February 26, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

NBCUniversal(LOS ANGELES) — Will your favorite stars be appearing via Zoom? Will they be dressed in their best PJs? Tune in to find out when the 78th annual Golden Globe Awards air live on NBC this Sunday at 8 p.m. ET.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are returning as hosts this year, but they’ll be doing it from opposite coasts due to the pandemic. Tina will host from the Rainbow Room in New York City, and Poehler from the Globes’ home, The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles

Netflix’s The Crown and Mank, its black and white film about the making of Citizen Kane, are this year’s top nominees with six nominations apiece.

This year’s presenters include Joaquin Phoenix, Renée Zellweger, Awkwafina, Cynthia Erivo, Kristen Wiig, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Sterling K. Brown, Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Susan Kelechi Watson and more.

While the show must go on, it’ll be quite a different experience for everyone involved. Some stars are bummed they won’t get to socialize in person this awards season. Better Call Saul’s Bob Odenkirk is one of them.

“One of my favorite things about show business is the degree of social fun we get to have and the people we get to see and oftentimes as you get older, you’re seeing old friends at these events and it’s a shame to not have that,” Odenkirk, who’s up for Best Actor in a TV Drama, tells ABC Audio. “So, yeah, it feels different, doesn’t it? I can’t wait for us to all get past the pandemic and get to see each other again.”  

Here are the nominees in the major categories:

Best Motion Picture, Drama
The Father
Mank
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Television Series, Drama
The Crown
Lovecraft Country
The Mandalorian
Ozark
Ratched

Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy
Emily in Paris
The Flight Attendant
The Great
Schitt’s Creek
Ted Lasso

Best Director, Motion Picture
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
David Fincher – Mank
Regina King – One Night in Miami
Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Anthony Hopkins – The Father
Gary Oldman – Mank
Tahar Rahim – The Mauritanian

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Andra Day – The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman
Frances McDormand – Nomadland
Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Drama
Jason Bateman – Ozark
Josh O’Connor – The Crown
Bob Odenkirk – Better Call Saul
Al Pacino – Hunters
Matthew Rhys – Perry Mason

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Drama
Olivia Colman – The Crown
Jodie Comer – Killing Eve
Emma Corrin – The Crown
Laura Linney – Ozark
Sarah Paulson – Ratched

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Sacha Baron Cohen – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
James Corden – The Prom
Lin-Manuel Miranda – Hamilton
Dev Patel – The Personal History of David Copperfield
Andy Samberg – Palm Springs

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Kate Hudson – Music
Michelle Pfeiffer – French Exit
Rosamund Pike – I Care a Lot
Anya Taylor-Joy – Emma

Best Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah
Jared Leto – The Little Things
Bill Murray – On the Rocks
Leslie Odom, Jr. – One Night in Miami

Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy
Olivia Colman – The Father
Jodie Foster – The Mauritanian
Amanda Seyfried – Mank
Helena Zengel – News of the World

Best Performance by an Actor, Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture made for Television
Bryan Cranston – Your Honor
Jeff Daniels – The Comey Rule
Hugh Grant – The Undoing
Ethan Hawke – The Good Lord Bird
Mark Ruffalo – I Know This Much Is True

Best Performance by an Actress, Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture made for Television
Cate Blanchett – Mrs. America
Shira Haas – Unorthodox
Daisy Edgar-Jones – Normal People
Nicole Kidman – The Undoing
Anya Taylor-Joy –  The Queen’s Gambit

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
John Boyega – Small Axe
Brendan Gleeson – The Comey Rule
Dan Levy – Schitt’s Creek
Jim Parsons – Hollywood
Donald Sutherland – The Undoing

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Gillian Anderson – The Crown 
Helena Bonham Carter – The Crown 
Julia Garner – Ozark 
Annie Murphy – Schitt’s Creek 
Cynthia Nixon – Ratched

Best Original Score – Motion Picture
The Midnight Sky – Alexandre Desplat
Tenet – Ludwig Göransson
News of the World – James Newton Howard
Mank –  Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Soul – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste

By Andrea Tuccillo
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February 26, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

Paul Bruinooge/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images(LONDON) — Rumors swirled on Thursday that Emma Watson retired from acting, but her manager says that’s just not the case. 

The Harry Potter star has kept a low-profile in recent years, but that doesn’t mean she’s given up on the gig. Her  manger, Jason Weinberg, told Entertainment Weekly, “Emma’s social media accounts are dormant but her career isn’t.” 

The idea that Emma, 30, retired from acting gained traction after a Daily Mail article claimed that “dormant” was “movie-speak for she’s ‘given up acting.'” The outlet also suggested that she was doing so in order to spend more time with her partner, Leo Robinton.

By Danielle Long
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February 26, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

February 25, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

Hulu(LOS ANGELES) — The first trailer to one of the only remaining Hulu-based Marvel projects, M.O.D.O.K., has just dropped online. 

Comedian and comic fan Patton Oswalt produces the animated show, and voices the titular villain, who’s little more than a giant head in a floating cannister — and whose name stands for “Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing.”

In the snippet, he reminds a foe of just that, using a laser on his head to shoot down a fighter jet, and then its parachuting pilot, to prove his point. 

The series promises to delve into the work-life balance of the absurd-looking baddie. An all-star voice cast including Saturday Night Live‘s Beck Bennett, and The Goldbergs‘ matriarch Wendi McLendon-Covey, will be heard when the show debuts on Hulu on May 21.

M.O.D.O.K. is one of two survivors of what was to be a quartet of animated superhero shows for the streaming network, which at one time included the Chelsea Handler-produced Tigra & Dazzler, and the Kevin Smith-backed Howard the Duck. 

The only other project moving forward from that slate is another animated show, Hit Monkey, about a simian assassin. Blades of Glory writers Josh Gordon and Will Speck are producing that one. Incidentally, before he was offered the job directing Guardians of the Galaxy, writer-director James Gunn once pitched Marvel Studios a Hit Monkey film.

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By Stephen Iervolino
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February 25, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

BG027/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images(LOS ANGELES) — A biopic on controversial lip-syncing ’90s duo Milli Vanilli is still moving ahead, but the film company involved in its production has removed itself from the project — possibly due to its controversial director.

Variety reports that Millennium Media, the independent film company that brought you The Expendables, Olympus Has Fallen and The Hitman’s Bodyguard, has pulled out of the project, which is set to be directed by Brett Ratner. 

A statement from Ratner’s company said, “Millennium will not be selling the film…or be involved in the production,” adding that instead, “a group of private equity investors” will be “fully financing the movie.”

The announcement of the film on February 19 was followed by an outcry because of Ratner’s involvement. In 2017, seven women, including Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge, accused Ratner of sexual harassment and misconduct, reports Variety. 

On February 20, Variety reports, Time’s Up issued a statement saying that Ratner had never expressed regret, and instead, filed lawsuits against his accusers.  Time’s Up added that Ratner shouldn’t be allowed to just “go away for a couple of years and then resurface and act like nothing’s happened.”

The statement continued, “We have not – and will not – forget. And Millennium Media shouldn’t either. There should be no comeback.”

News that Millenium pulled out was met with a “thumbs up” emoji from Time’s Up on Twitter.

Ratner, best known for directing the Rush Hour franchise and X-Men: The Last Stand, is excited about the Milli Vanilli project, promoting it on his Instagram as “The Incredible True Story of the World’s Greatest Lie.”

As you might recall, the duo Milli Vanilli scored four smash singles in 1988 and 1989 and won the Grammy for Best New Artist, only to have it revoked when it was revealed that the duo — Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus — were models who didn’t actually sing on any of their records.

By Andrea Dresdale
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