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"The Last of Us" has leaned heavy on big-name cameos and guest roles since the start of season 1. Nick Offerman won an Emmy for his single-episode turn in the critically acclaimed "Long, Long Time," and the rest of the season was full of stellar short-term performances from the likes of Nico Parker, Ashley Johnson, Troy Baker, and Melanie Lynskey. All of those turned out to be meaty roles, but season 2 delivers a more traditional cameo in episode 4.

The episode opens on a flashback to 2018, 10 years prior to the main events of "The Last of Us" season 2. We see an armored vehicle carrying Fedra soldiers through the Seattle quarantine zone. As the squad bumps through the city, one among them -- the obligatory jokester of the group -- tells a "funny" story about one of their superior officers brutalizing civilians. While the actor playing this part is somewhat obscured by his massive helmet,...

Andrew Karpen, the respected CEO of Bleecker Street Media who founded the indie distribution company after spending a decade as a top executive with Focus Features, died Monday. He was 59.

He was diagnosed last year with glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer, and died in Fairfield County, Connecticut.

“Our industry has lost a giant,” Bleecker Street president Kent Sanderson said in a statement. “Andrew taught us all so much, foremost of which is the value of kindness, honesty, and family above all else. His leadership and courage will inspire all of us at Bleecker Street for the rest of our lives.”

Karpen launched New York-based Bleecker Street in 2014 with the backing of Manoj Bhargava, founder of the 5-hour Energy drink. He named his company with a nod to the old Focus headquarters at 65 Bleecker St.

“I’m looking forward to bringing the work of great filmmakers into the marketplace, and...

Dan Fogelman is staying in business with Hulu, with the streamer ordering a drama series set within the NFL from the celebrated TV producer.

Exact plot details on the untitled series are being kept under wraps, aside from the fact it takes place in the NFL and has a generational family component, per an individual with knowledge of the project.

Fogelman serves as writer and executive producer on the series. Jess Rosenthal also executive produces via his and Fogleman’s Rhode Island Ave. Productions along with David Ellison, Jesse Sisgold, and Jason T. Reed for Skydance Sports. 20th Television and Skydance Sports will produce. Fogelman is currently under an overall deal at 20th TV.

This is now the second series order Fogelman has landed at Hulu. He is also the creator of the upcoming drama series “Paradise” starring Sterling K. Brown and James Marsden, which does not have a premiere...

Bleecker Street executives Kent Sanderson and Myles Bender can vividly remember their first time seeing “Eye in the Sky,” a drone warfare thriller starring Helen Mirren and Alan Rickman that premiered in 2015 at Toronto Film Festival with hopes of finding distribution. Not long into the Canadian screening, they were held rapt by film but quickly realized their contemporaries in the room didn’t feel the same way.

“Within 15 minutes, I started watching a lot of other buyers get up and leave. I guess they felt the film was too challenging,” says Sanderson, Bleecker Street’s president. He and Bender, head of marketing and creative advertising, pushed for their boss, the film company’s co-founder and CEO, Andrew Karpen, to watch the film so they could bid on the distribution rights. Bender recalls, “We were looking at each other and saying, ‘What are we seeing that they aren’t?’”

Karpen shared...

“This Is Us” alums Sterling K. Brown and Dan Fogelman are reuniting for a drama that has been ordered to series at Hulu, Variety has learned.

Hulu is not commenting on exact plot details of the untitled series, but sources describe the show as a thriller and say Brown would star as the head of security for a former president.

In addition to writing, Fogelman will executive produce via Rhode Island Ave. Productions along with Jess Rosenthal. Brown will executive produce in addition to starring, with John Hoberg also executive producing. 20th Television is the studio, with Fogelman currently under an overall deal there.

Fogelman previously created the hit NBC family drama “This Is Us,” in which Brown starred as Randall Pearson throughout the show’s six-season run. Brown earned five consecutive Emmy nominations for his work on the show, winning the award for best actor in a drama in...

Three-time Emmy Award winner Sterling K. Brown is set to reunite with “This is Us” creator Dan Fogelman to executive produce and star in a new untitled drama series for Hulu Originals.

The highly secretive spec script from Fogelman quietly went to senior level executives at 20th Television and Hulu and was picked up to series.

In addition to Fogelman and Brown, Jess Rosenthal and John Hoberg serve as executive producers. The series is produced by 20th Television.

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Brown, who earned two Primetime Emmy Awards for his performance as Randall Pearson in “This is Us,” most recently starred in Focus Features’ “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul,” which earned him an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture.

He will be seen this July in the IFC feature film “Biosphere,” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Pepe Aguilar knows a thing or two about continuing a legacy. The son of the greatest ranchera singer of all time, Antonio Aguilar, and a star of the golden age of Mexican cinema, Flor Silvestre, Pepe built a career by successfully carrying the heavy, storied history of the Aguilar last name and turning it into a now-growing dynasty.

With songs like “Por Mujeres Como Tú” and “Directo Al Corazón,” Pepe married the traditionalism of rancheras with the pop modernity of the mid-2000s to build a career in his own right.

“Drake and Josh” star Josh Peck has joined the sprawling cast of Christopher Nolan’s World War II epic “Oppenheimer.”

He will play Kenneth Bainbridge, a real scientist who was involved in the Manhattan Project, the code name for America’s effort to develop nuclear weapons during the second world war.

Cillian Murphy is starring as J. Robert Oppenheimer in the movie, which examines the physicist whose contribution led to the creation of the atomic bomb. Murphy will be surrounded by an A-list ensemble, including Emily Blunt as biologist and botanist Kitty Oppenheimer, Matt Damon as Manhattan Project director Leslie Groves Jr. and Robert Downey, Jr. as founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Lewis Strauss.

There are at least a dozen other recognizable actors already on board. Florence Pugh will play psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie will portray theoretical physicist Edward Teller and Josh Hartnett will embody pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence.

It was big news earlier this year when Al Pacino appeared in his first-ever series regular TV role in the Amazon thriller “Hunters.” But the reviews were somewhat mixed, and the Emmys ultimately passed on it despite its star power. That might not be the last word on the series, though. Pacino is adored by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association that votes on the Golden Globes. Will he get his revenge for this revenge thriller?

See‘Hunters’ interviews: Saul Rubinek, Jerrika Hinton, creator David Weil and more [Watch]

Pacino has been nominated for a whopping 18 Golden Globes spanning almost 50 years. He won four of those awards: Best Film Drama Actor for “Serpico” (1973) and “Scent of a Woman” (1992), and then Best TV Movie/Limited Actor for “Angels in America” (2003) and “You Don’t Know Jack” (2010). In-between he received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2001 for his lifetime of achievements in the industry.

He...

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon ultimately decided to join Amazon Prime Video’s new drama “Hunters” as an executive producer and pilot director because of a personal connection to the material.

“I got a letter from David [Weil, the series creator] and I was really moved by that. The letter told me stories of his grandmother and how personal this story was to him. It was a beautiful script and was also very personal to me because it’s a story that belongs to anyone that feels like ‘an other,'” Gomez-Rejon tells Variety. The story of “immigrants in existence and justice,” he continues, “is a world that is very close to me because I’m from the Mexican border. He and I talked about the plight of the outsider and discovering their place in the world, or a world they could create that becomes a place of their own.”

Premiering Feb. 21 on Amazon, “Hunters” is set...

Disney Plus has ordered an hour-long series based on the Tom Hanks Disney comedy film “Turner & Hooch,” Variety has learned.

It was originally reported the show was in development in December. Josh Peck will star in the series as Scott Turner, described as an ambitious, buttoned-up U.S. Marshall who inherits a big unruly dog. He soon realizes the pet he didn’t want may be the partner he needs. The series has received a 12-episode order. Matt Nix is writing and executive producing the series, with Josh Levy co-executive producing.

“Turner & Hooch” was first released in 1989. Along with Hanks, the cast also included Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson, and Reginald VelJohnson. Roger Spottiswoode directed. It went on to gross over $70 million at the box office on a reported budget of $13 million.

Peck first broke out as one of the two stars of the Nickelodeon series “Drake & Josh.

Two historic dramas headline a comparatively slow weekend for new Specialty roll outs vs. last weekend’s heavy roster. Bleecker Street/ShivHans Pictures’ Hotel Mumbai with Oscar-nominee Dev Patel and Golden Globe-nominee Armie Hammer will have a minimal start in New York and Los Angeles ahead of a fairly wide release in the coming weeks. The film recounts the true events in 2008 when terrorists laid siege of the Taj Hotel in Mumbai. Sony Pictures Classics is opening Budapest-set Sunset by László Nemes, whose previous feature, Son Of Saul won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film. Sunset is a fictional drama set amid the tense days leading up to World War I. The film will have a slow roll out, beginning in New York and L.A. Grand Rapids, Michigan, however, will have the theatrical bow for Oscilloscope’s Relaxer by Joel Potrykus. The company is opening the title...

MaryAnn’s quick take… Goofy, charming, faithful to its sweet source material, and all while advancing the standard “Be yourself” message with fresh challenges to gender expectations. I’m “biast” (pro): love the book

I’m “biast” (con): not a fan of Blue Sky’s movies

I have read the source material (and I love it)

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

When the now-beloved children’s book The Story of Ferdinand was first published in 1936, some grownups were worried that it might have a bad influence on children. Apparently its sweet, simple story — from writer Munro Leaf, with instantly iconic illustrations by Robert Lawson — was seen as promoting (take your pick) pacifism, fascism, communism, and/or anarchism. To be fair, its tale of a bull in Spain who wasn’t interested in bullfighting and only wanted to loll about in fields of flowers could...

MaryAnn’s quick take… There’s charm and wit in its fanciful depiction of the creative process, but the film downplays the social activism that Dickens fully embraced in his work. I’m “biast” (pro): love Dickens and A Christmas Carol

I’m “biast” (con): haven’t been the biggest fan of Dan Stevens

I have not read the source material

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

Did Charles Dickens really invent our modern observance of Christmas? Well… he certainly contributed to it, with his beloved 1843 novella A Christmas Carol bringing to it a spirit of family celebration and togetherness and moving the holiday away from its religious grounding to a more secular one focused on ecumenical kindness and generosity. But we also have Prince Albert to thank, for importing his German Yuletide customs — such as evergreens and Christmas trees — to England when he married...

New York-based distributor picks up thriller written by Tony Gilroy.

Bleecker Street has secured Us rights to director Brad Anderson’s High Wire Act starring Jon Hamm and Rosamund Pike.

The political thriller centres on a top Us diplomat who leaves Lebanon in the 1970s after his wife is killed. Ten years later, he gets called back to a war-torn Beirut by CIA operatives with a mission only he can accomplish.

The film also stars Dean Norris, Mark Pellegrino, Larry Pine, Shea Whigham, Alon Moni Aboutboul, Idir Chender, and Jonny Coyne.

Mike Weber of Radar Pictures, Gilroy, and Shivani Rawat and Monica Levinson of ShivHans Pictures produced the film. Ted Field and Steve Saeta served as executive producers.

Bleecker Street collaborated with ShivHans Pictures on the release of Captain Fantastic, Trumbo, and Danny Collins..

“Brad’s film is the kind of adult thriller a smarthouse audience craves,” Andrew Karpen, CEO of Bleecker Street, said. “It’s...

Bleecker Street has secured U.S/ distribution rights to director Brad Anderson’s High Wire Act, which was written by Tony Gilroy.

The political thriller centres on a top diplomat (Jon Hamm) who leaves Lebanon in the 1970s after his wife is tragically killed.

10 years later, he gets called back to a war-torn Beirut by CIA operatives (Rosamund Pike, Dean Norris) with a mission only he can accomplish.

The film also stars Mark Pellegrino, Larry Pine, Shea Whigham, Alon Moni Aboutboul, Idir Chender and Jonny Coyne.

Mike Weber of Radar Pictures, Gilroy, and Shivani Rawat and Monica Levinson of ShivHans Pictures produced the film. Ted Field and Steve Saeta served as executive producers.

Bleecker Street previously collaborated with ShivHans Pictures on the release of the Oscar-nominated films Captain Fantastic and Trumbo, and Danny Collins.

“Brad’s film is the kind of adult thriller a smarthouse audience craves,” Andrew Karpen, CEO of...

MaryAnn’s quick take… An appalling elevation of toxic masculinity to something poignant, radical, and heroic. As unpleasant and as passive-aggressive as its horrid protagonist. I’m “biast” (pro): love the cast

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

I have not read the source material

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

I wish I could figure out just what the hell writer-director Robin Swicord (The Jane Austen Book Club) thinks she is saying with the appalling Wakefield, a movie as unpleasant and as passive-aggressive as its horrid protagonist. Because all it looks and feels like is an elevation of toxic masculinity — of emotional withdrawal, delusions about one’s own rationality, pretensions about one’s boldness, and disdain for women, among other nasty things — to a level meant to be poignant, radical, and heroic all at once. And it’s nothing of the sort.

Rather than face a momentary embarrassment,...

MaryAnn’s quick take… This melodrama about men unable to express themselves emotionally except through heavy machinery isn’t only clichéd: it doubles down on the clichés. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

A lowrider is a kind of customized car most associated with the Mexican-American community in Los Angeles. Customization features hydraulics that raise, lower, and bounce the chassis; paint jobs that gleam almost supernaturally topped by spectacular painted murals on the hood, sides, and other surfaces; a surfeit of chrome and other bling; and much more. Lowriders are highly personal works of art for their dude creators — pretty much always a dude — in which a dude also looks supercool slow-cruising the southern California boulevards.

If you do not already know all of this, Lowriders is not for you. There’s no onramp for...

NBC break-out This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman directs the drama.

Film Nation and Temple Hill announced that Bening has joined Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Antonio Banderas, Olivia Cooke, Laia Costa, Mandy Patinkin, Sergio Peris-Mencheta and Alex Monner on the drama.

This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman directs from his screenplay and production has begun in New York City ahead of an anticipated move to Spain in May.

Life, Itself is a multi-generational love story that weaves together characters whose lives intersect over the course of decades from the streets of New York to the Spanish countryside and back.

FilmNation is fully financing and produces and handles international sales while Wme Global represents Us rights.

Temple Hill’s Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey are producing with FilmNation, and Fogelman.

Fogelman created two TV shows this season: Pitch, made in cooperation with Major League Baseball for Fox, and the break-out NBC series This Is Us.

His directorial...

MaryAnn’s quick take… Poignant and hilarious and wise, a melancholy ode to a moment when the world was changing for women (and men)… and how it still and always is. I’m “biast” (pro): I’m desperate for stories about women

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

Sex, some, though more awkwardness and regrets than action. Not much in the way of drugs; just some beer, oh, and lots of cigarettes; it has several points to make about cigarettes, actually. Rock ’n’ roll, definitely: an ongoing battle between punk and “art fag” music (think: Talking Heads).

Plenty of talk about women’s orgasms, which — hey! — 20th Century Women reminds us does not automatically fall under the Sex heading the way it does for men. And a scene around a dinner table in which menstruation and painful virginity-losing is discussed,...

Annette Bening has signed on to star in “Katrina: American Crime Story,” the next installment in Ryan Murphy’s FX anthology series.

Bening will play Kathleen Blanco, who was Governor of Louisiana during and after Hurricane Katrina, in the limited-run series from Murphy, Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson.

Read More: ‘American Crime Story,’ ‘Atlanta’ Delays: Why FX Hits Sometimes Go On Long Hiatuses

FX announced last month that “Katrina,” which is the follow-up to “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story,” won’t be ready until 2018. That’s to allow producers more time to craft the story; but the delay was also attributed to Hurricane season-related insurance issues.

Production on the series’ third installment, about the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace, will actually take place before “Katrina.” That will allow FX to air both editions within six months of each other in 2018, and perhaps put the...

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Rosario Dawson and Katherine Heigl star in a film that seems a throwback to the 1990s...

It’s like we’ve got back to the 1990s. For the directorial debut of the terrific producer Denise Di Novi (her credits include the likes of Edward Scissorhands, Practical Magic, Batman Returns and Danny Collins), she’s picked a movie going by the name of Unforgettable.

It was called To Have And To Hold when it was in production, and the film has been penned by David Leslie Johnson and Christina Hodson. It features Katherine Heigl and Rosario Dawson, with Heigl playing the divorced wife of the character played by Geoff Stults, and Dawson his new fiance.

On the surface, it’s channelling Fatal Attraction and perhaps a bit of The Hand That Rocks The Cradle here, as Heigl becomes the ex from hell, and begins stalking the pair. The...

It feels like it’s been a while since we’ve had a sweeping, multi-character epic in cinemas, so it’s welcome news that Oscar Isaac has been confirmed as leading the cast of Life Itself – an upcoming film from writer-director Dan Fogelman. FilmNation nabbed the spec script during the summer, and quickly committed to finance and produce the project, along with Temple Hill – all of which bodes very well for the quality of the story.

Oscar Isaac will take centre stage among an ensemble of distinctive characters, in a tale that spans a number of generations, several continents, and many years. While details are scarce on how these characters will connect – and specifically how they will connect with Oscar Isaac – it’s clear that love will feature heavily throughout their various life-intersections. This is exciting news for Isaac, who has thus far kept his leading roles to much smaller,...

Deadline is reporting that Oscar Isaac will star in “Life Itself,” which unfortunately is not an adaptation of Roger Ebert’s memoir. Dan Fogelman (“This Is Us,” “Pitch,” “Danny Collins”) will write and direct the project, which is a co-production between FilmNation and Temple Hill.

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Isaac, who was most recently seen in “X-Men: Apocalypse” and will next appear in “The Promise,” is playing “the catalyst character who triggers an ensemble multi-generational love story that weaves together several characters whose lives intersect over the course of decades from the streets of New York to the Spanish countryside and back,” according to Deadline.

Read More: ‘The Promise’ Trailer: Oscar Isaac and Christian Bale Are In A War-Torn Love Triangle

Isaac has become one of Hollywood’s most sought-after actors in recent years, with a high-profile...

Annette Bening in 20th Century Women (Courtesy: Merrick Morton/A24)

By: Carson Blackwelder

Managing Editor

Over the course of her career, Annette Bening has been nominated for four Oscars. That, of course, shouldn’t come as a surprise because this is one extremely talented lady. What might shock you, though, is that Bening has taken home zero of those coveted statuettes — but this could all change with her latest work: 20th Century Women.

Mike Mills (Beginners, Thumbsucker) returns with another work he both directed and wrote the screenplay for — and it has the distinction of holding its world premiere on October 8 at the 54th New York Film Festival as the Centerpiece film this year.

The movie is a comedy based in Santa Barbara in the late 1970s and is the story of three women — Bening as single Dorothea Fields, a single mother to teenaged son Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann); Greta Gerwig as Abbie,...

Danny McBride is no stranger to stepping outside of comedy with Up in the Air, All the Real Girls, and more, but he’s now set to dive into something quite unexpected. The Wrap reports he’s in talks to join Ridley Scott‘s Alien: Covenant with Michael Fassbender returning and Katherine Waterston taking on a new female lead role. While the Eastbound & Down star’s role isn’t specified, the October 2017-bound films follows the crew of the colony ship Covenant as they come across a dangerous planet occupied solely by Fassbender’s David.

Speaking of Fassbender, after he dropped out of The Mountains Between Us and then Charlie Hunnam doing the same, 20th Century Fox is looking at a new lead. The Wrap reports his Prometheus co-sta Idris Elba is now in talks to star in the project, adapted from Charles Martin’s novel following a doctor and...

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists has announced the winners of the 2015 Eda Awards.

Spotlight was the top winner with four including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Ensemble Cast.

Carol and Mad Max: Fury Road were each awarded two EDAs.

Awfj Eda ‘Best Of’ Awards

These awards are presented to women and/or men.

Best Film

Spotlight

Best Director (Female or Male)

Tom McCarthy for Spotlight

Best Screenplay, Original

Spotlight – Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy

Best Screenplay, Adapted

Carol – Phyllis Nagy

Best Documentary

Amy – Asif Kapadia

Best Animated Film

Inside Out – Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen

Best Actress

Charlotte Rampling in 45 Years

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Kristen Stewart in Clouds Of Sils Maria

Best Actor

Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Paul Dano in Love & Mercy

Best Ensemble Cast (tie)

Spotlight

Straight Outta Compton

Best Editing

Mad Max: Fury Road...

Update 01.12.16:

And the winners are…

Awfj Best Of Awards

These awards are presented to women and/or men without gender consideration.

Best Film: Spotlight

Best Director: Tom McCarthy – Spotlight

Best Screenplay, Original: Spotlight – Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy

Best Screenplay, Adapted: Carol – Phyllis Nagy

Best Documentary: Amy

Best Animated Film: Inside Out

Best Actress: Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years

Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Kristin Stewart – Clouds of Sils Maria

Best Actor: Leonardo Di Caprio – The Revenant

Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Paul Dano – Love & Mercy

Best Ensemble Cast: Spotlight and Straight Outta Compton (Tie)

Best Editing: Mad Max: Fury Road – Margaret Sixel

Best Cinematography: Carol – Edward Lachman

Best Film Music or Score: The Hateful Eight – Ennio Morricone

Best Non-English-Language Film: Son of Saul

Eda Female Focus Awards

These awards honor women only.

Best Woman Director: Marielle Heller – The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Best Woman Screenwriter: Emma Donoghue...

The 2016 Golden Globe Awards were held last night; it was a long one but thanks to host Ricky Gervais, it was anything but boring. The Revenant took home Best Picture – Drama, Best Director for Alejandro G. Iñárritu, and Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio. Some might hope that Leos’ Oscar chances are a lock now, but let’s remember that for some strange reason he didn’t win for Wolf of Wall Street. The Academy has already closed voting for Oscar nominations, so this award show has no claim to much.

The Martian won Best Picture – Comedy and Best Actor in a Comedy for Matt Damon, while the Best Actress honors went to Brie Larson for Room and Jennifer Lawrence for Joy. And our favorite actress, Kate Winslet, won for her supporting role in Steve Jobs.Also, Sylvester Stallone won for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Creed; his last...

Best Motion Picture, Drama Carol Mad Max: Fury Road Winner: The Revenant Room Spotlight Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy The Big Short Joy Winner: The Martian Spy Trainwreck Best Director – Motion Picture Todd Haynes, Carol Winner: Alejandro G. Iñárritu, The Revenant Tom McCarthy, Spotlight George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road Ridley Scott, The Martian Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama Cate Blanchett, Carol Winner: Brie Larson, Room Rooney Mara, Carol Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama Bryan Cranston, Trumbo Winner: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl Will Smith, Concussion Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy Winner: Jennifer Lawrence, Joy Melissa McCarthy, Spy Amy Schumer, Trainwreck Maggie Smith, Lady in the Van Lily Tomlin, Grandma Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy Christian Bale, The Big Short Steve Carell,...

The big day is finally here! The 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards will be broadcast live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on Sunday, January 10, 2016, by NBC. Ricky Gervais will serve as host for the awards ceremony, which begins at 8 Pm Et/5 Pm Pt, and we'll be updating this story all night long with all of the award winners as they're announced live on the air.

The three-hour ceremony serves as the official kick-off to awards season and will be aired live coast to coast from 8-11 p.m. Et on NBC. Ricky Gervais is returning as host for the fourth time. Gervais hosted the Golden Globes for three consecutive years (2010-12) when the network registered ratings gains from the previous two telecasts. Over that 2010-12 span, the Golden Globes averaged a 5.2 rating in the 18-49 demo and 17 million viewers overall, which was a 6% increase from the...

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The Revenant, The Martian, Sylvester Stallone, Leonardo diCaprio and Mr Robot win big at the Golden Globe awards. Here are the winners...

Might it just be Leonardo diCaprio's year, finally, at the Academy Awards? He and his latest movie, The Revenant, took a big step towards the Oscar stage by taking home the big prizes at the Golden Globe awards overnight. DiCaprio took home the best actor gong (for a drama), whilst The Revenant seized Best Motion Picture, Drama, beating out the early Oscar favourite, Spotlight.

Alejandro G Inarritu won Best Director for The Revenant, too.

Elsewhere? The Martian won big too, with Matt Damon earning the best actor prize in a musical or comedy, with the film itself winning Best Motion Picture (musical, or comedy). Sylvester Stallone nabbed Best Supporting Actor for his work in Creed, with Kate Winslet winning Best Supporting Actress for Steve Jobs.

The Revenant and The Martian were the big winners at 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night.

Ridley Scott’s The Martian garnered awards for Best Actor -Matt Damon (Musical/Comedy) and Best Motion Picture (Musical/Comedy), while Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s action-adventure brought home three Globes for Best Motion Picture (Drama), Best Actor – Leonardo DiCaprio (Drama) and Best Director. Both films were released by 20th Century Fox.

Undoubtedly, the highlight of the evening was Sylvester Stallone’s Best Supporting Actor win for Creed. The Rocky theme music was played as the actor made his way to the stage along with a heartfelt standing ovation from his peers in the room.

Sylvester Stallone (@officialslystallone), Best Performance By An Actor In A Supporting Role – Motion Picture for “Creed”. Photo by @inezandvinoodh #goldenglobes

A photo posted by Golden Globes (@goldenglobes) on Jan 10, 2016 at 7:25pm Pst

Before you check out the winners,...

The Golden Globes awards ceremony concluded this evening with The Revenant sweeping much of the top categories, and The Martian hilariously picking up Best Comedy. If one is disappointed by the results, at least have some solace knowing Ennio Morricone won for his work on The Hateful Eight. Check out the film winners below, along with a relevant disclaimer.

Imagine all the awards Mad Max: Fury Road would win if their awards campaign was based solely around how difficult the shoot was.

— The Film Stage (@TheFilmStage) January 11, 2016

Best motion picture, drama

“Mad Max: Fury Road”

“Carol”

“The Revenant”

“Room”

“Spotlight”

Best motion picture, musical or comedy

“Joy”

“Spy”

“The Big Short”

“The Martian”

“Trainwreck”

Best performance by an actress in a motion picture, drama

Saoirse Ronin, “Brooklyn”

Cate Blanchett, “Carol”

Rooney Mara, “Carol”

Brie Larson, “Room”

Alicia Vikander, “The Danish Girl”

Best performance by an actress in a motion picture,...

The Revenant was the big winner at the Golden Globes taking home the coveted Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director awards, painting a clear front-runner for the Oscar nominations later this week.

Host Ricky Gervais was back for another round of hosting duties, having last hosted in 2012, with Hollywood welcoming him back on stage with open arms. The awards show kicked off with a Best Supporting Actress win for Kate Winslet in the decades-spanning Steve Jobs.

The award was just a sample of what was to come. Leonardo DiCaprio, who has been nominated for a Golden Globe eleven times since 1994, took home the trophy for his role in The Revenant. With his performance as Hugh Glass, a fur trader who seeks revenge after being left for dead, DiCaprio is considered the Oscar front-runner for Best Actor. He’ll face competition from Matt Damon who took home the Best Actor...

Amy Adams presented the award for Best Actor In A Motion Picture – Comedy with the award going to Matt Damon for his role in The Martian. The other nominees were Christian Bale and Steve Carell for The Big Short, Al Pacino for Danny Collins and Mark Ruffalo for Infinitely Polar Bear. “Thanks to table 10, right over there,” […]

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Matt Damon came out of Sunday night's 73rd annual Golden Globes a big winner. Amy Adams presented the The Martian star with the award for best performance by an actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy, at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. "First off, my kids are watching, so I have to thank my kids, because I told them if I got on TV I'd definitely say something to them - so get ready to go to bed," Damon said while accepting his award. "But my wife, thank you Lucy for, you know, everything" "Look, I was here 18 years ago,...

Golden Globes: Michael Fassbender. 2016 Golden Globes winners, as they're announced The Golden Globes will be hosted once again by Ricky Gervais, who stirred up quite a to-do a few years ago with his three few-holds-barred, back-to-back gigs (2010–2012). At the time, Gervais roasted the rich and famous (and not so-famous) ceremony attendees (and several non-attendees), implying, at times without naming names, that Hollywood Scientologists (Tom Cruise and John Travolta) were gay, that Jodie Foster was a lesbian (a juvenile, cringeworthy joke about Foster's box office flop The Beaver, starring Mel Gibson), that Madonna was hardly like her song “Like a Virgin” (for which he got a rebuke), and so on. Expect more of same this year for the entertainment of those who can only wish they were rich and famous and getting drunk at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills this evening. Who's going to win? The Golden Globes ceremony...

Years after Ricky Gervais roasted Mel Gibson at an earlier Globes show the pair hugged on stage when the Australian introduced footage from Mad Max: Fury Road.

Prior to introducing Gibson, Gervais, tongue firmly in his cheek, referred to previous bad blood between the pair. “I’m sure it’s embarrassing for both of us and I blame NBC for this terrible situation.”

After the embrace Gibson turned to the comedian and said: “I love seeing Ricky once every three years because it reminds me to get a colonoscopy.”

A subsequent exchange was bleeped out.

The Martian was named best musical or comedy. Ridley Scott accepted the award and said “Screw you” as music began to play while he thanked a long list of collaborators.

Scott rounded off by saying: “Finally I know my [late] brother Tony would have been here tonight for sure and I know many of you knew him and loved him. I love you...

Best Motion Picture, Drama

The Revenant

Carol

Mad Max: Fury Road

Room

Spotlight

Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy

The Martian

The Big Short

Joy

Spy

Trainwreck

Best TV Series, Drama

Mr. Robot

Empire

Game of Thrones

Narcos

Outlander

Best TV Series, Musical or Comedy

Mozart in the Jungle

Casual

Orange Is the New Black

Silicon Valley

Transparent

Veep

Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama

Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant

Bryan Cranston, Trumbo

Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs

Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl

Will Smith, Concussion

Best Actress in a Motion Picture,...

And so it goes, Alejandro González Iñárritu's "The Revenant" derails Tom McCarthy's "Spotlight" from dominating award season by winning the most trophies at the 73rd annual Golden Globe Awards! Besides taking home the Best Picture Drama trophy, Leonardo DiCaprio also won the Best Actor Drama trophy while Iñárritu received the Best Director award.

The Golden Globes, given by the Hollywood Foreign Press, bestowed "The Martian" as the Best Picture Comedy of the year because it's really funny! According to host Ricky Gervais, "The Martian" was a lot funnier than "Pixels." True that! Matt Damon also won Best Actor Comedy for "The Martian."

Jennifer Lawrence took home the Best Actress Comedy trophy for "Joy" beating her bestie Amy Schumer for "Trainwreck." Brie Larson won the Best Actress Drama award for "Room."

In the supporting acting categories, Kate Winslet won actress for "Steve Jobs" while Sylvester Stallone received the actor trophy.

One of Hollywood’s biggest parties is here — it’s the 73rd Golden Globe Awards. Below is the full list of nominees. HitFix will keep you updated on the winners here as they’re announced. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's honors are being presented at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Motion picture, drama "Carol" "Mad Max: Fury Road" Winner: "The Revenant" "Room" "Spotlight" Motion picture, comedy "The Big Short" "Joy" Winner: "The Martian" "Spy" "Trainwreck" Actress in a motion picture, drama Cate Blanchett, "Carol" Winner: Brie Larson, "Room" Rooney Mara, "Carol" Saoirse Ronan, "Brooklyn" Alicia Vikander, "The Danish Girl" Actress in a motion picture, comedy Winner: Jennifer Lawrence, "Joy" Melissa McCarthy, "Spy" Amy Schumer, "Trainwreck" Maggie Smith, "The Lady in the Van" Lily Tomlin, "Grandma" Actor in a motion picture, drama Bryan Cranston, "Trumbo" Winner: Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Revenant" Michael Fassbender, "Steve Jobs" Eddie Redmayne, "The Danish Girl" Will Smith,...

The 2016 awards season is officially in high gear, with Sunday's 73rd Golden Globe Awards.

Controversial Ricky Gervais returns to host, so expect a rundown of his (hopefully) humorous celebrity barbs on Monday morning. And some of your favorite movies and shows will need to make space on their awards mantles tonight.

Will "The Revenant" take home Best Dramatic Movie? Will the crowd keep a straight face if "The Martian" wins for Best Comedy/Musical? Will "Empire" defeat "Game of Thrones?"

This year's race is crazy competitive, and we'll be updating the winner's list throughout the show. So make sure to check back to see who won, and who lost.

Best Motion Picture, Drama

"Carol"

"Mad Max: Fury Road"

"The Revenant" - Winner

"Room"

"Spotlight"

Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama

Bryan Cranston, "Trumbo "

Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Revenant " - Winner

Michael Fassbender, "Steve Jobs

Eddie Redmayne, "The Danish Girl"

Will Smith,...

This is definitely the time of year when film critic types (I’m sure you know who I mean) spend an inordinate amount of time leading up to awards season—and it all leads up to awards season, don’t it?—compiling lists and trying to convince anyone who will listen that it was a shitty year at the movies for anyone who liked something other than what they saw and liked. And ‘tis the season, or at least ‘thas (?) been in the recent past, for that most beloved of academic parlor games, bemoaning the death of cinema, which, if the sackcloth-and-ashes-clad among us are to be believed, is an increasingly detached and irrelevant art form in the process of being smothered under the wet, steaming blanket of American blockbuster-it is. And it’s going all malnourished from the siphoning off of all the talent back to TV, which, as everyone knows,...

The Hollywood Foreign Press is set to hand out the 73rd Golden Globes awards on Sunday on NBC! While I, a voting Critics' Choice member, still feel that we are a better Academy Awards predictor, we cannot discount the Globes for its history and really, fun! And I do have a lot of fun blogging about it! Slicing and dicing the nominees, the winners, and the craziness!

Join in on the fun by clicking here, and then come back at 5 p.m. Pacific tomorrow and let's celebrate the Golden Globes!

Here's my complete predictions again, and let's compare against the final list of winners tomorrow! Is my trusted crystal ball still trusty? Let's find out!

Film

Best Motion Picture - Drama

"Carol"

"Mad Max: Fury Road"

"The Revenant"

"Room"

"Spotlight" . Will Win

Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical

"The Big Short"

"Joy"

"The Martian" . Will Win

"Spy"

"Trainwreck"

Best Director

Todd Haynes,...

A big day is coming, ladies and gentlemen. Yes, on Sunday night, we’ll have in some ways what amounts to a test run for Oscar in the Golden Globe Awards. Yes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (or HFPA for short) has basically no overlap, voter wise, with the Academy, but to some degree what happens at the Globes still affects what happens with Oscar. Mostly, it makes a difference in terms of potential winners, especially since voting by Academy members for nominations will be over before Sunday, but still…they’ll be watching. As such, it makes it all the more important to keep an eye on what happens here. In that regard, I’ve got one last set of predictions for the Golden Globes, in an effort to see what the members of the HFPA are going to do this weekend. As far as I can tell, Spotlight...

The Hollywood Foreign Press, known to surprise many with its choices, will hand out the winners of the 73rd annual Golden Globes on Sunday! Who will win? Now I.m a Movie Guy and not a TV guy but I did my best and consulted with the TV gods for my fearless predictions!

Film

Best Motion Picture - Drama

"Carol"

"Mad Max: Fury Road"

"The Revenant"

"Room"

"Spotlight" . Will Win

Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical

"The Big Short"

"Joy"

"The Martian" . Will Win

"Spy"

"Trainwreck"

Best Director

Todd Haynes, "Carol"

Alejandro González Iñárritu, "The Revenant"

Tom McCarthy, "Spotlight"

George Miller, "Mad Max: Fury Road" . Will Win

Ridley Scott, "The Martian"

Best Actress - Drama

Cate Blanchett, "Carol"

Brie Larson, "Room" . Will Win

Rooney Mara, "Carol"

Saoirse Ronan, "Brooklyn"

Alicia Vikander, "The Danish Girl"

Best Actor - Drama

Bryan Cranston, "Trumbo"

Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Revenant" . Will Win

Michael Fassbender, "Steve Jobs"

Eddie Redmayne,...

Winning a Golden Globe doesn't have the same cachet as getting an Oscar or an Emmy, but the awards ceremony itself is often more entertaining, for one big reason: It's unpredictable. The stars are boozed-up, the atmosphere's informal, and the outcomes are … well, sometimes pretty bizarre. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is a small organization, and keeps both its membership and its voting practices shrouded in mystery. It's often hard to make sense of its choices, because shadowy cabals would rather not explain themselves.

The best any intrepid prognosticator can do,...

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists has announced the nominees for their 2015 Eda Awards recognizing the amazing work done by and about women -- both in front and behind the camera. According to their site, "the EDAs are named in honor of Awfj founder Jennifer Merin.s mother, Eda Reiss Merin, a stage, film and television actress whose career spanned more than 60 years. A dedicated foot soldier in the industry, Eda was one of the founders of AFTRA and a long-standing Member of AMPAS."

Todd Haynes' "Carol" led the pack with nine nominations, followed by "Mad Max: Fury Road" with six, "Room" and "Spotlight" with five each, and "The Martian" with four.

I wish I can vote for the Eda Awards because their Special Mention Awards are just too darn fun with categories like "Best Nudity," and "Actress Most In Need of a New Agent!"

Winners of the 2015 Eda...

Chicago – Gather ye children of bad movies. The film critic contributors to HollywoodChicago.com – Spike Walters and Patrick McDonald – are tag teaming to bring you the worst of their reviewin’ woes. From witch hunts to Kevin Hart, and old rock stars to Kevin Hart, these are the worst films of 2015.

There are no rankings, because they are all rank. The ten are listed in descending levels of dread, with Warner Bros., Robert De Niro and yes, Kevin Hart, representing once again – when will they team Bobby D and Kevin in a Warner Bros. buddy cop movie? The persons responsible for the descriptions will be marked accordingly, Sw for Spike and Pm for Patrick. Cover your eyes and cinema taste, by experiencing the 10 Worst Films of 2015.

“Tomorrowland”

Tomorrowland

Photo credit: Walt Disney Pictures

A misbegotten would-be blockbuster that exemplifies the worst impulses of blockbuster filmmaking. “Tomorrowland” has a needlessly convoluted story...