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Disney’s ‘Primos’ Creator and First Trailer Reveal New Animated Series Celebrating Her Diverse Multicultural Family (Exclusive)
Primos creator Natasha Kline has known since she was little that she wanted to make her own show. “I was five years old and I was like, “I want to be an animator,’” she recalls. Equally influential on the childhood of the director/writer/storyboard artist was her large, diverse family and hometown of L.A., a giant […]
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Jeff Daniels on That Knee-Jerk ‘A Man in Full’ Finale and Getting the Shot in One Take
Jeff Daniels says he isn’t giving much thought to metaphor in his performances. But his recent role as Charlie Croker in Netflix’s A Man in Full was swimming in them. Based on Tom Wolfe’s 1998 novel of the same name — which shook up Atlanta’s high society, thanks to Croker’s striking likeness to the city’s […]
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Epic Universe Unveils Universal Classic Monsters-Themed Attractions In Orlando
Dracula, Wolf Man, Bride of Frankenstein, Invisible Man and the Creature from the Black Lagoon are set to descend on Universal Orlando Resort’s Epic Universe as part of its new Dark Universe. Teased earlier this year, the land is home to “Darkmoor,” a ravaged village where some of the horror genre’s earliest, most recognizable and […]
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Who’s Laughing Now? A New Doc Delves Into the History of Queer Comedians
In the making since 2019, Page Hurwitz’s new Netflix documentary, Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution, taps a throng of queer notables — from Wanda Sykes, Rosie O’Donnell and Lily Tomlin to Joel Kim Booster, Fortune Feimster and Bob the Drag Queen — to show how LGBTQ funny people have left their mark and challenged others’ perceptions […]
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How Universal Orlando Resort Is Betting Big on IP This Summer
Before construction began on DreamWorks Land, the newest addition to Universal Studios Florida, Dean Orion found himself on a typical walk around the grounds of the theme park. As he approached what was then known as the KidsZone — the park’s earliest strategy for catering to their youngest guests with classic IP attractions like Fievel’s Playland, […]
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Hollywood Stars Who Are One Award Away From an EGOT
Only 19 people have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and a Tony — the hard-to-achieve, highly coveted EGOT. But more than 60 performers are just one win away from joining the EGOT ranks, which includes the likes of Richard Rodgers, Rita Moreno, Audrey Hepburn and Mel Brooks. Cher, Kate Winslet, Common, Helen Mirren, Lin-Manuel Miranda, […]
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A Neuro-Inclusive Take on ‘Spring Awakening’: “We Don’t Need to Break People Down”
With his hand raised in the air, EPIC Players’ associate artistic director Travis Burbee called out to the thrum of voices filling up the warmly lit, wood paneled room on the second floor at A.R.T./New York’s South Oxford Space in Brooklyn. Quickly, the excited chatter died down as the group of actors, in rehearsal for […]
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Not Your Average Love Triangle: ‘Dead Boy Detectives’ Team on “Bittersweet” Love Stories
[This story contains spoilers from Netflix’s Dead Boy Detectives.] Dead Boy Detectives star George Rexstrew is quick to describe his first in-person encounter with his co-stars ahead of filming the pilot: “Love at first sight.” Up to that point, interactions between the leads of the Netflix series that released April 25 had taken place during […]
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Transgender Film Center Reveals Inaugural Career Development Lab Cohort (Exclusive)
The Transgender Film Center has unveiled the first-ever Career Development Lab cohort. Eight creatives working in film and TV were selected by the nonprofit, which focuses on advancing the work of transgender film creators, to participate in this intensive 12-week career accelerator supported by Netflix’s Fund for Creative Equity. “Our mission is to bring more […]
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Netflix Acquires U.S. Rights to Mark Duplass and Mel Eslyn’s Indie Series ‘Penelope’
Penelope, the pandemic-written, independently financed and produced young-adult series from co-creators Mark Duplass and Mel Eslyn, has landed a distributor. Netflix acquired U.S. rights to the series’ eight-episode first season, the duo announced Sunday while appearing at SeriesFest. Duplass called the six-month process of finding a distributor for the show following its debut at the […]
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How ‘Dead Boy Detectives’ Proves There’s Life After Network TV for the YA Genre
Twenty years ago, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s breakout hit The O.C., about a group of teens coming of age in Newport Beach, premiered on Fox. By the time the 27-episode first season aired its finale in the spring of 2004, the show was the highest-rated drama on TV among adults 18 to 34 and […]
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How The CW’s ‘Sight Unseen’ Built a Production For and Driven By Blind and Low Vision Creatives
When Orphan Black co-creator John Fawcett read Kat and Niko Troubetzkoy’s new The CW show Sight Unseen, his response gave the half-sisters, who were producers on his own Peabody-winning BBC America series, a jolt of confidence. “We showed him the pilot [script] and he said, ‘This is one of the best detective thrillers I’ve read […]
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