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Watching The Dropout Made Jennifer Lawrence Drop Out of Adam McKay's Elizabeth Holmes Film
Jennifer Lawrence was inspired to drop out of Bad Blood after watching The Dropout.
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WATCH: The Trailer for Hulu Documentary God Forbid Exposes Jerry Falwell Jr.'s Shocking Sex Scandal
A Miami pool attendant changed his entire life - and the lives of more than a few others - when...
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Jerry West demands retraction from Winning Time over "cruel" and "deliberately false" portrayal
The NBA icon and Los Angeles Lakers legend, via his attorneys, is calling for a retraction and apology within two weeks...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar rips "drearily dull" Winning Time: It "avoided facts as if they were an STD"
"There is only one immutable sin in writing: Don’t Be Boring! Winning Time commits that sin over and over," the...
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Posted Wednesday 3/23/22 at 11:58PM EDT
Adam McKay's Winning Time is far more insightful and satisfying than his Oscar Best Picture-nominated Don't Look Up
Even though McKay's Netflix climate change satire film is up for Best Picture and Best Original Screenwriting and two other...
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Jodie Comer to star in HBO's Big Swiss drama from Adam McKay
HBO beat 14 bidders for Big Swiss, based on author Jen Beagin's upcoming book of the same name, with the...
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Winning Time's fourth wall-breaking is just too much
It's time to declare a temporary ban on breaking the fourth wall on TV shows and movies, says Kelly Conaboy...
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Winning Time is so captivated with its Adam McKay style, it forgets what made the Lakers exciting
"Winning Time showcases many of the most grating tendencies of McKay’s recent work," says Jack Hamilton of the HBO's Winning Time:...
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Posted Saturday 3/05/22 at 4:01AM EST
HBO's Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty is clearly the work of people who know and love basketball history
"They love shooting in the sweaty practice gyms and the labyrinthine corridors beneath The Forum," says Noel Murray of the...
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Posted Thursday 2/24/22 at 4:01AM EST
John C. Reilly says his career was "dead in the water" when Adam McKay contacted him to star in Winning Time
Reilly was at a career crossroads when McKay texted him and asked him to replace Michael Shannon in the role...
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Posted Wednesday 2/23/22 at 2:16PM EST
NBA, the Lakers and Winning Time's subjects "allegedly detest its very existence," but HBO is already looking ahead at a Kobe-Shaq-Phil season
The Hollywood Reporter goes behind the scenes of the Adam McKay-produced Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, the...
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Posted Saturday 12/18/21 at 5:31AM EST
Author Jeff Pearlman reveals the "insane" process of having his L.A. Lakers dynasty book adapted as HBO's Winning Time from Adam McKay
Pearlman, author of numerous sports books, has had books optioned before.
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Posted Friday 12/17/21 at 4:27AM EST
The Big Short co-writer Charles Randolph is reteaming with Adam McKay for his HBO vaccine drama series
Randolph, who won an Oscar for co-writing The Big Short with McKay, will help pen the untitled series will explore...
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Posted Sunday 12/12/21 at 11:59AM EST
Adam McKay expresses support for Jeremy Strong as The New Yorker defends its controversial profile of the Succession star
Succession executive producer McKay joined Aaron Sorkin, Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway in objecting to Michael Schulman's "Jeremy Strong Doesn't...
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Posted Thursday 12/09/21 at 6:40PM EST
Adam McKay calls the focus on his breakup with Will Ferrell over HBO's L.A. Lakers series "a scary sign of our times"
McKay would rather the media focus on his new climate change movie Don't Look Up rather than his 2019 breakup...