The Obie Awards, the venerable honors for outstanding Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway productions, is doing away with its annual ceremony and will instead use the funds to provide winners with grants ranging from $1,000-$5,000.
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Michael Nordine author A case study in the downside of timeliness, “Lift” is a caper predicated on a truly ludicrous concept: an NFT increasing in value. That might have seemed plausible two years ago, when Netflix first acquired Daniel Kunka’s spec script, but F. Gary Gray’s followup to “Men in Black: International” has the misfortune of arriving shortly after the vast majority of non-fungible tokens were deemed officially worthless.
Even if the MacGuffin that sets this heist picture in motion were a tangible object, however, “Lift” would suffer from a serious lack of star power at its center: Kevin Hart, who has neither the acting chops nor gravitas to lead such a project — or anything other than broad comedies, it seems. The funnyman is woefully miscast as Cyrus Whitaker, the head of a jet-setting crew of thieves whose suave knowhow makes him ideally suited to work with Interpol on, you guessed it, one last job in order to thwart a terrorist whose own misdeeds make Cyrus look like a boy scout. The international police organization is represented by Abby Gladwell (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), with whom Cyrus happens to have history.
You can likely already guess where most of this is leading. The problem, then, is that the two have no chemistry together, and Mbatha-Raw can’t help upstaging Hart every time they share the screen. His thief-with-a-heart-of-gold routine is meant to slowly win her over — and us as well — but it feels like a put-on from the start.
The Obie Awards, the venerable honors for outstanding Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway productions, is doing away with its annual ceremony and will instead use the funds to provide winners with grants ranging from $1,000-$5,000.
Anna Marie de la Fuente In an exclusive interview with Variety, Ronald Day, Telemundo’s president of entertainment & content strategy, drilled down on what has made action-packed series “Lord of the Skies” (“El Señor de los cielos”), the company’s longest-running Super Series franchise and a bonafide hit. With Season 9 set to premiere Feb.
This Morning's Sian Welby has been named as the 'front runner to take over from Holly Willoughby', after she made her presenting debut on the show on Monday, January 22. Fans of the daytime show will recognise Sian, 37, already, as she's often presented a showbiz segment on the programme and also gave viewers all of the latest I'm A Celebrity gossip from Sian's Shack last year. Despite admitting she was "nervous" at the start of the show, which she presented alongside Dermot O'Leary, Sian smashed her first day on the job, interviewing big celebrities such as actors Austin Butler and Kevin Hart.
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Kevin Hart has told critics of Dave Chappelle to simply not watch the comedian if they don’t find his material funny or entertaining.Both comedians are regular Netflix fixtures, but it’s Chappelle who frequently draws controversy for making jokes about the transgender community. His latest special for the streamer, The Dreamer, opens with a 12-minute joke in which he once again takes aim at trans people.In a new interview with The Independent, Hart discussed the current climate of stand-up comedy before offering a simple to solution to those who find Chappelle’s performances offensive.“We’re just in a time now where the microscope is significantly pointed in the direction of the comic, and what the comic is saying,” Hart said.
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Emmys 2024 by playing it safe. The comedian, actor and game show host, 53, began the 2024 Emmys by honoring several TV series of youre that he said shaped him during his childhood.
Kevin Hart is addressing the Oscars.
Kevin Hart has asserted that he will never host the Oscars, saying that they are not “comedy-friendly environments”.The comic actor had been scheduled to host the 2019 edition of the awards ceremony, but stepped down from the role in the wake of a backlash over a series of homophobic tweets that he had posted in 2010 and 2011.He had previously said that he would not go back to host the show, but in a new interview with Sky News, he has underscored his aversion to the role.“Whatever little hope you had, I want to destroy it right now,” he said. “Those gigs aren’t good gigs for comics.
Caroline Brew editor SPOILER ALERT: This story contains minor spoilers for “Lift,” now streaming on Netflix. From “The Italian Job” to “The Fate of the Furious,” F. Gary Gray is no stranger to heist movies.
Kevin Hart insists he will not host an award show ever again. "Whatever little hope you had, I want to destroy it right now," Kevin told Sky News. "Those gigs aren’t good gigs for comics.
Kevin Hart has revealed that he “almost died” in a terrifying plane accident.The comedian and actor shared the story while appearing on Friday’s edition (January 12) of The Graham Norton Show, where he was promoting his recently released Netflix action-comedy Lift.Speaking to Norton, Hart recalled his frightening experience on a flight, during which the exterior of the plane caught fire.“I almost died,” he said. “We were landing and as we did the front wheel broke, and I just saw flames coming out of the front of the plane.”Hart went on to say that, despite the scary nature of the situation, he was able to stay calm as he had reached a point of contentment in his life.“It was one of those moments when I thought, ‘This is it’, and I realised that if it happens I was cool with where I was in life.
hart towards the Academy Awards. Kevin Hart has stated that he’ll never host the Oscars. “Whatever little hope you had, I want to destroy it right now,” the comedian, 44, told Sky News in an interview published Friday.
Kevin Hart hasn’t changed his mind about never hosting the Oscars, a claim he’s made since stepping down from the position in 2019 after past homophobic comments came to light on Twitter.
Naman Ramachandran Kevin Hart has reiterated that he will not host the Oscars again. Hart was due to host the 2019 Oscars but stepped down after an outcry over previous anti-gay tweets, and comments he’d made during stand-up routines a decade ago. He later told Variety that he’d never do it again and is sticking to his stance.
After parodying his attempts to become an action movie star in the Quibi/Roku short film series Die Hart (later compiled into a Amazon Prime feature), Kevin Hart goes for the gold in the genre and attempts to do the real thing in Lift, an absurdly ridiculous, over the top, but still entertaining heist movie that strains credibility at every turn – but who cares because it’s got Hart.
Úrsula Corberó is known for her roles in action packed films and TV shows. In a new interview, Corberó discussed her new action project alongside Kevin Hart, and reveals that, despite her body of work and great looking stunts, she dislikes action films. Úrsula Corberó joins Madonna onstage at Barcelona concertÚrsula Corberó graces the cover of Vogue SpainIn a new interview, Corberó was asked about her interest in action films, since she tends to star in action packed projects that feature heists and all manner of stunts.
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor If anyone should be able to engineer a reunion of “Saturday Night Live” alumni, it should be Dan Aykroyd. A member of the show’s first cast of “Not Ready for Prime-Time Players,” Aykroyd was also among the first to jump from “SNL” to Hollywood and continues to tour with a band based on The Blues Brothers group he and John Belushi originated on the NBC mainstay.
Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic At first blush, the three-hour runtime of “Prayer for the French Republic,” playing at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway, seems appropriate. Though it obviously does not exist specifically in response to the events of Oct.