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Joker leads the way with 11 nominations. The Irishman and Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood follow on 10.

The nominations for the 2020 British Academy Film Awards were revealed today (Jan 7) at 194 Piccadilly, Bafta’s temporary London HQ.

Joker leads the way with 11 nominations. The Irishman and Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood follow on 10, with 1917 earning nine nods.

The titles have all been nominated for best film alongside Parasite, which earned four nods including best director for Bong Joon Ho and best film not in the English language.

The six-strong outstanding British film category includes 1917, Bait, For Sama, Rocketman, Sorry We Missed You...

“Backstabbing’s hard work.” The trailer for Narcos: Mexico season 2 is here, and it teases the return of Diego Luna (Rogue One) as Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, the leader of Mexico’s Guadalajara cartel and a man whose unification of conflicting drug traffickers in the ’80s helped jump-start the country’s drug trade as we know it today. But Félix’s newfound infamy […]

The post ‘Narcos: Mexico’ Season 2 Trailer: No One is Untouchable appeared first on /Film.

Exclusive: Amazon has partnered with the BBC on a British comedy drama created by The Office co-creator Stephen Merchant and Mayans M.C. co-creator Elgin James.

The Svod service and the British public broadcaster have ordered crime thriller-meets-state-of-the-nation commentary The Offenders (w/t) from Mum producer Big Talk and Merchant’s Four Eyes. It is the latest co-production between Amazon Studios and the BBC, which have previously partnered on Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s award-winning Fleabag and Steve McQueen’s drama Small Axe.

The six-part series, which consists of hour-long episodes, follows seven strangers from different walks of life forced together to complete a community payback sentence in Bristol. Although they seem like archetypes, they should not be pigeon-holed. As their unlikely new friendships intersect with their complicated private lives, the group must unite to protect one of their own from Bristol’s most dangerous criminal gang.

Merchant, who also created and...

The Masked Singer made a strong start to life in the UK on Saturday night, but was abandoned by more than a fifth of its audience on its second outing for commercial broadcaster ITV.

The celebrity singing contest entertained an audience of 4.3M between 8Pm and 9.30Pm on Sunday night, which was down nearly 22% on its Saturday performance of 5.5M, according to Barb figures supplied by overnights.tv.

The Masked Singer revealed the identity of Pharaoh, but it was not enough to prevent the show from being beaten Neal Street drama Call The Midwife (7m) and Ecosse Films’ The Trial of Christine Keeler (4.4m) over on BBC1.

Produced by Bandicoot TV, the entertainment show’s 20.67% share of the total UK television audience was still well up on the 17.54% an ITV show usually attracts in the Sunday night slot.

Earlier in the evening, the second half of a two-part blockbuster episode...

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With nearly 500 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable, streaming and whatever “Topic” is, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.

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Exclusive: NBC has handed a put pilot commitment to Home, a single-camera comedy about an American couple who take in a Syrian refugee. It is based on the British series, which was created by Rufus Jones and originally aired on Channel 4 in the UK. The adaptation will be written/executive produced by former Black-ish Ep Stacy Traub and directed/executive produced by Ben Stiller.

It marks the second project to emerge out of Lionsgate and BBC Studios’ development deal and comes on the back of CBS nabbing an adaptation of BBC One comedy Ghosts.

Home follows a new couple, Mark and Melanie, who go on a long weekend trip to a cabin in the woods with Melanie’s son Jonah. Their plan to come back with a tan and some happy memories is interrupted when they return with Jay, a Syrian refugee who moves in with them, and the cobbled-together...

Facebook Watch will stream an interview between Elton John and Britain’s Got Talent judge David Walliams, filmed at The Hammersmith Apollo in London earlier this week.

An Evening With Elton John was produced by Whitecoat TV and will launch on Facebook Watch on November 25, with Elton John promoting the interview on his personal Facebook and Instagram profiles.

The event is designed to promote his autobiography Me, published by Pan Macmillan. It is not the only set-piece interview Elton John is doing to mark the occasion — he will also sit down with Graham Norton for BBC One documentary Elton John: Uncensored.

Sibyl Goldman, vice president of global entertainment partnerships at Facebook said: “Elton has over 6 million followers globally on Facebook, and through our platform he offers a unique glimpse into his life and uses it to celebrate his musical milestones with fans.”...

Sterling K. Brown is set to lend his voice to the upcoming Disney Plus feature documentary “One Day at Disney,” Variety has learned exclusively.

“One Day at Disney” will highlight the people who work on some of Disney’s most beloved stories. The film will highlight 10 specific people and their role at Disney through the lens of CEO Bob Iger, with the debut set for Dec. 3. Disney Publishing Worldwide will also release a 224-page coffee table book in conjunction with the release. Then Disney Plus will release 52 four-to-seven minute shorts that focus on a different person each week with new episodes dropping on Fridays.

Brown recently lent his voice to the Disney animated film “Frozen 2” and also had a role in the Marvel blockbuster “Black Panther.” He currently stars in the hit NBC drama “This Is Us,” for which he won an Emmy in 2018. Brown is also known for his...

Exclusive: CBS is developing an adaptation of British comedy Ghosts with New Girl co-exec producers Joe Port and Joe Wiseman. It marks the first project announced after a wide-ranging deal struck between Lionsgate and BBC Studios.

The network is adapting the BBC One series as a single camera comedy with Port and Wiseman writing and exec producing.

The oddball comedy follows a young couple, whose dreams come true when they inherit a beautiful country house, only to find it’s both falling apart and inhabited by many of the deceased previous residents.

Ghosts originally aired on BBC One in April 2019. Produced by ITV-backed Harlots producer Monumental Television, it was created by a number of the team behind BBC comedy Horrible Histories including Mathew Baynton, Jim Howick, Simon Farnaby, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond and Martha Howe-Douglas, who all star alongside, Lolly Adefope and Charlotte Ritchie. The BBC version has been...

Exclusive: Nascent La/London drama producer Three Tables Productions has teamed with Fremantle to develop an adaptation of mystery thriller The Robber Baron’s Daughter.

The companies have set Picnic At Hanging Rock writer Beatrix Christian to adapt Jamila Gavin’s book.

The adaptation marks the first project unveiled by Three Tables, which was set up by group of UK drama producers and former September Films boss David Green last year.

The three London-based founders of the company are David Chikwe, who produced Cbbc’s Eve and BBC One drama Missing, Himesh Kar, exec producer of Benedict Cumberbatch-fronted doc Walk With Me and Jt Wong, producer of BBC kids’ show The Mysti Show. Green, who previously ran Dcd Media and directed a raft of film and TV including Phil Collins film Buster, is Chairman and based in La.

The Robber Baron’s Daughter, which was first published in 2008, is...

Joseph Baxter Nov 18, 2019

Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid, starring singer Halle Bailey as Ariel, will be directed by Rob Marshall.

The Little Mermaid is coming back to theaters, this time in live-action form, as part of Disney’s deluge of live-action movie remakes of its iconic animated classics. Of course, the move is hardly the biggest surprise in the world, with the year 2019 alone yielding "A-list" releases of Dumbo, The Lion King, and Aladdin, and with Mulan set arrive in March 2020, and 101 Dalmatians prequel Cruella arriving in May 2021, giving its prolific corporate tentpole neighbors at Marvel a run for their money.

Halle Bailey will embrace life under the sea, and later on the surface, to star as Ariel. This is a major break for the singer/actress, who is part of the cast of Freeform’s Grown-ish and is one-half of the R&b act, Chloe X Halle.

Over the weekend, I went to two kinds of theatrical hauntings: Saturday was an immersive theater performance called “The Johnny Cycle,” held at an actual mausoleum north of Los Angeles, surrounded by long-interred bodies of the well-to-do. Sunday was a sleek funhouse on Hollywood and Vine to promote the movie “It: Chapter 2.” The two hauntings were scary in different ways.

Both are personal to me. I went to the “Johnny Cycle” at the invitation of new friends who help run the Speakeasy Society theater company, which mounted the production. I went to “The It Experience Chapter 2” with another friend who makes documentaries about Stephen King movies and is currently making one about “It.”

The “It Experience” is haunted with killer clowns and excellent actors in bodysuits and top-notch jump scares and tasteful advertising for a horror sequel due in theaters next week. But “The Johnny Cycle” is haunted by thoughts...

At this year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions, long-overlooked bands The Cure, Def Leppard, Roxy Music and The Zombies finally got their due. And now that voters are considering 2020 inductions, which unbelievably snubbed groups could make the cut this time? We offer you a dozen more rock bands that are still waiting for their turn. Vote in the poll below about which group needs to be inducted next for the 2020 ceremony.

SEE2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Janet Jackson, Radiohead, Def Leppard, Stevie Nicks …

We’ll have polls about overdue male artists and female artists soon, but please vote in our band poll today. Results will be revealed soon.

Blood, Sweat And Tears

Eligible since 1993. Top songs include “And When I Die,” “Hi-De-Ho,” “Spinning Wheel,” “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy.” Nominated for five Grammy Awards with two wins.

The Commodores

Eligible since 1999. Top songs include “Brick House,...

Carole King will release a never-before-seen concert film and live album, Live at Montreux, June 14th via Eagle Vision. Recorded at the Montreux Pavillon in Switzerland during the 1973 Montreux Jazz Festival, the show notably marked King’s first concert outside the United States. The set list features selections from King’s solo albums Tapestry and Writer, as well as nearly every song off her then-just-released LP, Fantasy.

King previewed Live at Montreux with clips of her performing Tapestry’s “It’s Too Late” and Fantasy’s “You’ve Been Around Too Long.

Cirque du Soleil is tumbling into Hollywood, teaming up with producer Dan Lin’s production company Rideback to develop feature films based on the French Canadian theatrical company’s catalog of shows, the two companies announced jointly Tuesday.

No specific projects were mentioned, but Cirque du Soleil is behind dozens of acrobatic touring performances and shows, including “The Beatles Love,” “Michael Jackson’s One,” “Zumanity,” “O” and many more. They acquired the Blue Man Group in 2017, and have also developed a show around the high-flying stunts of “Avatar.”

The company’s most recent show is “R.U.N.,” which opens in Las Vegas this fall and explores the world of movie stunts as it imagines a live-action thriller.

Also Read: Cirque du Soleil Drops Major Green for Blue Man Group in Expansion Move

“Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group is synonymous with high quality entertainment, regardless of the brand or product category.

Mike Cecchini Joseph Baxter Nov 22, 2019

The Flash Season 6 is racing towards Crisis on Infinite Earths. Here's everything you need to know.

The Flash season 6 is here! That means way more speedster shenanigans and time-traveling adventures with Barry Allen and his team at Star Labs.

But there will be some changes in the new season, and we're not just talking about Barry's sharp new Flash costume! Current showrunner Todd Helbing was replaced by Eric Wallace.

"From his first day on The Flash, Todd Helbing has been a leader on the show, beloved by the cast and crew for his exceptional talent, vision and wonderful attitude. We are all sad to see him go, but we will all be better for the many shows he will no doubt create and run in the future," The Flash executive producer Greg Berlanti said in a statement (via The Hollywood Reporter). "Eric Wallace has proven...

Editors’ Pick: Chris Cornell, Chris Cornell

This 64-track retrospective of the late grunge icon’s career is a testament to his vocal prowess and thoughtful approach, apparent even on early Soundgarden tracks like the chugging Ultramega Ok opener “Flower” and Louder Than Love’s still-relevant environmentalist plea “Hands All Over.” Tracing his journey from hair-whipping yelper to rock elder, Chris Cornell compiles hits like Temple of the Dog’s glorious “Hunger Strike,” Audioslave’s speaker-shaking debut single “Cochise,” and Cornell’s elegiac cover of “Billie Jean” alongside quieter tracks like...

1. The Guest

With its triangle of investigators, a Catholic Priest (Yoon Hwa Pyung), a Shaman (Choi Yoon) and a Police Detective (Kang Kil Yeong), “The Guest” can be best thought of as a loose spin-off of Na’s “The Wailing” (2015) even though the answers seem clearer cut in the former than the later. Like all good Gothic texts, the crisis in the present can be traced back to a trauma in the past at which the paths of the three intersect. As Bts tell us in “DNA” ‘this is not a coincidence’ (2017). In the present, an outbreak of violent crimes for no apparent reason bring the three together again as they search for the demon behind the outbreak whose capture would resolve their traumatic pasts. Much darker in its approach than many horror themed kdramas, “The Guest”’s tight scripting, clever casting and cinematography mark it out as a must see.

By her own admission, Carole King is consumed with writing these days more than music. After publishing her memoir A Natural Woman in 2012, the enduring singer, songwriter and pianist is at work on her first-ever novel. But earlier this month, she returned to a piano — and even her long-ago workplace — for her first new recording in seven years.

At the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Ultimate Women’s Power Luncheon in San Francisco in September, King appeared alongside Hillary Clinton to raise funds for congressional candidates. King played a short set...

Timothée Chalamet began appearing on the big screen with brief roles in Jason Reitman's Men, Women & Children and Christopher Nolan's Interstellar before snaring larger roles in indie dramas like One and Two. He caught fire in Hollywood thanks to his trio of acclaimed performances last year in Call Me By Your Name (for which he received a well-deserved Academy Award nomination), Lady Bird and Hostiles. Now he is again receiving plaudits for his sterling performance as a young man dealing with addiction in Beautiful Boy, starring Steve Carell. Based on a true story, the drama opened over the weekend to very positive audience reaction, scoring 90% approval on Rotten Tomatoes as of this writing. What's next for the talented actor? The King Chalamet, who...

Timothée Chalamet began appearing on the big screen with brief roles in Jason Reitman's Men, Women & Children and Christopher Nolan's Interstellar before snaring larger roles in indie dramas like One and Two. He caught fire in Hollywood thanks to his trio of acclaimed performances last year in Call Me By Your Name (for which he received a well-deserved Academy Award nomination), Lady Bird and Hostiles. Now he is again receiving plaudits for his sterling performance as a...

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The Monkees are your overwhelmingly favorite band to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. They received 46% of support in our recent poll about snubbed rock groups. Of the dozen choices in our poll, the only other band to have double digit votes was Three Dog Night with 17%.

The results might be a good sign for both artists. Four bands at the top of our poll last year — Bon Jovi, The Cars, Dire Straits and The Moody Blues — were all finally inducted in 2018 after many years of waiting. Here are the results for our other recent polls about female artists (won by Cher) and male artists (won by George Michael).

Here are the rock bands and poll results for all 12 choices in our poll:

The Monkees (46%)

Eligible since 1991. Top songs include “Daydream Believer,” “I’m a Believer,” “Last Train to Clarksville,” “Pleasant Valley Sunday.” Nominated for...

20th Century Fox always starts its CinemaCon presentations with a musical number, and this year it was A Chorus Line — girls in red bustiers dancing along to the Broadway show’s signature song “One” as Deadpool himself came twirling onstage.

That was followed by Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) beaming in via video saying that he can’t be there, and that Fox distribution chief Chris Aronson was running late. Deadpool greeted exhibitors in the room by saying “when do we get this self-congratulatory orgy of non-exhibitionists going?” Aronson then wakes up in bed in a The Greatest Showman get-up and says, “I’m totally f*cked.” Hugh Jackman joins the duo in the hotel room, and Deadpool tells him “it looks like Comcast really dodged the bullet,” which received a number of laughs from the room. More Disney-Fox merger jokes: a costumed Pluto wakes up in the background of the...

It’s no secret that Mary J. Blige can do it all.

The Grammy Award winner, celebrated for both her singing and songwriting skills, has also been acting for years in TV and film.

But this year the “Queen of Hip-Hop Soul” has taken her acting career to the next level: Blige was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Mudbound — a Dee Rees film adaption of the 2008 novel — where she plays a mother-of-four dealing with racial prejudice on a Mississippi Delta farm during the Jim Crow South.

Blige also scored a best original song nomination for “Mighty River,...