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Don Lemon is always entertaining on CNN’s live New Year’s Eve coverage. With 2019 drawing to a close Tuesday night, the CNN anchor joined Brooke Baldwin in Nashville for a night of NYE punditry, drinking and overall fun. As a singer crooned, Lemon offered (unsolicited?) backing vocals. The newscaster belted out a tune — with […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/2QxyH0i

Jamie Lee Curtis will be honored at the 2020 Society of Camera Operators (SOC) Awards celebration in Hollywood. The actress and philanthropist is set to receive the group’s Lifetime Achievement Awards President’s Award during a ceremony on January 18 at the Loews Hollywood Hotel. “We are honored to present this award to such an iconic, […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/2u8IFhb

Today was the last day for Newseum, the glassy, modernist museum on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. dedicated to the history and importance of the news media and the First Amendment. There are no shortage of theories out there as to why the museum couldn’t make a go of it. The nonprofit Freedom Forum, its […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/37AS3Zx

If you like the classic 1986 comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off , here’s a bit of trivia that’s been available for a while but may not be widely known, even among the film’s big fans. John Hughes ‘ classic comedy features a rivalry between Ferris Bueller ( Matthew Broderick ) and his sister Jeanie ( Jennifer Grey ). Since Ferris is babied by their parents, Jeanie has it out for him and can’t get over the fact that he gets to stay home sick, knowing full well that he’s faking his illness to play hooky. But there were almost two other Bueller siblings in the movie, a 7-year old brother named Todd and a 12-year old sister named Kimberly. The two are prominently featured in the film’s script, but in the movie, you’ll only find background evidence of their existence. We’re circling back around to this bit of trivia because legendary editor Paul Hirsch , who worked on Star Wars: A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back , recently mentioned it on the Light the Fuse podcast while talking about

Mariah Carey’s Twitter account appeared to have been hacked on New Year’s Eve, with a series offensive tweets filling the singer’s timeline. Dozens of tweets were posted on the hacked account Tuesday afternoon, some using the N-word, others disparaged rapper Eminem, and others referred to the Chuckling Squad, a hacker group that took control of […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/2tmZmVS

Last year,  Bird Box  became Netflix’s biggest hit movie, setting the streaming giant’s seven-day records and inspiring dangerous memes. The film, which stars Sandra Bullock , takes place in a post-apocalyptic world that has been overrun by monsters that cause people who look directly at them to kill themselves. For a movie that’s all about sight (or lack thereof),  Bird Box would have to rely heavily on sound. But one of the key composers behind that sound, Trent Reznor , who composed the  Bird Box  score alongside his frequent collaborator Atticus Ross , was not very happy with his experience working on the Netflix film. In a candid interview with  Revolver , Reznor called his experience on  Bird Box “a fucking waste of time.” The musician, whose frequent collaborations with Atticus Ross have won acclaim and a Best Original Score Oscar for their work on David Fincher’s  The Social Network , did not mince words when looking back at his time working on  Bird Box . “When we got i

Amid the chaos that was 2019, the show business industry lost some major players. There were icons of the big screen (Peter Fonda, Doris Day) and TV (Valerie Harper, Rip Torn, Tim Conway), along with such legends as Broadway director Harold Prince and actress Carol Channing; singers Eddie Money, Ric Ocasek and José José; musicians […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/2ZI1Ytb

Before sitting down to pen the script for Frozen 2, director Jennifer Lee used every creative tool at her disposal to get inside the hearts and minds of her characters. Only in this way could Lee hit on a story for a sequel worth making, that would stand up to the first Frozen. Directed by […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/2F7EBjg

EXCLUSIVE: Twentieth Century Fox/Chernin Entertainment’s Ford V Ferrari has revved its engines past the $200M mark globally, accelerating to $200.6M through Monday. The split is $106.6M domestic and $94M at the international box office. Disney is handling the awards-season contender that reps the sort of movies Fox has excelled at making. Directed by James Mangold […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/2F9UYMq

It’s been a banner year for Bong Joon-ho and his genre-defying masterwork Parasite . Since winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes earlier this year,  Parasite has taken the world by storm, skyrocketing to the top of dozens of best of the year lists and even a few best of the decade lists (including ours ). Now  Parasite will head into 2020 with another achievement under its belt: a black-and-white release. Following in the footsteps of recent genre films that became unlikely critical darlings like  Mad Max: Fury Road and Logan ,  Parasite is getting a black-and-white release. According to The Film Stage , the  Parasite  black and white version of the film will be premiering at International Film Festival Rotterdam, which begins January 22, 2020 . It’s not yet known whether this black-and-white version will eventually make its way to theaters or if it will appear on the home video releases of  Parasite . Bong has long held a fascination with the black and white film, premiering a bla

With each new major entry in Star Wars lore, companion materials are released which delve even deeper into a galaxy far, far away. They can contain an intimidating amount of information, which is why you need someone to guide you through it. Someone who loves lore, and who loves putting together puzzle pieces left behind by the Lucasfilm Story Group. Someone like me. Now that Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is in theaters, it’s time to take a look under the hood of the film’s visual dictionary. There’s so much to go over, and I attempted to just hit the highlights. But when everything is a highlight, it can be hard to rein me in. ( I’m not sorry.) Read on to learn about the origins of Starkiller Base, Unkar Plutt’s motivations, the cultists of Mustafar, finally get the answer to to a long-held question about the naming conventions of the Endor System, and more. The Origin Of Starkiller Base Confirmed After years of speculation, it is now confirmed that Starkiller Base began l

The toy company Hasbro has been comfortable turning some of their valuable properties like Transformers, G.I. Joe, Battleship, and Ouija into major motion pictures at Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures. But it seems like the toymaker is looking to start making its own movies and expanding its licensing agreements at the same time thanks to a merger deal that recently closed with the independent Canadian studio Entertainment One . The Hollywood Reporter has news that the $3.8 billion merger between Hasbro and eOne has closed after the deal was first announced back in August. The new deal gives Hasbro the rights to extremely popular eOne-produced children’s properties like Peppa Pig and PJ Masks . Though Hasbro is probably a little more keen on the licensing revenues from eOne’s properties, we wouldn’t be surprised to see those animated shows turned into movies at some point. Plus, Hasbro can now use eOne as their own production banner. eOne has had their hand in producing

The 2010s was the decade that foreign-language television broke through the global ceiling and got Hollywood to notice the quality of content coming from all corners of the world. While Danish drama The Killing (Forbrydelsen) and French thrillers Braquo and Spiral began inching the door open in the “aughties,” hyper local titles and the booming […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/2ZJ8sbA

They say that we live in a golden age of television — and it’s a well-worn phrase that is certainly borne out in the quality of British shows that have landed on our screens over the past 10 years. There are standout hits to choose from across genres, and the decade culminated with UK television […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/2F7o1jw

1917  is a masterful piece of craftsmanship. Sam Mendes ‘ one-shot epic takes a forward-thinking approach to its depiction of World War I, which is an almost apocalyptic vision. It’s a rare vision, too, in which the camerawork and technique are noticeable yet don’t detract from the experience. To write the ambitious war movie, Mendes called  Krysty Wilson-Cairns , who was a writer on the Mendes-produced  Penny Dreadful  and recently co-wrote Edgar Wright’s next film,  Last Night in Soho. Over the last few years, Mendes and Wilson-Cairns collaborated and wrote a handful of scripts together, but for one reason or another, they never became movies. After what they’ve accomplished with  1917 , we can only imagine what they could’ve done together sooner. They aimed high and didn’t miss their target on this one. Recently, Wilson-Cairns told us about the earliest ideas for  1917 , influential war poetry, and the advantages of writing a one-shot movie. [Warning: this Q&A contains spoiler

At midnight tonight, it will be the end of 2019, and we will usher in a whole new decade starting with 2020. So it’s only appropriate that after Sleepy Skunk delivered his 2019 Movie Trailer Mash-Up to remember the year in cinema, he reached back 10 years to remember movies as they unfolded from the beginning of 201o to the end of 2019. Watch the Movie Trailer Mash-Up of the Decade below, and look back at 10 years of glorious cinema! Sleepy Skunk’s Movie Trailer Mash-Up of the Decade Aside from the crisp editing on display here, what’s most fun from this decade round-up are all the movies that I had completely forgotten about. Jack the Giant Slayer, Life As We Know It, Hyde Park on Hudson, Battle: Los Angeles, Safe House , and more are all movies that I completely forgot existed, let alone came out this decade. But here they are, existing in the mash-up. But more importantly, this reminds me how many incredible, moving, hilarious, stunning and memorable moments there have been o