Month: January 2023

Netflix has scored 50 Annie Award nominations across series and features, including bids for “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” which leads in individual nominations with nine. “Pinocchio,” which has picked up 38 awards so far this season, including the Golden Globe for animated feature, is one of three Netflix projects up for best feature, along with
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ reign over the Marvel Cinematic Universe has only just begun. In her new Variety cover story, the award-winning comic force behind “Veep” discussed her immersion into the billion-dollar comic book world – and how far she’s willing to go in bringing the mysterious Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine to life. Louis-Dreyfus was briefly introduced in
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Is a “Ghost” remake starring Channing Tatum on the way? Potentially. As part of a new Vanity Fair cover story, Tatum revealed that his production company, Free Association, has the rights to the 1990 romantic fantasy classic and he’s trying to develop a remake. “We actually have the rights,” Tatum said. “Yeah, we have the
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Oscar-nominated director Florian Zeller (“The Father,” “The Son”) and Federica Sainte-Rose have boarded Babak Jalali’s Sundance-bound “Fremont” under their new banner Blue Morning Pictures. The movie will world premiere in the NEXT section at Sundance and is repped by CAA in the U.S., while Memento International is handling international sales. Helmed by Jalali, an Iranian-born, London-based
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“Avatar: The Way of Water” stayed atop the U.K. and Ireland box office with £4.1 million ($5.1 million) in its fifth weekend for a running total of £63.5 million, according to numbers from Comscore. Universal’s “M3gan” and Disney’s “Empire of Light” opened strongly in second and third places with £2.3 million and £1.7 million respectively.
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Netflix and Kinetic Content is continuing their run of dating reality shows. “Perfect Match,” set to premiere on February 14, unites some of the streaming service’s most famous singles as they look for love in a tropical paradise. “As they compete to form relationships, the most compatible couples will play matchmaker, breaking up other couples
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NBCUniversal recruited Amy Geary, a seven-year veteran of parent company Comcast, as senior VP of content distribution. Geary, who starts at NBCU on Jan. 17, will oversee the media company’s key distribution partnerships including with Apple, DirecTV, Google and YouTube TV, Hulu, Verizon, the National Content & Technology Cooperative (NCTC) and other distributors. She reports
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On the afternoon of June 13, 1997, a fire caused by an improperly maintained transformer broke out in Delhi’s Uphaar Cinema, quietly fumigating an auditorium packed for a first-day screening of flagwaving blockbuster “Border” with carbon monoxide before plunging the room into darkness. Those scrambling for the exits found multiple code violations standing between them
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Premium audio storytelling platform Audible announced a multiproject development and first-look deal with award-winning actor, director and producer Daniel Dae Kim. The first project under the pact is “Yellow Face,” an audio adaptation of David Henry Hwang’s play of the same name that will be produced by Audible Studios in collaboration with Kim’s 3AD production
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SiriusXM has recruited Suzi Watford, most recently chief marketing and membership officer at Dow Jones, for a newly created role leading the satellite radio and audio-streaming company’s growth strategy. Watford has been named senior VP and chief growth officer for SiriusXM, based at the company’s New York City headquarters and reporting to chief commercial officer
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In a groundbreaking move for the film-TV scene in the U.S. Hispanic, Latin America and Spain, ex-NBC Universal Telemundo honcho Marcos Santana is launching Mas Ros Media, a new venture with offices in Barcelona and Miami whose productions target gaming and esports communities and their families. Currently developing 16 projects ranging from 6-8 episode fiction
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As expected, Madonna has announced dates for “Madonna: The Celebration Tour,” in a viral video with a wink to her 1990 film “Truth or Dare.” The video features Judd Apatow, Jack Black, Lil Wayne, Diplo, Bob the Drag Queen, Kate Berlant, Larry Owens, Meg Stalter, Eric Andre and culminates with Amy Schumer daring Madonna to go on tour and perform her four
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HBO’s series adaptation of hit PlayStation game “The Last of Us” premiered Sunday, drawing the premium cable channel’s second-biggest debut of the last 13 years, behind only “House of the Dragon.” Per Nielsen ratings and Warner Bros. Discovery’s own first party data, the first episode of the Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey-led drama scored 4.7
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Check out the official Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania spot starring Jonathan Majors! ► Sign up for a Fandango FanAlert for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania: https://www.fandango.com/ant-man-and-the-wasp-quantumania-2023-228957/movie-overview?cmp=Trailers_YouTube_Desc Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to be notified of all the hottest trailers: http://bit.ly/2CNniBy US Release Date: February 17, 2023 Starring: Paul Rudd, Jonathan
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A focus on “RRR” director S.S. Rajamouli will kick off “Modern Masters,” a documentary series on contemporary Indian creators. The series is coproduced by the $60 billion Aditya Birla group’s prolific content production arm, Applause Entertainment, headed by Indian television pioneer Sameer Nair and Film Companion, one of India’s leading English-language entertainment journalism platforms, led
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Mando and Grogu are ready to embark on a new adventure. Disney has released the official trailer for Season 3 of “The Mandalorian,” which will debut on its streamer Disney+ on March 1. The new footage shows Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and budding Jedi warrior Grogu, a.k.a. Baby Yoda, journeying across a galaxy far, far
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“What’s the trick,” Jack White asks, in one of his most-played recent songs, “in making my love stick?” That’s a good rhetorical question, to which anyone who’s seen him in concert lately can provide plenty of tangible answers — all of them there for the grasping during a breathtakingly good, long set Friday night at
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Check out the official Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania TV spot starring Evangeline Lilly & Paul Rudd! ► Sign up for a Fandango FanAlert for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania: https://www.fandango.com/ant-man-and-the-wasp-quantumania-2023-228957/movie-overview?cmp=Trailers_YouTube_Desc Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to be notified of all the hottest trailers: http://bit.ly/2CNniBy US Release Date: February 17, 2023
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LCD Soundsystem is playing at your house — at least, they are, were or will be if you’re queuing up “White Noise,” which is showing up on Netflix after an awards-qualifying run in theaters. This may mark one of the few times in film history that a lot of viewers have been tempted to fast-forward
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