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1 week ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Kevin Fallon |Nick Schager |Andrew Crump |Clare Donaldson
“ Don’t say it! Don’t f---ing say it! Don’t you f---ing say it, because I’ll hunt you down!”Nathan Lane is yelling at me in jest. Well, I hope in jest. Certainly in jest? He’s reached that kettle-whistle boiling point that’s become his comedy trademark; you can practically see the steam coming from his ears in the Zoom screen when we talk.
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1 week ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Nandika Chatterjee |Barry Levitt |Clare Donaldson
Lindsay Lohan will star in her first-ever scripted TV series called Count My Lies. The actress is also set to executive produce the drama in development at Hulu, Deadline reported. Based on the recently published book by Sophie Stava, the project comes from 20th Television and former This Is Us showrunners Issac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger. Stava’s recently released debut novel is a mystery thriller and a GMA Book Club Pick.
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1 week ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Jesse Hassenger |Clare Donaldson |Barry Levitt |Nick Schager
Somehow, Jesus returned. That’s both a glib summary of what happens in the new Easter-season animated movie The King of Kings and a description of this cut-rate attempt by Angel Studios to revive the Biblical epic. Angel became an unexpected industry player on the strength of its smash hit Sound of Freedom a few years back, and has been regularly releasing faith-based entertainment ever since.
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1 week ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Clare Donaldson |Lily Mae Lazarus
Johnny Depp is stepping back into the spotlight with Day Drinker, his first major Hollywood production since his highly publicized legal battle with ex-wife Amber Heard. Earlier today, Lionsgate released a first-look photo of Day Drinker, a gritty thriller centered on a drug-smuggling cruise ship bartender (Madelyn Cline) who becomes entangled with a mysterious patron (Depp). Their chance encounter sparks a descent into the dark heart of the criminal underworld.
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1 week ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Clare Donaldson |Yasmeen Hamadeh |Laura Wheatman Hill
Jason Isaacs would like everyone to stop talking about the much-rumored White Lotus cast drama. Well, everyone else. The actor appeared on the most recent episode of Sirius XM’s The Happy Hour to address rumors swirling around apparent tension and strife among the ensemble cast in Thailand, where the show filmed at length last year—rumors that he may or may not have started himself.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Matt Wilstein |Clare Donaldson |Laura Wheatman Hill
The White Lotus star Carrie Coon took the high road in her spat with Meghan McCain, telling The Hollywood Reporter in a new oral history about the hit HBO show’s third season that she understands why the political divide between her character Laurie and Leslie Bibb’s Kate is resonating with conservatives. “I do think people like Meghan McCain and her community are really gratified to see a conservative person on television,” Coon said.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Emma Fraser |Nick Schager |Clare Donaldson |Jordan Hoffman
Hollywood is an industry full of sycophants and liars, and if the occasion calls for it, I am one of them. We have all been there; put on the spot by a friend or colleague about a creative passion project that could do with an edit but you just don’t have the heart or desire to break the truth to them that it sucks. Or, in my case, I watched a screener and tiptoed around the glaring issues when asked for an opinion by marketing (“great gowns, beautiful gowns”).
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3 weeks ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Andrew Crump |Nick Schager |Clare Donaldson |Kevin Fallon
We’re mere months into the new year and the sophomore run of the current administration, and all of us have aged twice that amount. We could use a boon; we certainly need a reprieve. A movie about a unicorn, that symbol of hope and grace from European antiquity, seems like just the ticket, right? What better creature to relieve us, even if temporarily, of our dread and our anxiety in these dreadful, anxious times? As a bonus, Jenna Ortega co-stars with Paul Rudd! Score. Next stop: bliss.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Emma Fraser |Clare Donaldson |Laura Wheatman Hill |Kevin Fallon
Talking about work promotions on a first date can be a buzzkill and an eye-opener. This sentiment also applies to co-workers, which security guard Gaitok (Tayme Thapthimthong) discovers when taking Mook (Lisa) out for dinner and a Muay Thai fight on The White Lotus. After weeks of bumbling mishaps, endearing Gaitok finally has a win going into the penultimate episode. He got the gun back from the Ratliff villa without getting caught and proved to be quite the shot at the firing range.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Eboni Boykin-Patterson |Clare Donaldson
Kenan Thompson wants to know what “complicated individual” Morgan Wallen was trying to say with that cryptic Instagram message after he raced off the Saturday Night Live stage in what appeared to be a snub of the cast. “I don’t know what goes through people’s minds when they decide to do stuff like that,” Thompson told Entertainment Weekly.
