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Why This Will Smith Movie Is Caught up in An Ugly Legal Controversy
Two of the Oscar winners films are involved in behind the scenes drama, one of which has drawn the star into a lawsuit.
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House Mediocre: Game of Thrones Creators Had a 'Learning Experience' Not Afforded to Non-White Males
David Benioff and D.B Weiss, House White Male Mediocrity, First of Their Names landed Game of Thrones without any TV experience. “Dan is saying that #GameofThrones was basically an expensive film school for he and Dave,” writer @ForArya reported from a panel featuring the duo at the Austin Film Festival. “For example, they had no…
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Can We Get a Spinoff? EW's Game of Thrones Tribute Has Us Craving More Black Love on the Iron Throne
As much as we can’t wait for Game of Thrones’ return, we are well aware that it will be the beginning of the end—the end of an era, that is. *sniffle* But since we’ve already been off book for a couple of seasons now (as the series has followed George R.R. Martin’s outlines for sequels…
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HBO’s Confederate Will Be a Dumpster Fire. Here Are 3 Shows They Should’ve Made
Confederate, the new show by Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, sounds like hot trash. Smelly, putrid, straight-from-the-piss-drenched-dumpsters-of-1980s-Times Square trash. While the concept isn’t finalized, Confederate will more or less be an alternative history in which the South won the Civil War (the first or the second; there are varying reports), slavery…
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Of Course HBO Greenlit "Confederate" Because White Guys Get Funding For Every Idea (Even Bad Ones)
Confederate — the upcoming HBO series from Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss that rewrites history to depict an America where the Confederate states successfully seceded — might actually end up being a good show. I don’t have much faith that it actually will be. This series is a re-imagining of…