Tag: Chance

  • ‘The Voice’: New Coaches Join Season 25

    ‘The Voice’: New Coaches Join Season 25

    For the first time since its inception in April 2011, The Voice will be mixing things up by introducing the show’s first-ever coaching duo. While The Voice‘s Og coach, Blake Shelton, already bid his farewell after Season 23, the coaching panel has been reinvented with the introduction of Grammy-winning country-pop artists Dan + Shay—composed of…

  • ‘Plaza Catedral,’ ‘Prayers for the Stolen’ Deal With Violence Inflicted Upon Youth in Latin America

    ‘Plaza Catedral,’ ‘Prayers for the Stolen’ Deal With Violence Inflicted Upon Youth in Latin America

    Mexico’s Tatiana Huezo and Abner Benaim of Panama, whose respective dramas, “Prayers for the Stolen” and “Plaza Catedral,” made the coveted shortlist in the Oscars’ international feature category, have quite a few things in common. Both have mainly worked in documentary filmmaking, although in the case of Benaim, he made a hit comedy in 2009,…

  • Quibi vs. Quarantine: The Antithesis of the Streaming Wars — TV Podcast

    Quibi vs. Quarantine: The Antithesis of the Streaming Wars — TV Podcast

    Well, it’s finally here.After months of queries and quibbles and confusing commercials, Quibi, the billion-dollar brainchild of Jeffrey Katzenberg, as overseen by Meg Whitman, is here and ready to stream its initial offering of celebrity-driven content.More from IndieWireVirtual Press Junkets Are Happening and Could Change the Way Films Are PromotedQuibi’s Launch Day Success Is Difficult…

  • ‘Normal People’ Trailer: The Director of ‘Room’ Heads to Hulu with a Forbidden Romance

    ‘Normal People’ Trailer: The Director of ‘Room’ Heads to Hulu with a Forbidden Romance

    Since directing Brie Larson to an Oscar win in 2015’s Room, Irish writer/director Lenny Abrahamson has been fairly quiet, directing only a couple episodes of a TV series called Chance and a single feature, the 2018 horror mystery The Little Stranger, which starred Domhnall Gleeson. Now Abrahamson has returned to his home country as one…