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Now that J Balvin has made his mark in Japanese animation, after starring in Crunchyroll’s hit anime series “Solo Leveling,” TheWrap thought it’d be a good idea to list all the Hollywood stars who’ve also lent their voices to the genre.

It already takes a lot of training and focus to be an actor, but one must unlock a new skill in the craft when it comes to voice acting, especially when it comes to anime. And now that anime has risen in popularity, more and more stars are carving out their lane in the industry as voice actors.

All the actors listed voiced roles for the English dub versions of these shows and films, many of which you’ll recognize right off the bat. Here are 17 celebrities who rocked the mic as anime characters.

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Here’s Where You Can Watch The Oscars 2025 Best Picture & Best International Film Nominees (Photo Credit – Instagram)

As the 97th Academy Awards approach on March 3, 2025, movie lovers can stream the Best Picture nominees from home. This year’s diverse list includes sci-fi epics, modern fables, religious thrillers, and inventive dramas, all of which earned rave reviews in 2024.

While half of the nominees are already available on streaming platforms like Netflix, Max, and Hulu, the others will be arriving soon. In the meantime, they can be rented or purchased through VOD services. Here’s how to watch each of the Best Picture nominees for the Oscars.

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Storyline: The musical drama with 10 Oscar nominations tells the story of two young witches,...

The nominations for next year’s 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards were just announced this morning, and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance has been recognized in multiple categories.

Submitted by Mubi in the Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy category, Fargeat’s body horror movie has been officially nominated in that category as well as four other categories.

The Substance has been nominated for the following Golden Globes…

Best Motion Picture, Musical Or Comedy

Anora

Challengers

Emilia Pérez

A Real Pain

The Substance

Wicked

Best Director, Motion Picture

Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez

Sean Baker – Anora

Edward Berger – Conclave

Brady Corbet – The Brutalist

Coralie Fargeat – The Substance

Payal Kapadia – All We Imagine As Light

Best Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture, Musical, Or Comedy

Amy Adams – Nightbitch

Cynthia Erivo – Wicked

Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez

Mikey Madison – Anora

Demi Moore – The Substance

Zendaya – Challengers

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What Halloween would be complete without some groaning, flesh-eating zombies? We’ve got a list of the eight best zombie movies that are streaming right now.

Whether you’re in the mood for some hard-core, blood-thirsty living dead richness or a flick that will give you a reason to snuggle closer to boo your boo (pun intended), we’re here to deliver the ultimate zombie classics that will leave you on the edge of your seat.

Take a look at the eight titles you can watch right now through streaming.

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Of course, George A. Romero’s “Dawn of the Dead” will always stand the test of time, but let’s not act like Zack Synder didn’t do his thing with his remake of the film in 2004. In this new vision, an unlikely group of Milwaukeeans come together inside a...

Ti West and Mia Goth complete their decade-hopping horror trilogy with A24’s MaXXXine, a sequel to both X and Pearl, and it’s now available to watch at home!

The closer in West’s trilogy is now available on Digital.

Here’s the official synopsis from A24: “In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.”

Mia Goth stars in the 1980s-set MaXXXine alongside an incredible ensemble featuring Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito, Sophie Thatcher, and Kevin Bacon.

A24 released MaXXXine in 2,450 theaters here in the United States last month, with the final installment in Ti West’s trilogy scaring up $6.7 million in its domestic debut. At the worldwide box office, MaXXXine debuted...

Hollywood’s It girl, Sydney Sweeney, went all out for one of her most ambitious projects, alongside director Michael Mohan with Immaculate, a direct leap into the horror-thriller genre. Portraying Sister Cecelia, the movie had the actress take on a dark and eerie storyline with scenes involving her drenched in blood, against the backdrop of a picturesque Italian countryside. Soon after its release in theaters worldwide, the film quickly garnered views and praise, climbing up in box office revenue and acclaim.

Sydney Sweeney in a still from Immaculate | Neon

In sharp contrast, its digital release brought about a stringent wave of criticisms aimed not at Sweeney but at the artistic choices made by Mohan. It turns out that those complaints only highlighted a plaguing issue associated with streaming services and had shockingly nothing to do with any of the creative executives involved in the film-making process. The issue has now...

The American Society of Cinematographers has unveiled the nominations for its 38th annual ASC Awards, honoring the year’s best in feature film, documentary and television cinematography.

The society’s marquee Theatrical Feature Film nominees are chock-full of awards-season favorite pics, with one surprise. Edward Lachman is up for the Netflix pic El Conde, joining the likes of Matthew Libatique for Maestro, Rodrigo Prieto for Killers of the Flower Moon, Robbie Ryan for Poor Things, Hoyte van Hoytema for Oppenheimer.

Prieto also lensed the year’s No. 1 movie, Barbie, but missed the ASC cut today.

The group’s film winner has gone on to claim the Academy Award nearly half of the time — 17 times in its 37 years — but not last year. Mandy Walker won the ASC’s top film prize in 2023, but the Academy Award went to James Friend for All Quiet on the Western Front.

On the small-screen front,...

“El Conde,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Maestro,” “Poor Things,” and “Oppenheimer” were nominated by the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) for outstanding achievement in theatrical film cinematography. Winners will be announced during the 38th Annual ASC Awards ceremony on March 3 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California; the event will also be live-streamed worldwide on theasc.com.

On the television side, the ASC singled out episodes of “Barry,” “The Bear,” and the “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” alongside sci-fi stalwarts “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” and “Foundation,” among others. The nominees for best anthology or limited series included episodes of “George and Tammy” and “Lessons in Chemistry” as well as made-for-tv movie “Boston Strangler.”

The ASC also singled out three documentaries: the first episode of the docu-series “Murder in Big Horn,” as well as the films “King Coal” and “Kokomo City.”

Below is the full list of nominations for the...

Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto’s lensing of Martin Scorsese’s drama Killers of the Flower Moon and Robbie Ryan’s photography of Yorgos Lanthimos’ fantasy Poor Things are among the nominees in the feature competition of the 2024 American Society of Cinematographers Awards, which will be held March 3 at the Beverly Hilton.

They are nominated alongside Edward Lachman, for Pablo Larraín’s El Conde; Matthew Libatique for Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Berstein drama Maestro; and Hoyte van Hoytema for Christopher Nolan’s biopic Oppenheimer. All five Oscar-nominated DPs have been previously nominated in this ASC category and each are seeking their first win. Lachman, whose previous credits include Carol and Far from Heaven, was the ASC’s 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award winner. This year, Prieto’s work also includes Greta Gerwig’s Barbie.

A year ago, Elvis cinematographer Mandy Walker became the first woman to win the ASC feature competition. All Quiet on...

“Oppenheimer,” “Maestro” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” are among the films that received nominations for the American Society of Cinematographers Awards.

The ASC Award nominees for feature film, documentary and television cinematography represent the organization’s picks for the most compelling visual filmmaking.

Rounding out the feature film nominations are “El Conde” (Edward Lachman) and “Poor Things” (Robbie Ryan).

In television, “The Bear,” “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” were among the nominated series.

Last year’s feature film winner Mandy Walker made history when she became the first woman to win the ASC Award for her work on Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis.” However, she did not go on to win the cinematography Oscar, which went to “All Quiet on the Western Front.” Still, seven of the past 11 ASC winners went on to win the Oscar for best cinematography.

The ASC Award...

Throughout his career, Hong Kong director Lawrence Ah Mon has told numerous stories about the disenfranchised in Hk society. Considering most of his colleagues focused on genres such as thriller and action, his features stand out as they give the viewer an idea of the way issues such as the shift between generations, youth culture and the feelings of teenage angst and isolation are experienced in Hk culture. Perhaps one of the most noteworthy examples of his filmography is “Spacked Out” from 2000, a feature which was honored with as “Film of Merit” by the Hong Kong Film Critics in 2001 and has recently been restored so that audiences worldwide have the chance to experience this story one more time or maybe even for the first time.

Spacked Out is screening for a one-week New York exclusive theatrical run at Metrograph theater and a two-week exclusive streaming release on Metrograph At Home,...

When Monk premiered in 2002, the series was unique in many ways -- and the Peacock movie Mr. Monk's Last Case is able to capture almost all of them. But television has changed a lot since TV viewers met Adrian Monk, and where the movie falls flat is in trying to update the classic world of Monk for a 2020s audience. Mr. Monk's Last Case gives fans everything they've been waiting for, but in a much more self-conscious package.

It's no surprise that Peacock got around to making a Monk movie. Series creator Andy Breckman had tried to make one in 2012. The "Monk in Quarantine" short that premiered on Peacock Presents: The At-Home Variety Show Featuring Seth MacFarlane was universally well-received in 2020, and Peacock is home to two of the three Psych movies. But it's worth noting that Monk paved the way for shows like Psych; it was USA's first smash hit,...

One of the biggest movies of the summer is coming home. Paramount Pictures has announced the home video release dates for "Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One," which serves as the seventh entry in the franchise overall. It's also the first installment in an epic two-parter, as the title implies. So fans would do well to get caught up before Tom Cruise suits up again as Ethan Hunt next summer for some more crazy stunts.

Let's dive into how and when you can watch the movie from the comfort of home.

"Dead Reckoning Part One" is set to arrive on Digital beginning Tuesday, October 10, 2023. On that date, the movie will be available to rent or purchase from digital retailers such as Amazon Prime Video, Vudu, Google Play, Apple TV, and a variety of others. As is typically the case with new movies these days, it will first be available...

Brittany Snow opens up about how she’s been coping the last few months since filing for divorce from Tyler Stanaland.

While stepping out in New York for the premiere of her and Nick Jonas’ new film “The Good Half” at Tribeca Film Festival, Snow highlighted the importance of self-care.

“I think everybody goes through really tough periods and then it’s all in our perspective and how we deal with it, right?” the “Pitch Perfect” star, 37, told People at the premiere. “Because nobody’s immune to tough periods in their life. And, all I’m trying to do is focus on myself and tune out the noise.”

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Well, it's over. Another festival ends, and so does another edition of the Cannes at Home series. I've watched many a great film this past week and hope you have enjoyed the ride. To finish things off, it's time to consider the last two filmmakers to present their latest works at the Croisette. Alice Rohrwacher dazzled away with her La Chimera, starring a scruffy-looking Italian-speaking Josh O'Connor, and Ken Loach's The Old Oak proved as divisive as all his late-career films have been.

This last Cannes at Home dispatch looks at these auteurs' greatest pictures, titles that crystalize the two distinct forms of realism each work within. There's Rohrwacher's magical spin on Italian neorealism with Happy as Lazzaro and Ken Loach's perpetuation of the kitchen-sink tradition of British social realism in Kes…...

Updated with Sacd prize details: Spanish director Elena Martín Gimeno’s Creatura won the Europa Cinemas prize as Best European Film, while Pierre Caton’s Le Prince scooped the Sacd for best French film at Directors’ Fortnight on Thursday.

The prizes were announced ahead of the evening closing ceremony for the non-competitive parallel Directors Fortnight section.

The Europa Cinema label and Sacd prizes are the key collateral prizes awarded to films world premiering in the section.

Under the Europa Cinema prize, the release of Creatura will receive the support of cinemas belonging to the independent exhibitor network representing 3,060 screens in 38 countries. The jury consists of four exhibitor members of the network.

Creatura revolves around a seemingly perfect couple who no longer manage to have sex, prompting one partner to probe her past and her sexual sexual awakening, from adolescence back to early childhood.

French writers guild Sacd’s prize is...

Amy Sedaris is stepping back into the kitchen for a fun new HIllshire Farm sandwich campaign. The Emmy nominee is teaming up with the food company to celebrate the universal love of sandwiches with specially made recipes based on various celebrities, including herself.

Sedaris, well-known for her roles in the likes of BoJack Horseman, Strangers with Candy and The Mandalorian, is as celebrated outside of the realm of acting as she is within it, having run a cupcake and cheeseball business out of her home kitchen for years and naming it after a pet rabbit. Notably, Sedaris created and starred in the surreal comedy series At Home with Amy Sedaris, which earned her two Emmy nominations and showed off her cooking and crafting skills along with her acting.

Related: Amy Sedaris Movies & TV Shows: Where You Know The Mandalorian Actress

In honor of her latest fun food venture, Screen Rant...

Jonathan and Drew Scott amassed their incredible $200 million net worth primarily from their acclaimed HGTV show Property Brothers. Although they have dabbled into other ventures, building on their incredible fortune. But there's no doubt Property Brothers is the reason they've built such a reputation and fanbase, which includes Euphoria and Reality star Sydney Sweeney.

But while Jonathan and Drew Scott's reputation may be almost entirely positive, that haven't escaped some friction on their show. During a May 2023 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the identical twin brothers revealed that they actually deeply upset two homeowners featured on the reality show. Here's what happened...

What Happened With Jonathan And Drew Scott's Career?

Canadian identical twins Drew and Jonathan Scott suffered through a lot of terrible jobs before they landed their home improvement reality show on HGTV. During their interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Jonathan revealed that their worst job was cleaning bathrooms at a refinery.

The expansion of free streaming services continues unabated. On Wednesday, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (Csse) shared some details on its ever-expanding reach and upcoming original programming at the Iab Newfronts in New York. A month after launching a new advertising sales division known as Crackle Connex, Csse reports having an audience of over 80 million monthly active users, up 100% year-over-year.

This rapid expansion was aided by the company acquiring Redbox last May, giving Csse an out-of-home presence, but the majority of the growth comes from the addition of over 160 channels on the company’s free ad-supported streaming TV (Fast) and ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) services.

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Csse also benefited from the addition of Crackle and Redbox buttons on [Vizio Smart TV] remotes, making the free streaming services even easier to access and front-of-mind for viewers. Thanks to new deals with the likes of Crunchyroll, Funimation, Vidgo,...

Alice Troughton’s The Lesson screening in Spotlight.

For the first time more than half of Tribeca Festival’s competition selections have been directed by women, the festival said as it announced the entire line-up on Tuesday.

Some 19 films or 68% of the 28-strong competition line-up hail from women, while 39 or 36% are directed by Bipoc filmmakers, including two Indigenous filmmakers. Overall 109 features will screen at the New York festival from June 7-18.

US Narrative Competition selections include world premieres of Shelly Yo’s Smoking Tigers, about a Korean American girl navigating an elite high school, and Monica Sorelle’s portrait of...

The 22nd edition of NYC’s Tribeca Film Festival appears to have star power to spare, with Michael Shannon, John Slattery, Chelsea Peretti, David Duchovny, Jennifer Esposito, Randall Park, real-life couple Hamish Linklater and Lily Rabe and Steve Buscemi among those with new films premiering among the 100-plus features screening this year from June 7 through June 18.

A few interesting stats: There are 43 first-time directors and 29 directors returning to Tribeca with their latest projects. 41% of all feature films are directed by women and, for the first time, more than half of competition feature films are directed by women. And 39 of the feature films represented are directed by Bipoc filmmakers, including two indigenous filmmakers.

For the third year, the Tribeca Fest will include the “Expressions of Black Freedom” program, including a celebration of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, which will highight the world premiere of “All Up in the Biz,” a documentary about hip-hop legend Biz Markie,...

Here on Bloody Disgusting we’ve covered several movies featuring ninjas and countless movies centered on sharks, but today brings something else entirely: Ninja Vs. Shark!

Directed by Koichi Sakamoto, Ninja vs. Shark is a real movie, and the trailer suggests it’s going to make good on the promise of its title. There’s a ninja. And a shark. And they fight.

In the film, which releases in Japanese theaters on April 14…

“In the Edo period, at the remote village of Okitsu, the evil cult leader Koushirou uses ninjutsu to control sharks and forces them to attack local pearl divers so the cult can steal the pearls from their mangled corpses. Desperate for help, the village chief hires Kotaro Shiozaki, a guard at a nearby temple, but Kotaro soon finds his path blocked by lady ninja Kikuma, and a gigantic shark that doesn’t seem like something from this world.

Drew and Jonathan Scott, the identical twins and popular hosts of HGTV’s Property Brothers, are debuting their new preschool series, Builder Brothers Dream Factory, on Treehouse in their native Canada on March 26.

Inspired by the Canadian reality TV stars, the animated series from Sinking Ship Entertainment and Scott Brothers Entertainment and distributed by Nelvana portrays the Scott brothers as a pair of regular kids using their imagination, creativity and heart to help friends and solve problems in the neighborhood.

The Scotts, who are based in Los Angeles, broke out on HGTV with their first namesake series in 2011, and their TV series output includes spinoffs Buying & Selling and At Home and the competition show Brother vs. Brother, which are produced in part by their Scott Brothers Entertainment shingle.

But the original Treehouse series Builder Brothers Dream Factory that includes best friends Mel and Ayana follows the Scott brothers having children of their own.

by Cláudio Alves

Last year, The Film Experience welcomed a new series – Cannes at Home. While works by the world's greatest auteurs premiered at the Croisette, the project was an aid to combat Fomo for those not fortunate enough to attend the event. Now, it's time to introduce a new endeavor focused on the Venice Film Festival and its official selection. From August 31st to September 10th, this series will consider past works from the many filmmakers currently presenting their films in competition, offering a parallel program you can enjoy at home. At the same time, Elisa Giudici will be in Venice, updating us on the festivities.

First up, there's the opening film – White Noise. While we wait for Noah Baumbach's latest to arrive, let's recall the director's history…...

Exclusive: Netflix’s Kaos has its Medusa.

Entourage star Debi Mazar will play the coveted role in the upcoming mythological series from End of the F***ing World creator Charlie Covell, joining an ensemble cast including Jeff Goldblum, Janet McTeer and David Thewlis. Goldblum will play Zeus, Deadline recently revealed, having replaced Hugh Grant due to schedule availabilities.

Other cast confirmed include Aurora Perrineau as lead, Cliff Curtis, Killian Scott, Misia Butler, Leila Farzad, Nabhaan Rizwan, Rakie Ayola and Stanley Townsend.

The show from Chernobyl producer Sister and Anthem is currently filming in Spain and is described as a “bold, darkly comic, contemporary take on Greek mythology, exploring love, life and power in the underworld.” It was first revealed in 2018 and officially greenlit by the UK team last year.

Mazar, who broke out in Goodfellas, Little Man Tate and Singles, is currently starring in Netflix’s The Pentaverate as Patty Davis,...

If your HBO Max streaming library is looking leaner these days, you're not alone. In recent weeks, HBO original series like Camping, starring Jennifer Garner, Vinyl, the Martin Scorsese-created series starring Bobby Cannavale and Run, starring Merritt Wever and Domhnall Gleeson, have all been quietly pulled from the streamer. When one Twitter user noticed that At Home with Amy Sedaris was no longer streaming—which he said made his six-year-old daughter "burst into tears—he decided to tweet at HBO to ask what happened. "Hi there, thanks for reaching out. As we work to bring together HBO Max and discovery+, we're making some changes to our services," HBO...

Exclusive: Sidney Flanigan (Never Rarely Sometimes Always), Frederick Weller (BlacKkKlansman), D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai (Reservation Doggs) and Will Ropp (The Greatest Beer Run Ever) will topline the indie thriller Only the Good Survive, from writer-director Dutch Southern, which has wrapped production.

The film picks up with Brea Dunlee (Flanigan) following a heist gone wrong resulting in the deaths of three of her friends, as she finds herself in the custody of the small-town sheriff Cole Mack (Weller), who may be hiding just as many secrets as her. The only thing for certain is only one of them will survive. Darius Fraser (The Chair), Lachlan Watson (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) and Jon Gries (The White Lotus) also star in the film being eyed for a 2023 release.

Thomas Mahoney (Wild Indian) and Justin X. Duprie (Bad Turn Worse) are producing, with Brian Udovich, Renn Vera and Maureen Taylor serving as EPs.

Miami-based FiGa Films has picked up worldwide sales rights outside Brazil to “Kevin,” an unprecedented co-production between Brazil and Uganda.

FiGa Films will be taking the documentary to this week’s American Film Market and early December’s Ventana Sur as part of its slate.

By newcomer Joana Oliveira, the doc pivots on her long-time friendship with a vibrant Ugandan mother of three called Kevin whom she met while studying in Berlin some two decades ago.

“Kevin and I have been friends since 1999 and the idea of attesting her importance in my life through a film has only been possible because someone else also saw it as a story to be told,” said Oliveira, adding that the film was shot in Uganda and Brazil and boasted an international crew from both countries as well as from Germany, Kenya and the U.S.

The film is lead produced by Luana Melgaço...

Saweetie has released a new single, “Back to the Streets,” featuring Jhené Aiko.

Co-produced with Timbaland, the sassy track is an ode to “F boys” — the men Saweetie enjoys for however long she wants to before moving on to the next one. “I put my new man on a leash/Traded in my old ni**a he was just a lease,” she raps. “Ride around town ’til I leave/I gave that boy a round and sent him back to the streets.” The single comes with an animated lyric video,...

Present at Canneseries with “Man in Room 301,” screening today in competition, Warner Bros. Int’l Television Production Finland is ramping up its scripted content. The company is betting on two scripted shows a year, next to local versions of Warner Bros. TV factuals such as “First Dates” and “The Bachelor.”

Seija-Liisa Eskola, Wbitvp Finland’s creative director and head of scripted, said “Man in Room 301” was “a step ahead” as the first high-end international co-production. Launched last December on the local streamer Elisa Viihde, the U.K-Finnish psycho drama proved the most watched series over the Christmas period. About Premium Content just licensed it to territories including the U.S. (Mhz), France and Germany (both Arte).

Two crime shows are currently filming, both for the Finnish streamer C More.

The nine-part psycho-thriller “The Color of Evil” is created by inhouse head-writer Miira Karhula. Rising names Olli-Ilpo Salonen (“Wendy and the...

Exclusive: Saturday Night Live featured player Ego Nwodim has been upped to a repertory player ahead of NBC late-night program’s 46th season, I have learned. A rep for SNL did not respond to a request for comment.

It has become customary for SNL to promote the featured players who have made it to their third year on the show. Nwodim was the only second-year featured player last season. She was joined by new SNL cast additions Bowen Yang and Chloe Fineman.

Nwodim has stood out in her first seasons on SNL with memorable characters, including L’evanka Trump on the Them Trumps parody. Her impersonations include Tiffany Haddish.

Until joining SNL, Nwodim was a regular cast member at Ucb, where she also performed her one-woman show Great Black Women…and Then There’s Me. Nwodim was named one of the New Faces at the 2016 Just for Laughs festival.

SNL,...

With a diverse lineup of series coming out this year, HBO España is making its mark in Europe with top tier productions that differentiate themselves from the current crop of shows currently on the market, according to the service’s head of original programming.

Discussing the pay TV outlet’s strategy and upcoming productions at this year’s Conecta Fiction Reboot confab, Miguel Salvat, HBO España’s commissioning editor of original programming, said the channel receives and reviews around 1,000 projects a year, and that figure is growing.

“We don’t close the door to anyone, to any person or company, because you never know where the next project that you want to make will come from,” Salvat stressed.

“We’re keeping with that strategy of making few projects,” he added. “What we are looking for in projects are basically three things: an original voice; we are also looking for differentiation,...

Tame Impala staged an intimate “Home” installment of NPR’s Tiny Desk series, playing a trio of recent songs.

Kevin Parker, the Australian psych-pop act’s songwriter and sole studio contributor, fronts the performance at his home studio. Adjusting effects and EQs on a small mixer, he adds a heavier electronic presence to the material, with touring members Jay Watson and Dom Simper playing samplers and sequencers.

“This is Tame Impala Soundsystem,” Parker tells the camera, introducing this unique set-up. The scaled-back lineup play two songs from the recently issued...

We’ve been exclusively revealing all 2020 Emmy Awards episode submissions throughout the first days of August. Every title is now listed below. All guest acting titles were indicated on the ballots from early July. The program, lead and supporting contender episodes are courtesy of networks, studios and/or personal reps. The 72nd annual Emmys will be live (yet virtual) September 20 on ABC and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel (“Jimmy Kimmel Live”).

Each drama series and comedy series must submit six episodes for voters to view. Each lead and supporting nominee from dramas and comedies enter one episode each. Leads in the movie/limited categories are viewed for their entire programs, but supportings in that genre also entire a single title each. The complete list for all confirmed submissions is below.

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"A diabolical wickedness that devours mankind." Searchlight Pictures has released a new featurette about the mythology of the horror film Antlers, from director Scott Cooper. The film was originally scheduled to open in April this year, but was delayed due to the pandemic. At first they were planning to reschedule it for this fall, but they have decided to push it all the way back until February 19th, 2021 next year. Antlers also showed up at Comic-Con this weekend with an "At Home" presentation (watch on YouTube) which is where this video is from. In the film, a small-town Oregon teacher and her brother, the local sheriff, become entwined with a young student harboring a dangerous secret with frightening consequences. It's adapted from a short story called "The Quiet Boy" by Nick Antosca. Antlers stars Keri Russell, Jesse Plemons, Jt Corbitt, Graham Greene, Scott Haze, Rory Cochrane, and Amy Madigan. You...

The Emmy Awards ballot for Best Variety Series Directing lists 31 episodes, so there will be only five nominees in this category for the first time in three years, under the new Emmy rules. Under the proportional-representation rules for this category, two slots are reserved for the 16 submitted episodes of sketch series, two are reserved for the 15 submitted talk series and the last slot is a free-for-all. The six nominees last year were:

“Documentary Now!” (Alex Buono & Rhys Thomas): “Waiting for the Artist” “Drunk History” (Derek Waters): “Are You Afraid of the Drunk?” “Last Week Tonight” (Paul Pennolino): “Psychics” “The Late Show” (Jim Hoskinson): “Live Midterm Election Show” Winner — “Saturday Night Live” (Don Roy King): “Host: Adam Sandler” “Who is America?” (Sacha Baron Cohen & Nathan Fielder & Daniel Gray Longino & Dan Mazer): “Episode 102”

There is a new rule this year that only two co-directors can be credited per submission.

The vicar will continue his sleuthing: PBS has renewed Grantchester for Season 6, stars Tom Brittney and Robson Green announced via Instagram on Friday.

The PBS Masterpiece/ITV series is set in the quaint but crime-ridden village of Grantchester, England, where the unlikely duo of Detective Geordie Keating (Green) and Reverend William Davenport (Brittney), an Anglican vicar, investigate crime.

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Jimmy Fallon and The Tonight Show returned to the studio on Monday following a run of “At Home” episodes amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

The July 13th installment, which follows four months of the shifted format, was filmed in a modified Studio 6-a at their home base in New York City’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Fallon and house band the Roots will continue to appear in the studio with a scaled-back crew, Deadline reports.

No audience will attend upcoming episodes, and most of the Tonight Show staff will continue working from home.

Exclusive: Jimmy Fallon has become the first late-night host to get back to the studio as The Tonight Show returns to 30 Rock.

Fallon returned to a modified Studio 6A to film tonight’s episode of NBC late-night show and he and the show’s house band The Roots will continue to film in the New York studio with a limited crew.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was Fallon’s first guest back and, in a video interview shot over Zoom, welcomed him back, saying “New York is really open now that you’re doing your show again” (see full clip below). Other guests include Charlize Theron and a performance from Little Big Town.

This comes four months after the host started filming At Home editions of his show.

The production will employ social distancing as well as all of the health and safety guidelines as approved by New York authorities.

Pentatonix have released the video for their cover of Billie Eilish’s “When the Party’s Over” a 2018 single from her debut studio album, 2019’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Pentatonix’s version of the song appears on their At Home EP, which was released last month.

Pentatonix arranged, recorded and produced their latest EP while quarantining in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, and their latest video appears to follow suit. Although the group members maintain social distance in the clip, their voices meld together in a cappella harmonies,...

As part of their ongoing “Actors on Actors” series (now “At Home” due to the pandemic), Variety has now paired Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Endgame co-stars Chris Evans and Paul Rudd. During their forty-five minute conversation, they talk about being part of the massive Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise but also making the transition to smaller, streaming series like Defending Jacob and Living with Yourself, respectively. It’s a fun chat, and I kind of hope that someone decides just to put the two of them into a buddy comedy or something because that would be a …...

Three or so years ago, a new generation of directors, many women, were beginning to break out in Catalonia. That was no flash in the pan.

Following on Nely Reguera’s “María (and Everybody Else)” and Carla Simón’s Berlinale Generation Kplus pic “Summer 1993,” first features by Diana Toucedo (“Thirty Souls”), Meritxell Colell (“Facing the Wind”), Neus Ballús (“The Plague”) and Celia Rico (“Journey to a Mother’s Room”) have set the film festival circuit alight, garnering bullish reviews and a slew of prizes. Many of these women are now on to their second or third features: Simón with “Alcarrás,” Ballús (“The Odd-Job Men”), Colell, Rico (“The Little Loves”), Pilar Palomero (“La maternal”) and Reguera (“The Grandson”), among others.

Now, women producers are taking center stage: Belén Sánchez at Un Capricho Producciones (Lucía Alemeny’s “The Innocence”), Patricia Franquesa at Gadea Films (Laura Herrero’s “La Mami”) are succeeding. Many...

AIDS Walk New York and AIDS Walk San Francisco are coming together for the first time to present “AIDS Walk: Live From Home.”

The 90-minute virtual event will be livestreamed on July 19 and benefit New York’s Gmhc and Prc in San Francisco.

“Live From Home,” produced by Erich Bergen and AIDS Walk founder Craig Miller, will feature appearances and performances by Bette Midler, Gloria Estefan, Matt Bomer, Vanessa Williams, Laura Linney, Alan Cumming, Skylar Astin, Alex Newell, and “Queer Eye” stars Tan France, Bobby Berk and Karamo Brown.

The lineup also includes “RuPaul’s Drag Race” stars Nina West, Jackie Cox, Latrice Royale, Chi Chi DeVayne, The Vixen and Ginger Minj, along with judge Ross Mathews.

“When the Covid-19 pandemic struck New York City, we moved quickly to adapt our services to meet head on the new environment and its challenges for people living with HIV,” Gmhc CEO Kelsey Louie said in a statement.

On the June 10, 2020 Episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest film and TV news, including Comic-Con at Home, Gone with the Wind, Evil Dead Now, Wanted 2, Blumhouse’s Dracula, Hollywood resuming […]

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