Variety reports that some WB executives are open to the idea of keeping Ezra Miller as the Flash after ‘The Flash’ releases on June 16, 2023.

Variety also describes James Gunn and Peter Safran’s plans for DC as “a broad but not blanket reset.”

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— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) January 4, 2023

• Variety reports that some Warner Bros executives are open to the idea of keeping Ezra Miller as the Flash after 'The Flash' releases on 16th June 2023.


• Sources say that given that Miller has stayed out of trouble since beginning mental health treatment in the summer (wow), some executives are amenable to continuing with the actor after “The Flash” releases on June 16.


• “Aquaman 2” “Shazam!” “Blue Beetle” and Gunn’s “Peacemaker” series for HBO Max all could have a place at the table.


• Gunn and Peter Safran's vision for DC's future will not include Henry Cavill's Superman or Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman at all. *EDIT* James has tweeted this report about Wonder Woman is false*


• As mentioned in this post Dwayne Johnson directly pitched to CEO David Zaslav in April 2021, on a multiyear plan for Black Adam and a Henry Cavill led Superman, in which the two properties would interweave, to set up a Superman vs Black Adam showdown, sources say, but it did not go down well.


• Gunn and Safran's DC plans are reported to be as a "broad but not blanket reset".

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Ashley Olsen Marries Boyfriend Louis Eisner in Intimate Wedding Ceremony in Bel-Air: Report https://t.co/VOxTufMEIg

— People (@people) January 5, 2023

Reportedly, they married on December 28 in a small ceremony. Louis is an artist, he posts his art on his Instagram. Ashley is 36 and her husband is 32 or 33.

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The public domain refers to creative works for which copyright and intellectual property rights no longer apply (or never applied to begin with) - meaning that anybody can re-interpret or adapt the works however they please without having to get permission or pay for the rights!

Every year on January 1, a number of creative works in various mediums enter the public domain as copyright terms expire. Copyright terms vary country to country and works from different years and in different formats tend to expire at different times.

Why is this significant? Well, for example, last year A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh entered the public domain which spawned a horror film called Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey

Here's what's entered the public domain in 2023:

Metropolis (1927, directed by Fritz Lang)


The wildly influential silent sci-fi film from director Fritz Lang is now in the public domain.

Below the cut are some other movies, books, and musical pieces that are now free game:



Movies:

• The Jazz Singer (the first feature-length film with synchronized dialogue; directed by Alan Crosland)
• Wings (winner of the first Academy Award for outstanding picture; directed by William A. Wellman)
• Sunrise (directed by F.W. Murnau)
• The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (Alfred Hitchcock’s first thriller)
• The King of Kings (directed by Cecil B. DeMille)
• London After Midnight (now a lost film; directed by Tod Browning)
• The Way of All Flesh (now a lost film; directed by Victor Fleming)
• 7th Heaven (inspired the ending of the 2016 film La La Land; directed by Frank Borzage)
• The Kid Brother (starring Harold Lloyd; directed by Ted Wilde)
• The Battle of the Century (starring the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy; directed by Clyde Bruckman)
• Upstream (directed by John Ford)

ONTD, which movie do you think will be the first to be re-made?

Books:

• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
• Copper Sun by Countee Cullen
• Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne, illustrations by E. H. Shepard (please leave this man alone this time!)
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
• Men Without Women (collection of short stories) by Ernest Hemingway
• Mosquitoes by William Faulkner
• The Big Four by Agatha Christie
• Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton
• The Gangs of New York (the original 1927 publication) by Herbert Asbury
• The Tower Treasure (the first Hardy Boys book) by Franklin W. Dixon (pseudonym)
• Der Steppenwolf (in the original German) by Hermann Hesse
• Amerika (in the original German) by Franz Kafka
• Le Temps retrouv'e (the final installment of In Search of Lost Time, in the original French) by Marcel Proust

ONTD, which book do you think will be the first to get an adaptation?

Music:

• The Best Things in Life Are Free (George Gard De Sylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson; from the
musical Good News)
• (I Scream You Scream, We All Scream for) Ice Cream (Howard Johnson, Billy Moll, Robert A.
King)
• Puttin’ on the Ritz (Irving Berlin)
• Funny Face and ’S Wonderful (Ira and George Gershwin; from the musical Funny Face)
• Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man and Ol’ Man River (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern; from the
musical Show Boat)
• Back Water Blues, Preaching the Blues, Foolish Man Blues (Bessie Smith)
• Potato Head Blues, Gully Low Blues (Louis Armstrong)
• Rusty Pail Blues, Sloppy Water Blues, Soothin’ Syrup Stomp (Thomas Waller)
• Black and Tan Fantasy and East St. Louis Toodle-O (Bub Miley, Duke Ellington)
• Billy Goat Stomp, Hyena Stomp, Jungle Blues (Ferdinand Joseph Morton)
• My Blue Heaven (George Whiting, Walter Donaldson)
• Diane (Erno Rapee, Lew Pollack)
• Mississippi Mud (Harry Barris, James Cavanaugh)

ONTD, which song is going to get sampled first, and by which artist? My money's on I Scream, You Scream by BeBe Rexha





OP highly recommends checking out the source below. They have a huge write-up with interesting information on how copyright works, how Canada is flopping at the copyright game, and some interesting facts about what kind of stuff copyright does and does not apply to!

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Prince Harry claims William and Kate Middleton told him to buy Nazi costume https://t.co/8Lbj9qEqrR pic.twitter.com/bLpMi3o1Is

— Page Six (@PageSix) January 5, 2023

Harry, who was 20 at the time, says William and Kate "howled with laughter" when they saw him dressed up for the party. The party with a "Native and Colonial" theme.

Harold writes: "“I phoned Willy and Kate, asked what they thought. They both howled. Worse than Willy’s leotard outfit! Way more ridiculous! Which, again, was the point."

One senior publishing source who has read Harry’s “Spare” told Page Six, “It’s strange as you would think that Harry would take ownership of this and just move on and not drag his brother into it, but he makes it clear that he feels strongly about William’s role in the scandal.”

Royal Historian Robert Lacey wrote in his 2020 book “Battle of Brothers” that Willy was the one who would “coax” Harold into his “errant and self-destructive ways.”
“For the first time, their relationship really suffered and they barely spoke,” one former aide told Lacey. “Harry resented the fact that William got away so lightly.”

Innocent Harold hated being the “comical fall guy” to his brother’s “glittering hero.”

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Secret Meetings, Tequila and #BlackAdam vs. Superman: How Dwayne Johnson’s Bid for DC Power Flamed Out https://t.co/H2lOo8DSUK

— Variety (@Variety) January 4, 2023

In what may be the funniest WB Scandal of 2022, the hierarchy of the DC Universe did not change in the way The Rock had hoped. Many sources are anonymous or downplay events, but as Variety is not in Dwayne's pocket like Deadline is, I trust them a bit more.

April 2022:

• The Warner/Discovery merger closed, and The Rock (TR) pitched a multi year plan for Black Adam and Cavill's Superman to set up an eventual throwdown ala BvS (but better, barely, probably).


• "Dwayne went around everyone" (as Emmerich and Hamada were on the way out) ", which didn't sit well".

After April 2022 but before October 2022:

• Film co-heads approved a Cavill cameo in the BA credits scene.


• Cavill parted ways with his manager -- TR's exe wife, Dany Garcia ('it was unrelated to the DC drama' and she remains a 'strategic advisor')

Somewhere between April and July 2022:

• TR pushed for a producing credit on "DC League of Super Pets" where he voices someone doing something, but 'did little to promote it' according to these sources, though, oddly, he's the only person I remember promoting it.

Whenever Black Adam Premiered

• He wanted a tequila bar featuring his Teremana brand despite the movie being PG-13.

The ROI wasn't enough to keep giving into this man. So, late last year, The Rock told us all that there were no plans to go further with Black Adam at the time, putting to rest a flop 10 years in the making.

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Gabrielle Union: Why I felt 'entitled' to cheat during Chris Howard marriage https://t.co/7I2JNTOZ9I pic.twitter.com/zJcuDpuPsZ

— Page Six (@PageSix) January 4, 2023

Union felt “entitled” to cheat on Chris Howard during their “dysfunctional” marriage.
“I was paying all the bills, I was working my ass off and I felt like that’s what comes [with it],” 

She called infidelity “the spoils of riches,”
“Like my dad before me, whoever has the most gets to do whatever the hell they want, is what I thought.”

Union accused the NFL player of cheating as well.
“Neither one of us felt like our marriage should get in the way of our dating. Part of it was keeping up with his activities. I was like, ‘Oh, that’s what you’re doing? Oh, you’re gonna feel this one.'”

She called their romance a “stupid” one that “should have never gotten out of the dating phase,” they had “not one thing in common, no morals, no values, no scruples.”

Union described herself as “horny for validation” at the time.
“Having certain kinds of guys like me and want me … made me feel like I was worthy and good and valuable and deserving,” 

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Witness the mother of all evil in the official trailer for Evil Dead Rise - only in theaters April 21. #EvilDeadRise pic.twitter.com/CMtitMZumK

— Evil Dead (@EvilDead) January 4, 2023

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The film was set for a HBO Max exclusive streaming release but screening previews were so positive, the studio moved for a theatrical release.

Mommy loves you to death. Evil Dead Rise – in theaters April 21. #EvilDeadRise pic.twitter.com/i3SnmW1x9n

— Evil Dead (@EvilDead) January 3, 2023

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The first major release of 2023 is Blumehouse's M3GAN, a little robot girl who kills people (probably kills people). And the review embargo for the film, releasing on Jan. 6th, drops today!

VARIETY: “M3GAN” almost feels like it could be a cult film, the sort of thriller that generates a small but devoted following and maybe a sequel or two. You don’t have to take the movie seriously to enjoy it as a high-kitsch cautionary tale for an age when technology, especially for kids, is becoming the new companionship.

THE WRAP: Johnstone’s film captures the same alchemical blend of heart, humor and havoc you find only rarely, in crossover classics like “Gremlins,” and it yields more entertainment than most would-be blockbusters.

EMPIRE: M3GAN may be silly, but it's a toy story like no other. (They also say it 'does not match the originality of Malignant, but what on earth does?)

VANITY FAIR: I wish, though, that director Gerard Johnstone wasn’t hemmed in by the film’s PG-13 rating. How much more fun could M3GAN be were its murderous creation really allowed to let loose?

DISCUSSING FILM: Any killer doll is going to have a rough time escaping the Chucky comparisons, as the original 1988 film basically defined the genre, but M3GAN really does feel like a better refined version of that reboot.

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this mess deserves its own post

McCarthy just can't get the votes (218) he needs, he just lost the still ongoing round 5

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“I never wanted to be the next Rock. I just want to be a good f--king actor. A respected actor.” Read @DaveBautista's #GQHype cover story by @yanggoh here: https://t.co/dh5PGoCBjO pic.twitter.com/3vj5O0LVvC

— GQ Magazine (@GQMagazine) January 4, 2023

Dave Bautista talks with GQ Hype about moving from wrestling to acting and working with the who’s-who of Hollywood auteurs—from Glass Onion's Rian Johnson to Dune's Denis Villeneuve.

- His career approach: “I never wanted to be the next Rock,” he puts it plainly. “I just want to be a good fucking actor. A respected actor.” 

- On his acting: “I’m afraid of things,” Bautista says. “I’m nervous about things. But I can force myself to do things that make me uncomfortable, because I know I’m not gonna get anywhere if I don’t. I may cringe after the fact, but I’m not going to let that fear hold me back.” 


- His World Championship Wrestling tryout: “My training partner and I walked in,” Bautista says, “and we’re twice as big as anybody in there. Not only do we look the part, but we’re athletic. And the guy who was running the camp singled us out and literally ran us into the ground. Just could not get rid of us fast enough. We’re puking, my buddy’s nose starts bleeding. He’s just humiliating us. End of the day, he tells me to leave and that I’d never be a professional wrestler.”

- By 2009 he was one of WWE's biggest stars but didn't feel like one: “John Cena and I were both headlining shows,” Bautista says. “I was [the face of] SmackDown. He was Raw. But he was being used in [WWE-produced] films and television commercials and magazines, and I was just headlining shows. In fact, there was one point where he was off making a film and I was headlining both sets of shows and the pay-per-views. It was just a feeling of, ‘We’re not getting equal opportunities.’”

WWE contract negotiations fell through in January 2010 when they wouldn't let him make movies on the side like Cena.

- He burned through his wrestling money and had to take some straight -to-DVD roles to make ends meet: “Before I left WWE, Stone Cold Steve Austin pulled me aside and said, ‘You’re going to get offers for horrible scripts. The money will be tempting. Don’t get caught in that trap.’” So, even when he could hardly afford to do so, Bautista insisted on being “picky and choosy” about the projects he appeared in. Not poisoning his IMDb page with too much low-budget schlock, he figured, was more valuable in the long term than whatever experience he might gain from those roles.

- M. Night Shyalaman on Bautista: “It felt more like working with Haley [Joel Osment] in Sixth Sense than anything else,” M. Night Shyalaman tells me of directing Bautista in Knock at the Cabin. “When Haley came on set, the set would become reverential—even though he was 10, he was approaching it with an importance, all of his cells were going toward the emotion of his character. Dave conveyed that same thing. All the other actors fed off his purity of intention. It was infectious in the best way.”

- On 'Knock at the Cabin': “It’s by far the most I’ve ever spoken in a film,” he says. “Just huge pages of monologues. We were shooting on film, which is very expensive. And we were shooting with one camera, so you don’t have the luxury of edits. It’s your only opportunity—you need a perfect take. It’s a lot of pressure. I want to remember my dialogue, but not at the expense of losing the emotion of the scene.”

- Rian Johnson on Bautista: “I keep telling all my filmmaker friends,” he says, “that someone is going to give Dave a real dramatic lead role in a movie, and they’re going to look like a genius.”

- He held an early screening of 'Glass Onion' for the 'Dune 2' and be the end Javier Bardem was dancing in the aisle: “It was the first time he really embraced me,” he says. “Our conversations after that were different. Which, for me, was fucking everything.”

- Being a movie star: “Honestly, I could give a fuck [about being a movie star],” he says. “I don't live a great big glamorous life. I live here in Tampa. I don't care about the spotlight, I don't care about fame. I just want to be a better actor. I want respect from my peers. I don’t need accolades—I really don’t, man. It’s about the experience, about knowing that I accomplished something.”

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‘Oceans 11’ prequel starring Margot Robbie & Ryan Gosling begins filming on March 6.

Javier Bardem is rumored to have joined the cast.

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— Cinema Solace (@CinemaSoIace) January 3, 2023

The Ocean's Eleven prequel starring Margot Robbie (32) and Ryan Gosling (42) (and Javier Bardem (53)? Maybe?) is set to begin production sooner than expected. Filming will begin filming March 6th in Europe. This will be the second film starring Robbie and Gosling, after Summer 2023's BARBIE (-1).

The Ocean's film, set in the 1960s (as did the original starring the Rat Pack (67)), will be written by Carrie Solomon and directed by Robbie's Bombshell director, Jay Roach (65). Robbie and husband Tom Ackerly (32) will produce. Film details- like with BARBIE- are being kept tightly under wraps, with not even a plot known. While taking place in the Ocean's movies universe that star George Clooney (61) and Sandra Bullock (58), it's not expected to be directly connected to those films.

Not really feeling Ryan Gosling's paycheck era, T.B.H.

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Through a direct paper trail leading to Pocahontas and John Rolfes’ 1614 marriage certificate, @EdwardNorton learns that his family lore appears to be true. His 12th great-grandmother is Pocohantas!

Tune in TOMORROW night on @PBS at 8/7c for the Finding Your Roots premiere!! pic.twitter.com/54sTTt2YKY

— Henry Louis Gates Jr (@HenryLouisGates) January 2, 2023

• Norton appeared on Finding Your Roots where it was revealed his 12th great grandmother was Rebecca Rolfe aka Pocahontas


• Norton had heard through family lore that he was related to the Rolfes but appeared shocked by the confirmation

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ONTD do you have any interesting family lore?

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'Blonde' star Ana de Armas continues her Best Actress Oscar campaign with a visit to The Tonight Show just ahead of the Golden Globes Jan. 10 and with Oscar nomination voting opening Jan. 12.


AdA tells Fallon the only ice cream she eats is Ben & Jerry's Tonight Dough and she gamely has it on hand while Jimmy shills it to the audience. She then goes on to talk about filming the 'John Wick' spinoff 'Ballerina' with Keanu Reeves, finding out about her Golden Globes nomination, and she hits her usual talking points about 'Blonde'.

She also plays a game with Jimmy. Watch below!



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T.J. Holmes' estranged wife, Marilee Fiebig, breaks silence on Amy Robach affair https://t.co/efaPorPoVZ pic.twitter.com/bpKuDaIyel

— Page Six (@PageSix) January 4, 2023

Marilee Fiebig released a statement to Daily Mail via her divorce attorney.

“During the holiday season and in light of the challenging times, Marilee’s sole focus has remained on the overall best interest of her 9-year-old daughter [Sabine],” Lehman told the Daily Mail.

T.J., 45, and Amy, 49, were seen flaunting their affair over the holidays, packing on the PDA in Miami  

Marilee Fiebig hit out at Holmes's 'lack of discretion, respect and sensitivity' as their 12-year marriage publicly crumbled.

'Notwithstanding, we continue to be disappointed by T.J's lack of discretion, respect and sensitivity toward Marilee and the party's daughter.

'Marilee has been touched by the outpouring of support and looks forward to a new beginning in this new year.' 

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In the Christmas excitement I forgot to share my interview with Oona Chaplin, in which she said… many things https://t.co/Xyo7KSR8Kj

— Tom Murray (@tom_murray3) December 27, 2022

Nepo baby Oona Chaplin (granddaughter of Charlie chaplin) was interviewed by The Independent about her new Netflix spy thriller series Treason, which she stars in alongside Daredevil’s Charlie Cox and former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko and said she's tired of the "Russian baddies" stereotype in Western TV and film. She's also slammed the idealogical war against Russia : “I’m so sick and tired of Russians being the bad guys. I can’t even tell you,” she says. “It’s just like, can somebody come up with a better stereotype that we can roll with?” The Russian element was added as they went along, she explains, “maybe because of the given circumstances [alluding to the war in Ukraine]; maybe because it just raised the stakes... It’ll be great when the ideological war that we have with Russia is old news.”


On nudes scenes when filming Game of thrones: While Emilia Clarke has since suggested that she was not always made to feel totally comfortable in those scenes, Nepo Baby (played Rob Stark's wife from GOT) is clear she had no such issues. “At the time, I was young, and I was very, very willing,” she says – plus, she had “very specific parameters... no nips, no bits”.
She was asked what she makes of the popularity nowadays of intimacy coordinators. She’s not entirely convinced. “I mean... great that more people are getting jobs,” she says with a sarcastic chuckle. “It’s great to give people a voice when they feel they might not have one,” she adds, but “at the same time, if you say yes to a script, then you say yes to a script. If you’re put in a situation on set where you’re asked to do things that you’re not comfortable with, then f***ing stand up for yourself and say no.”

On Charlie chaplin : The journalist was not allowed to talk about him. Charlie had numerous relationships with women as young as 16, the last of which was Oona’s grandmother (Oona O’Neill the daughter of Irish-American playwright Eugene O'Neill and writer Agnes Boulton ), whom he married when she was 18 and he was 54. Their marriage spanned 34 years until his death in 1977.


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Ringing in the New Year with girlfriend Kate Cassidy, 23, Liam Payne, 29, threatened to release new music this year. "Happy New Year," wrote the "Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah" singer. "I hope 2023 brings you everything you ever wanted. Heck who knows maybe even some new music. Have a good one," he added with an "x" at the end.

In 2019, his debut album LP1 debuted on the Billboard 200 Chart at no. 111 and no. 17 on the UK Album Charts.



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