This year’s market has been the toughest one to handicap in a good long time. It might well be quiet, meaning that the sums could be modest with dealmaking for most films lingering beyond the festival. But that doesn’t mean that the mart won’t pop with a handful of big deals.
Under fire from within his organization and outside of it, Harvey Mason Jr., the interim CEO and board chairman of the Recording Academy, has issued a memo to the organization’s 25,000 members. In the note, he detailed specific steps that are being taken to increase diversity and inclusiveness.
Songwriter/producer…
4TH UPDATE, Sunday AM Writethru following Friday updates: Who says January stinks at the box office?
With Sony’sBad Boys for Life and Universal-Amblin-New Republic’s 1917crossing the $100M mark this past weekend, repping 2020’s first two century-grossing titles stateside, January ticket sales per Comscore are now at…
Sean “Diddy” Combs has a message for the Grammys bureaucrats: “They work for us.”
Taking over the annual pre-Grammy party hosted by Clive Davis, Combs delivered a 50-minute speech that aired his grievances with the Recording Academy. His sentiments may be a prelude to other diatribes during tonight’s televised…
President Donald Trump has called an early lid to any travel or public appearances today. Good thing, as the Commander-in-Tweet has been on fire this morning, continuing his voluminous tweetstorm from Saturday.
Today’s targets included some of the usual suspects, including “Sleepyeyes” Chuck Todd of NBC’s Meet The Pres…
EXCLUSIVE: The Man In My Basement, Walter Mosley's acclaimed novel, is heading to the big screen with the American author scripting his own adaptation.
Nadia Latif, the emerging Sudanese-British director, has been brought onboard to helm the adaptation, her feature debut. She recently completed a run as Associate…
Actor, writer and director Buck Henrydied Jan. 8 at the age of 89. Known for co-creating with Mel Brooks Get Smart and and earning two Oscar nominations, for co-writing The Graduate and co-directing Heaven Can Wait, Henry also played a key role in the early, formative years ofSaturday Night Live. In SNL’s first…
InSaturday Night Live’s first original after the Oscar nominations were announced, the show’s Melissa Villaseñor provided commentary during “Weekend Update” in the form of original songs she had written for all top contenders. Turns out most of the nominated movies — from Joker, The Irishman, Once Upon a Time In Holly…
Music’s Biggest Night is just hours away, with the Grammy Awards set to air tonight at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT on CBS.
Hosted for the second straight year by 15-time Grammy winner Alicia Keys, excitement has been building with an all-star lineup set to perform including Aerosmith, Billie Eilish, Ariana Grande, Lizzo, Demi…
Adam Driver was back as Saturday Night Live host tonight, and so was Undercover Ren. One of the most memorable skits from Driver’s SNL hosting debut in January 2016 was Star Wars Undercover Boss: Starkiller Base, a parody of CBS’ reality series Undercover Boss. In it, Driver, as his Star Wars villain character Kylo…
1917was the top winner tonight at the 34th annual ASC Awards, as Roger Deakins took home the marquee Theatrical Release trophy from the American Society of Cinematographers. Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, History’s Project Blue Book and AMC’s The Terror: Infamy took the top TV awards during the ceremony at the Ray Dolby…
UPDATED with video: Saturday Night Live returned this weekend after its winter hiatus, just in time to take on President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.
For SNL‘s version of the historic Capitol Hill proceedings, Cecily Strong played GOP Sen. Susan Collins alongside Beck Bennett’s spot-on portrayal of Senate…
Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie and an all-star ensemble take a powerful deep-dive into the downfall of Roger Ailes, with director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph.
