With all of this year’s Oscar narratives thoroughly dissected and each of the contenders mapped out, it’s time for the first real assessment of this season’s best picture race in this space. Below are the top 10 players as we see it, with nominations just over a month away. (Also check out In Contention’s full list of predictions in the Academy’s 21 feature film categories.) “BlacKkKlansman” (Focus) Spike Lee’s latest […]
The 91st Academy Awards will air on Sunday, February 24. The 2019 Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 24, and will air live on ABC at 8 pm Eastern/5 pm Pacific. The awards show is searching for a new host after Kevin Hart stepped down — just two days after he was announced for the gig — amid controversy over homophobic jokes he’d made in the past. The 2019 Oscar nominations will be […]
The score for Solo: A Star Wars Story has been disqualified for Oscar consideration in the Original Song and Original Score category. With the film award season underway, eyes are already looking towards the pending Academy Award nominations. The first rounds of voting on potential nominees for some of the categories have started, including the Oscars for Original Song and Original Score, with reportedly over 150 potential nominees submitted this year. However, the music branch […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA6hldpSTF8 Will the sequel to the biggest movie of 2018 be the biggest movie in sequel history? The sky is the limit for the fourth Avengers movie when the epic from Disney’s Marvel Studios hits theaters on April 26 2019. And, with the film’s just-arrived trailer, it’s a good bet those skies will be filled with pitched battles of heroic sacrifice and cosmic consequence. Watch the trailer above, and see the film’s newly released poster […]
The political film "Vice" made a big move in the race to the Oscars Thursday morning, picking up six Golden Globe Award nominations. Adam McKay's Dick Cheney biopic snagged nominations for best comedy or musical, best actor for Christian Bale as the former vice president, best actress for Amy Adams as wife Lynne Cheney, and supporting actor for Sam Rockwell as President George W. Bush. Oscar contender "A Star Is Born" – which earned […]
Avengers 4 directors Joe and Anthony Russo have confirmed that X-Men and Deadpool will definitely arrive in the MCU... ... and it's all thanks to that Disney-Fox deal. "I’m sure of it," Joe Russo said during Business Insider Ignition (via Deadline). "The acquisition of Fox is showing us where the future of the business is going to go." Joe went on to say that Disney CEO Bob Iger has had a "historic" run, adding: "We haven’t […]
Between the Coen brothers‘ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and Alfonso Cuarón‘s Roma, Netflix has become a bit of a director’s playground these days. But that doesn’t mean you’re always stuck watching these films on a laptop screen. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) With Roma already in the middle of a theatrical run, THR reports that the streaming service’s next high-profile original film, Martin Scorsese‘s The Irishman, is also due for a big-screen run before it hits Netflix. That is, […]
She may have left "Game of Thrones" after the Red Wedding, but Oona Chaplin is about to break out in a major way. The jury is still out on whether anyone wants four more “Avatar” movies, but four more Oona Chaplin movies is a much easier sell. Best known for a too-brief stint on HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” the actress who played Robb Stark’s betrothed Talisa comes from a long line of […]
Facebook’s video-on-demand service Facebook Watch is getting a trio of familiar classics: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly. The social network is teaming up with 20th Century Fox to bring every episode of the shows to Facebook starting today. The shows aren’t exclusive to Facebook — you can purchase episodes from a variety of places, and the episodes can be streamed on Hulu — but earlier this week, Facebook rolled out its Watch […]
