Film Reporter • brian.welk@thewrap.com • Twitter: @brianwelk
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That Time Matt Lauer Joked About Being Sexual Harassment Victim in 2012 Segment (Video)
“Why deny it? If you did it, own up to it,” Lauer joked in “Today” sketch
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‘El Inca’ Director on Legal Battle to Tell Edwin Valero’s Story: ‘In Venezuela, Everything Is Political’
Venezuela’s Oscar submission, which dramatizes boxing icon’s tragic life, is banned in the country’s theaters
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Keith Olbermann Announces Final Episode of GQ Series ‘The Resistance’ (Video)
“No illness, no scandal, no firing, just I’ve said what I have to say,” Olbermann said.
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‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’ Turns 30: ‘Those Aren’t Pillows’ and 7 More Zingers (Photos)
Steve Martin, John Candy holiday comedy traveled into theaters Nov. 25, 1987
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How Japan’s ‘In This Corner of the World’ Captures 1940s Hiroshima Before the A-Bomb
“There’s many things one can never express in any shape or form what happened underneath Ground Zero,” director Sunao Katabuchi tells TheWrap
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How ‘Beyond Brotherhood’ Director Arianne Benedetti Put Panama on the Map
“It’s different in Latin America. It’s an industry that is now waking up to the possibility of actually making films,” Benedetti tells TheWrap
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How Director Ziad Doueiri Learned Empathy While Making Lebanon’s ‘The Insult’
“When you sit down with your supposed enemy and you hear what they say, you start having empathy,” Doueiri tells TheWrap’s Steve Pond
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How Director François Girard Captured Montreal’s History in ‘Hochelaga: Land of Souls’
“I felt the need to go from my roots, dig and understand better who I was at that point in time,” Girard tells TheWrap’s Steve Pond
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Why Filmmakers Turn to Short Films to Achieve Their Vision (Video)
“It’s about disrupting a model,” Amy Emmerich, Chief Content Officer of Refinery29, said at TheWrap’s Shorts Panel Wednesday.
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Female Veterans of ‘Served Like a Girl’ Are Not ‘Damsels in Distress’
“If my disability didn’t kick in, I would still be homeless,” veteran Hope Garcia tells TheWrap
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Meet the All-Star ‘The Lion King’ Cast Led by Beyoncé and Donald Glover (Photos)
Jon Favreau is directing the movie, which arrives on July 19, 2019
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‘Alias Grace’ Review: Netflix’s Margaret Atwood Adaptation Rivals ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
“Alias Grace” comes from director Mary Harron and writer Sarah Polley
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Houston Texans Players Almost Walked Out of Practice Over Owner’s ‘Inmates’ Remark
Pro Bowl wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins was one of 10 players to leave practice Friday after owner Bob McNair called players “inmates”
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What ‘Bingo’ Director Daniel Rezende Learned From Being a Film Editor
“As an editor, I always learned that the footage will tell you how to cut. It’s not you to tell the footage how to cut it,” Rezende said.
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Fox Host’s War With Rockers Ensues, Calls Radiohead ‘Poor Man’s Coldplay’
“Radiohead is a fine band, but they stole everything from Coldplay,” Greg Gutfeld says on Fox
