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Warning: This story contains spoilers for the movie “Get Out.”

When “Get Out” premiered in a secret midnight slot at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, nobody could have predicted it would become a cultural phenomenon. The $4.5 million Blumhouse production was billed as a satiric horror movie about race, directed by former “Key & Peele” sketch comedian Jordan Peele in his feature-length debut, and a cursory reading of those details suggested a wacky spoof of the “Scary Movie” variety.

Instead, Peele had made a genre-defying look at race relations in America, merging the interracial dynamics of “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” with an outrageous B-movie premise worthy of George Romero. That premise — which finds wealthy white liberals using hypnosis and brain surgery to turn black people into their slaves — skewered the notion of a post-racial America from multiple directions at once, setting aside more obvious targets to unearth some of the worst...

Jordan Peele's critically acclaimed horror film Get Out has scored a leading four nominations for this year's Gotham Awards, it was announced Thursday.

The movie, starring Daniel Kaluuya and Alison Williams, is up for best feature, breakthrough director (Peele), best screenplay and best actor (Kaluuya).

It was previously announced Get Out producer Jason Blum will receive one of the Gotham Awards' industry tributes.

Other multiple nominees include Call Me by Your Name, The Florida Project, Good Time and I, Tonya, all of which are up for best feature.

Lady Bird and Columbus each received three...

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by Daniel Walber

Get Out is both horror and comedy, an allegory that doesn’t reduce its own impact by getting too granular about its message. It is a success of both subtlety and its opposites. This balance not only characterizes Jordan Peele’s script, but the whole craft of the film. The design is both vague and specific, pointed parody without a precise key.

It ostensibly takes place somewhere within driving distance of New York City, at the remote family manse to which Rose (Alison Williams) has lured Chris (Daniel Kaluuya). But there’s nothing quite that specific about this nightmare.

For starters, it’s not really clear where this actually is.

The initial drive passes down an empty road through an endless forest, a journey into the...

“Girls” is coming to an end after six seasons, and each episode leading up to the series finale seems to top itself. The penultimate episode, where Hannah (Lena Dunham) contemplates a job offer that would take her out of New York City, Shoshana (Zosia Mamet) has a big announcement to make and Marnie (Alison Williams) gets the foursome, including Jessa (Jemima Kirke), into the same room for the first time in what seems like forever, was especially poignant. Below, reporters Linda Ge and Matt Donnelly discuss why they were so moved by the episode and all of the developments contained within.

Picture it, Brooklyn, 2071…

Lena Dunham was a guest on Wednesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live and, yes, her visit was rather golden.

As you can see in the video above, Dunham was joined by her Girls co-stars Alison Williams, Jemima Kirke and Zosia Mamet for a Golden Girls parody in which the actresses play their millennial characters as senior citizens. Girls‘ sidekick Andrew Rannells also showed up as the ageless Elijah, while Kimmel made a cameo as a stripper named “Officer Sausage.”

RelatedAfter Girls, Andrew Rannells’ Elijah Needs His Own Spinoff — Boys

Kimmel teased the sketch early Wednesday on social media...

Inspired by Richard Linklater’s work for the last 32 years with the Austin Film Society, writer-director Jeff Nichols (“Loving,” “Midnight Special”) wants to build a cinephile organization in Arkansas that is just as impressive.

“Little Rock and Arkansas don’t have anything like that,” he said. “One of my biggest hurdles as a kid in Arkansas was I just didn’t have any connection points with the global film industry.”

Eventually, Nichols found people in his life who helped him to see that “real people do make movies and it’s possible.” Now having achieved some success, he seeks to “create a cinema society that gets people together to watch movies and filmmakers they may not know about, to not only bring films but filmmakers to Arkansas, to have conversations people can see in front of them in a way that’s immediate and tangible.”

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Inspired by Richard Linklater’s work for the last 32 years with the Austin Film Society, writer-director Jeff Nichols (“Loving,” “Midnight Special”) wants to build a cinephile organization in Arkansas that is just as impressive.

“Little Rock and Arkansas don’t have anything like that,” he said. “One of my biggest hurdles as a kid in Arkansas was I just didn’t have any connection points with the global film industry.”

Eventually, Nichols found people in his life who helped him to see that “real people do make movies and it’s possible.” Now having achieved some success, he seeks to “create a cinema society that gets people together to watch movies and filmmakers they may not know about, to not only bring films but filmmakers to Arkansas, to have conversations people can see in front of them in a way that’s immediate and tangible.”

Read More: 2017 Independent Spirit Awards: The Best Things Jeff Nichols,...

Things are finally kicking into high gear as Girls heads into the second half of its final season.

Girls Season 6 Episode 4 was a fairly standard installment of the series – until its final moments, when something huge and unexpected was revealed.

That's right, kids – Hannah Horvath is pregnant. And the father is Paul-Louis, the rapping surf instructor we (and Hannah) met on the Girls Season 6 Premiere.

And the person to deliver the big news was none other than Joshua, the hot doctor that Hannah once hooked up with way back on Girls Season 2 Episode 5, "One Man's Trash."

If there's one thing I love the most about Girls Season 6 so far, it's all of the callbacks to the show's earlier seasons.

I would never in a million years have expected to see Joshua, a relatively unimportant one-time guest star character, again. But his return didn't feel forced or intrusive. It was perfectly awkward and random,...

Jordan Peele’s latest career incarnation could have been fodder for “Key & Peele,” the hit Comedy Central sketch show in which he and Keegan-Michael Key skewered modern racial issues. But Peele wrote had written a horror movie about race, and it needed a director. That created a challenge: After William Crain (“Blacula”), Bill Gunn (“Ganja & Hesse”), and Ernest Dickerson (“Bones,” “The Walking Dead”), how many black horror directors can you name? (The savviest genre fans out there might also remember James Bond III, very much a real person, who directed “Def By Temptation” 27 years ago.)

Needless to say, it was slim pickings. “I first pitched this as a movie no one would make,” Peele said. “About halfway through writing the script, I realized I was the only person who could direct it.”

However, Peele’s feature directing debut, “Get Out,” also brings him into the rarified class of horror directors...

The Girls are saying goodbye. Recently, Lena Dunham posted a photo from the set of the HBO series' final season, Entertainment Weekly reports.Created by Dunham, the comedy-drama follows a group of four young women struggling with work, love, and life in New York City. The cast also includes Alison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, Adam Driver, Alex Karpovsky, and Andrew Rannells.Read More…...

Jordan Peele, one half of the great comedy duo Key and Peele, has unexpectedly entered a new arena: the horror genre. In addition to his forthcoming fright flick Get Out -- a "satirical" horror film starring Daniel Kaluuya, Catherine Keener and Alison Williams that Peele wrote and directed for Blumhouse -- he's now been added to the cast of Abruptio, a horror effort in which the characters are "performed entirely with lifelike puppets," according to the film's official Facebook page. Abruptio comes from the mind of writer-director Evan Marlowe, whose resume literally includes a short film entitled Brests of the Southern Wild (he's also helmed a couple features). It will also feature the talents of horror icons Robert Englund and Sid Haig, among others. Here's the logline: A man discovers a sinister race of beings is manipulating mankind to cause chaos. He must uncover their plan before the explosive they've implanted in his neck detonates. Peele has opened up about this love for the horror genre in previous interviews, telling Rotten Tomatoes last year: "I’m obsessed with the link between horror and comedy. I think they’re very close. They’re both about getting a very physical kind of reaction. It’s about tension and it’s about the release of tension." Abruptio is expected for release sometime in 2018. (via Bloody Disgusting)...

Two-time Academy Award-nominee Catherine Keener has joined Jordan Peele’s upcoming horror/thriller Get Out, according to Deadline. It’s unsure what she’ll be doing but it’s being described as a “key role”. She joins Alison Williams and Daniel Kaluuya. The plot has yet to be revealed but apparently it centers around an African American man who visits […]...

Networks are all about turning iconic musicals into live broadcast events. NBC already delivered Peter Pan with Alison Williams as the title Neverland defender and Christopher Walken as the weirdest Captain Hook, and this coming week they’ve got a live version of The Wiz with Queen Latifah, Common, Uzo Aduba and more. But early next […]

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The Girls star Allison Williams and entrepreneur Ricky Van Veen were married in a private ceremony in Saratoga, Wyoming. Alison Williams And Ricky Van Veen Married Williams, 27, and Van Veen, 34, married at the Brush Creek Ranch in Saratoga, Wyoming, on Saturday. Williams wore a beautiful, handmade, couture Oscar de la Renta gown, and […]

The post Allison Williams And Ricky Van Veen Married In Secret appeared first on uInterview.

The day was July 5th, 2005. I was with my Dad and brother, and we were about to see the Jessica Alba-starring, Fantastic Four. We walk inside the theatre, a nice theatre may I add, a bit small, but it will make due. At this time in my life, I had never seen, or heard, of anything Fantastic Four related, and when the film ended, I found it to be quite great. However, this was ten years ago, and I was only seven years old.    When Fox announced their Fantastic Four reboot, I was quite excited. I was one of those people pushing for Jon Hamm to be cast as Reed Richards, and Charlize Theron as Susan Storm. So, it was safe to say, when I heard Michael B. Jordan was cast as The Human Torch, and Alison Williams for testing for the role of Susan, I was a little...

"Peter Pan Live" was, by all accounts, not only mediocre-to-terrible but also mind-numbingly boring. Here we get "SNL's" take on the NBC debacle, and thankfully their version has Aidy Bryant's "Tonkerbell," a straight-talking fairy who's less likely to sprinkle pixie dust than to pull a "reverse Tooth Fairy" on some poor innocent children. Cecily Strong's Alison Williams-as-Peter Pan ("I'm a gorgeous, womanly boy!") and James Franco's lethargic Christopher Walken-as-Captain Hook were both strong elements, but perhaps nothing was appreciated as much as that out-of-nowhere "Fern Gully" reference.

We've already seen "Girls" star Alison Williams as Peter Pan, and Christopher Walken as an already over the top Captain Hook, NBC has released a new poster showing the grizzled pirate menacing a self-conscious-looking Peter.  From the producers of the "Sound of Music" -- the live one starring Carrie Underwood, not the Oscar-winning box office juggernaut -- this new musical take on J.M. Barrie's classic tale will air live in December. It is not to be confused with Joe Wright's upcoming live-action prequel "Pan," or NBC's own planned sitcom adaptation of the story, although the poster does look pretty sitcom-y. Take a look below: "Peter Pan" goes live December 4 at 8/7c on NBC.

It sounds like Katy Perry and Diplo had a fun-filled Emmys night together! Following Monday's 2014 Emmy Awards, the 29-year-old pop star and her DJ beau hit up Seth Meyers' Beats by Dr. Dre after party at Hyde. According to a source, Perry and her man were very handsy with each other during the bash and were acting like a very cute couple. In addition to their party Pda, the music stars also danced together. The source also adds that the lovebirds are "still together" romantically. Other celebs who were at the party included Alison Williams, Amy Poehler, Jon Hamm, Kate Mara, Eric Stonestreet, Jimmy Kimmel, Elizabeth Banks, Claire Danes, Juliana Margulies, Kevin Spacey and Perry's stylist...

The stars are out at the 2014 Emmy Awards. Among those who have touched down on the red carpet so far are stars and nominees like "True Detective's" Matthew McConuaghey, "Breaking Bad" pals Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, "New Girl" Zooey Deschanel, "Mad Men's" Jon Hamm, plus Alison Williams, Amy Poehler, Sofia Vergara, Kristen Wiig, Kerry Washington, Julia Roberts, Claire Danes, and more. Who will take home Emmy gold? And, more importantly, who's  the best dressed? Check out the photos here:...