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Wireless customers with AT&T, Cricket Wireless, T-Mobile, and Verizon all reported outages across the country this morning. And just like clockwork, some folks online pounced on the disruption as evidence of a global conspiracy. What Drew Noomi Rapace to Constellation?Alex Jones, arguably America’s most popular conspiracy theorist, believes the telecom outage is a direct result of Chinese hackers.“Is it a cyber attack? AT&T is being very tight-lipped,” Jones insisted in a web broadcast on Thursday in his typical…

In stand-up comedy, silence typically equals death. You tell a joke and the audience laughs? Great. You tell a joke and they groan? Well, at least they were interested enough to respond. Tell a joke and … nothing? You may have lost the room altogether.  For Ramy Youssef, though, a joke greeted with silence allowed him to find his comedic voice, which has expanded beyond his stand-up to include creating and/or starring in a pair of acclaimed comedy series — Ramy on Hulu, Mo on Netflix — a juicy supporting role in…

Wes Ball details the setting for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. New set pictures reveal Disney’s live-action take on Lilo & Stitch. Plus, another Marvel Netflix star wants to make a return for Daredevil: Born Again. Spoilers, away!Spoilers of the Week: August 12thSonic the Hedgehog 3In a recent Instagram post, Alya Browne confirmed she’s playing Dr. Robotnik’s cousin, Maria, in Sonic the Hedgehog 3. BladeAccording to a new report from The InSneider (via Coming Soon), Mahershala Ali is still attached to star in…

From 'Gladiator' to 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' — our rankings of every film to take home the top Oscar since the year 2000, from worst to best The Oscars have been around for almost 100 years now, celebrating a medium that was born in the last few years of the 19th century, became the art form du jour of the 20th century and continues to flourish in the 21st century. When we entered the new millennium, you wondered how the movies would change and evolve — and if the…

How do you build an acting career you’re proud of? Well, for Myha’la Herrold, breakout star of HBO’s Industry and the standout in Netflix’s latest apocalyptic drama Leave the World Behind, it starts with saying no.  “Honestly, I have sort of been the same bitch from like the beginning of time,” she tells Rolling Stone. “If there was something that I don’t want to do, I just don’t do it.” It may seem like a flippant approach to entering an already crowded entertainment industry, but for the Carnegie Mellon…

Sam Esmail sacrificed his hearing while making his new apocalyptic thriller Leave the World Behind. You see, in the Netflix adaption of Rumaan Alam’s 2020 novel, there’s a noise so terrifying that it incapacitates the entire country — and Esmail had to get it just right. “As a filmmaker, I was so excited to explore that aspect because sound is everything to me,” Esmail says. “There’s a fine line of making a sound haunting without actually having the audience get up and leave. I pushed it so much initially in the…

It starts not with a bang, but a lack of Wi-Fi. The Internet goes down, which means no social media, no email, no communications with the outside world, and — because this is a Netflix movie about worst-case scenarios — no streaming. Then satellites are knocked out, which kills any and all navigation systems reliant upon orbiting technology in the U.S. Because animal migration patterns have been disrupted, you may see more deer than usual popping up in your front yard. Keep an eye out for flamingos in your pool, too.…

Image: NetflixIt’s never good when your TV stops working—for many reasons, some of which Netflix itself could quickly rattle off. But it’s really never good when the forces of nature around you start acting very oddly, as we see in this new clip from Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail’s new Netflix film, Leave the World Behind.The clip, which was revealed as part of Geeked Week, ends with a little tease of the rest of the movie, suggesting that a few too many deer in the yard is hardly the most off-putting thing it contains.…

Marvel’s vampire hunter Blade is a fierce warrior but he may have finally met his match: labor unions. The upcoming, long-in-development reboot of the Marvel franchise starring Mahershala Ali was scheduled to start filming this summer, aiming at a September 2024 release, but pre-production has been shut down due to the WGA strike.Films That Inspired John Wick 4 | First FandomsThe Hollywood Reporter broke this news but made it very clear that while pre-production on the film hasstopped, Blade hasn’t been completely…

The highly-anticipated Marvel Cinematic Universe film, Blade, has added a new writer to its crew. Nic Pizzolatto, best known for his work as the creator of True Detective, has joined the film as a writer. This reunion will see Pizzolatto work alongside Blade star Mahershala Ali, whom he collaborated with on Season 3 of HBO's True Detective. This exciting news comes from The Hollywood Reporter. Marvel's most skilled vampire hunter, a half-mortal, half-immortal who hunts vampires to avenge his mother's death.…