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According to Collider, Martha Stewart has slammed her new Netflix documentary, Martha, calling out the director and criticizing the way it was filmed. Director R.J. Cutler explored the businesswoman and lifestyle guru's life, following her journey from teenage model to America's first self-made female billionaire.

The documentary hasn't been scared to handle the explosive parts of her life and relationships, including her marriage to Andy Stewart and their infidelities. That is not why the lifestyle influencer was unhappy with it, however. In a recent interview, she didn't hold back on the elements of the documentary that she hated. She scalded the director for unflattering camera angles, leaving interviews on the cutting room floor, and the poor choice of music.

Oh yeah, the documentary is fine, she told Jimmy Fallon. It left out a lot, so Im going to talk to them about maybe doing version two.

When you think reliable narrator, Oliver Stone doesn’t exactly come to mind. Since his start as a director in the 1970s, the lightning-rod filmmaker, now 74, has leaned into fiction narratives with political points of view, from “Salvador,” “Wall Street,” and “W.” to Best Director Oscar-winners “Platoon” and “Born on the Fourth of July.” His last Oscar nomination came in 1996, for “Nixon,” arguably his peak of high regard in Hollywood. It’s hard to recall that in 1992, controversial global smash “JFK” earned three Oscar nominations including Best Picture.

Times change, and Stone’s complex historic and global point of view is far more layered and nuanced than current American partisanship will accept. That’s why the Yale-grad-turned-Vietnam-vet has managed to alienate folks on every side of the political spectrum, including accusations of promulgating violence with “Natural Born Killers,” promoting a whistleblower in “Snowden,” and conducting friendly documentary interviews with dictators,...

“Riverdale” brought the high-school years of Archie and the gang to an end on Wednesday’s episode, with The CW drama set to jump seven years into the future next week. And when the characters get there, they’re going to be a little different than when we last saw them. Take Veronica, who based on a sneak peek shared by actress Camila Mendes on Thursday’s “Tonight Show,” has an impressive career on Wall Street. Well, she did until her husband, Chad Gekko (Chris Mason), decided she needed a break.

“It’s 2021, Chad, haven’t you heard? Women can have it all now,” Veronica says in the clip, which starts in the video above.

“I just don’t want you to be unduly stressed,” he replies.

“I’m not stressed. Actually, I miss being on the trading floor with you. I miss all that adrenaline,” she says, sipping her wine.

Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Hal Holbrook, whose acting career spanned more than six decades and included roles in classic films like Wall Street and All The President’s Men and in beloved shows like The West Wing, has died. He was 95. Holbrook, a stalwart character actor who has portrayed everyone from Mark Twain to Abraham Lincoln to […]

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Actor Hal Holbrook, an Emmy-winning veteran of stage and screen, has died at the age of 95.

Holbrook’s assistant, Joyce Cohen, confirmed to the New York Times that he passed away on Jan. 23; a cause of death has not been reported.

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Despite a long career in film and television, Holbrook was best known for his portrayal of author Mark Twain in the one-man play Mark Twain Tonight!

Hal Holbrook, the five-time Emmy-winning actor who was famed for portraying Mark Twain, has died at 95. Holbrook died on January 23 at his home in Beverly Hills, his assistant told The New York Times.

Born on February 17, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, he went on to have a highly decorated screen and stage career that spanned more than six decades.

Holbrook perhaps was best known for playing Mark Twain in his one-man stage show Mark Twain Tonight!, which first played on Broadway in 1966 and earned Holbrook a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play. A television showing of the stage show secured him an Emmy nomination a year later, he reprised the role on the Main Stem in 1977 and again in 2005.

Holbrook played former U.S. president Abraham Lincoln on television in Carl Sandburg’s 1974 mini-series Lincoln, which earned him one of five Emmy statuettes. His four other...

Hal Holbrook, the versatile stage and screen actor best known for his Tony-winning portrayal of Mark Twain, died Jan. 26 at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 95.

Holbrook’s assistant told the New York Times about his death on Monday.

In the one-man play “Mark Twain Tonight!,” which Holbrook developed in 1954, he portrayed Twain reading from a selection of his dramatic and comedic writing. The play debuted in Pennsylvania before moving to New York in 1959 Off Broadway, and finally premiered on Broadway in 1966. Holbrook won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for that performance, and in 1967, he was nominated for an Emmy for the television broadcast.

Holbrook continued to revive the play for decades. His final Broadway appearance in the role came in 2006, and he retired from the role for good in 2017.

Born in 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio, Holbrook began acting during his service in World War II,...

Emmy and Tony winner Hal Holbrook, an actor best known for his role as Mark Twain, whom he portrayed for decades in one-man shows, died on Jan. 23. He was 95.

Holbrook’s personal assistant, Joyce Cohen, confirmed his death to the New York Times on Monday night.

Holbrook played the American novelist in a solo show called “Mark Twain Tonight!” that he directed himself and for which he won the best actor Tony in 1966. He returned to Broadway with the show in 1977 and 2005 and appeared in it more than 2,200 times (as of 2010) in legit venues across the country. He began performing the show in 1954.

He received an Emmy nomination for a TV adaptation of “Mark Twain Tonight!” in 1967, the first of multiple noms. He won four Emmy Awards.

He also drew an Oscar nomination for supporting actor for his role in the film “Into the Wild” in 2008. At the time of the nomination,...

The Robinhood effect has now extended to the movies. Days after the Reddit-led consumer buys of struggling GameStop, AMC Theaters, and other stocks, two of the most successful recent films about Wall Street manipulation are soaring high in home rentals.

Apple TV, usually the quickest to detect trends and spot immediate response, currently has Adam McKay’s 2015 “The Big Short” at #3 and Martin Scorsese’s 2013 “The Wolf of Wall Street” at #4. That places them ahead of all but two current releases (“Tenet” and “Greenland”) as the most-ordered titles.

This rapid response parallels what happened last February when Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 “Contagion” flew high with its story that paralleled the then-emergent Covid-19 pandemic.

“The Big Short” (based on Michael Lewis’ non-fiction account of Wall Street firms reaping profits from the 2008 financial collapset) and “Wolf of Wall Street” (based on the career of broker Jordan Belford) clicked with the public a...

Recently, short Best Actor-nominated performances have been scarce at the Oscars. The average screen time of the past decade’s nominees is over 80 minutes, and only a handful of them have not reached one hour. Still, performances that fall under 60 minutes make up nearly one third of the category’s nominees, with plenty boasting much less time. Here is a look at the 10 shortest of all (and here are the 10 shortest winners):

10. Humphrey Bogart (“The Caine Mutiny”)

28 minutes, 22 seconds (22.79% of the film)

Bogart’s third and final Best Actor nomination came in 1955 for his portrayal of tyrannical Naval commander Philip Queeg. Though he is absent from the first quarter of the film and appears on screen for less than 30 minutes, he was classified as a lead. In the decades since, several actors have also been placed in the lead category for relatively short villainous roles, including Michael Douglas (“Wall Street...

Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo will guest host the network’s new 7 p.m. show, “Fox News Primetime,” this week beginning on Monday, a network spokesperson confirmed to TheWrap.

After a schedule reshuffling that moved previous 7 p.m. host Martha MacCallum to 3 p.m. and turned the hour from news to opinion, Brian Kilmeade took over last week.

Bartiromo is slated to make the announcement on her Sunday show, “Sunday Morning Futures.” Beyond that, she hosts a morning show on Fox Business Network every weekday called “Mornings With Maria.” On Friday evenings, she hosts another Fox Business show, “Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street.” Overall, she hosts 17 hours or more of television programming per week, though Dagen McDowell will host her “Mornings With Maria” show for the first few days she’s in primetime.

After Bartiromo, other guest hosts lined up for the 7 p.m. hour include Trey Gowdy, Katie Pavlich, Rachel Campos-Duffy,...

With the ridiculous number of delays announced last night and the previous announcements of other films hitting streaming and skipping theaters, it appears that the schedule of films hitting theaters in 2021 is about to go into a blender and come out looking very different. But through all this mess, it appears that Paramount is sticking to its, uh, guns for one of the studio’s films, “Top Gun: Maverick.”

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According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, it appears that streaming giants Netflix and Apple both approached Paramount about possibly buying the distribution rights for “Top Gun: Maverick.” However, the report claims that Paramount wasn’t interested and is willing to bet on Tom Cruise’s sequel at the box office…whenever it hits theaters.

Continue reading ‘Top Gun: Maverick’: Paramount Reportedly Passed On Offers From Netflix & Apple To Send Film To Streaming at The Playlist.

The creation of the supporting Oscar categories in 1937 clarified the intention that the lead acting categories are meant to honor true star turns. While most Best Actor wins have aligned with that idea, there have been more than a few whose placement has been called into question due to low screen time. Here is a look at the 10 shortest winners in the category:

10. Gary Cooper (“High Noon”)

40 minutes, 57 seconds (48.35% of the film)

Five-time Best Actor Oscar nominee Cooper earned his second win in 1953 for playing morally conflicted Marshal Will Kane in “High Noon.” By appearing in less than half of the 85-minute film, Cooper made history by holding two screen time records at once. At the time, his one-hour, 30-minute, 55-second performance in 1941’s “Sergeant York” was the longest to have won in the Best Actor category. His second win broke a 21-year record for shortest, which was previously held...

Despite very chaotic schedules, Gold Derby gathered four top TV showrunners recently for a Meet the Experts panel to discuss their latest projects and careers. Watch our exciting new group webchat above with Katori Hall (“P-Valley”), Aaron Guzikowski (“Raised by Wolves”), Benjamin Cavell (“The Stand”) and Susanne Bier (“The Undoing”). Click on each name above to be taken to their separate interviews during the hour-long panel.

In the chat, we ask about projects that influenced them into joining the crazy world of television and film long before it actually happened for them. For Cavell, he chooses to talk about “The Sopranos.” Hall discusses “Good Times” from the 1970s. Bier chats about an old black-and-white version of “Treasure Island.” Guzikowski mentions the original episodes of “The Twilight Zone.”

Other topics we cover in our group discussion include the process of waiting on a new project to debut for the public and critics,...

“We all feel like it is the show we set out to make. We’re all really proud of the way it turned out. It’s been difficult to wait on sharing on with everybody and so exciting that we are finally here,” reveals executive producer Benjamin Cavell about the debut of “The Stand.” The first few episodes have just started debuting for the limited series on CBS All Access

Cavell recently joined our Gold Derby Meet the Experts TV Showrunners panel (watch the exclusive video interview above) to discuss his project, which is based on the mega-popular Stephen King novel from 1978. King himself, along with son Owen King, are also executive producers and have each contributed scripts for the new program.

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On working with the legendary writer, he says, “My experience has been wonderful. Part of it is that he...

Actor Pedro Pascal says he has been influenced by the 1980s, and it is something that continues to stay with him.

The actor asserted that the era added a different sort of charm to the world of the upcoming film, "Wonder Woman 1984".

"The era that has influenced me and really stayed with me the most is the eighties, for better or worse, I suppose," Pascal said.

"That feeling of nostalgia, getting to plunge into that world with a brilliant filmmaker who understands it so well... Who wouldn't want to be a part of exploring a character like Wonder Woman -- the super hero we didn't even realise we needed so badly until ('Wonder Woman' director) Patty (Jenkins) and (heroine) Gal (Gadot) brought her to us to remind us of our humanity in the most entertaining way?" he added.

"Wonder Woman 1984" casts Pascal as Maxwell Lord, who...

Media and entertainment stocks sank Monday as the market shrugged off both a long awaited stimulus package that included $15 billion for arts and culture and the global march of vaccinations, focusing instead, and again, on virus fears after health officials in Britain revealed a new strain of the coronavirus said to be 70% more transmittable.

That triggered lockdown orders in London and travel restrictions across Europe, threatening commerce and trade. Stocks plunged in Asia overnight and then in Europe, segueing to losses Stateside where the Djia was down 140 points, or 0.46% — off its lows — and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, had fallen respectively by 1.08% and 0.95% midday.

The fate of that elusive, desperately needed aid package had kept stocks volatile for weeks as lawmakers squabbled. Today it’s set to be signed and sealed with provisions for movie theaters and live entertainment, extended paycheck protection and enhanced federal unemployment benefits that will help...

President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Dr. Jill Biden joined Stephen Colbert for an extensive interview on The Late Show Thursday, December 17th.

The interview began with a one-on-one with the president-elect, in which Biden spoke about his hopes for unity and said he understood that many Republicans were currently in a “tough spot” in terms of acknowledging his victory; Donald Trump continues to make baseless claims about voter fraud and refuses to concede. But Biden said the one person whose actions stung most was his long-time friend, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham,...

It’s good to have superhero movies back. The first reviews for Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot’s “Wonder Woman 1984” are in, and while some critics are calling it “cheesy,” others are heralding the blockbuster as a welcome distraction in a depressing year.

Most critics agreed that, like the original “Wonder Woman” from 2017, the new film balances corny heroics and fish-out-of-water comedy with busy action sequences that sometimes detract from the more human charms of Gadot’s titular character.

“With ‘Wonder Woman 1984,’ the highly anticipated follow-up to Jenkins’ mega-hit, the filmmaker digs her heels even further into that promise of cheesy superhero goodness, to the point of it being a potential health hazard,” Hoai-Tran Bui wrote in /Film. “But the cartoonishly optimistic charms of “Wonder Woman 1984’ feel like a direct rebuke of the current political and cultural landscape in a way that is unquestionably ham-fisted, but is...

It survived Prohibition, the Great Depression, two World Wars and countless economic downturns. But New York CIty’s famed 21 Club apparently couldn’t outlast the coronavirus pandemic.

The iconic restaurant has reportedly told its nearly 150 employees that it’s going out of business and that they’ll be let go in March.

Opened as a speakeasy during Prohibition, the 21 Club has served past presidents, including President Donald Trump, who celebrated his 2016 victory with a dinner there. Its celebrity guests Ernest Hemingway (who supposedly had his way with a restaurant guest on the steps), tennis greats John McEnroe and Chris Evert, and stars like Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, Orson Welles, Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner. Several had bronze plaques above “their” tables.

Many movies and TV shows have filmed at the 21 Club, including The Sweet Smell of Success, Wall Street, and Sex and the City. The restaurant also hosted the Mad Men premiere party.

Four top TV showrunners will reveal the secrets behind their programs when they join Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with key 2021 guild and Emmy contenders this month. Each person will participate in two video discussions to be published on Wednesday, December 16, at 5:00 p.m. Pt; 8:00 p.m. Et. We’ll have a one-on-one with our managing editor Chris Beachum and a group chat with Chris and all of the producers together.

RSVP today to this specific event by clicking here to book your reservation. Or click here to RSVP for our entire ongoing panel series. We’ll send you a reminder a few minutes before the start of the show.

This “Meet the Experts” panel welcomes the following 2021 guild and Emmy contenders:

“P-Valley” (Starz): Katori Hall

Hall is an Olivier Award-winning playwright whose TV career has included such projects as “Cast Black Talent Virtual Reading Series,...

He still is stalling, but the bottom line is that Donald Trump is ankling his job. For the uninitiated, “ankling” is Variety “slanguage” for getting fired, as Trump knows well. Trump often has boasted that his rallies were “boffo,” called his speeches “blurbs” and demonstrated a keen attraction for “thesps.” Indeed, his presidency long has been a reality show, which suits his qualifications.

At a banquet some years ago, Trump even alluded to the legendary “sticks” headline (“Sticks Nix Hick Pix”). He had no idea what the headline meant (no one does), but I sensed he understood the importance of the “sticks” since he shaped his politics with them in mind. What he couldn’t know was that his presidential term would best be described by another Variety banner: ”Wall Street Lays An Egg.” In the end, so did Trump.

Trump felt free to cite Variety slanguage to me because...

WarnerMedia has initiated a new round of layoffs.

In a memo circulated Tuesday morning, CEO Jason Kilar wrote, “Today, we have arrived at a number of difficult decisions that are resulting in a smaller WarnerMedia team. This is a function of removing layers and the impact of consolidating previously separate organizations. Starting today in North America, we will be sharing which jobs are being eliminated and which roles have changed.”

News of the cuts comes weeks after the Wall Street Journal first reported that the company was looking to cut costs by as much as 20% and potentially lay off thousands of workers. Sources tell Variety that the number of jobs affected will be lower than that story and subsequent reports indicated, affecting 5-7% of its total workforce.

The company comprising what were once largely autonomous business units Warner Bros., HBO and Turner Broadcasting has undergone several waves of layoff since...

November can be a slow month for streaming services. Amazon, however, is entering into 2020’s penultimate month with some steam.

Amazon is really beefing up its TV library in November 2020. Both Community (which arrives on Nov. 8) and Scrubs (Nov. 14) will be added to Amazon Prime this month and in the process complete the streaming trifecta: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu. That’s pretty impressive stuff for both shows. And then on the film side of things, November 1 sees the arrival of The X-Files: I Want to Believe, Twilight, and the Underworld franchise. Somebody didn’t tell Amazon Spooky Season was over and bless them for it.

As for the originals, Alex Rider is the most intriguing TV series here. That is based on the British spy novel series and premieres on Nov. 13 on IMDb TV (which is available to all Prime subscribers). That will be followed by Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series on Nov.

A new television drama series about a group of young, privileged trader wannabes in the current climate might seem totally unrelatable and unimportant in the current global pandemic mood. Surprisingly, Industry that follows a group of young bankers and traders trying to find their footing in the financial world in the aftermath of the 2008 collapse is highly relevant today, as it deals with a whole host of current topics, including racial equality, mental well-being and substance abuse.

Set in the world of a fictitious investment bank, compelling California-born New Yorker Myha’la Herrold plays Harper who is smart, risk-taking and determined to make her mark, having entered the graduate training scheme through dishonest ways that are not yet disclosed in the first three episodes reviewed. This is her secret that will obviously come to light at some point.

Marisa Abela plays Yasmin from a fortunate background who is very much in...

The 1984 film The Hit is out today on Criterion Collection --- and they're having a 50% off flash sale right now, so if you've been waiting to score some awesome box sets, get to it Asap. Directed by Stephen Frear, the film stars Terence Stamp as Willie, a former gangster-turned-informer. He's been hiding out in a sunwashed Spanish village for a good ten years when his luck runs out and he's found and delivered by a group of amateur thugs who are immediately dispatched of in...

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Amazon Prime Video has a whole load of new content coming this November, and the best thing about the large haul is that all tastes are accounted for, so whatever you’re in the mood for, you’ll have a lot of options. From Christmas flicks to action films to some classic sci-fi and horror, subscribers will find much to enjoy from what’s hitting Prime next month.

Take a look at the full list below and scroll down further for our runthrough of the highlights:

Released November 1

28 Days Later (2003)

A Christmas Movie Christmas (2019)

A Christmas Switch (2018)

(2018) (Hallmark Movies Now)

Arizona Whirlwind (1944)

Article 99 (1992)

As Good As It Gets (1997)

Boyz N’ The Hood (1991)

Breathless (1983)

Country Strong (2011)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Dead Poets Society (1989)

Deja Vu (2006)

Did You Hear About The Morgans? (2009)

Firewalker (1986)

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)

Marrying Father Christmas (2018) (Hallmark...

We’ve seen Hollywood tell stories of the finance industry for decades. Who can forget “Wall Street,” “The Big Short,” “Boiler Room,” or “The Wolf of Wall Street,” for example? But the upcoming HBO series, “Industry,” takes a different perspective, focusing not on the richest men making the most money in devious, disgusting ways.

Continue reading ‘Industry’ Trailer: The World Of Finance Provides Plenty Of Drama In HBO’s Upcoming Series at The Playlist.

Liam Neeson may have been a late-blooming action star, but if “Honest Thief” is the best he can muster now, those days are now behind him. As Tom, a notorious bank robber with a conscience, Neeson does his best with the material at hand, but he can only do so much when it reduces everything around him to a bland formulaic exercise.

Directed by “Ozark” co-creator Mark Williams, the movie lacks the sense of unpredictability from the hit Netflix show, where a high-stakes criminal enterprise endangers one family’s long-term future. That happens, here, too — but in much more familiar terms. Williams and co-writer Steve Allrich have constructed your typical tale of personal vindication, spreading it across a formulaic saga that teems with the expected mano-a-mano skirmishes, and by-the-numbers car chases, while centering it all on one man’s mission to make things right for the sake of (what else?...

WarnerMedia is expected to enact a new round of layoffs amid the AT&T-owned company’s ongoing restructuring.

According to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news, the company is looking to cut costs by as much as 20% and lay off thousands in the coming weeks.

That would follow the hundreds of layoffs made in early August that saw Warner Bros. and HBO hardest hit.

“Like the rest of the entertainment industry, we have not been immune to the significant impact of the pandemic,” said WarnerMedia in a statement shared with Variety. “That includes an acceleration in shifting consumer behavior, especially in the way content is being viewed. We shared with our employees recently that the organization will be restructured to respond to those changes and prioritize growth opportunities, with an emphasis on direct-to-consumer. We are in the midst of that process and it will involve increased investments in priority areas and,...

Universal Pictures announced on Wednesday that it is moving the release of DreamWorks Animations: “The Croods: A New Age” from December 23 to November 25, 2020.

The move comes five days after Warner Bros. moved “Wonder Woman 1984” to a Christmas Day release, putting it in competition with the “Croods” sequel. The film is now set for release on Thanksgiving weekend, where it is set to compete against Disney/Pixar’s “Soul” provided that theaters stay open nationwide.

“The Croods: A New Age” will be the first DreamWorks Animation release since “Trolls World Tour” made the move from theatrical release to premium video on-demand (PVOD), beginning a new experiment in Hollywood as studios try to find alternate revenue streams while movie theaters grapple with pandemic-induced instability. Released for an initial rental price of $19.99, “Trolls World Tour” was a financial success for Universal, reportedly earning over $100 million in PVOD sales after just a month in release.

“I can still deliver the mail,” Michael Douglas’ Sandy Kominsky euphemistically shares with an old flame in “A Libido Sits in the Fridge,” the second season episode of Netflix’s “The Kominsky Method” that Douglas has submitted for Emmy Awards consideration. After scoring a nomination for the show’s first season last year, the Emmy-winning actor returns to the Best Comedy Actor line-up this year to contend for a second trophy.

In “A Libido Sits in the Fridge,” Douglas’ Sandy, a former actor turned acting coach, reconnects with his old flame Lisa (Nancy Travis) and though he wants to rekindle their romance, Lisa suggests they try to be strictly-platonic friends. Sandy weighs this option as he wards off what he thinks are romantic advances from one of his students, and ultimately gives his friendship with Lisa the “old college try” during a movie night at Lisa’s house.

Will Douglas...

As much as movies lived and died by their trailer and movie poster, newspaper ads were equally important for decades. In some cases newspaper movie ads may have featured different titles or taglines, alternate art, or different presentations than you may remember from the theatrical poster. Newspaper ads were an art form of their own and the Alamo Drafthouse has an incredible collection of 60,000 original letterpress plates, featuring movies from the 1930s to the 1980s.

They are sharing these ads with the world in a unique way via "The Press Room Collection," which features an eclectic mix of items that make use of these letterpress plates ads:

From the Press Release: "Alamo Drafthouse is excited to announce The Press Room Collection, a new and ongoing collection of prints and other unique items created from Alamo Drafthouse Cinema’s one-of-a-kind collection of over 60,000 original letterpress plates used for newspaper movie ads from 1930s to the 1980s.

At first glance, the Emmys are giving a lot of love to young performers including Zendaya (“Euphoria”), Julia Garner (“Ozark”), Sarah Snook (“Succession”), Jeremy Pope (“Hollywood) and Ramy Youssef (“Ramy”). But looks can be deceiving because there are several Emmy veterans in their 70s, 80s and even 90s nipping at these whippersnappers’ heels in the quest for the gold statute.

Cicely Tyson is the oldest acting Emmy nominee at 95. She’s nominated for the fifth time for guest role in a drama series as Ophelia Harkness on ABC’s “How to Get Away with Murder” and is also being inducted into the academy Hall of Fame. Tyson, a Tony (“A Trip to Bountiful”) and honorary Oscar-winner, has been nominated for the Emmy 16 times, winning three: for lead in a drama and actress of the year for CBS’ 1974 “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” and supporting actress in a miniseries or...

Exclusive: The Telluride Film Festival was expected to start next week on September 3 and play, as usual, all through the Labor Day weekend. Sadly, the coronavirus pandemic curtailed those plans and the festival was forced to cancel this year’s edition. However, Telluride did put out the schedule of films that had been selected, and on September 11 will host a “drive-in” screening at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena of the new Fox Searchlight film, Nomadland starring Frances McDormand directed by Chloe Zhao. And they actively hope that some of the other films on their list find an audience, and in some cases even distribution in order to find that audience.

I caught one of those films, the fascinating new documentary Dear Mr. Brody, which was to have had its world premiere at Telluride and was planning to use that showcase to entice buyers. Cinetic is selling it and is just...

There have been many notable celebrities turning 80 this summer, and with Martin Sheen as the next big star to exit his 70s, fans of the veteran actor have been honoring his many memorable roles on social media. From big name movies like Apocalypse Now to roles in hit shows like The West Wing, Sheen has proven himself to be one of the best of his craft through these unforgettable performances and his many accolades. With such great respect for the actor, social media has been filling up with posts paying tribute to him on his special day, also honoring his work as an activist in addition to his impressive filmography.

"Pleased to say I was once arrested with Martin Sheen, while protesting nuclear testing on Shoshone land. Happy 80th birthday, you handsome rabble rouser!" tweets author T. Thorn Coyle. "Martin Sheen has been arrested more than 60 times for acts of civil disobedience.

AMC Theatres and Universal’s new deal allowing films to be released for video on-demand after just 17 days in theaters could not only help both theaters and studios but also completely overhaul the business model the film industry has run on for decades. But that depends on how the rest of Hollywood responds to it — which so far remains unclear.

“In an era of increasing competition from a growing number of streaming options, we continue to believe exhibitors need to evolve and become increasingly flexible with not only the movie-going environment they provide to consumers, but also with the windowing options they provide to studios,” B. Riley Fbr analyst Eric Wold wrote in a note to clients. “While this agreement is only between AMC and Universal, we would not be surprised to see other ‘option’ agreements entered into between the remainder of the major studios and the leading exhibition chains...

Season 2 of His Dark Materials will feature the talents of someone who’s been Superman’s (kinda) dad and also one of his greatest enemies.

Terrence Stamp, who voiced Jor-El in Smallville and played General Zod in the Superman films, has signed on to portray Giacomo Paradisi in the HBO series. As readers of Philip Pullman’s book trilogy know, Paradisi shows up in the novel series’ second installment, The Subtle Knife, as the onetime bearer of the titular weapon.

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Skin: A History Of Nudity In The Movies , Available On Demand August 18th, explores the history of nudity in film, beginning with the silent movie era through present day. The film features revealing interviews with actors including Pam Grier and Malcolm McDowellas well as directors Peter Bogdanovich, Kevin Smithand Amy Heckerling. Check out this trailer:

A definitive documentary on the history of nudity in the movies, beginning with the silent movie era through present day, examining the changes in morality that led to the use of nudity in films while emphasizing the political, sociological and artistic changes that shaped this rich history.

Skin: A History Of Nudity In The Movies delves into the gender bias concerning nudity in motion pictures and will follow the revolution that has pushed for gender equality in feature films today. A deep discussion of pre-code Hollywood and its amoral roots, the censorship that...

Netflix has renewed “The Kominsky Method” for a third and final season.

The Chuck Lorre comedy-drama series stars Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin as aging actor Sandy Kominsky and his longtime agent, Norman Newlander, respectively.

“The Kominsky Method has been a true passion project for me and it’s been an incredible experience to see the warm response from both audiences and critics. I’m excited to wrap up the story with this final chapter,” Lorre said.

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The half-hour single-camera comedy is created by Lorre, an eight-time Emmy nominee and creator of “The Big Bang Theory” and “Two and a Half Men.”

Lorre, Douglas and Al Higgins executive produce the series, with Chuck Lorre Productions, Inc. producing in association with Warner Bros. Television.

The series, which debuted in 2018, won a Golden Globe for Best Television...

With readers turning to their home viewing options more than ever, this daily feature provides one new movie each day worth checking out on a major streaming platform.

When Steven Lisberger first conceived of what would become his 1982 film “Tron,” the fledgling filmmaker had a startling vision of the future: an animated feature that could explore the world of early video games like “Pong” in the kind of detail not yet available for live-action moviemaking. With producing partner Donald Kushner — with whom he’d made the 90-minute Olympics-themed animated feature “Animalympics” — Lisberger set up an animation shop to bring “Tron” to fruition. However, they eventually decided to explore the story through a blend of live-action footage and computer animated sequences.

It wasn’t exactly an appealing idea to the studio system, because Lisberger and Kushner weren’t just angling to create a new cinematic world from scratch; they also wanted...

With readers turning to their home viewing options more than ever, this daily feature provides one new movie each day worth checking out on a major streaming platform.

Long before the immediacy of the internet and its attendant social media platforms, impotent rage and loose-lipped hatred had another home in America: talk radio. While the form itself isn’t dead — look no further than the continued popularity of everyone from Howard Stern to Glenn Beck — the world has many other more enticing outlets for emotional release. But the underlying desire for unfettered, rage-fueled outbursts remains, and Oliver Stone’s searing 1988 drama “Talk Radio” (sandwiched between his better-known hits “Wall Street” and “Born on the Fourth of July”) helps explain the market for unfiltered voices in whatever form they take.

The movie stars Eric Bogosian, who adapted his own stage play of the same name alongside Stone — and that history comes...

In a recent open forum, some financial analysts discussed the possibility that Disney might cancel the theatrical release of its upcoming live-action adaptation of the 1998 animated classic Mulan.

One Wall Street veteran named Michael Nathanson, who has invested quite a bit of money in the Mouse House over the years, believed it made more sense for Disney to release their hotly-anticipated tentpole on their freshly-launched streaming service instead. The decision to switch to a VOD release plan, he argued, would not only allow more people to enjoy the film, but also give Disney+ a strategic advantage over its competitors.

Disney originally planned to bring out Mulan in March, but has since pushed back the film’s release to July 24th, a date which they have refused to tinker with since. Whether the movie will actually premiere on this date, however, depends on the state of the nation. Although several cinemas...

From the people that brought you Pandemic Parade chapters 1-8, comes yet another thrilling episode featuring Jesse V. Johnson, Casper Kelly, Fred Dekker, Don Coscarelli, Daniel Noah, Elijah Wood and Blaire Bercy.

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Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Wondrous Story of Birth a.k.a. The Birth of Triplets (1950)

Contagion (2011)

The Omega Man (1971)

Panic In The Streets (1950)

The Last Man On Earth (1964)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Fantastic Voyage (1966)

Innerspace (1987)

The Howling (1981)

The Invisible Man (2020)

The Sand Pebbles (1966)

Where Eagles Dare (1969)

Planet of the Apes (1968)

Goldfinger (1964)

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965)

Murder On The Orient Express (1974)

Dr. No (1962)

From Russia With Love (1963)

Bellman and True (1987)

Brimstone and Treacle (1982)

Richard III (1995)

Titanic (1997)

Catch 22 (1970)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)

The Graduate (1967)

1941 (1979)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Jaws (1975)

The Fortune (1975)

Carnal Knowledge (1970)

Manhattan...

Recently, Buzz Bingo conducted an exhaustive study where they painstakingly measured the number of times an actor has uttered swear words on film. The results placed Samuel L. Jackson, the actor most famous for playing foul-mouthed characters, at the number three spot, with Leonardo Dicaprio at number two and Jonah Hill taking the top spot. Hill was so overjoyed by the findings that he celebrated his victory with an Instagram post.

"So many people to thank. @martinscorsese_ thanks for pushing me over the edge. And of course the great @samuelljackson . Humbled. (Also "new report"? Lol what team of scientists cracked this one?). Lots of love."

The fact that Hill beats Samuel L. Jackson may surprise many. After all, Jackson has been swearing in films all the way back in the eighties and nineties, when Hill was a mere slip of a boy. Jackson's swagger in his delivery of various profanities...

Endeavor has arranged a $260 million term loan to help get the company through the coronavirus-driven revenue crisis at the same time that it launches a broad cost-cutting initiative.

News of the loan was first reported Monday by the Wall Street Journal. Endeavor has been known to be looking for financial alternatives since last fall when the parent of Ufc, Wme, Img and other entities was forced to table its planned Ipo.

The extraordinary Covid-19 lockdowns brought the curtain down on sports, concerts, festivals and other live event businesses that are central to Endeavor’s businesses. The shutdown of film and TV production and music touring also promises to be a hardship for Wme and Img.

The Journal reported that the new loan is a supplement to an existing $2.8 billion term loan. Endeavor’s credit rating has been downgraded in recent weeks by Moody’s Investors Service and S&p Global...

Dish Network had a record net loss of 413,000 paid subscribers in the first quarter of 2020. That’s worse than the net loss of 259,000 subs in Q1 2019.

“The Covid-19 pandemic caused severe disruption in certain commercial segments served by Dish, including the hospitality and airline industries,” the company said Thursday morning in its earnings release.

Dish closed the first quarter with 11.32 million pay-tv subscribers. Breaking down that total further, 9.01 million were Dish TV subs and 2.31 million were Sling TV subs.

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For Q1 2019, Dish reported it had 12.063 million total pay-tv subscribers. That year-ago number broke down to 9.639 million Dish TV subs and 2.424 million Sling TV subs. At the end of 2019’s fiscal year Dish had 11.99 million pay-tv subs. Of those, 9.40 million came from Dish TV and the remaining 2.59 million came from Sling.

This time around, Dish’s...

Exclusive: Following yesterday’s flurry of dramatic exchanges involving AMC, the National Association of Theater Owners and Universal, Regal Entertainment owner Cineworld Group has now added its voice to the chorus of windows controversy surrounding Trolls World Tour. The world’s second biggest circuit says its policy with respect to the window “is clear, well known in the industry and is part of our commercial deal with our movie suppliers… We make it clear again that we will not be showing movies that fail to respect the windows.” Cineworld also calls Universal’s decision to opt for a Pvod release on the DreamWorks Animation sequel, “completely inappropriate,” adding that it “certainly has nothing to do with good faith business practice, partnership and transparency.” (See full statement below.)

Cineworld CEO Mooky Greidinger had previously been outspoken to Deadline about the Hollywood major’s move.

Today’s news comes after AMC boss...

Tensions rise over threat to theatrical exclusivity model.

April 28 Evening Update: An extraordinary war of words broke out on Tuesday night (April 28) after AMC Theatres said it will not carry Universal films following comments earlier in the day by NBCUniversal head Jeff Shell in light of the premium VOD release of Trolls World Tour.

The AMC riposte prompted a reply from Universal in which it affirmed its belief in the theatrical experience and also said it will release films on premium VOD when it made sense, further expressing disappointment in a ”seemingly coordinated attempt from AMC and Nato to confuse our position and our actions.

Update: Universal released the following statement in response to AMC’s letter.

“Our goal in releasing ‘Trolls: World Tour’ on Pvod was to deliver entertainment to people who are sheltering at home, while movie theatres and other forms of outside entertainment are unavailable. Based on the enthusiastic response to the film, we believe we made the right move. In fact, given the choice of not releasing ‘Trolls: World Tour,’ which would not only have prevented consumers from experiencing the movie but also negatively impacted our partners and employees, the decision was clear.

Our desire has always been to efficiently deliver entertainment to as wide an audience as possible. We absolutely believe in the theatrical experience and have made no statement to the contrary. As we stated earlier, going forward, we expect to release future films directly to theatres, as well as on Pvod when that distribution outlet makes sense. We...