How Inauguration Night’s Star-Studded ‘Celebrating America’ Spectacle Came Together in a Pandemic

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThis month’s Chinese New Year holidays will be a litmus test for the strength of China’s film industry recovery following a period of unprecedented turmoil.This time last year, China’s wrecked Spring Festival celebrations were emblematic of the coronavirus crisis that had dramatically engulfed the world’s most populous nation and was soon to become a global pandemic.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorKenny Beecham, best known as YouTube star KOT4Q, is set to premiere a new weekly talk show “Called Game.”Beecham, 24, has teamed with content studio and social media network MALKA and talent management and entertainment company Up North to produce the new series, which will focus on sports, sneaker culture, gaming and more which is set to debut this month on YouTube.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWelcome to this week’s “Just for Variety“…Rupert Grint may have co-starred as Ron Weasley in all eight “Harry Potter” movies, but he hasn’t actually watched most of them. “I’ve probably seen the first three at the premieres, but after that I stopped watching them,” Grint, 32, tells me from his home in the U.K.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Kat Dennings is back as Darcy Lewis. She first played the role as Jane Foster’s assistant in “Thor” and “Thor: The Dark World.”But now she’s Dr.

Get ready for a star-studded history lesson about the most misunderstood amendment in the U.S. Constitution, courtesy of Will Smith.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorNicole Kidman and Donald Sutherland make a good team.In “The Undoing,” Kidman stars as Grace, an Upper East Side therapist whose life unravels when her husband (Hugh Grant) is accused of a grisly murder. Sutherland plays Kidman’s wealthy, stoic father.In one of the HBO series’ most powerful scenes, Kidman and Sutherland discuss Grace’s mother while playing the piano together in the patriarch’s apartment.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorLong before Jo Ellen Pellman was cast in the starring role of Emma in Ryan Murphy’s movie adaptation of “The Prom,” she saw the original production of the Broadway musical.“I’m only 25, yet I still wish I had this story growing up,” Pellman says on Tuesday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.”“The Prom” is about a group of theater stars from New York who try to drum up some positive publicity for themselves by

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorJohn Magaro doesn’t have a lot to say in Kelly Reichardt’s “First Cow.”He stars as Otis “Cookie” Figowitz, the cook to a group of fur catchers in 1820s Oregon, who is befriended by King-Lu, a Chinese immigrant (Orion Lee) on the run for killing a Russian man.His performance, which earned the 37-year-old actor a Gotham Award nomination, is made even quieter because he’s covered by unruly facial hair, a hat and layers of dirt-covered

virtual inaugural concert.Featuring a tailored pant, the suit (reportedly designed by Ralph Lauren) was complete with an undone bowtie, unbuttoned white blouse, T-strap heels and a black mask. Ashley, 39, who is a social worker, polished off her threads with a sleek high ponytail as she danced alongside her parents during the evening’s festivities.Ashley’s statement-making choice was especially impossible to miss among the sea of fabulous frocks in her family photos.Dr.

Now that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been sworn in as president and vice president, the 2021 Presidential Inauguration will wrap up its celebrations with a 90-minute primetime special that will air online and across six TV networks. Hosted by Tom Hanks, Celebrating America will air on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC and the Smithsonian Channel, in addition to streaming on the Presidential Inaugural Committee'sYouTube channel and social media channels.

While the likes of John Legend, Demi Lovato and Bruce Springsteen performed at the Inauguration concert, it was Katy Perry’s apt rendition of her hit Firework performed to a massive firework display that stole the show.

Katy Perry is all social media is talking about following her explosive performance during the Celebrating America television event, which aired on Wednesday night (January 20) from Washington, D.C.

“Good evening America, proud to be here in cold Washington DC,” said Bruce Springsteen tonight kicking off the Celebrating America apogee of today’s unprecedented inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Joe Biden’s inauguration concert, as the first performer in the “Celebrating America” special hosted by Tom Hanks.Accompanied only by a guitar on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial — with the lit National Mall and Washington Monument beckoning in front of him — Springsteen, 71, offered a “small prayer” for the country before serenading with his 1999 song “Land of Hope and Dreams.”Hanks — who along with his wife, Rita Wilson, fought the coronavirus earlier last year — talked of witnessing “deep

Tom Hanks is hosting a presidential celebration in honour of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Eli Countryman Tom Hanks will host the “Celebrating America” inauguration special program following the official transfer of power to President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris.The presidential celebration, which takes place Jan. 20 at 8:30 p.m.

Celebrating America is airing tonight (January 20)!

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorThis ain’t your grandparents’ Avengers.In the new Disney Plus show, “WandaVision,” each episode finds Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) living in different comedy sitcom-inspired worlds, including “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “Bewitiched,” “The Brady Bunch” and more.“There’s a moment in the second episode where we’re trying to sneak away and we’re literally doing sneaking-acting,” Bettany tells Variety.