‘The Titan Games’ hails from the producers of ‘American Ninja Warrior.’ Dwayne Johnson had a surprise announcement late Super Bowl Sunday. The actor and producer, ahead of his appearance on The Tonight Show, announced that he was teaming with NBC for unscripted series The Titan Games. Johnson will host and executive produce the 10-episode unscripted…
February 05, 2018
Alen Drljevic’s ‘Men Don’t Cry,’ about the traumas suffered by Yugoslav war vets, won the first-ever best international film honor. Amateurs, the second feature film from Swedish director Gabriela Pichler (Eat Sleep Die), has won the Dragon Award for best Nordic film at this year’s Goteborg Film Festival. The prize comes with a cash bursary…
February 05, 2018
Jaz Sinclair will co-star opposite Kiernan Shipka in the Netflix series. Netflix’s forthcoming Sabrina-themed Riverdale spinoff is starting to take shape. Actress Jaz Sinclair (Easy, The Vampire Diaries) has been tapped to co-star opposite leading lady Kiernan Shipka. Picked up with a two-season, straight-to-series order, the untitled Sabrina show reimagines the origin and adventures of the…
February 05, 2018
Nominees in attendance included Meryl Streep, Steven Spielberg, Greta Gerwig and Kobe Bryant. In a way, the annual Oscar Nominees Luncheon is even cooler than the Oscars: Almost all of the nominees show up — 170 this year, ranging from perennials Meryl Streep and Steven Spielberg (best actress and best picture nominees for The Post,…
February 05, 2018
The Oscar-nominated actor will be honored with a selection of his films, including Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Last Temptation of Christ,’ Lars von Trier’s ‘Antichrist’ and Oliver Stone’s ‘Platoon.’ Three-time Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe will receive this year’s honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement at the Berlin International Film Festival. The veteran actor, who picked up…
February 06, 2018
Rich Polk/Getty Images for Disney The veteran composer received his 51st nomination (the most by any living person) for the score to Rian Johnson’s space epic. Williams, 85, has won the Oscar five times — for Fiddler on the Roof, Jaws, Star Wars: A New Hope, E.T. and Schindler’s List. He has worked on every Star Wars movie (two years ago he was…
February 06, 2018
Shania Twain, the late Gord Downie and Shawn Mendes are among other multiple nominees for Canada’s version of the Grammys. Indie rockers Arcade Fire and newcomer Jessie Reyez on Tuesday snagged a field-leading four nominations each for the Juno music awards, Canada’s version of the Grammys. Rising singer-songwriter Reyez pulled in nods in the Juno…
February 06, 2018
Queer Eye was never supposed to be a hit. When the reality TV show about five gay New Yorkers (the “Fab Five”) who revamp the fashion, homes and wine cabinets of heterosexual men debuted on July 15, 2003, many people tagged it as a niche production. At the time, queer people were virtually absent from…
February 06, 2018