Month: February 2025

South Korea’s SM Entertainment is betting big on its latest venture into the K-pop scene, launching its first multi-member girl group since the phenomenally successful Girls’ Generation. Hearts2Hearts, an eight-member ensemble, made their highly anticipated debut on Feb. 24 with their first single “The Chase.” The octet — comprising members Jiwoo, Carmen, Yuha, Stella, Juun,
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Blue Ant Studios has struck an exclusive worldwide distribution rights deal to select series and films from Austria’s Red Bull Studios as Blue Ant drives ever more into third-party content.  The titles will be presented to buyers at a Blue Ant Studios’ showcase on Feb. 27 at this week’s London TV Screenings.  Primarily doc features
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The South Korean box office saw “Captain America: Brave New World” retain the top spot for a second consecutive weekend, though its earnings declined. Meanwhile, animated horror thriller “Exorcism Chronicles: The Beginning” debuted in second place. According to Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council, “Captain America: Brave New World” remained in
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China’s box office remained firmly in the grip of “Ne Zha 2,” which continued its extraordinary run, grossing RMB 1.1 billion ($152.9 million) over the Feb. 21–23 weekend, according to Artisan Gateway. The Enlight Pictures/Cococartoon release has now amassed $1.89 billion in the Middle Kingdom since its debut on Jan. 29, further cementing its place
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The contradiction between acknowledgment and difficult acceptance lies at the heart of Brandon Kramer’s documentary — about his elderly relative Yehuda Beinin dealing with his daughter Liat’s Oct. 7 abduction — which establishes numerous political parameters through observation, in an effort to conjure sentiment. It succeeds on occasion, though given its thorny subject matter, your
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If you thought predicting this year’s Academy Awards would be easy, the Screen Actors Guild Awards just proved otherwise. Voted on by more than 150,000 SAG-AFTRA members, the SAG Awards reaffirmed what has been true all season: Several major Oscar categories remain wide open with just one week to go before the ceremony. Coming off
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Indian superstar Yash‘s upcoming “Toxic – A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups” is being simultaneously shot in the English and Kannada languages, Variety has confirmed. The ambitious project is helmed by festival circuit darling Geetu Mohandas (“Moothon”). While the Indian industry routinely dubs films in multiple languages post-production, shooting films in two languages simultaneously is not
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The last time most people saw Christian Friedel, he was playing the high-ranking Nazi officer Rudolph Höss, who lived next to and served as the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Beyond a haircut with shaved sides, that role didn’t require much of a physical transformation, and yet, the actor is almost unrecognizable when he
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Netflix’s big award-show outing needs another year to work things out, perhaps. There were tremendous moments in the Screen Actors Guild Awards broadcast — for instance, Jane Fonda’s lengthy and complex acceptance speech for her lifetime achievement award. But every such moment seemed oddly abbreviated or complicated. Fonda was interrupted, randomly, by an announcer’s voice
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In a “simple twist of fate,” Timothée Chalamet has made history. Chalamet won his first major awards precursor for his transformational performance as Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s biopic “A Complete Unknown.” “I know we’re in a subjective business, but the truth is, I’m really in pursuit of greatness,” Chalamet said while accepting his award.
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Demi Moore continued her strong awards season run for “The Substance” by taking home the SAG Award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a lead role. The victory was Moore’s third among the major Oscar precursor ceremonies. She previously won best actress prizes at the Golden Globes and Critics’ Choice Awards. “This is
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“Dune: Part Two,” “Emilia Perez,” “Wicked,” “The Wild Robot” and “Saturday Night” won one award apiece at the 72nd annual Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards, Sunday at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre. In the feature competition of the annual awards, “Dune: Part 2” topped the category for effects and foley: “Saturday Night” collected the
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Jane Fonda is urging Hollywood to fight these fraught times with empathy. “What we, actors, create is empathy. Our job is to understand another human being so profoundly that we can touch their souls,” said Fonda, who was honored on Sunday night with SAG’s life achievement award. “And make no mistake, empathy is not weak
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Zoe Saldaña continued her awards season sweep for best supporting actress by taking home the SAG Award for her performance as Rita in “Emilia Pérez.” She has now was supporting actress prizes from all the major Oscar precursor awards: Golden Globes, Critics’ Choice, BAFTAs and SAG. These wins make Saldaña the clear frontrunner to win
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Indian auteur filmmaker Anurag Kashyap is set to present the Hindi-language version of Malayalam-language thriller “,” starring powerhouse performer Manju Warrier. The found-footage feature, which gained critical acclaim in Kerala last year, will hit theaters nationwide. The film marks the directorial debut of veteran editor Saiju Sreedharan, known for his work on Indian National Film
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There are the ladies who lunch. And then there are the ladies of musical theater who eat everyone else’s lunch. “Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends” has plenty of the latter, and as a revue, as opposed to a narrative musical, it has no limit on the number of power diva ballads that can be packed into
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Beloved comedian actor Martin Short has finally won his first SAG Award. Short received the award for outstanding performance by a male actor in a comedy series for playing Oliver Putnam, the sometime Broadway director and murder-solving podcast co-host on the Hulu comedy “Only Murders in the Building.” Unfortunately, Short couldn’t attend the ceremony, so
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Kieran Culkin is no stranger to awards show acceptance speeches — so he isn’t afraid to call out his fellow winners for taking too much time on the podium. “Thank you for this incredibly heavy award,” Culkin said on Sunday night while accepting the SAG Award for male actor in a supporting role for “A
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The 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards are underway Sunday night, one week before the Oscars crown its winners. Universal’s Broadway adaptation “Wicked” and FX/Hulu’s Japanese drama “Shogun” led the film and TV categories with five nominations each at the SAG Awards. Tying for the most film nominations in SAG history, “Wicked” earned nods for its
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Andrew Scott is feeling good at tonight’s SAG Awards. But the same can’t be said for the first time the “Ripley” actor was at the ceremony back in 2020 when he passed a kidney stone on the same night he was nominated for his role in “Fleabag.” “I was beside Phoebe [Waller-Bridge] and Laura Dern
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Top true-crime podcast company Audiochuck, founded by Ashley Flowers, has received $40 million in funding from Peter Chernin‘s the Chernin Group. It’s the first outside capital for Audiochuck, which plans to use the investment to “scale the company and fuel its next phase of growth,” it announced Sunday. Flowers controls and owns a majority of
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The Wayans Family were inducted into the NAACP Hall of Fame at the 56th Image Awards on Saturday night. The Wayanses — siblings Keenen Ivory Wayans, Damon Wayans Sr., Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Kim Wayans and the second generation of talent, Damon Wayans Jr., Damien Dante Wayans, Craig Wayans and Chaunté Wayans — joined previous
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