SAG Nominees; Golden Globes host Jerrod Carmichael wasn’t attempting to get invited again; Scientology isn’t happy; MediaU needs to vary movie college; Ben Affleck dunks; Sundance jurors introduced. All in right now’s Film Information Rundown.
SAG Nominees: The Display screen Actors Guild Awards nominees have simply been introduced, and the nominations for the primary award, Excellent Efficiency by a Forged in a Movement Image, embody Babylon, The Banshees of Inisherin, All the things In all places All at As soon as, The Fabelmans, and Girls Speaking. The nominees for Excellent Efficiency by a Male Actor in a Main Position went to Austin Butler for Elvis, Colin Farrell for Inisherin, Brendan Fraser for The Whale, Invoice Nighy for Residing, and Adam Sandler for Hustle. The nominees for Excellent Efficiency by a Feminine Actor in a Main Position went to Cate Blanchett for Tar, Viola Davis for The Lady King, Ana de Armas for Blonde, Danielle Deadwyler for Until, and Michelle Yeoh for All the things In all places All at As soon as.
MediaU: As a producer and govt, Adam Leipzig has labored on movies from Lifeless Poets Society to March of the Penguins. He’s additionally employed lots of people and has seen two issues: 1. He by no means asks the place they went to highschool and a pair of. Many movie college students can’t discover jobs within the business. These two observations contributed to his founding of MediaU, a brand new (largely) on-line program to show the movie enterprise. Beginning right now, you may watch a few of their movies on our YouTube channel at no cost, or get $100 off a category known as The Advertising and marketing and Distribution Roadmap for Unbiased Filmmakers utilizing low cost code Moviemaker011123.
Golden Globes: Final evening’s present was fairly excellent when you realized that host Jerrod Carmichael genuinely didn’t care about ever coming again once more and was going to go scorched earth on numerous A-listers. After beginning the present by saying he acquired the job as a result of the HFPA wanted a Black host to enhance its picture, he went all in on Will Smith, Tom Cruise, and even the venue, calling the Beverly Hilton “the lodge that killed Whitney Houston.” Many objected. I believed his joke about Cruise/Scientology was essentially the most brutal, for causes which might be just a little sophisticated to clarify in a pithy e-newsletter format. So I wrote about the entire thing right here.
P.S.: This morning I woke as much as discover this relatively intense video in MovieMaker‘s Twitter replies to the Carmichael-Cruise story.
OK Cool However Who Received: Like everybody who has ever watched the Golden Globes, I instantly forgot many of the awards. However The Banshees of Inisherin did rather well, successful greatest comedy or musical movie, greatest screenplay for writer-director Martin McDonagh, and greatest comedy actor for Colin Farrell, who graciously heaped reward on Ana de Armas for her wonderful (and simply SAG nominated!) efficiency within the much-maligned Blonde. One cause the Globes are so laborious to recollect/take severely is the splitting up of classes into comedy/musical and drama. I might name Inisherin a drama greater than a comedy, personally. However greatest drama went to Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans. Listed here are all the winnners.
Could I Editorialize Extra? There’s been loads of speak about whether or not the Golden Globes might scrape their approach again into respectability after final 12 months, when their shady dealings and lack of variety acquired them boycotted and pulled from NBC. Final evening urged a approach ahead, although perhaps not the one the Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation needs: It was an award present the place the host spent a lot of the present roasting the HFPA and the present itself. Not affectionately. It could be darkly enjoyable for the Golden Globes to show right into a grim parody of The Oscars, and with final evening’s present, they had been getting there. Entertaining present, is what I’m saying.
Sundance Judges: When you’ve got a movie at Sundance and wish to begin sending truffles and knishes to the judges, their names have simply been introduced. They’re Jeremy O. Harris, Eliza Hittman, and Marlee Matlin for the U.S. Dramatic Competitors; W. Kamau Bell, Ramona Diaz, and Carla Gutierrez for the U.S. Documentary Competitors; Shozo Ichiyama, Annemarie Jacir, and Funa Maduka for the World Cinema Dramatic Competitors; Karim Amer, Petra Costa, and Alexander Nanau for the World Cinema Documentary Competitors; Madeleine Olnek for the NEXT competitors part; and Destin Daniel Cretton, Marie-Louise Khondji, and Deborah Stratman for the Brief Movie Program Competitors. Additionally, of us, simply kidding, please don’t ship them baked items. It’s chilly in Park Metropolis they usually choose mittens.
Additionally: The jury for the Alfred P. Sloan Characteristic Movie Prize is Dr. Heather Berlin, Jim Gaffigan, Dr. Mandë Holford, Shalini Kantayya, and Lydia Dean Pilcher. They deliberated upfront of the Pageant and awarded the Prize to The Pod Technology, directed by Sophie Barthes.
Bob Odenkirk Returns: Already? I believed we’d have to attend a very long time for his return to TV after the smashing artistic success of Higher Name Saul (which misplaced in its Golden Globes class to Home of the Dragon, which is absurd, however I digress) — however his new present, Fortunate Hank, will arrive March 19.
Each midlife disaster begins someplace.#LuckyHank, starring @mrbobodenkirk, premieres March 19 on AMC and @AMCPlus. #TCA23 pic.twitter.com/6yl17XcSdw
— AMC-TV (@AMC_TV) January 10, 2023
Extra Colin Farrell: It’s nice to see him getting props for the beautiful Banshees of Inisherin, however there was a time, not so way back, when he thought his profession was over. After 2004’s Alexander whimpered on the field workplace and obtained belittling evaluations, he went right into a type of hiding, he instructed The Hollywood Reporter: “I went to Lake Tahoe to a ski resort. I didn’t ski, however I spotted I might put on a masks and a beanie, and I did that for 3 days. After which after that, yeah, I did query. I went, ‘I’m simply shite at it. I’m a crap actor. I’ve been came upon.’”
Ben Affleck Returns: To his Massachusetts roots, that’s. He was seen serving espresso and donuts at a Medford, Mass., Dunkin Donuts close to Boston, reportedly for a business. As followers of healthful tabloid pictures are nicely conscious, the Cambridge native is a frequent purveyor of L.A.’s Dunkin Donuts institutions, so not less than we all know he believes within the product. Additionally: His spouse Jennifer Lopez joined in to assist him on this entire factor. He’s nonetheless Benny from the block.
Ben Affleck resides his dream pic.twitter.com/b5mGLWrmgB
— Liv Marks (@OliviaLilyMarks) January 11, 2023
MediaU Half Deux: Right here’s a part of my prolonged chat with Adam Leipzig, which covers the whole lot from how dozens of “informational” interviews lastly landed him a job at Disney simply because it was reinventing itself within the ’80s; what he realized from Jeffrey Katzenberg; and his recollections of Robin Williams, a star he says was precisely the identical onscreen and off.
