Новости за 06.02.2021

“I want to say I wasn’t shocked, but I was shocked,” Lee Daniels told CNN this evening of his reaction to the murderous assault on Congress by a horde of MAGA morons on January 6. Joining Don Lemon on the AT&T-owned cable newser to promote his Golden Globe nominated The United States vs. Billie Holiday, […]

The pandemic is far from over, according to Los Angeles County Health Officials. As such, they say Super Bowl gatherings with those outside the immediate household should not be held. That’s in order to prevent the same type of virus surge that followed the Thanksgiving and December holiday gatherings. The LA Public Health site today reported […]

The New York Times has severed ties with two reporters that produced some of its highest-profile work in the last three years. Executive editor Dean Baquet and managing editor Joe Kahn sent out memos Friday revealing the departures of Donald G. McNeil Jr., a science correspondent who reported on the pandemic, and Andy Mills, a […]

Jimmy Kimmel and Bill Maher had a wide-ranging, late-night comedy love-in to kick off tonight’s episode of Real Time, with the guest comparing the host to starting Super Bowl quarterback Tom Brady. Sunday’s Super Bowl LV pits Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers against quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ defending champion Kansas City Chiefs. Maher groaned, “If I have […]

The rich got richer today, as the Los Angeles Dodgers signed the biggest free agent of the winter, bringing home reigning Cy Young winner Trevor Bauer. Born in Santa Clarita, Calif., Bauer grew up in North Hollywood and pitched for UCLA before going pro. He reportedly rejected a larger offer from the New York Mets […]

Volition Entertainment has hired film and television manager Luna Wise as its newest addition. Wise joins Volition under founder Ami Manning as their Los Angeles-based talent manager, bringing with her a roster of 25 up-and-coming actors who have appeared in numerous major studio films and network television shows. She will also be involved in Volition […]

Mike Henry, a USC and NFL linebacker and later an actor in Tarzan movies of the 1960s and the Smokey and the Bandit films, has died. Henry died at age 84 in Burbank, Calif. on January 8 from chronic traumatic encephalopathy and Parkinson’s disease, according to social media posts.   Henry played football for the University […]

Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Feral State, written and directed by Jon Carlo (First We Take Brooklyn) and starring AnnaLynne McCord and Ronnie Gene Blevins. The indie thriller, which wrapped shooting late last year, will now get a theatrical release in May along with its digital bow. The plot is set alongside […]

Actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas posted on Friday that Ramin Bahrani’s film adaptation of The White Tiger in which she stars has reached number one on the service in 64 countries and would be seen by 27 million households in its first four weeks. Ava DuVernay and Chopra Jonas are executive producers on the project in […]

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. When I glanced at a headline Thursday saying that Donald Trump had resigned from SAG-AFTRA in a huff, the very same morning SAG announced its awards nominations, I thought to myself, “Is Trump really that upset about Zendaya getting snubbed?” — only to realize after reading […]

EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of receiving two Golden Globe nominations for its Sia-directed movie Music, Vertical Entertainment can boast that its Nate Parker feature American Skin has become one of the distributor’s highest grossing titles on PVOD with $4M over two weeks. American Skin debuted on Jan. 15 in select cinemas and on on-demand platforms such as Apple, […]

WME has dropped Armie Hammer as a client, Deadline confirmed Friday, the latest fallout from the actor’s controversial social media posts that were leaked online. The news today comes after Hammer exited roles in a pair of projects. He was set to co-star opposite Jennifer Lopez in Lionsgate’s film Shotgun Wedding, but the studio said […]