EXCLUSIVE: Sky, Warner Music Entertainment and Screen Scotland are collaborating on a feature doc profiling the unique legacy of Scottish funk sensation Average White Band, with Warner taking North American distribution.
18.06.2024 - 03:07 / variety.com
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender.
As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.
Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below: OSCARS | EMMYS | GRAMMYS | TONYS Weekly Commentary (Updated: June 17, 2024): In 2022, the TV Academy had a record in supporting drama actor submissions with 436. Coming off of 2023’s 346 names, we find ourselves sitting with 217 contenders in the awards discussion, compared to supporting drama actress with 196.
That will deliver seven nominees in each category. Both categories have multiple candidates from the same shows, such as “The Crown” (Khalid Abdalla, Salim Daw, Jonathan Pryce, Elizabeth Debicki, Lesley Manville, Olivia Williams) and “The Morning Show” (Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Jon Hamm, Greta Lee, Audra McDonald, Julianna Margulies, Holland Taylor and Karen Pittman).
Let’s not forget the largest ensemble ever to garner a SAG nomination, HBO’s period drama “The Gilded Age,” which had planned on submitting 13 supporting players but ended up with only five on the ballot (Ben Ahlers, Nathan Lane, Robert Sean Leonard, Blake Ritson and John Douglas Thompson). FX’s “Shо̄gun” has an embarrassment of riches led by Tadanobu Asano and the possibility for two of his co-stars to come in
.EXCLUSIVE: Sky, Warner Music Entertainment and Screen Scotland are collaborating on a feature doc profiling the unique legacy of Scottish funk sensation Average White Band, with Warner taking North American distribution.
Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Jessica Alba, Lily Gladstone, Greta Lee, Catherine O’Hara, and S.S. Rajamouli, director of “RRR,” are among the 487 artists and executives invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Naman Ramachandran Disney’s “Inside Out 2” added a further £7.7 million ($9.8 million) in its second weekend at the U.K. and Ireland box office, remaining in pole position, according to numbers from Comscore. The smash hit sequel now has a running tally of £23.2 million.
Love Island star Callum Jones has revealed he's now dating a stunning model in one what some fans dubbed a "soft launch" of their relationship.The 28-year-old star dropped a series of clanging hints he's loved-up with Myna Amor by inserting pictures of her hand and back in several pictures - with her doing exactly the same. It comes months after Callum won Love Island alongside Jessica Gale, 24, with the pair taking second place after he failed to couple up with his ex Molly Smith, who were together for three and a half years.
Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to see action, and he is not talking about the movies. Schwarzenegger was talking about climate change and said it is time for the talking stop and for there to be concrete solutions.
Jon Hamm has revealed that he become a mentor to James Gandolfini’s son following the Sopranos star’s sudden death.Gandolfini died of a heart attack in 2013 at the age of 51. His son Michael was 14 years old at the time.Now, in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Hamm has revealed that Michael “reached out” to him when the actor died, due to encouragement from his father.“He said, ‘My dad told me that you were a good guy,'” explained Hamm, noting that he was emotional about the interaction.
Jon Hamm is opening up about the possibility of starting a family.
Tyler, The Creator has pulled out of both Lollapalooza and Outside Lands and has been replaced by Megan Thee Stallion and Sabrina Carpenter.The ‘Earfquake’ rapper took to his official X/Twitter account to announce that he will no longer be able to perform at the festivals. “I hate saying this but I have to cancel lollapalooza and outside lands,” began his tweet.He continued: “I made a commitment that I can no longer keep, and that bums me out knowing how excited folks were.
Kate Aurthur administrator Noah Hawley’s anthology series “Fargo” premiered on FX in 2014, and has proven to be an exceptional showcase for actors — as well as for Hawley to expand upon the ideas within Joel and Ethan Coen’s Oscar-nominated film of the same name. In 1996’s “Fargo” movie, Jerry, a hapless Minnesotan car dealer played by William H.
“Mad Men” star Jon Hamm no longer wants to be your leading man—or at least, that’s the title of a new Hollywood Reporter story on the actor and where he’s at with his career. While Hamm didn’t necessarily go away in the ensuing years after “Mad Men,” he apparently was offered a lot and was picky about it.
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events.
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events.
Although it took Nathan Lane nearly a decade to publicly embrace his truth, he had some great allies behind the scenes.
Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Jeremy Tepper, a musician, journalist, executive, program director of SiriusXM’s “Outlaw Country” channel and for decades a leading light of the Americana/ alt-country movement, died Friday of a heart attack. Singer Laura Cantrell, Tepper’s wife of 27 years, confirmed the news on social media. He was 60.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jon Stewart continues to open up about his split from Apple after parting ways with the tech giant after hosting two seasons of “The Problem.” Stewart debuted the talk show in 2021 as part of a multi-year first-look deal with Apple. The first season of the show aired episodes every two weeks, while the second season switched to a weekly format. The streamer confirmed last October that Stewart’s program would not return.
Portraits, a new production from the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington debuting at the Kennedy Center on June 16, is not that. It is so absolutely not that.Portraits is a grand creation years in the making. How many? By one count, four, going back to 2020 when longtime GMCW singing member Bill Lipsett brought an idea, along with funding, to the chorus.
Paul Weller has spoken about his 14 years of sobriety, saying he never wanted to “cross a line at a certain age” and become “just another old drunk”.The Modfather released his 17th solo album, ’66’ on May 24 – the day before his 66th birthday. He recently talked about how getting older had made him more “experimental” and “open-minded”.And now he has spoken to The Big Issue about overcoming what he believes was his “alcoholism”, following an ultimatum from his wife Hannah Andrews in 2010.“Everything changed when I stopped drinking. It’s like night and day, it really is,” he said.“First two years were hard.
The Liverpool legend and former Match of the Day pundit Alan Hansen is seriously ill in hospital, his former club has announced. The Scotsman, aged 69, is in hospital in a serious condition.
Brent Lang Executive Editor When Michael Angarano was trying to get “Sacramento,” his indie buddy comedy about two friends who go on a road trip to a certain state capital off the ground, the question he’d get was always the same. Does it really need to be set in Sacramento? “At one point we were ready to shoot the movie in Atlanta — we had the financing and everything,” remembers Angarano, who directed the film, as well as co-wrote it. “And this was for a movie called ‘Sacramento.’ But it’s like why try to cheat it? Maybe, we should we just call it ‘Athens’ or ‘Savannah’?” And even though Angarano and his co-writer Chris Smith weren’t that familiar with the city that inspired their film, its appearance on a highway sign, informing them of the California city’s distance from Los Angeles, was foundational.
At the Tribeca world premiere of Brats, actor-turned-director Andrew McCarthy said the Brat Pack Label, which he had “received as horrible,” turned into a “blessing.”