Shawn Levy is making his mark in Hollywood.
19.02.2022 - 04:39 / deadline.com
A column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit.
This week Oscar’s quest to be cool with fanboys & girls continues with the introduction of a “fan favorite” twitter initiative for Best Picture, plus bad news for Oscar voters who want to be at the Dolby. There’s also big news for the Critics Choice Awards heading to London, and I have a retro look at Ann-Margret at the Oscars including a famous pre-La La Land envelope scandal involving her 1963 film Bye Bye Birdie..
OSCAR NOT HOLDING LOTTERY FOR MEMBERS DUE TO COVID
Limitations on attendance for the 94th Annual Academy Awards where only 2500 of the Dolby Theatre’s 3300 seats will be used in order to make it more Covid friendly means for the second year in a row there will be no traditional lottery held in which the 10,000+ members can vie to buy seats to see the show in person. With just announced mask, vax, and testing requirements in the mix, something had to give on the theatre capacity numbers as well in order to maintain some semblance of social distancing even as the worst of the pandemic seems to be in the rear view mirror, for the moment at least. The Academy sent the bad news to the membership earlier today: “We’re sorry to announce that we will not be able to conduct our annual member ticket lottery for the Oscars this year. We have indoor capacity restrictions in the theater due to covid-related safety measures. We hope to resume our member lottery next year for our 95th Oscars.” And good news, three lucky twitter uses might be taking up some of those seats at the 95th Oscars. Oh, you haven’t heard? See below.
CINDERELLA, JOHNNY DEPP, ZACK SNYDER COMING ON STRONG FOR #OSCARSFANFAVORITE
Well the attempt to create a Popular Movie Oscar category
Shawn Levy is making his mark in Hollywood.
Camila Cabello handled an embarrassing moment on live TV in the best possible way, during an appearance on BBC’s ‘The One Show,’ when she accidentally exposed her breast while promoting her new single ‘Bam Bam’ with Ed Sheeran.The 25-year-old singer is releasing her new album ‘Familia’ on April 8 and fans are sharing their excitement on social media as the release date gets closer, with Camila taking the time to do a series of worldwide promotional tours.During her recent virtual interview with Alex Jones, the performer wanted to show off her dance moves from the music video with Ed Sheeran, however when she stood up to adjust her shirt, the wardrobe malfunction happened as she was only wearing an oversize topCamila quickly noticed and covered herself while continuing dancing, saying “Almost flashed you,” and adding “I hope you didn’t see nipple,” as she sat down to continue the interview.A clip of the interview went viral almost immediately, with the host and guests back in the studio shocked. “Do you know what, there was a bit of a wardrobe malfunction.
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Camila Cabello has released her new collaboration with Ed Sheeran – you can listen to ‘Bam Bam’ below.First announced last month, the singer/songwriter then shared a snippet of the track earlier this week (February 28).Cabello has now released ‘Bam Bam’, which was produced by Ricky Reed, Edgar Barrera and Cheche Alara and written by Cabello, Sheeran and Reed.The track is Cabello’s first new music release of 2022 and is the latest preview of her forthcoming new album ‘Familia’, which is set for release on April 8.The video for ‘Bam Bam’ has also been released this afternoon (March 4), which was directed by Mia Barnes in collaboration with Dave Meyers – you can watch the colourful clip below.Speaking to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe this week, Cabello said of ‘Bam Bam’: “I wanted to make a song that had English words, but gives me that same feeling that a lot of these Latin songs give us. And so basically, we had this version of the song.“By the time that Ed [Sheeran] had heard it and been on board to do it, I was in a different place in my life.
Camila Cabello, 24, has poured her heart out with her most recent single “Bam Bam” and it seems those feelings are one-hundred percent authentic. A source close to the Havana singer EXCLUSIVELY told HollywoodLife that “Bam Bam” is “absolutely about her breakup with Shawn Mendes.” She has seemingly used the song to gain closure and close the door on their relationship for good.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor“Spider-Man: No Way Home” is a sure bet to swing home with the first fan-voted trophy at this year’s Academy Awards, according to a new survey.Industry watchers’ spidey-senses were tingling when the Academy on Monday posted a tweet revealing the top 10 leaderboard (listed alphabetically) in the Oscars’ first-ever fan-favorite voting contest, in partnership with Twitter — a list which, alongside “No Way Home,” included the critically panned “Cinderella” starring Camila Cabello, as well as indie film “Minamata” starring Johnny Depp and Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead.”But the latest movie featuring Marvel’s famed webslinger should ultimately cruise to victory in the race: 26% of U.S. adults said “Spider-Man: No Way Home” was their favorite film of 2021, nearly double the next-closest contender (Disney’s “Encanto”), according to a recent Morning Consult survey.
Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterOn its face, celebrating the year’s most popular films during the Academy Awards makes perfect sense — movies are a popular art, after all. But when the Academy announced that it would celebrate the Fan Favorite movies of 2021 with a Twitter poll, anyone who has spent roughly 15 minutes on Twitter could have predicted things would get weird.Narrator: “They got weird.”On Monday, the Academy announced 10 movies that made the cut for the #OscarsFanFavorite Leaderboard, selected via hashtags and submissions on an Academy website.
‘You said you hated the ocean, but you’re surfing now. I said I’d love you for life, but I just sold our house.’
Camila Cabello is releasing a new song featuring Ed Sheeran on March 4, and fans are already convinced that the tune is about Cabello’s ex, Shawn Mendes. The Cuban American singer and actress took to social media to tease about the upcoming song “Bam Bam,” The single’s theories immediately started to flood the internet.“Isn’t really about shading Shawn, I feel like it’s more about how sometimes things don’t work the way you want in life, and you need to move on.
Paul Bettany has spoken out again about his private messages with Johnny Depp, which were made public as part of Depp‘s libel court case.
Camila Cabello has previewed more of her new song, ‘Bam Bam’ over on TikTok – listen to it below.The song, which will feature an appearance by Ed Sheeran, is the singer’s first piece of new material to be released this year and is thought to be taken from her upcoming new album, ‘Familia’.Cabello first announced the single on Instagram on February 21, sharing what appeared to be the single’s artwork. It featured a photo of the star sitting outside a shop with two bottles and smudged eye make-up.Now, in a new 33-second clip, Cabello shared a verse from the upcoming single, which is expected to arrive this Friday (March 4), with fans.BAM BAM feat @Ed Sheeran out March 4.
Camila Cabello‘s new song “Bam Bam” is not set to debut until March 4, but she teased a clip of the song on TikTok this weekend and fans have some suspicions!
Johnny Depp shared in court during the latter’s libel trial as “embarrassing”.Back in 2020, Depp sued The Sun newspaper over a column that referred to the actor as a “wife beater”.A series of texts between Bettany and Depp – who have starred in three films together – were read aloud in the trial, where they joked about “drowning” Depp’s ex-wife Amber Heard to prove she wasn’t a witch.One of the messages written by Bettany, sent in 2013, read: “I’m not sure we should burn Amber. She is delightful company and pleasing on the eye. We could of course do the English course of action and perform a drowning test.
Arguably the biggest addition for this year’s Oscar race is the new Fan Favourite category, which allows fans to share their own votes for their Best Picture picks.
Pirates of the Caribbean film, Salazar's Revenge (also marketed as Dead Men Tell No Tales), fans were excited to see what would happen next in the Disney franchise. A sly tease of a returning villain meant things were about to get even more interesting - but Johnny Depp was quickly cut from the series. Disney axed the star due to his ongoing court case with ex-wife Amber Heard, making it unlikely he would return - until now.