The Society of Composers & Lyricists has unveiled its SCL Award nominees for 2023, naming composers Alexandre Desplat (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio), Carter Burwell (The Banshees of Inisherin), Michael Abels (Nope), Michael Giacchino (The Batman) and John Powell (Don’t Worry Darling) as its contenders for Outstanding Score for a Studio Film. The SCL’s Musical/Comedy Song […]
Former Glee stars and longtime friends Lea Michele and Darren Criss have reunited once again for a special Christmas edition of Apple TV+’s Carpool Karaoke: The Series. The two take a scenic drive through New York City as they belt out some of their favorite Christmas songs in a clip for the show’s holiday special. […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Black Film Critics Circle has voted The Woman King its Best Film of 2022, Danielle Deadwyler Best Actress for Till and Brendan Fraser as Best Actor for The Whale. Gina Prince-Bythewood won Best Director for The Woman King. BFCC co-president Mike Sargent revealed the winners Thursday after votes were cast and tabulated in […]
With strong and consistent mid-weeks, James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water has crested the $600M mark worldwide. This comes after it rapidly passed $500M global earlier this week, following its $441.6M opening weekend. The current worldwide total through Wednesday is $609.7M including $426.8M from the international box office. The offshore cume lifts Way of […]
After some 50 years in the business, Bill Nighy is used to people getting his surname wrong. It actually rhymes with ‘sigh’: the ‘y’ is silent. “My dad was very particular about it,” he says, “and for a while, I used to correct people on his behalf, because he couldn’t bear it when people said […]
In Todd Field’s Tár, we meet Lydia Tár, a revered composer-conductor heading up the Berlin Philharmonic, played by Cate Blanchett. Nina Hoss, as Lydia’s wife Sharon, is concertmaster and first chair violin, and together they navigate the politics of their musical life while parenting their daughter Petra. But Lydia, who is at the top of […]
Actor Matt Rogers is trying to bring a little hope to fans of I Love That For You, the freshman Showtime comedy that is from and stars Vanessa Bayer. Speaking recently with the Earwolf podcast TV, I Say w/ Ashley Ray, Rogers revealed that season two has already been written but the show has yet […]
Former Denver Broncos running back Ronnie Hillman, who played for the Peyton Manning-led team when it won Super Bowl 50, died Wednesday after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of kidney cancer in August. He was 31. His death was announced by his family in a post on his Instagram page. “It is with heavy […]
Martin McDonagh’s tragicomedy The Banshees Of Inisherin leads this year’s London Film Critics Circle nominations with nine nods, followed by Charlotte Wells’ acclaimed debut Aftersun, which nabbed eight nominations. Both films clocked nominations for Film of the Year, British/Irish Film of The Year, Director of the Year, and Screenwriter of the Year. The two films […]
Murder early American style is pointedly served cold in The Pale Blue Eye, a fancifully gruesome account of killings at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, circa 1832, that attracts the attention of a certain Edgar Allan Poe, among others. Handsomely made in the dead of winter and generally adept at playing its dramatic […]
Jaclyn Philpott has been named executive director of the Association of Film Commissioners International – a newly created post that she’ll assume on January 3. As the new leader of the organization, she succeeds former AFCI President Eve Honthaner, who stepped down in September for personal reasons. “I am honored to be selected as AFCI’s […]
Charlie Cox is sharing some details about Daredevil: Born Again, Marvel’s upcoming revival series on Disney+, revealing that the shoot will take up most of the coming year. Cox will be reprising his Matt Murdock/Daredevil character in the Disney+ series, a role he played in the Netflix series, which ran for three seasons from 2015-2018. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Vertigo Releasing has set a January 20th North American release for BAFTA winner After Love, marking the company’s first stateside theatrical release. Aleem Khan’s well-received debut stars Joanna Scanlan (The Thick of It), Nathalie Richard and Tali Ariss in the story of a widow who discovers her husband’s secret family after his unexpected death. […]
Another week, another episode of the Scene 2 Seen podcast. I am your host Valerie Complex, associate editor and film writer at Deadline. On today’s episode is Everything Everywhere All at Once actress Stephanie Hsu. Just a reminder that the podcast has moved to Thursdays at 11:30 a.m. ET. This change allows for us to […]
20th Century Studios/Disney’s Avatar: The Way of Water made $14.3 million yesterday at 4,202 theaters, ranking it as the second best Wednesday of 2022 after Top Gun: Maverick‘s $14.8M on June 1. Avatar 2‘s first Wednesday also outstripped that of Minions: The Rise of Gru ($13.5M, July 6) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s first and […]
Sex assault charges against Rex Orange County, the chart-topping English singer-songwriter whose real name is Alexander O’Connor, have been dropped, with the Crown Prosecution Service announcing yesterday, according to the BBC, that the evidence “no longer met” its test for a prosecution. The 24-year-old O’Connor had faced six charges of touching a woman without consent […]
Allison Holker — the wife of the late Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss — posted a heartfelt goodbye message to her husband who died Dec. 13. “My one and only,” she wrote. Oh how my heart aches. We miss you so much.” It’s the first message from Holker since she announced via social media that her husband […]
The Alamo Drafthouse movie chain looks set to hit $350,000 in ticket sales this November and December from Jon Favreau’s Will Ferrell-starring holiday favorite Elf. The 2003 comedy, about a human baby raised in Santa’s North Pole workshop who returns to New York and saves Christmas, is the chain’s top all-time repertory title, with cumulative […]
EXCLUSIVE: After spending years taking subscribers behind bars at dangerous prisons, Netflix is applying the same formula to special forces. The streamer has teamed up with the UK producer of Inside The World’s Toughest Prisons to create a new documentary series, titled Inside The World’s Toughest Forces. Emporium Productions has gained access to special military […]
EXCLUSIVE: A British lawmaker and member of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China has urged the BBC to rethink its commercial decision to produce ads for organs of Chinese state media. Lord David Alton has written to Tim Davie, the director-general of the BBC, demanding that he review the activity of commercial unit BBC StoryWorks after […]
A strange 2022 is about to get stranger, with Channel 4’s Alternative Christmas Message set to be delivered by an AI robot. The established 30-year-old alternative to the BBC’s annual Royal message, which will be delivered by King Charles III for the first time this year, will come from an AI robot developed in Cornwall […]
As the hunt for the next Squid Game continues, we’re seeing new consolidation in the South Korean content sphere. Korean streaming platform Wavve has bought KOCOWA (Korean Content Waave), the K-content streamer that operates in the Americas. The companies already have similar ownership structures, with Wavve (aka Content Wavve) owned by Korean networks KBS, MBC and […]
In one of of the biggest TV showrunner agency moves in years, CAA has signed Greg Berlanti for representation in all areas. A WGA, DGA, PGA and Emmy nominated writer, director, and producer, Berlanti is known for his loyalty; he has only changed agencies once, in the early 2000s, when he left ICM for Endeavor […]
Yesterday, Universal’s troubles suddenly weren’t so far away, at least when it comes to Ana de Armas’ absence from the 2019 Danny Boyle directed flick Yesterday. “Universal is correct that trailers involve some creativity and editorial discretion, but this creativity does not outweigh the commercial nature of a trailer,” wrote U.S. District Judge Steven Wilson […]
As Avatar: The Way of Water continues to blow up worldwide, James Cameron has indicated he’s game-planning far into the future. Writer-director Cameron has told Entertainment Weekly that he’s shot scenes from a proposed Avatar 3 and Avatar 4 concurrently with the recently released sequel. He did so to avoid having the younger cast members […]
