Modern Beauty Trends: In: A Triumphant Jedi

Monday, December 18, 2017

In: A Triumphant Jedi | Out: Angry Nerds

Star Wars: The Last Jedi triumphed at the box office (duh), while one of Hollywood’s most decorated producers retires.
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“Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They’re what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the norm.”

— Cicely Tyson

Jedis, Duh

Angry Nerds

If you were expecting to read anything other than the fact that Star Wars: The Last Jedi made loads of money, you must have been kidding yourself. The film made $220 million in America over the weekend (in addition to another $230 million overseas). What you might not have expected is that a faction of hardcore Star Wars fans staged something of an online outcry after some elements of the new film did not sit well with them. This despite critical raves. Turns out, though, that most audience members sided with the critics, giving it a solid A CinemaScore. The weekend’s other new wide release, the animated Ferdinand, racked up a little over $13 million, which may seem like a drop in the bucket compared with Jedi’s haul, but it’s actually a decent take. Especially considering that the film will be one of the few options for families with young children well into January.

Games of Thrones’s Social Media Ban

Spoilers

Nick Jonas recently joked that he is wary when the subject of Game of Thrones comes up around future sister-in-law Sophie Turner, lest she accidentally let slip even a tiny spoiler in the show’s final season. Of course, he shouldn’t be too worried. Details of the last lap are guarded more securely than state secrets (which, okay, might not be saying that much in the Trump era, but still…). We’ve already learned that the show will film multiple endings, but now star Emilia Clarke says that even the actors don’t know how the show will end or which of the multiple endings will actually be used. Producers are also placing tough restrictions on the cast’s use of social media during the final season so as not to give even the most thirsty spoiler hounds any material whatsoever. So we assume it’s probably safe for Jonas to talk to his brother’s fiancée.

Documentary-Style Truth

Sheila Nevins

You may not know the name Sheila Nevins off the top of your head, but she has more Primetime Emmys than anyone else in history—32 to be exact. Her projects have also racked up 26 Oscars and 42 Peabody awards. In short, there are few people in Hollywood as decorated as she is. How’d she do it? Well, save for a small break, she’s been the head of HBO’s documentary department since 1979, and as president of HBO Documentary Films, she may be the single most powerful person in the documentary world. She’s worked on everything from The Jinx and Going Clear to, yes, HBO’s seedier series like Real Sex and Taxicab Confessions. Now, at the age of 78, she’s hanging up her hat. “There’s something exciting about leaving a job,” she told The New York Times. “I can’t explain it. I have deprived my life of a life. All I did was work. I was, like, born at HBO and I don’t have to die there. If I stayed any longer, I probably would have died at my desk. I just regret that there’s so little time left.” Of course you’d expect a documentarian to be nothing less than brutally honest in her farewell interview. And in these times, it’s worth noting that one of the most decorated producers in the industry just happens to be a woman.

Petra Collins

@PetraFCollins

Artist, photographer, and occasional model Petra Collins, 24, has had quite the year, from shooting magazine covers to being Selena Gomez's new go-to artistic collaborator.