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New York (AFP) - However thrilling they are to play, video games rarely translate well to the big or small screen -- indeed, the crossover genre is littered with flops. But the dystopian, zombie-filled HBO series "The Last of Us," premiering in the United States on Sunday and the following day elsewhere, could be about to break the curse. The series has already won a slew of positive reviews, with a score of 97 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, and is on track to be the streaming world's first success of 2023, 10 years after the "The Last of Us" game first debuted on PlayStation. Game creator Neil...
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New York (AFP) - Apple TV + series "Little America" returned to screens for a second season Friday with the aim of challenging the American dream, creator Sian Heder told AFP. From the Song family and their hat store in Detroit to Jibril, a Somali cook in Minneapolis, the dream's ideal -- that you can succeed in the United States through hard work and perseverance -- is still alive. But the emotional toll of uprooting oneself, financial difficulties, family pressure to succeed and sometimes the disappointment of failing to connect to New York City appear throughout the eight sub-40-minute epi...
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New York (AFP) - Streaming giant Amazon has defended the racially diverse casting of its big budget series "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power," which some fans say distorts the world of J.R.R. Tolkien. Since the first two episodes of the series aired, social media has been awash with protests that the decision to cast Black and Latino actors in some roles was forcing diversity onto the original source material. Among such characters is fan favorite dwarf princess Disa, played by Black actress Sophia Nomvete. But other fans saw the diversity as a welcome development in the fantasy unive...
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New York (AFP) - Amazon announced Saturday that its big budget series "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power," based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, had marked the biggest premiere in the history of Prime Video -- with 25 million viewers. With this flagship production that started streaming Friday, Prime Video aims to counter the lure of HBO and its prequel to the hit series "Game of Thrones", "House of the Dragon", which began airing on August 21. HBO also has said it had its best premiere, with its prequel, with nearly 10 million viewers in the United States alone. "The Lord of the Ri...
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New York (AFP) - On the heels of the success of a smash docuseries on the Chicago Bulls' Michael Jordan, an HBO drama based on the flashy 1980s Los Angeles Lakers is tipping off Sunday. Across 10 episodes "Winning Time" revisits the Showtime era of the famous California franchise following its 1979 takeover by Jerry Buss -- a colorful businessman played by John C. Reilly -- who aimed to make basketball a spectacle on and off the court. The period saw the Lakers bring home five titles across nine NBA finals appearances, the reign of purple and gold that endured until 1991 when Magic Johnson ann...
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New York (AFP) - Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte are 20 years older, and their beloved New York has been ravaged by Covid-19, but the sassy women are back -- without Samantha -- in HBO Max's "Sex and the City" revival, which premieres Thursday. The hotly anticipated "And Just Like That..." picks up long after the landmark series and two so-so movies left off, with the forever friends taking on a new phase of life -- their 50s. In the 10 new episodes, onetime sex and dating columnist Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) is married and learning to work with her podcast co-host (Sara Ramirez) -- ...
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New York (AFP) - Mel Brooks, the 95-year-old US comedy icon, is to help write a sequel for his 1981 classic film "A History of The World Part I" as an eight-part series for Hulu, the streaming service said Monday. "I can't wait to once more tell the real truth about all the phony baloney stories the world has been conned into believing are History!" the veteran movie-maker and actor said in a statement. Brooks, one of the few artists to have received awards from across the full spectrum of Emmys, Grammys, Oscars and Tonys, made the original "History of the World Part I" 40 years ago. According...
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