Новости за 02.02.2020

There’s a sense of deja vu in at least one Super Bowl commercial whose pre-game release is lighting up the internet. Bill Murray returns in a Jeep commerical that reprises his role in the 1993 comedy classic Groundhog Day, in which he plays Phil Connors, a TV weatherman on assignment to cover the annual Punxsutawney Phil […]

Ever since the first Super Bowl, the weeks (or week, in some cases) leading up to the Big Game has been super-charged with pressure. Most top athletes can handle the stress of the career-defining moment. But others have crumbled when faced with the challenges leading up to the big day. Some stories are funny. In […]

There were far more important things than trophies to be concerned about last night at the WGA Awards as scribes on both coasts were consumed with the guild’s upcoming talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, and of course, the possibility of a strike. In speaking with a number of writers at […]

As this condensed season heads into its home stretch, it’s time for the BAFTA Film Awards, the UK industry’s biggest evening. Warner Bros’ Todd Phillips-directed Joker leads the nominations coming in, with 11. The $1 billion-plus worldwide grosser that stars Joaquin Phoenix (who’s been a ubiquitous presence over the weekend in London) is followed by […]

The BAFTA Film Awards are underway in London, exactly one week before this compressed film awards season concludes with the 92nd Oscars. Graham Norton is taking on the hosting duties for the first time in the show at the Royal Albert Hall, which is delayed two hours even in the UK and will air later […]

Sony’s Bad Boys For Life continues to lead the international box office, taking the top spot for the 3rd weekend in a row. The offshore frame was $30.8M in 63 markets for an overseas cume of $142.7M and a worldwide total of $291M to date. Globally, it’s the biggest in the franchise and is holding […]

Saturday Night Live has a long and successful tradition of athletes serving as hosts. The latest to take the stage of Studio 8H was NFL player J.J. Watt during Super Bowl weekend. The Feb. 1 edition of SNL, with host Watt and musical guest Luke Combs, featuring Adam Baldwin as Donald Trump in an impeachment […]

Lady Gaga warned Jennifer Lopez and Shakira not to lip-sync their performances at today’s Super Bowl halftime. Gaga said ” I better hear no lip-syncing tomorrow!” during a Saturday performance at the Meridian at Island Gardens venue in Florida as part of an AT&T TV Super Saturday Night event. Lady Gaga has been adamantly against […]

Fresh off a screening at the Sundance Film Festival, Kitty Green’s The Assistant premiered this weekend in four theaters, setting a solid debut. Overall, the Time’s Up-era drama thrilled audiences, generating an estimated $84,702 at the box office. It’s a strong start for the Bleecker Street film — which is opening in the midst of the […]

You could tell that there was something wrong with The Rhythm Section as early as last April when Paramount didn’t include the title in its CinemaCon reel of then-intended big pics like Terminator: Dark Fate and Gemini Man. After what was buzzed to be a female James Bond pic from 007 Eon producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael […]

The Los Angeles Public Library has revealed Kobe Bryant’s reading inspirations. “As one would expect from a passionate storyteller, Bryant also appreciated reading a good book,”  librarian Keith Kesler wrote in a blog post on the library’s website. “I searched through old interviews and social media posts to find the books that inspired the Black Mamba.” […]

4th Update Sunday AM Final w/chart: Sony’s Bad Boys for Life easily arrested the Super Bowl weekend box office with $17.9M, according to industry estimates, -47% in early AM estimates. Sony is reporting $17.7M for weekend 3. As expected, the new stuff — Orion/UAR’s Gretel & Hansel at $6.05M and Paramount/IM Global/Eon’s $50M The Rhythm Section, with […]

Super Bowl LIV in Miami kicks off Sunday at 6:30 PM ET/3:30 PM PT live on Fox, but that’s just a small piece of TV’s biggest draw of the year, a daylong spectacle that includes fierce competition for ad buzz, a full-concert halftime show, and hours of pregame across TV, digital and radio leading up […]

UPDATED with video: Saturday Night Live has been skewering Disney for decades (remember Lindsey Lohan in Real Housewives of Disney in 2012? Or Debbie Downer aT Disney World in 2004?) and this weekend’s edition used the studio’s billion-dollar animated hit Frozen 2 to lob some satirical snowballs at corporate Hollywood in this era of woke inclusion. “I don’t […]

This weekend’s edition of Saturday Night Live on NBC featured a massive guest host — literally massive, as in J.J. Watt, the 290-pound man-mountain who gobbles up quarterback on behalf of the Houston Texans (an NFL squad that isn’t otherwise preoccupied this weekend) and is widely admired as a home-town humanitarian in the Lone Star […]

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Avengers: Endgame and Parasite were the big film winners at the Art Directors Guild’s 24th annual ADG Awards tonight, taking the Period, Fantasy and Contemporary trophies, respectively, Toy Story 4 picked up the Animated Film prize during the ceremony at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown that honored excellence in production […]

UPDATED with video: Senate Republicans rejected witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, so Saturday Night Live held its own version of the proceedings. In this weekend’s cold open, the NBC sketch comedy series put together what it called “the trial you wish had happened.” While Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts presided […]

The Sundance Film Festival had its share of big deals this year, from the record-setting $17,500,000.69 that Neon and Hulu paid for Palm Springs to a pair of $12 million deals for The Night House (Searchlight) and Uncle Frank (Amazon). With the powder still settling, the 2020 fest handed out its annual awards Saturday night […]

Over the past week, fans have been paying tribute to Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven others who lost their lives in a January 26 helicopter crash, by leaving mementos in the courtyard outside Staples Center. Now L.A. Live officials say those tributes will be delivered to Bryant’s family. “On behalf of all […]

Tonight at the WGA Awards, WGAW President David A. Goodman addressed the elephant in the room: Concerns of a possible strike as WGA talks approach with the AMPTP. At the same time he praised the progress that the guild has made in hammering out franchise agreements with several agencies. And as far as the big […]

After nine days of films, episodics, events, premieres and snow, Sundance is winding down and its ending with huge news as the Park City fest has announced Tabitha Jackson as the new Director of the Sundance Film Festival. Jackson, who joined the Sundance Institute as the Director of the Documentary Film Program in 2013, will […]

CNN’s plans for an hourlong special centered around the release of one of the final polls before the Iowa Caucuses hit a snag on Saturday night. CNN, the Des Moines Register and pollster Ann Selzer said that they would not be releasing the poll after a “respondent raised an issue with the way their interview […]

Even though HBO would love a second season of Watchmen, creator Damon Lindelof told us tonight that while he’s not currently cooking a continuation up, he’s completely open to the possibility of someone else taking a crack at Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ DC comic book. “I never wanna close the door completely because if two, […]

As part of her ice-breaking duties as host tonight at the WGA Awards west coast ceremony, SNL alum Ana Gasteyer gave praise to those agencies in the room that signed the guild’s franchise agreement –specifically Verve, Buchwald  and Gersh– then poking fun at CAA. “CAA bought four tickets to the show tonight even though they […]

Will Forte (The Last Man On Earth) and Kaitlin Olson (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) learn home renovations can be dangerous in Quibi’s new comedy series Flipped. The streaming platform released the first teaser today for the series, which finds self-proclaimed home renovation “experts” Forte and Olson stumbling onto a cartel stash house. The clueless […]