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(The Producers Award honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality independent films) … [Read more...] about Film Independent Spirit Awards: ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always,’ ‘Minari,’ ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,’ ‘Nomadland’ Top Nominations

The AFI list is notable also for its sheer diversity including the aforementioned Minari, and fully half of the films with majority Black casts (including the voice-over cast for Soul). Among movies not among the AFI choices are Universal’s  News of the World, A24’s First Cow (named best film by the New York Film Critics), Warner Bros’ excellent The Little Things and Focus Features’ acclaimed Promising Young Woman. Foreign-language films are not eligible, which might explain the absence of Netflix’s Italian Sophia Loren drama The Life Ahead.  … [Read more...] about AFI Movies Of The Year List Spotlights Diversity As Netflix Leads All Distributors With Record Streamer Showing

This means that at least one of TBS’ Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will likely miss out and possibly more if SNL is nominated. … [Read more...] about Late-Night Emmy Fight With TV Academy Heats Up, Networks Petition Over Category Changes With Some Considering Boycott

UPDATE 5:00 PM: I’ve just learned that The Big Bang Theory‘s off-network syndication rightssold for a record $1.5 million an episode. (Warner Bros will not confirm this figure.) That shatters the previous record of $1M for a sitcom cable sale fetched by Seinfeld in its first deal with TBS. Last night, bidding was fierce until the bitter end: TBS vs FX on the cable net side, and Fox vs Tribune on the broadcast stations side. USA never tossed its hat into the ring despite saying privately it intended to go after the top-rated sitcom in a big way. And, surprisingly, Viacom’s MTV did enter the fray (not, as expected, Comedy Central) — but stopped bidding shy of $1M an episode. … [Read more...] about 2ND UPDATE: ‘Big Bang Theory’ Sets $2M-Per-Episode Syndie Record: TBS ($1.5+M) And Fox Broadcast Stations ($500+K)

It’s been a long road for Zhao, 38, who worked on both films more or less concurrently for the better part of two years, starting in the fall of 2018. Just as Marvel Studios hired her for Eternals that September, she launched into a four-month, guerilla-style production on Nomadland, a stirring portrait of an American underclass of older, itinerant workers who live out of vans and chase seasonal jobs to survive. With its breathtaking views of the American West and nuanced depictions of men and women left behind by the global economy — all of them real-life nomads besides Frances McDormand and David Strathairn — the film is a uniquely poignant diagnosis of, and antidote to, the current cultural moment.  … [Read more...] about The Wanderlust of Chloe Zhao