Whether or not you benefit from the output of tv from Apple TV+ or not, one factor is evident: they’ve a ton of cash to spend. The manufacturing values and star studded casts of their authentic programming is mainly unmatched, and that development seems to be persevering with with the trailer for his or her new sequence The Studio, a Hollywood set comedy starring Seth Rogen as a beleaguered studio govt. The quick clip encompasses a smattering of cameos from A-list stars, maybe most notably Martin Scorsese, who will be seen hilariously berating Rogen’s character.
A Very Costly Banana
Sotheby’s held their hotly anticipated trendy artwork public sale, Now and Modern, this week, and the star lot didn’t disappoint. Maurizio Cattelan’s Comic, which famously is a banana that has been duct taped to a wall, offered for over $6 million on Wednesday evening. However the sale itself was solely a part of the story. The customer, New York Metropolis primarily based crypto entrepreneur Justin Solar introduced shortly after the hammer fell that he’d be consuming the banana, consistent with the spirit of the work itself. He additionally reportedly paid in crypto, naturally. ARTnews has all of the protection.
A Distinctive Nikon Lens Involves the Public sale Block
In different public sale associated information this week, this piece from Digital Digicam World has all the information on a outstanding and uncommon Nikon lens that’s at the moment up on the market. The Fisheye-Nikkor 2.8/6mm Auto 220° is taken into account by many to be the very best fisheye lens ever manufactured, delivering an unimaginable 220 diploma area of view (it’s generally known as “the lens that may see behind itself”). The instance on the market at Leitz Photographica was produced in 1990, and is one in every of solely about 200 ever made. The lens was launched within the early Seventies, however solely produced on a made to order foundation, and the excessive value related to it makes it fairly uncommon. Seeing one come up on the market publicly is an enormous second in some pictures circles.
A Take a look at the Historical past By means of the Eyes of Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II hits theaters this weekend, and it marks one more historic epic from the celebrated filmmaker. Few administrators have been so prolific within the realm of historic dramas as Scott. His final movie, launched only a yr in the past, was Napoleon, in spite of everything. However historic accuracy has by no means precisely been his sturdy go well with, and over time his movies have been criticized by historians for varied inaccuracies. Scott, as ever, has a colourful response for these naysayers, and in this piece in The Ringer author Aric Jenkins takes us by, properly, actually all of recorded historical past analyzing what Scott will get proper and what he will get fallacious.
