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Spring into Action with Canuck Comedy
and Quirky Cookbooks by MARC WEISBLOTT
ROBERT LITTELL’S SPY NOVEL about a rogue CIA cryp- tographer trying to escape Czechoslovakia after killing the terrorists who killed his wife was first made into a Canadian movie in 1981. This new adaptation con- MOVIE / ACTION Eighties thriller revived
SETH ROGEN and creative partner Evan Goldberg took the cin- ematic comedy scene by storm in 2007 with Superbad , a screen- play based on their own high school experiences in Vancouver. Seven years later, their political satire The Interview , about a bun- gled assassination attempt on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, had its theatrical release scuttled due to pressures from North Korea accompanied by a hacking of Sony Pictures — and Rog- en became seen as a less bankable star. Clearly, he realized, this TELEVISION / COMEDY Beating the Hollywood system
cedes that the Iron Curtain may be long gone, but argues you can still avenge a murder by blackmailing federal agents. Rami Malek plays the
THE AMATEUR In theatres April 11
title character, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel star Ra- chel Brosnahan plays his wife. In Jewish writing trivia: Littell’s first book credit was 1969’s If Israel Lost the War , and former prime minister Shimon Peres recruited him to co-write For the Future of Israel , about the Oslo nego- tiations. In further evidence of eclecticism: earlier this year he published Bronshtein in the Bronx , inspired by Leon Trotsky’s pre-Russian Revolution visit to New York.
meant it was time for him and Goldberg to go deep on satirizing the uncertain state of movie studios in a streaming tv series. Episodes will roll out weekly through May.
THE STUDIO Apple TV
Premieres March 26
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