Tony Awards Reach 4.3 Million Viewers on CBS, Most Watched Ceremony Since 2019

For the past two years, the Recording Academy has expanded the field of nominees for its “big four” categories — Album, Song, and Record of the Year, as well as Best New Artist — from eight candidates to 10. The institution will return to the old number in 2024, the New York Times reports and raise the bar for Album of the Year eligibility, now requiring featured artists, producers, songwriters, and engineers to be credited on at least 20 percent of a nominated album to qualify for an award.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The Mother of all Lies, a docu-drama film that probes the secrets of Morocco’s 1981 Bread Riots, was Sunday named the best picture at the Sydney Film Festival. The jury, headed by Anurag Kashyap, called the Asmae El Moudir-directed film “audacious, cutting-edge and courageous.” It presented the A$60,000 ($41,100) cash prize film ahead at the State Theatre ahead of the Australian premiere screening of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.” The film, which uses doll-like figurines, recently premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, where it earned the section’s best director prize. “Juxtaposing evidence from barely existent public materials with private family memory, this film reconstructs the history of the state, the family and the individual, in three distinct levels,” said the jury of Kashyap, actor Mia Wasikowska (Australia), film curator and journalist Dorothee Wenner (Germany), writer and director Larissa Behrendt (Australia) and filmmaker Visakesa Chandrasekaram (Australia – Sri Lanka).

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Korean blockbuster “The Roundup: No Way Out” suffered a 50% week-on-week decline, but it was still strong enough to see a pair of Hollywood newcomers. The third part of the Don Lee-starring Roundup franchise, “No Way Out” earned $5.16 million between Friday and Sunday, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council. It accounted for a 42% share of the market and attracted 650,000 additional spectators.

A Kilmarnock gym owner is beaming with pride after his venue was named as the best in Ayrshire.

Netflix has debuted the first look at its’ upcoming 3 Body Problem.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Barbarian Invasion” director Tan Chi Mui from Malaysia scored a top result from the SIFF Project Market. The market is a component event of the Shanghai International Film Festival, which wrapped up over the weekend. Tan’s “All About Yuyu” was named as the “recommended project for creativity” at the project market’s closing event. The project, which is already being structured as a Malaysia-China coproduction, is a story that combines contemporary wuxia (heroic martial arts) with youth elements. “I want to make a modern wuxia film to recapture the magical feeling I had when watching films during my childhood,” she told local media.

Instead of Ben Affleck starring with Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl, it was almost Jon Hamm.

Did you know there are a lot of very wealthy stars on one of TLC’s biggest franchises, the 90 Day Fiance shows?

In an exciting event held inside the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney on Monday, 19th June, the full list of nominees for the 2023 TV WEEK Logie Awards was announced. 

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Law & Order: SVU) is one gripping drama.

Hollywood award shows are increasingly moving to rejig categories that have typically been split into male and female, with the Independent Spirit Awards and the Gotham Awards (and, here in Canada, the Canadian Screen Awards) among those to introduce gender-neutral categories.

In the Rearview, Maciek Hamela’s documentary about Ukrainians fleeing war in their homeland, won the Grand Jury Award for International Competition tonight at the 30th Sheffield DocFest.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter After struggling at the domestic box office, this weekend’s two major releases — the Warner Bros. superhero adaptation “The Flash” and Disney’s Pixar adventure “Elemental” — failed to catch fire with international audiences. “The Flash” pulled in $75 million in its international box office debut, which doesn’t sound all that bad… except when considering the movie is available in 78 overseas markets. That means it failed to hit $1 million in the vast majority of the territories in play. China led the way with a lackluster $13.8 million, followed by Mexico with $9.4 million, the United Kingdom with $5.3 million, Korea with $3.7 million and Brazil with $3.5 million.

Foo Fighters have debuted their 10-minute song ‘The Teacher’ live for the first time in Arkansas – check it out below.The band performed the song earlier this week (June 14) and it’s taken from their latest album, ‘But Here We Are’. The song is thought to be inspired by Grohl’s mother Virginia, a teacher who passed away last year.You can see the band perform the song live in full here:Earlier this month, Foo Fighters claimed their sixth number one album with ‘But Here We Are’. It was the band’s first album since the sudden death of Taylor Hawkins last March.Prior to this, the Foos topped the Official Albums Chart with ‘One By One’ (2002), ‘Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace’ (2007), ‘Wasting Light’ (2011), ‘Concrete And Gold’ (2017) and ‘Medicine At Midnight’ (2021).Foo Fighters’ latest 11th studio album received a five-star review from NME, who hailed it as being “a beautiful, noisy celebration of brotherhood and a stark, painful exploration of loss.”“It is messy, gut-wrenching, ambitious and gorgeous, as the remaining members of Foo Fighters push themselves to their limits and beyond,” it read.

Boygenius debuted a new song on Saturday evening (June 16) – an outtake from their recent debut album, ‘The Record‘. Listen to the song ‘Boyfriend’ below.The trio, made up of Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker were playing the Forest Hills Stadium in Queens as part of the Re:SET festival.“We’ve never played this song,” Lucy Dacus said introducing the track.

The Bachelorette is back tonight and we have some information that might be of interest to Bachelor Nation!

A 16-month-old boy is fighting a rare type of blood cancer - it affects only one in a million young children every year.

Jameela Jamil is looking to have a conversation about awards show categories.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter “The Flash,” a superhero adventure starring Ezra Miller, emerged victorious over Pixar’s “Elemental” in a battle of the box office lightweights. This weekend’s two new releases were once expected to ignite the summer box office but instead entirely missed the mark, as “The Flash” stumbled with $55 million and “Elemental” collected just $29.5 million in their respective debuts. Both of those films fell short of already-low expectations. And worse, they were pricy endeavors, costing $200 million to make and roughly $100 million to market, so they are shaping up to be huge disappointments in their theatrical runs. In the lead-up to “The Flash,” executives at Warner Bros. worked hard to convince the public that the film is “one of the greatest superhero movies ever made.” Directed by Andy Muschietti, the story picks up as Miller’s Barry Allen a.k.a The Flash travels back in time to prevent his mother’s murder and inadvertently cracks open the DC multiverse. (Cameos abound!) But its tepid “B” CinemaScore from opening weekend crowds suggests that the moviegoing masses didn’t entirely agree with the lavish praise bestowed on the film by the people who made it. Without positive audience scores or strong word-of-mouth, “The Flash” will struggle to rebound in the coming weeks, especially as summer season heats up with the release of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” on June 30, “Mission: Impossible 7” on July 12 and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” on July 21.

It’s Father’s Day, and what better time than today to spend some quality time with the father figure in your life, watching a favourite film? Whether laughing along to a teen comedy or following along the adventures of a father-daughter or father-son storyline, you won’t go wrong by screening one of these five flicks or series.

This Morning host Josie Gibson has left fans stunned after she took to Instagram to share a snap of herself in a gorgeous red dress. Pictured in a five-star hotel room, 38 year old Josie looked straight at the camera, showing off her glam make-up and curled hair.