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Earning two Oscar nominations today, for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture, Jojo Rabbit director Taika Waititi isn't one to rest on his laurels. The singular writer/director has already completed production on his next feature, Next Goal Wins, with Thor: Love and Thunder also on the way. "With the Thor film, I…

The Dec. 7 edition of Saturday Night Live, with Scarlett Johansson in her sixth turn as host and musical guest Niall Horan, drew a 4.0 Live+Same Day household rating in the 44 local metered markets and a 1.7 adults 18-49 rating in the 25 markets with local people meters. That was off in households and even in the…

"You know, big things coming for yer boy," a very chatty and sometimes coarse Baby Yoda bragged to Saturday Night Live's Michael Che tonight – going very off the family focus of Disney+ Fresh off the news that Mattel, Hasbro and others have toys and merchandise for sale next spring or the breakout star of the recently…

Saturday Night Live is a topical program, and this week Avengers: Endgame supervillain Thanos dominated pop culture after President Donald Trump tweeted a campaign video featuring him as Thanos using his reality-warping snap to turn leading Democratic lawmakers into dust. With Thanos in the headlines and a real…

EXCLUSIVE: Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story has been collecting awards-season honors all fall since its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. That’s especially true for his original screenplay, which won the category at the Gotham Awards, is nominated for a Golden Globe (where the pic leads all films with five…

Disney and Marvel showed off footage from upcoming spy thriller Black Widow at Comic-Con and the D23 Expo this summer, and now they’ve dropped the first teaser trailer for the Scarlett Johansson-starrer. Johansson, whose Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow sacrificed herself in Avengers: Endgame, reprises her role as the…

Sometimes it is the announcement of an award that is more important than the actual award itself, at least to Oscar campaign strategists who covet landing precursor honors for their contenders as they like to get that information out in order to make Academy members aware these people are already winning stuff, so…

Writer-director Noah Baumbach has mined his own life for some sort of inspiration in many past movies including his college days in Kicking and Screaming, his parents' divorce in The Squid and the Whale and turning 40 in While We’re Young. But now I have to use the "M-word" to describe his latest, and that would be…

Netflix has released the official trailer for Marriage Story, writer-director Noah Baumbach’s deep-dive drama starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver as a husband and wife at the end of their relationship as man and wife, and at the beginning of something else. Like some of its other prestige pics this fall…

Charlie Chaplin did it in The Great Dictator. Mel Brooks and Jack Benny did in their respective versions of To Be or Not to Be. Brooks also wrote and directed the most hilarious send-up of all with his “Springtime for Hitler” production number in The Producers. And Hogan’s Heroes even did it for six seasons in the…

Can divorce ever be pain-free? That's the question in Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story, which tells a deeply personal story about a director unpicking his marriage to an actress and finding every single pothole on the road. It's hard not to see the autobiography for Baumbach, who explored his parents' divorce in The Squi…

When a marriage fails, never trust just a single source about what went wrong. That’s the impetus behind the two new teasers for Marriage Story, writer-director Noah Baumbach’s drama starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver that will bow at Venice this month. The dual teasers focus on one parent’s side of the…