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Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff, dies at 88
John Aniston, star of ‘Days of Our Lives,’ dead at 89
NEW YORK — John Aniston, the Emmy-winning star of the daytime soap opera “Days of Our Lives” and father of Jennifer Aniston, has died at age 89. The actor’s daughter posted a tribute to him Monday morning on Instagram, announcing that he had died Friday, Veteran’s Day. John Aniston served...
Warner Bros. quashed an unauthorized Joker movie. Inside the director’s fight to save it 
On the eve of the premiere of “The People’s Joker,” a parody origin story envisioning the Batman villain as a transgender woman trying to break into comedy, Vera Drew thought she was in the clear. The filmmaker, who jokingly calls herself “the transgender Forrest Gump of alternative comedy” after working...
TV Talk: ‘Fleishman is in Trouble’ marks worthy screen adaptation
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Produced by FX for Hulu, “Fleishman Is in Trouble” proves frustrating but ultimately rewarding. Frustrating because it teases a mystery and then goes off on character tangents for multiple episodes, but ultimately rewarding because when...
‘Black Panther’ sequel scores 2nd biggest debut of 2022
The box office roared back to life with the long-awaited release of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” The Marvel sequel earned $180 million in ticket sales from more than 4,396 theaters in the U.S. and Canada, according to estimates from The Walt Disney Co. on Sunday, making it the second biggest...
Alec Baldwin sues to ‘clear his name’ in movie set killing
LOS ANGELES — Saying he wants to clear his name, Alec Baldwin on Friday sued people involved in handling and supplying the loaded gun that he was using when it fired, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a 2021 filming accident in New Mexico. Baldwin filed a cross-complaint in Superior Court...
TV Talk: Sylvester Stallone crowned ‘Tulsa King;’ effective ‘Virulent’ premieres on WQED-TV
It’s a big weekend for brand-name writer/director Taylor Sheridan: His “Yellowstone” returns for a two-episode fifth season premiere at 8 p.m. Sunday on cable’s Paramount Network and his latest series, “Tulsa King,” premieres its first two episodes Sunday on streaming service Paramount+. More entertaining than Sheridan’s morose “Mayor of Kingstown,”...
Section of destroyed shuttle Challenger found on ocean floor
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A large section of the destroyed space shuttle Challenger has been found buried in sand at the bottom of the Atlantic, more than three decades after the tragedy that killed a schoolteacher and six others. NASA’s Kennedy Space Center announced the discovery Thursday. “Upon first hearing...
TV Talk: ‘American Rust’ needs extras; ‘Good Fight’ goes out swinging
Season two of Western Pennsylvania-set “American Rust,” which begins filming locally after Thanksgiving and will continue in production through early May, seeks “core background” extras, people with “availability to be on set when needed throughout the span of filming,” approximately 1 to 10 days per month. Extras are paid $175...
MSNBC’s election coverage finishes ahead of CNN’s for the first time
NEW YORK — While the votes were being tallied for the Democratic Party’s surprising showing in the midterm elections, some CNN viewers may have been asking “Where’s Wolf?” Longtime CNN star Wolf Blitzer was not the lead anchor of CNN’s prime-time election coverage for the first time since 2004, as...
Review: In ‘The Fabelmans,’ Spielberg looks back in vanity 
A movie by one of Hollywood’s most successful directors that’s based on his early life begins, appropriately enough, at a movie theater and ends in a movie back lot. “The Fabelmans” is clearly a very personal film for Steven Spielberg and it’s as much a coming-of-age journey as a form...
TV Q&A: Do media companies prioritize streaming services over broadcast networks?
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review. Q: Are you noticing a large shift now of channeling shows to the network pay sites? Are these networks trying to move more shows to their...
Review: In ‘Wakanda Forever,’ an empire mourns and rebuilds 
Made in the wake of tragedy, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” reverberates with the agony of loss, piercing the usually less consequential superhero realm. Like someone going through the stages of grief, Ryan Coogler’s movie is at turns mournful and rootless, full of rage and blessed with clarity. In the fantastical...
‘They erase everything’: For this ‘Black Panther 2’ star, representation is resistance 
On his first day at work on “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” Tenoch Huerta gave an impromptu speech. Hanging above his colleagues on wires in his Namor regalia — pointy ears, piercings, the shortest of short green shorts — the Mexican actor addressed everyone present to express his thanks and to...
‘Captain America’ star Chris Evans named People’s sexiest man alive
Captain America is the incredible hunk. The Marvel actor is People’s selection for the 2022 sexiest man alive, a title he’s humbly embracing. “It’s something that as I become old and saggy I can look back on and say ‘I remember then … ‘” Evans told the magazine. “I’m lucky...
Pittsburgh Pop podcast: Talking a former Steelers player on ‘The Masked Singer;’ reviewing ‘Weird,’ ‘Blockbuster’ 
In this episode of the “Pittsburgh Pop” podcast, host Tim Benz and TV Talk columnist Rob Owen discuss Pittsburgh pop culture news of the moment, including the unmasking of Milkshake on Fox’s “The Masked Singer” to reveal former Steelers running back Le’Veon Bell. None of the judges correctly guessed the...
Review: Movie fans will roar, growl over ’50 MGM Films’ book
“The 50 MGM Films that Transformed Hollywood: Triumphs, Blockbusters, and Fiascos,” by Steven Bingen (Lyons Press) The title of film historian Steven Bingen’s new book is reminiscent of B-movie trailers of the 1950s that breathlessly hype “The Most Important Picture of the Year!” But like many of those overripe flicks,...
Review: Serial killer thriller ‘Holy Spider’ gets stuck in its own morally murky web 
On April 8, 2002, Saeed Hanaei was executed for the murders of 16 women between 2000 and 2001 in the Iranian city of Mashhad. The media dubbed him the “Spider Killer” for the way he lured his victims into his lair — the same apartment he shared with his unsuspecting...
Michael Rapaport on his first film role, disrupting and 52 years of talking trash
Michael Rapaport has always been a disruptor. As a kid growing up in New York, Rapaport had a big mouth and could make people laugh, though teachers continually noted his “disruptive behavior” in class. “That’s just a genetic disposition,” says Rapaport, on the phone last month from New York. “That’s...
Phil Spector killed her. The press tarred her. Her mother wants to ‘set the story straight’
LOS ANGELES — It’s been nearly two decades since Lana Clarkson, the statuesque sword-wielding star of “Barbarian Queen” and other action films by Roger Corman, was murdered by songwriter and music producer Phil Spector at his sprawling faux French chateau in Alhambra known as the Pyrenees Castle. For most of...
From ‘Enola Holmes’ to ‘Extraction,’ Netflix bets on sequels
It’s easy to forget that the Netflix original film department is still rather young. Five years ago, the streaming service didn’t even really have one. But things move quickly in the competitive streaming world, especially when starting from scratch. Now with a robust library of proprietary and commercially minded films...
TV Talk: ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic movie debuts on Roku Channel 
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Now available on free, ad-supported streaming service Roku Channel, “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” lives up to the first word in its title. But the suggestion in those last four words? Not so much. Yankovic...
CNBC pulls the plug on ‘The News With Shepard Smith’
NEW YORK — CNBC is ending its nightly newscast with Shepard Smith, the former Fox News anchor who moved to the business channel in 2020. KC Sullivan, who recently took over leadership of the NBCUniversal-owned outlet, told staffers in a memo Thursday that Smith’s final program will air at the...
David Duchovny and Rosemarie DeWitt embrace roles as awful people in ‘The Estate’ 
David Duchovny and Rosemarie DeWitt play cousins who are completely and utterly awful people in the new black comedy “The Estate.” But then, every major character in “The Estate,” which also stars Toni Collette, Anna Faris and Kathleen Turner, is just as terrible. And that, DeWitt and Duchovny say, is...
TV Talk: Pittsburgh-filmed ‘Dear Zoe’ debuts; ‘Blockbuster’ streams; ‘Liaisons’ comes to Starz 
Filmed-in-Pittsburgh coming-of-age-in-grief drama “Dear Zoe” certainly earns its Western Pennsylvania bonafides thanks to Pittsburgh native Marc Lhormer’s attention to local detail. It’s also a pleasant, heart-warming movie that, while about grief, doesn’t succumb to it. In addition to the main story — teenager Tess’ letter to deceased little sister Zoe,...
‘Causeway’ review: Jennifer Lawrence is a veteran readjusting to life, but Brian Tyree Henry is the real draw 
One of the top actors of his generation, it’s only a matter of time before Brian Tyree Henry lands a project that puts his talents front and center. But even in supporting roles, whenever he’s on screen, suddenly you’re locked in to what he’s doing regardless of genre. In the...


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