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  • Zoe Kravitz to Star in ‘High Fidelity’ Series for Disney Streaming Service

    Zoe Kravitz to Star in ‘High Fidelity’ Series for Disney Streaming Service

    HBO

    The list of exclusive projects in the works for Disney’s upcoming streaming service continues to grow, this time with a new TV series that’s a gender-swapped version of a beloved movie and book.

    Zoe Kravitz, currently starring in hit HBO series “Big Little Lies,” will next headline “High Fidelity,” based on the Nick Hornby novel (later turned into a 2000 John Cusack film) about a struggling record store owner and perpetual man- (or in this case, woman-) child. The 10-episode series will center around Kravitz’s character (unnamed for now), described as “the ultimate music fan, a record store owner who’s obsessed with pop culture and Top Five lists.” Cusack played the role in the film.

    In a fun twist, Kravitz’s mother, Lisa Bonet, had a supporting role in that flick, playing a musician and love interest for Cusack’s character. We’d love to see Bonet make a cameo in a winking reference to her existing “High Fidelity” connection.

    This “High Fidelity” project is just the latest high-profile original production that Disney is cooking up as it prepares to launch its new service. A live-action “Lady and the Tramp” remake starring the voices of Tessa Thompson and Justin Theroux is set to make its debut there, as are a number of Marvel spinoff series featuring existing MCU actors reprising their famous roles.

    No word yet on an official premiere date for either the series or the service, but both are expected to drop sometime in late 2019.

    [via: TVLine]

  • New ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ Trailer Debuts at Comic Con

    New ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ Trailer Debuts at Comic Con

    Warner Bros.

    Today during Warner Bros’ panel at San Diego Comic Con a new trailer for “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” debuted and it is pretty darn magical. We’ll just let you watch for yourself, but this one looks bigger, more stylish, and scarier than the first film, with a winning cast (including Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Jude Law, Zoe Kravitz and, yes, a certifiably nutzo Johnny Depp) exploring even further corners of J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World. In short: we can’t wait.

    “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” opens on November 16th.

  • Zoe Kravitz Recalls Charlize Theron & Tom Hardy ‘Beef’ on ‘Mad Max’ Set

    “Mad Max: Fury Road” stars Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy weren’t exactly besties on set, this is known, and their co-star Zoe Kravitz just confirmed that she witnessed the tension, adding some perspective to help fans understand the context.

    Kravitz played one of the wives Theron’s Imperator Furiosa aimed to save, with frenemy backup from Hardy’s Max Rockatansky. Kravitz was on “Watch What Happens Live” to promote “Rough Night,” and candidly answered a fan’s question on the Theron/Hardy feud.

    Caller: “Did you witness any beef between Charlize and Tom Hardy on the set of ‘Mad Max’?”

    Kravitz: “Huh. [after a brief pause] Yeah.”

    Andy Cohen: “It was reported that they didn’t get along.”

    Kravitz: “They didn’t get along. We were also in the desert for so long. I think everyone was tired and confused and homesick, and we saw nothing but sand for six months. It’s just, you go crazy, you do.”

    Cohen: “What was the issue? What did it come down to?”

    Kravitz: “I actually don’t know if it was one issue. I just think they weren’t vibing. […] It was like summer camp, you know? At some point, everyone has like some kind of issue with somebody ’cause it’s just the way people are.”

    On a semi-related and just plain interesting note, did you know that Zoe Kravitz’s father Lenny Kravitz was once engaged to Nicole Kidman? Zoe and Nicole just worked together on HBO’s “Big Little Lies” and Andy asked Zoe if that was weird on set. Spoiler alert: It wasn’t. Because … apparently they were vibing just fine.

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  • ‘Big Little Lies’ Author Working on Ideas for Season 2

    Are even bigger little lies to come?

    Liane Moriarty, the author of “Big Little Lies,” is working on ideas for a second season of the acclaimed HBO drama based on her novel.

    “I have started to think about ways this could continue,” she told The Sydney Morning Herald. “The producers have asked me to see if I can come up with some ideas. I wouldn’t write a new book but perhaps a new story and then we’ll see what happens. I’m absolutely open to it because, once I started thinking, it was too much fun to see what I could do and to see these characters again. And there’s definitely places you can go.”

    The TV show, which starred Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, and Shailene Woodley, was intended as a limited series, and showrunner David E. Kelley and director Jean-Marc Vallée have said it was a “one-time deal.”

    But both Witherspoon and Kidman remain open to the possibility. HBO would likely be on board if the stars signed on for a second season.

    Something Moriarty would want to include in a second season is Bonnie’s (Zoe Kravitz) backstory from the book, which was not addressed in the first season. In the book, she had an abusive father growing up — which plays into her actions on the night of the school fundraiser.

    “And also what happens next [for Celeste],” Moriarty added. “That’s the question that’s also a really interesting thing, when you’ve been through a relationship like that, how do you feel now? How would she feel? She’s grieving. She’s still grieving for the end of a terrible relationship and I think that would be a really interesting thing to explore. So there’s a whole lot of different storylines.”

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  • Scarlett Johansson’s Bachelorette Party Gets Out of Control in ‘Rough Night’ Trailer

    Rough NightWhat happens in Miami, stays in Miami? Scarlett Johansson certainly hopes so, in the new red-band trailer for “Rough Night.”

    The movie has shades of “The Hangover,” as Johansson’s bride-to-be and four besties hit Miami for a bachelorette party. As one friend excitedly screams, “There’s going to be so many hot Miami babes, we’re going to be swimming in d—, girl!”

    They hit the clubs, down shots, snort cocaine, and hire a stripper. But things go terribly awry when the stripper ends up dead, and the bachelorette party soon turns into an episode of “How to Get Away With (Accidental) Murder.”The script is from two “Broad City” writers, and the movie features series star Ilana Glazer as one of the BFFs (Kate McKinnon, Jillian Bell, and Zoe Kravitz play the others), which is recommendation enough for us!

    “Rough Night” (previously titled “Rock That Body”) opens in theaters June 16.

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  • Zoe Kravitz: ‘Batman’ Producers Considered Me Too ‘Urban’

    Zoe Kravitz
    Zoe Kravitz

    With her high-profile turns in the blockbuster “Mad Max: Fury Road” and the Sundance darling “Dope,” this has been a breakout year for Zoe Kravitz.

    But she says Hollywood still can’t always see past her race.

    “In the last ‘Batman’ movie [‘The Dark Knight Rises’], they told me that I couldn’t get an audition for a small role they were casting because they weren’t ‘going urban,’” Kravitz, 26, tells Nylon magazine. “It was like, ‘What does that have to do with anything?’ I have to play the role like, ‘Yo, what’s up, Batman? What’s going on wit chu?’”

    That was not the case, however, when she landed a role in the 2007 film “The Brave One” opposite Jodie Foster.

    “That part was written for a white Russian girl,” says Kravitz, the daughter of singer Lenny Kravitz and actress Lisa Bonet. “I auditioned, and they changed the role for me.”

    And while she strives to pass on parts focusing on her race – “I don’t want to play the role of a girl struggling in the ghetto,” she says – she made an exception with “Dope,” the offbeat comedy about nerdy teens growing up amid drug dealers and violence in Inglewood, Calif.

    “It hit all the points that I believe in,” she says. “I know those people,” she says. “I got the sense of humor.”

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  • Best of Late Night TV: Conan In Cuba and Zoe Kravitz’s Game of Beer Pong (VIDEO)


    If you’re like us and value your sleep, you probably nodded off into your Ambien dreamland before the party started on post-prime time TV. Don’t worry; we’ve got you covered. Here’s the best of what happened last night on late night.

    Conan is in Cuba! This late night talk show visited Cuba on a mission to meet the locals and get to know the culture (shout out to Cuban Andy!), and it was obviously iconic. However, the best moment by far was Conan learning to dance the Cuban Rumba.

    But wait, there’s more. Conan also joined a Cuban salsa band. You’re welcome, world.

    You may have noticed that Danny DeVito spends a lot of time tweeting photos of his right foot and hashtagging it #TrollFoot. It’s weird, and also amazing, so you can imagine our joy when he showed up on “The Tonight Show” and whipped out Troll Foot for some one-on-one time with Jimmy Fallon.

    Zoe Kravitz visited “The Tonight Show” for a game of Giant Beer Pong, which is pretty much exactly the same as it sounds. You throw giant ping pong balls into giant red cups, and then chug yourself some beer. (Note: the beer chugging happens out of normal-sized cups.)

    You might remember that Vince Vaughn recently visited Chicago and did the Polar Plunge, and he chatted with “Jimmy Kimmel Live” all about how cold and miserable the experience of flopping into a “filthy frozen hole” was.

    So, Mike Tyson really wants the kids to “say no to dope.” Go ahead and listen to his sage wisdom right here, right now.

    And finally, it’s time for another installment of Plizzanet Earth with Snoop Dogg. This week, he narrates an alligator facing off with a troop of otters, and it’s spectacular. In the weirdest way ever, obviously.
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