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Netflix‘s The Piano Lesson tuned up a leading 14 nominations for the 56th annual NAACP Image Awards, which were revealed this morning. TriStar’s The Book of Clarence is next with six noms, and Peacock’s Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist topped TV programs with nine mentions. Netflix leads all networks and distributors with 64 nominations. See the full list below. “Our Stories, Our Culture, Our Excellence” is the theme of the 2025 Image Awards, which span film, TV, music, literature, podcasts, social media and more. Winners will be revealed February 21 at the NAACP Image Awards Creative Honors ceremonies and…

Last night’s two top Golden Globe winners, Netflix’s Emilia Perez and A24’s three and a half hour epic drama The Brutalist, were also big winners in terms of Oscars momentum. The former won Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Globe along with three other victories from a record ten nominations. The latter took the all-important Best Motion Picture – Drama Globe and two other major awards including Best Actor-Drama for Adrien Brody and Best Director for Brady Corbet. The first big test of strength in the two-month stretch to the March 2 Academy Awards, last night’s Globes results are impressive and perhaps…

Amid the continued success of its third installment, Paramount Pictures’ Sonic the Hedgehog feature franchise has zoomed past $1B at the worldwide box office. Based on the Sega video game, the first two pictures were released in February 2020 and April 2022, respectively, grossing a combined $725.2M globally. The threequel, which released domestically on December 20 and expanded overseas beginning December 25, has grossed over $312M to date, bringing the running franchise total to more than $1.037B. Each of the films has been directed by Jeff Fowler. The first two movies generated $181M in consumer spending from home entertainment rentals…

Tragic news. Jeff Baena has died. The screenwriter and film director is best known for Life After Beth (2014), Joshy (2016), The Little Hours (2017), Horse Girl (2020), Spin Me Round (2022), and for co-writing I Heart Huckabees (2004). He is also the husband of actress and producer Aubrey Plaza, and they have been married since 2021. Circumstances of his passing are unclear at this moment, and we will update the post as more comes in. After graduating NYU Film School, Baena moved to Los Angeles to start building his career. He became a production assistant for Robert Zemeckis, working on a number of films, followed by a job as an assistant…

A photo gallery with obituaries for entertainment and media professionals who died during 2025.

Never think for a second that anything like New Year’s Eve could get in the way of some old-fashioned Hollywood legal fireworks. Eleven days after Blake Lively filed a sexual harassment and retaliation complaint with California’s Civil Rights department against Justin Baldoni and his team over what went down during production of It Ends With Us and the film’s aftermath, the much A-lister supported actress has formally sued her co-star and director in federal court in New York. “As laid out in this Complaint, the Baldoni-Wayfarer-led public attack of Ms. Lively was the intended result of a carefully crafted, coordinated,…

As 2024 draws to a close, Deadline’s film critics have each chosen their Top 3 international movies of the year. A trio of those selected recently made the International Feature Oscar shortlist — though not all titles below were put forth by their country of origin. Overall, as Deadline’s Awards Columnist and Chief Film Critic Pete Hammond notes, “There was an exceptional list to choose from.” His Top 3 all began their careers at the Cannes Film Festival, “another reason that iconic French fest sets the table for cinema for the rest of the year,” he says. Along with Cannes,…

James Norton, the Happy Valley star who has been heavily linked to James Bond, thinks men should be proactive when confronting the MeToo movement. Norton told the Radio Times magazine that the “modern man” was living in a time where there was an “attempt to rebalance the patriarchal crimes of the past.” He argued that some men wrongly think they should be “passive” about misconduct when they should actually step up in a post-MeToo world. Norton made the comments in an interview to promote Playing Nice, the new ITV series that follows two couples who discover that their toddlers were…

Nearly 20 years after making ‘Walk the Line’, James Mangold says the 2007 parody ‘Walk Hard’ didn’t scare him off from the musical biopic genre.

The fallout, now with lawyers involved, between Blake Lively and her It Ends With Us co-star and director Justin Baldoni shows no sign of quietening down, with a report Saturday that Baldoni is preparing to file a counter-suit in response to Lively’s own a week ago. It was reported Friday 20th that Lively had filed an 80-page legal complaint against Baldoni, citing his inappropriate behaviour on set, and also that he had been instrumental in an alleged smear campaign against her – all claims he denies. Now, the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper reports that Baldoni is preparing to file a…