“I just found out that the great Julee Cruise passed away. Very sad news,” Lynch said in a video posted on his David Lynch Theater YouTube page. “So might be a good time to appreciate all the good music she made, and remember her as being a great musician, great singer, and a great human being. Julee Cruise.” Cruise died on June 10 after battling systemic lupus. Her husband Edward Grinnan confirmed Cruise’s death....
Both Comedy and Drama categories saw complete turnover in nominees from 2019, with none of the series honored last year airing episodes during the window of eligibility in 2020. Therefore the celebration is guaranteed to get an injection of fresh blood, a welcome development with any awards body. Curiously, the wide open field allowed for some surprising series to garner their first ever DGA nominations, including AMC’s “Better Call Saul” and Disney+’s “The Mandalorian....
We can’t definitively state that Season 2 of the FXX series “Dicktown” is the lone inhabitant of that sliver in the middle, but it’s almost certainly the only animated detective show that also has an impish parody of Tintin arriving with fanfare at the heart of its sophomore season. The show is driven by the same expansive web of Things that preoccupy its creator/writer/stars John Hodgman and David Rees, a creative engine that made its first batch of episodes in 2020 so distinct....
Donnie Emerson (Casey Affleck) has never fully given up on his dreams of making it as a musician. He lives, unfulfilled, with his loving musician wife Nancy (a conspicuously glamorous Zooey Deschanel) and two children, struggling to make ends meet with running an under-booked recording studio and gigging as a wedding singer. Joe (Walton Goggins) has long stopped trying to pursue music and lives on the much depleted family farm in a beautiful hand-built cabin, content with his lot in life and proximity to the rest of the Emerson clan, headed up by loving patriarch Don Sr....
“But what happened on that debate stage was unlike anything that’s ever happened on a Presidential debate stage ever before,” Maddow told viewers, laying out how the choice presented that evening was clearly one between politics as we know it, where candidates participate in candid, sometimes argumentative debate governed by mutually agreed upon rules and “a monstrous, unintelligible display of logorrhea which has nothing to do with civic discourse.” And while, like Maddow, many political pundits were surprised by this turn of events, those of us schooled in the ways of reality TV know that the debate was merely a live reaction show; still fake, but a realer kind of fake than the foolishness we’d been served over the last few years....
Gifted to the family via a magical candle, the enchanted and colorful house functions as an important character (director Byron Howard likens it to the family dog), providing an atmosphere of joy, but also signaling darker undercurrents of unhappiness that eventually rip the house apart as the family loses its magical powers. That is, until Mirabel (Stephanie Beatriz) — the only ungifted member — summons the strength to unify the family and rebuild the house....
The mega-production company, which was founded in 2017 using sales, production, and distribution assets within Endeavor, WME, and IMG, has officially rebranded as Fifth Season following a new partnership with Korean studio CJ ENM. CJ ENM, the media conglomerate behind Oscar winner “Parasite,” paid $785 million to acquire an 80 percent stake in Endeavor Content before the rebrand. The new name is inspired by Eastern medicine, which recognizes a “fifth season” as a celebratory time of harvest in the late summer....
