‘Origin’: Why Kris Bowers’ ‘Leaves’ Music Cue Made Ava DuVernay Break Down in Tears (EXCLUSIVE)

Bradley Walsh is one of most popular TV hosts of our time, and it seems that you can't flick through the channels without seeing him presenting, from The Chase, Blankety Blank and currently, he is the host of the reboot of Gladiators with his son, Barney Walsh, and there's apparently an interesting reason behind this.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Ariana DeBose, Boy George and Nile Rodgers have teamed up for “Electric Energy,” the disco-infused bop featured in Matthew Vaughn’s “Argylle.” Rodgers, who produced the track which plays over the film’s end credits, says he got a call from Vaughn asking if he wanted to be involved. Speaking with Variety over Zoom, the musician said although Vaughn sent him a demo track he still asked to see the film. “I have to see the film and have real context because I didn’t want to play blindly.” After seeing the film, his response was, “I was so overly sold.

“Queer Eye” guy Bobby Berk is dishing on his exit from the Netflix series — and came this close to confirming it had to do with a feud with co-star Tan France.“Tan and I had a moment,” Berk told Vanity Fair in an interview published Jan. 25.

Drew Barrymore got a little teary-eyed on Thursday’s episode of her eponymous talk show.The “Never Been Kissed” star, 48, gathered her old co-stars from her 1994 Western flick “Bad Girls” for a reunion, which included Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell and Dermot Mulroney.Barrymore thanked the “Scream VI” actor, 60, for helping her through a few rough times as they shot the movie when she was a teenager.“You were so good to me, I really was like a lost 17-year-old,” Barrymore said.“I was having so much fun, but I didn’t know how to take care of myself and you took such good care of me. You were so kind to me.”“I was really wild, guys,” she jokes to her audience.

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” after she was unmasked in the Jan. 2 season finale as an abusive troll who had anonymously attacked the members of the cast since March 2021. Garcia’s castmate Heather Gay, who’s been on the show since the beginning, had received the “Receipts! Proof! Timeline! Screenshots!” of Garcia’s deception on the final day of filming the show’s fourth season, during a trip to Bermuda.

At the age of 84, documentary legend Sheila Nevins today earned the first Oscar nomination of her career.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Shortly after the Oscar nominations were announced on Tuesday morning, “Oppenheimer” director Christopher Nolan recalled watching Cillian Murphy transform into J. Robert Oppenheimer for the first time. “It was really in the hair and makeup tests, which we shoot on Imax and in black-and-white,” Nolan told Variety.

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Origin” star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor sounds like she’s already moving on from awards season. Instead, she’s focusing on how the film is impacting audiences. When asked what it would mean to hear her name called for her second Academy Award nod, Ellis-Taylor paused to thoughtfully consider her words.

Ava DuVernay’s Origin’s theatrical debut grossed a solid $875k on 130 screens with a $7k per-theater average said to be better than Neon anticipated.

Ricky Norwood, who played Arthur 'Fatboy' Chubb on EastEnders for six years, won over a lot of fans, but in 2015 was axed from the show despite being loved by viewers. Ricky, now 40, was let go from the show after he was caught in a compromising position off-screen and Fatboy was subsequently killed off in a Christmas storyline which left viewers devastated. However, in August 2023, the character surprisingly returned to Albert Square at the same time as Cindy Beale's (played by Michelle Collins) return, reports MyLondon.

explained to People. “I think it is brave creatively, I think it is brave in its message, I think it confronts things in a way that is innovative.

Origin, starring as a celebrated writer diligently solving the puzzle that is her latest book, while also facing unfathomable personal adversity.The book she’s writing happens to be the nonfiction best-seller that inspired this film: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent, by Isabel Wilkerson. In Caste, published in 2020, Wilkerson examines the racial hierarchy in America as a caste system, not unlike systems of oppression in India and in Nazi Germany that have enforced dynamics of superiority and inferiority based on characteristics other than race.“We call everything racism.

Neon is opening Origin on 130 screens and plans to expand the Ava DuVernay film, which premiered in Venice and had a excellent qualifying run in December.

Ava DuVernay is frustrated, and perhaps the odd way her acclaimed drama, “Origin” has largely been ignored by the awards circuit hasn’t helped (“I wish she was at the Globes or SAG Awards or Critics Choice or the other nominations that didn’t come,” the filmmaker recently lamented about her “Origin” star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor). It’s no secret that the ideas of diversity, equity, and inclusion are under attack in the United States at the moment (just look at what happened to former Harvard President Claudine Gay and the coordinated attack on her from the far right that led her to step down from her post).

EXCLUSIVE: Angelina Jolie is getting into this year’s Oscar race.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Niecy Nash-Betts may be the nicest person in Hollywood. In a town where getting your next role could be cutthroat, Nash-Betts actually tells her actor friends to audition for roles that she may already be reading for. “Before I was even cast in ‘Getting On’ on HBO — I had not even gone in yet — I called every actress I knew and was like, ‘This is going to be something.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Sam Green’s last film “A Thousand Thoughts” was a documentary about the Kronos Quartet, but his challenge was getting people to “hear” the film because everything about the medium is visual. When it came to his next project, “32 Sounds,” the documentary feature shortlisted for Oscar, he set out tell a story specifically about sound and the aural experience. Green assemblies 32 different scenarios in an attempt to challenge how audiences think about sound.

By Ava DuVernay etched her name in history during the 80th Venice International Film Festival, as her groundbreaking film Origin shattered barriers as the first-ever selection directed by a Black woman for the prestigious competition. DuVernay defied expectations by weaving a compelling nonfiction narrative inspired by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson's Caste.Building on her legacy of tackling challenging topics in American history through works like Selma and When They See Us, DuVernay brings her directorial prowess to the forefront in her latest film.

The Inclusion List for episodic programming, which recognizes the most inclusive series in broadcast, cable and streaming. Following a similar effort for films, the list analyzes on-screen and behind-the-camera personnel from more than 500 programs to determine the 100 most inclusive broadcast and cable series from the 2021-22 broadcast season, as well as streaming series from 2021 to 2023.