Coming-Of-Age Film ‘CODA’ Wins Best Picture

Michael B. Jordan was seen filming a scene for the upcoming sports drama feature Creed III in Los Angeles on Thursday.The 35-year-old performer was spotted while planning out a scene for the forthcoming film, and he flashed a wide smile while making his way around the project's set.The actor will be making his directorial debut with the new entry in the Creed film series, which is set to make its debut later this year.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefChinese filmmaker, artist and influencer Yi Zhou has launched a cluster of companies that have begun making feature movies for the metaverse.Zhou, who departed China in 2011, trained in Paris and London, before settling in Rome for several years where she worked as an installation artist, fashion influencer for Chinese streaming site Tudou (now part of Alibaba) and short film director. Three of her shorts have played in Sundance, while another played at the Venice Festival.In 2018, Zhou relocated to Los Angeles in order to increase her focus on developing entertainment endeavors.

Midfielder Nemanja Matic has admitted that he believes Manchester United will have to win "almost every game" if they are to win the race for the final top-four berth this season.

Haley Joel Osment posted a heartrending message for his former co-star Bruce Willis after his family confirmed his secret battle with aphasia. Haley, 33, and Bruce, now 67, iconically shared the screen in supernatural film The Sixth Sense — Osment’s breakout role when he was just 11-years-old. Osment fondly remembered their time working on the 1999 M. Night Shyamalan classic with a post of his own on March 31.

UK woke up to fresh coverings of snow yesterday (March 31) and will do again today, but this week's snow is nothing compared to what's to come next week. Again, it will be another heavy front of snow moving down from the North, first battering Scotland before engulfing the rest of the country. According to advanced weather modelling maps from WX Charts, snow will hit all Scottish cities next Wednesday (April 6) with around five centimetres settling on the ground.

Trinity “The Tuck” Taylor has shared an update on her gender identity.

Scout Willis stepped out in Los Angeles on Thursday just one day after revealing her father Bruce Willis' aphasia diagnosis and plans to retire from acting.The 30-year-old was captured cradling her beloved Chihuahua pup Grandma as she made her way from her parked vehicle to a nearby friend's home.Scout kept comfy in a cropped grey tank top and matching sweatpants, which she styled with a pair of maroon and black combat boots. Outing:Scout Willis stepped out in Los Angeles on Thursday just one day after revealing her father Bruce Willis' aphasia diagnosis and plans to step away from actingDue to the chilly temperatures, she layered up her look with an oversized green jacket.Her brunette hair was worn up in a high ponytail and secured in place with a white scrunchie.

Blake Shelton is looking back on his love story with Gwen Stefani. The 45-year-old country star took to Instagram on Wednesday to post a sweet video showing all the milestones of their relationship.The video featured pics of Shelton and Stefani from the time they met on the set of in 2015 to when they tied the knot last summer.«Shows up for work.

A&E Network has signed on for a feature documentary about Ol’ Dirty Bastard, the late founding member of pioneering hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan.

Just three years after 'assembling' for the final time in Avengers: Endgame, two of the Avengers - Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson - are reuniting on the big screen.Evans, 40, and Johansson, 37, are reuniting for the $100 million Apple TV Plus movie Project Artemis, according to a new report from Deadline.Jason Bateman will direct, marking his third feature film as a director following 2013's Bad Words and 2015's The Family Fang. Reuniting:Just three years after 'assembling' for the final time in Avengers: Endgame, two of the Avengers - Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson - are reuniting on the big screen Director:Jason Bateman will direct, marking his third feature film as a director following 2013's Bad Words and 2015's The Family FangPlot details are largely being kept under wraps, though the story will revolve around the space race.Bateman will direct from a screenplay by Rose Gilroy, who will be making her feature film writing debut, after writing episodes of The Edge of Sleep.

Clayton Davis The way to officially close the door on a crazy awards season (and even-crazier 94th Oscar ceremony), is to crack open the window and take a look ahead at what the studios and production companies could have in store for global cinema in 2022.As Variety transitions to Emmy season, with the first official predictions rolling out next week, this annual tradition of blind guesses gives us all something to look forward to. If you look at last year’s piece, no one should expect this to be 100% accurate as films shift or fall by the wayside, while some end up bigger than anticipated.Apple Original Films broke through the streaming glass ceiling with Siân Heder’s “CODA,” winning the Academy’s top prize and two others.

shopping for fruit and veg.The dead-ringer for the gangster – with Ronnie-style slicked-back hair specs and smart clothes – was seen browsing in an Asda branch.One amused shopper posted a picture of the lookalike online and wrote: “Ronnie Kray is alive and well and shopping in ASDA.”The snap is believed to have been taken at a store in east London.A Twitter user responded saying: “That’s Tom Hardy I fink and is it the Beckton Asda”.British actor Hardy played Ronnie and his ruthless twin Reggie in the 2015 film Legend.East End mobster Ronnie, 61, died in hospital in 1995, two days after he collapsed on a ward at Broadmoor where he was serving life for murder.Ronnie and his brother Reggie have passed into history as celebrity figures after their organised crime and nightclub ownership saw them mix with gangsters, politicians and entertainers alike.The notorious brothers were boxers in their early lives before going into national service, where they were thrown out after reportedly throwing tantrums and handcuffing a guard.Ronnie and Reggie started their criminal organisation, The Firm, fairly late in life in their early 50s, committing several crimes through armed robberies, arson, protection rackets, assaults and murder over two decades. In January, an ITV documentary made the shocking claim that Reggie "didn't want to be a villain" — and was instead influenced by his brother.

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EXCLUSIVE: Annalise Basso (Snowpiercer) Tracy Campbell (House of Payne), Steven Ogg (Apple TV+’s Emancipation), Jay Huguley (The Eyes of Tammy Faye), Denise Smolarek and newcomer Avalon Reign have signed on to star in the crime drama Now I See, from writer-director Carissa Stutzman and Anthem Entertainment.

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Swinton has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Scripted Programming at Tyler Perry Studios. In his expanded role, Swinton will oversee the creative department which includes current programming, casting and development. Serving as head of scripted, Swinton reports to TPS’ Chief Operating Officer Robert A. Boyd II. He will also continue to write, produce and direct.

Grammy Awards airing on April 3, we have a bunch of amazing performances to look forward to, as usual.Hosted by The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah for the second consecutive year, this Sunday’s award ceremony features a star-studded list of musicians hitting stage, including Jon Batiste – who leads all artists with 11 nominations – Silk Sonic, John Legend, Nas, H.E.R., Lil Nas X, and more.In years past, the Grammy’s had plenty of iconic performances.

Machine Gun Kelly said he had crossed paths with late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins two days prior to the musician's tragic death last week.The 31-year-old musical artist/actor, whose real name is Colson Baker, appeared Wednesday on The Howard Stern Show on Sirius XM, where he was asked about his brush with Hawkins, who was found dead Friday at the age of 50 in a hotel room in Bogota, Colombia.The Papercuts artist said he chat with Hawkins in Paraguay when both of their concerts for the Asunciónico music festival were canceled amid bad weather. The latest:Machine Gun Kelly, 31, said he had crossed paths with late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins two days prior to the musician's tragic death at 50 last weekThe Bad Things performer said that Foo Fighters lead singer Dave Grohl, 53, had invited him to hang out on the rooftop of their hotel, and he and his entourage of 20 met with them in the elevator.'I walked up, and I got out the elevator, all 20 of us, and Taylor, Dave, the whole Foo Fighters team but specially Taylor, he went up to every single one of us and gave us our moment,' MGK said.

Sasha Urban editorFresh off the heels of Jane Campion’s best director win at the Oscars, Kathryn Bigelow is also heading to Netflix for her next project. Bigelow, who became the first woman to win a directing Oscar in 2010 for “The Hurt Locker,” will direct “Aurora,” based on David Koepp’s upcoming thriller novel of the same name, for the streamer.Koepp will also write the film’s screenplay, which will join his long list of credits including “Mission: Impossible” and “Jurassic Park.” The novel “Aurora” is set to be released on June 7 by Harper Collins.Per Netflix’s announcement of the project on Twitter, the film “follows characters who are coping with the collapse of the social order, set against a catastrophic worldwide power crisis.” The novel’s blurb sets the story in Aurora, Illinois, where Aubrey Wheeler and her teenage son are forced to fend for themselves in the wake of a massive power outage.

Jack Black's new animated Netflix film, , is about the Apollo 11 moon landing, but hits surprisingly close to home for the actor and musician, who has a personal connection to the historical moment.Black's late mother, Judith Love Cohen, was an aerospace engineer who worked on the Apollo space program in the 1960s and is credited with helping to develop the Abort-Guidance System in the Apollo Lunar Module. «She worked on an Apollo mission at that time, but the stuff that she did wasn't used until Apollo 13, a few years later, when the astronauts were in an emergency situation and her Abort-Guidance System that she worked on as a programmer helped save some astronauts' lives,» Black explained when chatting about his upcoming film with ET's Matt Cohen.In fact, Cohen was such a devoted worker, that her son recounted, «There is the legend of how when she went to the hospital to give birth to me [on Aug. 28, 1969, just one month after the Apollo 11 moon landing], that she had some paperwork, she was still working on a problem. And after she delivered the baby, she called into work and they said, 'Hey, congratulations, you just had a baby! How are you?' And she goes, 'Fine, fine, I'm faxing you over the papers, the mathematical equations.'»Black and his mother at the 2013 Golden Globe Awards.«She was much smarter than me, I did not inherit those mathematic genes,» Black added with a laugh, «but there's a sense of pride and connection to telling this story, 'cause I know my mom was in there working on it too.»In which was shot in live action by writer and director Richard Linklater, and later animated in a process similar to his early 2000s films and, Black narrates the story of an elementary-aged boy growing up in Houston

Angelique Jackson Academy Award-nominee Eddie Murphy is in talks to play funk legend and Parliament-Funkadelic leader George Clinton in an upcoming biopic.Dubbed the Godfather of Funk, Clinton is a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner and widely regarded as one of the most important innovators of the musical genre, along with James Brown and Sly Stone.The developing project is said to chronicle Clinton’s life and legacy, from his childhood in 1940s North Carolina, to the formation of his groundbreaking bands Parliament and Funkadelic in the late 1960s. The movie will also explore Clinton and the bands’ impact of the future of hip-hop and artists like Tupac Shakur, Dr.

Apple sources are saying that CODA following its historic Best Picture win for both a streamer, and a predominantly Deaf cast feature saw viewership go up by 300% over the prior week week to become the No. 1 most watched program on AppleTV+, and also drawing 25% new viewers to the OTT service.