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The Fox Season 1 Episode 7 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Criminal Minds,” titled “The Fox,” promises to deliver a gripping storyline that will keep fans on the edge of their seats. Set to air on BBC America, this episode focuses on a chilling case that the FBI team must tackle. The plot revolves around a killer who targets families while they are away on vacation, creating a tense atmosphere as the team races against time to prevent further tragedies.

Viewers can expect to see the team use their expertise to uncover the patterns behind the killer’s actions. As they delve deeper into the investigation, they will face numerous challenges and obstacles. The episode will highlight the emotional toll that such crimes take on the victims’ loved ones, showcasing the human side of the team as they work tirelessly to bring justice.

Fumi Kitahara, a widely respected animation publicist who helped steer award-winning campaigns for studios including DreamWorks, Aardman, Laika, Netflix, and Disney, passed away on Monday due to complications from a rare form of blood cancer, her family announced. She was 56.

“Dear Friends of Fumi,” the family wrote. “We’re devastated to share that our dear Fumi passed away this afternoon, February 24, after her long struggle with a rare blood cancer. She was surrounded by the love of her family and close friends.”

Signed “Simon, Max & the Kitahara Family,” the joint statement continued, “We know many of you will be as heartbroken as we are in saying goodbye to her unforgettable personality, her infectious smile, and her warm and loving heart. This is an unimaginable loss for us, our family, and the animation community. Thank you for the love, support, and friendship you have shown her over the years. She meant the world to so many.

Fumi Kitahara, a respected publicity executive who guided award-winning campaigns for studios including DreamWorks, Aardman, Laika, Netflix and Disney, died Monday of complications related to a rare blood cancer. She was 56.

Among the features Kitahara helped publicize are the first three “Shrek” films, “Chicken Run,” “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,” “How to Train Your Dragon,” “Coraline,” “Kubo and the Two Strings,” “Over the Moon” and “The Sea Beast.”

She oversaw awards campaigns for Oscar-winning shorts such as “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse,” and “War is Over! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko.”

Kitahara graduated from Cal State Northridge and started her career in 1992 at Walt Disney Studios in the office of Howard Green, working with him on features including “The Lion King,” “Pocahontas,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “Toy Story,” and “Frank and Ollie,” in addition to a variety of live-action titles.

Name that Tune is back and just had its premiere for Season 4. Former Bachelorette and Dancing With the Stars winner Kaitlyn Bristowe appeared on the special celebrity edition on June 3. While it was a great time for all involved, Kaitlyn made a mistake that was simply cringeworthy. What did she do? Keep reading to get the scoop.

Kaitlyn Bristowe Makes Cringy Mistake On Name That Tune

The Sun shared all the details behind the premiere of Name That Tune Season 4. This special celebrity edition featured former Bachelorette Kaitlyn Bristowe and Queer Eye star Karamo.

Kaitlyn ended up losing and why she lost is cringeworthy to many. The two were to identify the song which happened to be a very famous nursery rhyme. Kaitlyn lost the $10,000 challenge when she confidently shouted out the answer to be “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”

Host Jane Krakowski visibly cringed at Kaitlyn’s very wrong answer.

Matthias Glasner’s Dying was the winner of the top prize at this year’s German Film Awards, clinching the Golden Lola in the best film category along with a cash prize of €500,000 for the producers to invest in a future project.

The production by Port au Prince Film & Kultur Produktion, Schwarzweiß Filmproduktion and Senator Film Produktion, which had its world premiere in competition at this year’s Berlinale where it won the best screenplay Silver Bear, also garnered another three statuettes: Corinna Harfouch (best lead actress), Hans-Uwe Bauer (best supporting actor), and Lorenz Dangel (best film score).

Glasner’s family drama,...

Matthias Glasner’s epic dysfunctional family drama Dying has won the top prize for best film at the 2024 German Film Awards, the Lolas.

Dying was one of the critical favorites at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, where Glasner won the Silver Bear for best screenplay. The film stars Lars Eidinger as a classical conductor with an extremely dysfunctional family.

In addition to the top prize, Corinna Harfoch won the best actress Lola for her role in Dying, where she plays Eidinger’s sharp-tonged and cold-hearted mother. Her Dying co-star Hans-Uwe Bauer took best supporting actor, and the film also took the Lola for best film music for composer Lorenz Dangel.

Ayşe Polat took best director and best screenplay for In the Blind Spot, her twisty documentary-style conspiracy thriller set in modern-day Turkey. The film, which premiered in Berlin’s Encounters section last year, won the top prize at the Oldenburg Film Festival,...

Matthias Glasner’s Dying leads the Lolas, the German Film Awards, with nine nominations, including for best feature film, director, screenplay, and score.

Additionally, Lars Eidinger has been nominated as best actor and Corinna Harfouch as best actress; Robert Gwisdek and Hans-Uwe Bauer have both been nominated for best supporting actor.

The family drama premiered in competition at the Berlinale last month and will be released in Germany by Wild Bunch on April 25.

The Lolas will take place at a ceremony in Berlin on May 3.

Timm Kröger’s second feature The Universal Theory, which premiered in Venice’s Horizons section last September,...

The German Film Academy has announced the movies in competition this year for the German Film Awards, the local equivalent of the Oscars.

Matthias Glasner’s epic family drama Dying, Timm Kröger’s experimental sci-fi feature The Universal Theory, and In the Blind Spot, Ayşe Polat’s documentary-style conspiracy thriller set in modern-day Turkey, are among the favorites for this year’s awards, called the Lolas.

Dying, which stars Lars Eidinger as a classical conductor with an extremely dysfunctional family, picked up nominations in every major category, including best film, best director and best screenplay nominations for Glasner, a best actor nom for Eidinger and a best actress nomination for Corinna Harfoch, who plays Eidinger’s mother. In total, the film is up for nine Lolas.

The Universal Theory, a black-and-white drama about the multiverse, is also in the running for the best film Lola, and Kröger is up for best director.

Game Show Returns

The British version of the iconic reality TV series “Big Brother,” which first launched 23 years ago, is set to return to ITV screens on Oct. 8. The show is hosted by Aj Odudu and Will Best and produced by Initial, part of Banijay U.K. “Big Brother: The Launch” will air on ITV1, ITV2 and streamer Itvx, while the remainder of the series will be available nightly at 9pm on ITV2 and Itvx, except Saturdays.

“Big Brother” will be followed each night by “Big Brother: Late & Live,” hosted live by Odudu and Best from the site of the Big Brother house in front of a studio audience, where evictees will be interviewed. Following this, “Big Brother: Live Stream” will stream live footage seven nights a week on Itvx.

The Banijay format is popular globally with some 500 seasons of the show having aired around the world in 64 countries and regions.

Charlie Mackesy won even more hearts with his Instagram message on a napkin to his 1.8million followers from the Oscars – more specifically, from inside the toilet where he was hiding prior to his category being announced.

Now the winner of the award for best animated short film – for his heartwarming tale The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse – has told the crowd at Latitude Festival that he was too petrified by the cameras and crowds of people to stay in the auditorium in the minutes leading up to the announcement.

The BBC reports Mackesy telling the audience:

“I didn’t think I could even go on stage. I was quite daunted by it.”

And Mackesy added of receiving his Oscar:

“Sometimes I don’t even like to look at the statue, I’ve just got it at home wrapped in a t-shirt. It hasn’t sunk in and...

As the credits began to roll at the end of the 2023 Oscars, host Jimmy Kimmel walked to the side of the stage, where somebody had placed an industrial workplace sign reading “Number of Oscars Telecasts Without an Incident,” and he triumphantly flipped the “00” to “01.”

That pretty much sums up the night.

Maybe you’re a person who loves chaos, in which case the Oscars telecast was doubtlessly a large disappointment. Maybe you’re a person who hates Everything Everywhere All at Once, in which case the Oscars telecast was doubtlessly infuriating. Maybe you hate Hollywood folks and think it’s inappropriate for the recipient of a professional honor to get emotional, in which case the Oscars telecast gave you plenty to be snide about.

I’m going to complain about things in the Oscars telecast. It’s what I do, and the telecast was hardly without flaws. But those flaws...

The 2023 show went off without controversy, although as usual overshot its planned three-hour running time by more than 30 minutes.

Everything Everywhere All At Once capped its triumphant awards season with seven Oscars – including best picture, best directors and three acting prizes - at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday night (March 12).

Apparently reflecting the taste of a younger, more international Academy voting body, the multiverse comedy became the first film to win seven Oscars since Gravity in 2013; and first best picture winner to take more than four awards since The Artist’s five in 2012.

Oscars 2023: Full list of...

‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ wins seven awards including best picture

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s multiverse drama Everything Everywhere All At Once topped the winners at the 95th Academy Awards with seven prizes.

The film, about a Chinese immigrant laundry operator who realises she can save existence by exploring other universes, took best picture, best director, original screenplay and film editing.

It also won three of the four acting awards: best actress for Michelle Yeoh, best supporting actor for Ke Huy Quan, and best supporting actress for Jamie Lee Curtis.

German First World War film All Quiet On The Western Front...

Event producers are gearing up to roll out miles of red carpet in Los Angeles this week for what is shaping up to be a packed schedule of starry parties and gatherings to celebrate the 95th annual Academy Awards. The Hollywood Reporter has gathered intel on all the events below.

Monday, March 6

International Women’s Day Summit

Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills, 9850 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, 5-7 p.m.

Hosted by Visionary Women, the event honors Maria Shriver, Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt and Christina Schwarzenegger as Changemakers of the Year. Co-chaired by Shelley Reid and Thea Andrews Wolf, the event celebrates powerful and inspiring women who have influenced meaningful social change. In partnership with the Hostetler/Wrigley Foundation, Visionary Women also will be announcing the recipient of the annual Visionary Prize for Women’s Economic Empowerment. Visionary Women’s International Women’s Day Celebration is sponsored by Maurice and Paul Marciano Foundation,...

Los Angeles, Feb. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film/A Shadowmachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company) won the Best Feature honor at the 50th Annie Awards celebration Saturday night on the campus of UCLA. Pinocchio also won for Best Character Animation, Feature (Tucker Barrie), Best Direction, Feature (Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson), Best Music, Feature (Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale) and Best Production Design, Feature (Curt Enderle, Guy Davis).

Best Independent Feature was presented to Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Marcel the Movie LLC) which also won for Best Voice Acting, Feature (Jenny Slate as the voice of Marcel) and Best Writing, Feature (Dean Fleischer Camp, Jenny Slate, Nick Paley, Elisabeth Holm).

Best Special Production was presented to The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse (A NoneMore and Bad Robot Production for Apple TV...

Deadline has launched the streaming site for its Contenders Film: The Nominees awards-season event, which took place on Saturday and highlighted the cast and creatives behind 12 films that have been Oscar-nominated this year.

Click here to launch the streaming site.

The diverse list spanned genres and hailed from all over the world, with films representing Italy, Poland, Sweden, Argentina, Ireland and Germany. The conversation with the team from the latter country’s pic, Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front from Netflix, came just before it took the Best Film prize at the BAFTA Film Awards.

All Quiet is one of four Best Picture Oscar nominees who joined Saturday, a list that also includes Warner Bros’ Elvis, Orion Pictures/MGM Pictures/United Artists Releasing’s Women Talking and Neon’s Triangle of Sadness.

Other international pics in the mix are Sideshow & Janus...

Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees is underway Saturday with 12 panels featuring some of the year’s biggest crowd-pleasing movies as well as its most artistic critical hits. This final round of Contenders events this Oscar season features virtual Q&a panels with the on-screen stars, creatives and craftspeople behind 12 of the films that will be going for gold at the Dolby Theater less than a month from now.

Click here to sign up for and launch the livestream.

Streaming Contenders events has opened up a whole new global audience, and also offers quick and convenient access to filmmakers who are either dealing with busy production schedules or, as is the case with several of the panels here, based in locations all around the world. In that respect, Contenders is here to bust open the myth that the Academy Awards are solely a vehicle for the American film industry: you...

After a hugely successful year for domestic films, Austria’s movie industry is looking forward to another impressive crop of titles, including many international co-productions that reflect not only cultural and historical ties with neighboring countries but also the sector’s strong cross-border partnerships.

Highly anticipated films this year include Hans Steinbichler’s “A Whole Life,” the story of a humble man’s existence in an Alpine valley that spans more than eight decades; Dieter Berner’s “Alma and Oskar,” which explores the passionate and tumultuous affair between Viennese composer and socialite Alma Mahler and artist Oskar Kokoschka in the early 1900s; and Timm Kröger’s “The Theory of Everything,” a black-and-white, 1960s-set mystery-thriller that takes place in a scientific conference in the Alps.

Forthcoming releases include works from established directors and young filmmakers, says Anne Laurent-Delage, executive director of promotional organization Austrian Films. This year’s strong showing follows...

It’s BAFTA weekend here in London, and that means it’s time for our annual rundown of the festivities in store for nominees, execs and other well-heeled invitees. Notably in 2023, there’s a new venue for the Film Awards ceremony and dinner, while the roster of pre-awards events includes a new host. All will be capped off by celebrations of several key players on Sunday, from intimate to outsized bashes.

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Outside of the occasional festival screening, Oscar season is often the only time many filmgoers engage with short film, so the nominees better make it count. An Oscar nomination means greater visibility for any film, but its impact is often exponential on short film. Now in its 18th year, ShortsTV offers audiences the chance to immerse themselves in the world of shorts, by giving all of the nominees a theatrical release. If viewers are willing to forego movie stars and step outside their comfort zones, they are in for a real treat.

The animated shorts may have leaned towards kids’ fare in the past, but the category has taken a turn in recent years. This year, only one short, Apple Original Films’ “The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse” seems geared towards younger audiences. The rest skew far more mature, like “My Year of Dicks,” a hilarious trip...

The 2023 Oscar-nominated shorts are officially coming to a theater near you, courtesy of ShortsTV.

Ahead of the 95th Academy Awards ceremony, taking place on Sunday, March 12, audiences can view the nominated short films across the Live Action, Animation, and Documentary categories only in theaters starting February 17.

ShortsTV announced the 18th annual Oscar-Nominated Short Films theatrical release. The program will be available in more than 500 theaters across 75+ theatrical markets including New York and Los Angeles. This is the only opportunity for audiences to watch the short film nominees in theaters before the 95th Academy Awards ceremony.

“This is the year for short films,” ShortsTV CEO and founder Carter Pilcher said. “In a world that is shifting rapidly to a creator economy of short-form storytellers, these fifteen filmmakers are the pinnacle of talent.”

Pilcher continued, “Nominees include some of the biggest names in global film, like Alfonso Cuarón, to some of the best-known storytellers,...

The 38th Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which will take place from Feb. 8 through Feb. 18, has already announced an impressive lineup of screenings and a star-studded roster of actors and actresses who will attend career-retrospective tributes at the fest, including Cate Blanchett (whose evening I will be moderating on Feb. 10), Brendan Fraser, Angela Bassett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson.

On Monday, the fest revealed that a vast majority of this year’s Oscar-nominated directors, writers and producers will also be in attendance to participate on special panels.

At the Arlington Theatre on the evening of Feb. 17, three of the five best director nominees — Tár’s Todd Field, Everything Everywhere All at Once’s Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert and The Banshees of Inisherin’s Martin McDonagh — will be on hand to collect the fest’s Outstanding Directors of the Year Award following separate and group conversations, which...

Despite all of the uncertainty about the future of theatrical distribution, streaming services collectively took a step back in this year’s Oscar race, earning about half of the nominations they did a year ago.

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Netflix, Apple and Amazon accounted for 19 total nominations in this morning’s official field, down from 37 last year. Of course, 2022 was also the year Apple’s Coda broke through and won Best Picture. That milestone seemed to signify that the old divisions between conventionally released specialty and studio titles and those nurtured by streamers might be starting to diminish. Not so fast, Academy members seemed to say this time.

With The Fox, the king of Seventies mass-market pop-rock has finally found a comfortable balance between the churchy turgidity of "serious" efforts like Blue Moves and the irresistible thrust of his finest singles. For a change, there's no glaringly obvious filler, and Elton John's lusty pop gospel singing eschews the earlier extremes of oratorical histrionics and rock & roll brattiness. Tune for tune, these eleven songs make up John's most consistently listenable collection in years.

John also seems determined to regain the grip on the pop mainstream he lost after Rock of the Westies.