If its wins at the recent Screen Actors Guild Awards did not send enough of a message that “Oppenheimer” is far and away the frontrunner for Best Picture at the 2024 Oscars, the film’s receiving the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures at the Producers Guild of America Awards on Sunday, February 25 almost certainly …
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In a major shake up to Disney‘s film team, Sean Bailey, who has been with Disney for 15 years, is exiting the company, effective immediately. David Greenbaum, the co-head of Searchlight Pictures, has been named president of Disney Live-Action and of 20th Century Studios, taking control of both brands in a combined division of its live-action films. Greenbaum will have …
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Through Sunday, “Mean Girls” (Paramount, $72 million) was the highest-grossing domestic film two months into 2024. (“Bob Marley: One Love” will overtake shortly, and “Dune: Part Two” might do even more for its opening weekend.) Its total is $15 million less than, though still quite close to, the longer-running “Anyone but You” (Sony), similarly with significant female appeal. But the …
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Trace Lysette is weighing in on the discourse of cis actors playing trans roles. At the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards, which took place at the beach in Santa Monica, California on Sunday, February 25, Trace Lysette caught up with IndieWire on the “blue” carpet. The trans actress was nominated for Best Lead Performance for her performance in “Monica,” alongside …
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Benny Safdie had “The Curse” fans wondering if he was in character at the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards after his interview with IndieWire on the blue carpet. Our interview opens with, “We wanted to ask–” but before we even got the question out, Safdie interjects, “What am I wearing?!” He then proceeds to break down his look. “This is …
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Streaming has overtaken linear TV in pretty much every conceivable way but one. And even that last one is dangling from the precipice. Total revenues from streaming — now advertising revenue! — will overtake the revenues from pay TV subscriptions in the U.S. for the first time in the third quarter of 2024, according to Ampere Analysis. The two are …
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Christine Vachon doesn’t mess around. She is a film professor, best-selling film book author, a wife, a mother of a college kid, and most of all, a producer of independent films. They’re often directed by her close friend and fellow Brown alumnus Todd Haynes. She launched her career at Sundance 1991 with her first feature film, Haynes’ “Poison,” which won …
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SAG-AFTRA is making sure consent over the filming of intimate scenes extends even after the actors leave the set. The Guild issued new Standards and Protocols guidelines for intimacy coordinators when discussing their on-set work with actors. Intimacy coordinators must now seek the permission of an actor to publicly share details of their intimate scenes. Failure to do so could …
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More bad news for broadcast and cable TV. Pay-TV households in the U.S. and Canada will fall below 60 million in 2029, a new study by Digital TV Research has found. If analyst Simon Murray is correct, the U.S. alone will barely be on the right side of 50 million pay-TV subs at the end of the 2020s. It is …
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It’ll take more than a spoonful of sugar for the “discriminatory language” of 1964’s “Mary Poppins” to be overlooked by the UK’s movie-rating system. The classic film, which stars Julie Andrews as the titular nanny, has officially been reclassified from a “U” (universal) rating to “PG” (parental guidance) by the British Board of Film Classification. BBC first reported the rating …
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