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A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. After the ABC announcement this week of a second year in a row with no traditional Oscar host, I happened to be on the phone talking with a former Oscar show producer. He said it was getting to the point where no performer is going

Future and Drake’s highly anticipated “Life Is Good” music video has dropped, and it is stacked with cameos. The two rappers have wowed fans and the music industry once more as they tell their own story of the everyman’s daily grind. Drake first appeared on public radar when he starred on the teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation, playing the

Back to the Future and Contact director Robert Zemeckis looks to be returning to the science fiction genre with Warner Bros. and the astronaut thriller called Ares, studio sources confirm. The Oscar-winning director of Forrest Gump is in advanced negotiations to helm the sci-fi project that was set up in recent months at Warner Bros. Zemeckis

Golden Globe Best Picture Winner for Drama, 1917, got off to a bang on Thursday with $3.25M in previews that began at 7PM in 2,900 theaters. The Sam Mendes-directed WWI pic, which debuted in 11 theaters in cities like NY, LA and DC, on Christmas Day, goes wide today in 3,434 theaters. The movie is

Here’s a first look at Oscar-winning duo Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren in Roger Michell’s art heist comedy The Duke. As we revealed back in October, the heavyweight Brit acting duo are leading the cast of the film based on the true story of 60-year-old taxi driver Kempton Bunton who, in 1961, stole a Goya painting from the National

Scoob! Release Date: May 15It’s been a long time since Scooby Doo and the Mystery Machine gang were on the big screen, and rather than return to live action, Scoob! is a fully computer animated film. While the movie will explore how Scooby met Shaggy, Fred, Daphne and Velma, what makes Scoob! extra special is

Once he’s completely finished on FX’s Fargo season 4, Noah Hawley will be jumping into his Star Trek feature at Paramount “as soon as possible” he tells Deadline today. We broke back in November how the Fargo and Legion creator was beaming up for the next sequel in the studio’s franchise. But two interesting takeaways from our conversation are that it’s

Edd Byrnes, who became famous acting in movies like “Grease” and iconic TV shows like “77 Sunset Strip” is dead. Byrnes died unexpectedly Wednesday at his Santa Monica home of natural causes. His career had a bunch of high points. Edd played Vince Fontaine in “Grease,” he was the host of the famous National Bandstand

The daft energy and vivacious mayhem of the upcoming Birds of Prey will be a major change-up from the gritty Gotham City of Joker, and that’s made abundantly clear from the start of the just-released second trailer from Warner Bros. The trailer opens with a police station showdown that evokes the comedic rhythms of The

The new Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) trailer offers fans a first look at the villain Black Mask (Ewan McGregor) wearing his signature mask. When Margot Robbie made her debut as Harley Quinn in David Ayer’s Suicide Squad, she quickly became a fan-favorite. The Oscar-nominated actress was nearly universally

Dracula, the BBC and Netflix’s blood-soaked retelling of Bram Stoker’s mythical vampire story, has sunk its teeth into a much-improved audience with the addition of catch-up viewing in the UK. The seven-day rating for the first episode of Hartswood Films’ drama stood at 6.6M viewers, according to BARB figures provided by the BBC. This was

A post-Christmas Broadway box office fell like so many dry pine needles last week, with most shows taking fairly significant tumbles as ticket prices settled back to reality. In all, total grosses for the 36 productions dropped 23% from Christmas week to $43,095,641. Attendance of 317,679 was down only 9%, putting the box office blame

The National Board of Review lavished love on The Irishman at its annual gala Wednesday, marking the second straight night for the Martin Scorsese epic to soak up awards-season adulation in New York. The Netflix title was honored as Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay, and also got the NBR Icon Award, presented to Scorsese and

15 minutes ago For a movie centered on the Fastest Man Alive, it’s ironic how long it’s taken for The Flash to actually get off the ground. Nevertheless, Warner Bros is still moving ahead with spotlighting Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen in his own movie, with IT’s Andy Muschietti now directing and Birds of Prey’s Christina

After a decade of development, the door is finally opening on Locke & Key, the long-awaited adaptation of the bestselling supernatural comic book series by writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez and published by IDW of San Diego. The atmospheric trailer above is the first meaningful glimpse into the mysterious series from Carlton Cuse (Lost, Bates

Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Laura Dern‘s “Marriage Story” character isn’t anything like the real-life divorce attorney she’s supposedly based on … so says the woman herself, who’s kinda salty about the portrayal. We ran into Disso Queen Laura Wasser Tuesday night at Craig’s in WeHo and asked how she felt about the movie …

Amazon Prime Video Spain is lining up a reboot of popular Spanish family series El Internado (The Boarding School). Titled El Internado: Las Cumbres, the eight-episode show will shoot early this year in northern Spain. It will be an Atresmedia Studios and The Mediapro Studio co-production. The original series, which ran for seven years until 2010,

The Simpsons has a couple of episodes set in the future, and the timeline of these can be confusing. Logic is not something that can be expected from a cartoon, let alone one that has been active for 30 years, and it’s specially tricky with non-canon stories, though they can still be placed in a

It is difficult to fit all of the boldfaced names of those who attended Tuesday night’s New York Film Critics Circle gala into a single paragraph. Because of the event’s format, which has a presenter (usually someone notable) introducing the actual winner of a prize, the list overflowed with sparkle, this year more than usual

Sony Pictures has pushed back the release of its Kevin Hart starrer Fatherhood by eight months to January 8, 2021. The move was a strategic one by the studio and not tied to injuries the actor sustained in a late-summer car accident. Sony had planned to move the pic from its announced April 3, with its

5 minutes ago When you think of a stormtrooper, more than likely, your brain immediately jumps to white armor and helmet-clad men following Darth Vader through the Death Star in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Or, perhaps, you prefer to picture the jetpack-equipped stormtroopers chasing after Rey, Finn, Poe, and the gang

Despite this morning’s BAFTA nominations diversity furore, there are some silver linings concerning inclusion. Syrian war documentary For Sama, from Syrian director Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts, has become BAFTA’s most-nominated feature documentary, the organization has said. The film is nominated in four categories: Outstanding British Film; Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or

Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Andrew Kimmel is finally saying “gracias” after his nightmarish trip to Mexico went viral … telling us he’s getting ready to make a movie about his wild 24-hour adventure. Andrew, a TV and digital producer in Los Angeles, was on “TMZ Live” Monday to download us on his scary excursion

American Factory took top honors at the 13th annual Cinema Eye Honors recognizing the best in documentary filmmaking, tonight at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. A portrait of a once-closed Ohio factory bought by a Chinese billionaire, the Netflix release picked up awards for Outstanding Nonfiction Feature and Outstanding Direction for

Christian Bale is in talks to join the cast of Thor: Love and Thunder. The Oscar-winning actor is no stranger to comic book adaptations, portraying Bruce Wayne/Batman in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy between 2005-2012. While Bale’s appeared in a couple other genre pictures outside of Batman (most notably Terminator Salvation), he’s largely stayed away from big-budget tentpole

EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy O. Harris, the playwright behind the acclaimed stage play Slave Play, has signed on to script a film adaptation to Ales Kot’s 2019 graphic novel The New World for Warner Bros and Populace. Released via Image Comics, the comic is described as a genre-bending sci-fi that follows the lives of two lovers who

Refresh for latest…: Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker continued its global domination in the third weekend, now with a worldwide cume of $918.8M. It will soon become the Mouse’s 7th release of 2019 to cross the $1B mark. The current split is $450.8M domestic and $468M at the international box office. This weekend

British TV and film executives woke up to news of another American awards show dominated by their compatriots, who can lay claim to winning 40% of the Golden Globes on Sunday night. Ten of the evening’s 25 prizes at the 77th annual Golden Globe Awards went to television shows and movies spearheaded by British talent,

2 hours ago Joaquin Phoenix just won the Golden Globe for Best Actor – Drama for his riveting performance in Joker, and while people care, at least mildly about the Golden Globes, his win will mostly lead to questions about how this may or may not affect his Oscar chances. Let’s dive in and discuss.