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Oscars 2025: Yorgos Lanthimos Debuts Teaser for Kinds of Kindness
Now that Disney has bought Fox and Searchlight they are the ones who have to also sell movies by Yorgos Lanthimos. No one has been brave enough to put them together but a great parody trailer could be made out of it, "from the makers of Sleeping Beauty and Snow White comes...." Either way, here is the teaser. The usual Lanthimos features - weird sex, unsuspecting animals who will meet a brutal and torturous fate...fun acting for actors. Oscar voters go wild for it. https://youtu.be/8fYtuE_ZJ4E?si=29JSIRDtL997qFrF
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Golden Globes Ink Five-Year Deal with CBS and Paramount+
The Golden Globes went off well enough this past year that CBS has signed a five-year deal with the Globes to show on the network and stream on Paramount+, beginning in January, 2025. And yes, it is a wild development in the history of awards that Jay Penske owns Deadline, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Indiewire and Gold Derby and also...
41st Annual Miami Film Festival To Honor Sheryl Lee Ralph (Precious Gem Award) and Michael Showalter (Art of Light Award)
Miami, FL (March 22, 2024) – Today, the Miami Film Festival, produced by Miami Dade College, announced it will honor Emmy Award-winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph and director Michael Showalter during the 2024 festival taking place from April 5-14. Ralph will receive the Precious Gem Award on Saturday, April 13, following a conversation about her career. Showalter will receive the Art of Light Award on Monday, April 8, following a screening...
M. Emmet Walsh, the King of the “Character Actors”
The term “character actor” is one lined with pitfalls and potentially negative connotations. After all, aren’t all actors playing characters? Even if, like Tom Cruise (no offense intended in the slightest) they are often playing a version of a particular character repeatedly? The phrase is further complicated because it’s often meant to refer to supporting actors—you know, the ones...
Sarasota Film Festival Announces Full Slate for 26th Annual Edition
The Sarasota Film Festival (SFF) announced today the full slate of programming for the upcoming 26th annual edition. Live and in-person screenings and events will take place across Sarasota April 5 through April 14, 2024. The 26th Sarasota Film Festival will feature a lineup of films that includes 64 features, with 4 World Premieres, 1 North American Premiere, 7 East...
‘Femme’ Is a Thorny, Horny Power Struggle
Sam H. Freeman & Ng Choon Ping use clothing, lighting, and time of day to expand on the themes of identity, power, sex, and violence in their knotty, unabashedly queer, and sexy thriller, Femme. Their film is Romeo & Juliet if Romeo ditched the party at the Capulets, banged Mercutio in an alley and then tortured them both about his...
HamptonsFilm Announces Selected Screenwriters, Screenplays, & Mentors for 24th Edition of Screenwriters Lab
HamptonsFilm, home of Hamptons International Film Festival, announced today the selected fellows, screenplays and mentors for the 24th edition of their annual Screenwriters Lab, which will take place April 5-7, 2024. The three selected screenplays for 2024’s Lab are “Pygmalion” by Agnes Skonare, “Little Phnom Penh” by Chheangkea, and “Diary of a Muslim Cynic” by Sarah Mokh. The Lab pairs...
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‘Mary & George’: Well, A Scheming Thot’s Best Friend Is His Mother
Mother knows best, right? There have been many influential matriarchs all throughout history and the history of television and film, but not very many have encouraged their sons to constantly bed the King of England as much as Julianne Moore's Mary Villiers does in Starz's bawdy, rich, and tantalizing limited series Mary & George. This historical drama breaks all the...
Sports Broadcaster James Brown To Be Honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Sports Emmys
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (March 27, 2024) – The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) announced today that three-time Emmy® Award-winning sports broadcaster, James Brown, will be presented with Lifetime Achievement honors at the 45th Annual Sports Emmy® Awards ceremony on Tuesday, May 21, at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall in New York. “James is a world-class talent...
‘Palm Royale’ is a Gorgeously Sunny Tale of the Haves and Have Nots
Seeing Kristen Wiig hoist herself over a high wall in the first few moments of the first episode of Apple TV+'s Palm Royale tells you everything you need to know about her character, Maxine Simmons. Not only does Maxine possess the grace of a former beauty queen, but she has the gumption of the runner-up who knows how much it...
TV Reviews: Springing Into a New Crop of Emmy-Contending Television
This week at the Water Cooler, we're springing (we love a pun) into the final gasp of the 2024 Emmy season. Late February / early March typically emerges as the prime window to launch television series. It allows voting members of the Television Academy to absorb newer series and keep them fresh in their minds ahead of voting in June....
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Oscars 2024 – Closing It Out with One Last Podcast
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Best PictureDune 2
Best ActorTimothee Chalamet, Dune 2
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Director Denis Villanueve, Dune 2
Adapted Screenplay
Original Screenplay
Cinematography
Dune 2
Best EditingDune 2
Production Design Dune 2
Sound Mixing + EditingDune 2
CostumesDune 2
Visual EffectsDune 2
Original ScoreDune 2
Original Song
Makeup and Hair
Animated Feature
Documentary Feature
International Feature
Live Action Short
Documentary Short
Animated Short