HBO Is Developing a TV Adaptation of 1997’s ‘Wag the Dog’

HBO wants to turn the 1997 political satire Wag the Dog into a television series. According to The Hollywood Reporter, original director Barry Levinson is attached to adapt Wag the Dog for TV in the form of a half-hour comedy for the network, which is described as “an ode to the classic film, but moving […]

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Review: Groundhog Day finds its own way to dazzle as a Broadway musical

You have opinions about Groundhog Day, the 1993 movie starring Bill Murray as weatherman Phil Connors, stuck in Punxsutawney, Penn, reliving the same day until he gets it right. You definitely have such affinity for it (and of Stephen Tobolowsky’s performance in the film) that multiple Broadway audiences have burst into applause just at the […]

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Kristen Wiig Joins Cate Blanchett in ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette’

Kristen Wiig just landed another starring movie role. According to Deadline, Wiig has joined the cast of Where’d You Go, Bernadette based off Maria Semple’s bestselling 2013 novel. Richard Linklater will direct the film, which follows “a once famous Los Angeles architect-turned-recluse who disappears, prompting her techie husband and her 15 year-old daughter Bee to […]

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