By Brent Lang
TheWrap

There is a thick deceive of privacy surrounding “Prometheus,” though co-writer Damon Lindelof hinted to fans this week that a arriving science-fiction chiller might lead to sequels. 

The denote that some-more deep-space terrors could wait even after a final credits hurl on the film came Wednesday during a studio-sponsored question-and-answer event on Twitter. 

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In response to a doubt about a probable “Prometheus” franchise, Lindelof replied, “If we like it and wish more, there is TOTALLY a pattern for this story to continue in cold and astonishing ways.”

Of course, “Prometheus” is a prequel of sorts itself to executive Ridley Scott’s classic 1979 film ”Alien.” 

The executive has stopped brief of calling it that but has pronounced that fans will commend “strands of ‘Alien”s DNA” in a film. He also betrothed a ”new, grand mythology” that gives faith to Lindelof’s hints that “Prometheus” was never dictated as a one-off. 

Also on TheWrap: ‘Prometheus’ Secrets Revealed: 5 Things We Now Know

Gone, however, is Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley, who hold lean over a prior films.

Instead, a new expel of intensity visitor food boasts Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace. Lindelof, who co-wrote a script, is best famous for his purpose in formulating ABC’s “Lost.”

When it came to a tract sum of “Prometheus,” Lindelof remained mysterious on Twitter.

“If we did the pursuit right, both,” Lindelof tweeted. ”The characters ask questions. They get answers. Then they run and roar a lot.” 

“Prometheus” hits theaters on June 8, 2012.

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CANNES, France (AP) — The spectacular named Cannes got underneath approach Wednesday with Wes Anderson’s delicately stoical caprice and Sacha Baron Cohen’s theatrics.

Anderson’s “Moonrise Kingdom” is opening a 65th annual film festival with a premiere and a executive as good as actors Bruce Willis, Edward Norton and presumably Bill Murray will make their approach down Cannes’ grand red runner in a evening.

In a morning, Baron Cohen hold his latest attempt to foster his arriving comedy, “The Dictator.” The comedian hold a press discussion outward his hotel, where he was flanked by dual womanlike faux-soldiers. A camel was led to him, that he (with some trouble) mounted and afterwards rode down a Croisette to apparently take in some shopping.

As he solemnly done his approach down a street, Baron Cohen was mobbed by dozens of photographers, bringing trade to a hindrance and sketch a courtesy of police. After a brief stroll, Baron Cohen incited around and returned to a hotel — presumably to strike again later.

Such a stunt, while positively unique, isn’t odd during Cannes, where cinema mostly go to extremes to locate a eye of a world’s media.

The Cannes Film Festival runs by May 27 with energetically expected films to come from Walter Salles, David Cronenberg and Michael Haneke.

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By Lucas Shaw
TheWrap

Sacha Baron Cohen’s “The Dictator” opens in theaters during midnight on Tuesday, yet a film already has some Arab-Americans angry about a deleterious description of Arabs.

Baron Cohen plays Gen. Aladeen, a North African tyrant who jokes about murder and repression.

While Baron Cohen’s shtick might be in good fun, some Arab groups and experts aren’t in on a joke, desiring a comedian has perpetuated disastrous stereotypes that go behind to a early days of Hollywood.

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“Arabs are being ridiculed again and again and again,” Jack Shaheen, author of “Guilty: Hollywood’s Verdict on Arabs After 9/11,” told TheWrap. “It’s constant and has been going on for scarcely a century. [Baron Cohen] only advances a thought that it’s ideally excusable to gibe Arabs in film.”

Shaheen has created extensively on a depiction of Arabs in Hollywood and a fact that cinema tend to etch them as nefarious, unwashed or moronic. In his book “Reel Arabs,” he chronicles hundreds of cinema with such portrayals.

Particularly discouraging to a author and highbrow in this instance is a timing. Baron Cohen is derisive a thought of a tyrant while identical leaders are slaughtering civilians on a other side of a globe.

Shaheen is not a initial chairman to impugn “The Dictator” for a depiction of Arabs.

Nadia Tonova, a executive of a National Network for Arab American Communities, objected in Feb when Baron Cohen strode down a Oscar red runner in character, spilling remains on Ryan Seacrest.

At a time, she wrote that Arabs are one of only a few cultures that “Hollywood still exploits with impunity,” being portrayed as “terrorists, dictators, sheikhs, oil tycoons or Bedouins.”

Over a past integrate of months, a carol has grown.

Also on TheWrap: ‘SNL’: Sacha Baron Cohen Brings ‘The Dictator’ to Weekend Update (Video)

Nadine Labaki, a Lebanese director, told NPR this week that Baron Cohen did not make fun of Arabs “with respect.”

Dean Obeidallah, a comedian and TV commentator, wrote a mainstay for CNN comparing Baron Cohen’s opening to a use of blackface.

And there’s a rub. While a comedian like Obeidallah believes many all is satisfactory diversion for comedy, there is a clarity that Hollywood picks on Arabs in particular.

Sheehan wondered either Baron Cohen could have ragged blackface, or gotten a mist tan and mimicked a South American dictator.

“Would a studio make a film like that?” he asked. “If I’m in Vegas with you, I’ll gamble a residence a answer is no.”

Yet while “The Dictator” is seen as damaging to Arab-Americans, that doesn’t meant snub is a answer.

“If we make a large understanding out of each time some film does something that is somewhat extremist or sexist, we persevere yourself wholly to doing that,” Omar Baddar, new media coordinator for a Arab American Institute told TheWrap.

He argued that there was a double standard: that an anti-Jewish classify would never pass pattern in Hollywood.

However, he pronounced a approach of combating any of these disastrous stereotypes is by preparation and concrete discuss rather than outrage.

TheWrap spoke with Paramount about these several points, yet a studio declined to criticism on a depiction of Arabs in a film.

Plus: Are audiences sleepy of Sacha Baron Cohen?

It’s not only a calm of “The Dictator” that has drawn a madness of a Arab-American community. It’s a expel and crew.

Most discouraging to some of these observers is not that Arabs are portrayed negatively yet that they were not expel in a film.

“My large emanate is Hollywood carrying people who are not Arab and not Indian play us — a white-washing in Hollywood,” Obeidallah told TheWrap. “They ridicule us for a distinction and make a lot of money, so during slightest have us as partial of artistic process.”

This isn’t indispensably about improving a notice of Arabs — yet that would help, too. Obeidallah stressed that Hollywood could also do a improved pursuit of derisive Arabs if it used Arab writers and actors.

In fact, he is rooting for a film to do good so that it would open a doorway for identical comedies. He will see it with his partner after this week.

“I wish it’s a large hit,” he told TheWrap. “I don’t wish to boycott; we don’t wish an apology.”

As for Shaheen, he pronounced he hoped one day to get coffee with Baron Cohen.

“He seems like a good guy,” Shaheen said. “Someone like that is in a position to assistance exterminate a classify instead of enforcing or sharpening it.”

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‘The Dictator’ Review: Laughs Keep Sacha Baron Cohen’s Shaky Regime Afloat
‘SNL’: Sacha Baron Cohen Brings ‘The Dictator’ to Weekend Update (Video)
 

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