Month: February 2021

The 2021 Golden Globe Awards will broadcast live from separate coasts for the first time, with returning co-hosts Tina Fey in New York and Amy Poehler in Los Angeles, Variety reports. Fey will helm the event from the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center, while Poehler will lead the festivities at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where the Golden Globes are typically held. This will be the fourth time Fey and Poehler have shared Golden Globes hosting duties; the pair co-hosted three consecutive years, from 2013-2015. As previously announced, Satchel and Jackson Lee — children of filmmaker and three-time Golden Globe winner Spike Lee, and producer/philanthropist Tonya Lewis Lee — will serve as Golden Globe Ambassadors. Details regarding how presenters and nominees will participate — whether ...

The 2021 Sundance Film Festival concluded tonight by awarding the top jury prizes to films that premiered at the event. The Questlove-directed Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)—a film about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival—was awarded the U.S. Documentary Competition’s Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award. Questlove reacted to the news on Twitter: “OOOOMMMGGGGHGGG WE DID IT.” “It has always been a dream of mine to direct films and telling this story has truly been an amazing experience,” Questlove wrote in a statement. “I am overwhelmed and honored by the reception the film is receiving and want to give special thanks to Sundance, and my production partners: Radical Media, Vulcan Productions, Concordia, Play/Action Pictures and LarryBilly Productions.” The...

"Summer Of Soul" won the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury and Audience awards. The mostly virtual 2021 Sundance Film Festival is coming to a close. The festival announced awards winners Tuesday night, trading an in-person ceremony for one broadcast live and hosted by Patton Oswalt. The biggest winner was Sian Heder’s coming of age drama “CODA,” which earned four U.S. Dramatic Competition awards, including the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award. Other Big winners were “Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised),” which took home the two top U.S. Documentary awards. Blerta Basholli’s “Hive” won three awards in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition: the Directing and Audience awards and the Grand Jury Prize. Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s “Writing with Fire” ear...

Netflix has been met with criticism for casting lead actress Carey Mulligan as a woman in her 50s in new film The Dig.  The screen star, 35, plays 56-year-old landowner Edith Pretty - a role originally intended for Nicole Kidman, 53 - in the movie, which is based on John Preston's 2007 novel about the unearthing of the Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in 1939.  Viewers took to Twitter to question the network's decision as one asked: 'Wasn't there an actor of the correct age?', while another claimed 'women over 40 are still invisible in the culture'. Director Simon Stone has previously defended the thespian's portrayal, stating: 'The novel departs from the truth in a lot of aspects and doesn't purport to be absolutely accurate, so the scope for departing from historical accuracy was a...

The news of Dustin Diamond’s death has sent shockwaves around the entertainment industry — and the cast of "Saved by the Bell" is still reeling from it, according to Mark-Paul Gosselaar. Appearing on Tamron Hall’s self-titled talk show, Gosselaar spoke on his late co-star’s death and noted that "it’s always tough" when someone close passes away. "I think it's even more so when the individual is someone you know and the age of Dustin -- it was only a few weeks ago that we heard about his diagnosis and for it to happen so quickly is shocking," Gosselaar said on the show.  "Myself and the rest of the cast, we will get together at some point and sort of express our feelings, but yeah, it happened so quickly that we're all just pretty shocked about it," the actor, 46, explained.  'SAVED B...