A new report has emerged suggesting which TV shows ABC might cancel and which shows might be renewed.
25.02.2022 - 21:31 / deadline.com
Gregory Peck was angry. As president of the Motion Picture Academy, the star announced he would veto the admission of a new voting member on grounds that he lacked professional qualifications. The Academy was becoming too populist in 1967, he argued. It must retain its elite status.
The individual he wanted to veto was me. In retrospect I wish his ban had been successful but it was soon overturned (details below).
I wonder how Peck, as a stickler for his profession, would respond to recent Academy decisions about its show, its awards and its membership. Witness the new campaign to create an #OscarFanFavorite — a popular film to be selected by Twitter and presented by an Oscar fan. In addition, eight of the 23 awards will be presented prior to the show, then edited for later use on a streamlined live Oscarcast.
With its ever-expanding list of 10,000-plus members, these moves would suggest to Peck a growing populist shift; also a certain paranoia over Oscar’s vanishing TV ratings, and its shrinking film audience overall.
Indeed, the 2022 Oscar season as a whole has been defined by an uneasy quiet. Those who have been around Hollywood for a while remember the spirited arguments annually waged over Best Picture favorites. Was Gandhi really more deserving than ET? Or Shakespeare in Love more than Saving Private Ryan? Was the noise of promotion overwhelming the quiet mission of cinema?
This year the drumbeat of a few elite critics combined with the omniscience of Netflix has lent momentum to one favorite: The Power of the Dog, which, according to Manohla Dargis of the New York Times, represents “A dazzling evisceration of one of the country’s fundamental myths.” Still, some observers like Jimmy Kimmel predict that Power of the Dog
A new report has emerged suggesting which TV shows ABC might cancel and which shows might be renewed.
ABC is making some big moves, particularly, announcing renewals!
As events continue to play out, “Z” has instantly become the most ominous symbol in the world’s culture and economy.
Coming soon. Two months after Tristan Thompson confirmed he fathered a child while still with Khloé Kardashian, the reality star revealed whether the drama will play out on her family’s upcoming Hulu series.
A-lister Mila Kunis, born Milena Markovna Kunis, is now best-known for being a huge Hollywood star but her start in life was worlds away from the glitz and glamour of the movies. Mila was born in Ukraine in 1983 and then was forced to leave her home country seven years later, as her family fled just before the fall of the Soviet Union in 19991.The actress – who’s starred in films Black Swan and Ted as well as TV’s Family Guy – has previously stated anti-semitism as the reason why she left for America, saying her "whole family was in the Holocaust". "One of my friends who grew up in Russia, she was in second grade," she explained.
When Calls The Heart is returning tonight on Hallmark Channel!
For the past seven years, Chris Licht’s favorite comic has been Stephen Colbert. As the new chairman of CNN, Licht’s focus has instantly shifted to the brilliant ex-comic from Ukraine named Volodymyr Zelensky, whose heroics are the story of the hour.
Guillermo Del Toro is putting The Academy on blast after they decided to cut out craft categories during the live show this month.
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.
The debut trailer for Brad Pitt‘s upcoming action movie, Bullet Train, just debuted online!
Abi Franklin's life seems to go from bad to worse in next week's Coronation Street.
Patrick J. Adams can vividly recall how his former "Suits" co-star Meghan Markle reacted when she first saw him get naked on stage. It was nearly a decade ago during the first season of the legal drama that the actor appeared in a Los Angeles production of "9 Circles," which the former actress saw at the time.
Meghan Markle's former Suits co-star Patrick J Adams has revealed the Duchess once made fun of him after seeing him with no clothes on in a play.The 40 year old, who played the role of Mike Ross in the hit American TV series, explained that the incident took place while they were filming the lawyer show back in 2011.The Duchess of Sussex, also 40, who recently enjoyed a secret night out with husband Prince Harry and his cousin Princess Eugenie, came to support the actor as he performed in an LA production of Bill Cain's play 9 Circles – in which he starred in a scene with full-frontal nudity. Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter "She certainly was at the play where I was naked and she had a good time making fun of me after," Patrick told Entertainment Tonight, before joking: "So, maybe she’d like a repeat performance." Now, the actor is set to make his Broadway debut next month in Take Me Out, in which he'll be taking off his clothes once again.