“Jurassic World” director talks up new dino, Grandmaster Flash lands Netflix gig and the Pope is WAY behind on “Game of Thrones” (and every other show)…
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“We’re surrounded by wonder and yet we want more. And we want it bigger, faster, louder, better. And in the world of the movie the animal is designed based on a series of corporate focus groups. Like in the same way a lot of movies are. They sit a bunch of people down and they ask them, ‘What can we do to make the dinosaurs more entertaining for you? What would make you tell a friend to come to Jurassic World?’ And their answer is, of course, ‘We want to see something bigger, faster, louder, more vicious; we want a killer.’ And they get what what they ask for.”—“Jurassic World” director Colin Trevorrow to Entertainment Weekly on his upcoming flick’s big, bad dino: the fictional Indominus Rex, a 50-foot long, 18-foot long beast
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The digit: $13,000
That’s how much the latex dresses and other sultry ensembles, on loan from L.A. sex shop The Stockroom, were worth in Taylor Swift’s star-studded “Bad Blood” music video, Page Six reports.
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Calling in the pros
Baz Luhrmann’s a pro when it comes to Parisian can-can dances set to “Nirvana” or Leonardo DiCaprio taking on Shakespeare but the director needs a hand for his upcoming Netflix series “The Get Down,” A.V. Club reports. The legendary DJ Grandmaster Flash will act as a consultant for Luhrmann’s musical drama about the rise of disco, punk and hip-hop in ’70s New York.
Source: Associated Press
The digit: 105
That’s how many selfies Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson snapped at the London premiere of his earthquake drama “San Andreas” over the weekend, breaking the Guinness World Record for most selfies in under three minutes, Jezebel reports. “We just set a NEW GUINNESS WORLD RECORD for most self-portraits (selfies) taken in record time (yup, a selfie world record exists and your arm gets a helluva workout),” the actor/wrestler/gigantic human wrote on his Instagram page. Hey Kim K., you mad?
Source: Associated Press
The digit: 25 years
That’s how long it’s been since Pope Francis has watched television, the pontiff told Argentinian news source La Voz Del Pueblo in a recent interview, NBC Chicago reports. His holiness must not have heard Amy Schumer was on “The Bachelorette” Monday night.