Trump spoofed in website’s film

Trump spoofed in website’s film

NEW YORK

In one of the more elaborate and unexpected spoofs of Donald Trump, Johnny Depp has joined the ranks of the combed-over, starring in a mock documentary released the morning after the GOP candidate’s primary victory in New Hampshire.

The comedy website Funny or Die on Wednesday unveiled “Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal: The Movie,” a 50-minute video styled as Trump’s own self-made TV movie adaptation of his 1987 best-selling advice book.

The film, shot clandestinely, stars Depp as Trump in a startling transformation for even the actor known for outlandish metamorphoses, such as the Mad Hatter and Whitey Bulger. After Owen Burke, Funny or Die’s editor-in-chief, came up with the concept, the site’s co-founder Adam McKay called Depp and ran the idea by him.

New Harry Potter play will come out in book form in July

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The new Harry Potter play will become a new Harry Potter book.

Scholastic Inc. announced Wednesday that a “script book” of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” will be published July 31. The book is a based on the two-part stage collaboration of J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany and arrives just after the play premieres in London on July 30. Rowling’s Potter website www.pottermore.com will release an edition.

The first seven Potter books have sold more than 400 million copies worldwide, according to Scholastic, the series’ U.S. publisher.

Target sponsors 4-minute video during Grammys

NEW YORK

Target has its bullseye on the “Hollaback Girl” singer.

Target is sponsoring a four-minute live video by Gwen Stefani during The Grammy Awards on CBS on Monday, an unprecedented move that capitalizes on the current vogue for live TV events. She’ll perform the song “Make Me Like You,” which is being released Friday.

It’s a gamble for Target, since four minutes of prime-time ad time costs millions. And most TV ads are only about 30 or 60 seconds.

It is unclear how much Target spent on the video, but a 30-second spot cost $952,000 in the Grammys in 2014, according to Kantar Media.

Associated Press