Новости за 01.01.2020

An actress who appeared in Captain America: The First Avenger and worked as an assistant to director Joe Johnston is being held in Kansas on murder charges in the death of her mother. Mollie Fitzgerald, age 38, was arrested on Christmas Eve after her 68-year-old mother was found dead in her Olathe, Kansas home. on […]

If there is a common thread with all the reports that came out in 2019 about diversity in Hollywood, it would be that while there have been strides for representation for marginalized communities in film and TV, there is still a long way to go. It’s a familiar tune, yes, but also a song the […]

When composer Nate Heller was asked to score A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, he says he felt “equal parts joy, excitement and terror,” knowing that the music he’d create would have to stand up to the legacy of Fred Rogers. “He was an extremely musical person. He wrote all the original songs for the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Stalwart independent writer/director Hal Hartley’s next film has a ticking clock thriller mechanism built into it, even before he begins shooting a scene. Hartley, still going some 30 years after bursting on the scene with a bunch of other maverick moviemakers in the indie heyday of the 1990s, needs about $92,000 to complete the […]

With her awards-contending animated film Marona’s Fantastic Tale, director Anca Damian aimed to capture the world, as experienced by a dog. In part, Damian says, the goal was to “get the perception of empathy and love without limits that a dog can give.” At the same time, the director adds, the film had a lot […]

Friends has gone dark on Netflix as of today and won’t be available to stream in the U.S. before it reappears on HBO Max in May. The end of the line on Netflix for the classic sitcom became a Twitter topic in the early hours of New Years Day, as some fans grumbled that they […]

Paramount has opened the new year with the release of its first full trailer of A Quiet Place Part II, this after last month releasing a teaser that played with Black Christmas in theaters. John Krasinski’s much-anticipated follow-up to his hit, hushed 2018 chiller will be released to theaters on March 20, 2020. Watch the […]

Don Lemon is always entertaining on CNN’s live New Year’s Eve coverage. With 2019 drawing to a close Tuesday night, the CNN anchor joined Brooke Baldwin in Nashville for a night of NYE punditry, drinking and overall fun. As a singer crooned, Lemon offered (unsolicited?) backing vocals. The newscaster belted out a tune — with […]

Jamie Lee Curtis will be honored at the 2020 Society of Camera Operators (SOC) Awards celebration in Hollywood. The actress and philanthropist is set to receive the group’s Lifetime Achievement Awards President’s Award during a ceremony on January 18 at the Loews Hollywood Hotel. “We are honored to present this award to such an iconic, […]

Today was the last day for Newseum, the glassy, modernist museum on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. dedicated to the history and importance of the news media and the First Amendment. There are no shortage of theories as to why the museum couldn’t make a go of it. The nonprofit Freedom Forum, its creator and […]

Mariah Carey’s Twitter account appeared to have been hacked on New Year’s Eve, with a series offensive tweets filling the singer’s timeline. Dozens of tweets were posted on the hacked account on Tuesday afternoon, some using the N-word, others disparaged rapper Eminem, and others referred to the Chuckling Squad, a hacker group that took control […]

Amid the chaos that was 2019, the show business industry lost some major players. There were icons of the big screen (Peter Fonda, Doris Day) and TV (Valerie Harper, Rip Torn, Tim Conway), along with such legends as Broadway director Harold Prince and actress Carol Channing; singers Eddie Money, Ric Ocasek and José José; musicians […]

It’s New Year’s Eve and we’re counting down to the most venerable of holiday traditions — the Times Square ball drop to usher in 2020. Security is high for the iconic ball drop, with drones monitoring Times Square for the first time in its history, and thousands of police both in plainclothes and in uniform […]

Has Rian Johnson birthed a new franchise with Knives Out? With a $40+ million opening weekend gross over Thanksgiving, it may not have reached the dizzying highs of his last movie, 2017’s Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi, but Knives Out is still a rare beast in 2019; an original murder mystery tale […]

Investors in media stocks can be forgiven for believing they have been living in End Times. For the past few years, the tech sector dominated the headlines, and was also where the biggest returns lay (unless, of course, you happened to have bet the farm on Uber or Lyft). The widely used acronym FAANG (Facebook, […]

Jack Sheldon, the stand-out jazz trumpeter and affable Merv Griffin sidekick whose gave voice to the Schoolhouse Rock classics I’m Just a Bill and Conjunction Junction, has died. He was 88. Sheldon’s face and name were most recognizable to fans of The Merv Griffin Show thanks to his 16-year sidekick stint but his trumpeting reached its greatest acclaim via […]

Hollywood’s unofficial wake-up call came on February 1, 2013, when Netflix dropped the first season of House of Cards in a single, binge-able chunk. While that distinctive release pattern hasn’t yet become the official norm — many new rivals to Netflix insist on the traditional episode-at-a-time approach — the whole gestalt of the show signaled […]