2021 Is a Year for Betting on Long Shots in Awards Race

Bad Bunny makes his way down the red carpet while arriving at the 2021 Grammy Awards on Sunday (March 14) in downtown Los Angeles.

rd Grammy Awards are being held this weekend, on Sunday 14 March. Some of the world’s biggest artists are nominated and will also perform on the night, including Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Cardi B and BTS.

Eurovision 2021, despite being in line to do so following the 2020 event’s cancellation.In a statement shared on social media, the band said that there are many acts in Russia that deserve “the chance to be seen”.“We think that Russia has many talented and unique artists, each one of them deserves the chance to be seen out there,” the band wrote on Instagram.“Thanks to our Russian fans and all the international fans for showing support, it means the world to us!”A post shared by LITTLE BIG

awards season like no other. Thanks to the pandemic, the usual programme of star-studded ceremonies - kicking off with the Golden Globes and culminating in the Oscars - incredible red carpet fashion and international party-hopping has been suspended.

EXCLUSIVE: Famke Janssen (When They See Us) is set to recur opposite Rose Rollins, Josh Lucas and Jeff Schine in Long Slow Exhale, Spectrum Originals’ upcoming drama series from L.A. Finest‘s Pam Veasey, Anton Cropper and John Dove and Paramount TV Studios. After a nine-month exclusive run on Spectrum, the series will air with a second window on BET.

rd Grammy Awards are being held this weekend, on Sunday 14 March. Some of the world’s biggest artists are nominated and will also perform on the night, including Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Cardi B and BTS.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentThe Berlin Film Festival’s European Film Market had a successful 2021 online edition with the participation of 12,000 attendees from 131 countries. The industry event, which took place March 1-5, gathered 504 exhibitors — 215 of which were newcomers at EFM — from 60 countries.

Rock In Rio‘s 2021 Lisbon and Brazil festivals have both been cancelled.After the coronavirus pandemic forced the cancellation of both events last year, the global health crisis has once again prompted Rock In Rio’s organisers to act.In a statement the organisers of the 2021 Lisbon edition of Rock In Rio explained that despite studying various scenarios, setting up task forces and rigorously discussing health and safety measures over the past 11 months, there are “no guarantees that in June the

EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Schine (SEAL Team) is set as a series regular opposite Rose Rollins and Josh Lucas in Long Slow Exhale, Spectrum Originals’ upcoming drama series from L.A. Finest‘s Pam Veasey, Anton Cropper and John Dove and Paramount TV Studios. After a nine-month exclusive run on Spectrum, the series will air with a second window on BET.

Hungary’s most recent contribution to the implacable flow of war films pouring out of Eastern Europe is a far cry from the Russian tank operas and spectacular disaster films like Battle of Leningrad. Denes Nagy’s sensitive first featureNatural Light (Termeszetes feny), bowing in Berlin competition, is the opposite of these: a slow starter high on atmosphere but low on action, whose horrific main event takes place discreetly off-screen.

Chris Willman Music WriterOriginal songs by Black artists with specifically Black themes have only occasionally found their way into contention for the Oscar and Golden Globes races over the past decade. “Glory” by Common and John Legend, from “Selma,” won seven years ago.

Novak Djokovic is a winner.

The group of technology, media and telecom analysts behind research firm LightShed Partners have launched an early-stage investment fund. Through LightShed Ventures, co-founders and general partners Rich Greenfield Walter Piecyk, Brandon Ross and Jamie Roberts Seltzer will invest $75 million in the seed and series A funding rounds for TMT startups.