Michael Oher is standing tall.
04.08.2023 - 02:17 / deadline.com
Apple chief executive Tim Cook praised Apple TV+ today with shout-outs to its shows, its recent “54 Emmy nominations across 13 titles” and its goal of “giving great storytellers the venue to tell great stories.”
On a conference call with Wall Street analyst after the tech giant’s quarterly earnings, he did not mention, nor was he asked about, strikes by Hollywood writers and actors that have shuttered much scripted production, including at Apple TV+. Apple is a member of the AMPTP along with traditional studios, Netflix and Amazon.
Apple TV+ is one of many businesess that make up Apple’s Services division, including Apple Music, Apple Pay, the Apple App Store, Apple Arcade and others. Services set a record for the quarter ended in June with revenue up 8% at $21.2 billion and over 1 billion paid subscriptions. Apple’s total revenue for its fiscal third quarter was $81.8 billion. Cook said contributions from “video, Apple Care, Cloud and payment services” helped lead the way, however the company doesn’t break out any financials or subscriber details within Services.
“Apple TV+ continues to provide a spectacular showcase of imaginative storytelling. Recently, fans welcomed new series like Hijack and Silo, as well as returning fan favorites like Foundation and The Afterparty. In the few years since its launch, Apple TV+ has earned mor than 1,500 nominations and 370 wins, that includes the 54 Emmy-award nominations across 13 titles that Apple TV+ received last month,” Cook said. (Silo went on indefinite hiatus in late July due amid the strikes. Foundation Season 3 is also expected to be impacted.)
“We are focused on original content [with Apple TV+] and so we are all about giving great storytellers the venue to tell great
Michael Oher is standing tall.
Timothy Olyphant has had a long and storied Hollywood career over the past two and a half decades, with two of his most lauded roles yet in this year’s “Full Circle” and “Justified: City Primeval.” But the actor likely wouldn’t have landed his big roles like Raylan Givens on “Justified” without crucial early ones like “Scream 2.” In a recent conversation on the Bingeworthy podcast, Olyphant talked about the notorious production of Wes Craven‘s 1997 sequel, one shrouded in secrecy due to a leaked script that revealed the identity of the movie’s killers.
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Michael Oher is getting out there and meeting fans. The former football star was seen signing copies of his recently released memoir at the Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore, Maryland, on Monday.Oher — who was the subject of the book, which was adapted into the Oscar-nominated 2009 film of the same name — appeared to be in good spirits at the event, where he signed copies of his memoir,, which was released on Aug.
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“I am going to catch up on sleep.”Joey Fink had just been crowned the winner at the annual NJB Pageant, held at the Edlavitch DCJCC on Sunday, Aug. 13.Also, he added, “I’m going to go to Vida Gym, clearly.”A three-month membership to Vida Fitness was one of his prizes, along with a $200 bar tab at Pitchers.Fink bested three other worthy contestants — Avi Alpert, Michael Greenberg, and Micah Feinstein — for the title, which is presented by NJB+ D.C., a social organization for the LGBTQ Jewish community.As Pitbull’s “Timber” shook the Edlavitch’s Trish Vradenburg Stage, family, friends, and members of the DC Queer Jewish community chatted, hugged, and held up cut-outs of the four contestants’ faces.The event was hosted by local drag sensation Vagenesis — who described their name as “if you took the first book of the Bible and threw a big vagina at it” — with characteristic wit, charisma, and a run of dazzling gowns.Stories of first love, the Jewish community, and sex puns dominated the pageant’s first round as Avi, Michael, Micah and Joey answered questions posed by Vagenesis.Doused in neon purple stage lights, Fink sang Remember That We Suffered from the TV series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Greenberg performed an original comedy set, Alpert’s drag persona Averia lip synced to Noa Kirel’s Unicorn, and Feinstein roused the crowd with Wonderwall by Oasis.While the votes were tallied, Vagenesis announced raffle prize winners, including bar tabs to JR.’s and the Little Gay Pub, Skip the Line passes to Trade, gift cards to Crazy Aunt Helen’s and Bite the Fruit, and a date night charcuterie board.Amid a thunderous audience drum roll, surrounded by previous winners, Fink was crowned winner and Greenberg was named runner up.
A day after Michael Oher, the former NFL player and subject of the 2009 movie The Blind Side, alleged in a court filing that the family who took him in as a young player had deceived him about being adopted and deprived him of earnings from the Oscar-nominated film, the family has hit back.
The UK’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has opened applications to hire a new chair for the British Film Institute (BFI) as Tim Richards’s tenure in the role is set to end next year.
Michael Oher's allegations against him and his family. Oher-- who was the subject of the 2009 Oscar-nominated film, filed a lawsuit on Monday, alleging that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy tricked him into making them his conservators shortly after he turned 18 in 2004. «We’re devastated,» Sean told the of the allegations.
Tim Richards, CEO of international cinema chain Vue, will step down from his role as chair of the British Film Institute (BFI) in 2024, when his term will come to a close. The boss of the European cinema giant took on the position, which is appointed by the U.K. government, in February 2021.
Tatiana Siegel Despite its status as the highest-grossing indie film since 2019’s “Parasite,” “Sound of Freedom” has been dismissed as a QAnon fever dream by large swaths of the mainstream media. But that derisive label is “so ridiculous” to the film’s writer-director Alejandro Monteverde, who began working on the project in 2015, two years before QAnon emerged. “The origin [of the film] has been avoided, purposely or accidentally, in the media,” Monteverde said.
Naman Ramachandran The historic Maida Vale Studios in London has been sold by the BBC to a four-way partnership between Working Title chairs Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner and two-time Oscar winner Hans Zimmer and his business partner Steven Kofsky. The partnership has multi-million pound refurbishment plans to upgrade the studio’s facilities.
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Apple TV+ has landed a new untitled six-part documentary featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes access to football great Lionel Messi as he arrived in America to play for Major League Soccer and Inter Miami CF, chronicling his debut in Leagues Cup and beyond.
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Baltimore Orioles play-by-play announcer Kevin Brown is back in the announcer’s booth for tonight’s game against Seattle. He’s returning after being banished since late July for allegedly disparaging remarks about the team.
Turnstile had the honour of throwing the first pitch at the Orioles baseball game on Tuesday, August 8 in their hometown of Baltimore, Maryland.The Baltimore Orioles game against the Houston Astros was held at Oriole Park in Camden Yards. Turnstile walked out to the mound with guitarist Pat McCrory throwing the ceremonial first pitch.