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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMargot Robbie has revealed that the first time she read Saltburn’s infamous bathtub scene it “didn’t feel that shocking”.The 33-year-old Barbie star was one of the producers of Emerald Fennell’s divisive black comedy. Robbie’s production company LuckyChap Entertainment were also behind Fennell’s last film, 2020’s Promising Young Woman.The scene in question was recently identified by…

Paula Abdul accused “American Idol” and “So You Think You Can Dance” executive producer Nigel Lythgoe of sexual assault in a lawsuit filed Friday in Los Angeles.Abdul, who appeared as a judge on “American Idol” from 2002-09 and on dance competition “SYTYCD” from 2015-16, alleges that boss and on-air co-star Lythgoe sexually assaulted her twice during her tenures on his shows, according to multiple reports. She also alleges that she suffered bullying and harassment and gender pay discrimination while serving as a…

Paula Abdul has sued Nigel Lythgoe, former American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance producer, claiming he sexually assaulted her twice. The singer filed a lawsuit on Friday against Lythgoe and the show’s production companies, alleging that the producer sexually assaulted her during one of the early seasons of American Idol, and then in 2014 while she was hosting So You Think You Can Dance. In one instance, according to documents obtained by Rolling Stone magazine, the suit alleges Lythgoe…

Bram Inscore, a songwriter and producer who had led Beck’s backing band and worked with BTS and Troye Sivan, has died. He was 41.In a statement released Friday, Inscore’s family said that he “ended his life after a hard fought battle with depression” in San Francisco on Dec. 19. “Selfless as a human and generous as a collaborator, he ingeniously served the music but never his own ego,” the statement continued. “Deep compassion and dry wit were embedded into everything he did, though he never sought praise or approval. He…

The first “Parental Advisory” album Metro Boomin ever owned was Nelly’s Country Grammar, which helped define hip-hop’s St. Louis sound in 2000. His mom bought it for him. That record infused in Metro a great love of and pride in his hometown of St. Louis. Of course, he already loved his mom. “I’ve always been a mama’s boy, my whole life,” he says, pride boomin’ in his voice, over Zoom. “I’ve seen firsthand, with my mother, how hard it is being a single mother.” Metro was the oldest of five kids raised by his mom,…

War for the Planet of the Apes could have easily ended the “reboot” era of the Apes franchise, with audiences being left to imagine what happened after the death of Andy Serkis’ Caesar. Instead, we’ll revisit this world next year in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, with the story picking up roughly 300 years after Caesar’s passing. One of Kingdom’s producers and its VFX supervisor have opened up about director Wes Ball’s vision for the 2024 movie release, and it involves a simple pitch he came up with: “Apocalypto with…

Tainy is eloquent and calm, and thinks through every word before constructing sentences that back up his success over two decades. Without a trace of over-confidence, Tainy —whose real name is Marcos Efraín Masis Fernández — has achieved everything he ever dreamed of since he was a teenager making music in Puerto Rico. “Reggaeton was not something we listened to around my house,” he says after talking about the importance the church had in his family. Around then, in his adolesence, he met Nely “El Arma Secreta,” a…

The Legend Of Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma has said that open-world games are the future, following the success of Breath Of The Wild and Tears Of The Kingdom. Both Breath Of The Wild and its followup, Tears Of The Kingdom moved away from Zelda’s typically linear narrative in favour of something more open-world. It’s a move that’s proved highly successful, with the two titles shifting over 50million units between them, compared to Twilight Princess which sold 9million units. In a new interview with IGN, series…

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom might be the perfect sequel in every definition of the word, but even Nintendo seems to agree that it has exhausted all possibilities for this particular iteration of Link’s journey. You’ll know by now that Tears, originally conceived as a DLC for Breath of the Wild, morphed into a proper installment when the producers realized the sheer scope of the ideas being thrown around at the studio. The entire game is pretty much modeled after what you already experienced in the acclaimed…

The Legend of Zelda is (almost) always the story of Link and the titular Princess Zelda, but their relationship has never been explicitly spelled out in any of the franchise's many installments. According to Legend of Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma, the development team wants to leave the relationship between the two iconic characters up to the imaginations of players.In an interview with IGN, Aonuma was asked if Link and Zelda are, in fact, a couple in the latest game in the series, Tears of the Kingdom. In…