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Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we usually talk about movie stars and not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones they made in between. Today, however, we talk about Oscar movies (!), or better yet, movies that remind us of Oscar movies!

Conor and I welcome back the lovely Joe Reid & Chris Feil (co-host of This Had Oscar Buzz and writer of a series of great pieces of Oscar history for Vanity Fair). Today, we each choose a movie adjacent to a current Best Picture Oscar nominee.

The movies include Seconds, The Name of the Rose, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and The Wolverine. Also discussed is filmmaker Bill Morrison’s nomination for his incredible short film Incident, Jean-Jacques Annaud’s 1981 film Quest for Fire, and our recent This Had Oscar Buzz guest appearance talking about The Devil’s Own.

Additionally, there...

Sean Connery will likely be associated with the success of the James Bond franchise forever, as he single-handedly defined one of the most iconic heroes in the history of cinema. That being said, the Bond films that Connery appeared in reflected only a fraction of his best work, as he used the success of his blockbuster franchise to work on smaller, less broadly accessible projects. It wasn’t rare for Connery to work with great directors like Sidney Lumet, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, and John McTiernan, so it was no surprise that he wanted to collaborate with Jean-Jacques Annaud, the acclaimed filmmaker behind Black and White in Color and Quest for Fire. Both men showed an interest in reinventing classical genres, because the medieval mystery thriller The Name of the Rose is a gripping whodunit that examines the nature of faith.

Ever since King Kong swatted biplanes from the top of the Empire State Building in 1933, hairy creatures have occupied a place of honor in the cinematic pantheon. And in many cases, the Academy has recognized that fact: The original “King Kong” was shamefully overlooked at the Oscars, but the second-ever special award for makeup was given out in 1968 to “Planet of the Apes” — and the first time the award existed as a regular competitive category, the winner was Rick Baker for “An American Werewolf in London,” with subsequent winners including “Quest for Fire” (hairy cavemen!), “Harry and the Hendersons” (Bigfoot!), “The Wolfman” (another werewolf!) and, um, “Frida” (unibrow!).

On the visual effects side, meanwhile, the “Kong” successor “Mighty Joe Young” won in 1949, Peter Jackson’s “King Kong” remake won in 2005 and the rebooted “Planet of the Apes” series won in… Oh, wait, it shockingly never won, though its astonishing motion-capture...

Ron Perlman has had a remarkable career. His first film was an Oscar winner (Quest for Fire) from a great director; later that decade, he'd win a Golden Globe for the TV series Beauty and the Beast. He's been in everything from big franchise movies and international arthouse films to indie horror and numerous classics with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. But when MovieWeb spoke with Perlman about his new film with Liam Neeson, Absolution, he surprised us when he named the film in his career that he's the proudest of — and it's one hardly anybody has seen.

"I had a production company for about five or six years called Wing and a Prayer Pictures, and I produced about nine movies," explained Perlman. He continued:

"And the first one we identified was called Asher, and it was actually the last movie we produced. It was the movie that killed the company.

Recently, I had the great pleasure of talking with the legendary Ron Perlman, who has two movies open at the moment – Absolution with Liam Neeson and Day of the Fight, co-starring Michael Pitt and Joe Pesci. While teasing his new films, Perlman, a great guy, was thrilled when I brought up the fact that, when I was in high school here in Montreal, our history teacher used to show us Quest for Fire to teach us about early man.

Made in 1981, this movie happened to be Perlman’s first, and in it he plays Amoukar, one of a tribe of cavemen sent to find fire, as they do not have the knowledge needed to create fire themselves. Shot entirely without conventional dialogue, Quest for Fire is an amazing movie that’s ripe for rediscovery, and Perlman was happy to give us a little insight in to the making of the film.

Gladiator II being an international box office hit is another reminder that Ridley Scott still hasn't lost his keen sense for visual storytelling. As part of the promotion, he told Letterboxd what his top four favorite films are, and while he gave som predictable picks like 2001: A Space Odyssey, he threw one major curveball with Quest for Fire. A cult-classic caveman film by Jean-Jacques Annaud, Scott referred to it as "so brilliant," and it's easy to see why, given its courage to remain a largely silent film.

Iconic Hollywood filmmaker Ridley Scott is set to bring Gladiator II to the big screen this November. However, fans can revisit one of Scott's lesser-heralded historical epics on streaming before his anticipated sequel hits cinemas, as his Kingdom of Heaven movie finds a new online home.

Prime Video confirmed it will begin streaming Kingdom of Heaven on Nov. 1, becoming the latest service to carry the film after Disney+. The film's Prime Video debut comes two weeks before Gladiator II premieres in theaters internationally, offering movie lovers a chance to catch up with another of Scott's films in the meantime.

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No one has ever accused Sir Ridley Scott of being shy with his feelings, but when Letterboxd asked the director for his four favorite films at the premiere of "Alien: Romulus," he still managed to be a bit surprising by naming one of his own. To be fair, he also named Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," George Lucas' "Star Wars: A New Hope," and Jean-Jacques Annaud's "Quest for Fire" alongside his own "Blade Runner," so he had some pretty fantastic picks to offer in addition to showing his 1982 cyberpunk opus a little love. There's definitely a bit of a science fiction thread through his four favorites, and each one is a look at humanity through a slightly tilted lens, but let's talk a bit more about "Blade Runner" and why it deserves just as much if not more love than Scott's more popular sci-fi film, "Alien." 

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Ron Perlman is a classically trained actor with a massive career under his belt. Born in Washington Heights, New York City, Perlman began with films like Quest for Fire and The Name of the Rose. However, Perlman's big break came with Beauty and the Beast, playing the role of Vincent. From there, opportunities kept coming, and he's become well known for accepting many roles that require excessive use of makeup.

One of Ridley Scott's favorite movies, Quest For Fire, is a brilliant prehistoric fantasy. Quest For Fire combines originality with emotional and thrilling moments in the starkly ancient setting. The movie's influence is evident in Hollywood, impacting films like Planet of the Apes and Ridley Scott's own work.

One of Ridley Scott's favorite movies is a great fantasy film currently available on Amazon Prime. Blade Runner and Alien director Ridley Scott is one of cinemas titans, a formative part of the sci-fi genre in the 21st century. Scott produced the new Alien movie Alien: Romulus, released in August 2024, remaining a key driver in the franchise and participating in the marketing campaign. Scott'swork has influenced countless filmmakers over the years, which is why it is fascinating to learn about which movies inspired him.

Ridley Scott spoke to Letterboxd about his favorite movies, citing one of his own, the seminal sci-fi movie Blade Runner,...

Who would’ve thought that a career spanning six decades could be filled with so many extraterrestrials, dystopian futures, and historical epics? Well, that’s the case with Ridley Scott, one of cinema’s greatest visual storytellers and a true master of tone & genre. Thus, it’s no wonder he has three Academy Award nominations for Best Director under his belt and remains a hot topic among film buffs.

Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher & Harrison Ford in Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope | Credit: Lucasfilm Ltd

When Scott and Fede Álvarez were recently asked by Letterboxd to name their four favorite movies, the former’s list included George Lucas’ masterpiece Star Wars. And here’s a juicy tidbit: The Duellists director was so awestruck by Star Wars that it left him starry-eyed for three months, during which he ditched his project (at the time) and gifted us the masterpiece Alien.

Director Ridley Scott's short list of favorite films includes three sci-fi classics. He revealed how his first two picks heavily inspired Alien's premise.

Ridley Scott was pressed to name four of his favorite films in an interview with Letterboxed. His first two choices were seminal to the development of Alien, which was inspired by Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. Scott confirmed the parallel plots of Alien and Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi classic; he described that film's AI antagonist Hal 9000 as "The computer knows that the mission is more important than the people. We copied that in Alien." All of the mainline Alien films featured different iterations of humanoid synthetics issued by the Weyland-Yutani company, one of many mega-corporations running colonies beyond the solar system. Ash (played by Ian Holm) was an android ordered to ensure the Xenomorph survives in Alien.

Ridley Scott's favorite movies are 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, Quest for Fire, and Blade Runner. Blade Runner holds a special place for Scott as it "set the pace for many things." Scott notes that 2001: A Space Odyssey influenced Alien.

Director Ridley Scott reveals his four favorite movies of all time. Scott has directed many films throughout his career, including the iconic Alien, Blade Runner, and Gladiator, and more recently, Napoleon and the upcoming Gladiator II.

When asked by Letterboxd about his four favorite movies, Scott shared that his all-time favorites are 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, Quest for Fire, and one of his own films, Blade Runner, with Scott explaining that it "just set the pace for many things." Check out the video below:

Four Favorites with Alien director Ridley Scott and Alien: Romulus director @fedalvar @AlienAnthology #AlienRomulus pic.twitter.com/4Vthm4VUS0 Letterboxd (@letterboxd) August 15, 2024

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Headliners the Killers served up fan favorites, Skrillex got a stage named after him, and Future x Metro Boomin drew so many fans that the audience was asked to take five steps back, twice, during their set on Lollapalooza 2024’s penultimate day on Saturday in Chicago’s Grant Park. Killer Mike, Deftones, and Four Tet were also among the highlights from Day Three.

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“You’ve got to give the world irrefutable proof that you are who you say you are,” said frontman Brandon Flowers...

Chris Pratt is one of the most renowned actors in the entertainment industry today, having become even a part of a mammoth franchise like the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Jurassic Park franchise. But when it comes to how it all started for him, the roots go way deeper than this, with details that reveal things were anything but easy for him in the beginning.

Chris Pratt. | Credit: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons.

In fact, had it not been for one chance meeting with the iconic actress cum director Rae Dawn Chong from Hollywood, the actor just may not even have been here. Thanks to a series of fortunate turn of events for Pratt, she immaculately ended up helping him immensely in changing the course of his life; going from homeless to becoming the dominant box office force he is today.

Chris Pratt Owes His Blockbuster Career to Rae Dawn Chong

Back in the late ’90s,...

Nathan Zellner and David Zellner’s Sasquatch Sunset is stomping into circa 850 theaters this weekend after debuting in 9 with a solid opening for a film many could find weird. A tribe of Sasquatch, possibly the last of their kind, live and love in the woods of northern California, where it was shot.

“We are taking Bigfoot to America. We have high hopes that the broader market will embrace the movie,” says Kyle Davies of distributor Bleecker Street, calling it “a very different” kind of movie and “a bit of an unknown.”

“It’s a wildcard.”

Marketing was mainly through social activations. “I wouldn’t call it traditional marketing. It doesn’t really fit in that box,” Davies adds. The Sasquatch standees in theaters are fun. And Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar is displaying a baby Sasquatch sitting in a glass case with umbilical cord and placenta.

This is “a polarizing film.

So, you say you want to see something different, offbeat, out-of-the-ordinarry on your next visit to the cinema. Well, this weekend brings a true test for adventurous filmgoers. A few days ago I posted a review of the slapstick farce Hundreds Of Beavers, which is basically a silent movie “homage” since there’s almost no spoken dialogue. Much the same can be said for this new film, though it has a full soundtrack with lots of ambient background audio. Oh, and the characters do communicate, though it’s mainly via hand gestures, body language, and various grunts, growls, and groans. That’s because the four main characters are those “urban legend” icons, Bigfeet (Bigfoots just doesn’t sound right). No humans, just this quartet, romping around the forest all day until the big Sasquatch Sunset.

It all begins though, with the sunrise over a vast wooded area, perhaps in the great Northwestern US.

Sasquatch Sunset releases April 12th, 2024.

Do Sasquatches really exist? The answer is almost certainly “no,” but if they did, what would their day-to-day life look like? That’s the question that the Zellner Bros. set out to answer with their offbeat feature-film following an unconventional family of bigfoots (or is it bigfeet?). If you’re not quite sure what to make of that premise, don’t worry. Neither was I. I would implore anybody curious about this film to enter it with an open mind and a willingness to experience it for what it is: a one-of-a-kind blend of potty humor and poignant reflection, delivered in a way you’ve never seen before.

Sasquatch Sunset Plot Sasquatch Sunset (2024) directed by the Zellner Bros. Also Read: Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough Went Through an Absolute Nightmare For Their Bizarre Movie on Big Foots

Sasquatch Sunset follows a year in the life of a family of sasquatches.

They’re big, they’re hairy, they’re an urban myth that refuses to die — they’re the mythological creatures known as Sasquatches, those reclusive figures occasionally seen wandering in the woods and who may or may not rock a size 22 men’s shoe size. Some may doubt their existence, given that they tend to shun social interaction, and most evidence suggesting that they lope among us consists of grainy photos and cryptic video clips. David and Nathan Zellner have no time for such doubters, however. These filmmakers traveled deep...

Stars: Chuku Modu, Luna Mwezi, Iola Evans, Kit Young, Arno Lüning, Safia Oakley-Green | Written by Ruth Greenberg | Directed by Andrew Cumming

I can almost imagine Out of Darkness’ director Andrew Cumming pitching the film to potential backers as Quest for Fire meets Predator. And that would be a fairly accurate description of this Stone Age thriller about a tribe of early humans being picked off by an unseen foe. And one that makes it sound a lot less cerebral and more commercial than it might otherwise appear.

45,000 years ago, six early humans have left their tribe to find a new home. Leading the group is Adem, who also has his young son Heron and Ave who’s carrying Adem’s child along with him. Also making the trek are Geirr, Adem’s more cautious second-in-command and Odal’s who seems to be some kind of shaman and last, and certainly least,...

Taylor Swift receives the award for Best Pop Vocal Album at The 66th Annual Grammy Awards

Women absolutely dominated the 2024 Grammys, from winning the top awards to delivering the most memorial performances of the February 4th broadcast. Miley Cyrus took home her first-ever Grammy wins, while Taylor Swift made Grammy Awards history for the most Album of the Year wins ever.

Swift also made Swifties worldwide happy by announcing she’ll release her 11th album, The Tortured Poets Department, on April 19, 2024.

Tracy Chapman brought down the house with a stunning performance of “Fast Cars” alongside Luke Combs. Joni Mitchell earned a rousing ovation for her first performance on the Grammy stage, singing “Both Sides Now” while backed by Brandi Carlile, Allison Russell, Sistastrings, Lucius, Jacob Collier, and Blake Mills. And Celine Dion, who is suffering from stiff person syndrome, put in a surprise appearance as presenter of the Album of the Year award.

Movies about Stone Age life have been so few that just one past effort could be taken seriously, the rest being funny — intentionally or otherwise. Belatedly offering non-laughable companionship to Jean-Jacques Annaud’s 1981 “Quest for Fire” is “Out of Darkness,” a lean, mean adventure story on the cusp of horror that firsttime feature director Andrew Cumming imbues with tension and handsome visual atmospherics.

Titled “The Origin” when it premiered at BFI London Fest in fall 2022, since retitled (presumably to avoid confusion with Ava DuVernay’s current “Origin”), it’s a strong genre piece lent real novelty by being set approximately 45,000 years ago. Bleecker Street opens the U.K. indie production on more than 500 U.S. screens this Friday, simultaneous with a home-turf release.

We meet our protagonists around a campfire — unlike those of “Quest,” set circa 80,000 B.C., these prehistoric ancestors have figured that much out — as they air hopes...

Today, the Recording Academy is handing out all of their 2024 Grammy Award trophies!

If you don’t know, the televised show airs tonight at 8pm Et on CBS. However, most of the awards are actually handed out throughout the day during the pre-show event.

Taylor Swift made history during the show to become the first person to ever win Album of the Year four times.

We’ve gathered up every single winner (and nominee) here for you to see.

Head inside to see the complete list of winners from the telecast and pre-show…

See the full list of winners from the 2024 Grammys below…

Record Of The Year

“Worship,” Jon Batiste

“Not Strong Enough,” boygenius

“Flowers,” Miley Cyrus – Winner!

“What Was I Made For?” [From The Motion Picture Barbie], Billie Eilish

“On My Mama,” Victoria Monét

“Vampire,” Olivia Rodrigo

“Anti-Hero,” Taylor Swift

“Kill Bill,” Sza

Album Of The Year

World Music Radio, Jon Batiste

the record,...

Grammy Awards 2024 Winners List ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

One of the biggest award nights in the world of music is finally happening, and yes, we are talking about the 2024 Grammys. A total of 94 categories are there, and numerous talents have their eyes on the prize. From Miley Cyrus bagging her first Grammy to Taylor Swift announcing her new album, we bring you the complete list of the winners.

This year, Sza had the maximum number of nods for her album Sos, followed by R&b singer Victoria Monet and indie rocker Phoebe Bridgers of boygenius with seven nominations. Meanwhile, Miley, Taylor, Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Jon Batiste, and Brandy Clark have secured six nmnods.

Olivia Rodrigo performed her hit song Vampire, and Miley Cyrus entertained everyone with her song Flowers. Songwriter Justin Tranter, a 2024 Grammy nominee, provided as the master of ceremonies. Trevor Noah hosted the ceremony.

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The wait is officially over: The biggest night in music is finally here! On Sunday, the top names in music gathered for the 66th Grammy Awards.

The competition is fierce this year, with Sza leading all nominees this year with nine. Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, and Victoria Monét are also among the artists set to vie for the top prizes. Most of those artists will compete in the Album of the Year category, including Sza (Sos), Swift (Midnights), Rodrigo (Guts), Miley Cyrus (Endless Summer Vacation), boygenius (The Record), and Jon Batiste...

The 2024 Grammy Awards ceremony is being held this weekend and we’re predicting the winners in all of the major categories!

Sza leads the pack this year with nine nominations.

In general, women are totally crushing it: Sza, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, and Miley Cyrus all dominated the biggest categories. Jon Batiste is actually the only man in the Record of the Year and Album of the Year categories.

Taylor has a chance at setting a record for most Album of the Year wins if she picks up the award for Midnights. She currently is tied for the most wins in the category with three previous wins!

Make sure to tune in on Sunday for the Grammys, hosted by Trevor Noah for the fourth time. The show is airing on CBS and streaming on Paramount+ starting at 8pm Et. Check out the full list of nominations.

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The 66th Annual Grammy Awards will be held on Sunday, February 4, during two ceremonies: the afternoon Premiere Ceremony where most of the awards will be handed out, and the prime time telecast on CBS and Paramount+ hosted for the fourth year in a row by Trevor Noah. But who will win? Scroll down for our official odds in 37 categories, which are based on the combined predictions of Gold Derby users who have placed their bets here in our predictions center. Our projected winners are highlighted in gold.

Sza enters these awards with the most nominations (nine), followed by R&b breakout Victoria Monet, alternative singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers and engineer/mixer Serban Ghenea with seven apiece. This year’s awards also marked a number of changes and updates. The Recording Academy consolidated its categories into just 11 fields in order to give voters more flexibility as to which categories they participate in.

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The 66th Annual Grammy Awards is expanding its broadcast to include Las Vegas’ one-of-a-kind venue, Sphere. 22-time Grammy winners U2 will take the stage at Sphere for the first live Grammy Awards broadcast performance.

Sphere will also host a special awards presentation airing during the broadcast.

Joni Mitchell will be making history of her own during the 2024 Grammy Awards. The nine-time Grammy winner and Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award winner is confirmed to make her Grammy Awards performance debut. Mitchell’s Joni Mitchell at Newport (Live) is nominated in the Best Folk Album category this year.

Joni Mitchell and U2 join previously announced performers Billy Joel, Burna Boy, Luke Combs, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo, and Travis Scott.

Trevor Noah will return as host for the fourth consecutive year. The awards show will be held on Sunday, February 4, 2024 and air live from Los Angeles...

Exec handled international sales for James Bond franchise as well as movies like Annie Hall, The Graduate and Platoon

Ernst Goldschmidt, the former head of international sales at United Artists and co-founder of Orion Pictures, has died aged 92.

Goldschmidt’s career in the film industry spanned over 50 years. He started in 1957 as a salesman with MGM in Zurich before joining United Artists (UA) in 1958 as general manager of its Swiss office, before taking the reins at UA/Germany.

He was promoted to European sales manager in Paris in 1968 and then named president of UA Europe two years later. UA relocated...

'80s retro is popular right now, and chances are when people remember the great films of the decade, they are thinking of movies from 1982. In that magical year, the stars aligned and Hollywood seemed to create smash hit after smash hit. 1982 made not just the best movies of the decade, but some of the most enduring classics of all time.

The roster of amazing features from 1982 is so extensive that Oscar-winners like Gandhi, Das Boot, Quest for Fire, Sophie's Choice, and An Officer and a Gentleman won't fit on this list. Drama may have run the table at the Academy Awards that year, but sci-fi, action, and comedy dominated the pop culture, proving that 1982 was a truly great year for cinema.

Blade Runner Transformed the Sci-Fi Genre

Blade Runner

A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.

In Stuart Baird's 2002 film "Star Trek: Nemesis," Tom Hardy plays Shinzon, a human clone of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), grown in a lab by the dastardly spies in the Romulan Empire. When their clone plot didn't quite turn out the way that they wanted, the Romulans disavowed Shinzon's existence and sent him as a young boy to be enslaved in a Reman mine. The Remans were a cousin species of the Romulans that had been enslaved for many generations. Shinzon would grow up among the goblin-looking Remans, sharing their plight. Perhaps possessed of Picard's knack for leadership, Shizon would eventually lead a Reman uprising against the Romulans. "Nemesis" was the first time Trekkies ever caught a glimpse of the Remans. Shinzon's massive warship, the Scimitar, would be staffed entirely by Reman officers.

Most notably, Shinzon's unnamed right-hand man, a Reman Voiceroy, would be played by Ron Perlman, an...

On Friday morning, nominations were revealed for the 2024 66th Grammy Awards, and Sza, Phoebe Bridgers, Victoria Monét and Taylor Swift dominated the top categories.

Sza led the nominations with nine nods in total. Sza’s extensive repertoire of songs reflects her unique blend of diverse influences, and her album Sos and its songs span pop, rap, and R&b categories. Her single “Kill Bill” is up for Song and Record of the Year.

The singer currently has won one Grammy award with 14 previous nominations.

Sza’s collaboration “Ghost in the Machine” with Bridgers was also nominated for the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.

Monét, Bridgers and Serban Ghenea all follow Sza with seven nominations each. Monét is also nominated for Best New Artist, alongside singers Coco Jones and Gracie Abrams.

Swift has six nominations and could set a new record as the first artist to ever win Album of the Year four times.

The 2024 Grammys nominations are here!

The Recording Academy announced the nominees in a YouTube livestream on Friday (November 10).

With nine nods for her hit album Sos, Sza is the most nominated artist this year. (Sos topped the Billboard 200 chart for 10 weeks.)

Keep reading to find out more…

In general, women are totally crushing it: Sza, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, and Miley Cyrus all dominated the biggest categories. Jon Batiste is actually the only man in the Record of the Year and Album of the Year categories.

With an Album of the Year nomination for Midnights, Taylor has a chance to make history by becoming the first artist to ever win the category four times. She’s previously won for Fearless, 1989, and Folklore.

Her collaborator and good friend Jack Antonoff, who won Producer of the Year the last two years, is nominated in the category once again.

The 2024 Grammys...

The 66th Annual Grammy Awards announced their nominations on Friday morning, November 10. These awards honor the best in recorded media that were released from October 1, 2022 through September 15, 2023. Scroll down for the list of contenders, updated throughout the morning.

The presentation took place at 10:45am Eastern/7:45am Pacific during a livestream on live.grammy.com and YouTube starting with the contenders in the general field and other select categories. Video announcements of the nominees in the remaining races were also published on live.grammy.com and YouTube while the event was underway, and the full list of nominees was published on Grammy.com immediately following the presentation.

Joining Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. to deliver the good news were Grammy winners Arooj Aftab, Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Jimmy Jam, Jon Bon Jovi, Samara Joy, Muni Long, Cheryl Pawelski, Kim Petras, Judith Sherman, St. Vincent, Jeff Tweedy, and “Weird Al” Yankovic,...

Skrillex has reunited with Boys Noize for a new single, “Fine Day Anthem.” The pair recently previewed the track during a show in Berlin and it marks their first collaboration since their dual 2019 EP Turn Off The Lights.

The cover art for the single, created by digital artist Thomas Harrington Rawle using both studio photography and manual digital painting, is intended to evoke ’90’s rave photos. On Twitter, Skrillex noted that the duo have included snippets from single in their DJ sets for the past year.

“Fine Day Anthem” follows...

Skrillex takes TikTok’s “Point of View” trend to a new level in the music video for his Fred Again.. and Flowdan collaboration “Rumble.” The three musicians are smaller parts of a bigger machine as the video pulls together footage of the audience at their third surprise pop-up concert with FourTet at London’s The Troxy in January.

Directed by Manu Cossu, some of the ravers captured in “Rumble” work the camera, flashing intense gazes into the lens. But most of the stars of the video couldn’t care less...

Basement Jaxx, Underworld, and Charlotte De Witte will headline Movement Music Festival, which returns to Detroit’s Hart Plaza for Memorial Day weekend, May 27 through May 29. Tickets and additional details can be found on the Movement Music Festival’s website.

“It’s been 24 years since we last danced together in Detroit. We’re obviously a million light years past excited to be back with you in May at Movement Festival,” Underworld said in a statement.

This year’s stacked lineup includes Skrillex, who just released two LPs back-to-back, Don’t...

Skrillex has surprised fans with another new album, just a day after releasing his Quest for Fire.

The Edm-pop superstar previously revealed that a follow-up LP, dubbed Don’t Get Too Close, was on the way, and during Skrillex’s performance Saturday at New York’s Madison Square Garden, he informed the crowd that the album is out right now; the Msg gig also featured specially made “bootleg CDs” of the new album, which won’t be available anywhere else.

Like Quest for Fire, Don’t Get Too Close is a star-studded affair,...

It’s been nine years since Sonny Moore released Recess, his first album as the Edm mastermind Skrillex, and while Quest for Fire is technically his second album, he’s hardly been away from the spotlight. He’s kept busy, releasing a steady stream of singles and collaborative projects, and producing tracks for chart-toppers like Justin Bieber and Ed Sheeran, as well as next-wave artists like PinkPantheress. He even reunited with From First to Last, the Warped Tour denizens he fronted at the height of the MySpace era.

Skrillex’s...

Following a string of releases in 2023 and the announcement of his upcoming album Quest For Fire, Skrillex dropped the single “Don’t Get Too Close” on Monday. The new track features his own vocals (credited as Sonny Moore) and German singer Bibi Bourelly.

The song’s video shows a singing porcupine using Bourelly’s voice and later Skrillex’s voice. “I’m on my PC/I see famous people/I think they’re like mе/So why aren’t we equal?” sings Skrillex. Soon, he’s joined by Bourelly for...

After spending the first weeks of 2023 torridly releasing singles, Skrillex has revealed that his new album, Quest for Fire, is arriving very soon.

The producer/DJ made the surprise announcement Saturday night on Instagram, adding that the LP will be released this Friday, Feb. 17, and sharing himself performing a “basement set” of the album’s 14-song track list.

In addition to the already-unveiled singles “Rumble” with rising DJ/producer Fred Again.. and grime Mc/producer Flowdan, “Way Back” with Trippie Redd and Pink Pantheress, “Leave Me Like This” with Bobby Raps...

The American French Film Festival, formerly known as Colcoa, will kick off Oct. 10 with the North American premiere of docudrama “Notre-Dame on Fire,” from “Quest for Fire” director Jean-Jacques Annaud. The weeklong festival at the DGA Theater Complex in Los Angeles closes with Dominik Moll’s thriller “The Night of the 12th,” about a cold case where the only certainty is the night it occurred. Moll will also be the focus of the festival’s annual “Focus on a Filmmaker.”

“Every year, The American French Film Festival presents the very best of French cinema and television, and this year is no exception. I am personally excited about the opening night selection of Jean-Jacques Annaud’s ‘Notre-Dame on Fire’ as I think it perfectly embodies the Franco-American Cultural Fund’s mission,” said Andrea Berloff, writer and board member of the Franco-American Cultural Fund.

The festival will screen 75 films and TV series and 20 shorts,...

Gold Derby odds-makers are betting on Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” to clean up in the below-the-line categories – as of this writing it’s projected for six wins! – but one category where it might have some stiff competition is Best Makeup and Hairstyling. As I noted in my previous piece about the category, transforming actors for biopics has often led to Oscar gold, and yet there’s also plenty of historical precedent for the academy to pick a fantasy or science-fiction epic like “Dune,” which features exemplary work by Donald Mowat and his team of artists and stylists.

This year the Makeup category turns 40 years old, with hairstylists added as award recipients in 1993, and then hairstyling was added to the name of the category in 2012. But the very first competitive winner in the category, after a couple honorary awards (for 1964’s “7 Faces of Dr. Lao” and 1968’s “Planet of the Apes...

The Make-Up & Hairstylists Guild has its 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award winners: Oscar– and multiple Emmy-winning makeup artist Michèle Burke and Emmy-winning hairstylist Joy Zapata.

Both will be honored at the ninth annual The Make-Up & Hairstylists Guild Awards on February 19 at the Beverly Hilton. Watch video interviews with both honorees below.

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A double Oscar winner for makeup for Quest for Fire — becoming the first woman to will in the category — and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Burke has more than 100 films and television makeup credits. She also earned Oscar noms for Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, The Cell, Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), and The Clan of the Cave Bear. She won her Emmy for 1989’s Alien Nation and scored a nom for Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman in 1993.

Zapata has won four Emmys for hairstyling — including two in 2017 for Westworld and Harispray Live!

In the course of his nearly 50-year career on the screen, the late Sean Connery portrayed many famous characters, both fictional and non-fictional. Among those were, of course, Ian Fleming’s suave spy James Bond in seven films; Daniel Druvot in 1975’s The Man Who Would Be King; King Arthur in 1995’s First Knight, Robin Hood in 1976’s Robin and Marian; Dr. Henry Jones Sr. in 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and many more.

One role Connery never got to play was Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary detective, Sherlock Holmes. But he did come close, playing a character who was based at least in part on Holmes, in the 1986 movie The Name of the Rose.

Based on the best-selling 1980 novel by Italian historian, philosopher and author Umberto Eco, the book and the film are set in 1327, as a Franciscan monk named William of Baskerville (Connery) and his young...

Luc Besson’s financially struggling film company, EuropaCorp, has entered into exclusive negotiations with Gaumont to sell off Roissy Films’ library, which includes more than 500 titles.

If greenlit, the pact will allow Gaumont to take over the exploitation of films from the Roissy catalogue, which boasts more than 80 award-winning films. Best-known titles include Claude Zidi’s “The Under-Gifted” (“Les sous-doués”) and Jean-Jacques Annaud’s “Quest for Fire” (“La guerre du feu”).

EuropaCorp had acquired Roissy Films in 2008.

EuropaCorp said the deal with Gaumont “falls within the scope of the new strategy of the company consisting in focusing on its core business activities: the production and distribution of films and series around the world.”

The company will also be looking to sell about 30 films from Roissy Films to a third party.

Within the last 18 months, EuropaCorp has taken drastic steps to cut costs, including the sale of its French TV production unit for €11 million,...

Luc Besson's financially struggling EuropaCorp is putting another asset up for sale, entering into exclusive negotiations with Gaumont for the catalog of Roissy Films.

EuropaCorp acquired the 500-film strong catalog — which includes several award winners, such as Jean-Jacques Annaud's Quest for Fire and Claude Zidi's The Under-Gifted — a decade ago. French mini-major Gaumont and Besson's EuropaCorp will engage in negotiations for the titles, though EuropaCorp said it would also explore selling around 30 unspecified films to a third party.

“This project would fall within the scope of the new strategy of the Group consisting in ...

Luc Besson's financially struggling EuropaCorp is putting another asset up for sale, entering into exclusive negotiations with Gaumont for the catalog of Roissy Films.

EuropaCorp acquired the 500-film strong catalog — which includes several award winners, such as Jean-Jacques Annaud's Quest for Fire and Claude Zidi's The Under-Gifted — a decade ago. French mini-major Gaumont and Besson's EuropaCorp will engage in negotiations for the titles, though EuropaCorp said it would also explore selling around 30 unspecified films to a third party.

“This project would fall within the scope of the new strategy of the Group consisting in ...

With the Summer winding down, and Labor Day well in sight, are moviegoers nostalgic for an adventure set it the “good ole’ days”? Hmmm, not sure if they were all that “good”, but the emphasis is on the “ole”, er “old” in the week’s new release. We’re going way, waaay back with this epic, around 20,000 years to be exact to the “cave man” tribal days, when humans were both hunters and the hunted. It’s not fun in fur skin time as in the comic strip “B.C.” or The Flintstones, nor is it the fantasy of early man evading dinosaurs as in the One Million Years B.C. films or the comedy Caveman (loved the stoned “stop -motion” T-Rex in that). . No, it’s a bit closer to the 1980’s double bill of Quest For Fire and Clan Of The Cave Bear, though more “family friendly” but...

Albert Hughes’ prehistoric adventure, now on Blu-ray & DVD, is dazzling and frustrating at the same time.

It’s been a while since we had an old-fashioned caveman movie (for lack of a better term), and kudos to director Albert Hughes for conceiving of one with Alpha, the story of a prehistoric teen who makes his way back to his family across a vast, treacherous landscape with the help of a wolf he establishes a bond with. But the movie is both impressive and vexing as Hughes’ genuinely ambitious vision is hampered by stock plot points and inconsistent visuals.

Hughes isn’t afraid to genre-jump, going from urban drama (Menace II Society) to period horror (From Hell) to post-apocalyptic sci-fi (Book of Eli) with relative ease. In Alpha, he confidently asks viewers to follow Keda (Kodi Smit-McPhee), a young member of an advanced Cro-Magnon tribe known as the Solutrean. Keda speaks...