September 20, 2017

Entertainment September 20, 2017

Today in Movie Culture: Watch Alicia Vikander Become Lara Croft, 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' vs. 'IT' and More

Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:

Behind the Scenes Video of the Day:

You’ve seen the new trailer for Lara Croft, now see how Alicia Vikander became the iconic video game character:

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Fake Behind the Scenes Movie of the Day:

The Lego Ninjago Movie also has a new behind the scenes feature, as if it was all really filmed rather than computer-animated:

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Remade Scene of the Day:

Speaking of Lego, here’s one of the most memorable scenes from IT is recreated in Lego care of Huxley Berg Studios:

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Mashup of the Day:

Speaking of IT, when you’re with friends you can defeat Pennywise the clown, just as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles do in this comic:

@TheSewerDen Your Boys Taking Care Of Business#TMNT #IT #MASHUP pic.twitter.com/QDZKc1XYrx

— Nerd Out With Me (@NerdOutWithMe) September 20, 2017

Movie Comparison of the Day:

With Kingsman: The Golden Circle out this week, here’s Couch Tomato with 24 reasons why the first movie is the same as Never Too Young to Die:

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Vintage Image of the Day:

Fernando Rey, who was born on this day 100 years ago, and Gene Hackman receive direction from William Friedkin on the set of 1971’s The French Connection:

Actor in the Spotlight:

Watch Jackie Chan climb and jump over fences and walls in this supercut from The Solomon Society [via Geekologie]:

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Filmmaker in Focus:

With Ken Burns’s new documentary series Vietnam War debuting this week, here’s a Burns-esque video about how he captures hisotry and why he matters:

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Cosplay of the Day:

This cosplayer mimicking the title character from The Corpse Bride would surely impress Tim Burton:

Corpse Bride #cosplay done by https://t.co/1WL7C7Fugo pic.twitter.com/Izxx0ilhUk

— Cosplay Girls (@CosplayGirIs) September 15, 2017

Classic Trailer of the Day:

This week marks the 30th anniversary of the release of Fatal Attraction. Watch the original trailer for the classic romantic thriller below.

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Business September 20, 2017

SEC Says Cybercriminals Hacked Its Files, May Have Used Secret Data For Trading

The Securities and Exchange Commission says cybercriminals got into the agency’s files last year and accessed information that might have been used to give them a secret edge in trading.

The SEC says it had known about the intrusion in 2016 into its Edgar filing system, but learned this month that “nonpublic information” accessed may have been used for “illicit gain.”

“Edgar houses millions of filings that companies are required to submit to the SEC so that they can be perused by investors,” as noted by Bloomberg.

The agency says the “software vulnerability … was patched promptly after discovery,” and didn’t reveal any personally identifiable information.

A statement by SEC Chairman Jay Clayton notes that potential damage done by cybercrime increases all the time, and that “a large portion of the costs … are borne by investors, consumers and other important constituents.”

Politico reports that Congress has questioned the SEC about Edgar’s security:

“In May 2015, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) asked the SEC for information about EDGAR vulnerabilities after an apparent hoax involving Avon Products Inc.

“In October 2014, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) raised concerns after an academic study revealed that stock prices were moving about 30 seconds prior to public filings being made available on the SECs website.”

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Health September 20, 2017

Hurricane Maria Leaves Hospital In Puerto Rico Running On Generator Power

NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks to Domingo Cruz Vivaldi, an administrator at the San Jorge Children’s Hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico as Hurricane Maria’s trajectory is affecting the island.

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:

There is devastation in the Caribbean today, too. Hurricane Maria has hit hard. Puerto Rico is experiencing widespread flooding, and it seems the entire island has lost power. The storm just passed, and people are only beginning to figure out the full extent of the damage. Earlier today I checked in with Domingo Cruz Vivaldi. He’s administrator of the San Jorge Children’s Hospital in Puerto Rico’s capital, San Juan.

DOMINGO CRUZ VIVALDI: The hospital has been without power since 2 o’clock in the morning. It has been running with a power generator. The power generator is working fine. At this point, we have about 60 percent occupancy at the hospital. All patients are doing well. All employees are doing well. We have some damages to (unintelligible) building. The elevator went out and got some water. And so far, the hospital is working as normal as possible all things considered at this point.

SHAPIRO: Is the generator providing all the power you need, or do you have to prioritize certain things over others?

VIVALDI: No. We have a generator that provides for 100 percent of all the electrical needs, including air conditioning. That’s probably the most urgent need that we have. Once this – the hurricane passes, we should have the outside power back. Power generators are not designed to work permanently. They’re used as a temporary means. And you know, that’s probably our – short-term, our only concern.

SHAPIRO: When you say short-term, do you mean days or weeks? How long do you think you could…

VIVALDI: No, I’d say days.

SHAPIRO: Days.

VIVALDI: Based on my previous experience, you know, power generators – after a week, you know, they just start to give you some kind of trouble, either overheating or some mechanical of problem. So very short-term, you know, within the next two, three, four days at the most. Then we’ll at work immediately to get power back. Based on previous experiences as well, during the hurricane, people don’t come to the hospital. But right after the hurricane, probably tomorrow and the next coming days and weeks, we’ll have a high volume of patients coming in.

SHAPIRO: And are you ready to take in a lot more patients?

VIVALDI: Yes. We have a prepared plan, and we have employees that will rotate. And we have a supply of (unintelligible). We have supply of food. So we are OK at this time to take care of patients. Really our only concern short-term is having power back because we can only do emergency surgeries, and we cannot do anything really elective.

SHAPIRO: I know that the power grid is so fragile in Puerto Rico. More than half of the population lost power in Irma. Hurricane Maria is a direct hit. There have been projections that power might not come back for weeks or months. What would you do in that scenario?

VIVALDI: Well, that will be catastrophic. Some hospitals will have to shut down. And if we don’t get power within a week or two, I’m sure hospitals will have to shut down and will have to transfer patients to other hospitals in Puerto Rico or outside Puerto Rico.

SHAPIRO: This is a children’s hospital, and a hurricane can be scary for anyone. But I can only imagine for a sick child what this experience might be like. How are you able to comfort the patients who are there in your care?

VIVALDI: Well, we try to explain to them as best as possible what was going to happen. We also explained to them that if needed, they will be removed from the room. And they’re providing meals to the patient as well as to the companion. And we are, you know, providing for all their immediate needs. As long as the power generator doesn’t cause any problems inside the hospital, it looks pretty normal. But that’s the big concern. So that’s something that is (unintelligible) raise the voice to the government to make sure we get the proper emphasis on getting hospitals back to normal as soon as possible.

SHAPIRO: Thank you. Stay safe.

VIVALDI: Thank you.

SHAPIRO: That was Domingo Cruz Vivaldi, administrator of the San Jorge Children’s Hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Sports September 20, 2017

Former Boxing World Champion 'Raging Bull,' Jake LaMotta Dies At 95

Former boxing world champion Jake LaMotta has died at 95. His colorful life was the subject of a book and an Academy Award winning movie, Raging Bull.

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:

The boxer whose life was immortalized in the film “Raging Bull” has died. Jake LaMotta died yesterday in a Florida hospital. NPR’s Tom Goldman remembers the former middleweight champion and his complicated life.

TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE: You know, the 1980 movie was aptly titled, because this guy was, you know, by all accounts raging in and out of the ring.

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DON DUNPHY: Both men blaze away at the (unintelligible). But LaMotta, rallying from the brink of defeat, knocks Dauthuille down and almost through the ropes.

GOLDMAN: He was known for being able to take a punch. In fact out of his 100-plus fights, he was only knocked down once. Matter of fact, in his last fight against Sugar Ray Robinson that was stopped because it was just so bloody and he was just being pummeled, he said to Ray, you know, I didn’t go down. That line was immortalized in the movie.

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ROBERT DE NIRO: (As Jake LaMotta) Hey, Ray, I never went down, Ray. You never got me down, Ray.

GOLDMAN: He wore that as a badge of honor – his toughness. But you know, he had to be a good boxer as well to do what he did. He held the middleweight title from 1949 to 1951. He was a great boxer.

It would take a psychologist to kind of identify exactly what the root cause was for his rage, but you know, there were stories of him growing up – a very tough childhood. There were reports that his father, an immigrant, would beat Jake LaMotta’s mother and siblings, so he grew up around physical violence.

There was also a really interesting part of his personality that Nigel Collins told me – Nigel Collins being a Hall of Fame boxing writer. He said he had a conversation with LaMotta, and LaMotta said when he was a teenager, he attacked a person with a lead pipe wrapped in newspaper and definitely hurt the guy. But Jake LaMotta always thought that he had killed him, and he apparently was guilt ridden for that. And that guilt kind of transferred into this feeling of, I’m not worthy of living. And so there was that that was kind of motivating his rage and his ability to just take punch after punch after punch. According Nigel Collins, Jake LaMotta in a sense felt he deserved those kinds of beatings.

You know, so Jake LaMotta retired from boxing in the mid-1950s, but you know, a troubled life continued. In 1960, he appeared before a Senate subcommittee on antitrust and monopoly that was investigating boxing’s connection to the Mob, and he admitted then that he took a dive in a famous fight against a fighter named Billy Fox. And the way Jake LaMotta described it was he needed to take that dive in order to get a title shot, which he did.

And then in later years, he had an association with an underage prostitute. He owned some bars. So you know, his rough-and-tumble life continued. But as is also characterized in the movie, you know, he had such a personality that he displayed on TV. He was kind of a staple on the late-night talk shows.

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JAKE LAMOTTA: That guy you had on before, that Shakespearian guy – what’s his name?

DAVID LETTERMAN: John Houseman.

LAMOTTA: He talks kind of funny.

LETTERMAN: Yeah, he does.

GOLDMAN: The 1980 movie “Raging Bull” kind of put LaMotta back into the public eye for a new generation at that time. And after watching the movie, LaMotta said – and I’m quoting here – he said, “when I saw the film, I was upset. I kind of look bad in it. Then I realized it was true. That’s the way it was. I was a no-good bastard. I realize it now. It’s not the way I am now but the way I was then.”

SHAPIRO: That’s NPR’s Tom Goldman on boxer Jake LaMotta, who died yesterday at the age of 95.

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Entertainment September 20, 2017

Watch Alicia Vikander in First 'Tomb Raider' Trailer

In a screen career that began in 2002, Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl) has already appeared in a wide variety of roles, including supporting performances in the action movies The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Jason Bourne. Her role in the upcoming Tomb Raider, however, will likely see her reach a much higher level of worldwide stardom.

Based on the popular video game series, the first trailer for the big-screen adaptation has now been released. In it, she shows her action chops as a young bike courier who finally decides to investigate the disapperance of her father some years before.

Watch the first trailer below.

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Directed by:

Roar Uthaug. The Norwegian director received critical acclaim for The Wave, a modern-day disaster thriller. He’s also known for horror thriller Cold Prey

Written by:

Geneva Robertson-Dworet. This will be her first, produced credit. Reports have also indicated that she’s worked on (or will work on) the scripts for Captain Marvel, Gotham City Sirens, Dungeons and Dragons and Sherlock Holmes 3.

Starring:

Alicia Vikander, Daniel Wu, Hannah John-Kamen, Walton Goggins, Dominic West.

Official Synopsis:

“Lara Croft is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished when she was scarcely a teen. Now a young woman of 21 without any real focus or purpose, Lara navigates the chaotic streets of trendy East London as a bike courier, barely making the rent, and takes college courses, rarely making it to class. Determined to forge her own path, she refuses to take the reins of her father’s global empire just as staunchly as she rejects the idea that he’s truly gone. Advised to face the facts and move forward after seven years without him, even Lara can’t understand what drives her to finally solve the puzzle of his mysterious death.”

Fun Fact:

Vikander is following in the footsteps of Angelina Jolie, who won an Academy Award for Girl, Interrupted before playing the titular character in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003).

Release Date:

March 16, 2018.

Her legend begins. #TombRaider, in theaters March 2018. pic.twitter.com/tsChGaHEb6

— Tomb Raider (@tombraider) September 18, 2017

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September 20, 2017

Today in Movie Culture: Watch Alicia Vikander Become Lara Croft, 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' vs. 'IT' and More

SEC Says Cybercriminals Hacked Its Files, May Have Used Secret Data For Trading

Hurricane Maria Leaves Hospital In Puerto Rico Running On Generator Power

Former Boxing World Champion 'Raging Bull,' Jake LaMotta Dies At 95

Watch Alicia Vikander in First 'Tomb Raider' Trailer