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Twitter Permanently Suspends Account Of Milo Yiannopoulos After Leslie Jones Abuse

By Stephanie Chase in Movies / TV / Theatre on 20 July 2016

Writer Milo Yiannopoulos has been banned from the site after he was accused of leading a harassment campaign against the ‘Ghostbusters’ star.

Twitter has permanently banned right-wing writer Milo Yiannopoulos days after actress Leslie Jones revealed the extend of the racist abuse she’d been receiving on the social media site. Yiannopoulos, a writer for Breitbart, had been accused of inciting his followers to send the actress racist and abusive messages.

Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones revealed the abuse she’d suffered on Twitter earlier this week.

In a statement to Buzzfeed, a spokesperson for Twitter said: “People should be able to express diverse opinions and beliefs on Twitter. But no one deserves to be subjected to targeted abuse online, and our rules prohibit inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others.”

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'Ghostbusters' Star Leslie Jones Suffers Racist Abuse Via Twitter

By Ed Biggs in Movies / TV / Theatre on 19 July 2016

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Director Paul Feig then leapt to Jones' defence with the hashtag #LoveForLeslieJ, after she re-posted a number of the offending comments.

Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones has described the “personal hell” she’s endured after suffering a string of racist and misogynistic tweets, with director Paul Feig sparking a backlash movement against the trolls in coming to her defence.

The re-boot, which finally hit cinemas this week after months of internet attacks by people attacking the all-female cast, has been arguably the most talked-about film of 2016 and clearly continues to anger a small section of the internet despite the good reviews it has received.

The new 'Ghostbusters' cast (l-r): Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon

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Ghostbusters Reboot Gets Confirmation Of A Second Film

By Charlotte Court in Movies / TV / Theatre on 18 July 2016

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The remake of the 1980s classic has come in for criticism for its all female cast

In among ALL the controversy surrounding the reboot of Ghostbusters, there was an actual film and it turned out that it wasn’t that bad at all. And now, as angry fanboys continue to rage and people refuse to get over the fact the remake is a cast of women, Sony has confirmed Ghostbusters 2.

Melissa McCarthy has a great time filming the reboot Ghostbusters

The film was hugely hyped before its actual release - largely because of the issue of gender - but Sony sat on its hedges and director Paul Feig said the movie would need to make $500million before anyone important sat up and took notice.

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Leslie Jones Says Designers Don't Want To Dress Her For 'Ghostbusters' Premiere

By Stephanie Chase in Movies / TV / Theatre on 29 June 2016

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The actress says she's taking note of those who didn't offer to dress her for the upcoming premiere.

Actress and comedian Leslie Jones has criticised fashion designers on Twitter after she had trouble finding a dress for the upcoming Ghostbusters premiere. Jones stars in the all-female reboot alongside Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon, which is set for release next month.

Leslie Jones says designers haven't been willing to help her find a dress for the Ghostbusters premiere.

On Twitter Jones wrote: “It’s so funny how there are no designers wanting to help me with a premiere dress for movie. Hmmm that will change and I remember everything.” The comedian did receive a reply from one designer, Christian Siriano, who responded with a clapping emoji.

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Ghostbusters Trailer

Ghostbusters is a new film for 2016 and is based on the 1984 film of the same name and is directed by Paul Feig. The film features four women on their quest to save New York City when various ghosts take over and exercise control over the humans.

Two authors Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates write a novel about the existence of ghosts and the revelation that they believe they do exist. However this novel is not taken seriously and when it becomes apparent that Gilbert wrote this book, she becomes the centre of a joke in her professional career as a teacher at Columbia University, even her students don't take her seriously.

This film quickly becomes the tell - tale narrative of who's laughing now, when Gilbert teams up with Yates and two other women to fight the ghosts that have decided to inhabit the city. A mission is deployed and the quartet set out to save the world from the evil ghost Rowan, providing the audience with lots of laughs along the way.

'Ghostbusters' Reboot Is Youtube's Most Disliked Trailer Of All Time

By Stephanie Chase in Movies / TV / Theatre on 02 May 2016

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It’s an unfortunate honour for the upcoming female-led reboot.

The trailer for Paul Feig’s upcoming Ghostbuster’s reboot is Youtube’s most disliked movie trailer of all time, according to a playlist of the site’s most thumbed-down videos. The list of the top 100 most “disliked” videos on YouTube (as of April 16th), places the reboot’s trailer at number 18 overall with over 610,000 dislikes.

The Ghostbusters reboot is Youtube’s most disliked trailer.

Overall the trailer has had nearly 30 million views since its release on March 3rd, with 610,000 viewers choosing to hit the dislike button and just over 214,450 giving it a thumbs up. The trailer’s comment section is also filled with users complaining about the reboot, with many calling it unnecessary or just 'not funny'.

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Ghostbusters Trailer

Erin Gilbert is a brilliant quantum physicist and holds a high ranking lecturing position at Columbia University, that is until a past novel she's written comes to light. The novel was written by Erin and her friend Abby and claims that ghosts are real. When strange occurrences start to happen in Manhattan, Erin and Abby are reunited in a bid to put a stop to the ghostly apparitions.

They set up a small business to help being who are being haunted by the ghosts, the old friends are joined by Jillian Holtzmann, a nuclear engineering mastermind who's just as geeky as the other two girls, the team then recruit Patty Tolan, a lady whose knowledge of New York and its underground is almost unrivalled.

Together the four women for The Ghostbusters.

Sing Trailer

Buster Moon is one of the good guys, he's a koala who's lived his life for the theatre he loves. His sunny disposition is somewhat hindered at the thought of his once great and popular theatre being lost. In need of making money, Buster must come up with an idea to save his theatre - and if it can be helped, also encourage the animals of his home town also become enthusiastic about live entertainment.

Buster's secretary accidentally advertises a singing contest to the residents, the flyer explains that they're looking for a fantastic new talent and the winner of the competition will win 100,000 dollars! Buster finds his theatre is once again the centre of a bustling metropolis and goes ahead with the auditions.

There's a few standout performers including a mom who's life revolves around her 25 piglets, a gorilla who's trying to break away from a bad way of life and a small mouse who might be small but has all the wits and sneaky ambition of the other contestants combined!

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Chris Rock: 'If Jennifer Lawrence Were Black She'd Really Have Something To Complain About'

By Stephanie Chase in Movies / TV / Theatre on 02 January 2016

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The comedian addressed Jennifer Lawrence’s gender pay-gap essay during a New Yorker profile on ‘Saturday Night Live’s’ Leslie Jones.

Back in October Jennifer Lawrence became the face of Hollywood’s gender pay inequality issue, when she penned an essay on Lena Dunham’s website titled, ‘Why Do I Make Less Than My Male Co-Stars?’ But in an article in the New Yorker, comedian Chris Rock has dismissed Lawrence’s grievances, claiming that if she were black then 'she’d really have something to complain about'.

Chris Rock has addressed Jennifer Lawrence’s pay-gap comments.

In Lawrence’s essay she wrote about feeling as if she had "failed as a negotiator”, when she learnt she’d been paid less than her American Hustle co-stars, saying that she had been worried about appearing spoilt or ‘difficult’.

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Cast Of 'Ghostbusters' Remake Delight Patients At Boston Hospital By Visiting In Full Costume

By Elinor Cosgrave in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 03 August 2015

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Patients at a Boston hospital were pleasantly surprised when the Ghostbusters remake cast popped in for a visit.

The cast of the upcoming Ghostbusters remake delighted the patients at a Boston hospital on Saturday (1st August) when they visited in full costume. The stars of director Paul Feig’s all female remake of the 1980s classic – Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones - chatted and posed for photographs with the patients.

Melissa McCarthy at the London premiere of Spy in May 2015.

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Lottery Ticket Trailer

Winning the lottery is something most can only dream of. Kevin Carson has spent his entire life in the projects living with his grandma and they've always played the lottery, just waiting for the day when their numbers could be drawn. On one evening in early July, their luck appears to be in as one by one Kevin's numbers are called.

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