Chris Haston/NBC Saturday Night Live alums Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers helped announce history at the 2022 Emmy Awards when actress Sheryl Lee Ralph became this year’s winner of Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. This is a historic win for Ralph, as she is now the the second Black woman in Emmy history to win this honor. Jackée Harry was the …
Trae Patton/NBC Matthew Macfadyen and Julia Garner won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor and Actress in a drama series, respectively, during Monday night’s 74th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony, hosted by Kenan Thompson from Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater. Macfadyen, who won for his role as Tom Wambsgans in HBO’s Succession, said he was “deeply flattered and …
Evans Vestal Ward/NBC; Trae Patton/NBC The 2022 Emmy Awards started off with a colorful number from host Kenan Thompson and led into “the queen of all thrones,” Oprah Winfrey announcing Michael Keaton as the winner of Lead Actor in a Limited Series. “You have about 90 of these, don’t you?” the Dopesick actor joked to Oprah to open his …
NBC The 74th annual Primetime Emmy Awards aired Monday night live from Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater. Television’s biggest night was hosted by Saturday Night Live star Kenan Thompson, who opened the star-studded event by paying tribute to “the greatest invention in the history of mankind, television.” “I mean, if it weren’t for TV, what would we do in our free …
20th Century Studios While a sequel to 2009’s Avatar hits theaters in December, Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron says cameras are already rolling on the fourth film in the series. Cameron’s project was one of many teased at Disney’s D23 expo over the weekend, and he revealed some new footage from the upcoming sequel Avatar: The …
20th Century Films/New Regency The horror film Barbarian took the top spot at the box office over the weekend, in the wake of great reviews and a 93% “Certified Fresh” label from the aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. The movie was written and directed by actor-turned-filmmaker Zach Cregger, who explained to ABC Audio that the project began as an exercise: …
The Walt Disney Company Halle Bailey has enjoyed musical success with her older sister Chloe as the duo Chloe x Halle, and now she feels she’s maturing as a woman with her starring role in The Little Mermaid. Bailey portrays the underwater Disney princess Ariel in the upcoming live-action film. “I’d definitely say coming into this film I was a lot …
Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images Though he’s currently being buoyed by positive reviews for his role in Darren Aronofsky‘s The Whale, Brendan Fraser explains he was disappointed by Warner Bros. Discovery shelving Batgirl. Fraser was to play the heavy Firefly in the film, which, as reported, was pulled by the studio and won’t likely ever see the …
Warner Bros./Chris Millard It’s arguably hard to remember now, seeing as she’s got EGOT status to her name, but Jennifer Hudson only placed sixth on American Idol. On the debut of The Jennifer Hudson Show Monday, in their first sit down since her less-than-stellar performance, JHud chatted with Simon Cowell about that fateful elimination. “That …
Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images The late Chadwick Boseman and Black-ish stars Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross were named Disney Legends over the weekend at the D23 Expo: Ultimate Disney Fan Event in Anaheim, CA. Boseman’s brother, Derrick Boseman, accepted the award on his brother’s behalf. “I think about how he honored our parents. How he honored his family. How he honored even his …