Month: April 2021

With just a week until the 93rd Oscars ceremony on April 25, Disney is kicking the synergy machine into high gear in order to support the telecast on ABC. The challenge is steep: As Variety recently noted, ratings for all major awards telecasts this year have been down between 50% to 60%, making a similar

The American Society of Cinematographers handed out its top prize in feature film visual storytelling to Erik Messerschmidt, ASC for “Mank.” Other winners included “The Crown,” “The Mandalorian,” “The Truffle Hunters,” “Two of Us,” “Motherland: Fort Salem” and “The Queen’s Gambit.” Turner Classics Movies host Ben Mankiewicz served as the emcee for the ceremony, presenting

Mickey Guyton will be there to represent as she co-hosts Sunday night’s Academy of Country Music Awards show — not least of all, represent her own long-deserving career reach the next level on the big stage, but also to front what she promises will be a more conscientiously diverse lineup than some viewers might expect.

Alma Wahlberg, the matriarch of the Wahlberg family who was prominently featured on the reality show “Wahlburgers,” has died. She was 78. Various members of the Wahlberg family, including Mark and Donnie, made the announcement on Sunday morning via social media. “My angel. Rest in peace,” Mark wrote on Twitter, while Donnie said, “She was

There’s little in this world more soothing than turning on a nature documentary and hearing David Attenborough’s calm, steady voice. Even as a disembodied narrator, the 94-year-old presenter has become such a ubiquitous presence that watching any nature doc without him feels strange, as if trying to put on a shoe before realizing it’s on

The sound mixing team from “Sound of Metal” on Saturday won the top prize at the Cinema Audio Society’s annual CAS Awards for outstanding achievement in sound mixing. In the animated feature category, Pixar’s “Soul” added another win to its shelf. The film which follows Joe as he ventures into the Great Before also won

Fox Sports announcer Joe Buck is taking his talents from the world of sports to game show television as a “Jeopardy!” guest host, a source familiar with the matter tells Variety. Buck is set to be the show’s second sports-affiliated guest host, following Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ stint that ran from April 5

CNN viewers are going to have to get used to waking up with someone new in the morning. The WarnerMedia cable-news outlet on Monday launches its “New Day” a.m. franchise into a new era, with Brianna Keilar, who has gained notice over the past year with a take-no-prisoners demeanor on CNN’s afternoon schedule, joining the

Editor Alan Baumgarten’s work on Aaron Sorkin’s drama “The Trial of the Chicago 7” topped the American Cinema Editors Awards in a virtual ceremony. Baumgarten beat out competition from “Sound of Metal,” “Mank,” “Minari” and “Nomadland.” In other categories, Pixar’s “Soul” continued to collect awards, winning best edited animated feature, while “Palm Springs” won best

UPDATED: Dominic Purcell originally posted to Instagram on Friday night that he is leaving “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow,” but clarified on Saturday that he will still appear on the show “periodically.” Though Purcell has now deleted the Instagram post announcing his departure altogether, in an updated caption on Saturday, he claimed that the original post

Freeform’s premiere of its new teen thriller series “Cruel Summer” on Thursday was not like any other Hollywood has experienced during the pandemic. Instead of a virtual or drive-in screening, the network booked 80 rooms at the Beverly Hilton for a balcony screening. Each guest was assigned to their own room in order to watch

Call it the pilot season that wasn’t. One year later, the COVID-19 pandemic is still casting a long shadow over the new crop of broadcast shows. Across the Big Five networks, the majority of the pilots in contention this year are holdovers from 2020. The backlog is still being sorted out, underscoring the disruption of last spring when the public health crisis shut down work for

With the benefit of a decade of retrospect, what “Game of Thrones” was able to accomplish in its eight seasons looks even more surprising. The HBO fantasy drama series, which debuted April 17, 2011, was the beneficiary of good timing in at least two ways. For one thing, it slotted neatly within a span of time defined, in our offscreen lives, by

“Game of Thrones” may have ended two years ago, but there are still more tales left in Westeros to tell. HBO also signed a five-year development deal with “A Song of Ice and Fire” author George R.R. Martin to work on a slew of spinoff projects. Here’s a look at every series in the works: