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DISNEY - From SideshowToys: 10 Disney movies for 2019, including "Captain Marvel," "Dumbo," and "Avengers: Endgame."
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CELEBRITY - From Deadline: The cause of death of comedian, Kevin Barnett, who died Tuesday, Jan. 22nd, 2019 in Mexico, is "Non Traumatic Hemorrhage, caused by pancreatitis." The stand-up comedian was the co-creator of FOX Network's sitcom, "Rel."
From YahooEntertainment: The cause of the death of Kim Porter, the actress and model who had three kids with Sean "Diddy" Combs, is "lobar pneumonia." Porter died Nov. 15th, 2018, and she was 47 years old at the time.
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STREAMING - From Deadline: Netflix and Constantin Film are developing a "Resident Evil" TV series. That series will apparently expand the "existing mythology ."
From Deadline: Netflix has obtained Ron Howard's film, "Hillbilly Elegy" (based on J.D. Vance's bestselling book).
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MOVIE - From Deadline: Warner Bros. has scheduled Christopher Nolan's next film for releases July 17, 2020. The subject matter of the unnamed film is not known.
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COMICS-FILM - From Variety: Actor Matt Smith of "Doctor Who" has reportedly joined Sony's "Morbius" film, starring Jared Leto. Morbius is a vampire and a Spider-Man villian.
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MOVIES-SCANDAL - From Newsarama: Despite new sexual abuse of underage boys allegations levied against him, Bryan Singer is still scheduled to direct Millennium Film's "Red Sonja" film.
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MOVIES - From Collider: Nicolas Cage will star in an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's story, "Color Out of Space."
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SCANDAL - From Deadline: In expose by "The Atlantic" magazines, director Bryan Singer ("Bohemian Rhapsody," "X-Men") is hit with more sexual abuse allegations involving underage boys.
From Deadline: Director Bryan singer responds to "The Atlantic," calling it a "homophic smear piece..."
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COMICS-STREAMING - From Deadline: Sandra Bullock is part of the team developing Mark Millar and Greg Capullo's comic book, "Reborn," for Netflix.
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Actor Michael Gandolfini will play a young Tony Soprano in David Chase's in "The Many Saints of Newark," a prequel to Chase's "The Sopranos" TV series. Michael's late father, James Gandolfini, played Tony Soprano in "The Sopranos."
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OSCARS - From Deadline: The 2019 / 91st Academy Award nominations have been announced. "Roma" and "The Favourite" lead with 10 nominations each. "Black Panther" received 7 nominations, including a "best picture" nod.
From TheNewYorker: "The Dismaying 2019 Oscar Nominations—and Who Should Have Made the List" by Richard Brody
From BleedingCool: Concerning his first Oscar nomination (in the "best supporting actor" category) after 50 years of acting, Sam Elliot ("A Star is Born") says, "It's about fucking time!"
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 1/18 - 1/20/2019 weekend box office is "Glass" with an estimated take of $40.58 million.
From Variety: "Glass" leads the international box office with an estimated take of $48.5 million.
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POLITICS - From Deadline: U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (Democrat-California) announces that she is running for President of the United States.
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MOVIES - From TheWrap: Edgar Wright says that a first draft of a screenplay for "Baby Driver 6" exists.
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COMICS-FILM - From CNBC: Superhero movies are in for a major shakeup in 2019
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STREAMING - From Deadline: "The X-Files'" Gillian Anderson is joining Netflix's "The Crown" in the role of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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OSCARS - From GoldDerby: Paul Sheehan offers his Oscar predictions ahead of the nominations announcement Tuesday morning, Jan 22nd.
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AWARDS - From Deadline: "Green Book" tops the 2019 Producers Guild Awards, winning the Producers Guild version of a "best picture" prize.
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OSCARS - From Deadline: "BlackKklansman" producer Jason Blue says that it is "Spike Lee's time" if Oscar voters do the right thing.
OBIT:
From THR: Veteran film and television director, James Frawley, has died at the age of 82, Tuesday, January 22, 2019. Over his five-decade career, Frawley directed episodes of "Perry Mason," "The Outer Limits," and "Gunsmoke," and he directed "The Muppet Movie" (1979). Frawley is probably best known for being a key figure in the development of "The Monkees" TV series. Frawley also directed 28 of the series' 58 episodes.
From TheWrap: The comedy writer and stand-up comedian, Kevin Barnett, has died at the age of 32, Tuesday, January 22, 2019. Barnett co-created the Fox sitcom, "Rel."
From Variety: Film producer Andrew Vajna has died at the age of 74, Sunday, January 20, 2019. In 1976, he co-founded Carolco with Mario Kassar. Vajna produced such films as "Nixon" and "Evita," but he was known for the numerous film on which he was an executive producer. Among the best known are the first three "Rambo" films (including 1982's "First Blood"); "Angel Heart," "Total Recall," "Tombstone," and "Judge Dredd," to name a few.
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