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Ever since 2011, Gabriel Macht has been known for his role in the legal drama, Suits. Although the actor has built a reputation for himself as the iconic yet terrifying Harvey Specter, his success came years before he joined the series. In fact, the 52-year-old had already been a part of quite a few major films and franchises like The Spirit, Beverly Hills, 90210, and Sex and the City.

Gabriel Macht in Suits | Credits: USA Network

Seven years before he donned the sharp suits and power ties that would define his iconic role, Macht starred in a lesser-known film alongside two major stars, Scarlett Johansson and John Travolta. The movie, A Love Song for Bobby Long, was released in 2004 with a modest budget of $1.8 million, but it has since become a hidden gem for fans of all three actors.

Gabriel Macht shares his thoughts on A Love Song for Bobby Long...

Two years ago, we heard that American Horror Story regular Sarah Paulson had signed on to star in a horror thriller called Dust, which would be released as a Hulu Original. That film has since made its way out into the world under the title Hold Your Breath, having been released through the Hulu streaming service on October 3rd – and not only do we have a review of the movie that can be read Here and press day interviews that can be found Here, but we also caught up with the cast and filmmakers when they were on the red carpet at the film’s premiere! JoBlo’s own Ryan Cultrera was able to speak with the film’s stars Sarah Paulson, Amiah Miller (War for the Planet of the Apes), and Alona Jane Robbins (Law & Order), directors William Joines and Karrie Crouse, plus Natasha Ofili of The Politician...

Actor Gabriel Macht is best known for his role as Harvey Specter in the legal drama Suits. The actor’s swagger and sophisticated performance received renewed interest last year when it debuted on Netflix and introduced Specter to a whole new generation of audiences. The response was so good that a spinoff show is currently in development.

Macht has prided himself in being a family man and has, in fact, taken a break from acting ever since the end of the series. However, even while filming he managed to keep his family close, with his wife Jacinda Barrett and his father Stephen Macht playing recurring roles. One rumor about his daughter Satine being a part of the series was debunked.

Who Is Gabriel Macht’s Wife And Who Did She Play In Suits? Gabriel Macht as Harvey Specter in Suits | Credits: USA Network

Gabriel Macht broke into the scene with...

Many comic book characters have been brought to the big screen over the years, but there are only so many actors willing to fill those roles.

That's why a few Hollywood stars have ended up playing multiple parts across the Marvel and DC Universes, with at least some of them using the second characters they've played to turn their careers around after those disastrous first attempts. 

For example, Ryan Reynolds almost killed his career by playing Green Lantern in the 2011 flop; however, he'd more than made up for that with his role in the Deadpool franchise, with this year's Deadpool & Wolverine now the highest-grossing R-Rated movie of all time.

Today, we're looking at 8 actors who have played comic book characters in poorly received superhero movies, only to later redeem themselves with far more successful performances in movies and TV show that didn't flop with fans, critics, and at the box office.

Before Gabriel Macht became the wisecracking James Bond of lawyers in Suits, he played supporting roles in shows such as Sex and the City and was the lead in the superhero film The Spirit. However, things changed when he was chosen to play Harvey Specter in the legal drama. Macht brought wit, suave, and vulnerability to the character.

While the show has found a new audience since its debut on Netflix and Peacock, fans have been wondering where the actor has gone since the show ended in 2019. Macht seems to have left acting altogether since Suits and his only appearances have been a one-off for the spinoff show Pearson and an appearance with the Suits cast at this year’s Golden Globes.

Gabriel Macht May Be Focusing On His Family After Suits Gabriel Macht in The Spirit | Credits: Lionsgate

For nine seasons, Gabriel Macht entertained audiences with his witty quips...

Remember the halcyon days of 2010? The Marvel Cinematic Universe was still in its infancy, but much was already being made of any superhero movie that felt even slightly different from the future juggernaut's quippy origin stories. Future DC Studios co-ceo James Gunn's name was already in the middle of conversations about superhero ethics thanks to his new film "Super," while fans of Alan Moore's "Watchmen" comics were still debating the merits and myriad drawbacks of Zack Snyder's big-screen adaptation. From "The Spirit" to "Hancock," recent alternative superhero stories were actively dividing audiences who had yet to lay eyes on a single "Avengers" film.

Then "Kick-Ass" showed up. The R-rated action-comedy featured a scrappy teen hero, a little girl who loved to beat the s**t out of people, a fittingly odd Nicolas Cage performance, and the unofficially cinematic mascot of the late aughts, "Superbad" breakout star Christopher Mintz-Plasse.

Two years ago, we heard that American Horror Story regular Sarah Paulson had signed on to star in a horror thriller called Dust, which would be released as a Hulu Original. That film has since made its way through production and post-production, and along the way it was retitled Hold Your Breath. It’s now set to be released through the Hulu streaming service on October 3rd – and with that date swiftly approaching, a batch of first look images have arrived online! You can check them out in this article.

Coming to us from Searchlight Pictures, Hold Your Breath marks the feature directorial debut of directors William Joines and Karrie Crouse. Crouse wrote the screenplay for the film, which has the following synopsis: In 1930s Oklahoma, amid the region’s horrific dust storms, a woman is convinced that a sinister presence is threatening her family. Another synopsis let us know...

On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.

First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.

Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.

The Pitch: Scared of a Spider Bite Birthing a Thousand Spiders on Your Face? In ‘The Manitou,’ It’s Worse.

At a certain point in time, we lived in a world where we could wander into a movie playing on some random network (Rip Upn) and get sucked in with no knowledge of what it was, the behind-the-scenes stories it held, or even a whiff of IMDb trivia. It was a sad, bleak era. That is how I happened upon “The Manitou” one lazy summer Sunday. Everything about this oddball horror movie...

In terms of new original content coming to Hulu, March is a slight month, with the streamer’s highlight being the limited series premiere of We Were the Lucky Ones at the end of the month. The show, which is based on Georgia Hunter’s New York Times bestselling novel, is inspired by the true story of a Jewish family who are separated at the start of WWII, and who then have to survive in order to eventually reunite. We Were the Lucky Ones stars Joey King from The Kissing Booth films alongside Percy Jackson‘s Logan Lerman, and debuts on March 28.

Here’s everything coming to Hulu (and leaving) in March…

Hulu New Releases – March 2024

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Vrains: Complete Seasons 1-3 (Dubbed) Dark Side of the 90s: Complete Season 2 Dark Side of the 2000s: Complete Season 1 Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem | 2007 Ali | 2001 Bad Teacher | 2011 Batman Begins | 2005 Beasts of the Southern Wild...

Exclusive: Actress Jaime King (Black Summer) has taken on new agents at Paradigm.

A series regular for four seasons on The CW’s Hart of Dixie, King has more recently been seen leading Netflix’s post-apocalyptic drama Black Summer, which ran for two seasons.

On the film side, she most recently wrapped a role in Lights Out, an action thriller that has her starring opposite Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney and Scott Adkins. The actress made her acting debut in Daniel Walters’ 2001 Sundance comedy Happy Campers and has since then gone on to appear in Ted Demme’s Blow opposite Johnny Depp, Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor opposite Ben Affleck, Keenan Ivory Wayans’ White Chicks, Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City opposite Benicio Del Toro, Mickey Rourke and Bruce Willis, DJ Caruso’s Two for the Money opposite Al Pacino and Matthew McConaughey, Frank Miller’s The Spirit opposite Samuel L. Jackson and Scarlett Johansson,...

Sometimes there’s a creator whose work you like, and you keep checking to see if they have anything new, and they just don’t. For a decade or two. You’re pretty sure they’re still out there, and you hope they’re doing something fun and interesting. You may have the secret hope, most famously centered around J.D. Salinger, that the creator is just piling up lots of Good Stuff, kept unpublished for idiosyncratic reasons, and you will eventually get to see all of that on some glorious future day.

Michael T. Gilbert is one of those, for me. I liked his Mr. Monster stories both in the ’80s, with goofy, near-parody humor/horror style, and in the ’90s, when he retooled in a more serious mode for an “Origins” series. And I gather he’s had some random Mr. Monster stories since then, but nothing regular. I...

Christmas was a special time for the Walton family. Even when times were tough, Olivia and John Walton found a way to make the holiday special for their seven children, as seen in multiple episodes of the popular show, which ran for nine seasons on CBS. Over the years, The Waltons aired four episodes focused on the December holiday, in addition to the Christmas movie that kicked off the series. Here’s every Waltons Christmas episode ranked according to IMDb.

‘The Spirit’

IMDb rating: 7.4 out of 10

In this season 8 episode of The Waltons, the family celebrates Christmas without their mother for the first time because she is spending the day with John-Boy in the hospital, who is recovering from his war injuries.. On Walton’s Mountain, Rose’s grandson Jeffrey (Keith Coogan) befriends a stranger who turns out to be an escaped German Pow (Ned Bellamy). The family ends up...

An actor's body is their instrument, and depending on one's versatility, that instrument can produce all kinds of music. To cite a pair of extreme examples, Robert De Niro famously packed on 70 pounds to play post-retirement Jake Lamotta in "Raging Bull," while Christian Bale dropped 60 pounds to play the emaciated main character of "The Machinist."

For the most part, though, actors are cast according to physical type, which means they shouldn't have to drastically alter their appearance to play a specific role (because there's a bevy of talented actors who fit a variety of types). Still, there are parts that require rigorous training, like action movies. If you're going to play a character who can take out multiple adversaries at once with their bare hands, you've got to look convincing on camera. This means loads of combat training in different martial arts disciplines. Above all, this means getting in shape.

Jacinda Barrett and Gabriel Macht have been married for more than two decades, and their love seems to be going strong. Macht starred on "Suits," a show that's been having a steady resurgence this summer since it hit Netflix, and this has sparked renewed interest in his love life - particularly in the fact that his wife, Jacinda Barrett, stars as his love interest in season two.

However, the pair didn't meet on the "Suits" set. They actually were already married and had a child together when Macht began his tenure on the show, which also stars Meghan Markle, in 2011. "Suits" also wasn't even the first time Macht and Barrett appeared on screen together; they both had roles in the 2009 film "Middle Men." Both Macht and Barrett have their own acting careers, with Barrett appearing in "Bridget Jones's Diary: The Edge of Reason," "The Namesake," and, more recently, "Hide and Seek.

Perhaps you’ve heard but it’s been a very Suits summer.

Despite airing its final episode in September 2019, USA Network’s legal procedural Suits has been the talk of the streaming world ever since its first eight seasons arrived to Netflix on June 17. All nine seasons have been streaming on Peacock for far longer but Netflix, as the biggest streaming service, tends to drive the most attention. Per Nielsen, Suits has already broken its own streaming record with 3.7 billion minutes viewed the first week of July and viewership intensity doesn’t appear to be slowing down anytime soon.

The potential reasons for Suits‘ surge in popularity are manyfold. While the dual WGA and Sga strikes shouldn’t have led to an extended pause in summer content in theory, some studios have juggled their schedules a bit to weather the storm for the fall season. Additionally, Suits‘ basic cable format...

Scarlett Johansson is known for her popular portrayal as Black Widow in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But there was another comic book film Johansson starred in that didn’t have the most flattering outfit.

Scarlett Johansson felt squeamish wearing this costume for her critically panned superhero movie Scarlett Johansson | Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

Before Johansson made her Marvel debut in Iron Man 2, the actor experimented with another comic book movie called The Spirit. The film was based on a 1940s comic strip about a crime fighter, and was adapted to the big screen by Frank Miller.

Miller was mostly known for his contributions to the comic book industry with graphic novels like The Dark Knight Returns and Sin City. He offered a bit of assistance on the 2005 film adaptation of his Sin City comic which was directed by Robert Rodriguez.

Miller would later serve as director on The Spirit, a...

Following the exciting announcement that Tony Todd will be a guest of honor at this year's Salem Horror Fest, the full lineup for the anticipated festival has now been revealed, including the new documentary Satan Wants You and retrospective screenings of Fright Night: Part II, The Fog (1980), The Blood on Satan's Claw, and more!

Exclusively announced on Fangoria, you can check out the full lineup of films and events for this year's Salem Horror Fest on their official website, and we also have the official press release with additional details:

Press Release: Salem Ma - March 13, 2023 - Named by MovieMaker Magazine as one of the “best genre festivals in the world,” Salem Horror Fest has announced the full lineup for their sixth annual presentation, which kicks off on Thursday, April 20, and runs through Sunday, April 30.

The official program begins with a featured showcase of Satan Wants You, a new documentary...

Whatever comes with being perhaps the most-recognized British director of his time, Ken Loach still hasn’t seen every one of his films reach American shores. Thus a pleasant surprise the great people at The Film Desk will release his 2013 documentary The Spirit of ’45, which charts England’s pre-war poverty, post-war boom, aspirational welfare state, and the battles Thatcher et al. waged on blue-collar wellbeing. Yes, that’s a Ken Loach movie all right.

Ahead of next week’s debut at Film Forum, we’re pleased to debut a trailer that beautifully showcases Loach’s project––in just 90 seconds mingling decades’ worth of archival footage, present-day testimony, and a sense of Spirit‘s scale.

“The Second World War was a struggle, perhaps the most considerable collective struggle this country has ever experienced,” Loach said. “While others made greater sacrifices, the people of Russia for example, the determination to build a...

Director Steven Spielberg has added DC Comics' 1941 World War II action title "Blackhawk", to his feature film slate with Warner Bros.:

"It was wonderful working with the team at Warner Bros. to bring 'Ready Player One' to the screen", said Spielberg. 

""They bring a blend of passion and professionalism to everything they do and have a tremendous history in this genre. I am excited to reunite with them on 'Blackhawk'..."

Created by Chuck Cuidera with input from both Bob Powell and "The Spirit" illustrator Will Eisner, 'Blackhawk' debuted in Quality Comics' "Military Comics" #1 (August 1941), with 'Blackhawk'. leading a 7-member team of World War II-era ace pilots of varied nationalities.  

"...the 'Blackhawks' operate from 'Blackhawk Island', fly 'Grumman XF5F Skyrocket' planes...

"...and shout their battle cry of 'Hawk-a-a-a!' as they descend from the skies to fight tyranny and oppression.

"Clad in matching blue and black uniforms,...

Robert Eggers’s viking epic, “The Northman,” has been out for a few weeks now, and while it hasn’t done huge business at the box office – about 31 million as of this writing – it’s an interesting release for early potential awards conversations.

Eggers burst onto the scene in 2015 when his debut feature “The Witch” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where the filmmaker received a jury prize for his direction. It wouldn’t be released by A24 until a year later, at which point it continued to achieve acclaim, winning two Indie Spirit awards in February 2017 for Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay.

Eggers’s latest movie stars Alexander Skarsgård as Amleth, who, as a young Nordic prince, was chased from his home after his father, King Aurvandil (Ethan Hawke), is brutally murdered by his brother Fjölnir (Claes Bang). Decades later Amleth has become a Viking berserker, but...

Kiara Advani through her spokesperson, has denied being approached for Prabhas’ next titled ‘Spirit’ directed by ‘Arjun Reddy’ fame Sandeep Reddy Vanga. A statement issued on behalf of Kiara by her spokesperson read, “In the wake of recent reports and speculations about Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s upcoming film starring Prabhas, as Kiara Advani’s spokesperson would like […]...

Director Martika Ramirez Escobar has been working in the industry for a while. After a University degree “cum laude”, her graduation film “Pusong Bato” participated to the 19th edition of Busan International Film Festival. She has been working as a Dop for “Hello, Stranger: The Movie” and for Zack Tabuldo’s music videos “Heart Can’t Lose” and “The Juans”. Her first feature film “Leonor Will Never Die” took 8 years to be completed and after having its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival in 2022, it won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Innovative Spirit.

Actress Sheila Francisco comes from a theatre background. She played a lot of memorable roles in her career as a theatre actress, most recently the role of Bloody Mary, in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “South Pacific” in the 2000s at the National Theatre in London, but she was also a TV commercial producer long before her acting career.

Alexandra Burke, singer, song-writer and British X-Factor winner, has signed on to play the villainess in this year’s London Palladium pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk.

Oh yes she has!

Burke joins already announced stars Dawn French, Julian Clary, Paul Zerdin, Nigel Havers and Gary Wilmot. The panto runs at the Palladium from December 10 through January 15.

The Brits love their pantos at Christmas. Michael Harrison, who heads Crossroads Pantomimes, has turned the Palladium panto into a must-see event with spectacular sets and costumes, plenty of song and dance coupled with over-the-top jokes.

Last season Burke played Scheherazade — the Spirit of the Ring in Aladdin at the Opera House, Manchester.

”This year I’ve got Dawn as Jack’s mum and Alexandra as Mrs. Blunderbore, the giant’s wife. She’s the villainess and she’ll be terrorizing Dawn,” Harrison told Deadline.

Harrison revealed that Burke sees Mrs. Blunderbore as having “a Cruella flavour about her.

Director Steven Spielberg, following up on his "Ready Player One" box office success, has added DC Comics' 1941 World War II action title "Blackhawk", to his feature film slate with Warner Bros.:

"It was wonderful working with the team at Warner Bros. to bring 'Ready Player One' to the screen", said Spielberg. 

""They bring a blend of passion and professionalism to everything they do and have a tremendous history in this genre. I am excited to reunite with them on 'Blackhawk'..."

Created by Chuck Cuidera with input from both Bob Powell and "The Spirit" illustrator Will Eisner, 'Blackhawk' debuted in Quality Comics' "Military Comics" #1 (August 1941), with 'Blackhawk'. leading a 7-member team of World War II-era ace pilots of varied nationalities.  

"...the 'Blackhawks' operate from 'Blackhawk Island', fly 'Grumman XF5F Skyrocket' planes...

"...and shout their battle cry of 'Hawk-a-a-a!' as they descend...

As Variety announced today, Strike Back Studios, Hideout Pictures, and Particular Crowd have teamed up with Spirit Halloween stores to make a feature film. Called "Spirit Halloween" (natch), the film will be a family-friendly horror movie, and will star veteran actor Christopher Lloyd, last seen in 2021's "The Tender Bar," and Rachael Leigh Cook, last seen in 2021's "He's All That."

The press release describes the story thusly: 

When a new Spirit Halloween store appears in a deserted strip mall, three middle-school friends who think they've outgrown trick-or-treating make a dare to spend the night locked inside the store Halloween night. But they soon find out that...

The post A Spirit Halloween Store Movie is Coming to a Theater Near You, Apparently appeared first on /Film.

Interest is picking up again for director, producer Steven Spielberg’s big screen adaptation of DC Comics' 1941 World War II action title "Blackhawk", featuring an international Seal Team-type group of war time allies:

"It was wonderful working with the team at Warner Bros. to bring 'Ready Player One' to the screen", said Spielberg.

""They bring a blend of passion and professionalism to everything they do and have a tremendous history in this genre. I am excited to reunite with them on 'Blackhawk'..."

Created by Chuck Cuidera with input from both Bob Powell and "The Spirit" creator Will Eisner, 'Blackhawk' debuted in Quality Comics' "Military Comics" #1 (August 1941), with 'Blackhawk'. leading a 7-member team of World War II-era ace pilots of different nationalities.

"They shout their battle cry of 'Hawk-a-a-a!' as they descend from the skies to fight tyranny and oppression.

"Clad in matching blue and black uniforms,...

There is a lot of great entertainment featuring women and their voices of late, and we couldn't be more excited.

Apple TV+ today released the trailer for Roar, the highly anticipated darkly comedic anthology series set to debut globally with all eight-episodes on Friday, April 15 exclusively on Apple TV+.

Based on a book of short stories by Cecelia Ahern, the series is the first to be released under Roar creators and co-showrunners Carly Mensch and Liz Flahive’s (Glow) overall deal with Apple TV+.

The gripping trailer highlights the award-winning cast of actors that star across the eight distinct stories, including Academy, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos), who also executive produces.

Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award winner Cynthia Erivo (Harriet), six-time Emmy Award-nominee Issa Rae (Insecure), Emmy Award winner Merritt Wever (Unbelievable), SAG Award nominee Alison Brie, three-time Emmy Award-nominee Betty Gilpin all get showcasing episodes.

The last few weeks have been life-changing for Troy Kotsur. His first Oscar nomination. A SAG Award for Best Supporting Actor. A Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. And, this past weekend, a BAFTA Award for Supporting Actor. He is the first deaf actor to win all of these honors, all in recognition for his performance in Sian Heder‘s Best Picture nominee, “Coda.” And appreciation for a career on stage and screen that has lasted almost three decades.

Continue reading Troy Kotsur Is Living A Dream Thanks To ‘Coda’ [Interview] at The Playlist.

Nearly three decades after making her film acting debut at age 14, Maggie Gyllenhaal has now added her first feature writing and directing credits to her resume. Since its Venice International Film Festival premiere last September, her “The Lost Daughter” has won her numerous accolades, from the festival’s Golden Osella to the Independent Spirit Awards for Best Feature, Best Director and Best Screenplay. Gyllenhaal is also nominated for the Directors Guild of America’s First-Time Film Director award. According to our DGA Awards odds, she is widely expected to prevail and thereby become only the second woman to receive the honor.

This particular glass ceiling was broken by Alma Har’el, who took the 2020 prize for helming “Honey Boy.” Since the category’s establishment in 2015, 11 women and 25 men have vied for the award, making for a 1:2.3 ratio. The first female contender was inaugural nominee Marielle Heller. Aside from her and Har’el,...

Exclusive: Jaime King (Black Summer) has signed on to star alongside Frank Grillo in the thriller Man’s Son, which his son Remy Grillo is directing for XYZ Films.

The story surrounds a young couple hoping to create an aesthetically pleasing audition tape for an up-and-coming Charles Manson film. But when the couple chooses an eclectic desert Airbnb as the perfect backdrop, the dark events of the audition material slowly slip into their reality… Eventually, they find themselves intertwined in an occult, sinister plot led by King and Grillo’s characters.

Josh Plasse and Brev Moss penned the script for the pic, which is going before cameras in Yucca Valley, California this month. King’s Hooligan Dreamers Productions will produce in partnership with Dare Angel, Mi Nene and Margate House Films. Plasse, Shakira Barrera, Conor Allyn, Johnny James Fiore, Benjamin Anderson, Jake Allyn, Fabio Lo Fria, King and Emma Comley are producing,...

Instead of being the last stop in the ramp-up to the Oscars, this year Film Independent opted to move up the Independent Spirit Awards by three weeks. On Sunday, the usual sun-blasted outdoor hang near the blustery tent in Santa Monica marked an exuberant reunion for the pandemic-battered film community. (Last year’s awards were a virtual affair.) And due to the new date, the major Spirit wins could have some impact on the Oscar results, as the Academy will vote between March 17 and 22. Indie Spirit winners often repeat at the Oscars, even though this year many of their categories celebrate the indiest of indies, which are nowhere near the mainstream.

Hosted with brio by married couple Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman, the 37th Independent Spirit Awards aired live on IFC and the IFC app, and streamed on AMC+. “They’re not going to your movies,” warned Offerman of the...

“The Lost Daughter” was the big winner, but the 2022 Film Independent Spirit Awards will also be remembered as the year that the Indie Spirits moved away from the Oscars in more ways than one.

After decades as the show that takes place the Saturday afternoon before the Academy Awards, the Spirit Awards moved to a Sunday three weeks earlier, with Film Independent president Josh Welsh explaining, “Shifting earlier in the awards season will allow us to shine an even brighter light on the films and shows we are excited to celebrate.”

The move was considered an attempt to influence awards season more than it could in its usual spot, which takes place after Oscar voting has stopped; this year, the Spirit Awards showcased its favorites before Academy voters could even begin casting their ballots.

But the date change didn’t really matter, because the Indie Spirit Awards’ connection to and...

The 37th Annual Indie Spirit Awards were at California’s Santa Monica Pier on Sunday, March 6, honoring the best American films made for less than $20 million (foreign films get their own International Feature category). Nominations were selected by film industry insiders and critics, while winners were voted on by the wider Film Independent membership. The organization includes industry professionals but also any movie aficionados who pay for membership starting at $95 per year. So who won? Scroll down for our live blog breaking down all the winners as they’re announced and their significance in this awards season.

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The Spirit Awards have often been a preview of the Oscars in recent years as the Oscars have more regularly honored lower-budget films like “Birdman,” “Spotlight,” “Moonlight,” and “Nomadland,” all of which won top honors at both awards.

The 37th Annual Indie Spirit Awards will be held on Sunday, March 6, to honor the best achievements in American films made for under $20 million. Nominations were decided by film professionals, programmers, and critics, while winners are decided by the entire Film Independent membership. The organization includes industry insiders but also any indie movie fans who pay for membership starting at $95 per year. So who’s out front to win?

SEEOscars 2022: 1st 6 presenters announced are Lady Gaga, Kevin Costner, Zoe Kravitz, Chris Rock, Rosie Perez, Yuh-Jung Youn

“The Lost Daughter” is the favorite for Best Feature, according to the combined predictions of Gold Derby users who have placed their bets here in our predictions center. It’s also the front-runner for Best Director and Best Screenplay, both of which would go to first-time filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal, who has contended here twice for acting: Best Female Lead for “Secretary” (2002) and Best...

Almost 2,000 Gold Derby readers have made their Indie Spirit predictions in advance of Sunday’s ceremony. Scroll down to see our official odds in all 13 movie categories based on those combined predictions. Our projected winners are highlighted in gold.

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The Indie Spirit Awards winners are voted on by members of Film Independent. Membership is open to any movie fans who pay $95 in yearly dues, which often leads to the highest-profile Oscar contenders winning top prizes against less widely publicized films. But this year Film Independent snubbed many of the Oscar front-runners; this is only the second time in the last 13 years that there are no Best Picture Oscar nominees among the Spirit contenders for Best Feature.

The black comedy “Zola” led the nominations with seven including Best Feature, Best...

Latest awards issue focuses on how international awards contenders are performing at the box office, and explores Hollywood’s long love affair with musicals.

Read Screen’s February 18 digital edition, which this week focuses on how the international awards contenders are performing at the box office, and explores Hollywood’s long love affair with musicals.

It also features in-depth looks at the making of Dune, West Side Story, King Richard and Independent Spirit nominee Zola.

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Actor Jaime King has joined the cast of action movie “Lights Out,” a Firebrand production, staring Frank Grillo, Mekhi Phifer and Scott Adkins. The Exchange, the world sales agent, is introducing the movie to buyers at the virtual European Film Market.

King, the star of Netflix’s “Black Summer” season one (2019) and season two (2021), has notably appeared in Michael Bay’s “Pearl Harbor,” Keenan Ivory Wayans’ “White Chicks,” Robert Rodriguez’s “Sin City,” Frank Millers’ “The Spirit,” and Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez’s “Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.”

“Lights Out,” which is in production, is a gritty modern-day “Road House” meets “Kickboxer,” set against the seedy underworld of Los Angeles.

An original screenplay by Garry Charles and Chad Law, “Lights Out” is directed by Christian Sesma and produced by Brandon Burrows of Firebrand.

The Exchange’s EFM lineup includes John Cena and Brian Cox’ “The Independent,” Kaley Cuoco...

All winners will continue to play on Slamdance Channel until midnight February 6.

Hannah Ha Ha directed by Joshua Pikovsky and Jordan Tetewsky earned the Narrative Feature Grand Jury prize, while the Documentary Feature Grand Jury Prize was awarded to Olivier Bernier’s Forget Me Not.

In other awards announced on Friday (4) the 2022 Slamdance Unstoppable Grand Jury Prize was awarded to Straighten Up And Fly Right by Steven Tanenbaum and Kristen Abate and the George Starks Spirit of Slamdance Award, voted on by filmmakers and given to the filmmaker who best embodies the spirit of the Festival, went to Sasha Levinson,...

TributeAfter years of being labelled a comic actor, Kalpana began to explore performance-oriented roles later in her career, winning a National Award along the way. CrisKalpana in an interview with Kaumudy TVIt shocked her scattered fans across the world when actor Kalpana, always agile and laughing, passed away suddenly on a January morning in 2016. She was 50 and in her prime as an actor, just beginning to prove to viewers that there was a lot more she could handle than comedy. Kalpana had by chance slipped into comedy a few years into her career and then played scores of funny characters, assuring laughter and good times for those who sought entertainment in Malayalam cinema. Much later, she played serious characters in well-made movies, showing a new side of hers that had been little explored. An award came belatedly in 2013 – a National Award, no less – but she didn’t live much longer after that.

Beyonce and Billie Eilish have competed against each other for awards before, but usually at the Grammys. This year, however, both singer-songwriters are poised to be nominated for Best Original Song at the Oscars, and the Expert journalists we’ve surveyed thus far are split right down the middle as to which of them will win.

Eilish is actually a year overdue for her Oscar nomination. She and her brother Finneas co-wrote the title song from the latest James Bond film, “No Time to Die,” which was supposed to be released in 2020 but was delayed repeatedly due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In fact, the song itself was released as a single way back in February 2020 and this past year it already won the Grammy for Best Song Written for Visual Media. But it couldn’t compete for Oscar until the release of the film. The good news for Eilish is...

What movies are playing well with Oscar voters and what has the right stuff to last all the way? With IndieWire’s Eric Kohn on paternity leave, in this week’s episode of Screen Talk (number 360), editor-at-large Anne Thompson and her fill-in guest, IndieWire managing editor Christian Blauvelt, parse this week’s awards announcements, from the beleaguered Golden Globes, whose year-end votes were downplayed by the media, to the far more predictive Critics Choice Awards, whose 500 national members boast more professional credibility than the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. After NBC canceled the Globes telecast, the CCAs will take that January 9 date for their broadcast on the CW and TBS.

Also announcing this week were the Indie Spirits, whose juries have moved away from foreshadowing the Oscars in recent years. Spirit contenders must come in under $22.5 million to be eligible. While the Spirits have moved up their Santa Monica tent show...

What movies are playing well with Oscar voters and what has the right stuff to last all the way? With IndieWire’s Eric Kohn on paternity leave, in this week’s episode of Screen Talk (number 360), editor-at-large Anne Thompson and her fill-in guest, IndieWire managing editor Christian Blauvelt, parse this week’s awards announcements, from the beleaguered Golden Globes, whose year-end votes were downplayed by the media, to the far more predictive Critics Choice Awards, whose 500 national members boast more professional credibility than the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. After NBC canceled the Globes telecast, the CCAs will take that January 9 date for their broadcast on the CW and TBS.

Also announcing this week were the Indie Spirits, whose juries have moved away from foreshadowing the Oscars in recent years. Spirit contenders must come in under $22.5 million to be eligible. While the Spirits have moved up their Santa Monica tent show...

Arguably the biggest power couple in showbiz, Beyonce and Jay-Z, are nominated for Best Original Song at this year’s Critics Choice Movie Awards … but they’re nominated against each other for different projects. Which one of them do you think has the better chance of winning? And might they have a rematch at the Oscars?

Beyonce is nominated for “Be Alive,” her original song from “King Richard” which she co-wrote and co-produced with Dixson. It’s not her first bid from the Critics Choice Awards. She actually won this category for “Listen” from “Dreamgirls” (2006). That song was also nominated at the Oscars, but the motion picture academy disqualified her as a songwriter as they only allowed a maximum of three writers to be recognized: Henry Krieger, Scott Cutler, and Anne Preven, with Beyonce being the unlucky fourth. She made another play for awards recognition with “Spirit” from the photo-realistic...

The 2022 Independent Spirit Awards nominations were announced Tuesday, December 14. So who made the cut at these kudos, which celebrate the best in American independent films? Scroll down to see the full 2022 Indie Spirits nominations list. Remember, only American-made movies with budgets under $20 million were eligible for consideration.

These Spirit contenders were decided by nominating committees that included film critics, film programmers, producers, directors, writers, cinematographers, editors, actors, past nominees and winners, and members of Film Independent’s Board of Directors. Winners will be chosen by all of Film Independent’s eligible members, including industry insiders and any movie fans who sign up for membership starting at $95 per year.

These awards have come to be a significant preview of the Oscars as the motion picture academy embraces more independent films. Six of the last 10 Spirit champs for Best Feature went on to win the Oscar for Best Picture including last year’s double dipper “Nomadland,...

For Elaine Bogan’s animated feature film directorial debut, DreamWorks Animation’s Spirit Untamed, it seemed like there was a constant bit of kismet at play.

“When I was first called and contacted to become part of the Spirit franchise, I jumped out of my car,” Bogan told Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles on Sunday while sharing a panel with composer Amie Doherty. “I was sitting in the parking lot at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center just after having ridden my horse, so the timing of everything felt great.”

Bogan said she’d long held a deep affinity for the Spirit property, going back to the initial film in the franchise, 2002’s Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.

“I’ve been an equestrian since I was a kid, and I grew up watching the first film until I broke the DVD in half,” she revealed.

‘Spirit Untamed’ Review: Jake Gyllenhaal Saddles Up,...

In honor of World Mental Health Day, Nami Westside Los Angeles launched its Free Your Me anti-stigma mental health campaign on Sunday, October 10 with a swell of synchronized social media posts by notable actors, athletes, musicians and top content creators.

Along with partners Two Feet South and Pure Edge Inc., Nami West LA created the ongoing campaign to highlight the power of words when it comes to mental health awareness—but more importantly, to send the message to our youth community that they are not alone.

Among the group of high-profile personalities who raised their voices in support of the campaign were multiple-award winning actors and entertainers Jane Seymour, Derek Hough, John C. McGinley, AnnaLynne McCord and DeWanda Wise, along with lauded sports figures including Laird Hamilton, Gabby Reece, Danica Patrick, Joakim Noah and Paul Rabil. Some shared deeply personal stories of loved ones who suffered with mental health challenges...

As predicted, Lois Smith won the Tony Award for Featured Actress in a Play for her moving turn in Matthew Lopez’s “The Inheritance.” Not only is this the veteran actress’ first career Tony win, but Smith has just become the oldest Tony winning actor in history. Talk about a victory being worth the wait!

Lois Smith is 90 years of age, having been born on November 3, 1930. This makes her two years older than the previous record holder for oldest Tony winning performer. That would be Cicely Tyson, who won a Tony for playing Carrie Watts in the 2018 revival of “The Trip To Bountiful” at age 88. That was Tyson’s only Tony nomination and win of her career, despite appearing in nine Broadway plays. Ironically, Smith also portrayed Carrie in a 2005 Off-Broadway revival of “Bountiful.” She won the Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Obie, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for that performance.

A new Beyoncé song, “Be Alive,” appears at the end of upcoming Venus and Serena Williams biopic King Richard. The movie, which stars Will Smith as the tennis pros’ father, uses “Be Alive” during its closing credits.

According to the Los Angeles Times, which reviewed the film at the Telluride Film Festival this weekend, “Be Alive” was written by the singer along with Dixson specifically for the film.

“That means that Beyoncé will perform at the Oscars next year,” the review notes. “There’s no way the academy is snubbing...

“King Richard” ends with Queen Bey.

The rousing family drama about Richard Williams (Will Smith) and the lengths he went to help his daughters, tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams, become two of the most successful athletes of all time made its debut at the Telluride Film Festival on Thursday night and provided attendees with an unexpected surprise: an original song from Beyoncé.

Called “Be Alive,” the track plays at the end of the Reinaldo Marcus Green alongside footage of the real Williams family. The empowering anthem was co-written by Beyoncé and Dixson. The single does not yet have an official release date but “King Richard” is set to debut on November 19 in theaters and via HBO Max.

Beyoncé has won multiple Grammy Awards and received numerous Emmy Award nominations as well. Despite some past contenders, such as the original song “Spirit” from “The Lion King,” she has never received an Oscar nomination.

This year’s Emmy contenders in the competitive category of outstanding cinematography for a limited or anthology series or movie showcase a range of looks, from the period stories in Fargo, The Queen’s Gambit, Small Axe and The Underground Railroad to the contemporary setting of Mare of Easttown.

HBO limited series Mare of Easttown, created by Brad Ingelsby, stars Kate Winslet as a detective investigating a murder in a close-knit Pennsylvania town. “Inspired by the writing itself and the fabulous casting, I hoped to create a visual portrait of Easttown and its inhabitants to complement the story arc,” says Ben Richardson, a 2013 Independent Spirit Award winner ...