“One Night in Miami” is about four male icons in one unforgettable night. Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay), Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown meet in a room in the Hampton House Hotel in Miami after Ali’s victorious fight against Sonny Liston. Leslie Odom Jr., who previously starred as Aaron Burr in “Hamilton,” is […]
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The 2021 Palm Springs International Film Festival is postponed due to the pandemic, organizers announced Monday. The 32nd annual event was scheduled to take place Thursday, February 25, 2021 through Monday, March 8, 2021, but will now shift to 2022. The festival’s board member released a statement: “Dear PSIFF Friends, For 31 years, the Palm […]
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(CNN) — The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and the Television Academy are implementing changes due to the coronovirus crisis. HPFA announced Thursday that it is temporarily modifying its eligibility rules for the Golden Globe Awards as movie theaters and screening rooms have had to close due to the pandemic. Under the new guidelines, motion […]
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(CNN) — “No Time To Die,” the upcoming James Bond film, is being pushed to November due to concerns over the coronavirus’ impact on the global theater marketplace. The release of the 25th film in the lucrative Bond series was scheduled to hit theaters in North America on April 10th, but MGM and Universal announced on […]
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Disney CEO Bob Iger has apologized to a California elementary school after it was charged $250 for showing the studio’s 2019 remake of “The Lion King” during a fundraiser event. “Our company @WaltDisneyCo apologizes to the Emerson Elementary School PTA,” Bob Iger, Disney’s CEO, tweeted on Thursday. “I will personally donate to their fund raising initiative.” Emerson […]
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Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” is hitting the big screen. Disney is bringing the hit musical, starring the original Broadway cast, to movie theaters on October 15, 2021. It’s not an adaptation: It’s a previously recorded “live capture” of the stage performance from the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York, where it first began. Miranda announced the […]
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Terry Jones, a star of the adored comedy group “Monty Python” who delivered some of the most famous lines in comedic history, has died, his agent confirmed to the PA Media news agency. He was 77. Jones was a major creative force behind the surrealist troupe’s pioneering works, which flitted between styles and tones and […]
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20th Century Fox is an icon of Hollywood history. Its epic fanfare title card has appeared in front of “The Sound of Music,” “Star Wars” and other major films over the past 85 years. But in 2020, that name is no more. Disney is dropping the Fox name from its 20th Century Fox brand, renaming the longtime […]
