“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” has been running since 1999, and Ice-T has been there since almost the beginning. The rapper turned a four-episode stint in the show’s second season into a permanent role as Detective Odafin “Fin” Tutuola.
Viewers watched to see whether Richard E Grant could save himself at the first round table of the series.
It’s for the best that “Animals,” actor Ben Affleck’s sixth outing behind the camera, is being released directly to Netflix — not that this slick, pacy serving of all-star pulp couldn’t or wouldn’t hold one’s attention in the multiplex.
The company has secured an undisclosed sum from Los Angeles-based investment firm Square Nine Capital.
The opt-in private-broadcast repair is merged into 32. x, while the older-branch backport remains open and 31. 1 is still the stable download.
Remaking Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 classic Japanese kidnap drama High and Low was a good idea, and last year Spike Lee did exactly that with his own homage to the master in Highest 2 Lowest, a contemporary update set in the music business in New York City and starring Denzel Washington.