‘Prayers for the Stolen’ Leads Latin American Hopefuls at Oscars

Clayton Davis Bradley Cooper is an established awards magnet, with eight nominations in the past nine years. Four of those have been in the acting category — for “Silver Linings Playbook” (2012), “American Hustle” (2013), “American Sniper” (2014) and “A Star Is Born” (2018).

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentStarring “The Lovely Bones’” Stanley Tucci and “Da 5 Bloods’” Clarke Peters and produced by Movistar Plus in association with AMC Studios, “La Fortuna” is set to roll out in half the major distribution territories in the world.First up is Germany, where Sky will air the TV debut of “The Others” director Alejandro Amenábar from Dec. 24.A U.S.

Belgium, “Playground”Bhutan, “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom”Denmark, “Flee”Finland, “Compartment No.

American Dad! has been renewed for two more seasons, which will take the animated series through to the end of its 19th season.The long-running show first began airing on Fox in 2005 until it was cancelled due to low ratings in 2014. It was then picked up by TBS, where it is still broadcast today.The two new seasons were announced ahead of the premiere of season 17 on January 24, 2022.

Manchester City are reportedly leading the race for Barcelona defender Sergino Dest as the January transfer window nears.

Listín Diario, the HI1050 aircraft, Gulfstream GIVSP type, had departed for Miami with 2 crew members and 7 passengers, and there are no survivors. Of the passengers, 6 were identified as American citizens, including 38-year-old Puerto Rican music producer José Ángel Hernández, who is better known as Flow La Movie.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent“Flee” and “Pride” producer Vice Studios looks set to build its presence in Latin America with a new order from Netflix, “La Divina Gula,” as well as the appointment of “Last One Laughing: Mexico” executive producer Edgar Jaramillo as senior director of unscripted for the region.The latest move from Vice Studios, the global production arm of Vice Media Group, forms part of a drive to expand its offering across both unscripted and scripted content

Megan Thee Stallion is now Megan Thee Graduate, the rapper having graduated from her degree in Health Administration at Texas Southern University. She will now be quitting the music industry to enter a junior management role in the US healthcare system.

American Football have joined the likes of Miley Cyrus, Inhaler, Perfume Genius and Kelly Clarkson as the latest act to cover Mazzy Star’s 1993 classic ‘Fade Into You’.The song initially appeared on Mazzy Star’s second album, ‘So Tonight That I Might See’, and was issued as a single in April of 1994. American Football’s cover hones in on the track’s dreaminess, twining gentle, honeyed acoustic plucks with swelling atmospherics and subtle, yet poignant horns.

Lithuanian documentary director Giedrė Žickytė was in Los Angeles a few years ago when a friend said to her, "Have you heard about the guy who jumped from a Soviet ship to an American ship?"The friend was referring to a Lithuanian sailor named Simas Kudirka who defected from the Soviet Union by jumping off a Soviet vessel and on board a U.S. Coast Guard cutter ship in November of 1970.

After a year’s delay due to the pandemic, Steven Spielberg’s remake of the Broadway classic and 10x Oscar-winning 1961 movie, West Side Story, finally tunes up this weekend as the sole wide major studio theatrical release in 2,800 U.S./Canada theaters and offshore debuts in France, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Russia and UK. All in, the global outlook is $22M-$31M, with $12M-$17M coming from domestic and $10M-$14M from abroad. The 20th Century Studios-Amblin production is being released by Disney.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLive Nation Entertainment, the world’s largest live-entertainment company, has closed its long-in-the works acquisition of a 51% controlling interest in OCESA Entretenimiento, a leading promoter in Latin America. The aggregate purchase price was MXN $8,835 million (around U.S.

Scandinavia may well lead this year’s Best International Feature Film field at the Oscars, which begins shortlist voting on Friday, with a slate that includes favorites such as Denmark’s “Flee,” Finland’s “Compartment No.

The Haim sisters are heading out for a North American tour!