This Week in Business is our weekly recap column, a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a dash of opinion (sometimes more than a dash) and intended to shed light on various trends. Check every Friday for a new entry.
06.11.2023 - 01:31 / tech.hindustantimes.com / Seth Rogen / Steven Spielberg / Michael Fassbender / Paul Dano
Country superstar Chris Stapleton's fifth studio album and a documentary about Albert Brooks that includes Steven Spielberg, David Letterman, Ben Stiller, Larry David, Chris Rock and Wanda Sykes are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you.
Also among the offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists are Michael Fassbender playing a hitman in David Fincher's “The Killer," Tim Allen putting on his Santa suit for season two of “The Santa Clauses” and “The Buccaneers,” Apple TV 's eight-episode series answer to “Bridgerton.”
— Michael Fassbender plays an unnamed hitman in David Fincher's “The Killer,” debuting on Netflix on Friday, Nov. 10. It's based on a French graphic novel and adapted by Andrew Kevin Walker, who also wrote the screenplay for “Seven” (or “Se7en” for the purists), this nameless assassin has some very specific rules for his chosen profession which he monologues to the audience. But of course, things go very wrong on this particular job in Paris, and he's left to deal with the consequences in a globetrotting race. While it might not rank among Fincher's stone-cold classics, reviews have been largely positive. Critic Bob Strauss wrote that, “The Killer” may look like a fight for one's life with a satisfying side of vengeance. But it's a study of an existential death served in delectably cold and precise portions.
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— Rob Reiner enlists the likes of Steven Spielberg, David Letterman, Ben Stiller, Larry David, Chris Rock and Wanda Sykes to take stock the impact of Albert Brooks in the new documentary “Albert Brooks: Defending My Life,” streaming on Max on Saturday, Nov. 11. Reiner and Brooks, who have been friends for “almost 60 years,” also have a one-on-one chat about his career, from stand-up to generation-defining writer and filmmaker with classics like “Lost in America” and “Modern Romance,” in a cozy restaurant with plush red leather booths. “It took this to finally hear a compliment,” Brooks laughs. “Can't wait till I'm dead.”
— “Dumb Money,” the enjoyable film about the GameStop stock frenzy got a little unfairly buried in its theatrical release — perhaps lost in the post-Barbenheimer, early strike haze. Paul Dano plays Keith Gill, otherwise known as Roaring Kitty, an amateur investor whose endorsement of GameStock on Reddit in 2021 created a viral frenzy that shook Wall Street power players. Two former Wall Street Journal Reporters, Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo, wrote the script and Craig Gillespie (“I, Tonya”) directed a starry cast that includes America Ferrera, Seth Rogen, Anthony Ramos, Pete Davidson, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley and Nick Offerman.
This Week in Business is our weekly recap column, a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a dash of opinion (sometimes more than a dash) and intended to shed light on various trends. Check every Friday for a new entry.
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It’s (American) Thanksgiving this week, which means you might watch a lot of TV, but it might not be strictly new releases. But that doesn’t mean television stops; amid all the Mystery Science Theater 3000 marathons and parade fare there’s plenty of new offerings to catch up on. That might be from the year writ large — is it finally time to catch up on Silo or make space for Fionna and Cake in full? Or maybe you’re looking to keep the autumnal season alive with a classic like Over the Garden Wallor a gone-too-soon hit like Marianne.
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