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12 Movies That Have Been Banned Around the World PINTEREST.COM The boundaries of good taste are a very intangible thing, but there are some out there who protect those boundaries ferociously. Of course, there are also artists and innovators out there who are working to steadily subvert that sense of good taste by pushing the limit of their art into new and often unsettling places. Sometimes, ground-breaking artists like John Waters and Stanley Kubrick just push a little too hard, too fast. That’s when close-minded government types clamp down on innovation just because it sometimes comes with a little bit of the old ultra violence. And ultra sex. And sometimes torture. Of course, a solid X-rating isn’t the only reason that films get banned, but it doesn’t hurt. Sometimes, however, you’re just Claire Danes. 1. MONTY PYTHON’S LIFE OF BRIAN Comedy troop Monty Python put the institution of Christianity squarely in its sights when  Life of Brian  was released

Author Gillian Flynn Inks Deal with Amazon Studios DFREE  /  SHUTTERSTOCK.COM Four years after complications with HBO, author  Gillian Flynn has found a new home  for her passion project at Amazons Studios, an American adaptation of the British series  Utopia . The nine-part series follows a group of young adults who connect online and come into possession of a cult underground graphic novel filled with possibly-true conspiracy theories. As the gang is forced into the position of trying to save the world, a dark deep state organization pursues them to bring an end to their efforts. “ Utopia  is pure creative catnip to me,” Flynn shared. “Dennis Kelly’s show blew my mind, and he has been so incredibly generous in letting me crack open his world and play around in it and make it my own weird, wild place.  Utopia  is all about exploring resonant issues within dark, twisted storytelling—it’s a series that’s urgent and current and a little holy-crap!, but a h

Tina Fey Introduces Gilda Radner Documentary at Tribeca Film Festival Last night in New York City at the kickoff event for the 17th annual Tribeca Film Festival, an audience screened the first documentary from filmmaker Lisa D’Apolito,  Love, Gilda , at the Beacon Theatre. The movie chronicled the career of beloved comedian Gilda Radner, focusing mainly on her years at  Saturday Night Live . Festival founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal welcomed guests to the premiere screening, but  it was Tina Fey  who introduced the documentary, though she was not interviewed for the film. “I can personally attest, and I feel comfortable speaking for Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, and Rachel Dratch, when I say that seeing Gilda as a kid, she was lovely and she was so authentically herself and so regular in so many ways,” commented Fey. “She was not a piece of casting. She was who she was on the TV. We all saw that and said, ‘I want to do that.’It’s an early exampl

Yes, Netflix’s ‘Maniac’ Is a Thing That Is Happening (Later This Year) On Thursday, streaming giant Netflix released a flurry of tweets from its official account, each one showcasing an upcoming project for the channel this year. There were several pleasant surprises (like  GLOW’s  second season), but the real winner was visual proof that the channel has a planned release set for Cary Fukunaga’s adaptation of  Maniac . In  Maniac , Jonah Hill and Emma Stone play mental patients who are given the opportunity to live a new life in a world of their own design. The 10-episode mini-series will be helmed exclusively by Cary Fukunaga, the visionary director behind  True Detective  Season One and  Beasts of No Nation , the latter of which  you can stream on Netflix , right now. Just be prepared to look at Idris Elba in an entirely different light. Maniac  is being written by series creator Patrick Somerville, a contributing writer to prior hits like HBO’s  The L

Vice Signs Deal with Netflix for Multimodal Release Strategy CAPPASITY.COM Today, Netflix announced a deal signed with Vice Media’s tech-culture brand, Motherboard, to bring the feature-length documentary  The Most Unknown , to the streaming service along with movie theaters across the country later this year. “Netflix was a pretty obvious partner for us, because they have big scale – we know it’s going to a global audience,” commented Derek Mead, ‎Vice Media’s executive editor, global, and former editor-in-chief of Motherboard. The Most Unknown  hits theaters in 20 U.S. cities on May 18, beginning with the Quad Cinema in New York City. Then in August,  The Most Unknown  will arrive on Netflix for an exclusive two-week run before being made available on Motherboard’s platforms. Following the Netflix release, Motherboard will produce nine 15-minute-long episodes about each of the scientists profiled in the documentary that will be made available everywh

Hulu Saves Another Modern Classic TV Series  PINTEREST.COM Today, streaming giant Hulu announced that it had acquired one of the most popular series of the last decade, the Texas-based football soap opera  Friday Night Lights . It’s another smart move (and another great series) for Hulu’s service, which continues it’s slow but steady growth. While Netflix continues to spend billions on seemingly dozens of new series, Hulu has contended itself dividing its budget between standout original programming ( The Handmaid’s Tale ,  Casual ,  The Path ) and snapping up series that have dropped off of Netflix’s ever-shrinking library.  Friday Night Lights  represents the latest release in Hulu’s aftermarket expansion. Hulu has made a regular habit of swooping in and buying the streaming rights to beloved series from recent years. They’ve already added  Parks and Recreation ,  30 Rock ,  How I Met Your Mother , and  The West Wing , among a tidal wave of series th

Recorded Jail Call Reveals Robert Durst’s Regret About ‘The Jinx' Even though the six-part documentary aired over three years ago on HBO,  The Jinx  is still causing problems for accused murderer Robert Durst, the son of New York City real estate mogul Seymour Durst.  Yesterday in a Los Angeles courtroom , prosecutors played a record jail call from 2015 in which Durst tells an unnamed friend that he “definitely had a problem” in regards to the damning HBO docu-series. In the final episode of the documentary, Durst mumbles to himself while still wearing a microphone, “What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.” To many, this comment seemed to be a confession to the murders of his wife Kathleen McCormack Durst, friend Susan Berman, and neighbor Morris Black. Also, during the fifth episode of the documentary, producers revealed they had a letter Durst sent to Berman in 1999 showing his handwriting and how he misspelled Beverly Hill. The handwriting an

Could Steven Spielberg Be the Creative Influence That Turns Around the DCEU? BAKOUNINE  /  SHUTTERSTOCK.COM Hot on the heels of his successful sci-fi pic  Ready Player One , news has broken that Steven Spielberg is in talks to produce and possibly direct an adaptation of DC Comics’  Blackhawk . The development could prove a game changer for the DCEU, especially if they can coerce Spielberg into helming the feature. Blackhawk  follows a team of World War II fighter pilots known as the Blackhawk Squadron who use Nazi aircraft to run stealth campaigns behind enemy lines. While the comic was initially published in 1941, the  team has undergone several changes  to make the lineup less xenophobic (one of the original members was an Asian fella called Chop-Chop). Over the course of its sporadic 70-year run, the team has been buried and resurrected, mixed around, retconned, and thrust centuries into the future. As a result, Spielberg could choose from a variety of