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If you are a comic book reader who has a long flight coming up, writer Jimmy Palmiotti has one humble suggestion. He is offering hundreds of pages’ worth of his comics at a steep discount as part of a sale that see proceeds go to the World Wildlife Fund. “It can get you from Japan and back from the east coast,” Palmiotti says with a laugh of the hefty reading material, available via the service Humble Bundle, which allows buyers to adjust how much of the proceeds to go charity and how much go to…

Dear Reader, PREMIUM The Artist's Way Writers everywhere are talking about Cait Corrain. She created eight fake accounts on Goodreads, the online books community, and used these to trash other novels. She lied, fabricated evidence and finally fessed up. There is a dark side to being a writer. You scroll through your social media feed to see "beyond honoured to be on the shortlist for the JCB literary award" from a girl you knew at school. The writer in you is racked with jealousy. How is this possible you…

In the melee of people around me was a slim sari-clad lady. We walked past each other, two strangers in the crowded corridors of the Jaipur Literature Festival at Diggi Palace. The literary agent looked serious, with a determined expression.Later, when I read her food memoir, I found her sternness tempered with a love of hospitality. An English Literature graduate from Lady Shri Ram College, the youngest of three sisters, married for love into a Jaipur-based joint family, fulfilling everything expected from her and doing…

Image: Warner Bros./DC ComicsBefore and particularly after the movie starring Halle Berry, it appears to be a rule that you don’t have Catwoman in a live-action movie without Batman getting top billing. But that wasn’t always the case—back in 2018, we learned the thief very nearly got her own spinoff film where she would’ve been played by Michelle Pfeiffer after the release of Batman Returns in 1992. Alex Borstein’s Embarrassing Moment from Catwoman | io9 InterviewDuring a recent Q&A, Returns writer Daniel Waters shed…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDavid Leland, the British writer and director behind shows including Band of Brothers and The Borgias, has died aged 82.Leland was surrounded by family when he died on Christmas Eve, his longtime agency, Cassaroto Ramsay & Associates announced. The cause of his death has yet to be disclosed.Following the news, a number of Leland’s friends and former collaborators paid tribute,…

This week, as we mourn the death of Andre Braugher, who died at the age of 61 on Monday, December 11 due to a brief illness, we remember the great movies and TV shows the actor appeared in. But as Scoob! Holiday Haunt writer Tony Cervone has pointed out, there’s one performance by the talented Brooklyn Nine-Nine star we may never see following Warner Bros. cancelling the movie’s release last year. Now I’m even more upset that the movie was shelved! Scoob! Holiday Haunt was the animated follow-up to 2020’s Scoob!, and it…

On his Facebook account, Ian Gibson's son, Luke Jon Gibson, wrote about his passing, saying his father "Fought valiantly, and I was with him, holding his hand right until his very last moments. The pain that swells inside me is immeasurable, but I know that he rests now his pain is over." Gibson said his dad loved readers and continued to draw until he could no longer hold a pencil. Condolences from countless fans poured in. "So sorry Luke. Your dad was an absolute legend and brought so much joy to my…

She has been hailed as the literary queen of the Paris techno scene, whose cult novel Superstars immortalised the hedonism and rivalry of the sweat-drenched dancefloors and rave parties of 1990s France. But if the novelist Ann Scott, the winner of last month’s prestigious Renaudot prize, so poetically chronicled Paris’s generation X, from queer clubs to hard house, it was also because her own backstory gave a unique insight on what it was to be part of the underground.Sent by her well-meaning Paris parents to England’s…

They've collaborated onscreen before to varying degrees of success—truly, who could forget Gigli?—and now on-again, off-again power couple Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are partnering up yet again for an upcoming movie. While at the 2023 Elle Women in Hollywood event on Tuesday, December 5, Lopez chatted with ET's Nischelle Turner about her upcoming studio album This Is Me...Now, which, like Beyonce and Taylor Swift's recent tours, will be accompanied by a JLo documentary film. Her famous husband serves as a co-writer…

John Nichols died on Wednesday in Taos, New Mexico. He was 83, Deadline reported. He wrote more than a dozen books, including `The Milagro Beanfield War` and `The Sterile Cuckoo,` both of which were adapted into films by renowned directors. `The Milagro Beanfield War` was co-written by Nichols, whose writings frequently dealt with issues of small-town New Mexico and social injustice. It became a 1988 film produced and directed by Robert Redford, focusing on a conflict between largely Latino farmers and local…