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Hollywood may be bracing for a potential second work stoppage later today, but this morning was a joyous one for many with the announcement of the 2023 Primetime Emmy Awards nominations. Yvette Nicole Brown and Television Academy Chair Frank Scherma revealed a slew of nominees led by “Succession” with 27 nominations, “The Last of Us” with 24 mentions, and “The White Lotus” with 23 nominations.

Filmmaker Greta Gerwig has directed three feature films, with the third one, “Barbie,” arriving later this month. The first two, “Lady Bird” and “Little Women,” were both big hits and actually both star Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet.

Emily Blunt is taking a step back from acting to focus on the two children she shares with husband John Krasinski.

Jax Taylor still has questions about what went through Tom Sandoval‘s mind when he had an affair with Raquel Leviss — and he thinks there may be more to the story.

Reneé Rapp‘s new interview with Apple Music about favoring her music career hits different in light of her exit from Sex Lives of College Girls.

Long live!!! @TaylorSwift 

Whoa. This is really making us wonder how in the world these two reconciled so quickly.

Rudolph “Rudy” Farias is finally speaking out about exactly what’s gone down over the past eight years — and it doesn’t bode well for his mother.

Alaska Reid is this week’s guest on The FADER Interview podcast. Speaking to The FADER’s Walden Green, the singer-songwriter from Los Angeles by way of Montana shared some words of wisdom courtesy of Speedy Ortiz‘s Sadie Dupuis: “She said something really interesting to me that I hadn’t heard someone say: ‘I’m building upon my past work and enriching it.’” On Reid’s debut album Disenchanter, out this Friday (July 14) via Luminelle, she enriches the groundwork she’s laid before — her guitar-forward indie rock outfit Alyeska, the glitch-pop of 2020’s A.G. Cook-produced Big Bunny — to yield her most complete body of work yet.

Over the past half-decade, permutations of dancehall music from around the world have gone from regional sounds to global sensations. In 2023, it just might be galala's turn.

Issa Rae‘s Raedio, the audio division of her Hoorae Media company, has inked a multi-year partnership with Def Jam Recordings. The deal includes publishing, music supervision, podcasts, digital content, and beyond. It will also allow Raedio to sign, market, and distribute Def Jam artists.

underscores has announced her new album. Wallsocket releases on September 22 via Mom+Pop, and will feature the previously released songs "You don't even know who I am" and "Cops and robbers," plus new single "Locals (Girls like us)." Find the video for the new song below.

yeule has announced a new album. softscars is out September 22 (via Ninja Tune). Below, watch videos for two tracks, "dazies" and "fish in the pool." "dazies" will appear on the album while b-side "fish in the pool" is a cover of an instrumental track featured in 2004 Japanese movie Hana and Alice.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic HBO dominating the Emmy nominations is hardly a surprise, given both historical trends and the year they’ve had. But it couldn’t have come at a more crucial time. Amid endless media speculation around the cuts and bad P.R. missteps of Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav, HBO — notionally the jewel in the crown of the newly-formed WBD’s television empire — cleaned up. In the best drama race, HBO picked up a startling four nominations (for “House of the Dragon,” “The Last of Us,” “Succession” and “The White Lotus”). In a happy coincidence, those four nominations, which tie an all-time record, represented the two halves of what HBO has lately done well, between pushing IP-driven storytelling to new heights in the cases of “House of the Dragon” and “The Last of Us” and turning carefully wrought, creator-driven drama into organic zeitgeist hits with “Succession” and “The White Lotus.”

Joe Otterson TV Reporter The nominations for the 75th Emmy Awards are out and HBO is once again dominating. The premium cabler’s shows “Succession,” “The Last of Us,” and “The White Lotus” represent the three most-nominated shows of the year. See the full list of nominations. “Succession” came out on top with 27 total nominations, including a record-setting three nominations in the best actor in a drama category. “The Last of Us” was second with 24 total nominations, including best drama series and best actor and actress nods for Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey. Season 2 of “The White Lotus” was third with 23 nominations, which includes five nominations in the best supporting actress in a drama category.

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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Ashley Graham is looking back at her life as a Barbie doll. No, the supermodel isn’t in Greta Gerwig’s new “Barbie” movie, but Mattel made a doll in her likeness in 2016. “The first things that came to mind were thick thighs, lower belly fat, round arms [and] cellulite,” Graham recalls requesting of the toy company on this week’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “And I got to do everything except for the cellulite. … Maybe it was too hard to figure out how to do that with the computer.” But Graham was very happy with the final product: “It wasn’t like, ‘Hi, Curvy Barbie.’ It was just Barbie.”

this year’s Emmy nominations is the looming actors strike. The writers strike, in effect since early May, has already severely curtailed celebrating the best and brightest of the 2022-23 TV season. And now, with SAG-AFTRA almost certainly joining the WGA on the picket line in a matter of hours, there’s an air of doom over what should be a happy event.  On another, less existential level, what does Harrison Ford have to do to get an Emmy nomination?! The Emmys’ diamond anniversary brought widely expected nominations for previous Emmy favorites like “Succession,” “The White Lotus,” “Abbott Elementary” and “Ted Lasso.” A new shift in rules that capped the number of names voters could submit per category was expected to keep those shows from total domination of the acting categories — but they all still managed to overwhelm the supporting and guest actor categories, along with newly crowned Emmy favorite, “The Last of Us.”

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor “Succession” planning paid off big time for HBO once again on Emmy nominations day. The family dynasty drama led the Emmy field pack for the second consecutive year. The series was the cornerstone of HBO’s total tally of 127 nominations, including shows that also ran on the streamer previously known as HBO Max (now just Max). Netflix weighed in with 103 mentions. “Succession” raked in 27 bids, including a history-making troika of noms in the lead actor drama category for Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin and Jeremy Strong. Last year the series grabbed 25 nominations and went all the way to take the top prize for drama series. Also adding heft to HBO’s tally this year was the acclaimed freshman drama “The Last of Us,” with 24,” and “The White Lotus” at 23.

For fans of the “Batman” film franchise, there are two films that get a lot of shit from the fandom. You see, after Tim Burton released his two “Batman” films, beginning in 1989, Warner Bros.