'Judas and the Black Messiah' makes personal impact on cast

LOS ANGELES -- The organization hosting the Golden Globes says it is developing a plan to recruit Black members after falling under sharp criticism for lacking diverse members.The Hollywood Foreign Press Association said in statement Friday that an “action plan” is under development to admit Black members.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterWe knew the 2021 Golden Globes would be a night like no other — and that includes the time-honored tradition of the winners press conference.Usually situated in the cushy back ballrooms of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, where dressed up journalists toss back free diet coke and pasta salad while mingling with publicists and talent, the coronavirus pandemic forced the event to Zoom.Journalists from around the globe brought their best virtual backgrounds

Also Read: Watch Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's Opening Monologue From the Golden Globes (Video)Earlier this week, Time’s Up led Hollywood in criticizing the HFPA after the Los Angeles Times reported that none of the organization’s 87 members are Black, despite the push for diversity in Hollywood since the #OscarsSoWhite campaign launched in 2015.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler! The pair kicked off the 2021 Golden Globes from opposite coasts on Sunday night — and got right down to business. The ladies' bicoastal opening monologue connected Fey in New York with Poehler in Los Angeles.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterWagner Moura has signed on to star opposite Elisabeth Moss in the Apple series “Shining Girls,” Variety has learned.The series is an adaptation of the 2013 Lauren Beukes novel of the same name. Moss plays a Chicago reporter who survived a brutal assault only to find her reality shifting as she hunts down her attacker.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorDave Philips, who played guitar for The Pixies’ Frank Black, The Replacements’ Tommy Stinson, Guided By Voices’ Robert Pollard and others, died Feb. 22 of cancer in Los  Angeles.

This awards season, it's almost as if the movies are having a conversation with one another. The year's pandemic-disrupted release schedule may have resulted in a smaller pool of films entering the conversation, but, to an unusual degree, a number of them overlap, both in theme and sometimes even in particulars, making for a denser and perhaps richer class of awards hopefuls.

Calling him out. Vanessa Bryant slammed Meek Mill’s Kobe Bryant lyrics in an Instagram Story on Monday, February 21. For those who don’t know, Meek came under fire after his song, “Don’t Worry,” leaked in mid-February.

Antonio Ferme editorVanessa Bryant called out rapper Meek Mill over a lyric she found to be highly insensitive regarding her late husband, Kobe Bryant.In the lyrics for an unreleased song titled “Don’t Worry (RIP Kobe),” the rapper referenced the legendary Los Angeles Lakers’ sudden death in a helicopter crash last year.“This bitch I’m fuckin’ always tell me that she love but she ain’t ever showed me,” the lyric read.

Certain things are just off limits, like anything mocking late Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant‘s tragic death in a Jan. 26, 2020 helicopter crash at the age of 41.

Angelique Jackson To capture the essence of Black Panthers leader Fred Hampton, “Judas and the Black Messiah” director Shaka King couldn’t just read a few history books. He had to put boots on the ground.

The Writers Guild of America has announced its nominees in the categories of original, adapted and documentary screenplay for the 2021 WGA Awards. The original screenplay nominees are Judas and the Black Messiah, Palm Springs, Promising Young Woman, Sound of Metal and The Trial of the Chicago 7.

Judas and the Black Messiah and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm are among the films that just earned key screenplay recognition amid the race to the 2021 Oscars. The film nominations for the 2021 Writers Guild Awards were announced on Tuesday, and in the category of Original Screenplay, the nominees were Judas and the Black Messiah, Palm Springs, Promising Young Woman, Sound of Metal, and The Trial of the Chicago 7.

Los Angeles County will again reserve the majority of its available vaccinations again next week to provide second doses for those ready to receive them, with county-operated large-scale sites exclusively administering second doses, health officials said Friday.

Shaka King’s “Judas and the Black Messiah” has arrived at something of a cultural tipping point for Hollywood. Months before the tragedy of George Floyd‘s death or the millions of people marching in the streets for social justice, his period piece about the assassination of a prominent Chicago community leader, Fred Hampton, had wrapped production.

Mike Henry, a USC and NFL linebacker and later an actor in Tarzan movies of the 1960s and the “Smokey and the Bandit” series, has died.