HollyShorts Film Festival — an Oscar-qualifying event now in its 16th year — is going virtual this year, scheduled for Nov. 9-15 and showcasing 418 short films.
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Will Thorne Staff WriterFox’s election puppet special “Let’s Be Real” didn’t exactly draw a massive crowd.The special scored a 0.5 rating among adults 18-49 and drew only 1.8 million total viewers at 9 p.m. on Thursday night, losing out the other three major networks in the time slot.
In its defense, the Robert Smigel-produced affair did manage to retain 100% of its lead-in, which was a “Masked Singer” replay. A “Family Guy” replay came in with a 0.4 and 1.3 million viewers on the other
.HollyShorts Film Festival — an Oscar-qualifying event now in its 16th year — is going virtual this year, scheduled for Nov. 9-15 and showcasing 418 short films.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorSandra Lee is getting into the Christmas spirit.The Emmy-winning lifestyle expert has signed a deal to host broadcast and digital segments for Lifetime during the network’s holiday programming, titled “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime.”The pieces will cover a range of holiday subjects, including decorating, baking and gift giving.“For decades, Sandra has helped time-starved homemakers everywhere make delicious meals, give thoughtful gifts, and
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It doesn’t matter what a film’s plot is about when it stars such incredible actors such as Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan. Whenever you see actors at that caliber headlining a film, tickets are automatically sold.
Tommy Lee isn’t going to endure four more years of Donald Trump. Though Trump, 74, is trailing Joe Biden in the polls, there’s still a chance that he could be reelected on Nov.
Chris Willman Music WriterNot every pandemic-era awards show can reinvent the wheel, or try to, just for the sake of quarantine creativity points. And so “The Billboard Music Awards” occupied a unique space in the recent history of prime-time awards shows, by proceeding almost exactly as it probably would’ve if there had been a live audience in the Dolby Theatre.
Tommy Lee, known best as the drummer of the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, has promised to leave the United States if President Trump wins re-election in November. The 58-year-old musician told The Big Issue he'll go back to Greece, where he was born. “Dude, I swear to god if that happens then I’m coming over to visit the U.K.
Janet W. Lee In today’s TV news roundup, Courtney Hope will reprise her “The Bold and the Beautiful” role on “The Young and the Restless,” and HBO Max announced a premiere date for “Chelsea Handler: Evolution.”Courtney Hope will reprise her role from “The Bold and the Beautiful” on “The Young and the Restless.” Hope’s character Sally Spectra, a dynamic fashion designer based in Los Angeles, will move to Genoa City to join the CBS soap opera.
Will Thorne Staff WriterLeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers took one huge step towards becoming NBA champions on Tuesday night.The L.A. outfit went 3-1 up over the Miami Heat with a 102-96 victory, which also happened to be the most-watched game so far in the series.
Spike Lee still gets recognized on a walk in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.On this sunny September morning, the 63-year-old director and activist is participating in a socially distanced photo shoot on the street outside his production company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks. As Lee stands on the corner, a dark Subaru screeches to a halt.
Thomas Jefferson Byrd was an actor known for roles in Spike Lee films including “Clockers” and “Get on the Bus.”Byrd worked with Lee in a number of the acclaimed director’s films, beginning with 1995’s “Clockers,” in which he played a drug lord’s enforcer. Byrd would return to the big screen in Lee’s “Girl 6” (1996), “Get on the Bus” (1996), “He Got Game” (1998), “Bamboozled” (2000), “Red Hook Summer” (2012), “Da Sweet Blood of Jesus” (2014) and “Chi-Raq” (2015).
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Spike Lee is paying tribute to late actorThomas Jefferson Byrd, who starredin a myriad of the director's films including Clockers, He Got Game and Red Hook Summer. Lee took to Instagram Sunday to reveal that Byrd was murdered Saturday night in Atlanta, Georgia.In his post, Lee shared a photo of Thomas as the character Errol Barnes in his 1995 film, Clockers.
Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticJerry Seinfeld has no hard feelings for the “putz” Manhattan comedy club co-owner who declared a coronavirus-ravaged New York City “dead forever.”“I have nothing against that guy,” Seinfeld tells CBS’ 60 Minutes this week about Stand Up N.Y. comedy club co-owner James Altucher, who wrote the R.I.P New York article on LinkedIn two months ago.
Shia LaBeouf has been charged by authorities in California with two misdemeanors, Fox News can confirm. According to a complaint filed in a Los Angeles court obtained by Fox News, the city attorney's office has charged LaBeouf, 34, with one count each of petty theft and battery for an alleged incident that occurred in July of this year.
Peter White Television EditorFox Entertainment is set to open a writers room for drama Our Kind of People from Karin Gist and Lee Daniels with the hope that it turns into a straight-to-series order for the 2021-22 season.The drama, which is inspired by Lawrence Otis Graham’s book Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class, is the second project to follow this model.
Will Thorne Staff WriterThe Lee Daniels and Karin Gist series “Our Kind of People” is picking up speed at Fox Entertainment.Fox is eyeing a potential series order for the drama, according to sources, and the company has now opened a writers’ room led by Gist.Inspired by Lawrence Otis Graham’s book “Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class,” the series takes place in the aspirational world of Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, a historical stronghold where the rich and powerful black