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Good news, Steven Universe fans! In a surprise move, the show is coming back in two weeks, ahead of its previously announced June return. Slightly less good news? This fantastic new trailer has us freaking the hell out for Steven and the Crystal Gems. http://io9.gizmodo.com/steven-univers… Revealed late on Friday by Entertainment Weekly, the show is…
Last night, an investment bank and a venture capital firm co-hosted a premiere screening of a farcical premium cable show about tech companies. It sounds like the setup to a joke, but like on the show itself, it’s not clear who gets the last laugh. A few minutes before the crowd of industry insiders gathered…
Vera Farmiga and Eric Bana show strong comic chops, but this limp riff on “Wag the Dog” is barking up the wrong tree. READ MORE: The 2016 Indiewire Tribeca Bible If Ricky Gervais’ amiable but utterly asinine new movie has anything new to say, it’s that Netflix has a bit of a problem. Maybe it’s…
Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade landed on HBO tonight. In the gallery above, you’ll find everything Bey wore across the hour-long film. We’ll be filling in outfit credits as we discover them. So far we know she wore a romantic yellow look by Roberto Cavalli and the bridal gown from her 2008 wedding to Jay Z. (Symbolism! Also,…
A few months ago, we were baffled—but also incredibly excited—that Elizabeth Banks would be playing Rita Repulsa, the classic, cackling villain of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, in the upcoming movie. And now that we’ve gotten to see what she looks like, and… no. Not like this, Power Rangers movie. http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-power-rang… Just revealed by People, Bank’s…
Amy Schumer is back on TV — and, oh, how we’ve missed her. On the season four premiere of Schumer’s Comedy Central show “Inside Amy Schumer,” the comedian is at her annual pap smear when she discovers that her gynecologist has been replaced with four congressmen from the (fake) House Committee on Women’s Health. When Schumer…
6:00 AM PDT 4/22/2016 by Marisa Guthrie Marisa Guthrie ABC News executives have long coveted a third hour for ‘Good Morning America’ Kelly Ripa is losing her Live with Kelly and Michael co-host Michael Strahan this summer. But will she also lose her show’s prime 9 a.m. time slot at some point as well? ABC…
Fusion is no longer a fusion. Univision announced on Thursday that it had purchased Disney’s piece of Fusion, a company founded as a joint venture in October 2013 with the vision of making a media organization that could capture the attention of a growing young latino audience. As part of the deal, Univision is reorganizing some…
Reed Hastings got it right. It just took longer than he thought. “We expect Amazon to continue to offer their video service as a free extra with Prime domestically but also to brand their video subscription offering as a standalone service at a price less than ours,” the Netflix CEO told his investors in a…
Twenty years ago, Sesame Street ran a special segment warning US children about the risks of lead. And 20 years later, Last Week Tonight‘s John Oliver brought the Sesame Street cast to his show to highlight America’s continuing lead epidemic. As Oliver told Elmo (who offered $1.76 from his piggy bank to help), America’s lead…