Winter is here, and so is the seventh season of the show, which premieres July 16, 2017. Here's a look at what we can expect in the weeks ahead based on the trailers, teasers and some rumors about the show. WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD
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It seems Ben Affleck has less creative control over his standalone Batman movie than we thought.
The actor originally came into playing the latest version of The Dark Knight with an impressive start in "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," and reports were that he would be writing and directing a standalone movie on the character.
Then in January, Affleck announced that he would no longer be directing the movie, now titled "The Batman." However, the project was still going forward with him in the lead, and with the script he wrote with DC Films' head Geoff Johns and Chris Terrio.
But now it sounds like Affleck will just be the star of the movie.
The new "The Batman" director, Matt Reeves, while promoting his latest movie "War for the Planet of the Apes," told MTV's Happy Sad Confused podcast that he's starting from scratch.
"No, it’s a new story," Reeves said. "It’s just starting again. I’m excited about it. I think it’s going to be really cool."
Sources told the trades back in January when Affleck bowed out as director that Warner Bros. had issues with Affleck's script. Reeves has said in previous interviews that he's planning on giving "The Batman" a noir feel.
Affleck's script had Deathstroke as the villain of the story. Joe Manganiello has been cast for the role. It's unclear if the character will still be in the movie.
Affleck will next be seen playing Batman in "Justice League" coming out November 17.
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Awards season is officially back, even though it feels like it just ended. The Emmy awards nominations are in, and this year there was some tough competition.
With "Game of Thrones" airing in the middle of summer, there were more opportunities for some other shows and stars to get recognized this year, like "Westworld," "This Is Us," and "The Handmaid's Tale."
"There has never been a more impressive time for television," said Television Academy Chairman and CEO Hayma Washington before introducing the presenters, "Veep" star Anna Chlumsky and "S.W.A.T" star Shemar Moore.
The 69th annual Primetime Emmy Awards, hosted by Stephen Colbert, will air live on CBS Sunday, September 17, from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
Here are the 2017 Emmy nominees:
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"Better Call Saul"
"The Crown"
"The Handmaid's Tale"
"House of Cards"
"This Is Us"
"Westworld"
"Atlanta"
"Black-ish"
"Master of None"
"Modern Family"
"Silicon Valley"
"Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt"
"Veep"
"Fargo"
"Feud: Bette and Joan"
"Genius"
"The Night Of"
"Big Little Lies"
Netflix has once again flexed its TV muscles at the Emmys, nabbing three nominations in the best drama series category and two in best comedy series.
In drama, the noms went to "House of Cards," "The Crown," and "Stranger Things." While on the comedy side it was "Master of None" and "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt."
The five total bests the three it received in these categories last year: "House of Cards" (drama series), "Master of None," and "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" (comedy series).
It also means that in these two categories, Netflix snagged 36% of the noms.
In the drama category, the Netflix titles will be up against the HBO hit "Westworld" and Hulu's "The Handmaid's Tale." On the comedy side the streaming giant will go up against last year's winner in the category, HBO's "Veep" and the critically-acclaimed "Atlanta."
Though Netflix has had incredible success at the Emmys with nominations and wins in previous years, it has yet to take home of prize in either of these categories.
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Hulu will be a major player at the Emmy Awards for the first time this year, thanks in large part to its new series "The Handmaid's Tale," which received thirteen Emmy nominations on Thursday.
A dystopian thriller based on Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel of the same name, "The Handmaid's Tale" has garnered universal acclaim from critics since its first season premiered in April.
The show is up for thirteen Emmy nominations in categories that include best drama series, best lead actress in a drama series (for Elisabeth Moss), and best supporting actress in a drama (for both Ann Dowd and Samira Wiley).
Hulu received its first-ever nomination in 2014 for its sports series "Behind the Mask." Last year, the service had two nominations in variety special writing ("Triumph's Election Special 2016") and visual effects ("11.22.63"), but it lost both.
Hulu has never won an Emmy Award for its original content. Meanwhile, its streaming rivals Netflix and Amazon have had tremendous success at the Emmys with acclaimed shows like "Orange Is the New Black" and "Transparent," respectively. (Netflix has won a total of 55 Emmys, and Amazon's "Transparent" has alone garnered 24 nominations and 8 wins.)
Outlets have already speculated, however, that "The Handmaid's Tale" will be the show that finally pushes Hulu over the top for its first Emmy win. This year it has many strong chances to do so, with 18 total Emmy nods.
In the category of best drama series, "Handmaid's Tale" will face off against AMC's "Better Call Saul," Netflix's "The Crown" and "House of Cards," HBO's "Westworld," and NBC's "This Is Us."
Elisabeth Moss is a critical favorite for the best lead actress award for her portrayal of the "Handmaid's Tale" protagonist, Offred. She will face off against several heavy-hitters, including Viola Davis ("How to Get Away With Murder") and Robin Wright ("House of Cards").
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There were a lot of great performances on television in 2017. And that's great, but it also creates a little problem: A lot of actors are nominated in the same categories as their costars, who are, when you really think about it, coworkers.
This makes the competition even more intense, since it becomes a question of who was better on the same show.
With amazing performances from the cast of "Big Little Lies," "The Night Of," "The Handmaid's Tale," "Saturday Night Live," "Feud: Bette and Joan," and more, these are all the actors competing with their costars for an Emmy this year.
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Carrie Fisher isn't through amazing us.
The legendary actress, who died last December at 60, received a posthumous Emmy nomination on Thursday in the guest actress in a comedy series category. It was for her role as Mia, the tormenting mom of Rob (Rob Delaney) in the Amazon series, "Catastrophe."
Fisher, known by many for playing Princess Leia in the "Star Wars" saga, had an impressive career on the small screen (not to mention as an author and screenwriter). This marks her third Primetime Emmy nomination. In 2008, she was nominated in the guest actress in a comedy series category for her appearance on "30 Rock." Then in 2011, she was nominated in the outstanding variety, music, or comedy special category for her one-woman HBO show, "Wishful Drinking."
Fisher died four days after suffering a heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles last December.
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The world of e-sports is massive and still growing, and advertisers are wondering how they can profit from this phenomenon.
Kevin Lin, COO of Twitch, and Peter More, chief competition officer of EA, sat down with Business Insider's Steve Kovach at IGNITION 2016 to discuss the role advertisers play in e-sports.
In addition to revenue sources like subscriptions, donations, sponsorships, event-based ticketing, merchandise, food and beverage, and in-game items, Lin said advertising is the main way e-sports are monetized.
So why do advertisers want to get involved? For one thing, the viewership numbers are huge. “Some of them hit tens of millions,” Lin said. “In concurrents, you’ll see millions.” Additionally, users spend two hours a day, on average, watching content. During competitions, the number grows to 8 to 10 hours.
Another reason e-sports are intriguing to advertisers is the demographic they reach. According to Lin, 90% of the Twitch audience subscribes to Netflix or Hulu rather than traditional cable. “Broadcasters are wondering how to reach this demographic,” Moore said, so they want to be a part of e-sports.
With millions of young people not seeing traditional advertisements, companies are recognizing the need to engage with younger audiences in other ways. But there is a challenge in this form of advertising. Because this audience is not used to traditional advertising, they are quick to recognize when something is not authentic.
Moore mentioned that brands have to be careful when entering this space, and must be able to show they are truly interested in growing the field of e-sports rather than just selling a product.
“A lot of brands that are very interested in the space are building entire divisions that are hired from the community,” Lin said. “They can help craft a message and marketing plan that really resonates.”
When done correctly, massive success can be had. For example, Nissan launched a holiday campaign on Twitch. The Twitter impressions and chat messages involving the word “Nissan” were in the millions. Nissan did not expect this result, but because the campaign was authentic it succeeded.
Companies have huge potential to reach a new audience by dipping into e-sports, and we will likely be seeing even more of this in the future.
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Emmy voters still love Bill Maher.
The 2017 Emmy Award nominations were announced Thursday, and Maher, host of "Real Time with Bill Maher," got a nod for best variety talk series.
Any other year this wouldn't be too noteworthy, but Maher has recently been criticized in the news for using the 'N-word' on "Real Time." On the show, Maher joked that he was a "a house n—r," when responding to his guest Senator Ben Sasse, who asked if he wanted to "work in the field" with him.
Nomination voting for the Emmys closed June 17 this year. Maher's episode of "Real Time," in which he uses the racial slur, aired June 2, 15 days before Emmy nomination voting closed.
"Real Time" has been nominated for an outstanding variety series Emmy ten times in the past 11 years. Maher received an Emmy nomination every year with the exception of 2015, when Maher instead received an outstanding variety special Emmy nomination for his "Bill Maher: Live from DC Special."
Beyond "Real Time," Maher has consistently snagged Emmy nominations for his work in television. Maher's show "Politically Incorrect," which aired before "Real Time," racked up 11 Emmy nominations over the course of its nine-year run.
But Maher has only won one Emmy ever, and that was for "Vice," HBO's topical news show, which Maher is the executive producer of.
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"Game of Thrones" is a colossus of a show. Over the past 6 seasons, it has introduced dozens upon dozens of characters — a large majority of whom contribute something vital to the overall story.
But this being "Game of Thrones," most characters don't stick around too long, unless their presence is needed to help decide the fate of Westeros.
IMDB user ninewheels0 went through all six seasons of the show to find out how much screen time each and every character — from Ned Stark to Ilyn Payne — received on the show.
Check it out below:
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Starting off our list is everyone's favorite sellsword. Being Dany's lover has its upside.
There's a lot of money going into television these days, which means there are tons of great performances and quality shows (maybe too many). So when the Emmy nominations were announced on Thursday, a lot of deserved nominees were left behind.
This year, a lot of the snubs are particularly surprising, with the most notable being Winona Ryder from "Stranger Things," Justin Theroux from “The Leftovers,” and Thomas Middleditch from "Silicon Valley."
Here are all the 2017 Emmy snubs:
Kesha released her newest song "Woman" on Thursday, the expletive-filled second single off of her new album "Rainbow," slated to release August 11.
Kesha had not released any new music for the past four years prior to the release of her single "Praying" on July 6, due to an ongoing court battle with Sony and her former producer, Dr. Luke. Kesha had been trying to get out of her contract with Sony and Dr. Luke, whom she alleges drugged her, in addition to sexually and verbally assaulting her, during her time recording with him at Sony. Sony removed Dr. Luke from the company back in April, and since then Kesha has picked right back up where she left off.
In a personal essay penned by Kesha for Rolling Stone, which also published Thursday morning to coincide with the release of her latest single "Woman," Kesha explains what drove her to write her new female (em)power anthem, "Woman."
Kesha writes:
"I have always been a feminist, but for much of my life I felt like a little girl trying to figure things out. In the past few years, I have felt like a woman more than ever. I just feel the strength and awesomeness and power of being female. We hold the key to humanity. We decide if we populate the Earth, and if so, with whom. We could just decide not to have any more kids and the human race would be over. That is power. I just really f---king love being a woman and I wanted an anthem for anyone else who wants to yell about being self-sufficient and strong. (Yes, men, this song can be for you too.)"
"Woman" the second song to be released from "Rainbow" is a funk-filled pop song with a Western tinge. Kesha's pride in being a self-sufficient woman shines through, and it's a perfect song to amp anyone up, no matter what gender they identify with.
You can watch the music video for Kesha's new single "Woman" here:
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Somehow, against all expectations and logic, the first Netflix original show derived from a video game is very, very good. More impressive: The show is based on the "Castlevania" game series, a long-dormant game franchise most well-known for being immensely difficult to play. Its story was secondary at best, and early games involved bizarre dialogue that was mistranslated from the original Japanese.
The "Castlevania" show on Netflix, however, is both a rare example of how to successfully adapt a video game to film and it's a great show unto itself.
With writing from legendary author Warren Ellis, "Castlevania" manages to flesh out the world and characters of fictional 15th century Wallachia (modern day Romania) better than any "Castlevania" game ever has. The first season is an almost-too-short four episodes, and it spends much of that time setting up the world, its characters, and their motivations.
We don't meet Trevor Belmont, the over-confident protagonist, until more than 20 minutes into the first episode. He's not the focus, really — this is a show about Dracula, in case that wasn't clear already. But Dracula in "Castlevania" isn't just some bloodthirsty monster sneaking around at night.
Does this guy look like a bloodthirsty monster to you?
He looks like a sympathetic, dashing gentleman if you ask me. And that's basically what the show sets up from the start. Aside from living alone, and living in a menacing building, and the fact that he immediately threatens his visitors, the man commonly known as "Dracula" is introduced as an intellectual loner at absolute worst.
Forget about the literal field of human bodies on pikes leading up to his house — this guy's a puppy dog.
He's a man of the sciences, even, and he finds love through his studies — a human who wants to be a doctor, who manages to overcome the terrifying landscape around Dracula's home, and requests his help in mastering the sciences.
He grants her that help after some charming back and forth, and, well, things don't go too well from there. Such is the life of a vampire in 15th century Eastern Europe.
In the short 30 minutes of the first episode of "Castlevania," you'll find much of what makes the rest of the first season so surprisingly great: Sharp writing, beautiful art, and a thoughtful criticism of human existence. As ever, Warren Ellis brings a level of societal criticism that makes a potentially shallow piece of entertainment into something deeper than it requires. He could've just written a show about a dude who kills vampires, with pithy dialogue, and that'd probably be pretty good as well. Instead, he spends lengths of time debating the reality of institutionalized religion.
It's this level of sophistication — mixed with a healthy bit of necessary humor and gratuitous hyper-violence — that makes "Castlevania" such a success.
I'm not a fan of the game series, and I'm not a major fan of anime/graphic novel-style TV shows (with a few exceptions). I am, however, a big fan of the new "Castlevania" series; that Netflix has already renewed the show for a second season with double the episode count tells me that I'm not alone in that sentiment.
You can see the entire first season, which comprises four episodes, on Netflix right now. Check out the trailer for the first season here:
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After the dramatic events in season 6 — including some major character deaths — fans are eagerly waiting to find out what lies in store for the people of Westeros. Here are some of the big plotlines we hope to get some answers to on July 16th, when the show returns to HBO. Season 7 is coming!
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Beyoncé shared the first pictures of her newborn twins on Instagram Thursday night. The superstar and her music mogul husband, Jay-Z, reportedly welcomed Sir and Rumi Carter into the world last month. The couple also has a 5-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy.
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Netflix is building one of the most substantial treasure troves of video in Hollywood, and the value of its content has more than doubled in the last two years, according to new research by Morgan Stanley.
The firm's analysis shows Netflix's content library is currently worth around $12 billion in net assets for the first quarter of this year.
By comparison, Netflix's library was worth a total of $5.7 billion in net assets at the end of Q1 in 2015.
And that's not just old shows and movies Netflix is licensing from established players.
The streaming service's original content (including acclaimed shows like "GLOW" and "Stranger Things") has become central to its growth.
According to Morgan Stanley, at the end of 2015, original content made up less than 5 percent of the company's net assets. In Q1 of this year, however, the ever-expanding, original-video trove now counts for 14 percent, or $1.7 billion, of Netflix's assets.
Netflix's original programming began in 2013 with its release of the first season of "House of Cards." The move was spurred by the realization that streaming rights for traditional TV and movie content would become increasingly expensive in the coming years, making production of original content a more profitable and cost-effective way forward for the service.
Since then, Netflix has poured billions into a rapidly expanding reservoir of original shows, movies, and standup specials.
But that has required a lot of cash up front.
In 2017, Netflix expects to have a negative free cash flow of $2 billion to accommodate its continued investment in original content. While such a large negative short-term FCF has raised eyebrows on Wall Street, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has insisted that front-loaded costs for the content will breed positive results in the long term.
Hastings has also shown signs of refining the expansion of the service's original programming by taking the axe to absurdly expensive shows like "Sense8" and "The Get Down."
According to Morgan Stanley's research, Netflix in 2017 will outspend its closest streaming competitor on original content by over $2 billion. Netflix has said it will shell out around $6 billion on content this year. Amazon will spend around $4 billion for its own content, while Hulu will spend roughly $2.5 billion, according to Morgan Stanley.
In the end, according to a recent statement from Netflix content boss Ted Sarandos, the service's investment in original shows remains "pretty consistent" with the amount of hours people spend watching them, and "efficient" compared to licensing shows and movies from others.
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Flawed characters on television shows are so hot right now. And they have been for years, starting with Tony Soprano on "The Sopranos," which debuted in 1999. Then we had Don Draper, Walter White, Piper Chapman, and nearly everyone on “Transparent," “Girls,” and "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." You get the idea.
Now we have Netflix’s “Friends From College,” which debuted on the streaming service Friday. “College” was created and written by Nicholas Stoller (“Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” “The Five-Year Engagement”) and Francesca Delbanco, Stoller’s wife who has appeared in small roles in his films.
“College” follows six friends from — you guessed it! — college. They went to Harvard, and they love to talk about how they went to Harvard. This is probably unrelated, but Stoller went to Harvard.
Novelist Ethan (Keegan Michael-Key) is married to lawyer Lisa (Cobie Smolders). They were friends in college. But ever since college (at Harvard, remember?!), he’s been having an affair with Sam (Annie Parisse) whenever she comes to visit Chicago from New York City. Sam is another friend from college (Harvard College).
In the first episode, things get complicated for Ethan and Sam when Ethan and Lisa move to New York City to sleep on Marianne’s (a criminally underused Jae Suh Park) pull-out couch. There's no explanation as to why they are living on the couch. But regardless, Ethan and Sam try to end the affair because it is bad, and they don’t want to be bad people.
But they don't end the affair. Because they are bad people, and every character on this show is a bad person, save for Dr. Felix Forzenheim (Billy Eichner), Marianne (who is essentially non-existent), and at times, Nick (Fred Savage).
One of the very few funny scenes is when the men in the cast do drugs together. They draw in permanent marker on the window in Nick's luxury New York City apartment, they tap dance, and they throw pizza at the walls and on the ceiling — to see how long it stays there. Eventually Eichner's character, Felix, comes out of his bedroom and screams, "I have surgery in the morning!" Then a whole pizza falls onto the floor. Watching these characters wait for the pizza to fall onto the floor would be more interesting than watching this entire season.
A subplot that involves Ethan and Lisa trying to make a baby doesn't work, because it's trying too hard to get you to emphasize with them and invest in their relationship, that you know is doomed from the first few minutes of the first episode. Another subplot about Lisa being miserable at her job because her co-workers are foul, obnoxious a-holes in blue button-downs doesn't work either, because even though you know her husband is cheating on her, she's not that great, either.
All eight episodes try desperately to find some kind of humanizing or humorous way to get you to care about these people. The fact that most of these friends from (Harvard) college are bad people is not the problem. You can root for and care deeply about bad people like Walter White, Don Draper, Tony Soprano, and Hannah Horvath. But those people are interesting, and these people are not.
Even the show’s cast, which consists of some of the best actors in comedy right now — Keegan-Michael Key, Cobie Smolders, Fred Savage, and Oscar winner Nat Faxon — can’t make these characters or their boring stories engaging, exciting, or funny. The show almost feels like a cruel joke set up like this on purpose, just to see what how much everybody hates it.
I was really looking forward to this show. “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” is not just one of my favorite comedies ever, it’s one of my favorite movies ever. I love everything Keegan-Michael Key does, and I loved all the hilarious clips I got the chance to view prior to watching all eight episodes.
To my disappointment, the only thing I was impressed with was Billy Eichner’s performance. Eichner doesn't rely on his typical screaming, and proves he has some range. His character is also on the audience's side. Felix doesn't understand how these people are real and alive and have friends and jobs — and he isn't afraid to let them know how much he dislikes them. The cinematography and overall look of the series is another good thing. The look is dark and stylish, especially for a comedy series, reminiscent of "Master of None."
Toward the end of the season it builds up a bit — but only a bit, and it’s awful hard to get there without wanting to pull your hair out. And it's a shame that Nat Faxon barely gets a chance to do anything until the last two episodes, because by then it's too late to care.
If you think affairs and immature people who mention that they went to Harvard more often than they breathe air are edgy, then this is the show you’ve been waiting for. Dramas that are comedic or comedies that are dramatic do work. But they work when the show knows what it is and knows its characters. Unfortunately, "Friends from College" does not.
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HBO's "Game of Thrones" returns for its seventh season on Sunday, July 16.
Here's what some of the series' biggest stars look like in real life.
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Beyoncé was far and away the highest-earning music artist of 2016, according to Billboard's annual "Money Makers" list.
Billboard's ranking combines artists' US sales, streaming, publishing, and touring revenues for a composite look at who's dominating the music industry each year.
Easily topping the outlet's chart for this year's 50 most successful artists, Ms. Knowles beat out her second-place competition (Guns N' Roses, shockingly) by nearly $20 million.
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The latest movie by Christopher Nolan features stars like Tom Hardy, Oscar-winner Mark Rylance, and Cillian Murphy — but when you leave the theater after watching “Dunkirk” (opens July 21), one of the performances you’ll likely remember most will be the acting debut of pop star Harry Styles.
Formerly part of One Direction, Styles has branched off into being one of the biggest solo performers in the world, and now he’s showing he has acting chops as well.
“Dunkirk” is an intimately told look at the Allied evacuation of the beaches of Dunkirk, France during World War II. Told in three parts — soldiers on the beach, British pilots fighting off German bombers in the sky, and civilian boats on the water en route to Dunkirk to help with the evacuation — Nolan explores the journey of a handful of men involved in all three instances.
Styles plays Alex, one of the soldiers trying to get off the beach, and it’s not easy. Escaping out of sinking destroyers and avoiding being shot at by oncoming Germans soldiers on foot advancing towards the beach, Styles delivers a riveting performance. And for a movie limited with dialogue, he gets a large part of the lines that are spoken.
Nolan is no stranger to doing unique casting. He cast Robin Williams in one of the actor’s rare turns as a bad guy in 2002’s “Insomnia,” had David Bowie play Nikola Tesla in 2006’s “The Prestige,” and then there was the shocking choice of choosing Heath Ledger to play The Joker in 2008’s “The Dark Knight,” which went on to earn Ledger a posthumous Oscar win for best supporting actor.
Nolan sees similarities to those castings and going with Styles.
“Ever since I cast Heath Ledger as The Joker and raised all kinds of eyebrows, I've recognized that this is my responsibility and I really have to spot the potential in somebody who hasn't done a particular thing before,” Nolan told Business Insider. “Because whether you're taking about Harry Styles or Mark Rylance you don't really want to cast them in a position where they are doing something they've already done. You want to give the audience something different. So you're looking at their talent and how that can be used.”
And there was little preference given to Styles in the casting process (though Nolan has admitted he wasn’t aware how famous Styles really is).
“The truth is, Harry auditioned for our casting director, he sent the tape along. The casting director rightly pointed out how good it was. We threw him into the mix with many, many other young men and he earned his seat at the table over a series of very hard-fought auditions,” Nolan said.
Styles definitely holds his own on screen, proving he can move us with his dramatic acting as much as his comedy, which he showed off earlier this year on “Saturday Night Live.”
Nolan can’t wait for audiences to see this side of Styles.
“I’m very excited for people to see what he has done in the film,” Nolan said. “I think it’s truthful and it’s a very tough role he’s playing, too.”
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