Many people like to think that That ’70s Showended in its seventh season when Eric and Kelso departed, but there is actually an eighth and final season that nobody likes to talk about because it’s just not good. But it does exist!
The final season features Josh Meyers (brother of Seth, you might know him) as Randy, a character that was created to fill the void that Eric and Kelso (Topher Grace and Ashton Kutcher) left, and instead, he was just annoying. In terms of final seasons, it could have been worse.
Meyers (not that one) was a guest on Podcrushed, where he revealed that Demi Moore, who was married to Kutcher at the time, attended the taping of the finale (where Kutcher made a guest appearance) and she did not silence her cell phone, which is problematic when you think that cell phones were not invented in 1979, when the final season takes place. Oops.
“It was a very hard scene for the cast to get through because they had done this show for so long, and it’s emotional when you get to the end of a show,” Meyers explained. “People were crying. People were stumbling over lines. We kept having to reset. We kept having to have makeup come out.” After some time, Meyers confirmed that they “had sort of hit a stride” and then a phone rang from the audience. The phone belonged to Moore.
Meyers said, “And she took the call! And the director was like, ‘What?’ Her phone rang and she was like, ‘Yeah, hello?’ And we had to do it again.” In her defense, Moore was getting ready to star in Mr. Brooks, so the call very well could have been coming from Kevin Costner, and he’s not a person you can just ignore.
Even though Moore messed up the final episode ever, Meyers added “I mean, no disrespect, Demi.” To her credit, not a lot of people were watching That 70s Show season eight, and maybe a phone call during an emotional moment would shake things up for the better!
Jay-Z has sparked speculation over whether the rapper might have a new album on the way. The theories started through his The Book Of HOV exhibit auction in the Brooklyn Public Library, according to People Magazine. He had a depiction for each of his 13 albums, but there was an empty spot for a 14th one — which could very well get filled soon.
In the photo of the raffle item, it was a signed leather case that had each of the albums printed as commemorative library cards. Yet, there is a clear gap after his 4:44 album, raising questions about why that was left empty. (13 is also an odd number, so maybe they just wanted even rows.)
“I’ll say I wanna make music, but it has to be something important,” Jay-Z told King when asked about new music. “I don’t wanna just make a bunch of tunes. That’s not gonna serve me. It won’t feed me, first of all. I have to be saying something important. It has to mean something, you know? It has to mean something to a larger society.”
The Fugitive was nominated for seven Academy Awards and was the second highest-grossing film of 1993 – and if not for Steven Spielberg, it would have most likely gone down as the greatest cinematic success story of that year. (The Fugitive lost a lot of Oscars to Schindler’s List and only made less money than Jurassic Park.)
For its 30th anniversary Warner Bros. has released a truly stunning 4K disc – which is available as you read this – with details and textures (and for people who love film grain, a lot that, too) we haven’t seen since theaters – a major upgrade over the notoriously subpar Blu-ray transfer. Well, that might not be true since, ahead, director Andrew Davis says he thinks it’s never looked as good as it does now and that’s probably correct.
Ahead, Davis takes us through some of the technical magic that made this disc look so great, and he gets into how the final film differs drastically from the first script he saw. In early drafts, Tommy Lee Jones’s Sam Gerard has an actual vendetta against Harrison Ford’s Richard Kimble, as opposed to just “doing his job.” But, first, I had to bring up the film he made right before The Fugitive, Under Siege. Namely, Gene Siskel’s love for that movie. In fact, he loved it so much it was on Siskel’s top 10 list for 1992. Something apparently Davis did not know until this interview.
Siskel did that? Oh, great. I know his Fugitive review was mind-boggling too. He was a tough cookie. It’s interesting because I just showed Stony Island at the Siskel Center. And Ebert, my first movie, he gave it a rave review and Siskel thought, “No, no.” So I thought it was funny. But he was another Chicagoan. You get your Chicago boys together, they give you good responses.
This new 4K of The Fugitive, it looks incredible. The Blu-ray was notoriously not great and this new transfer just looks incredible. I can tell there was some painstaking work put into this.
Well, that’s very kind and perceptive. Well, so this is interesting, because in the old days all we could do is make things brighter, darker, bluer or redder in terms of film. What the print could do, right? And now with the evolution of digital technology, you can change contrast, you subtly can control colors and skin tones and things like that. So when Warner Bros. agreed to remaster The Fugitive, one of the original audio mixers of the movie got involved. They went back to the original negative, pulled it out of a vault, scanned it in 4K or maybe 8K…
I think it was 8K…
Yeah. And then I was able to come in after they did a pass on it and just fine-tune all kinds of things that I couldn’t do before. For example, there’s a shot of Tommy Lee leaning up against the trailer and then when you come around the front, the lighting doesn’t quite match what it should be. So I was able to darken half of his face very subtly to make it match. I can make things look colder in the winter in Chicago. I can make the blacks at night look better. So what you’re seeing now in the 4K remaster is actually better than you can see in any theater because the projectors and the screens cannot capture the amount of information that you can see on a 65-inch television from this Blu-ray 4K.
It’s interesting, obviously, the television series was very popular…
72 million people watched the last episode, I think.
But it doesn’t have any real footprint today. This movie is now The Fugitive. Have you thought about that?
Well, it’s interesting, one of the best reviews I got was from Roy Huggins who created The Fugitive series, who saw the movie. I met with him and he was just so gracious about loving the movie. So if you satisfy the creator of the original idea… but the original idea comes all the way back from Les Miserables. And so the spine of it was something he took and then we had to take it and make a standalone thriller. Tommy Lee and Harrison and I were not watching The Fugitive in the ’60s. [Laughs] We were doing other things. And when we came upon this, when I had the opportunity to work on this movie, we had to fix the script. We had to find a reason for the doctor to really be in trouble. It was not in the draft I got, it was nothing like it.
The draft I got had Tommy Lee’s character wanting to kill Harrison’s wife because Harrison screwed up on Tommy Lee’s wife in an operation. It was crazy. So we had to figure out how to create a problem for this doctor. And it was this drug protocol. My sister, a nurse and a young resident, came up with and said, “What if there’s a drug protocol and this doctor says it’s killing people, it’s making them bleed?” And that became Provasic.
So I think that it’s relevant today because there’s been so much coverage of misdeeds by pharmaceutical companies who are trying to sell things that aren’t good for you and things like that. People can relate to that, it’s a good bad guy. And the fact that the film has a pace and a rhythm that doesn’t seem dated. And yet it doesn’t have this kind of frenetic, everything’s cut two frames at a time, so people can watch it and still feel like they’re in motion.
There’s no way in real life someone could jump into that waterfall and survive right?
Well, it’s Harrison Ford.
That is true. That’s a good point.
That’s funny because we wound up finding a mannequin, a dummy, threw it over. And my dear editor, Dennis Virkler, would say, he called it a stick man, “It’s never going to work.” And then audiences saw it. “Oh my God, it works.” So you never know what’s going to happen. The dummy put his arms up the right way.
You should still have that dummy. That’d be a good prop to own.
I don’t own that. I have the shoes from Holes, but I don’t have the dummy.
Do you have anything from The Fugitive?
A jacket.
Considering you didn’t know that Siskel put Under Siege in his top 10, I’m guessing you haven’t read the reviews of this disc, but I’ve been reading them and the message boards. All the tech people are over the moon for this. You should read the reviews.
Really? That’s great. Because the people who worked on this did a great job. And the great story with Frank Montaño, because he was the original sound mixer, a 27-year-old, he did Under Siege and The Fugitive. He was the young effects mixer. So when he heard that we were going to remaster it, he called me up, says, “Andy, you got to let me do it. This is my legacy. I don’t want anybody else to remix this movie. I know what it should sound like.” And the Warner people graciously have so much respect for Frankie, they said, “Okay, let Frankie work on it. He knows the picture. He worked with Andy before.” So when we remixed it, the first time I heard it, I said, “Frankie, it sounds looped. It’s so clean. There’s no noise. There’s no background.” And I had to sort of readjust myself because the dialogue is just so pristine now.
Especially the score. Because there’s so much montage in the movie. And when you hear James Newton Howard’s score coming over the whole room, it’s almost like an opera. It’s like a concert because there’s all this montage going on. And so I was very, very touched and happy with both revisiting what everybody contributed to the movie from the crew and the actors and everybody’s involvement and the production team. And then seeing what we could do visually to adjust each little nuance of the color and the contrast in the picture. It was a great opportunity.
What’s really interesting, I’m wondering, because the fact that Warner’s has taken the time to remaster this thing and put it out here, how many people are going to buy it? How many people are into this high-tech quality stuff? And it turns out…
Oh, a lot.
It’s a real global audience that wants the best stuff. And I think it’s a dilemma because the fact that the quality of these discs are so good now and you can watch them on a great monitor with a great sound system, people say, “Well, I don’t need to go to the theater.” And yet being with an audience and watching … we had a great screening at the Aero Theater a few weeks ago, and it was like watching a Stones concert. People knew the dialogue! It still works. So it’s wonderful to see with a full house of people, and the same time, watching it this way by yourself or with your friends is also great.
Apparently, a lot of the actors were concerned this movie wouldn’t turn out well. But were you concerned?
No, I was never concerned that it wasn’t going to work. I didn’t know if it was going to be as successful as it was. I was very happy with the dailies. I was very happy with everybody’s performances. I thought the picture would look great. And I had a great team to cut it. And a great composer. And we had no time to consider anything else. Barry Reardon at Warner Bros. said, “Can you give us this picture for August?” And we’re like, “Are you kidding?” He wanted it in August. And so we put the thing together I think in eight to 10 weeks? It was the whole process of post-production, which was unheard of.
It’s interesting you made these huge hit movies, Under Siege and The Fugitive, that are still beloved today, and there are sequels to both you did not do.
Well, I didn’t want to do Steven Seagal again on a train.
You had obviously worked with him more than once.
Yeah. I did his first movie and that movie. And then I was busy doing A Perfect Murder with Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow and Viggo Mortensen when they did the sequel. And it’s funny, because we had dinner when they were doing the U.S. Marshals movie – we had dinner in New York with Joey Pants and Robert Downey Jr. and Tommy. And then the crew that had worked on The Fugitive were now working in A Perfect Murder. we all had dinner together, and so we all spent time together. But I wasn’t involved in the sequel. And I don’t know, I mean, I would like to make a sequel to The Fugitive. I’d like to figure out how to get Tommy Lee and Harrison back together and figure out a storyline that would make sense. It might be a very interesting story about doctors and marshals. I don’t know.
U.S. Marshals, it’s entertaining.
You know what? I don’t think I’ve ever watched the movie all the way through.
Oh, wow. Okay.
I need to watch it. Maher Ahmad, my production designer, art director who worked on The Fugitive under Dennis Washington was the designer of that movie and did a great job I know with the plane and everything.
The plane actually is really cool. But it’s great you get to do this press tour and do a victory lap for The Fugitive.
Well, it’s nice that the people who worked on it get the attention besides me. I mean, everybody did such a great job working on that movie. And if you look at people’s credits, if they worked on The Fugitive, it’s usually the first thing they list in IMDb. It’s the credit that lives on. So I’m just glad that the movie has a home where people can appreciate it and make it available. Supposedly it’s being released in small art houses around the country now, but I think there’s going to be a major push on Saint Patrick’s Day. Saint Patrick’s Day parade, they’re going to try to put it out in some theaters then.
Two weeks ago, Sexyy Red teased a forthcoming deluxe version of her Hood Hottest Princessalbum, which initially dropped in June. She posted an Instagram video showing the presumed deluxe album cover soundtracked by her rapping, “F*ck my baby dad.” (The St. Louis-bred rapper is pregnant.)
Luckily, we don’t have to wait much longer to get the full Hood Hottest Princess (Deluxe). In fact, that is a gross understatement. The album drops in less than 12 hours — at midnight, December 1.
Sexyy Red just wrapped her Hood Hottest Princess Tour, which spanned from October 16 to Wednesday night, November 29, at The Fillmore in San Francisco, California.
Most recently, Sexyy Red released the video for “Free My N***a.” At the beginning, Sexyy Red says to her pregnant belly, “Say ‘Free My Daddy,’” and we hear a manufactured baby’s voice say, “Free dada.” After that, Sexyy Red — in red lingerie — leads a protest to the gates of a prison and visits with her lover inside.
Hood Hottest Princess (Deluxe) is out on 12/1 via Open Shift.
A common complaint of the Oscars (other than Amy Adams going zero for six) is: why do they have to end so dang late? The 95th Academy Awards, for instance, started at 8 p.m. EST. The ceremony didn’t end until 11:30 p.m. By the time Everything Everywhere All at Once won Best Picture, many people on the east coast were fast sleep.
Thankfully, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is looking out for everyone who doesn’t want to look like tired Stimpy at work the next morning. The 2024 Oscars will air an hour earlier, at 7 p.m. EST / 4 p.m. PST.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, “the decision was driven by a desire to ensure that the show wraps within primetime hours on the East Coast. In years past, there has been a dropoff in viewership as the evening progressed, particularly on the earlier coast, given that most people have to get up for work the following morning.”
Earlier this year, HBO delivered the critically acclaimed series, The Last of Us, which set the bar for video game adaptations thanks for its faithful adherence to source material while also making well-received twists to the narrative. Now, fans are champing at the bit for details on when they can watch Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) continue their story after the Season 1 finale.
Just like Season 1 adapted the first game, The Last of Us Season 2 will start the Herculean task of adapting the award-winning sequel. We’ve rounded up details on what to expect and when show is expected to return.
Plot
As confirmed by series creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, The Last of Us Season 2 will begin the work of adapting the sprawling second game in the series The Last of Us Part II. That installment is so huge, that Season 2 will only cover about half of the game. (There has been talk of possibly taking three seasons to adapt the massive sequel.)
In the Season 1 finale, Joel lied to Ellie about the Fireflies not being able to extract a cure for the Cordyceps virus from her. What actually happened is they would have to kill her to engineer an antidote, prompting Joel to shoot his way out and flee their compound. That deception will be a Chekhov’s gun going into the new season that will be set four-to-five years later.
Here’s the official synopsis for The Last of Us Part II video game to give you a hint of where the Season 2 story is going:
After slaughtering members of the Fireflies rebel group to save Ellie, Joel is now living in Jackson with his surrogate daughter, as well as Maria and his brother Tommy. When a violent event disrupts their peace, Ellie becomes obsessed with hunting down those responsible, even as she’s forced to deal with the physical and emotional repercussions of her actions.
At this point, we should highly caution you to be careful while looking around for plot details from the second game because there is a significant spoiler moment that occurs. (Don’t worry, we won’t tell you what it is.) The Last of Us Part II has been available on Playstation consoles for three years now, so there are plenty of YouTube videos and reviews that could easily spoil the events of Season 2 if you’re not aware.
Cast
Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey are, naturally, locked into reprise their roles of Joel and Ellie. Gabriel Luna is also expected to return as Joel’s brother Tommy. As of this writing, that’s the only cast that’s been officially confirmed.
However, recent uncorroborated reports have suggested that Kaitlyn Dever could play the key role of Abby in Season 2. Dever was a fan-favorite casting choice for Ellie heading into Season 1 and even auditioned for the part, which ultimately went to Ramsey. As of this writing, Dever joining the Season 2 cast is still just an unconfirmed rumor and should be treated as such.
Release Date
After seeing its production disrupted by both the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, The Last of Us Season 2 will not start filming in Vancouver until January 2024. According to Variety, Season 2 is aiming for an early 2025 premiere barring any further delays.
Trailer
Considering production hasn’t even started yet, The Last of Us fans are going to be waiting a while before HBO releases a Season 2 trailer.
The Last of Us Season 1 is available for streaming on Max.
If you just couldn’t get enough of Sexyy Red’s delightfully unhinged approach to blunt, sexually explicit baddie rap, here’s some good news: the deluxe version of her debut album, Hood Hottest Princess, drops this Friday (December 1). Sexyy shared the tracklist for the upcoming reissue, which includes her new single “Free My N****” and such deliciously ratchet titles as “Booty Meat” and “Sexyy Red For President” (which… we could do worse).
Tyla is continuing her busy year by making an appearance on A Colors Show to perform a unique spin of her sing “On And On.” With just a dangling microphone in the room, it gives her vocals a crisp, crystal-clear sound that shows off just how talented she is.
“Let’s take it back in time / Party like it’s ’95,” she sings in the pre-chorus, making it a chill take on the carefree anthem. “I just wanna dance all night / You know that I like it like that / Let’s take it back in time / When the Parties were like ’95 / I just wanna dance all night / Tell them, ‘Turn the lights out.’”
The track has been rumored to be included on her forthcoming self-titled debut album, which has been suspected to be dropping in early 2024. At the very least, she has new music coming. Tyla made waves through the success of her song, “Water.”
“As soon as I heard ‘Water,’ I said, ‘It’s over.’ We have the song,” she told Rolling Stone about the experience of appreciating her song on first listen. “I would describe ‘Water’ as the song of the year… it’s the sound of Africa. It’s not only for Africa, but it’s for the world… It’s literally me [bringing] Africa to the world.”
Check out Tyla’s new “On And On” performance above.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce seem to be doing well. The Spotify-dominating pop star is reportedly planning to “hunker down” at the NFL player’s house in Kansas City, Missouri, during the holidays (the Eras Tour doesn’t resume until 2024). “Taylor’s still smitten with Travis. But she realizes that the hard work in their relationship is about to start as they will be spending weeks at a time together. Up until now it has been time snatched as they both have had such busy schedules,” an insider told the Daily Mail. “They finally have the time and opportunity to spend some for real quality time together.”
Paige VanZant isn’t buying it.
The UFC fighter turned self-proclaimed “queen of OnlyFans” shared her conspiracy theory about Swift and Kelce’s romance. “I think that the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce ‘love story,’ I believe it’s 100 percent fake,” she said on her Page and Austin podcast, according to the Daily Mail. “Come for me, ‘Swifties.’ I have UFC fans coming for me, I think I can handle the ‘Swifties.’ It is publicity. It is — one, it’s huge for the NFL because yes, the NFL is big.” VanZant added, “Think of the wives that are buying Travis Kelce jerseys now. It’s a huge publicity play on both fronts. It’s good for Taylor Swift, it’s good for the NFL, it’s good for Travis Kelce. There is so much strategic stuff that’s happening.”
Counterpoint: the NFL needs Taylor more than Taylor needs the NFL (look at the ratings for games where she’s in attendance), so there’s nothing in it for her — except meeting a handsome, successful, likable guy. This is the person who wrote “You’re Losing Me” we’re talking about. Just let her be happy, Paige, jeez.
Netflix’s Narcos and Narcos: Mexico came to a final crescendo a few years ago, years after Pablo Escobar bit it on a rooftop in the original series. The show remained a bingeworthy selection until the very end, and if six seasons wasn’t still enough in your mind, then the streaming service will soon have a treat for you on the drug-lording front.
Sofía Vergara has stepped into dramatic shoes for the first time to portray Griselda Blanco, the so-called “Cocaine Godmother,” in the fittingly titled Griselda limited series. This isn’t a direct crossover show, but I will say that it’s one of the few shows I’ve watched lately where it ended, and I thought, “Damn, a few more episodes would have been even better.” That is to say, this series certainly feels like a Narcos show in several ways that will quickly become apparent.
Plot
Vergara headlines while pulling executive producing duties for a series billed as a “cousin” to Narcos by Narcos: Mexico executive producer Eric Newman. He’s onboard for this limited series along with Narcos co-creator Doug Miro. Additionally, the Modern Family star underwent a hefty transformation in this role, spending hours in makeup and prosthetics each day.
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Griselda ran the cocaine trade in-and-out of Miami in the late 1970s and 1980s after fleeing to the U.S. with her first three sons to escape her abusive husband. She soon found that she had the skills to run the joint on her own but of course, she ran into plenty of opposition in a male-dominated criminal underground. In other words, the fight to be taken seriously did not discriminate between legal and illegal professions. Once she did pass those obstacles, however, it was off to the races.
She also loved becoming known as the “Cocaine Godmother” and even chose the first and middle names “Michael” and “Corleone” for her fourth son. This, of course, was not a subtle move, yet in the series, it takes years for dogged detectives to piece together her culpability, and part of that slow pace was owing to the police force being a so-called “boy’s club,” too. In other words, few could fathom how a woman was running an $80 million per month cocaine empire in her heyday. Let’s just say that she was a talented recruiter:
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Griselda was also a killer who ordered many merciless hits on her enemies and those who would stand in her way. It’s estimated that she was actually responsible for somewhere between 50 to 250 murders. She was very persuasive and charming, which was not great for her enemies when it came to her ruthlessness and savage ways. Naturally, she also had some fatal vulnerabilities — along with growing notoriety — that eventually kicked off her empire’s crumble, even after she ran though at least 20 aliases. No one could ever accuse her of not being prolific. From Netflix’s description of this show:
La Jefa is coming. Sofia Vergara transforms in this series, inspired by Griselda Blanco, a woman who rose from obscurity to become ‘the Godmother’ of the underworld. Witness her lethal blend of charm and ruthlessness in this captivating series.
Cast
The ensemble cast not only includes Vergara but also Vanessa Ferlito as Carmen and Juliana Aiden as a detective who works to take down Griselda’s empire. Some familiar faces (to Narcos audience) will also appear. Those include Alberto Guerra, who will portray one of Griselda’s husbands, Darío Sepúlveda, and Christian Tappan as Arturo Mesa, a supporter of Griselda in Miami’s cocaine trade.
Release Date
January 25 is when the binging shall begin on this series.
Trailer
A full trailer has arrived to highlight how Pablo Escobar couldn’t have all the chaos in the coke trade.
Griselda streams on January 25, 2024.
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