Filmmaker Kelly Reichardt Jokes About A Zoom-Based Oscars Win For ‘First Cow’

Kelly Clarkson to the rescue! America’s Got Talent has found a temporary replacement for judge Simon Cowell after her seriously injured his back in a bike accident.“My friend, Simon Cowell, is doing better now but was in an accident and won’t be able to make Tuesday and Wednesday’s live shows for AGT,” the American Idol winner, 38, tweeted in an “urgent memo” to fans on Monday, August 10.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVSimon Cowell helped jump-start Kelly Clarkson’s career with her win on the first season of American Idol where he was arguably the most influential judge. Now she is returning the favor by filling in for Cowell as a judge on his NBC reality series America’s Got Talent.Clarkson will serve as a guest judge on this Tuesday and Wednesday’s live telecasts of the Terry Crews-hosted AGT, alongside fellow judges Howie Mandel, Heidi Klum and Sofia Vergara.

Staying put! Kellie Pickler and her husband, Kyle Jacobs, are all set as a family of two.“I love being Aunt Kellie and that is perfect for me,” the American Idol alum, 34, exclusively told Us Weekly on Thursday, August 6, while promoting Hallmark’s Shoebox Collection at Walmart during a game of “Quarantine Confessions.” The singer joked that she needed “another drink” to consider expanding her family, asking if the coronavirus baby boom is “really a thing.”The North Carolina native wed her

Leslye Davis, the filmmaker behind recent Netflix documentary Father Solider Son,has signed with UTA in all areas. The Brooklyn-based Davis co-directed, co-produced and served as cinematographer on the doc, her first feature film, which follows one military family over the course of 10 years, becoming an intergenerational exploration of values and American manhood in the aftermath of war.

Keeping it colorful! Kelly Clarkson, Jessica Simpson and more celebrity parents have chosen to dye their children’s hair.The American Idol alum tweeted about her decision in August 2020, writing, “I put a purple streak in my daughter’s hair today and I swear to you she thinks she is as cool as Prince now.

DEALSMojo Music & Media has acquired a 50% stake in the catalogue of Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen. “I’d almost given up on the chance of finding a publisher who actually knew all my songs and had a vision for how to keep them alive for another 1000 years or so”, says Nielsen, not completely understanding how copyright terms work.

Brendan Gleeson transforms into Donald Trump in the first teaser for TV drama The Comey Rule.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Faith-based drama Hunter’s Creed (previously known as Hunting God), starring Duane ‘Dog’ Chapman (Dog The Bounty Hunter), has scored a North American deal with Cinedigm.The story follows a man who loses his wife and reunites with his church buddies to film the hunting show they’ve always wanted to make together. Before long, he senses a dark presence in the woods eventually bringing him face to face with death and his faith.

Kelly Ripa has led the tributes following the death of iconic US TV host, Regis Philbin, who passed away on Friday. The All My Children star took to Instagram to pay tribute to her former co-host, with a joint message from her and her current co-host Ryan Seacrest.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterABC is developing a drama series with both Eva Longoria and Forest Whitaker attached as executive producers.Titled “Chicano,” the series is inspired by the novel of the same name Richard Vasquez. It tells the multi-generational story of the Sandovals, a Mexican-American family that immigrates to Los Angeles in pursuit of the American Dream.

Kelly Clarkson’s estranged husband, Brandon Blackstock, filed a response to the singer’s divorce petition on Tuesday, July 21.According to the court documents obtained by The Blast, the 38-year-old American Idol alum and the 43-year-old manager are on the same page when it comes to the custody of their 5-year-old daughter, River, and 4-year-old son, Remington.

Kelly Clarkson has learned to embrace her body through all of its fluctuations from her debut on American Idol to giving birth to two children.The “Miss Independent” singer was first publicly criticized for her weight when she skyrocketed to fame in 2002 on American Idol season 1.“I was the biggest girl in the [American Idol cast] too,” Clarkson said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2015.

RuPaul’s Drag Race stars are sending messages of support to Chi Chi DeVayne, who has been hospitalised with suspected kidney failure.DeVayne – an American drag queen and reality star – is currently undergoing tests to find out out why her blood pressure is high. She also revealed that she has tested negative for Covid-19.“I have high blood pressure and they’ve said that I’m going through kidney failure,” she told her fans on Instagram.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: British filmmaker Tony Kaye has boarded the civil rights feature drama Civil. Written by Austin Wright and Adam Knox, Civil follows two young men from opposite sides of the racial divide in the months leading up to the movement in 1955, who discover the real meaning of equality, through the ashes of tragedy.Subscribe to Deadline Breaking News Alerts and keep your inbox happy.Signup for Breaking News Alerts & NewslettersGet our

Some spoilers follow for “First Cow.” Kelly Reichardt’s films are chameleons. At first, they seem like romanticized versions of American tropes: the bond between a girl and her dog, in “Wendy and Lucy;” a pair of friends on a camping trip, in “Old Joy;” the pioneering spirit of early settlers, in “Meek’s Cutoff.” But look again, and the deeper emotional truths of these films are revealed: the crippling grip of poverty; the foreign terror of the frontier; the loneliness of adulthood.