The Costume Designers Guild on Wednesday revealed nominees for its 24th annual CDG Awards , recognizing excellence in the craft across eight film, TV and short-form categories. The guild also said its winners will be announced at an in-person ceremony March 9 at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica. Voters in the guild, IATSE Local 892 select nominees in three film categories: Period, Contemporary and Sci-Fi/Fantasy. Among the notable nominees this morning include costume designers from fashion-forward titles like MGM/UAR’s House of Gucci (Janty Yates), Disney’s Cruella (Jenny Beavan) and A24’s wild ride Zola (Derica Cole Washington). Other nominees included Black Panther Oscar winner Ruth E. Carter, this time for Amazon’s Coming 2 America . Superhero titles were prominent on today’s noms list, with mentions for Marvel movies Spider-Man: No Way Home and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and DC’s The Suicide Squad . On the TV side, Disney+ duo Loki … [Read more...] about Costume Designers Guild Awards Nominees Include ‘House Of Gucci’, ‘Cruella’, ‘Zola’
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‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’ Passes Domestic Box Office Of First Film, More Proof There’s Moviegoing During Pandemic
More bragging rights for Sony , the studio dedicated to the theatrical window and distributor of the highest grossing movie of the pandemic, Spider-Man: No Way Home ; their Marvel sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage now counts $213.517M at the domestic box office, clicking past the 2018 first title’s $213.515M. Venom: Let There Be Carnage made $18,5K at 725 theaters yesterday. Venom: Let There Be Carnage opened over the Oct. 1-3, 2021 weekend and made $90M which for a minute was the highest domestic opening during the pandemic, before Spider-Man: No Way Home pushed it to second for the Covid era with $260.1M. The first Venom got to its final stateside gross in 112 days, and the sequel is pulling ahead in 117 days, not too shabby by pandemic standards. In the wake of Spider-Man: No Way Home becoming the 4th highest grossing movie of all-time at the U.S./Canada box office with currently $723M, Venom 2 ‘s ticket sales are just another indicator that … [Read more...] about ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’ Passes Domestic Box Office Of First Film, More Proof There’s Moviegoing During Pandemic
‘West Side Story’ Isn’t Kicking Up With $10M+ Opening: What That Means Right Now During Another Pandemic Holiday – Sunday Update
Editor’s Note : The original story included erroneous characterization of the Puerto Rican characters in West Side Story as immigrants, which has been removed. We regret the error. Sunday AM Update: After Saturday update, refresh for more analysis, updated weekend chart The opening weekend of Disney/ 20th Century Studios / Amblin ’s West Side Story, the first feature musical from Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg , isn’t anything to shout from the rooftops about. It had a $4.1M Friday, including previews, a $3.8M Saturday, and a weekend that’s at $10.5M . Imax and PLFs repped 33% of the weekend’s ticket sales. West Side Story is being released with a theatrical window, and its results are under that of another Broadway Hispanic and Latino feature musical released earlier this year. That being Warner Bros. In the Heights, which fizzled with a $11.5M start off a theatrical and HBO Max day-and-date debut. Now, it’s par for the course … [Read more...] about ‘West Side Story’ Isn’t Kicking Up With $10M+ Opening: What That Means Right Now During Another Pandemic Holiday – Sunday Update