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After a short break, NBC’s Saturday Night Live last night returned for its second “At Home” show, featuring remote performances from self-isolating guests and members of the cast. The new installment, which came closer to a regular SNL with the use of green screens, wigs and makeup, also scored a big coup in landing Br…

Saturday Night Live opened its second remote episode with an appearance by none other than Brad Pitt. The Oscar winner kicked off the cold open as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Pitt’s Fauci tried to clarify some of President Donald Trump’s comments during the…

EXCLUSIVE: In an early buy for recently arrived producer Plan B Entertainment, Warner Bros has acquired Mickey7, a science fiction novel by Edward Ashton that will be published in 2021. Run by Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Plan B will produce. UK rights to the book have been acquired by Solaris, and the…

Monday’s series premiere for Celebrity IOU, which featured a surprise renovation from Oscar winner Brad Pitt, is a ratings winner for HGTV, with 2.6 million total viewers. Hosted by Property Brothers stars Drew and Jonathan Scott, the premiere episode delivered a .92 Live+same day rating in P25-54, a 60% increase over…

Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment has locked in a first-look deal at Warner Bros, which will be the global distributor of the label’s titles. Previously, the Dede Gardner-Jeremy Kleiner-Pitt run studio had a three year first look with Annapurna Pictures, which released Oscar winners Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could…

“Cinema won tonight,” NEON head Tom Quinn said as he escorted his father to his waiting limo in the parking garage of the Soho House, where a long line of partygoers was still waiting well past 11 p.m. just to get inside to the wild and very packed celebration Quinn’s company had planned for its Oscar nominees, Parasit…

The 92nd Oscars featured a mix of the expected and the unexpected Sunday, with Neon’s South Korean film Parasite capping the evening by winning Best Picture, making history as the first foreign-language film ever to take the marquee prize. Parasite director and co-writer Bong Joon Ho made four trips to the Dolby…

The Oscars kicked off with an immediate political dig, not at not President Donald Trump but at the Iowa Caucuses. A few mild smacks at the Senate impeachment trial and health care followed, but the night was decidedly apolitical, even with U.S. politics stormier than ever. Maybe everyone's had it. Maybe Parasite won…

With most of the top categories long locked in, if there was any real drama in the 92nd Oscars on Sunday it was how well another year of no host would fare. Not so great turned out to be the answer for Hollywood and ABC after the more than three-hour-long ceremony. After the novelty of last year's forced lack of a…

UPDATED with video: Over the past few months on the awards circuit, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood's Brad Pitt has been an MVP in more ways than one, routinely figuring in with one of the most memorable acceptance speeches of the night. Pitt's speeches have been so polished that they've led some to wonder whether the…

Brad Pitt picked up the best supporting actor Oscar Sunday night and got political in his acceptance speech. The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star began by calling out Senate Republicans for refusing to allow witnesses, particularly former National Security Adviser John Bolton, to testify in President Donald Trump’s…

It is a good thing the Academy Awards are getting it over with two weeks earlier than normal, because this year’s truncated season’s suspense quotient has been virtually zapped by the weekly procession of the same winners we have been witnessing Sunday after Sunday for the past month (these winners are running out of…