Tag: Don’t Look Up
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How to Watch the Oscar Nominations Live
After months of campaigning and speculation, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is ready to release the 2022 Oscar nominations. Competition should be fierce this year, with “The Power of the Dog” dominating early award shows and several other high-profile films including “Dune” and “Don’t Look Up” also in contention. Nominations might take…
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Cate Blanchett to Receive Spanish Film Academy’s Inaugural International Goya Award
The Spanish Film Academy announced on Friday that its first-ever International Goya Award will be received by Cate Blanchett.Currently presided by Mariano Barroso, the Spanish Film Academy created the award to “honor artists that have contributed to cinema as a medium that brings together different cultures and people.” In Friday’s announcement, Blanchett was recognized for…
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Moonfall Director Roland Emmerich Didn’t Think Don’t Look Up Was Disaster-y Enough
It’s always great when directors expand their boundaries and evolve over time, tackling projects that they might never have even considered even just a few years ago. Director Adam McKay gradually progressed from Will Ferrell studio comedies to increasingly social-conscious dramas with an eye on awards attention, such as “The Big Short” or “Vice” or,…
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The Best Movies In Netflix’s Top 10 For The Week Of January 17-24
Netflix really said “new week, new me” in regard to the most popular films of the week: a whopping 60% of the top 10 list are first-timers. “Don’t Look Up” is celebrating its fifth week on the list, sitting comfortably in the 4th position. Right on its heels, however, is the horror film “
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Oscars 2022: Best Editing Predictions
Last Updated January 27: “Dune,” “Belfast,” “King Richard,” “No Time to Die,” “The Power of the Dog,” “Licorice Pizza,” and “Don’t Look Up” were among the editing Oscar contenders nominated for the 72nd annual Ace Eddie Awards this week. Also getting nods in the comedy category were “Cruella,” “The French Dispatch,” and the musical “Tick…
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Ron Perlman Says ‘F— You’ to ‘Don’t Look Up’ Critics: ‘Internet Has Almost Killed Journalism’
Ron Perlman is hitting back against critics of Adam McKay’s Netflix satire “Don’t Look Up,” in which the “Hellboy” favorite stars opposite an ensemble cast that includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Timothee Chalamet, Joe Morgan and Mark Rylance. Perlman stars in the movie as Colonel Benedict Drask, a war veteran tasked…
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Cate Blanchett and Leonardo DiCaprio Near Oscar Records for Roles in Best Picture Nominees
The best picture prize is what every studio and filmmaker covets, whether they publicly admit it or not. But, of course, it would help if you had the star power to make it happen. Oscar winners Leonardo DiCaprio and Cate Blanchett both have proven that they have said star power with the amount of best…
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Roland Emmerich Would Be Up For A Moonfall Sequel If This One Pans Out
Roland Emmerich’s “Moonfall” appears to know exactly what it is, and that is a cheesy disaster movie with climate-change overtones in the vein of others that Emmerich has made. The most recent “Moonfall” trailer teased a flick that doesn’t take itself too seriously, even as it continues the pattern of Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up” and gives us…
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‘Knives Out 2’ Expected to Drop in Late 2022, Fall Festival Debut Likely (Exclusive)
You can expect to see the next installment of Daniel Craig as Private Detective Benoit Blanc in “Knives Out 2” streaming on Netflix this fall. Variety has learned exclusively that writer and director Rian Johnson’s hotly-anticipated sequel is expected to release in theaters and the streaming platform in the last quarter of 2022.In addition, the…
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Don’t Look Up Director Adam McKay Is Producing J6, A Movie About The January 6th Insurrection
When Trump supporters assaulted the US Capitol building on January 6 following Trump’s election loss, it was widely considered to be the most egregious domestic attack on the foundation of our democratic republic since the Civil War. The fresh stain on America’s history will be center-stage in the feature film “J6,” handled by “The Comey…