TGL Round-Up: Game of Thrones Pirated A Billion Times, George Clooney Movie Earns Mixed Reviews, Lady Gaga Taking a Break
Game of Thrones broke ratings records for HBO in its latest season, but it paled in comparison to the amount of people watching the show illegally.
With its seventh season plagued by hackers, the popular fantasy show was pirated more than 1 billion times, according to anti-piracy firm Muso.
“Game of Thrones has become one of the biggest global entertainment phenomena of today and activity across piracy networks has been totally unprecedented,” said MUSO CEO Andy Chatterley in a statement. “In addition to the scale of piracy when it comes to popular shows, these numbers demonstrate that unlicensed streaming can be a far more significant type of piracy than torrent downloads.”
Two episodes of Game of Thrones were leaked online before airing, which may contribute to the high numbers of piracy.
George Clooney’s latest directional effort, Suburbicon, has earned mixed reviews.
Suburbicon is described as being about a deceptively peaceful community hides a violent underbelly and stars Julianne Moore, Matt Damon and Oscar Isaac.
It currently holds a rotten 59% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Lady Gaga will be “taking a rest” for a little while, the pop star announced at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday.
“I’m going to take a rest. I don’t know how long,” Gaga said at a press conference for her upcoming Netflix doc “Gaga: Five Foot Two” when asked what the next steps in her career might look like.
Gaga has been focused on acting over music in recent years.
I was actually interested in George Clooney’s new movie. Not now LOL
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It didnt look that good to me
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You could tell from the trailer that it wasn’t going to be great. Clooney lacks vision as a director.
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Clooney finds interesting premises, casts great actors and produces forgettable movies.
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That’s so true. His casts are always amazing and the movies rarely are…
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Leatherheads wasted a great idea.
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Everyone i know pirates game of thrones
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Are you a member of a prison, dear?
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He’s gonna be now!!!
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How will we survive with Lady Gaga taking a break?
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I thought Gaga had been on a break for the past 5 years, dear.
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Right? Can’t remember her last song and I usually listen to pop radio stations!!!
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Her latest few albums have crashed and burned a la Leona Lewis.
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We might have to rely Katy Perry or Taylor Swift for artistic genius in the near future.
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I’m surprised people would pirate a show that has episodes online that haven’t even aired yet. I, for one, am shocked people wouldn’t wait!
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What exactly are HBO expecting?? Y’all should release the episode on HBO Online as soon as it leaks. Makes more sense to me than letting people pirate online for free.
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Leaks barely affect the viewership of Game of Thrones on HBO. People like watching the show in GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR.
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Love when Clooney takes a hit to the ego.
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Nobody deserves it more.
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I love Clooney for his political beliefs, but he deserved to be taken down a peg or two for asking Obama if Amal could sue ISIS.
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Funny hilarious. He’s such a dumb piece of shit.
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Clooney’s next film should be “The Surrogate Talks”. Yep, let’s hear it for the same woman the De Niros hired to produce “their” child because she produced Amal’s twins. If you wanted to throw up reading Amal’s comments about her “difficult birth”, you’ll enjoy this movie. Since she was never pregnant, the only difficulty Amal had was getting the twins smuggled into England on dodgy papers.
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The reviews are saying Suburbicon isn’t good, but it’s not bad either. The Coens wrote the script, so I’m assuming it was awesome before Clooney got his hands on it. Apparently there’s a bad “race” subplot that doesn’t sound like anything the Coens would write, but definitely something Clooney and his cronies would be involved it.
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Completely agree. Coens write eccentric characters well, but rarely touch race-relations. I can’t see them suddenly changing their mind now and writing a movie with a racism subplot.
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I find Clooney to be completely overrated.
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Especially as a director…
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He almost always plays the same character, which harms his acting talent.
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You sound like one of his exes, dear.
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HBO execs joke about piracy as if they’re proud to have the most pirated show. Let me be the first to congratulate them on losing money.
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Do they not understand that they’re encouraging pirates by giving them attention and laughing about it?
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Good riddance to Gaga.
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Gaga will be back soon enough as “Stefani Germanotta” in A Star Is Born.
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That is gonna crash and fucking burn.
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Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga in a film together might cause cinemas to self-destruct in response all around the world!
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These “breaks” are never really breaks. Taylor Swift, Madonna, Beyonce yada yada. It’s just their PR people realising that the public is done with them. They go away for a hot second and then come back to annoy us.
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