The ceremony was hosted by Tina Fey in New York City and Amy Poehler in Los Angeles. Winners, too, dialed into the ceremony and backstage interviews from wherever in the world they were. Jason Sudeikis joined the Zoom from the U.K. shortly after winning Best Actor TV Series – Comedy for “Ted Lasso.” During Sudeikis’ acceptance speech, Don Cheadle gestured for the actor to “wrap it up,” a moment that was swiftly turned into a GIF....
Nintendo Switch was already one of the hottest handheld gaming consoles on the market, and now that the holiday season is upon us, you can expect sales to go up. Two of the many features that users seem to love about the Switch are its portability and versatility. With a battery life of up to nine hours, the Switch is designed to go where you go, plus it transforms from home console to portable system in a snap....
With so many laptops on the market, filmmakers and film students might find themselves confused about which brand or model to purchase. Thankfully, there are a lot of high-quality laptops available that are great for film editing and other needs. Regardless of whether you’re a student or a more experienced filmmaker, you’ll be multi-tasking more often than not — which means that you’ll need a laptop that is capable of performing multiple tasks such as audio and video rendering, without overheating or the battery dying too fast....
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The awards show will be held live on April 17 at 11:00 a.m. PT. Overlooked, though, were “News of the World” (edited by “Argo” Oscar-winner William Goldenberg) and “Tenet,” as well as three Black-led dramas, “Da 5 Bloods,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” and “One Night in Miami.” However, there’s still the possibility of one or two of these making the final Oscar nominations, along with the buzzy “Minari” and “Promising Young Woman....
“No question about it,” McKay answered when The Times asked if Dale and Brennan would “definitely be into QAnon.” “They’d be way into it, and they’d be torturing [Richard] Jenkins and [Mary] Steenburgen’s characters with it, and they would eventually be having meetings at the house and somehow QAnon would drift into Jenkins’s work life and the Q Shaman would show up at Jenkins’s workplace. They also would have loved Trump....
The AFI is also posting new daily “Behind the Scene” content featuring filmmakers and cast from the Top Ten, including Spike Lee (“Da 5 Bloods”), Aaron Sorkin (“The Trial of the Chicago 7,” Gary Oldman (“Mank”), Gillian Anderson (“The Crown”) and Phoebe Dynevor (“Bridgerton”), and more beginning February 5 running through the virtual AFI benediction on February 26, which will premiere on YouTube.com/AFI and AFI.com/MovieClub. AFI Movies of the Year “Da 5 Bloods” (Netflix) “Judas and the Black Messiah” (Warner Bros....
The money will come in handy soon as Disney+ (market cap: $212.19 billion) takes on Netflix (market cap: $105.19 billion) in the next phase of the streaming wars: AVOD. It’s especially important Disney capitalize on the build-up, because it looks like its planned December launch for ad-supported Disney+ will come a month after Netflix ads make their debut. Disney+ may lose that sprint, but it may have an edge in the marathon for revenue — and the momentum....
Nobody felt the pain of adapting “Dune” more than Jodorowsky, whose infamous production attempt In the 1970s is detailed in the 2013 documentary “Jodorowsky’s Dune.” In a recent interview with IndieWire, the 90-year-old filmmaker said that despite the pain of that lost project, he still plans to see Villeneuve’s version — but remains unconvinced that anyone can pull it off well. “‘Dune’ is a book that’s like Proust. It’s science fiction but it’s very, very literary,” Jodorowsky said....
“So I used a large string orchestra for the core of the sounds — piano, the woodwinds, the brass — around a ring of electronics,” Desplat said. That formed the basis of his musical approach to exploring parallel stories linking Clooney’s lonely astronomer in the Arctic with the crew of a spacecraft on its way back to a dying Earth. “Augustine [Clooney] is the center planet, and I could use various instruments around that,” Desplat said, “so that when we go from his perspective to the perspective of the spaceship crew, we have a continuity....
MGM has returned the rights to producer Graham King and his GK Films after owning the IP for nine years. Lead star of the 2018 reboot, Alicia Vikander, is also expected to be recast. The Wrap first reported the news. Opening bids for the rights have spurred a bidding war since last week, with studios and streamers looking to acquire the adventure IP based on the 1996 videogame series of the same name....
The Emmy-nominated “Dropout” star made her screen debut as a teenager in the 1999 season of “As the World Turns” before joining “All My Children” and eventually breaking out in 2004’s “Mean Girls” plus appearing in “Veronica Mars” both at age 19. While Seyfried told Porter magazine that she came out of the pre-#MeToo era of Hollywood “pretty unscathed,” she did open up about being in at-times uncomfortable situations. “Being 19, walking around without my underwear on – like, are you kidding me?...
MGM weighing acquisition comes as no surprise. Word broke in the fall that the studio was preparing for a sale, and came after months of rumors and speculation that Apple could make a bid as it pours billions into its fledgling streaming service. This comes on the same day that AT&T announced it would merge Warner Media with Discovery and spin off the new company in a $43 billion deal that bring together the likes of CNN, HBO, Warner Bros....
All a critic can say is that no other explanation would seem to account for the unnatural lifelessness of this film about the first woman ever convicted for treason against the United States. No other explanation would account for why “Twin Falls Idaho” director Michael Polish — a compellingly eccentric figure on the indie scene before he pivoted to faith-based slop and the kind of Mel Gibson movies that are only sold in gas stations — would choose an actress with exactly one facial expression to play the lead role....
The actress, despite having appeared in James Bond film “No Time to Die,” the Russo Brothers’ “The Gray Man,” and upcoming “John Wick” spinoff “Ballerina,” fully disagrees with any action hero label. “The truth is, I never thought I was going to be an action actor. It wasn’t my thing,” de Armas told Elle. “You have to be careful, because it’s not what I want to put the focus on....
Set five years before “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” the series is billed by showrunner Tony Gilroy as a spy thriller that will subvert “Star Wars” fans’ expectations through “sideways” storytelling that will also reframe the 2016 trilogy. Actress Adria Arjona, who portrays mechanic and Andor’s confidante Bix Caleen, shared with Collider that Disney+ spared no expense when crafting the world behind the 12-episode series. “They built an entire city for us, like an entire city....
Though he had found plenty of success working as an actor in Spain, Banderas rose to mainstream American prominence in 1998 when he starred in “The Mask of Zorro,” playing the eponymous masked vigilante to great fanfare. He reprised the role in the 2005 sequel “The Legend of Zorro,” but there still could be more to come. In a new interview with Comicbook.com, Banderas revealed that he would be open to returning to the franchise in a mentor role that allowed a younger actor to do most of the sword fighting....
IFC Films parent AMC Networks announced Bocco’s promotion in a release Wednesday. The distributor is currently led by Co-President Lisa Schwartz, who is leaving the company at the end of the year after 14 years. “Arianna is a talented and respected executive who has established IFC Films as a leading platform for new, emerging voices as well as acclaimed filmmakers, and through her acquisitions she has helped create a wide-ranging library of celebrated independent films for the company,” said AMC Networks COO Ed Carroll....
Now, the women, who work, play and fight the patriarchy together on a compound in rural Oklahoma, have decided to zero in and destroy the alt-right men’s rights leader Mark Vanderhill (Ezra Miller, serving up a mix of Tom Cruise in “Magnolia” and Milo Yiannopoulos), whose “Men First Movement” (MFM) is increasingly being linked to organized violence and hate crimes. The photos themselves are extraordinary — still photographer Noelle Duquette captures these magnetic characters in their element, successfully portraying the kind of no-fucks attitude that the film seeks to transmit....
The festival’s top prize, the Golden Bear for Best Film, was presented by Shyamalan. “For its extraordinary performances, from the child actors to the actors in their 80s, for the ability to show the tenderness and comedy and struggle,” he awarded Spanish drama “Alcarras,” from director Carla Simon. The festival did away with gendered acting awards once again, instead offering Silver Bears for Best Supporting (Indonesian actress Laura Basuki, “Before Now & Then”) and Best Lead Performance (German comedian Meltem Kaptan, “Rabiye Kurnaz vs George W Bush”)....
