What's streaming now: Ed Sheeran, 'The Voice,' 'The Golden Bachelor' and Wes Anderson returns
This weekโs new entertainment releases include an album from Ed Sheeran centered on his relationships, a spinoff of โThe Bachelorโ starring a 72-year-old widower and Wes Anderson returns for a second time this year with โThe Wonderful Story of Henry Sugarโ starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
What to stream this weekend: 'Asteroid City,' Lukas Nelson, 'Quarterback' and 'Secrets of Playboy'
This weekโs new entertainment releases include albums from Lukas Nelson and Kool & The Gang, the return of the silly, witty, Emmy-nominated comedy โWhat We Do in the Shadowsโ and Wes Andersonโs stylish and star-studded โAsteroid Cityโ comes to premium video on demand.
Wes Anderson on his new '50s-set film 'Asteroid City,' AI and all those Tik Tok videos
โAsteroid City" is among Andersonโs most charmingly chock-full creations, a much-layered, โ50s-set fusion of science fiction, midcentury theater and about a hundred other influences ranging from Looney Tunes to โBad Day at Black Rock.โ.
New this week: 'Law & Order,' Madea and Tears for Fears
This weekโs new entertainment releases include a new album from Tears for Fears, that familiar โcha-CHUNGโ sound effect signals the return to TV of NBCโs โLaw & Orderโ and Tyler Perryโs gun-totting grandmother Madea in a fresh Netflix film.
Spike Lee, 'Annette' kick off 74th Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival rolled out the red carpet for the first time in more than two years on Tuesday, launching the French Riviera spectacular with the premiere of Leos Caraxโs โAnnette,โ the introduction of Spike Leeโs jury, and with high hopes for shrugging off a punishing pandemic year for cinema.
With red carpets rolled up, the Oscar race goes virtual
Hollywoods awards season has gone virtual. For Awards Daily founder Sasha Stone, who has been covering the Oscars since 2000, itโs like nothing sheโs ever seen โ an awards season without glamour, without red carpets, without anything that feels real. And awards season, such as it is, has gone virtual. The Oscar race will Zoomed. Not everyone is sorry that awards season โ an increasingly bloated, overlong, high-priced slog from September to February โ has been turned upside down.
Japanese director known for single shots releases Zoom film
This undated photo provided by the @One Cut of the Dead Mission: Remote shows Shinichiro Ueda, director of One Cut of the Dead Mission: Remote, a YouTube spinoff of his 2017 award-winning film. A comedic horror film centered around teleworking, "One Cut of the Dead Mission: Remoteโ was released earlier this year and shared for free on YouTube. It features the same characters from his award-winning 2017 film โOne Cut of the Dead,โ which has one shot that was 37-minutes long. Uedaโs style incorporates slapstick comedy and focuses on visual, rather than explanatory verbal storytelling, an approach relatively rare in contemporary Japanese film. โItโs only after 200 or 300 bad films you will have that one great film,โ he said.
Cannes announces lineup for a festival canceled by COVID
Cannes Festival director Thierry Fremaux, left, festival president Pierre Lescure, sit during the presentation of the festival lineup, in an empty cinema Wednesday, June 3, 2020 in Paris. The Cannes Film Festival was canceled due to the pandemic but it announced the films that would have played at the French Riviera festival. Those films, festival organizers say, will be able to promote themselves with the Cannes "stamp of approval." The French festival, originally slated for mid-May, initially considered postponing to July but ultimately gave up on a 2020 edition. The films will be able to brand themselves as part of the official 2020 Cannes Film Festival selection.
Marvel remakes release calendar; 'Mulan' moves to late July
The Walt Disney Co. on Friday overhauled its release schedule, moving the dates of half a dozen Marvel movies. Black Widow, which had been set to kick off the summer movie season, will now open Nov. 6. โBlack Widow,โ the Marvel entry starring Scarlett Johansson, had been set to kick off the summer movie season. Such delays have unique ramifications for Marvel movies because of their interconnection. On Thursday, the Walt Disney Co. announced they will start furloughing some workers in two weeks at its theme parks resorts in Florida and California.