‘Ozark’ vs. ‘Succession.’ ‘Mrs. Maisel’ vs. ‘Schitt’s Creek.’ Danson vs. Levy. Brosnahan vs. O’Hara, Aniston vs. Linney. So who’s gonna go home with coveted statuettes? Deadline’s awards columnist sifts through the virtual tea leaves.
As expected Chloe Zhao’s Venice Golden Lion winner Nomadland took the often Oscar-predictive Toronto International Film Festival People’s Choice Award announced this morning. Regina King’s One Night In Miami was second ,and Beans was third in the slimmed down competition at the fest which had about a sixth of the…
UPDATE,Writethru: Christopher Nolan’s Tenet handily passed $200M overseas this weekend with a $25M offshore frame to bring the international box office cume to $214M. Including domestic, the global to-date total is now $250.1M. Boosting play overseas, as we noted yesterday, was the Japan bow which came in at a strong…
SUNDAY AM FINAL w/chart: It’s going to be a brutal autumn at the box office, and this weekend is only the start; the first without a major MPAA studio wide release until Oct. 23 when 20th Century Studios/Disney’s all-star mystery Death on the Nile opens. Gosh, Disney, it would help if you moved up the release a week…
A strike team appointed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a report Saturday indicating that the state’s unemployment benefits system needs a complete overhaul.
The report, which took 45 days to compile, indicates a backlog of unresolved claims that is growing by 10,000 a day. As a result, money needed by the…
A federal judge on Sunday blocked Donald Trump’s administration from banning downloads of the Chinese-owned WeChat app, concluding that such a move raises First Amendment concerns.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler granted users of the app a preliminary injunction on the grounds that they “have shown serious…
Small Axe, the anthology series created and directed by Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen (Hunger, 12 Years A Slave), will premiere on Friday, November 20 with the first film, Mangrove, starring Letitia Wright & Shaun Parkes.Â
The four additional films will debut each Friday…
The 72nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards caps a weeklong procession of honoring the best of 2020 in television Sunday with a hybrid virtual ceremony beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on ABC hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
The ceremony will also stream on ABC.com, and the full week of Emmy shows will be available on-demand on ABC.c…
Following Rick and Morty’s second Emmy win for Animated Program tonight, co-creator/EP Dan Harmon was asked to weigh in on the controversy over white actors voicing characters of color that has gripped the TV animation world during the past few months.
Kristen Bell in June stepped away from playing the mixed-race chara…
All five nights of the virtual 2020 Creative Arts Emmys are in the books, and awards rivals HBO and Netflix came away tied with 19 wins apiece. HBO’s Watchmenand Disney+’s The Mandalorian came away with the most wins for an individual program with seven each. Check out the charts below with wins by program and…
UPDATED, Saturday 8:24PM: It turns out Eddie Murphy did have an acceptance speech which he pre-recorded for his Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Emmy win tonight; the telecast didn’t air it. Here it is below from the Television Academy’s Twitter feed.
Says Murphy below, “Thank you to everybody at the Emmys. Thank you so…
On Saturday night Cherry Jones took home her third Emmy award, this time for her guest role of Nan Pierce in the “Tern Haven” episode of HBO’s Succession.
Jones’ character heads up the powerful Pierce family, who own a fictional newspaper called The New York Mail. Thus far, the show centered on the rise and fall of…
He's won six NBA championships and is widely considered the greatest basketball player of all time and tonight Michael Jordan helped the team behind ESPN's The Last Dance win an Emmy.
The Last Dance beat Netflix's Tiger King, Hulu's Hillary, PBS' American Masters and HBO's McMillion$ to win Outstanding Documentary or…
