After lengthy negotiations and two cast contract extensions, Amazon Freevee has cancelled "Primo" after one season. It's unknown if the production companies will try to find a new home for the series. #Primo#AmazonFreevee#Entertainment#Television#TV#Streaming
Graceland is up for sale — or is it? A foreclosure sale of Elvis Presley's compound in Memphis, Tennessee, has been advertised for this Thursday, but Riley Keough, Presley's actress granddaughter, filed a claim to say that the suit on the creditor's paperwork for a $3.8 million loan is fraudulent. Here's more from NBC.
Update: A judge has blocked the sale of Graceland after a notary said the signature on a deed of trust wasn't hers. The document purportedly showed that the late Lisa-Marie Presley had borrowed $3.8 million from a company called Naussany Investments, giving Graceland as security. Here are details from ABC.
"The Hollywood Reporter spoke with eight of The Sympathizer’s Vietnamese cast members in a group conversation below that revealed that, although they all share the same ethnicity, they are diverse in age, nationality and experience, together forming a living account of the modern Vietnamese diaspora — what it has been through, and what it is like now."
Switzerland's Nemo wins the 68th Eurovision Song Contest with “The Code,” an ode to the singer’s journey toward embracing their nongender identity. Read more from the AP, including how the audience responded to Eden Golan, the Israeli singer who spent the week under tight security in Malmö. https://flip.it/3Z-pjc #Culture#Entertainment#Music#Eurovision
"But without radical intervention, whether by the government or the workers, the industry will become unrecognizable. And the writing trade—the kind where one actually earns a living—will be obliterated."
Imagine Conan O’Brien red-cheeked, sweating and drooling, looking crazed with his face smeared with hot sauce. The comedian, writer and TV host seized the moment on a recent episode of “Hot Ones,” the popular YouTube series in which the host, Sean Evans, invites a celebrity to eat chicken wings smothered with hot sauce. It can be a painful experience. NPR’s Glen Weldon, asks, was O’Brien the show’s best guest ever? Read about and watch O’Brien’s spicy performance. https://flip.it/sN4mRH #Culture#Entertainment#ConanO'Brien #HotOnes
Ahead of Sunday night's final episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," everyone's favorite curmudgeon, Larry David, took part in a Tribeca conversation about the iconic HBO series, the secret to its success, and if its ending will double as a do-over years after the roundly criticized “Seinfeld” finale. “Yeah, like I care,” David replied to an audience member who asked if this was a shot at redemption. IndieWire has more: https://flip.it/Td6iE_ #Culture#Entertainment#CurbYourEnthusiasm#LarryDavid#Seinfeld
40 years after Marvin Gaye’s death, never-before-heard music has been found in Belgium. How did the tape, which looks like a basic BASF cassette that was common in the 1980s, end up there? And will fans of the singer who's popularity remains strong get to hear what’s on it? BBC News heard a brief, tantalizing sample from the tape. “In a rather eerie moment, the Prince of Motown almost seemed to live again.” https://flip.it/cAcvye #Culture#Entertainment#Music#MarvinGaye#MoTown
The division of BASF which made magnetic tape got spun out as as EMTEC and since mid 2000s only makes digital storage media - the magnetic tape production (particularly of spools of tape) got sold to another company which went out of business, but a French Court allocated their assets to Mulann who restarted production. You can still buy a cassette tape based on a BASF formula today (albeit for a bit more than they cost back in the day)
@ShineMyCrown folks calling it inappropriate due to the economy is wild. I probably would not fund something like that but can't fault someone for asking.
A musical satire inspired by the disastrous Willy Wonka event in Glasgow, with the unusual name of "Willy Fest," is in development, the BBC reports. The writing team was "assembled in less time than it takes for someone to sing the first verse of 'Oompa Loompa Doompa-Dee-Do'," producer Richard Kraft said. Kraft previously produced a Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory concert at the Hollywood Bowl, and the team for this project includes Emmy-nominated comedian Riki Lindhome and Broadway songwriters Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner. Here's more.
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Here it is... Ryan Gosling's performance of "I'm Just Ken" at the Oscars ceremony, accompanied by Slash on guitar Kens Simu Liu, Scott Evans, Ncuti Gatwa and Kingsley Ben-Adir.
Clara Bow is thought to be the original “It” Girl because she starred in the 1927 film “It.” Her name is gaining traction today for a different film in which she acted: “The Pill Pounder,” a 20-minute silent film that was presumed lost. But it was recently discovered at an auction in Omaha, Neb. Read more at IndieWire. https://flip.it/AHMN6u #Culture#Entertainment#Movies#SilentFilm#ClaraBow
For the past 13 years, the Hollywood Reporter's Ben Zaumer has been using a mathematical model to predict the Oscars. Here's what he says is going to happen tonight — "Oppenheimer," Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr. and DaVine Joy Randolph seem like dead certs in their categories, but it's a coin-toss between Lily Gladstone and Emma Stone for Best Actress. Here's the full rundown.
From worst film to worst screen couple, “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” won all five categories for which it was nominated at the 2024 Golden Raspberry Awards, also known as the Razzies. The awards, held on “Oscar Eve” and hosted by comics Aaron Goldenberg and Jake Jonez (The Mean Gays), honor the worst of Hollywood’s year. The Hollywood Reporter has more. https://flip.it/WVBrTn #Culture#Entertainment#Movies#Hollywood#Razzies#Oscars
@CultureDesk That...thing had it coming. It's cynical, cheap, terribly acted and badly produced horror schlock that even fails at the absolute basic level of doing a jump scare.
We’re not expecting many surprises at this Sunday’s Oscars ceremony — if “Oppenheimer” doesn’t win Best Picture, we’ll eat Oppy’s fedora hat, and when it comes to the two main contenders for Best Actress, we think Gladstone has the edge over Stone (though they both rock). Far more interesting to us are the stories around the edges. Here's our blogpost, with stories from @TheConversationUS@hollywoodreporter@variety_feed, Entertainment Weekly and more, plus an incredible video from The Academy about how the special effects from nominated movies were put together.
The organizers of Montreal's Just for Laughs festival have canceled the 2024 event and filed for bankruptcy, blaming the pandemic and rising inflation. JFL started in 1983 and is one of the largest annual comedy festivals in the world. Here's a story from Decider about what might have gone wrong.
The “Dune 2” popcorn bucket has become such an internet sensation that director Denis Villeneuve and actor Timothée Chalamet have fielded a series of questions on the press tour. The promotional bucket looks — to some, at least — weird or worse. That didn’t stop The Ringer’s Austin Gayle from writing about the many things one can do with the cursed sandworm receptacle. https://flip.it/pdfBsb #Culture#Entertainment#Dune2#Movies#Viral
