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Judd Apatow will return to host the DGA Awards, whose 75th anniversary edition will be held February 18 at The Beverly Hilton. This marks his fourth time hosting the gala, having handled the job in 2018, 2020 and 2022. "I am so honored to host the DGA Awards for the fourth time. If I was ever…

The ensemble cast and crew of Nicholas Stoller's gay rom-com Bros were on cloud nine at the film's Toronto press conference on Saturday, following its buzzy world premiere on Friday night as a special presentation followed by rave reviews. Standing ovation for #BrosMovie at #TIFF22 pic.twitter.com/AC7aeGV8yM…

Like father, like daughter. Kelly Carlin added a bit of irreverence to the Creative Arts Ceremony tonight as she accepted the Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special for the HBO film about her dad, George Carlin’s American Dream. As an executive producer of the film, she shared the award with…

A coalition of 1,425 showrunners and directors has raised $2.5 million to help women gain access to abortion services in states where they're now illegal. Organizers of Hollywood4AbortionAccess hope to raise another $2.5 million to help women across the country – not just those working in the entertainment industry…

A column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit. Today is the day. Your Emmy ballots are live, and now is the beginning of the final run for the roses, as it were. All voting is done online, with ballots needing to be completed by August 22. It has been a very, very long season and the first since…

Comedian George Carlin never won an Emmy during his illustrious career, but an HBO documentary about him may help make up for that oversight. George Carlin's American Dream, directed by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio earned an impressive five nominations today, including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction…

Today, beards are commonplace, unremarkable bits of facial shrubbery. Even as conservative a figure as Sen. Ted Cruz sports one. But 50 years ago, a man choosing to wear a beard sent a political message. It signaled participation in the counter-culture, a spurning of orthodoxy. George Carlin captured the threatening…

Chris Rock was supposed to deliver the big laugh, not the big slap, but to comedy practitioners the Oscars debacle seemed an appropriate metaphor for the state of their craft. "The 1960s would have been easier to survive with a laugh track," Lenny Bruce once explained, and his sardonic observation would apply…

The pandemic lockdowns had different effects on just about everyone, but writer-director-producer Judd Apatow simply embraced it, sitting down to wrote a low-budget Jurassic Park takeoff as if it was directed by Mel Brooks in the heart of Covid. This is Apatow out on a limb, and his Netflix movie is, in a nutshell, a…

UPDATED with Carrey, Sandler comments: "Stand-up comics are very adept at handling hecklers," tweeted Mark Hamill last night after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars, “violent physical assault…not so much.” Hamill’s tweet drew the distinction between speech and action that many have continued to drive home as…

Judd Apatow has hammered a multi-year production film and TV pact across NBCUniversal including Universal Pictures and Universal Studio Group. The parties’ working relationship began with 2005’s $177 million-plus grossing comedy blockbuster The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Apatow’s movies have grossed close to $3 billion…

Sneaking out. Hooking up. Melting down. And bottled up. Welcome to The Bubble, Judd Apatow’s stacked-cast lockdown comedy that looks at the high stakes and high jinks involved in filming a studio tentpole movie during Covid. Check out the first trailer above. The scenario unfolds somewhere in England during the dark…