Новости за 11.07.2020

Amitabh Bachchan, one of Bollywood’s biggest stars, tested positive today for COVID-19. In a tweet, he confirmed the result and said he has now transferred to a hospital. Bachchan is one of the most recognizable and decorated film actors in Bollywood. He first gained recognition in the early 1970s, and has since starred in dozens […]

Warning: This interview contains spoilers from Season 3 of HBO’s Westworld. Part of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s m.o. with HBO’s Westworld is breaking archetypes, especially when it comes to redefining the roles of females in westerns, i.e. the pioneer girl or the call girl. With each season, Thandie Newton has increasingly become a force in breaking […]

The Friday episode of the Facebook Watch show Red Table Talk set a record for the most views in 24 hours by one the platform’s original programs. In the episode, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith addressed rumors that she had an affair with singer-songwriter August Alsina According to preliminary numbers, the episode drew more […]

If you’re a fan of television reruns, it was Christmas morning on Friday night. The only new fare came from the WWE Friday Night SmackDown on Fox (0.5 in demos) and a half-hour of The CW’s Masters of Illusion, which scored an 0.2 in demos. NBC’s repeat of its episode Vanished tied with SmackDown for the […]

EXCLUSIVE: For the first time since the February 1997 reissue, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is leading at the box office this weekend after clocking an estimated $175K at 483 locations. Empire should end the weekend with a 3-day take in-between the high $400K and low $500K. Some of these recent classic reissues, such as Ghostbusters last weekend […]

The daily coronavirus death toll in the United States has increased this week after months of decline. More than 4,200 deaths were recorded nationally, with several states jumping exponentially. On Friday, the US reported its largest single-day caseload increase, with 67,211 new infections recorded. That beats the previous single-day record by more than 6,000. As […]

ESPN said an obscene tweet by star NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski to Republican US Senator from Missouri Josh Hawley was “completely unacceptable behavior” and promised internal discipline. The company statement came after Wojnarowski tweeted “F**k you” to Hawley, who asked in a tweet and letter to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver why NBA players were not […]

The wicked stepmother isn’t the only one who has a complaint about Cinderella. Some Disney employees are chiming in as well, claiming they don’t like the new paint job on her Disney World castle. The Disney World theme park officially reopens tomorrow, July 11. But employees got a sneak preview of the changes awaiting all […]

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the showrunner of CAOS and Riverdale and creator of the Sabrina comics, hinted that the now-canceled Chilling Adventures of Sabrina would have had a Riverdale crossover. Both shows were set in the same universe, with characters and locations intertwined. The storyline for Part 5, titled “Witch War,” will now be continued in CAOS, Aguirre-Sacasa tweeted. […]

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti began his Friday coronavirus news conference by reminding residents, “This threat is real. This threat is growing.” He emphasized that Angelenos need to wear masks whenever they’re outside. “There are lives at stake,” he said. “We need both individuals and businesses to act on this.” The Los Angeles County Health […]

A top writer for Fox News host Tucker Carlson has resigned after the discovery of an online forum in which he reportedly used a pseudonym to make racist, sexist and other offensive remarks. CNN Business reported that Tucker Carlson Tonight writer Blake Neff had been posting on the online forum even in recent weeks, using […]

A column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit. The reminders from the Television Academy are now coming fast and furious. Online voting for the 72nd annual Emmy Awards ends Monday night at 10 p.m. PT. On Thursday, the Academy set loose governors from various branches to guilt you into voting. “One of the […]

Editors Note: Earlier this week, Prentice Penny, showrunner of HBO’s Insecure, wrote a guest column this week for Deadline reflecting on the recent string of high-profile comedy series pulling older episodes featuring blackface scenes. In it, he wrote about Hollywood’s “sliding scale” that made it possible for so many episodes of so many series to make […]

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Cinemart, the documentary team of directors Jenner Furst, Julia Willoughby Nason and producer Mike Gasparro, is partnering on the documentary LuLaRich with Based on Media’s Blye Faust and Cori Shepherd Stern. The doc will investigate LuLaRoe, the billion dollar clothing empire which has recently been accused of misleading thousands of American women with their […]

President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence Roger Stone, his former adviser and early political mentor, just days before he was set to begin serving prison time for his conviction on charges of lying to Congress and witness tampering. White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement that “particularly in light of the […]

The Palm Springs Film Festival has set new dates for the 32nd annual confab. The festival, which usually takes place in early January, will now run from February 25-March 8, 2021, kicking off with its annual Film Awards Gala at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The fest announced Friday that the date change was to […]