Back in March 2019, it was reported that Taika Waititi had worked out a deal to co-write and direct a new reimagining of “Time Bandits” for Apple TV+. However, since then, there really hasn’t been much concrete news about the show. That said, it appears the show is ready to move full speed ahead with a full cast of actors joining the comedy series. 

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According to Variety, Taika Waititi has found his main cast for “Time Bandits,” the remake of the Terry Gilliam film of the same name.

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Actress Charlyne Yi has spoken out about her experiences working on the 2017 film “The Disaster Artist,” which James Franco directed and Yi says she tried to quit because of the accusations of sexual misconduct against Franco.

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In an Instagram post earlier this week, Yi, who played costume designer Safowa Bright-Asare in the film, called out not just Franco, but specifically producer Seth Rogen, accusing him of enabling Franco’s behavior.

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Are you ready for the next innovation in technology? It’s not a phone or a variation of a contraption that can eavesdrop on your conversations. The latest in tech is a friendly robot who is here to save the world…before the other robots can destroy it.

Coming to Netflix in 2018 is “Next Gen,” the story of a young woman who befriends a robot far more empathetic than the technological world around her.

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**Turn back now if your log is afraid of spoilers**

To refer to an episode of “Twin Peaks” as surreal would be to say that water is wet, but last night’s part of the revival, a more-so-than-usual disparate collection of vignettes that found some of our most beloved characters each on the brink of death, new life, or…something else, was somewhere between a hallucinatory nightmare and a gentle kiss goodbye on the forehead.

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Today, at a press screening for the film (a full review with arrive soon, but in short, it has a lot of laughs, but runs out of steam even with its brief 90 minute length) we snagged a complete list of the songs in the film, and are sort of surprised at the tracks that were left off the official soundtrack.

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You are forgiven if from the outset you mistake “Paper Heart” for eating 200 lollipops in a row while singing “Sugar Sugar” by the Archies with a fun-times marching high school band and lolcats dancing all around you. It certainly does look twee as fuck, but as all of us are reminded on occasion, you cannot always judge a book by its cover, or a film by its trailer (errrr, though the latter is usually quite easy to do where Hollywood is concerned).

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Here’s your first listen to Charlyne Yi’s “Magic Perfume,” a track that is essentially the first single off the “Paper Heart” soundtrack album, details of which we exclusively revealed. But to recap, the album comes out August 4 and features Alden Penner (ex member of Montreal indie-rockers the Unicorns and Clues) and Zach Condon from Beirut, plus a score written by Michael Cera and Yi.

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And now we have the soundtrack details. As we noted previously, Alden actually produced the score and contributed two new original songs, while Condon wrote one original song (“The 11th Arrondissement “) for the film as well.

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Probably. Sometimes the idea of Sufjan Stevens blaring in a room with “Little Miss Sunshine” playing on a loop and the FOX SEARCHLIGHT banner flashing at you repeatedly is enough to make you want to induce instant suicide. Kidding! (sort of)

However one film that we’re actually looking forward to believe it or not (hey, it can’t be as obnoxious as “Napoleon Dynamite,” amIrite?) is the Charlyne Yi and Michael Cera film, “Paper Heart.”

Part documentary, part fictional feature directed by Nicholas Jasenovec, the film follows Yi on her whimsical quest to document her skepticism on the concept of love.

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In an interview with this guy, Starr says the film will have a familiar Hal Ashby vibe.

“We still haven’t worked out a lot of the details, but it’s basically a story about platonic love, the friendship between a young man and an old, decrepit woman…It definitely has a familiar [Harold and Maude-Like] tone to it, and well, oddly enough, it’s set in the ‘70s.

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The synopsis of the film is a giddy: wheeeeeeee! Ooooooh! fuuuuuuun! wheeeeee! tee hee! wheeeeeeee! Ooooooh! fuuuuuuun! wheeeeee! tee hee! wheeeeeeee! Ooooooh! fuuuuuuun! wheeeeee! tee hee! wheeeeeeee! Ooooooh! fuuuuuuun! wheeeeee! tee hee! wheeeeeeee! Ooooooh! fuuuuuuun! wheeeeee! tee hee! wheeeeeeee! Ooooooh! fuuuuuuun! wheeeeee! tee hee!

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The part documentary, part fictional feature directed by Nicholas Jasenovec follows Yi on her precious quest to document her skepticism on the concept of love. The film seems to transition between the documentary and a fictionalized love story between her and Cera (who’s also her real life boyfriend) that interplays with her journey.

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The film, described as “combining elements of storytelling, reality and fantasy, ‘Paper Heart’ brings a fresh perspective to the modern romance and redefines the classic love story,” has a real synopsis on its Sundance page:

“Charlyne Yi does not believe in love.

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Is Michael Cera and his girlfriend, comedienne Charlyne Yi’s new film “Paper Hearts” poised to be the next-big-thing at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival in Utah, come 2009?

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the film has gone, “under the radar,” which is fair enough to say considering we just heard about it now.

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At LAFF, Apatow talked about a few upcoming projects:
– Apparently Charlyne Yi, the little asian stoner girl from “Knocked Up” is developing her own Apatow project (no details on what it is, but she plans to turn the script in to Apatow “soon.”).

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