| | | | What's news: Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan took home the top prize at the DGAs. Avatar 2 is officially the No. 3 movie of all time at the global box office. CNN's Don Lemon is taking Monday off following his comments about Nikki Haley. Netflix renews Outer Banks. — Abid Rahman |
BAFTA Awards 2023 ►🏆 Wunderbar! 🏆 All Quiet on the Western Front made good on its record number of BAFTA nominations with a major haul of wins at the film awards ceremony on Sunday night. At London’s Royal Festival Hall, Netflix’s German anti-war epic took the BAFTAs for best film, alongside best adapted screenplay and best director, and hoovered up most of the craft honors for a total of seven gongs (a BAFTA record for a film not in the English language). The winners.
—"Every time he does one of these new stunts it does feel like an ad for Scientology." Judd Apatow let loose on Tom Cruise during his DGA Awards monologue on Saturday night, roasting the superstar on everything from his height to his commitment to Scientology. Apatow, hosting the award show for the fourth time, started off the bit by teasing that the “visual effects in Maverick were so top-notch I couldn’t even see the stack of phone books Tom Cruise sat on to reach the flight controls.” The monologue.
—🏆 Pax Daniels 🏆 Everything Everywhere All at Once directors Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan took home the top prize at the DGAs. Aftersun director Charlotte Wells and Euphoria director Sam Levinson were also among Saturday night's big winners. The winners.
—🏆 ADG has its say 🏆 Babylon, Everything Everywhere All at Once and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery won the live-action feature prizes at the 27th annual Art Directors Guild Excellence in Production Design Awards, which were handed out Saturday night at the InterContinental Hotel Los Angeles Downtown Hotel. The winners. |
'Ant-Man 3' Zooms to Big $118M Opening ►Take that haters. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, the third film in Marvel Studios' stand-alone superhero series, is headed for a franchise-best domestic debut of $118m at the Presidents' Day box office, including $104m for the three days. Estimates will be updated on Monday morning. Overseas, Ant-Man 3 collected $121.3m for an early global start of $238.3m. One sore spot was China, where the movie collected a tepid $19.2m, far less than the previous two installments.
THR's Pamela McClintock writes that in North America, when comparing like-for-like three-day numbers, Ant-Man 3 opened an impressive 37 percent ahead of the last film despite poor reviews and a poor B CinemaScore from audiences. The box office report.
—Jimmy eats world records. Avatar: The Way of Water has officially edged out Titanic at the global box office with $2.243b in global ticket sales to become the No. 3 movie of all time, not adjusted for inflation. James Cameron, who directed both films, lays claim to three of the four top-grossing movies in history. The box office report. |
Tom Sizemore Hospitalized in Critical Condition ►"It’s a wait-and-see situation." Saving Private Ryan actor Tom Sizemore has been hospitalized following a brain aneurysm, his spokesperson told THR. Sizemore was found at his Los Angeles home Sunday around 2 a.m. unconscious after he had collapsed following the medical emergency. After he was found, the actor was transported to an L.A. hospital, where he is now currently under observation in the intensive care unit. Sizemore’s rep says his family is “aware and waiting for updates.” The story.
—"Multiple Fox hosts seem to see telling the truth as a potentially existential threat." John Oliver took Fox News Channel to the mat on Sunday night during the 10th-season premiere of Last Week Tonight. At the top of his HBO talk show, which has been on hiatus since November, Oliver brought up the court filings that were made public last week in a $1.6b defamation lawsuit against Fox News related to the 2020 election fraud claims. The story.
—"I didn’t expect anyone to pay attention to it." Evangeline Lilly said she weighed whether to post photos of herself at an anti-vaxx rally knowing it would be controversial, but that Marvel has taken the stance that it’s “not for us to tell you how to live your life.” In a new interview, the Ant-Man 3 star spoke more broadly about her conflicted relationship with celebrity, including feelings amid #MeToo that she had “become a misogynist to survive misogyny,” why she’s never "felt lonelier in Hollywood than I do now." The story.
—Lying low. Don Lemon is taking Monday off following remarks he made about Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley that he later apologized for. The CNN This Morning anchor decided to take Presidents' Day off from work, according to a person familiar with the situation, who added that it was not pre-planned prior to the events of last week but was related to the holiday. Lemon also had the day off Friday, but that had been scheduled before Thursday’s on-air comments that landed him in hot water. The story.
—One for all the Ryans out there. Netflix has renewed Outer Banks for a fourth season. The pickup arrives as the series, about the treasure-hungry group of friends known as the Pogues, is set to launch its third season Feb. 23. The news was revealed in a surprise announcement by the show’s cast at a live fan event called Poguelandia in Huntington Beach, California. The story. |
Richard Belzer 1944 - 2023 ►Munch forever. Richard Belzer, the beloved comedian who began as an edgy stand-up performer before finding further fame as the cynical but stalwart detective John Munch on Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, has died. He was 78. Belzer died early Sunday at his home in Bozouls in southwest France, writer Bill Scheft, a longtime friend of the actor, told THR. “He had lots of health issues, and his last words were, ‘Fuck you, motherfucker,'” Scheft said. The obituary.
—"Godspeed Belz." Mariska Hargitay, Ice-T, Christopher Meloni, Laraine Newman and Billy Crystal were among the Hollywood notables paying tribute to Richard Belzer on Sunday. The reaction.
—Prolific lenser. Oliver Wood, whose work as a cinematographer included such big-budget action films as The Bourne Identity and two of its sequels, along with studio comedies like Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, has died. He was 80. Wood died Monday, Feb. 13, surrounded by loved ones at his Hollywood home following a battle with cancer, his agent Ann Murtha told THR. The obituary.
—One of Australia's most commercially successful filmmakers. George Trumbull Miller, the director of The Man From Snowy River and The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter, has died of a heart attack. He was 79. The Aussie director rose to prominence in the 1980s with his massive hit The Man From Snowy River, starring Kirk Douglas. To this day, the Western still has a place on Australia’s list of top 20 grossing films of all time in unadjusted terms. The obituary.
—Iconic. Gerald Fried, the Oscar-nominated, oboe-playing composer who created iconic gladiatorial fight music for the original Star Trek series and collaborated with Quincy Jones to win an Emmy for their theme to the landmark miniseries Roots, has died. He was 95. Fried died Friday of pneumonia at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Bridgeport, Connecticut, his wife, Anita Hall, told THR. The obituary. |
TV Review: 'The Company You Keep' ►"Chemistry between the leads carries the show past a clunky opening." THR's chief TV critic Dan Fienberg reviews ABC's The Company You Keep. A con artist (Milo Ventimiglia) links up with a CIA agent (Catherine Haena Kim) in this romantic/odd-couple series, based on a South Korean show. The review.
—"Admirable in intention but comes up short in execution." THR's chief film critic David Rooney reviews Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping's Femme. Transphobia and homophobia, both overt and internalized, ripple through the relationship dynamics of this queer revenge noir starring George MacKay and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. The review.
—"Truth is terrifying." David reviews Tina Satter's Reality. Starring Sydney Sweeney, the filmmaker's feature debut is a mesmerizing adaptation of her play Is This a Room, documenting events culminating in the arrest of whistleblower Reality Winner. The review.
—"Claire Denis called: She wants her dance-climax back." THR film critic Leslie Felperin reviews Giacomo Abbruzzese's Disco Boy. Rising German star Franz Rogowski plays a soldier in the French Foreign Legion who meets a rebel in the Niger Delta, with deadly results. The review.
—"Inert drama boosted by a great actress." THR's Jordan Mintzer reviews Margarethe von Trotta's Ingeborg Bachmann — Journey Into the Desert. The German director portrays the tumultuous love affair the Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann (Vicky Krieps) had with Swiss playwright Max Frisch. The review.
—"Slay mama." Jordan reviews Byun Sung-hyun's Kill Boksoon. Jeon Do-yeon (The Housemaid) stars in this action-packed Netflix feature as a kickass assassin who’s also a concerned mother. The review.
In other news...
—Rebel Wilson gets engaged to Ramona Agruma at Disneyland
—Meta to test verified subscription service for Facebook and Instagram
What else we're reading...
—Ashley Lee looks at how The Last of Us created Jackson, a "miracle" settlement of the Old West [LAT]
—Amid news of a Fawlty Towers reboot, Peter Aspden wonders if the 1970s classic will offend modern sensitivities or just fail to be funny [FT]
—Karen Weise and Cade Metz report that Microsoft is considering more limits for its new A.I. chatbot [NYT]
—A fed up Bilge Ebiri believes that Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is a cry for help [Vulture]
—Charles Kaiser writes that the Dominion Voting Systems filing proves Fox News was "deliberately lying" [Guardian]
Today...
...in 1941, Alfred Hitchcock took a detour from mystery films and opened his comedy Mr. and Mrs. Smith at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The original review.
Today's birthdays: Rihanna (35), Trevor Noah (39), Miles Teller (36), Jason Blum (54), Mike Leigh (80), Brenda Blethyn (77), Cindy Crawford (57), Jay Hernandez (45), Olivia Rodrigo (20), Chelsea Peretti (45), Anthony Head (69), Ron Eldard (58), Lili Taylor (56), Jocko Sims (42), French Stewart (59), David Herman (56), Anjli Mohindra (33), Jennifer O'Neill (75), Majandra Delfino (42), Andrew Shue (56), Ric Roman Waugh (55), Daniella Pineda (36), Andrea Savage (50), Lauren Ambrose (45), Tracy Spiridakos (35), Jack Falahee (34), Michael Zegen (44), Jay Hayden (44), Sarah Hadland (52), Rodney Rowland (59) |
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