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Guillermo del Toro may be Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s friend, but he’s also a fellow filmmaker the “Birdman” director admires with great respect. Iñárritu recently participated in Variety’s Directors on Directors series, where he was given the opportunity to write a lengthy love letter to “The Shape of Water.” According to the two-time Oscar winner, Del Toro has made a miracle of a movie that is easily his best so far.

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“Many years ago, Guillermo told me with his open, giant, sparkling eyes, about an idea that was circling around his head for his next film: The love story between a mute woman and a fish man,” Iñárritu writes. “That idea could not only occur to Guillermo del Toro, but also only an artist like himself would be capable of carrying it out.

2014 was a big year for David Fincher. Not only was the director returning to theaters with “Gone Girl” in the fall, but he also signed on to co-create and direct an adaption of the UK series “Utopia” for HBO. Fincher had already earned acclaim in the television world for Netflix’s “House of Cards” the year before, and his move to premium cable sounded extremely exciting. “Gone Girl” author Gillian Flynn was set to join Fincher on the series, and the cast included Rooney Mara. But HBO pulled the plug in July 2015, and now we’ll never get to see Fincher’s “Utopia” on the small screen.

The British version of “Utopia” was written and created by Dennis Kelly and ran for two seasons on Channel 4. The story involved a group of people who find a manuscript for the sequel of a cult graphic novel that was rumored to...

Academy Award-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu‘s (The Revenant) television series, The One Percent, now needs a new home. After some production delays, Starz decided to let go of the series they gave a straight-to-series order to back in 2014. The One Percent, which Iñárritu is going to shoot in sequence, is set to star Hilary Swank and Greg Kinnear, and Ed Harris might […]

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Drama series The One Percent was announced back in summer 2014 with a burst of optimistic positivity. Creator/director Alejandro G. Iñárritu was about to release the highly anticipated Birdman, which would go on to nab Best Picture and Best Director Oscars, and Starz snapped up his proposed ten episode miniseries with high hopes.

The One Percent was billed as following a desperate family of farmers on the brink of bankruptcy who’re saved by a weird twist of fate. Ed Helms was down to play the husband, and Hilary Swank was signed up for the wife. The buzz was good, the locations were chosen, the cast ready to go and then…. radio silence.

Iñárritu moved on to The Revenant (subsequently his second Best Director Oscar), itself delayed by a notoriously miserable shoot, bedevilled by freezing weather and the insistence on shooting the entire film in sequence. That all paid off,...

So, how long has Alejandro G. Iñárritu‘s TV series “The One Percent” been kicking around? We had it on our list of The 20 Most Anticipated TV Shows Of 2015. Yep, it’s been that long, and while for most shows that kind of delay would mean death, backers Mrc are sticking with it, even though Starz, who gave the project a straight-to-series order in 2014, have now backed out of their deal to screen “The One Percent” in the U.S.

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How do you follow up back to back Oscar wins for Best Director? If you’re “Birdman” and “The Revenant” visionary Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, you become the latest big name director to make your mark on television. The director has been gearing up his first television drama, “The One Percent,” ever since wrapping production on “The Revenant,” but it appears the series is hitting its first major roadblock as Starz, which had previously given the drama a straight-to-series order for 10 episodes, has dropped it.

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According to Deadline, Starz has abandoned the series due to scheduling conflicts that have persisted because of Iñárritu’s shooting style. The director prefers shooting in chronological order, but that method isn’t cheap to pull off. It’s part of the reason filming “The Revenant” became so notorious, as waiting for weather...

Exclusive: The One Percent, Mrc’s drama series from Oscar-winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu, is on the move. The project, which originally was picked up by Starz in summer 2014 with a 10-episode straight-to-series order, is now in turnaround after several production start delays led to the pay cable network pulling out as U.S. broadcaster. Mrc, which previously worked with Iñárritu on the Oscar-nominated feature Babel, remains fully committed to the series, which…...

In the past few years, director Alejandro González Iñárritu has racked up critical and commercial acclaim for his award-winning films “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” and “The Revenant.” The former won four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, and the latter won three Oscars, including Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio and Best Director for Iñárritu, making him the third director to win back to back Academy Awards. In other words, his style and approach have become easily identifiable by the filmgoing public.

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Enter Patrick (H) Willems, a YouTube video artist who frequently makes parody videos combining a director’s signature style with a well-known property. Some of these include “What if Wes Anderson Directed ‘X-Men’?” “What if Ken Burns Directed Marvel’s ‘Civil War’?” and “What if Zack Snyder Adapted Classic Works of Literature?...

Hilary Swank’s relationship with her Paris apartment is a love story.

The Oscar-winning actress and ‘athluxury’ clothing designer, 42, tells Architectural Digest she began frequenting the European capital thanks to a romantic tryst, but when that ended, she stayed for the love of the city and her incredibly chic Left Bank home, which is on display in the magazine’s February issue.

“I fell in love with Paris,” she says. “It’s more beauty than your eyes can even imagine, every which way you look.” The same could be said for the rooms she designed with help from Axel Huynh,...

Bachelor nation, we're almost at the finish line.

On Tuesday's Bachelorette: Men Tell All, we got everything we could have dreamed of, from bad haircuts to bloopers. Here's a quick rundown of the 10 most important things that happened – and what we can expect from the finale.

1. The guys all got spray tans. All of them.

Okay, so we don't have actual proof of this, but it's definitely true. (Daniel's was especially orange.)

Also, Jonathan wore a kilt again, because he apparently didn't learn his lesson the first time. And also Derek's beard was out of control. And so was Vinny's.

Bachelor nation, we're almost at the finish line. On Tuesday's Bachelorette: Men Tell All, we got everything we could have dreamed of, from bad haircuts to bloopers. Here's a quick rundown of the 10 most important things that happened - and what we can expect from the finale.1. The guys all got spray tans. All of them.Okay, so we don't have actual proof of this, but it's definitely true. (Daniel's was especially orange.) Also, Jonathan wore a kilt again, because he apparently didn't learn his lesson the first time. And also Derek's beard was out of control. And so was Vinny's.

Starz’s new mystery series The Missing is pulling a True Detective. After the show’s first season received widespread critical acclaim (including Golden Globe nominations for best miniseries and best actress in a miniseries for Frances O'Connor), the premium cable network has opted to pick it up for a second season of 8 episodes, which will feature a new case, new characters and a new location.

No specifics about the second season have been announced, and it’s unknown if Conroy or any other actors from the first season will be returning in new roles (seeing as The Missing is much more grounded than the campy American Horror Story, I’d guess not). The Missing‘s first 8 episodes focused on a father (James Nesbitt) devastated by the disappearance of his young son during a family vacation in France, who spends years searching for him at the high cost of his...

The following is a list of all comic books, graphic novels and specialty items that will be available this week and shipped to comic book stores who have placed orders for them.

Alternative Comics

Hawd Tales #1, $4.99

Andrews McMeel

Baby Blues Collection Wetter Louder Stickier Tp, $18.99

Antarctic Press

Gold Digger #215, $3.99

Archie Comic Publications

Jughead And Archie Comics Digest #7, $4.99

Sabrina #1 (Robert Hack 2nd Printing Variant Cover)(not verified by Diamond), $3.99

Sonic The Hedgehog #266 (Rafa Knight Super Smash Variant Cover)(not verified by Diamond), $3.99

Sonic The Hedgehog #266 (Tracy Yardley Regular Cover), $3.99

Avatar Press

Crossed Badlands #65 (Gabriel Andrade Torture Cover), $3.99

Crossed Badlands #65 (Gabriel Andrade Wraparound Cover), $3.99

Crossed Badlands #65 (Jacen Burrows Red Crossed Incentive Cover), Ar

Crossed Badlands #65 (Jacen Burrows Regular Cover), $3.99

Crossed Badlands #65 (Michael Dipascale Fatal Fantasy Cover), $3.99

Black Library

Warhammer 40K Gods Of Mars Hc, $24.99

Book Palace

Art Of Modesty Blaise Sc (not verified by Diamond), $39.99

Illustrators Magazine #8, $24.99

Boom! Studios

Amazing World Of...

In news sure to thrill all comic-book aficionados, Ain’t It Cool News is reporting that Valiant Entertainment is working to turn its popular comic-book series Archer & Armstrong into a movie. According to the site’s “very reliable source,” Valiant ordered a script, which has been completed and met with a great reception by the company’s execs. Now that a script is set, Archer & Armstrong will head into production soon.

The buddy adventure comic-book series, most recently by Fred Van Lente and Clayton Henry, “follows the offbeat adventures of Archer—a sheltered young man raised by a religious sect and possessing the ability to mimic any fighting style he sees, and his partner Armstrong—an immortal drunkard with a penchant for chaos, mayhem, and inebriated fisticuffs.” It was originally created by Jim Shooter, Barry Windsor-Smith and Bob Layton back in the early ’90s, and has developed a small but...

The Good Wife, Season 5, Episode 21, “The One Percent”

Written By Ted Humphrey

Directed by Rosemary Rodriguez

Airs Sundays at 9pm on CBS

Somewhere along the way, Alicia Florrick became a great politician. She probably always had some solid political instincts about her, but at some point, she moved to the next level. She can schmooze businessmen like James Paisley (Tom Skerritt), fight off accusation lobbed at her from any number of directions, and still manage to settle a case, all while keeping her sham of a marriage looking sparkly enough for outsiders to approve. Alicia can do many things well, but perhaps her best asset is also one we have seen her develop: The ability to walk the corridors of power like she owns the place, to convince the people at the top that she is the one to have on their side.

Her political acumen can bring Alicia great professional success,...

Recently, CBS released the new,official,synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "The Good Wife" episode 21 of season 5. The episode is entitled, "The One Percent," and it sounds like things will get quite interesting and dramatic as Alicia scrambles in an effort to save a multi-billion dollar merger after her client screws things up, and more. In the new, 21st episode press release: Alicia will scramble to save a multi-billion dollar merger when her clients insensitive remarks threaten the deal. Press release number 2: Alicia is going to manage the fallout when her client’s insensitive statements to the press, threaten the fate of a multi-billion dollar merger. In the meantime, Diane will face a potential conflict of interest when she and Louis Canning are on opposite sides of a class action suit involving a pharmaceutical company. Also, Eli is going to learn the truth about Alicia and Peter’s relationship.

Review Frances Roberts 7 Mar 2014 - 14:32

Sean Pertwee steals the show in this week's Elementary. Here's Frances' review...

This review contains spoilers.

2.17 Ears To You

Combining the macabre and the bizarre is something Elementary does very well. Remember Holmes’ repeatedly thwarted attempts to trepan a human skull a few weeks ago? The de-eyeballed Oriental Studies professor last season? This year’s ballerina Julienne? Weird and gross are a speciality of Elementary’s cases, and the solution to this week’s really took the biscuit.

It wasn’t the severed human ears in a box that really got me - crime TV viewers have seen appendages aplenty sliced, iced and delivered by FedEx in our time - but the ones growing out of a woman’s back. That, even for a seasoned detective drama fan, was a first. (Why Sarah Cushing decided to grow two ears when surely one would do is anybody’s guess.

Elementary, Season 2: Episode 16 – “The One Percent Solution”

Written by Bob Goodman (story by Bob Goodman & Craig Sweeny)

Directed by Guy Ferland

Airs Thursday nights at 10 on CBS

On the spectrum of tonal heaviness, Elementary usually leans to the lighter side of things, but it’s rarely as light as “The One Percent Solution” is. In a way, this is a very unusual episode of the series, especially amid a season that has taken steps to become more serious than its fun debut season, which could occasionally enthrall. “The One Percent Solution” doesn’t exactly suffer because of this, since the almost slapstick comedy lands fairly well. Additionally, bringing back Lestrade for this episode makes the detour more enjoyable to take part in. Yet, it still manages to feel out of character, which is even more odd when you consider that Craig Sweeny (one of Elementary‘s executive producers and...

Review Louisa Mellor 28 Feb 2014 - 13:23

Sean Pertwee guest stars in this week's Elementary, a witty, delightful episode...

This review contains spoilers.

2.16 The One Percent Solution

“We own chickens, don’t we?” Lucy Liu’s resigned punch line to this week’s Elementary topped off a highly entertaining episode from writer Bob Goodman.

The case itself was Elementary by the numbers, right down to the culprit being revealed as the harmless-looking witness interviewed and dismissed early on. (If Holmes and Watson were just to familiarise themselves with a season one box-set, they could save themselves a great deal of effort by just nabbing the sweet “I’m still not over the shock” witness from the off). By Elementary’s own rules, the bomber was either going to be the Labor Department Undersecretary or the restaurant manager, but as a wealthy white-collar ruling classes-type, the baddy odds were stacked in her favour.

New Elementary season 2,episode 16 not airing tonight,delayed for a couple weeks. Hey, "Elementary" peeps. Unfortunately, we have to tell you guys that the new episode 16 of season 2, labeled, "The One Percent Solution," will be missing in action tonight as the show is currently on another hiatus/break until Thursday night,February 27th at 9pm central time, so go ahead and jot that down on your TV calendars. CBS still has not served up the promo/spoiler clip for episode 16. However when they do, we'll definitely get that posted to the site for you guys, so be sure to stay tuned for that. In related news, the show is hiring actor, Ron Canada, to play a retired high school teacher, named Manny Rose. He's from a crime-plagued Brooklyn neighborhood, and has dedicated his life to improving his community and keeping his students away from gangs and drugs. In his episode,...

Talk about an October surprise.

Apparently, all that movie superpowering has given "The Avengers" director Joss Whedon his own special ability to predict the future and, when it comes to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, he's already got it all figured out.

If and when Mitt Romney gets into office, Whedon says, the United States of America will finally be on the right path ... toward the zombie apocalypse.

"Like a lot of liberal Americans, I was excited when Barack Obama took office four years ago, but it's a very different world now," Whedon deadpans in this new viral video. "Romney is ready to make the deep rollbacks in health care, education, social services, reproductive rights that will guarantee poverty, unemployment, overpopulation, disease, rioting — all crucial elements in creating a nightmare zombie wasteland — but it's his commitment to ungoverned corporate privilege that will nosedive this economy into true insolvency and chaos...

Forget Meat Loaf. Mitt Romney has just received an endorsement from world-class filmmaker Joss Whedon. Of course, it's probably not the kind the Romney campaign wanted.

"Like a lot of liberal Americans, I was excited when Barack Obama took office four years ago. But it's a very different world now, and Mitt Romney is a very different candidate," Whedon says in the clip. "One with the vision and determination to cut through business-as-usual politics and finally put this country back on the path to the zombie apocalypse."

Later in the mock political ad, Whedon jokes that the current economic ruling class will have nothing on those physically capable of surviving a zombie attack.

"The one percent will no longer be the very rich. It'll be the very fast." Whedon says, a reference to the zombies in "28 Days," Danny Boyle's post-apocalyptic thriller.

Whedon, who directed "Marvel's The Avengers," has been...

Philadelphia -- Occupy Wall Street went after them and now, too, a mismatched pair of heroes are doing the same.

Whereas the so-called One Percent is blamed for having a majority of wealth at the expense of the other 99 percent, in Valiant Comics' upcoming "Archer & Armstrong," it's a secretive and sinister cabal of money managers and financiers willing to sacrifice more than jobs for profit – human lives, too – to steer the fate of the world for their own gain.

Archer and Armstrong – an ancient immortal and a home-schooled, combat-trained teenager acting as a fist of God – find themselves at the cabal's mercy deep under Wall Street in ancient crypt where they find out about a plot to stabilize the euro – and boost profits – by destroying Greece.

Writer Fred Van Lente said "The One Percent" makes its first appearance in the final page of the first issue of "Armstrong & Archer," which is in comic shops Aug.

Every week on Vf.com, filmmaker Jamie Johnson offers a glimpse into the secret lives of the super-rich. Celebrity provocateur and documentary filmmaker Michael Moore returns to movie screens this week with the release of his new film, Capitalism: A Love Story. I first met Moore at a Tribeca Film Festival screening of a documentary I directed called The One Percent, which focuses on how the very richest Americans have attempted to shape the economy around their interests. Moore’s new film covers related topics from a very different perspective, examining with his inimitable style the effect concentrated wealth and power have on the working class. Earlier this week, I spoke to Moore about the film and about his perception of American capitalism's inherent flaws. Here's how it went: Jamie Johnson: Your new film is called Capitalism: A Love Story. But it’s clear that you don’t love capitalism,...