Новости за 10.10.2021

Fighting back after a whistleblower’s damning testimony earlier this week before a Congressional committee, Facebook spokesman Nick Clegg said on NBC’s Sunday Meet The Press that changes are coming to the social media outlet. Clegg, the former UK deputy prime minister who is now vice president for global affairs and communications at Facebook, said the company […]

Actor and producer Morgan Freeman has given a firm “No” to the movement to defund the police. “I am not in the least bit for defunding the police,” Freeman said to Black Enterprise’s Selena Hill in an interview posted on Instagram. “Police work is, aside from all the negativity around it, it is very necessary […]

NatGeo’s The Rescue by Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Free Solo) stormed the specialty box off in five runs in NYC, LA and Chicago this weekend with a nearly $14,000 per screen average — the best opening PSA for a documentary playing in more than one market in over two years. (Estimated three-day cume was […]

The new Star Trek: Prodigy has added Daveed Diggs, Jameela Jamil, Jason Alexander and Robert Beltran to its voice casting for the show, which premieres on Oct. 28 on Paramount+. The series, produced by Nickelodeon and CBS Studios’ Eye Animation Productions, showcased a first-look clip from the series at New York Comic Con. It features a hologram […]

In an excerpt of an interview with The Guardian, Paul McCartney has blamed John Lennon for initiating the breakup of The Beatles more than 50 years ago. McCartney has long been blamed for the split, but now calls the breakup and its aftermath the “most difficult period” of his life. “Stop right there. I am […]

Once again, Saturday Night Live got a ratings bump from having a big celebrity with no acting experience as host. The bump for last night’s show, hosted by Kim Kardashian West, was not on the scale of the ratings jumps SNL took with hosts Elon Musk and Adele last season but helped lift NBC’s late-night […]

It’s a curious fact that some of the most notable documentaries of recent years have revolved, in one or another, around skateboarding. Minding the Gap, the 2018 documentary by Bing Liu, earned an Academy Award nomination for its story of Liu and two friends who gravitate towards skateboarding as an escape from difficult upbringings. Learning […]

Refresh for latest…: MGM/Eon/Universal’s No Time To Die has sped the Aston Martin past the $300M global mark, coming off of an $89.54M sophomore frame at the international box office. That lifts James Bond 25’s overseas cume to $257.27M and, including domestic’s start this session, brings the worldwide total to $313.3M. The overall drop from […]

Tyson Fury’s flurry of punches knocked out Deontay Wilder in the 11th round last night in a heavyweight title fight at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Fury moved to 31-0 and retained his WBC crown atop the division. The fight, the third between the antagonists, was a slugfest that lived up to the pre-fight hype. […]

The family of a woman prominently mentioned by comedian Dave Chappelle in his new Netflix special, The Closer, has spoken out in his defense. Chappelle is under fire for controversial comments he made about the trans community in The Closer. In the special, Chappelle spoke about his friendship with Daphne Dorman, a trans woman and […]

EXCLUSIVE: George Clooney meets me at the door of his incredible home in the English countryside, from which he, wife Amal and his Smokehouse producing partner Grant Heslov will commute for the London Film Festival Premiere tonight of The Tender Bar, the film he has directed for Amazon Studios based on the J.R. Moehringer memoir. […]

Kim Kardashian West showed off her social connections during her hosting stint on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, assembling an impressive roster of guest stars in the dating reality series parody skit The Dream Guy. A take on ABC’s The Bachelorette, it featured Kardashian as Rochelle, a single woman during a ritual resembling The Bachelor/The Bachelorette’s […]

As Keeping Up With the Kardashians recently wrapped its long run on E!, the Kardashian clan is preparing for their new reality series on Hulu. No details have been provided about the new show, but Saturday Night Live tonight presented its interpretation of what it may be with The People’s Kourt, starring Judge Kourtney Kardashian, […]

IATSE and the AMPTP have ended their fifth day of do-or-die contract talks and will resume bargaining for a new film and TV pact on Monday. But if a deal is to be reached, and a strike averted, it will have to be made soon. On Friday, Matt Loeb, the union’s president, said that either […]

Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che weighed in on Facebook’s turbulent week on tonight’s episode of Saturday Night Live. “This week, we found out that sometimes a guy in a hoodie actually can be dangerous,” Jost deadpanned, with reference to the tech company’s founder Mark Zuckerberg. “Internal documents show that Facebook knew its […]

In her first appearance tonight on Saturday Night Live, Kim Kardashian West admitted she was just as surprised as anyone by the fact that she wound up hosting. “When they asked, I was like, ‘You want me to host? Why? I haven’t had a movie premiere in a really long time,” she deadpanned in her opening […]

“Now exactly how big is this algorithm?” asked the tech dinosaur Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, as played by Saturday Night Live’s Kyle Mooney, in the Congress-mocking cold open tonight spotlighting the Facebook whistleblower hearings in DC this past week. Straight out of C-Span and featuring a healthy dose of SNL’s regular cast (though no […]

EXCLUSIVE: The debate has begun over a WGA referendum that would give screen credits to hundreds of feature film writers who currently aren’t eligible to receive them. The referendum would authorize the use of an “Additional Literary Material” credit for all “participating writers” who work – sometimes for many months – on motion pictures but don’t […]

On Saturday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported 28 new deaths from Covid-19, along with 1,195 new positive cases. The number of deaths and confirmed cases reported today may reflect delays in weekend reporting. But today’s numbers brings the County to a total of 26,308 deaths and 1,469,790 positive cases. At time […]

A threatened IATSE strike against the Kennedy Center has been averted. Following late night bargaining Friday and a unanimous vote to strike earlier this week, stagehands represented by IATSE Stagehands Local 22 have reached an agreement for a new three-year contract with the management of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in […]

The teaser trailer for the third season of Amazon Prime’s Hanna was debuted today at New York Comic Con. The six one-hour episodes will start on Nov. 24. As previously announced, Ray Liotta joins the cast for Season 3 as Gordon Evans, a respected former military man and intelligence operative who wields incredible insider power. […]

The executive producers and stars of One Of Us Is Lying gathered for a virtual panel at New York Comic Con on Saturday, to tease their new YA mystery series, which began streaming on Peacock October 7. Panelists joining moderator Ashley Bellman for the conversation included EP-showrunner Darío Madrona and EP Erica Saleh, along with […]