EXCLUSIVE: Hercules Film Fund and Rhea Films have closed a deal to finance and produce a feature-length version of Power Signal — the sci-fi short from Oscar Boyson that had its world premiere in Sundance’s Midnight Shorts section last Friday.
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Adam Sandler nudged out Tom Cruise, Ana de Armas and Eddie Redmayne got in while “The Fabelmans” stars Michelle Williams and Judd Hirsh did not and “Babylon” and “Women Talking” were nominated as the year’s best ensemble even though neither film received a single individual acting nomination. Such were the vagaries of the 29th annual Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, which were announced on Wednesday morning in a ramshackle Instagram Live presentation by Ashley Park and Haley Lu Richardson.In most cases, the 2,000-plus randomly-selected SAG members who made up the film and television nominating committees stuck to the favorites: Austin Butler, Colin Farrell, Brendan Fraser, Cate Blanchett and Michelle Yeoh in the lead categories, Brendan Gleeson, Ke Huy Quan, Angela Bassett, Kerry Condon, Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu in supporting and “Babylon,” “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “The Fabelmans” and “Women Talking” in the ensemble category.If there were surprises in the film categories, they were that a pair of Netflix stars, Sandler and de Armas, crashed the top five.
Sandler was up against Cruise and the “Top Gun: Maverick” juggernaut, though that was hardly considered an actors’ movie, while de Armas gave a well-received performance as Marilyn Monroe in a movie, “Blonde,” that was widely panned.Then again, so was “Babylon,” which now has the look of a true awards contender after its ensemble nomination, its negative reviews notwithstanding.SAG is the first of the four major Hollywood guilds to chime in with its film nominations, with the Directors Guild due later on Wednesday, the Producers Guild coming on Thursday, Jan. 12 and the Writers Guild announcing on Jan.
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.EXCLUSIVE: Hercules Film Fund and Rhea Films have closed a deal to finance and produce a feature-length version of Power Signal — the sci-fi short from Oscar Boyson that had its world premiere in Sundance’s Midnight Shorts section last Friday.
Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston are back for another raucous, deadly adventure in “Murder Mystery 2.”Netflix dropped the first trailer to the anticipated sequel on Monday, showcasing a new murder mystery after Sandler’s Nick and Aniston’s Audrey are invited to a private island for a wedding – with fatal results.“We’re not gonna be invited anywhere ever again,” Aniston quips in the trailer. Per an official synopsis from Netflix, the film takes four years after the action of “Murder Mystery.”“Nick and Audrey Spitz (Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston) are now full-time detectives struggling to get their private eye agency off the ground when they’re invited to celebrate the wedding of their friend the Maharaja (Adeel Akhtar) on his private island,” the release reads.
It’s deux or die – they’re joke, not ours – with the new trailer for Murder Mystery 2, the Netflix sequel that pairs Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston as the married couple with a knack for sleuthing and trouble.
If we’re going to look at pioneers in the streaming space, while we want to namecheck David Fincher who took “House Of Cards” to Netflix in 2013—one of the first big A-list talent milestones in the streaming era—not far behind him has to be comedian Adam Sandler. When Netflix started hyper analyzing its data in the early 2010s, its algorithms told them that Sandler’s movies were super popular globally.
Manifesting his success. Austin Butler spoke his Oscar nomination into existence — and his former costar and good friend Ashley Tisdale has the receipts to prove it.
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Paul Mescal has been nominated for Best Actor for playing a Scots dad in the film Aftersun. The Irishman is up against the likes of Austin Butler and Colin Farrell.
Elvis scooped up eight Oscar nominations on Tuesday, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Austin Butler in the title role. The good news dovetailed neatly with the birthday of director Baz Luhrmann’s wife and producing partner Catherine Martin, and their wedding anniversary, and yet tragically, it also comes just two days after the pair attended the funeral service for Elvis Presley’s daughter Lisa Marie Presley.
CNN has obtained the exclusive rights to show the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, this year honoring Adam Sandler.
Netflix has unveiled its 2023 feature film slate, consisting of 49 titles.
Colin Farrell may have won one chase on Tuesday night — but another seemed to just be getting started!
Blonde, de Armas kept her glam classic with a sleek blowout and a juicy red-pink lip. While promoting Blonde at the Venice Film Festival last year, de Armas paid subtle homage to Monroe, wearing often worn by Hollywood's most famous blonde. At the premiere, de Armas similar to Marilyn's iconic white number from The Seven Year Itch, though de Armas's was a warm pink rather than white. Ana de Armas is nominated for her performance as Monroe in the star's 2022 biopic, based on the novel of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates.