The Amazon Studios movie went into 2019’s Toronto Film Festival without a distributor. A year and a half later, it’s a six-time Oscar nominee and perhaps the most hard-fought of all of this year’s crop of Best Picture candidates. Awardsline’s Joe Utichi meets the film’s core trio to take stock of a film that transformed its key players in ways they hadn’t expected.
Helen McCrory, known for acting in a number of beloved franchises including Peaky Blinders, Harry Potter and Penny Dreadful, died Friday at 52.
Shortly after her husband Damian Lewis announced the news of the actress’ passing, tributes from McCory’s co-stars, colleagues and organizations began streaming in. The…
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This weekend is crunch time. Final balloting for the 93rd Annual Academy Awards began yesterday and it is likely that a majority of those ballots will have been filled out and submitted by the time we get to Monday. Technically voters have until…
James C. Nicola, whose tenure as artistic director of Off Broadway’s New York Theatre Workshop included the development of such prominent stage works as Rent, Once, Hadestown, What the Constitution Means to Me, Slave Play and David Bowie’s Lazarus, will leave the post next year, the company announced today.
“In July…
In a deal described by Anonymous Content as a first by a major production entity, the company has optioned a character created as a non-fungible token, or NFT, for film and television.
The character, a young Black astronaut named Aku, was created by artist and former Major League Baseball Player Micah Johnson. After…
HBO Max has slotted Thursday, May 6 for the Season 2 premiere of Legendary, the hit reality competition series that puts the spotlight on ballroom culture.
Ballroom legend Leiomy Maldonado, fashion stylist Law Roach, actress Jameela Jamil and rapper Megan Thee Stallion return as judges for Season 2, along with Dashaun…
Mari Törőcsik, one of Hungary’s most prominent actors who won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and starred in two Oscar-nominated films, died on Friday in Budapest after a long illness. She was 85.
Törőcsik’s first international appearance was at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival where she starred in Palme d’Or…
In Lee Isaac Chung's Minari, actress Yuh-Jung Youn plays the grandmother who swoops in from South Korea to the small Arkansas town where her Korean-American family have made their home, delightfully disrupting their lives. With her abundant charm and unfiltered ways, she makes a significant impact in this heartwarming…
EXCLUSIVE: XG Productions, the company behind Fox's reboot of America's Most Wanted, has struck a first-look deal with CBS Studios and has set its first project – a TV adaptation of its Audible original series Call Me God in the works at Paramount+.
The company, which was set up by former FBI agents, Jim and Tim…
In his 92 years, African-American businessman Horace Bowers Sr.—one of the two main subjects of the Oscar-nominated short documentary A Concerto Is a Conversation—has faced many obstacles in his path. He's always found a way around them.
"In any life people have some ups and downs. I’ve had them, but I was able to…
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s another indication that the town is going back to some form of normalcy after more than year of lockdown from Covid: UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer sent a note to staffers today that employees can begin to work in agency’s offices again starting mid-June.
UTA’s Nashville offices will open their doors on June…
EXCLUSIVE: The Flashand It filmmakers Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti are opening the doors to their production company Double Dream.
The brother and sister team have brought on Irene Yeung as Head of Development at Double Dream. Yeung previously worked with producers Ian Bryce and Roy Lee.
The siblings have…
