by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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ENTERTAINMENT AND CULTURE NEWS:
DISNEY+ - From Deadline: Actor Tim Allen is returning to his popular "The Santa Clause" film franchise. He will star in and executive produce a Disney+ TV series that will act as a sequel to "The Santa Clause" trilogy.
NETFLIX - From Deadline: Wes Anderson will write and direct a feature adaptation of Roald Dahl's short story, "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar," for Netflix. The story was published in Dahl's 1977 collection, "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More."
CELEBRITY - From Deadline: Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Westbrook Inc. has acquired full control of German film and TV firm Telepool, including the 50 percent stake previously owned by Swiss financier Elysian Invest.
TELEVISION - From Deadline: Writer-director Robert Rodriguez is among a group developing a reboot of the classic masked vigilante character, "Zorro," with the hero now being female instead of male.
MOVIES - From Deadline: Paramount Pictures is remaking director Alfred Hitchcock's "To Catch a Thief" with Gal Gadot as the lead. Eileen Jones will write the script.
From Deadline: Michael Sarnoski, who directed last year's acclaimed drama, "Pig" (starring Nicolas Cage), is in negotiations to direct the next "A Quiet Place" film.
STREAMING - From Variety: "Spider-Man: No Way Home" director Jon Watts is one of the producers of a revival of the "Final Distination" horror franchise for HBO Max.
NETFLIX - From Deadline: Michael Bay, Patrick Hughes, and Gareth Evans' are united to reboot Evan's cult 2011 film, "The Raid," for Netflix.
TELEVISION - From Deadline: The NAACP-CBS Studios venture has announced its first projects. One of them is a reboot of the 1991 cult comedy, "Soapdish," in which one of the film's star, Whoopi Goldberg, will reprise her role ("Rose Schwartz") from the film.
BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficePro: The winner of the 1/7 to 1/9/2022 weekend box office is Sony Pictures/Marvel Studios' "Spider-Man: No Way Home" with an estimated take of 33.02 million dollars.
From Negromancer: My review of "Spider-Man: No Way Home."
TELEVISION - From Deadline: ABC has renewed "Grey's Anatomy" for a 19th season. Ellen Pompeo has signed a deal to return as the show's title character, Meredith Grey.
PIXAR/DISNEY+ - From Deadline: Pixar's "Turning Red" will be the third straight Pixar Animation Studio film to skip theaters and go straight to Disney+. The other two were "Soul" (2020) and "Luca" (2021).
OBITS:
From Variety: American television host, stand-up comedian, and actor, Bob Saget, has died at the age of 65, Sunday, January 9, 2022. Saget was best known for playing the role of widowed father, "Danny Tanner," in the ABC sitcom, "Full House" (1987-95).
From Deadline: Actor and television executive, Dwayne Hickman, has died at the age of 87, Sunday, January 9, 2022. Hickman was best remembered for starring as "Dobie Gillis," the eternally romantic teen in the former CBS TV series, "The Many Loves of Dobie Gills" (1959-62). Hickman was also a programming executive at CBS from 1977 to 1988, and from 1989 to 1996, he directed episodes of various television sitcoms.
From Deadline: American songwriter and lyricist, Marilyn Bergman, has died at the age of 93, Saturday, January 8, 2022. She was best known for her partnership with her husband, Alan Bergman. The duo won two “Best Song” Oscars: “The Windmills of Your Mind” from “The Thomas Crown Affair” (1968) and the title song for “The Way We Were” (1973). They won an Oscar for “Best Original Song Score” for “Yentl” (1983). The two also won four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award for “Song of the Year” for “The Way We Were.”
From Deadline: American television director, Dick Carson, died at the age of 92, Sunday, December 19, 2021. He was nominated for the Daytime Emmy 12 times and won five of them, mostly for his work on "The Merv Griffin Show" and "Wheel of Fortune." Dick was also the younger brother of television legend, the late Johnny Carson." Dick also directed several episode of "The Tonight Show," including episodes of the series before his brother became the host.
SIDNEY POITIER - From Variety: Oscar-winner Halle Berry pens tribute to Sidney Poitier, "An Angel Watching Over All of Us."
From Deadline: Former President Barack Obama pays tribute to Oscar winner, the late Sidney Poitier, who died Thurs., Jan. 6th, 2022.
From Variety: "Why Sidney Poitier Is the Most Important Actor in American History" by Steven Gaydos
From Deadline: Star tributes continue to pour in for Sidney Poitier.
From Deadline: This is the site's Sidney Poitier (1927-2022) page.
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AWARDS:
From
Deadline: The
nominations for the
2022 / 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards have been announced.
From
Variety: The
snubs and surprises in the nominations for the
28th Screen Actors Guild Awards.
From
Variety: At the
2022 / 79th Golden Globes, "
The Power of the Dog" wins "Best Motion Picture-Drama" and "
West Side Story" wins "Best Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy."
From
Variety:
The National Society of Film Critics names the Japanese film, "
Drive My Car," the
best film of 2021.
From
AwardsWatch: The nominations for the
22nd Annual Black Reel Awards were announced a few weeks ago. Netflix's Black Western, "
The Harder They Fall," has a record 20 nominations. The winners will be announced
February 27, 2022.
From
AwardsWatch: The
Columbus Film Critics Association announced the nominations for their annual film awards. Director Jane Campion's "
The Power of the Dog" leads with 12 noms. The winners will be announced
Thurs., Jan. 6th, 2022.
From Deadline: The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has named the Japanese film, "Drive My Car," the "Best Picture" of 2021.
From Deadline: The 2022 / 37th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards have announced their nominations. "Zola" leads with six nominations. The winners will be announced Sun., March 6, 2022.
From THR: The 2022 / 79th Golden Globes Awards nominations have been announced. "Belfast" and "The Power of the Dog" lead with seven nominations each. Winners will be announced Jan. 9th, 2022.
From GoldDerby: The 2022 Critics Choice Awards nominations have been announced. "Belfast" and "West Side Story" leads with 11 nominations each. Winners will be announced Jan. 9th, 2022.
From Deadline: The American Film Institute announced the "2021 AFI Awards" Top 10 list, and the list includes "Dune," "The Tragedy of Macbeth," and "West Side Story."
From THR: Director Aleem Khan's "After Love" tops the 2021 British Independent Film Awards, winning six awards, including "Best Film of 2021."
From Variety: The New York Film Critics Circle has named the Japanese drama, "Drive My Car," as the "Best Film of 2021."
From Deadline: The National Board of Review hands director Paul Thomas Anderson's "Licorice Pizza" it "Best Film" and "Best Director" awards. Will Smith picks up the "Best Actor" award for "King Richard."
From THR: Netflix’s "The Lost Daughter," directed by actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, dominated the 2021 Gotham Awards in New York on Monday night (Nov. 29th). The film won in four of the five categories in which it was nominated, including "Best Feature."
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From
Deadline: This link will take you to Deadline's
Halyna Hutchins page, which articles related to everything about her shooting death on the set of the Western film, "Rust."
From
Deadline:
Alec Baldwin has finally turned over his cell phone to police for their probe into the fatal shooting of cinematographer
Halyna Hutchins on the set of Baldwin's Western film, "
Rust," last October in New Mexico.
From
Variety: One of the producers of tragic Western film, Rust,
Emily Salveson, pushes tax shelters and hid income.
From
THR: "
I let go of the hammer and 'Bang,' the gun goes off" says Alec Baldwin says in his first interview of the moment when a gun he was holding accidentally killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Western film, "Rust."
From
Deadline:
Alec Baldwin will sit down with ABC's news-reading clown
George Stephanopoulos for a one hour special tomorrow night to talk about what happened on the set of the movie "Rust." It will be Baldwin’s first extensive interview about the shooting.
From
Deadline: Industry veteran,
Thall Reed, the father of
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on the Western, "
Rust," may have handed the police a tip on why the film's cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, was shot to death on the set.
From
THR: A
search warrant affidavit filed Tuesday for a prop shop sheds light on how alleged live ammunition ended up on the set of the Western film, "
Rust," where cinematographer
Halyna Hutchins was killed in October.
From
Deadline: A month after cinematographer,
Halyna Hutchins, was shot and killed on the New Mexico set the movie Western, "
Rust," by a prop gun “discharged” by
Alec Baldwin, those closest to the cinematographer held a private ceremony and interred her ashes at an unknown location.
From
Deadline: Actor
Daniel Baldwin defends his brother, Alec Baldwin, in the accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film, "Rust." "Someone loaded that gun improperly," Daniel says.
From
Deadline: The newest lawsuit involving the tragic shooting on the set of the Western film, "Rust," has been filed by the film's script supervisor,
Mamie Mitchell, against Alec Baldwin, the producers, the production company, armorer Hanna Gutierrez Reed, and others.
From
Deadline:
Serge Svetnoy, the gaffer on "Rust," has filed a lawsuit against several parties related to the film, including
the production,
the financiers, star
Alec Baldwin, armorer
Hannah Gutierrez Reed, and
first Assistant Director David Halls.
From
THR: In the wake of the tragic accidental shooting on the set of his film, "Rust," Alec Baldwin on Monday took to social media to urge Hollywood to employ a police officer on every film and TV set that uses guns.
From
THR: The budget for "Rust" - Alec Baldwin was set to earn $150,000 as lead actor and $100,000 as producer, while $7,913 was earmarked for armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed and $17,500 was set aside for the rental of weapons and $5,000 for rounds.
From
Deadline: Attorneys for Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on the set of the film, "Rust," said that they’re looking into whether a live bullet was placed in a box of dummy rounds with the intent of “sabotaging the set.”
From
THR:
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on the film, "Rust," released a statement through her lawyers. She says she had “
no idea where the live rounds came from” that were recovered by the Santa Fe County Sheriff's during the investigation of the accidental on-set shooting death of Halyna Hutchins.
From
Jacobin: An opinion piece says that cinematographer Halyna Hutchins' death on the set of the film, "Rust," was not a freak accident, but was about Alec Baldwin and his fellow producers' cost-cutting decisions. Baldwin accidentally fired the gun that killed Hutchins.
From
Deadline: Two of executive producers on "Rust," Allen Cheney and Emily Salveson, disavow responsibility for the film's troubled production.
From
THR: Iconic "Ghostbusters" actor
Ernie Hudson is reeling from the news of the death of Halyna Hutchins, like the rest of Hollywood. Hudson also appeared in the film, "
The Crow," the film in which its star,
Brandon Lee, was killed because of an on-set accidental shooting. He also agrees with the call to ban real guns from movie sets.
From
THR: The Sheriff of Sante Fe County says that his office has recovered three guns and 500 rounds of ammunition from the set of the movie "Rust" where cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed.
From
Deadline: Regarding criminal charges in the death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film "Rust," District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altweis, "all options are on the table - no one has been ruled out."
From
THR: Does Hollywood Need Guns? Will new regulations lead to an overreactions to a tragedy.
From
Deadline: "Rust" producers have opened an internal investigation into the fatal shooting on the set of the Western film. They have hired outside lawyers to conduct interviews with the film's production crew.
From
Deadline: "Rust's" AD (assistant director), Dave Halls, has come under scrutiny in the wake of the on-set shooting death of the film's cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins.
From
Deadline: The
affidavit of Sante Fe Sheriff's Department Detective Joel Cano has been made public. It can be read at "Deadline." The affidavit was for a search warrant from the property were the Western, "Rust," was being filmed.
From
THR: The production company behind "
Rust" has shut the film down until the police investigation into the fatal, on-set shooting of cinematographer
Halyna Hutchins is through. The Sante Fe County Sheriff's Office has also revealed a
timeline of the shooting.
From
Deadline: The Santa Fe Sheriff’s Department confirmed Thursday night that
Alec Baldwin “discharged” a prop gun on the New Mexico set of the movie, "
Rust." As a result, one crew member, director of photography
Halyna Hutchins, was killed and director Joel Souza was injured and remains in a local hospital - his condition unknown.
From
THR: "Rust" director,
Joel Souza, who was wounded in the accidental on-set shooting, says that he is "
gutted" by the death of his cinematographer on the film, Halyna Hutchins.
From
Deadline: The fatal shooting on the set of "Rust" may have been "
recorded" according to detective for Santa Fe Sheriff's Department.
From
Deadline: The production company behind the film, "Rust," will launch an internal safety review after the fatal accident that killed Halyna Hutchins; possible prior gun incidents; and a camera crew walkout.
From
CNN: Crew member yelled "
cold gun" as he handed Alec Baldwin prop weapon, court document shows.
From
Variety: Actor
Alec Baldwin releases statement on the death of Halyna Hutchins: "There are no words to convey my shock and sadness."
From
Variety: The prop gun that killed “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza on during an on-set accident on Thursday contained a “live single round,” according to an email sent by
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