Новости за 16.03.2021

Michelle Obama’s bringing her healthy eating initiatives to Jimmy Kimmel Live. In a clip promoting Obama’s upcoming late-night appearance, the former First Lady meets Jimmy Kimmel’s his daughter, Jane, who is reluctant to try vegetables. When Obama asks why she’s hesitant to try the veggies, Jane responds. “I don’t really like to try new things,” […]

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh from wrapping Jurassic World: Dominion, Colin Trevorrow is set to direct War Magician, a Studiocanal WWII drama that will star Benedict Cumberbatch. Nicholas Mariani is writing the script, based on the book by David Fisher. Pic is based on the wild story of Jasper Maskelyne, a British illusionist who used magic to defeat […]

President Joe Biden will hold his first formal press conference on the afternoon of March 25. Press Secretary Jen Psaki made the announcement Tuesday, after telling journalists last week that Biden would have such an event by the end of the month. There has been increasing attention to the fact that Biden has not yet […]

NBA star LeBron James, who already had a stake in the Fenway Sports Group’s Liverpool soccer club, has become part-owner of the company’s marquee asset: the Boston Red Sox. The Boston Globe first reported the news, which was then confirmed by ESPN. James, a regular on social media, has not yet weighed in. Just prior […]

Bleecker Street has taken North American rights to Joshua Zeman’s documentary, The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52. A theatrical release is set for July 9 followed by VOD. The docu follows the quest to find the 52 Hertz Whale, which scientists believe has spent its entire life in solitude calling out at a frequency […]

UPDATED with HFPA response: In a letter addressed to HFPA COO Greg Goecker and Board Chair Meher Tatna, a collective of Hollywood publicists today warned the group it had better make meaningful changes, or risk them telling their star clients to stay away from the Golden Globes. The HFPA’s board issued a lengthy statement in […]

SPOILER ALERT: This report contains details about tonight’s season-ending episode of The Bachelor. After a season unlike any other for The Bachelor, its history-making beau has handed out the final rose to Rachael Kirkconnell, the contestant who ignited controversy when racially insensitive photos from her college days resurfaced last month. Finalist Michelle Young was left […]

EXCLUSIVE: World of Dance, the nonscripted competition series featuring and exec produced by Jennifer Lopez, is coming to an end. NBC has no plans to bring the show back for a fifth season. Season 4, which featured 12 episodes, aired between May and August 2020. World of Dance was notable by its absence in network’s […]

UPDATE, 7 PM PT: Gavin Newsom indicated that he would appoint an African American woman to the U.S. Senate if Dianne Feinstein retires. “We have multiple names in mind, and the answer is yes,” Newsom told Joy Reid as he appeared The ReidOut. Newsom today launched a counter campaign to the recall effort and, in addition […]

The 25-year friendship between director Ramin Bahrani and author Aravind Adiga proved fruitful when the The White Tiger landed an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay. The Netflix thriller, written by Bahrani and based off Adiga’s 2008 novel, follows a poor man’s rise through the ranks of India’s caste system to achieve freedom. Upon receiving […]

Thanks to a certain mace and a certain priest, things got pretty bloody on The Walking Dead last night. However, life and deathnow  has also become part of the narrative in the over-seven-year-long legal battle between AMC and original TWD showrunner Frank Darabont and CAA over about $300 million in profit-participation payouts from the once-blockbuster zombie […]

Governor Gavin Newsom has been seeking to reassure Californians that, as more and more of them get vaccinated, there is a “bright light is at the end of the tunnel.” But recently Marta Green, an official with the entity tapped to oversee the state’s third-party vaccine distribution administrator said, “It’s really challenging. When we look […]

Fresh off her surprise Golden Globes best actress win, The United States vs. Billie Holiday star Andra Day has secured her first career Oscar nomination. In Hulu’s The United State vs. Billie Holiday, Day transforms into the iconic jazz singer as she battles against the federal government to perform her controversial, yet moving number “Strange […]

Right before Oscar nominations were announced this morning, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President David Rubin confirmed Deadline’s exclusive from last week that the upcoming 93rd annual Academy Awards show would be coming from both the vast Union Station in downtown Los Angeles and the show’s usual haunt, the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. […]

EXCLUSIVE: “Don’t be in a panic!” These are the sage words from Sony Pictures Classics’ Co-President Michael Barker about the future of independent films at the theatrical box office. While the pandemic and the proliferation of streamers has sent a number of awards season contenders into the home, he believes that arthouse fare will be […]

This morning, in a rare feat, composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross pulled a pair of Original Score nominations for Soul and Mank. Throughout film history, we’ve often seen a single composer earn two Academy Award nominations for different films, in the same year. The most recent to do so was Alexandre Desplat, who was […]

For Colette Catherine, the subject of the Oscar-nominated short documentary Colette, April 25 will be a very special day—for a couple of reasons. “April 25th is Colette’s 93rd birthday, which is the 93rd Oscars…The two dates cross over,” director Anthony Giacchino tells Deadline. “It was meant to be. She turns 93 on the 93rd Academy […]