With $40.5 million, Scarlett Johansson is the highest-ranking female on Forbes‘s annual list of best-paid acting professionals. Her earnings come mostly from her role as Black Widow in the Avengers franchise. (The figures for the highest-paid male actors are far higher.)
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We’re Entering The Age Of Subscriptions
“We are living in the age of subscription of everything right now. My friends and I joke that one day you will be able to get a life subscription, and then one day, you unsubscribe, and then you die.”
The Obsessive Fans Of ‘Twin Peaks’, And The Answers To The Questions They Obsess Over
The Internet was the perfect way for those who loved the original series to bat their theories back and forth, and from the medium’s days, that’s what they did. Joanna Robinson offers a brief history of that fandom and how it affected the Twin Peaks franchise and eventual reboot – and she gets a few mysteries clarified by co-creator Mark Frost.
The Key Thing Sasha Baron Cohen’s ‘This Is America’ Reveals Isn’t Gullibility Or Bigotry – It’s Fear
“Cohen’s real trump card is [the character] Col. Erran Morad, an Israeli ‘anti-terrorism expert’ who plays into every fantasy American conservatives seem to have about Israel. … Morad exposes these worshippers of military masculinity as almost parodically antiheroic. They’ll do anything as long as it’s called ‘training,’ no matter how humiliating it is in their eyes, and if it will save their own skin.”
So Sasha Baron Cohen Embarrassed You And You Want To Sue? Lotsa Luck With That
It’s true that SBC and his colleagues often deceive their guests to get them to appear on camera. So there’s a case, right? Well, many have tried to sue him and his producers before, and almost all of them have lost. Sopan Deb explains why.
Everyone Seems To Hate The “Popular Movie” Oscar. Just Wait, Says An Academy Board Member
“I think it’s been very much in the DNA of Hollywood motion-picture making that there’s somewhere where entertainment and art meet and co-mingle,” he told THR. “And I think, once [the details of the new award are] explained, people will understand better.”
How Twitter Went Wrong? When It Tried To Be The Community Of Everyone
The internet of old — composed largely of thousands of scattered communities populated by people who shared interests, identities, causes or hatreds — has been mostly paved over by the social-media giants. In this new landscape, basic intelligible concepts of community become alien: The member becomes the user; the peer becomes the follower; and the ban becomes not exile, but death. It is not surprising that the angriest spirits of the old web occasionally manifest in the new one. But what’s striking is how effectively they can haunt it, and how ill-equipped it is to deal with them.
Asia Argento, One Of The Leaders Of The MeToo Movement, Paid A Settlement To Her Own Accuser
“In the months that followed her revelations about Mr. Weinstein last October, Ms. Argento quietly arranged to pay $380,000 to her own accuser: Jimmy Bennett, a young actor and rock musician who said she had sexually assaulted him in a California hotel room years earlier, when he was only two months past his 17th birthday. She was 37. The age of consent in California is 18.”
The Push For A ‘GoldOpen’ For ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Really Worked
It’s rare for a rom com to open at number one, but for a nonsequel comedy, the PG-13 movie posted the biggest opening weekend since last year’s Girls Trip, which featured four African American women and a star-making turn from Tiffany Haddish.
Oh Crap: Netflix Is Thinking Seriously About Adding Advertisements To Its Shows
Cries of “NO!” go up from millions of throats, but the streaming behemoth is probably going to do it anyway. As a matter of fact, it’s already in beta. “With increased competition from Hulu, though, Netflix has decided to begin testing out a new feature that brings its service more in line with what Hulu is offering. Netflix calls the new feature ‘recommendations,’ but we think a more catchy name would be ‘commercials.'”