Author: Michael

The latest take on Stephen King’s “Carrie” has arrived, and there are plenty of changes from the source material. Mike Flanagan is no stranger to adapting the horror author, and his latest swing is at King’s first novel. He made quite a few alterations in pursuit of exploring modern high schools and the terrors of being in them in the age of the internet and social media. But there is plenty that’s new aside from the modern setting, including new characters and even different fates for a number of them. These are the biggest changes from the book in the…

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FCC chairman Brendan Carr dodged questions about the Pentagon’s plans to livestream a public execution, instead deferring to Pete Hegseth during a Friday interview on CNBC. “My understanding is it’s not on broadcast TV, so I don’t think there’s a role for the FCC one way or the other there,” he told “Squawk on the Street.” “But I trust Secretary Hegseth. I mean, he’s implementing the laws and the regulations that are, you know, relevant to the Department of War, and I think he’s doing a great job. And I trust that he’s making the right call on these issues.”…

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“Animals,” Ben Affleck’s sixth feature film as a director, hits Netflix this weekend, but a very different version of the movie almost happened first. Initially, Affleck was set to direct but not star in the thriller about a Los Angeles mayoral candidate and his wife who must grapple with the kidnapping of their son. He had enlisted Matt Damon and Jennifer Garner for the starring roles, excited to bring out “some aspects of both of them that I know exist that they haven’t shown, frankly, in their work,” he told TheWrap in an interview days before the film’s release. But…

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