What to stream this weekend: Conan OโBrien travels, 'Migration' soars and Taylor Swift reigns
This weekโs new streaming entertainment releases include Taylor Swift's eagerly anticipated album โThe Tortured Poets Department,โ a family of ducks is coaxed into flying south for the winter in the kid-friendly animated movie โMigrationโ and Conan OโBrien makes himself the brunt of jokes in his new travel show โConan OโBrien Must Goโ for Max.
What to stream this week: Adam Sandler is in space, 'Elsbeth' sleuths and Japan shines in 'Shogun'
This weekโs new streaming entertainment releases include Ridley Scottโs โNapoleonโ storming Apple TV+, East meets West in feudal Japan with the kick-off of the series โShogun,โ and Disney+'s animated series โIwรกjรบโ offers a coming-of-age story set in the future in Lagos, Nigeria.
What's streaming now: A gaggle of TV sleuths, the foul-mouthed bear 'Ted' and a Kevin Hart heist
This weekโs new streaming entertainment releases include an album by Colombian-American musician Kali Uchis, Seth MacFarlane revives his filthy teddy bear character Ted in a new series for Peacock and Martin Scorseseโs true-crime epic โThe Killers of the Flower Moonโ begins streaming on Apple TV+.
The Golden Globe nominees are out. Let the awards season of Barbenheimer begin โ Analysis
Early awards in Hollywoodโs unfurling awards season have gone to films like Celine Songโs tender relationship drama โPast Lives,โ Jonathan Glazerโs piercing Holocaust film โThe Zone of Interestโ and Martin Scorseseโs sprawling Osage murders epic โKillers of the Flower Moon.โ.
'Past Lives,' Lily Gladstone win at Gotham Awards, while Robert De Niro says his speech was edited
Celine Songโs wistful romance โPast Livesโ has earned top honors at the Gotham Awards at an award-season kickoff where the nightโs biggest drama came in a political speech by Robert De Niro that the actor claimed had been edited.
'Hunger Games' feasts, 'Napoleon' conquers but 'Wish' doesn't come true at Thanksgiving box office
The Walt Disney Co.โs โWishโ had been expected to rule the Thanksgiving weekend box office, but moviegoers instead feasted on leftovers, as โThe Hunger Games: Songbirds and Snakesโ led ticket sales for the second weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Martin Scorsese is still curious โ and still awed by the possibilities of cinema
โKillers of the Flower Moonโ is an audacious big swing by Martin Scorsese to continue his kind of ambitious, personal filmmaking on the largest scale at a time when such grand, big-screen statements are increasingly a rarity.
Turner Classic Movies looks to the future with help from Paul Thomas Anderson, Scorsese, Spielberg
Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Paul Thomas Anderson are stepping up to help curate programming for Turner Classic Movies, amid a tumultuous week of layoffs and leadership changes that had fans worried about the future of the channel.
Rihanna, Martin Scorsese hype Paramount movies at CinemaCon
Paramount Pictures, still riding high on the success of โTop Gun: Maverickโsโ nearly $1.5 billion in worldwide ticket sales, brought a slew of stars from Rihanna to Martin Scorsese to CinemaCon for its presentation to theater owners Thursday.
New this week: 'Day Shift' and 'Five Days at Memorial'
This weekโs new entertainment releases include music from the union of The Rootsโ Black Thought and super-producer Danger Mouse, a PBS โFrontlineโ investigation into womenโs rights in Afghanistan a year after the U_S_ withdrawal and Jamie Foxx playing a vampire hunter in โDay Shift.โ.
New this week: 'The Sea Beast,' early Elton John, 'Maggie'
This weekโs new entertainment releases include two lost albums from rock superstars Neil Young and Elton John, more than two dozen contestants of reality shows like โSurvivor,โ โThe Amazing Raceโ and โBig Brotherโ facing off in the contest โThe Challenge: USA,โ and Netflixโs โThe Sea Beastโ brings a โMoby Dickโ-like tale down to kid size.
New this week: 'Only Murders in the Building,' 'More Power'
This weekโs new entertainment releases include a new album from Imagine Dragons, the reuniting of โHome Improvementโ sitcom buddies Tim Allen and Richard Karn for โMore Powerโ and the return of Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez as unlikely crime-solving New York City neighbors in Huluโs โOnly Murders in the Building.โ.
Spike Lee, 'Annette' kick off 74th Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival rolled out the red carpet for the first time in more than two years on Tuesday, launching the French Riviera spectacular with the premiere of Leos Caraxโs โAnnette,โ the introduction of Spike Leeโs jury, and with high hopes for shrugging off a punishing pandemic year for cinema.
Jamie Foxx to play Mike Tyson in boxer's take on his life
Foxx will play the boxing great in the project that also counts Foxx and filmmaker Martin Scorsese as producers. (Photos by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, left, and Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)LOS ANGELES โ Mike Tyson is getting in the TV drama ring against himself. On the heels of Hulu's announcement of a Tyson miniseries to be made without his involvement, the boxing great said he's producing a limited series starring Jamie Foxx. Filmmaker Martin Scorsese and Foxx also are among the producers. Last month, Hulu said it had ordered the eight-episode series โIron Mike,โ saying it would explore the โthe wild, tragic and controversial life and careerโ of a polarizing athlete.
Ex-FBI agent linked to Whitey Bulger to be freed from prison
FILE- In this Oct. 15, 2008 file photo, former FBI agent John Connolly listens to the testimony during his trial in Miami. The imprisoned former FBI agent serving a 40-year prison sentence for alerting former Boston mobster Whitey Bulger that he could implicated in a mob murder wants to be released from prison on medical grounds. The Florida Commission on Offender Review voted 2-1 in favor of releasing 80-year-old John Connolly, who has cancer and is believed to have less than a year to live. Connolly tipped off Bulger and another gangster, Stephen โThe Riflemanโ Flemmi, that Callahan was about to implicate the gang in a killing, authorities said. In a statement read to the commission, Callahan's son said he is not opposed to Connolly's release, given his prognosis.
Despite bleak 2020, celebrities make effort to brighten year
(AP Photo)LOS ANGELES โ Yes, 2020 may seem like a complete fail with all the constant bad news and tragic moments. Itโs been filled with gloom and doom(scrolling), but some celebrities and those inspired by them have tried to brighten a bleak year. He reassigned his 10 seamstresses in New York to produce thousands daily for health care workers on the frontlines. The singer and husband Emilio Estefan's restaurant Estefan Kitchen served up homemade meals for health care workers in Miami. The challenge coordinated offers by celebrities and athletes to raise funds to feed those in need during the pandemic.
Clooney honored by MoMA as actor, director and humanitarian
Clooney was honored Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, by co-stars and colleagues at the annual film benefit for the Museum of Modern Art, held virtually. MoMAโs annual film benefit raises funds to bring great works of film to the museumโs collection. Also giving virtual tributes Monday evening were actors Felicity Jones, Tiffany Boone, Kyle Chandler and Demian Bichir, who appear in โA Midnight Sky,โ which Clooney stars in and directs. The benefit featured clips from some of Clooneyโs many films: โMichael Clayton,โ โSyriana,โ "The Descendants,โ โGravity,โ and โGood Night, and Good Luck,โ among others. In earlier comments to The Associated Press, Clooney said โGood Night, and Good Luckโ was probably his proudest professional accomplishment.
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020
The world also said goodbye to U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement who died in July. Other former political figures who died this year include Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, New York Mayor David Dinkins, Arizona Gov. Here is a roll call of some influential figures who died in 2020 (cause of death cited for younger people, if available):___JANUARY___David Stern, 77. The guitarist who supplied the scratching, seething sound that fueled the highly influential British punk band Gang of Four. He fused African rhythms with funk to become one of the most influential musicians in world dance music.