When it comes to predicting Oscar nominations it is always a crapshoot, but Deadline's Pete Hammond says that there is music in the air in the Best Picture race: Original musical Emilia Pérez, Bob Dylan musical biopic A Complete Unknown and the Broadway musical adaptation Wicked all likely to be the talk of the town Thursday morning. All will be nominated for Best Picture, making it the most musical lineup in the category since My Fair Lady fought off Mary Poppins 60 years ago. >>>'Emilia Pérez' Could Break Record |
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Sundance "Mystery" Film - Sundance documentary programmers Basil Tsiokos and Sudeep Sharma talk about some of the most anticipated nonfiction films and episodics on the 2025 slate, including about the mystery surrounding a late add to the festival – The Stringer, directed by Bao Nguyen. >>>Doc Talk Podcast John Ridley's Newest - John Ridley, the Oscar winner behind 12 Years a Slave, is developing a feature take on Isaac Asimov’s 1954 sci-fi novel The Caves of Steel for 20th Century Studios. >>>Plans To Direct 'SNL' Scribe Sets Special - The Mother Lode, the second comedy special from SNL writer, actress and stand-up Rosebud Baker, is set to premiere globally on Netflix on February 11. >>>Perspectives On Parenthood
Life After 'Twisters' - On the heels of Twisters, which grossed over $370 million worldwide in theaters last summer, Oscar nominee Lee Isaac Chung has closed a deal with Skydance to direct The Traveler, a feature adaptation of the novel Traveler by Joseph Eckert. >>>Early Stages |
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The Berlinale‘s new director, Tricia Tuttle, unveiled her inaugural lineup on Tuesday under the scrutiny of press and industry figures waiting to see whether she can get the festival back on track after a tumultuous 2024 edition. Tuttle has been dealing with the fallout from events that took place ahead of her arrival, topped by the closing night row over prizewinner No Other Land and the co-directors' criticisms of Israel’s actions in Gaza, which prompted accusations of antisemitism from a clutch of German politicians; long-running funding issues and the thorny question of whether or not members of the rising far-right AfD party should be on the guest list. Deadline talked to Tuttle about the lineup, achievements and challenges. >>> Read The Interview |
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More News ✍️ Rupert Murdoch‘s News Group Newspapers has made a shock apology to Prince Harry and the pair have settled their long-running legal fight. The BBC this morning reported that NGN apologized for phone hacking, and the hacks' impact on Harry as well as the impact of the “extensive coverage and serious intrusion on his private life,” including the coverage of his late mother, Princess Diana.
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❤️ Bill Burr and Shane Gillis are teaming up for a comedy show to benefit the victims of the L.A. wildfires. The comedians are set to perform at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on Monday, January 27, in a Live Nation production that will benefit the Wildfire Relief Fund. |
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 Our Town, the Thornton Wilder classic starring Jim Parsons, Katie Holmes, Ephraim Sykes and Zoey Deutch, among others, had its best week since opening last fall. The revival, in its final week at the Ethel Barrymore, grossed $1,084,024.
🔻 Donald Trump's second inauguration drew fewer viewers than his first, as well as Joe Biden’s four years ago. According to Nielsen on Tuesday, the inauguration drew 24.59 million viewers, compared to 33.76 million for Biden’s 2021 inauguration and 30.64 million for Trump’s first in 2017. |
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Obituaries 🕯️ Garth Hudson, the keyboardist, sax player and archivist for Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Band, whose farewell show was memorialized in Martin Scorsese’s landmark documentary The Last Waltz, died Tuesday in his sleep at a nursing home in Woodstock, NY. He was 87. 🕯️ Bob Kuban , a drummer and bandleader whose group Bob Kuban and the In-Men had a mid-’60s Top 15 hit with “The Cheater,” died January 20 in his sleep of stroke complications. He was 84. 🕯️ 2025 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries |
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Thu - Oscar nominations; Sundance begins
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Sun - NFL Conference Championships |
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Chocolate Shakes & Coffee - Fans and admirers have created a growing memorial at the Burbank Bob's Big Boy where director David Lynch had his lunch every day at 2:30. It was there in the mid-'80s that Lynch brought Kyle McLaughlin and Laura Dern together to talk about Blue Velvet over coffee and chocolate shakes. |
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