2021 Emmy Rule Changes What Does It All Mean

Let’s start with a little good news. Starting with the 2021 Emmy season, anthology series will finally have a place to call home. And by that I mean they’re getting lumped together with limited series in a category now named Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, naturally. Is it true? Could the country’s long national nightmare regarding categorization of anthology series finally be coming to an end? Ha! No. Not so long as Film Twitter is around to argue whether they get to claim the “Small Axe” series as films, actually....

February 18, 2023 · 4 min · 686 words · Christine Ochoa

Activision Blizzard Sued By California For Fostering Sexist Workplace

The lawsuit, which was filed by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing on Tuesday and first reported by Bloomberg on Wednesday, describes a variety of issues concerning sexual harassment and gender discrimination at the Santa Monica-based company, which publishes major titles such as “World of Warcraft,” “Candy Crush,” and the “Call of Duty” series. “In the office, women are subjected to ‘cube crawls’ in which male employees drink copious amounts of alcohol as they ‘crawl’ their way through various cubicles in the office and often engage in inappropriate behavior toward female employees,” an excerpt of the lawsuit reads....

February 18, 2023 · 3 min · 615 words · Victoria Jones

Adam Sandler At Independent Spirit Awards

“Hello, I’m Adam Sandler, the face of the Independent Spirit Awards,” the comedian said, sporting robust facial hair. “If you’re wondering why I have an extremely hip beard now, it wasn’t intentional. Last year after I won Best Male Lead for me incomparable ‘Uncut Gems’ performance, this beard just appeared on my face. Was it magic, or was it the independent spirits that did it. Yes, my wife and kids haven’t looked at me without cringing in over 12 months, but Lars von Trier gave me a bag of CBD coffee for my birthday and Bon Iver does transcendental yoga with me every morning, so its all good, independently speaking of course....

February 18, 2023 · 2 min · 411 words · Jesus Cooper

Adrien Brody To Star As Pat Riley In Hbo S Los Angeles Lakers Series

Variety reported on Tuesday that Adrien Brody, who starred in films such “The Pianist,” “The Thin Red Line,” and “The Village,” will portray legendary Los Angeles Lakers coach Pat Riley in the upcoming show. Brody is among several high-profile talents who will appear in the series. Others include Jason Clarke (“Zero Dark Thirty,” “Catherine the Great”) as Jerry West, a 14-time NBA All-Star, John C. Reilly (“Step Brothers”) as Lakers owner Jerry Buss, Quincy Isaiah as point guard Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Solomon Hughes as center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Molly Gordon as Linda Zafrani, DeVaughn Nixon as point guard Norm Nixon (DeVaugn is Norm’s son), Rob Morgan as Earvin Johnson Sr....

February 18, 2023 · 2 min · 366 words · Monica Brown

Against The Ice Review Joe Cole Stars In Arctic Netflix Survival Saga

These gruesome events all take place within the first 100 days of a journey that will languish for 700 more, as the naive Iver and his headstrong leader Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen (co-writer Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) are eventually reduced to lancing each other’s neck boils and fighting over the faraway women who visit their sex dreams at night. If this all sounds like it has — or at least should have — the makings of a brutal, “The Revenant”-esque saga about men vs....

February 18, 2023 · 4 min · 733 words · Mr. Mark Rodriguez

Anne Heche Memoir Call Me Anne To Be Released Posthumously

A follow-up to her 2001 book “Call Me Crazy,” the memoir will be released by Start Publishing in January 2023. An excerpt from the upcoming memoir includes Heche discussing her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres, whom she dated in the late 1990s. “I was labeled ‘outrageous’ because I fell in love with a woman. I had never been with a woman before I dated Ellen,” Heche wrote. She added that she was effectively blacklisted in Hollywood due to the fact that she was part of one of the few openly-gay relationships in the industry....

February 18, 2023 · 2 min · 394 words · Tina Hayes

Antonio Banderas Calls Heart Attack One Of The Best Things To Happen

Banderas, currently starring in a production of the Stephen Sondheim musical “Company” in Madrid, is making the press rounds in support of his new film “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,” and he’s discussing his 2017 heart attack in-depth for the first time. “I realized that it probably was one of the best things that ever happened in my life because the things that were not important and I was worried every day about them, meaningless,” he told Page Six....

February 18, 2023 · 2 min · 377 words · Catherine Oliver
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