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Watch Adam Sandler being turned away after not being recognised at a restaurant

“Pleaseee come back”

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Footage of Adam Sandler being turned away from a pancake diner after a waitress failed to recognise him has gone viral.

In a TikTok clip, which you can view below, the Uncut Gems star is told he will have to wait 30 minutes before being seated at a IHOP restaurant.

Sandler is then seen turning around and exiting the establishment.

The clip was later posted online after the waitress realised that she had turned away the Hollywood star.

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“Pleaseee come back,” wrote the IHOP employee in a caption.

Meanwhile, Carey Mulligan is set to star alongside Sandler in the latter’s upcoming Netflix film Spaceman.

The film is set to adapt The Spaceman of Bohemia, a 2017 novel by Jaroslav Kalfar focusing on an astronaut embarking on a solo mission to space.

Spaceman is set to follow “an astronaut (Sandler) sent to the edge of the galaxy to collect mysterious ancient dust. He soon finds his earthly life falling to pieces, and he turns to the only voice who can help him try to put it back together. It just so happens to belong to a creature from the beginning of time lurking in the shadows of his ship.”

Sandler also recently expressed an interest in making a sequel to his classic golf comedy Happy Gilmore.

While Sandler denied that it had been discussed, he and Chris McDonald – who played Sandler’s rival Shooter McGavin in the film – both stated that they would love to shoot a sequel if it was presented to them.

Sandler suggested that the plot could revolve around the two characters competing on the senior golf tour, to which McDonald said would “be a complete blast” to do. “The senior tour with us two? Oh my god,” he said.

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What’s coming to Netflix UK in May?

‘Gladiator’, ‘Bridesmaids’, new ‘Lucifer’, and Zack Snyder’s ‘Army Of The Dead’ are set to land

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Netflix UK has revealed its full list of new releases for May 2021 – see every film and TV show landing on the streaming service below.

Among the biggest new titles arriving on the platform are Zack Snyder’s new zombie movie Army Of The Dead and the second part of Lucifer season five.

Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) will also be available, as well as multiple seasons of popular reality TV series Below Deck. Viewers can also get stuck in to older movies (The Outlaw And His Wife, It Is Never Too Late) and modern classic comedies such as School Of Rock and The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps.

Titles that currently don’t have release dates listed by Netflix but have been confirmed are: Cape Fear (1991), Jaws (1975), Highlander (1986), The Bourne Saga films, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), Les Misérables (2012), Bridesmaids (2011), Inglourious Basterds (2009), Gladiator (2000), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Serenity (2005), 8 Mile (2002), Tremors (1990), Candyman (1992) and Shark Tale (2004).

See the list of titles with confirmed dates below:

May 1
Below Deck (multiple seasons)
Eagle Eye (2008)
Premonition (2007)
Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008)
School Of Rock (2003)
Tamara Drewe (2010)
The Fourth Kind (2009)
The Italian Job (2003)

May 2
Colony (season three)

May 4
Giant Truck (season two)
Selena: The Series (season two)
StartUp (seasons one-three)
Trash Truck (season two)

May 5
Lava Ka Dhaava (season one)
The Circle (season two – finale)
The Sons Of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness (limited series)
Upin&Ipin (season 11)

May 6
And Tomorrow The Entire World (2020)
August Sky – 63 Days of Glory (2018)
American Idol (2021 collection, weekly episodes on Thursdays)

May 7
Girl From Nowhere (season two)
Jupiter’s Legacy (season one)
Men In Black: International (2019)
Milestone (2021)
Monster (2021)
The Secret Life Of Pets 2 (2019)

May 9
Super Me (2019)

May 10
The Corrupted (2019)
Deadly Switch (2019)
It Is Never Too Late (1956)
The Outlaw And His Wife (1918)

May 11
Money, Explained (season one)
Motherland (season two)

May 12
Brightburn (2019)
Dance Of The Forty One (2021)
Oxygen (2021)
The Upshaws (season one)

May 13
Castlevania (season four)

May 14
Ferry (2021)
Haunted (season three)
I Am All Girls (2021)
Jungle Beat: The Movie (2021)
Love, Death & Robots (season two)
Ma (2019)
Move To Heaven (season one)
The Heroic Legend Of Arslan (season one)
The Strange House (2021)
The Woman In The Window (2021)

May 15
Beyblade Burst Rise (season one)
Kuroko’s Basketball (season two)

May 16
Curious George 3: Back To The Jungle (2015)
Dad’s Army (2016)
Highlander (1986)
The Doors (1991)
The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)

May 18
Sardar Ka Grandson (2021)
S.W.A.T. (multiple seasons)

May 19
The Last Days (1998)
Who Killed Sara? (season two)

May 20
Hating Peter Tatchell (2021)
Jay And Silent Bob Reboot (2019)
Special (season two)

May 21
Army Of The Dead (2021)
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous (season three)
Strain (2020)
The Neighbor (season two)

May 25
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

May 26
Baggio: The Divine Ponytail (2021)

May 27
Eden (season one)

May 28
Lucifer (season five, B).
The Kominsky Method (season three)

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Watch the final trailer for ‘Yasuke’, the Netflix anime starring LaKeith Stanfield

The Flying Lotus-scored series arrives April 29

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Netflix has released the final trailer for Yasuke, the upcoming anime series starring LaKeith Stanfield.

Yasuke, which is scored and executive produced by Flying Lotus, premieres this Thursday (April 30). The show is created by LeSean Thomas, responsible for Netflix’s Cannon Busters and Adult Swim’s Black Dynamite.

The anime tells the tale of Yasuke, a samurai of African descent who finds himself in the middle of a conflict between warring daimyo (feudal lords) when he becomes the unwitting guardian of a mysterious child. The character is based on a real historical figure who arrived in Japan sometime in 1579. Yasuke is voiced by Stanfield, who’s fresh from a 2021 Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor over his role in Judas and the Black Messiah.

The new Yasuke trailer, which arrived April 27, expands on the teaser released earlier this month and previews even more of Flying Lotus’ electronic score for the series. Watch it below:

 

Produced by Japanese animation studio MAPPA (Attack on Titan, Yuri!!! On Ice), Yasuke will be released in both English and Japanese.

The English voice cast features Stanfield in the lead role, along with Darren Criss, Ming-Na Wen, Dia Frampton and Gwendoline Yeo. Yasuke is set to feature science fiction elements, atypical for a samurai anime series, with Netflix promising “mechs and magic” in its press materials.

Last week, Flying Lotus released the songs ‘Black Gold’ and ‘Between Memories’, which will serve as the opening and closing themes of the series, respectively. The former features regular collaborator Thundercat and the latter Niki Randa.

On Sunday, Stanfield made an appearance at the 93rd Academy Awards, where he’d been nominated for Best Supporting Actor for playing FBI informant Bill O’Neal in Judas and the Black Messiah. The actor joked on Instagram that he would leave the ceremony early due to a “dry bar”.

The prize was taken by his Judas co-star Daniel Kaluuya, who surprised the Oscars with an eyebrow-raising speech of his own.

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Netflix’s Yasuke Brings New Flair to the Samurai Anime: Review

The highly anticipated new series subverts race and gender roles but spreads itself thin with only six episodes.

Netflix’s Yasuke Brings New Flair to the Samurai Anime: Review
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The Pitch: Yasuke (LaKeith Stanfield) isn’t your typical feudal samurai warrior, and no one will let him forget it: He’s Black. During an age of honor, tradition, and uniformity, the infamous Black Samurai’s high rank makes him a target in a world full of bigotry. But after a lifetime of…

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Netflix’s Yasuke Brings New Flair to the Samurai Anime: Review
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Watch first trailer for season three of Aziz Ansar’s ‘Master Of None’

The Netflix series is set to arrive in full next month

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The first trailer for season three of Aziz Ansar’s Master Of None has been released – you can watch it below.

It was revealed last week that the Netflix series would be making a return, when it was included on a list of new movies and TV shows the streaming platform has scheduled to premiere during May.

Confirmed today (April 26) by the release of the new trailer, the rom-com series is set to arrive in full on May 23, and will chronicle the relationship of Denise (Lena Waithe) and her partner Alicia (Naomi Ackie).

Co-created by Ansari and Emmy Award winner Alan Yang, the third season of the Netflix show will deliver “an evolution of the series that remains tethered to previous seasons while breaking new storytelling ground of its own.”

A synopsis reads: “Directed by series co-creator and Emmy winner Aziz Ansari, and scripted by Ansari and Waithe, this new season is a modern love story that intimately illustrates the ups and downs of marriage, struggles with fertility, and personal growth both together and apart. Fleeting romantic highs meet crushing personal losses while existential questions of love and living are raised.”

Watch the trailer below:

Previously, Master Of None has told the story of Dev and his battles with his romantic and professional life. The Emmy award-winning series aired its first season back in 2015 followed by a second season in 2017.

Series two had a sexual harassment storyline centred on TV chef Jeff (Bobby Carnavale). It preceded real-life sexual misconduct allegations levelled at Ansari in 2018.

The actor and comedian has denied the accusations and has since kept a lower profile, however, he addressed them during his 2019 stand-up tour and his Netflix special Right Now despite never issuing a public apology to the accuser. “Ultimately, I just felt terrible that this person felt this way,” he said while addressing the allegations.

Prior to that, Ansari told Vulture in 2017: “I don’t know if we’re going to do a season three. I wouldn’t be surprised if I needed a looonng [sic] break before I could come back to it.

“I’ve got to become a different guy before I write a third season, is my personal thought, I’ve got to get married or have a kid or something. I don’t have anything else to say about being a young guy being single in New York eating food around town all the time.”

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David Fincher and Netflix reportedly back in talks for ‘Mindhunter’ season three

Season three could happen after all….

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David Fincher is reportedly in talks with Netflix about a third season of psychological crime thriller show Mindhunter.

Last October Fincher said a third instalment was unlikely to happen due to high production costs, also citing exhaustion on his part. The director and screenwriter told Vulture that the series “was a lot for me”.

Now, sources close to Netflix have told SmallScreen that Fincher is back in discussions with the streaming giant.

“All I can really tell you about Mindhunter is that conversations between Netflix and Fincher are ongoing. They are discussing the possibility of bringing the show back for a third season,” the source told the publication.

“It’s still very early days, but Fincher sounds more upbeat about the project.”

Holden Ford and Bill Tench in ‘Mindhunter’. CREDIT: Netflix

In 2019 it was reported that any new Mindhunter material would have to wait for Fincher to finish work on Mank, which sees Gary Oldman star as Citizen Kane writer Herman J. Mankiewicz.

Then, in January 2020, Netflix announced that the show was indefinitely delayed. The show’s lead stars Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany and Anna Torv were all released from their contracts so they could seek work before returning for a potential third series.

Elsewhere in the interview with Vulture last year, when Fincher was asked if he felt like the show was done, he said: “I think probably.”

He continued: “Listen, for the viewership that it had, it was an expensive show. We talked about ‘Finish Mank and then see how you feel,’ but I honestly don’t think we’re going to be able to do it for less than I did season two. And on some level, you have to be realistic about dollars have to equal eyeballs.”

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Christopher Nolan won’t make Netflix films unless they can be distributed globally

Global distribution is what Nolan “wants deeply”

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Award-winning director Christopher Nolan won’t commit to making Netflix original films due to limits with global distribution.

That’s according to Scott Stuber, the streaming platform’s head of original films, who has explained in a new interview why Nolan is resistant to inking a deal.

When asked by The Wall Street Journal if there are any directors who are still reluctant to work with Netflix – noting that it’s the most-nominated studio at the Oscars for the second year running – Stuber said: “I think there are aspects of global distribution in the cinema that are still appealing. Chris Nolan and I have spoken quite a bit…and that’s still something he wants deeply. If we can’t provide that, it will still be an issue for him.”

Netflix has previously given select originals exclusive theatrical runs ahead of streaming in the US (see Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story and Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman) but the deals don’t extend globally.

As IndieWire notes, France operates a 36-month theatrical window, which means movies have to wait three years between releasing in cinemas and landing on Netflix. A future Nolan-Netflix theatrical release in France therefore looks unlikely considering Nolan’s wish for global distribution.

Despite Nolan, who’s helmed films including Dunkirk, The Dark Knight and Tenet, Stuber spoke of other heavyweight directors who are happy to work with Netflix. Scorsese, Baumbach, David Fincher, Spike Lee, and more have all secured deals with the streamer.

“We all want to be recognised by our peers as the best in class. When I started, we’d never been nominated. It’s a great accomplishment and it’s hugely beneficial to the business for not only recruiting artists, but also making sure our customer knows that we try to achieve the best,” Stuber added.

The news follows separate reports earlier this year that Nolan was unhappy with Warner Bros.’ plans to premiere Tenet (2021) via its same-day theatre-streamer hybrid release model.

The film was eventually confirmed for cinema release first and will now land on HBO Max in the US in May.

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‘Shadow and Bone’ review: complex teen fantasy requires extra reading

Google’s your best weapon in the world of Ravka, or a pal who knows the books

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The deep, dark well of fantasy adaptions is still churning up plenty of offerings for streaming addicts. In the wake of Game of Thrones, Carnival Row and The Witcher comes Shadow and Bone, taken from Leigh Bardugo’s sprawling series of YA books, known as the Grishaverse.

Set in the fictional kingdom of Ravka, the Netlfix epic details a world of magic and war, where powerful conjurers and armies face off – and a criminal underbelly thrives in the cities. Most of Ravka is cut off from its western coast by The Fold, a large swathe of land bathed in black clouds, where some seriously unpleasant monsters reside.

Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) is a young woman who, along with her best friend Mal (Archie Renaux), has grown up in an orphanage to the west of The Fold, and each year the children are visited by the Grisha (the name given to those with magical powers, such as telekinesis or fire-throwing) who test the youngsters to see if they should be trained in the magical arts. Neither Alina nor Mal show any such talents, so when they reach adulthood they join the armed forces, for there is a civil war brewing in Ravka. And when the pair find themselves required to cross The Fold, Alina discovers that, not only is she a Grisha, but she may be one of the most powerful to have ever lived, bringing her to the attention of the suave and powerful General Kirigan (Ben Barnes).

Adapting such a dense world is hugely challenging for an eight-part series, and the opening episodes almost collapse under the weight of it all. A dozen key characters require fleshing out while the lore itself needs even more explanation. For fans of the books – and there are many – this is no problem. But newcomers will be forgiven for wondering what the hell is going on and, more importantly, whether they should bother watching.

‘Shadow and Bone’ is Netflix’s latest teen fantasy epic. CREDIT: Netflix

On the bright side, for a show that centres on a literal battle between darkness and light, there are shades in between, particularly with the plucky group of criminals on a mission to kidnap our hero. It’s this mob – led by a scene-stealing Freddy Carter as menacing gang leader Kaz Brekker – who provide the most intriguing developments, offering a welcome break from the main story’s largely predictable plot. Carter supplies a level of subtlety that seems out of Barnes’ reach, for as enjoyable as it is to watch the Westworld star chomp through the scenery, there are few surprises to be found in where his character goes.

There’s plenty to like about Shadow and Bone, not least its 19th century Russia-inspired aesthetic, and at eight episodes, it doesn’t overstay its welcome. Given a bit more time, perhaps the world would be a little easier for non-Grishas to comprehend. But when Netflix serves up fantasy adventures every other week, we need a little more reason to tune in.

‘Shadow and Bone’ is streaming on Netflix now

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The ‘Eurovision’ Songwriters on Their Surprise Oscar Nomination

It took these veteran songwriters more than 60 attempts to write Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams’ showstopper, “Husavik (My Hometown).” Could a song written to win an award in a movie actually win an Academy Award?

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It took these veteran songwriters more than 60 attempts to write Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams' showstopper, "Husavik (My Hometown)." Could a song written to win an award in a movie actually win an Academy Award?

‘Ma Rainey’ composer Branford Marsalis remembers Chadwick Boseman: “He was all about the work”

The late Marvel icon is tipped to win a posthumous Oscar this weekend

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Perhaps the biggest story of this weekend’s Oscars is also the saddest. Late actor Chadwick Boseman, who died last year after a long battle with cancer, is up for a posthumous Academy Award. It would surely have been the first of many, but for the tragic circumstances.

Considered the strong favourite for Actor in a Leading Role, Boseman’s likeable turn as ambitious trumpeter Levee in blues-soaked biopic Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is one of his best. Filled with witty one-liners and cheeky grins across set – not to mention the impressive musicality involved: Boseman learned to play trumpet and sings in the film – it’s the kind of performance that only a first-rate talent in his prime could come up with.

To learn more about the last work of Marvel‘s foremost Black pin-up, we sat down with Ma Rainey composer and legendary saxophonist Branford Marsalis. He remembers Chadwick as a “serious” and committed artist who was “there to work” – but that doesn’t mean he didn’t know how to have a good time…

Chadwick Boseman makes his final film appearance in the Netflix musical drama. CREDIT: Netflix

Chadwick was full of surprises

The Black Panther icon always gave 100 per cent, even in scenes that weren’t actually being filmed. “[After filming], we get these guys in the studio to recreate the scene and have [musicians] play along so everything will be exact,” explains Marsalis. For the scene in question, Marsalis’ bass player (a real-life pro) was overdubbing the jazzy riff from an early bit in the movie when Toledo, played by Glynn Turman, makes a speech about how Black people want to party all the time.

“There’s a part [in that scene] based on an old Jelly Roll Morton song called ‘Doctor Jazz‘,” says Marsalis. “It goes: ‘When the world’s gone wrong/And I got the blues/He’s the one who makes me put on my dancing shoes’. When they got to that Chadwick just belted out ‘Wooaahh when the world is wrong…’ and when it was over I was like ‘This is the one, they’re not gonna get this better in post, forget it.’ So that’s what’s in the movie. It was completely unexpected because it was a bass session, and he just nailed it. It was perfect.”

Nobody knew he was unwell

Boseman’s four-year fight against colon cancer is well-documented now, but until his death he kept everything private. Not even those who worked closely with him had any clue.

“We didn’t know he was sick,” says Marsalis. “Chadwick was there to work. He was working on other films after this, he was just moving along… They were laughing and having a good time, but it was all about the work and everyone was serious.”

Viola Davis as the titular 1920s blues singer. CREDIT: Netflix

The way the actors held their instruments was crucial

Acting among Oscar-winners (Viola Davis) is hard enough, but the extreme detail each cast member went into on Ma Rainey was next level. Luckily, they had three-time Grammy winner Marsalis on hand to make sure they looked like real musicians.

“The actors were all great: Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman, Michael Potts and Colman Domingo really worked on getting the positions of their instruments right,” he says. “It’s really minute detail but musicians play instruments with a certain physicality that differs based on the instrument. So I wanted to make sure that they physically looked like they were playing the instruments they were playing. On shoot days, they would all come over as a group and we’d put on the track and they’d play along with it – and I would just look at them. It wasn’t about: ‘Oh, make sure your fingers are exact’ because that takes decades to get right and we didn’t have that kind of time. So the thing that I stressed with them was that you have to sing along with the solos and learn them – because once you learn them you can make sure your hands are not moving when there’s no sound.”

The Deep South had a massive impact on the music

Ma Rainey, the 1920s ‘Mother of the Blues’, is a little-known figure with a huge legacy, long-overdue her moment in the spotlight. As such, Marsalis (who was born and raised around African American music mecca New Orleans) drew on the Georgia-native’s Deep South roots when he was putting together the film’s band.

“New Orleans is the only place left where musicians still play outside with regularity. I am accustomed, based on geography, to hearing instruments sound a certain way,” explains Marsalis. “So because the music was supposed to be from the ’20s, when everyone played outside all the time for as long as they could, I wanted to find musicians who had what I call ‘outside sound’ as opposed to the controlled environment of an inside sound.”

‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ is streaming now on Netflix

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