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Paul Dano on His Terrifying Batman Villain and Why He’s No Longer Scared of Going Hollywood - Hollywood Reporter
In pursuit of his art, Paul Dano wrapped his head in Saran wrap last year. This was not, it turned out, the healthiest idea. Dano was meticulously crafting his character for The Batman, the Riddler, envisioned by director Matt Reeves as a buttoned-down accountant by day, madman genius by night. The actor had carefully helped select a U.S. Army winter combat mask that costume designer Jacqueline Durran found on eBay, which Dano liked for its homegrown vigilante aesthetic, and he was thinking about the Riddler’s fastidiously executed murders. “The thoroughness of this person, the almost maniacal detail that he puts into plotting — I was like, ‘OK, well, should I just shave all my body hair?’ ” Dano says. “So there’s no evidence?” He nixed that plan and decided instead, “I’m going to wrap my head in Saran wrap.”
Reeves loved the idea — with the top part of Dano’s head encased in plastic, he looked even more horrifying. But on the first day of shooting after three or four takes, “Paul takes off the mask, his head, his face is beet red,” Reeves says. “The heat can’t escape. I was like, ‘OK, all right, Paul, let’s rethink this. You don’t have to do this.’ He goes, ‘No, man, I told you that I wanted to do it. I’ll do it.’ ” The plastic stayed.
The Batman is the first time in Dano’s distinguished, 25-year acting career that he is part of a big-budget, four-quadrant movie heavily anticipated by a global audience. As he sat on the set of the nearly $200 million production in England, poking holes in the Saran wrap to vent heat and pressure, the actor thought, first, of the fans. “I just hope on Halloween nobody wraps their head in Saran wrap and passes out from heat exhaustion,” he says.
Although he starred in three best picture nominees before he turned 30 — Little Miss Sunshine, There Will Be Blood and 12 Years a Slave — and has been nominated for a Golden Globe, for Love & Mercy, and an Emmy, for Escape at Dannemora, Dano, 37, is still little-known enough that many people mispronounce his last name. Dano rhymes with Draino, but even serious fans, like the creators of a 34-episode podcast devoted to his filmography, Is Paul Dano OK?, say it wrong.
Dano had never heard of the podcast until this interview: “Oh my God. Who are they?” Turns out they are Matt Brothers and Daryl Bär, a couple of British movie obsessives drawn by Dano’s craft and the abuse his characters often seem to suffer. “He’s someone who people know, but they don’t know they know,” says Brothers. “And what motivates a performer to keep gravitating toward these roles where he gets a good slapping? Is he OK?”
Yeah, Paul Dano is OK. In fact, he is a bit better than OK. After years of trying to avoid the kind of mainstream attention that comes with a project like The Batman, Dano is ready for household-name status. “I am more clear in myself now about what I want and what I get from my work,” Dano says. “That allows for a more healthy sense of not just artistry, but also ambition. It feels really good to me to have done this now, and I can enjoy it now, where I don’t know if I would have in my 20s.”
“I’m not a multitasker,” says Dano. “I am a horse with blinders on.” Salvatore Ferragamo coat and sweater. Photographed By Erik Tanner
There is a reason that, while nearly every other major male actor of his generation has at least one comic book movie on his résumé, The Batman is Dano’s first. “I really had a stiff arm up to the industry when I was young,” he says. “Being a child actor, I instinctively felt … how do I somehow protect myself from Hollywood? I just don’t think I knew who I was enough to be around it. I was too impressionable. I don’t know that I’m a natural performer. I don’t know that I get my ya-yas from entertaining. I knew what I wanted, but I didn’t know if it was possible.”
What Dano wanted was a career that was long and varied and left room for him to have a life — and he’s gotten it. In 2022, he’ll appear in two roles that represent almost diametrical opposites in terms of their themes and places in the movie industry, first as the Riddler in WarnerMedia’s epic The Batman, which opens March 4, and then as a father inspired by Steven Spielberg’s own dad in The Fabelmans, the director’s intimate, semiautobiographical family drama due from Universal in November. Dano also hopes to finish writing his second script this year, a movie for him to direct, as he did the 2018 Richard Ford adaptation Wildlife, which he co-wrote with his longtime romantic partner, actress and screenwriter Zoe Kazan.
It’s early February, and Dano is in L.A. to tape some videos that will be part of the promotional whirl for The Batman, a sprawling marketing endeavor that is new to this veteran of mostly indie projects. “I’ve not really experienced this before, the fan theories and the people reacting and counting down days,” he says. “It’s surprisingly really fun. I don’t know that I was expecting that, because I tend to be more shy.” Jake Gyllenhaal, whom he directed in Wildlife and starred opposite in Prisoners and Okja, does a convincing impression of Dano’s offscreen air of tranquil confidence. “It’s an easy impression. Basically I stand very still and just give a slight, affirming nod,” Gyllenhaal says. It was possible to fact-check this impression in real time over breakfast with Dano when a waitress delivered a complimentary fruit plate and congratulated him on some unspoken victory, and the actor tipped his head ever so slightly, closed his eyes and thanked her. Dano, Gyllenhaal says, is “openhearted but quiet and in no need of an actor’s typical desire for attention.”
For his role as the obsessive but- brilliant killer the Riddler, Dano suggested to director Matt Reeves that he cover his head in Saran wrap to prevent any DNA evidence from being found at the scene of his crimes. Courtesy of Jonathan Olley/Warner Bros.
Dano, the son of a financial adviser and a homemaker in New York City and Connecticut, worked as a child actor, displaying a knack for the craft in community theater. He was able to hold his own opposite some of the most intimidating actors of screen and stage from a very early age. At 12, he made his Broadway debut in a revival of Inherit the Wind with George C. Scott and Charles Durning, and at 20 he appeared opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in The Ballad of Jack & Rose. In Day-Lewis, Dano observed commitment and the English actor’s ability to harness his intensity into a scene. At 23, when Paul Thomas Anderson needed a last-minute replacement for another actor in the role of preacher Eli Sunday in There Will Be Blood, he elevated Dano, who was playing a smaller part, into a dual role. “It takes an enormous amount of fearlessness to stand opposite and antagonize Daniel [Day-Lewis] as Plainview,” Anderson says. “Paul’s fear, if he had any, was well hidden.”
Bong Joon Ho wrote a part for Dano in Okja after meeting the actor while seeing his band, Mook, play at a show in Brooklyn. “He was undeniably an artist,” Bong says. “He was singing while playing a peculiar rhythm on the guitar … It’s hard to explain, but it was weird yet natural at the same time.” Bong wrote the Okja part, in which Dano plays a militant vegan animal-rights activist, to capture “his eyes and distinct energy. His quietly persuasive charisma. Especially the particular rhythm and cadence that he has in his speech and movement. I wanted to capture his inimitable aura and rhythm on film.”
Reeves, too, wrote The Batman with Dano in mind for the Riddler role, thinking in particular of the actor’s performance as Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson in 2014’s Love & Mercy, in which the songwriter is battling mental illness. “That character, he’s caught up in his artistry and he struggles to communicate with those around him,” Reeves says. “That was spiritually connected to the idea of this isolation that the Riddler felt. The Riddler is a product of our time, the way that people become isolated online and retreat to mental activities that substitute for not having contact.” Dano, Reeves felt, had the right combination of oddness and accessibility to give the character depth. “Paul is just off center in a way that makes him very relatable,” Reeves says. “I didn’t want this character to be a villain. Even in his darkness, I wanted to see that humanity.”
“Paul is just off center in a way that makes him very relatable,” says The Batman director Matt Reeves. Prada suit, shirt, tie and shoes, Tiffany & Co. watch. Photographed By Erik Tanner
Over the years, Dano had avoided comic book movies, never outright passing on one, just not expressing enough interest to get an offer. “Sometimes you maybe just don’t engage with a meeting or something,” he says. “Just kind of knowing when to not step on the gas or to go after every job.” But he was intrigued by what he’d heard of Reeves’ approach on The Batman, which unfolds as a dark detective story, and he read the script the director wrote with Peter Craig. “I read it and said to Zoe, ‘I think this is kind of really good?’ ” Dano says. He liked that in this comic book movie, “The audience is sort of indicted. I’ve not seen that before in this kind of mass entertainment.”
The Batman is a reboot of a franchise that has grossed some $5 billion globally but also has been through creative tumult the past decade, with director Zack Snyder reluctantly handing off his Justice League film to Joss Whedon, who clashed with multiple actors, and Ben Affleck stepping away from the Batman role to deal with personal problems. Reeves’ new film is a fresh start for the characters, with Robert Pattinson as a younger Batman in a story wholly distinct from the DC Extended Universe. When Reeves and Dano spoke, they connected over an interest in moral gray areas and the notion that Batman and the Riddler are mirror images of each other. “There’s just a thin line that separates them,” Reeves says. “There’s a moment where you think, ‘Oh, is that Batman’s point of view watching through the binoculars, or is that the Riddler’s?’ Paul kept saying to me, ‘This character is not just a serial killer. It has to be grander than that.’ “
Growing up, Dano was obsessed with Jim Carrey, and he remains a fan of Carrey’s Riddler in 1995’s Batman Forever, but Reeves’ Batman is no comic treatment. As Dano began to prepare for the film, he thought through the Riddler’s motivations, his traumatic history and his connection with Batman. He worked with a mask expert to figure out how to inhabit a role where he spends the vast majority of the movie with his face covered. The first time he put on the winter combat mask, he felt a sense of power. “Power, because you don’t want the person wearing that mask walking toward you,” Dano says. “And for somebody [like the Riddler] who felt powerless in their life, that’s a big feeling to be given.” He obsessed over the tiniest details, trying on hundreds of pairs of glasses before settling on the clear plastic frames the Riddler wears over his mask. “I’m not the guy who’s like, ‘If you don’t see my feet in the shot, I’m going to put on more comfy shoes,’ ” Dano says. “That’s just not how it works.”
“I’m not the guy who’s like, ‘If you don’t see my feet in the shot, I’m going to put on more comfy shoes.’ That’s just not how it works.” Photographed By Erik Tanner
In order to shoot one scene in which the Riddler is talking to Batman via cellphone video, Dano was alone in a room with an iPhone and Reeves speaking to him in an earpiece, while the rest of the cast and crew were on the set of an ornate murder scene at Gotham’s City Hall. Over what Reeves estimates to be some 200 takes — many of them at Dano’s behest — the actor delivers variations on Riddler’s madness. “He goes, ‘OK, let me try one where I’m off camera and I stick my head in,’ ” Reeves says. ” ‘Let me try one where I’m already sitting there.’ He’s directing this one-person play on an iPhone. It was the giddiness that really got to me. Calling out the passing time, like he was a game show host. He was so inventive and creative. He’s also very critical of himself.”
Dano takes this character deadly seriously — though he is willing to entertain the idea that the Riddler plays Wordle in his downtime. “This is a guy who survived by finding a way to focus his brain on something apart from his own thoughts and trauma and pain,” Dano says. “That actually was very important to my backstory — not Wordle, literally — but the idea that puzzles were the only place that he would be given any form of positive feedback in his life. They were the only thing that ever said to him in his whole life, ‘You win.’ “
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Dano and Kazan met on a play in 2007, and they live in Boerum Hill in Brooklyn with their daughter, now 3½. The couple are not legally married, but Dano refers to Kazan as his wife. “The first part of the pandemic was one of the only times where work didn’t seem to be a part of my life,” Dano says. “That period of time was about my family and maintaining sanity.” During the pandemic, Dano and Kazan developed a system for dividing up childcare and maintaining personal time. “I would take a few hours in the morning to myself, Zoe in the afternoon,” he says. “We shared all meal times, but we each needed a point of the day where we weren’t playing 2-year-old games.” They left Brooklyn for a while and moved to be near Kazan’s parents, screenwriters Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord, in California, where they could take their daughter on hikes and have a sense of space. (Kazan’s grandfather was On the Waterfront director Elia Kazan.)
Dano with his partner, actress-writer Zoe Kazan. The duo collaborated on his directorial debut, 2018’s Wildlife, and have a young daughter. Dan MacMedan/WireImage
Dano and Kazan co-wrote his directorial debut, the period family drama Wildlife, which stars Carey Mulligan and Gyllenhaal as a married couple who are rapidly growing estranged. On the Wildlife set, Dano brought his acting experience, and his own self-doubts as an actor, to bear as a director. Mulligan recalls a scene where her character is drunk and anxiously trying to win over a new man who can provide for her and her son. “I was nervous about playing drunk,” Mulligan says. “I kept getting halfway through the scene going, ‘Ah, cut, cut, cut, sorry. Fuck.’ … He came over to me and kindly, gently just said, ‘Don’t cut yourself. And everything you are feeling in terms of, you hate yourself, you think you’re a terrible actor, you think you are getting it all wrong. There is no wrong. All of the things that you are feeling are things that she’s feeling. Just keep going. And don’t cut, whatever happens.’ I got halfway through the scene, and I kind of winced, indicating to him, please cut … And he just refused to. It was one of those takes that ended up in the movie. And he was right. All of that inner turmoil and self-hate was all just sort of perfect.”
Dano’s next script is an original idea, not an adaptation like Wildlife, and unlike that one, he’s writing this one alone. “I’m a little slow and meticulous, so I’m afraid it’s going to take five to seven years to make my next film after the first one, but that’s just who I am,” Dano says. “I’m not a multitasker. I am a horse with blinders on.” He’d like to finish writing it in 2022 and be in production by the fall of 2023.
Dano in Little Miss Sunshine (top, in yellow). Fox Searchlight / Courtesy: Everett Collection
Dano tends to choose his next project as a direct reaction to what he’s working on now. After Wildlife, he made Escape at Dannemora, in which he played a convicted murderer having an affair with a prison worker. “I have meetings sometimes and people are like, ‘What do you want to do?’ ” he says. “I don’t fucking know. I literally am often responding to the thing that happened before. Not even consciously. I didn’t know I would want to go do a fucking prison-break miniseries. I was in the edit room on Wildlife, which is very calm and the film is very restrained. And this thing about prison and sex and escape came up, and it was like, ‘Yeah.’ ”
He shot The Fabelmans for Spielberg in the summer and fall of 2021, and the role was a welcome pivot from the darkness of The Batman, though emotionally challenging for different reasons. Dano plays a character named Burt Fabelman who is inspired by Spielberg’s father, Arnold, an engineer with whom Steven had a strained relationship for many years after his parents divorced, a subject he has explored in his films with absent or distracted fathers, like Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T.
“Somebody like Steven making a film about his life and you’re playing a version of his father … the stakes felt really high,” Dano says. Arnold died in the summer of 2020 at age 103 and, “in some ways it was a heavy cloak to bear because of that,” Dano says. “You’re embodying one of the most important, influential, complicated figures in [Spielberg’s] life. It was incredible to see how much of this was in his work the whole time. He’s sharing a piece of himself that I find very moving. There’s a real gift in it, when somebody of that stature and at that level of artistry is willing to do that.”
Dano in There Will Be Blood: “I really had a stiff arm up to the industry when I was young,” he says. “Being a child actor I instinctively felt … how do I somehow protect myself from Hollywood?”
After all the brooders and the weirdos and the charismatic sociopaths, Dano is playing someone that feels closer to himself in The Fabelmans. “[The Batman] closes a certain type of work that I’ve done, and The Fabelmans is the next chapter,” he says. “Sometimes people are like, ‘Oh, you always give these really big performances.’ Sometimes they’re like, ‘Oh, you always give these very quiet performances.’ I don’t know what people think of me, but even though the relationships are complicated in The Fabelmans, the character is beautiful, and I think his heart is beautiful. And so after doing the Riddler, it was nice to go work with that part of myself that was more about being a parent and a husband than … you know.”
When Dano reflects on the young man who once held Hollywood at arm’s length, he thinks he made the right decisions to protect that person. But now he feels ready to open his arms to new kinds of opportunities. “Some of it is becoming a parent and stepping further into yourself,” Dano says. “Your fuel changes as you grow. It’s just a different fuel that I’m burning now.”
This story first appeared in the March 2 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe.
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Latest 'Wheel of Fortune' disaster has fans 'screaming at the TV' - New York Post
Continuing a long series of controversial on air moments, Tuesday night’s “Wheel of Fortune” episode has social media watchdogs barking about the show’s “dumbest moment ever.”
The frustrating episode featured three contestants taking a whopping eight turns and 10 attempts to solve the puzzle: “Another feather _n yo_r _a_”
While the correct answer was simply “Another feather in your cap,” the players took several tries to get there — and it left viewers very frustrated.
Possibly bad game player Laura Machado had three guesses to win as host Pat Sajak and legendary letter-tuner Vanna White looked on. However, Machado’s maddening wrong answers included: “Another feather in your hat,” “Another feather in your lap” and “Another feather in your map.”
Meanwhile, fellow contestant Christopher Coleman didn’t guess any of the correct letters and landed on Bankrupt when he twirled TV’s most infamous wheel.
Thomas Lipscomb also scored a Bankrupt and Lose a Turn for his first two times in the hot seat. But on his third try, he guessed “C” and correctly solved the phrase.
Of course, Twitter has its thoughts — with fans and viewers venting their vexation over the game into the digital abyss.
“Hey if you feel like screaming at the TV in agony and want to throw something at your screen round 2 of tonight’s ‘Wheel of Fortune’ is *perfect* for you,” one outraged viewer griped on Twitter.
“Frozen” actor Josh Gad also gave his two cents, tweeting, “God help us all.”
“I’d like to solve… ANOTHER FEATHER IN EVERYTHING BUT YOUR CAP. Thank you, Wheel, for not editing out 6 of these 8 lost turns in a row like you normally would. #WheelofFortune,” someone chimed in.
Another viewer noted, “I have never been on an emotional roller coaster like this while watching ‘Wheel of Fortune.’ “
One even suggested that the game “should have ended this ‘Wheel of Fortune’ episode with no winner.”
“Tonight’s Wheel of Fortune. I can’t. That round was brutal,” another added, alongside a meme of Jesus talking on the phone with the hilarious subtext “start the rapture.”
One joked, “‘Wheel of fortune’ was WILD today [and] yes I realize this tweet sounds like I’m 87 years old.”
“The dumbest two minutes in Wheel of Fortune history,” a fan simply stated.
“A woman on Wheel of Fortune got this puzzle wrong three times. I’m yelling at the television like I’m watching a football game,” someone quipped.
“The woman on Wheel of Fortune got not one but TWO chances to solve this. First time, she said “…in your LAP.” Second time, she said “MAP.” I am in utter disbelief. #WheelOfFortune,” another Twitter user sniped.
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Queen Elizabeth Resumes Work After Coronavirus Scare - The New York Times
The British monarch is feeling well enough to return to her duties, Buckingham Palace said, easing concerns about the 95-year-old’s health.
LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II is returning to work after a Covid scare, Buckingham Palace said on Tuesday, ending more than a week of heightened concern about the health of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch after it was announced that she had tested positive for the coronavirus.
The palace said that the monarch was feeling well enough to resume virtual engagements and other duties, including audiences with representatives from other countries.
Queen Elizabeth, 95, first tested positive for the coronavirus on Feb. 20, with the palace describing her symptoms as mild.
It was unclear where or from whom the queen had contracted the infection, but several others in her residence at Windsor Castle, west of London, also tested positive, suggesting an outbreak there. The queen had also recently met her eldest son and heir, Prince Charles, who was later reported to be isolating after becoming reinfected with the coronavirus.
In the days after she first tested positive, Elizabeth canceled some virtual engagements at least twice after showing mild symptoms but continued with “light duties,” the palace said.
She received a first coronavirus vaccination in January 2021, but the palace has not confirmed whether she received subsequent doses. Charles has said that he is fully vaccinated and also received a booster.
Still, news that a potentially deadly virus had infected the queen, who recently celebrated the 70th anniversary of her reign, prompted worries about her well-being. She had spent much of the pandemic in quarantine at Windsor Castle with her husband, Prince Philip, who died in April at age 99.
In the fall, the queen canceled multiple public appearances and was admitted to hospital for tests before being discharged and advised to rest.
Her positive test for the virus came as Prime Minister Boris Johnson lifted England’s Covid restrictions last week, including the rule that those who received a positive test must isolate for five days. So-called Covid passports for entry to some indoor venues will eventually be phased out in April, when the government will also stop providing free testing for the public.
On Monday, Britain reported a daily average of 33,161 new cases in the past week, according to official figures. Cases have decreased by 52 percent from the average two weeks ago, and deaths in that time have decreased by 40 percent.
Wales and Scotland, whose officials set their own policies on public health, also relaxed some legal curbs on Monday, though they have not gone as far as England.
Mark Landler contributed reporting.
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Ukraine conflict: Disney, Warner, Sony halt release of films in Russia - BBC News
Warner Bros, Disney and Sony have halted the release of films in Russian cinemas, after the invasion of Ukraine.
The announcements mean the releases of major movies The Batman, Turning Red and Morbius will now not go ahead as scheduled in the country.
They come as governments around the world have been ramping up their sanctions against Moscow.
In recent days global corporations, including car makers and energy giants, have cut business ties with Russia.
Warner Bros blockbuster The Batman was due to be released in Russia on Friday.
"In light of the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, WarnerMedia is pausing the release of its feature film 'The Batman' in Russia," a spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, Disney has delayed the Russian release of the Pixar animated film, Turning Red.
"Given the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and the tragic humanitarian crisis, we are pausing the theatrical release of films in Russia," Disney said in a statement.
The entertainment giant added that it would work with non-governmental organisations to provide "urgent aid and other humanitarian assistance to refugees".
Sony has also halted the release of its Marvel adaptation Morbius in the country.
"Given the ongoing military action in Ukraine and the resulting uncertainty and humanitarian crisis unfolding in that region, we will be pausing our planned theatrical releases in Russia," a spokesperson told the BBC.
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Meanwhile, Netflix has said that it will not comply with new Russian rules to carry state-backed channels.
"Given the current situation, we have no plans to add these channels to our service," a Netflix spokesperson said.
Tech platforms Twitter and Facebook have also moved to limit the presence of Russian state-backed news outlet information on their platforms as these have been accused of spreading misinformation about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Meta, which owns Facebook, said it would restrict access in the European Union to state-owned media outlets RT and Sputnik.
Twitter also said it would add warnings to tweets that share links to Russian state-affiliated media.
Twitter's head of site integrity, Yoel Roth, said the platform has seen more than 45,000 tweets per day that were sharing links to these media outlets.
Google said it would block YouTube channels connected to Russian broadcasters RT and Sputnick across Europe.
Russia 'un-investable'
The moves come as many companies try to distance themselves from Russia. Among the actions taken are:
- Oil giants Shell and BP have said they will sell their Russian interests
- French oil firm TotalEnergies will not finance new Russian projects
- Visa and Mastercard have blocked multiple Russian financial institutions from their networks
- Payments cards issues by sanctioned Russian banks do not work on Google Pay or Apple Pay
- Canada is banning imports of Russian crude oil
- Carmaker Jaguar Land Rover is pausing deliveries to Russia due to "trading challenges"
- Transport giants Maersk and MSC temporarily suspend container shipping to and from Russia, except food, medical and humanitarian goods
- Shipping giant MSC
- Harley-Davidson has suspended its Russian business and all shipments to the country
Big investors have also started to either ditch Russian investments or put new investments on hold.
The UK's biggest private pension fund, the British Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), said on Tuesday that it was "looking to sell" its Russian assets.
"We think there's a clear financial as well as a moral case for divestment with respect to our Russian holdings," USS chief executive Simon Pilcher told the BBC's Today programme.
"There's very little appetite for anyone to trade with Russia under these circumstances, and therefore, in that context, it's very hard to see how Russian investments are a sound financial investment."
Mr Pilcher also said the moral case "was fairly compelling that one should have nothing to do with Russia in the current environment".
Lucy Coutts, investment director at JM Finn, said: "Russia is un-investable at the present time. The Russian economy has been absolutely slammed by a broadside of crushing Western sanctions.
"Its economy is seizing up, the rouble is worth less than one US cent, inflation is soaring, mortgage rates have gone from 7.5% to 18.6% overnight, and the Russian people are being forced to pay."
Credit rating agencies have said the likelihood of defaults on Russian debt has gone up, so bond markets have seized up, she added.
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Marvel’s Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage are coming to Disney Plus - The Verge
Just days after Disney quietly confirmed that all of Netflix’s Marvel shows are set to migrate over to Disney Plus for Canadian audiences this March, we now know when all six of the series will make a similar jump to Disney’s own streaming service in the US as well.
Today, Disney announced that in mid-March, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Defenders, The Punisher, and ABC’s Agents of SHIELD will begin streaming on Disney Plus alongside all of Marvel’s other superhero programming, a sign that may point to those characters’ futures in the MCU. In a press release shared this morning, Disney’s president of streaming, Michael Paull, framed the impending IP homecoming as a further unification of Marvel’s brand and as a sort of evolution for Disney Plus as a platform.
“We have experienced great success with this on Disney Plus across our global markets and will continue that here in the US as well by offering our consumers not only great content, but also a set of features that help ensure a viewing experience most suitable for them and their family,’ Paull said.
Disney Plus’ content has generally skewed much more towards younger audiences in the US compared to other countries like Canada, where the platform includes the more adult-oriented Star content hub. Because of this, Disney is also preparing to debut a new set of parental controls, including profile-specific ratings restrictions, PIN locks for individual user profiles, and “Kid-Proof Exit” questions meant to prevent children from messing with settings put in place by adults.
Considering how much more graphic the former Netflix shows tend to be compared to their Marvel-produced cousins, it makes sense that Disney would take these sorts of steps. It’s interesting, though, that the studio’s opted for the Disney Plus route rather than moving the Defenders and co. over to Hulu, where R-rated movies and TV-MA shows featuring Marvel characters like Deadpool and MODOK currently live.
Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Defenders, The Punisher, Agents of SHIELD, and all of the new parental control features are set to hit Disney Plus on March 16th.
Update March 1st, 12:28PM ET: This article has been updated with a more recent quote from Michael Paull.
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