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Danny Boyle's 'Trainspotting' 2; Cuban Singer Daymé Arocena; WGA issues

Published March 13, 2017 at 3:24 PM PDT
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Director Danny Boyle and actor Ewan Bremner, on the set of the Trainspotting  film sequel in Muirhouse shopping centre on May 11, 2016 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The long awaited Trainspotting 2 is being filmed in Edinburgh and Glasgow, 20 years after the original was released it will also see the cast from the first film returning including Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle.
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Director Danny Boyle and actor Ewan Bremner, on the set of the Trainspotting film sequel in Muirhouse shopping centre on May 11, 2016 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The long awaited Trainspotting 2 is being filmed in Edinburgh and Glasgow, 20 years after the original was released it will also see the cast from the first film returning including Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle.

Filmmaker Danny Boyle has reunited with the original cast of his 1996 movie "Trainspotting" to find out where those drug-addled young adults are now that they're in full-blown adulthood; Cuban Singer Daymé Arocena releases a new album with a little help from friends in LA; The Writers Guild of America starts contract talks, could it lead to a strike?

More than 20 years after "Trainspotting" hit theaters, director Danny Boyle is back with a sequel. The characters are somehow still alive, but they haven't aged so well.
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