HBO Max ’s cancellation of voguing competition series Legendary has not gone down well in the LGBTQ+ community. GLAAD has slammed the move, which came last week as part of a swathe of cuts and cancelations at the embattled Warner Bros. Discovery streamer. The series was fronted by MC Dashaun Wesley with judges including Leiomy Maldonado, Jameela Jamil, Law Roach, Megan Thee Stallion and Keke Palmer and was one of the most inclusive non-scripted series on television. “ Legendary raised the bar for inclusivity on TV programming on so many different levels, especially when it comes to celebrating Black and queer culture,” GLAAD noted. “While Legendary is unfortunately just the latest LGBTQ-inclusive programming to get canceled by their network this year, the creative team and Scout Productions prioritized uplifting unheard talent and voices and we’re hopeful that these types of stories are able to be told again.” It was one of a number of inclusive … [Read more...] about GLAAD Slams HBO Max’s ‘Legendary’ Cancellation
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Aubrey Plaza Draws Season 48 Demo Rating High For ‘Saturday Night Live’
Aubrey Plaza and Sam Smith laughed up a ratings record for Season 48 of Saturday Night Live . The January 21 episode hosted by Plaza with Smith as musical guest received a 0.98 rating in the advertiser friendly 18-49 demographic, which is the highest of the season. It also drew 4.8 million total viewers, according to Live+Same Day Nielsen data. That’s the second largest audience of the season, trailing only Steve Martin/Martin Short episode’s 5.1 million viewers on December 10. The Plaza episode was up 30% in the demo and 13% in total viewers from the fourth quarter average. It is currently the top episode of the season across Peacock and NBC digital platforms. Prior to last weekend’s episode, Martin and Short’s joint hosting gig had also been the top rated of the season. It beat out the season’s previous top for both audience and ratings, Dave Chappelle ‘s controversial hosting stint in November. SNL has been hit or miss with viewers this season after a … [Read more...] about Aubrey Plaza Draws Season 48 Demo Rating High For ‘Saturday Night Live’
Critics Choice Awards Winners List – Updating Live
Refresh for updates… Awards Season 2023 continues tonight with the 28th annual Critics Choice Awards being handed out in Los Angeles, and Deadline is updating the winners list live as they are announced. See all 41 categories spanning film and TV below. So far tonight, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story took the Acting Ensemble prize, awarded off-camera, and S.S. Rajamouli’s Indian smash RRR won Best Foreign Language Film. On the TV side, Amanda Seyfried repeated her Emmy and Golden Globe wins for Hulu’s limited series The Dropout . A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once comes into the Chelsea Handler-hosted evening with a leading 14 nomination s, including five for acting, with Steven Spielberg’s Universal pic The Fabelmans next with 11. Babylon and The Banshees of Inisherin have nine each. All are up for Best Picture, vying against Elvis, and the two highest-grossing films of 2022: Avatar: The Way of Water and Top Gun: Maverick A spate of … [Read more...] about Critics Choice Awards Winners List – Updating Live
‘Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields‘: 1980s Icon Talks ‘Romeo & Juliet’ Sexual Abuse Suit & How Franco Zeffirelli “Hated My Mother” – Sundance Studio
Similar to the stars of Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 film Romeo & Julie t, who are suing Paramount for $100M+ for alleged sexual abuse and more, Brooke Shields also had an unsettling experience with the 2x Oscar nominated filmmaker during the production of Endless Love . She details the incident in the latest ABC News/Hulu Lana Wilson-directed docuseries Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields that premiered at Sundance . Interspliced with footage from a 1981 TV interview, the late Zeffirelli, sitting next to the then 16-year-old actress, details how he twisted Shields’ toe during a sex scene; the pic about a two lovestruck teens, whose parents are bitterly against their romance. The movie was one of a trio of R-rated sex-themed summer pics that Shields starred in, the previous ones being 1978’s Pretty Baby and 1980’s Blue Lagoon. In the Hulu doc, Shields confesses, “The physicality and the exploration of sexuality felt really dangerous to me, and I didn’t trust … [Read more...] about ‘Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields‘: 1980s Icon Talks ‘Romeo & Juliet’ Sexual Abuse Suit & How Franco Zeffirelli “Hated My Mother” – Sundance Studio
Guillermo Del Toro To Receive Art Directors Guild’s William Cameron Menzies Award
The Art Directors Guild will present Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro with the William Cameron Menzies Award, to honor his visually striking and emotionally rich body of work. Del Toro will receive the award at the 27 th ADG’s Excellence in Production Design Awards on Saturday, February 18 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. Del Toro first gained recognition for writing and directing Cronos, which premiered at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Mercedes Benz Award, and went on to earn more than 20 international awards. Del Toro’s most noted films include Pan’s Labyrinth , which garnered Academy Awards for Art Direction, Cinematography, and Makeup and The Shape of Water , which won the Venice International Film Festival’s Golden Lion as well as Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Production Design and Best Score. His latest project, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio , continues his lifelong love of animation and stop-motion … [Read more...] about Guillermo Del Toro To Receive Art Directors Guild’s William Cameron Menzies Award
‘The Bachelor’ Season 27 Premiere: Zach Shallcross Narrows Down His Suitors As He Begins His Journey To Find Love
SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details for the Season 27 premiere of ABC ’s The Bachelor . Zach Shallcross began his journey to find love during Monday’s premiere of Season 27 of ABC’s The Bachelor . The 26-year-old, who originally appeared on Rachel Recchia and Gabby Windey’s Season 19 of The Bachelorette , was introduced to 30 women who will be vying for his heart throughout the next several weeks. The episode kicked off as it always does, giving viewers a more in depth introduction to Shallcross (Did you know he used to be a DJ?), who admitted that he was flying by the seat of his pants a little bit when it came to leading this season. “I don’t know how to do this. I have zero idea. I need all the help in the world,” Shallcross said, before seeking advice from former Bachelor Sean Lowe — who has one of the only successful love stories from the series, having been married to his wife Catherine, who was his finalist on Season 17 of The Bachelor , for a … [Read more...] about ‘The Bachelor’ Season 27 Premiere: Zach Shallcross Narrows Down His Suitors As He Begins His Journey To Find Love
2023 Oscars: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Earns Nine Nominations
At the start of awards season, Edward Berger ’s All Quiet On The Western Front was a lock for International, but few could have foreseen how much further it would go. Alongside that nomination, the German film is now also in the running for Best Picture, having made the shortlist for Sound, Original Score, Adapted Screenplay, Makeup and Hairstyling, Production Design, Visual Effects and Cinematography. This grand haul follows its performance at the BAFTAs, where it gathered an astonishing 14 nominations in almost all major categories. As a result, the film joins Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2002) in second place to Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi (1981), which still holds the BAFTA record for nominations with 16. It’s a double-whammy that will surely prompt some second thoughts at Netflix: in a year that the streamer invested in some of cinema’s biggest names, one of its biggest critical hits is a foreign-language remake with no major stars, from a director best … [Read more...] about 2023 Oscars: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Earns Nine Nominations
‘Inspector Maigret’: Playground, Red Arrow & Georges Simenon Ltd Team For Returning Drama Series Based On Classic Detective Novels
Colin Callender’s Playground and Red Arrow Studios International are joining forces to co-develop a premium English-language returning drama series based on Georges Simenon ’s classic Inspector Maigret novels. Georges Simenon Limited (GSL) will act as co-production partner. Playground’s option deal with GSL extends to all 75 novels and 28 short stories based on the Jules Maigret character who solves murders using his understanding of human motives and emotional makeup. Above all, he is a cop. From the back alleys of Paris to the glamorous beaches of the South of France and beyond, Maigret’s reputation is so highly regarded that officers come to shadow him and observe his uncanny ability to get under the skin of the criminals he is chasing. But, it is only his devotion to his craft and his love for his wife, Madame Maigret, that satisfy him. The Inspector Maigret books, along with Simenon’s extensive body of work, have sold over 600 million copies worldwide and … [Read more...] about ‘Inspector Maigret’: Playground, Red Arrow & Georges Simenon Ltd Team For Returning Drama Series Based On Classic Detective Novels
Austin Butler On ‘Dune Part 2’, ‘The Bikerides’ And Landing First Oscar Nom For ‘Elvis’ After Lisa Marie Presley’s Death
After landing his first Oscar nomination on Tuesday for his starring role in the Baz Luhrmann-directed Elvis , Austin Butler spoke with Deadline about the breakthrough, as well as the passing of Lisa Marie Presley, upcoming roles in Dune: Part Two and Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders , and his goals as he moves forward. Butler said that he was “overjoyed” to see the “daunting undertaking” of Elvis recognized, including his transformational performance as the King of Rock and Roll, which so often felt like “climbing that seemingly impossible mountain.” He acknowledged, as he has in the past, that there were plenty of “sleepless nights” for him over the course of his time on the project. “So, to be on this other side and to feel so much support, and to be recognized in this way just means the world to me,” he said. “But then also to get to see all the [nominations for] production design and costume design and editing, our cinematographer Mandy, I’m just so proud of everybody. … [Read more...] about Austin Butler On ‘Dune Part 2’, ‘The Bikerides’ And Landing First Oscar Nom For ‘Elvis’ After Lisa Marie Presley’s Death
Oscars: Watch All The Winners’ Speeches – Joaquin Phoenix, Brad Pitt, Renee Zellweger, Laura Dern & More
The 92nd Oscars featured a mix of the expected and the unexpected Sunday, with Neon’s South Korean film Parasite capping the evening by winning Best Picture, making history as the first foreign-language film ever to take the marquee prize. Parasite director and co-writer Bong Joon Ho made four trips to the Dolby Theater stage, with the film also winning for Directing, Original Screenplay and International Feature. Other honorees who spent this compressed Oscar season honing their acceptance speeches for tonight were the four Acting winners — all of whom won as expected. That meant statuettes for Joaquin Phoenix (Leading Actor for Joker ), Renee Zellweger (Leading Actress for Judy ), Brad Pitt (Supporting Actor for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ) and Laura Dern (Supporting Actress for Marriage Story ). Check out all the winners’ speeches below. Best Picture Parasite Actress in a Leading Role Judy (LD Entertainment and Roadside … [Read more...] about Oscars: Watch All The Winners’ Speeches – Joaquin Phoenix, Brad Pitt, Renee Zellweger, Laura Dern & More