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This category is filled with veterans, including four past Emmy winners, albeit not necessarily winners in this particular category. Bill Hader is the reigning champ here, having won last year for the first season of Barry, but he has formidable competition from a past two-time Lead Actor Comedy winner, a past…

Netflix has set the Season 2 premiere its Golden Globe-winning comedy The Kominsky Method for Friday, October 25. Along with the premiere date, the series offered some first-look pics from the second season, which will be highlighted by guest stars Jane Seymour and Paul Reiser joining stars Michael Douglas and Alan Ark…

With its Golden Globe wins and its season 2 renewal, the Chuck Lorre Netflix comedy The Kominsky Method starring Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin has plenty to celebrate — so much that they opened the doors to the set of Sandy’s (Douglas) acting studio during TCA so that we can dive deep into the titular method, and…

“You know I wake up every morning, my first thought is, I wonder what part of me is not working today,” says Alan Arkin’s Norman Newlander. “Yeah, we are passengers on boats slowly sinking,” replies a resigned Michael Douglas (Sandy Kominsky). Ahead of its November 10 world premiere at AFI Fest, Netflix has released…

Grace and Frankie, meet Sandy and Norman. Netflix is finalizing a deal for a 10-episode series order to The Kominsky Method, a single-camera comedy from Chuck Lorre starring Oscar winners Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin. Written by Lorre, The Kominsky Method centers on Sandy Kominsky (Douglas), an actor who years ago…

In 1979, George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg starred as retirees who instead of just waiting to die decide to put some excitement into their lives by robbing a bank. That basic idea has been reimagined for a new era in Warner Bros/New Line’s Going In Style with a trio of Oscar winners in Michael Caine, Morgan Fr…

“Let’s go get our money back.” From Warner Bros’ newly released trailer to the upcoming New Line/Village Roadshow heist comedy Going In Style, which stars Oscar winners Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Alan Arkin as retirees on a mission for justice. “These banks practically destroyed this country and nothing ever…

With a best actor Oscar nomination for his very first film, the comedy The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, and a second one for the drama The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter just two years later, Alan Arkin got off on the right foot early in his career. It would be 38 years later before he got a third…

After extremely successful film festival launches in Telluride and Toronto, Warner Bros. thriller and big Oscar hopeful, Argo (10/12), finally hit Hollywood last night with a West Coast premiere at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theatre. And a big postparty bash at the Beverly Hills…

Lionsgate‘s new partner Summit Entertainment has had box office success with this genre of older actors movies aimed at older audiences (like Red). Now the studio has dated its assembly of three Academy Award winners for the action dramedy Stand Up Guys which will open on January 11, 2013 in moderate release after an…

The 39th Annual Telluride Film Festival officially gets underway tonight. But the fest provided a “sneak preview” of its highest profile movie: director/star Ben Affleck‘s pulse-pounding true life thriller, Argo, which made its world debut this afternoon for patron and sponsor passholders and selected press. Although…

New York, NY, April 9, 2012 – Dimension Films continues its acquisitions streak with the pick up of the road-trip comedy WILD OATS featuring a talented cast including Academy Award® winner Shirley MacLaine, Academy Award® nominee Jacki Weaver and Academy Award® winner Alan Arkin . The film is directed by Howard Deutch…