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2 min read Walter White famously said, “I am the danger.” But as Breaking Bad actor Bryan Cranston tells Esquire, the real danger might be our inability to let go of his award-winning antihero. When asked in a new video for Esquire if he would ever return to play Walter White in a Breaking Bad reboot, Cranston said, “Walter White was done.” “I’ve reprised him a few times,” Cranston said, “So, I think we’d let him go.
3 min read The search for more money awakens. At CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Amazon MGM revealed its slate of upcoming movies headed to theaters, chief among them the long-gestating Spaceballs sequel. Some ten months after the project was announced, a new pre-taped video presentation featured comedy sage Mel Brooks, who personally revealed the title of the movie—and explained why it isn’t the one you thought it would be. “It’s me, Mel Brooks! I have a major announcement,” Brooks says in the video.
5 min read On a crisp, sunny April morning in New York, guests entered the 44th floor of Hearst Tower, where floor-to-ceiling windows flooded the space with light. Executives, editors, designers, chefs, activists, and supporters were gathering for the 5th annual Hearst Magazines Eco-Conscious Living Summit, presented by James Hardie. Sustainability was already on guests’ minds.
4 min read One of the biggest Hollywood leaks since North Korean hackers released all those Sony emails in 2014 happened last weekend. Avatar: Aang, The Last Airbender was an upcoming sequel film to the hit Nickelodeon fantasy series Avatar: The Last Airbender that aired from 2005 to 2008 and set a new standard for all-ages animation.
2 min read Marshals was not a runaway success. Yellowstone fans who wanted to see how Kayce Dutton’s (Luke Grimes) story would carry on in the first sequel spin-off were mostly disappointed. Marshals is more of a task force procedural that just so happens to feature Kayce, and less of a true Yellowstone sequel. But as the show enters the midpoint of its debut season, that sentiment is beginning to change.
8 min read There are Scotch whisky brands, and then there is The Macallan. The Speyside distillery has spent 200 years building something closer to a luxury house than a spirits company, one where a single bottle holds the world record for any wine or spirit sold at auction: $2.7 million. In 1926, a sherry-seasoned cask—number 263—was filled with new-make spirit in Speyside, Scotland. Sixty years later, in 1986, The Macallan’s masters of maturation decided it had reached the apex.
3 min read When Game of Thrones begins, the HBO fantasy series drops viewers into a succession conflict that is already thousands of years in the making. Audiences ended up falling in love with writer George R. R. Martin’s world building and rich, detailed history—not to mention an entire crop of undiscovered talent in Kit Harington, Sophie Turner, and Emilia Clarke. But the story ended in such controversy that HBO’s franchise expansion efforts seem hesitant to chart a course forward.
3 min read Hey, Warner Bros. It’s me. Listen, I know y’all are going through some rough stuff right now. I sympathize with you … you poor little landmark movie studio that’s gained and lost billions through decades of ill-fated mergers. I mean, we all had an AOL phase. Anyway, I see what you’re doing with Weapons and I think we need to have a long, hard talk. For starters: Why?
3 min read For the last twenty-plus years, I’ve kept a dirty secret: I like the 1998 Godzilla. I enjoy it for the simple reason that I was six years old when it hit theaters, my dad took me to see it, and we had a blast. Hard to argue against spending time with your pop watching a giant lizard stomp through New York City. But I’ve been afraid to say this because, in case you weren’t aware of niche fandoms, kaiju genre purists loathe that movie. Why?
3 min read It was 16 long years ago when, in the 2010 film The Social Network, Justin Timberlake (playing Sean Parker) uttered the line, “A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.” Those prophetic words have since defined the last decade and a half in technology, politics, and culture, in which the ruling ethos is endless profits at-all-costs. Now, it’s time to reckon with what that’s done to us.