace with everyone for a while. No fighting. No arguments. What anyone asked, insofar as I could, I would just do. ’Top Gun: Maverick’ From Cannes To Theaters – Deadline’s Complete Coverage As luck would have it, the first test occurred somewhere around Bakersfield. On the road, I got a call from Maer Roshan , now editor of Los Angeles Magazine , then editorial director of Tina Brown ’s Talk . We have a problem , explained Maer. Talk had scheduled some sort of theme issue–something about business and/or professional life in America. But Tina had managed to promise the cover to Tom … [Read more...] about We’ve All Had One — A Tom Cruise Moment

TUESDAY AM UPDATE: The Tom Cruise Paramount / Skydance sequel goes to an even higher stratosphere with a 4-day $160.5M Memorial Day opening record. Global is at a $300M start. Important to note that given the whole thing of rolling the $13.2M Thursday previews of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End into its opening weekend, that movie still has the 3-day over Memorial Day weekend with $127.97M to Top Gun: Maverick ‘s $126.7M . MONDAY AM UPDATE: Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick has beaten Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End fair and square for the Memorial Day opening 4-day record (+ previews) at the domestic box office with $156M. While easily Tom Cruise’s best opening of all-time, producer Jerry Bruckheimer is the common denominator of the two largest Memorial Day weekend openings at the domestic box office. At World’s End’s four-day holiday opening of $139.8M was further puffed by Thursday previews which got … [Read more...] about ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Scorches ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End’ For Memorial Day Opening Record With $160M+ – Tuesday AM Update

Baz Luhrmann ’s box-office-topping new movie Elvis does manage to show the powerhouse singer Big Mama Thornton (played by Shonka Dukureh) performing “Hound Dog,” a song she recorded in 1952, four years before Elvis Presley . But it leaves out two very significant players: songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller , who wrote “Hound Dog” as teenagers for Thornton, and went on to write “Jailhouse Rock,” “You’re So Square (I Don’t Care),” “Trouble,” and other hits for Presley himself (as well as “Stand By Me” for Ben E. King and countless other classic songs). Leiber died in 2011, but Stoller is thriving at age 89 — and he tells our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast that after many decades behind the scenes, he didn’t mind the omission. “Well, I didn’t expect anything,” he says with a laugh, “so therefore, I was not disappointed in that regard.” ( T o hear the whole episode, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or press play above.) On the episode, Stoller … [Read more...] about Did Elvis Presley Steal From Big Mama Thornton? The Real Story of ‘Hound Dog’