Oscar Contenders Need to Help Theater Owners

Almost every Oscar season there seems to be one young actor who charms the pants off everyone. Sometimes they win Oscars (“The Piano’s” Anna Paquin), sometimes they get nominated (“Beasts of the Southern Wild’s” Quvenzhané Wallis), sometimes they grow up to have established careers (“Billy Elliot’s” Jamie Bell, “About A Boy’s” Nicholas Hoult) and often they just have a grand ol’ time on the awards circuit (“Room’s” Jacob Tremblay, “Jojo Rabbit’s” Roman Griffin Davis).

Khloe Kardashian, along with her sisters and many celebs, attended Simon Huck and Phil Riportella’s Bel-Air wedding ceremony.

Addie Morfoot ContributorMTV Documentary Films’ Hogir Hirori’s “Sabaya” and Jessica Kingdon’s “Ascension” will make their streaming debut on Paramount Plus today as the MTV ramps up its awards campaign for both.Both feature docs are in the running for an Oscar nomination and will become available to stream today at 10 a.m. PT on the ViacomCBS service formerly known as CBS All Access.

Belfast, Kenneth Branaugh’s intensely personal story of one boy’s childhood in tumultuous late 1960s Northern Ireland, earned an estimated $1.8M in 580 locations this weekend for a PTA of $3,111 – a solid showing for a black-and-white film in a specialty market that’s waging what one distribution exec calls an “an inch-by-inch, week-by-week recovery.”

The first teaser for Marvel’s “Moon Knight” series dropped Friday and we need more answers, specifically, “When will the series be released?”

Disney+ Day is upon us. Along with the streaming premieres of “Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings” and “Jungle Cruise,” and season two of “The World According To Jeff Goldblum,” the celebration also includes updates on many upcoming Marvel and Star Wars series.

Clayton Davis Auteur Paul Thomas Anderson ushers in his breeziest, most light-hearted effort yet with “Licorice Pizza,” a film that could be an all-around awards player, possibly nabbing him an overdue Academy Award for best original screenplay.

There’s an emotional realness to singer-songwriter Billie Eilish, a disinclination to disguise experience behind euphemism or pretense.

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Clayton Davis Dakota Johnson was caught off guard by the script for “The Lost Daughter”: “I never read something so honest,” she says. “At times, raw, almost to being uncomfortable but still so human.” The actress then met writer and director Maggie Gyllenhaal for lunch in New York, who she calls “a seeker of truth.”On this episode of the Variety Awards Circuit Podcast, Johnson talks about her experience working on Netflix’s “The Lost Daughter,” the adaptation of the Elena Ferrante novel.

CAA and Range Media Partners are representing the film rights.The project will be a reunion for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri” writer-director McDonagh with Rockwell, who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in the 2018 crime drama that also starred Frances McDormand.

Over the course of nearly 15 years, filmmaker Martin McDonagh has only released three features. But when your debut film is “In Bruges” and your most recent feature, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” was nominated for a ton of Oscars, people tend to get excited about each release, even if there is a big gap between films.

EXCLUSIVE: This is turning into an AFM unlike any we can recall, with multiple prestige scripts in the offing in addition to the more traditional brawny fare.

More than 32,000 Trafford residents are estimated to have experienced domestic abuse in their lifetime and more than 23,000 children are currently affected across the borough.

“Father, son, and House of Gucci.” When Lady Gaga delivered that line in the first trailer for House of Gucci, fan anticipation for the movie reached a fever pitch.

Academy Awards. Variety’s experts present the Circuit Contenders, movies that could score a minimum of two nominations in the major categories — picture, director, screenplay, international film and the acting races.ANNETTE(Amazon) Though it came out earlier in the year, the performances from Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard and Simon Helberg are excellent.