ABC/Randy Holmes The teaser-trailer for Get Out Oscar-winner Jordan Peele‘s latest thriller, Nope, notes a new Universal Pictures tease. And since Peele has proven to be a master of suspense, the teaser doesn’t reveal much about the new project, and instead shows memorably creepy snippets from 2017’s Get Out and its hit follow-up, 2019’s Us. In fact, the only footage revealed in the tease …
Jon Kopaloff/WireImage West Side Story star Ariana DeBose is celebrating being nominated for an Oscar for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role. She is also recognizing Black History Month in an article she wrote for Variety. “I look to celebrate our unsung heroes, the Black women who didn’t get the opportunity to be heard or heard …
Trumbull in 1977, working on ‘Close Encounters’ — Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Douglas Trumbull, a groundbreaking visual effects artist who left his mark on cinema history thanks to his pioneering work on classics like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, died Monday evening. On Facebook, his daughter Amy noted Trumbull’s passing at 79 after …
Jeopardy! Productions Who are the smartest college students in the country? A new primetime Jeopardy! event aims to answer that question. Jeopardy! National College Championship starts tonight, and host Mayim Bialik tells ABC Audio, “It’s kind of a March Madness of the best kind. But obviously, there’s three contestants per game, not two. And we start with 36 and we get …
Beth Dubber/Hulu Hulu has dropped release dates for several high-profile limited series, including the anticipated The Dropout, starring Amanda Seyfried, Amy Schumer‘s Life After Beth, and Elle Fanning in The Girl from Plainville. The Dropout tracks the meteoric rise and catastrophic fall of Elizabeth Holmes, disgraced founder of the medical technology company Theranos. Holmes took Silicon Valley and Wall Street by storm with her promised revolutionary blood scanner, …
KIRSTY GRIFFIN/NETFLIX — © 2021 Cross City Films Limited/Courtesy of Netflix Jane Campion is making history. The New Zealand-born filmmaker is the first woman to be nominated in the best director category twice. She was first nominated in 1994 for The Piano, and again Tuesday for The Power of the Dog at this year’s Oscars. Competing alongside Campion, 67, …
Disney/Pixar Disney/Pixar has released the first trailer to Lightyear, the animated action movie origin story behind the action figure Buzz Lightyear, who was voiced by Tim Allen in the Toy Story films. Chris Evans voices “the real” Buzz Lightyear, a Space Ranger on a dangerous intergalactic mission. The trailer shows the character launched into deep space, where he runs afoul of a “massive robot” that Toy Story fans will …
Roy Rochlin/Getty Images An Oscar nomination is a feather in anybody’s cap, but for Lin-Manuel Miranda, his brand-new nom for Encanto‘s original song, “Dos Oruguitas,” puts him closer to a Hollywood high-water mark: The coveted PEGOT. Miranda already has a Pulitzer, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Tony, thanks to both the stage and small-screen productions of …
A police chief in southern South Dakota has been arrested and charged with driving under the influence, according to court documents. The Argus Leader reports Wagner Police Chief Timothy Lee Simonsen was arrested on Jan. 22 for [Read More…]
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A proposal to allow voters to decide whether to expand online sports betting across South Dakota narrowly passed the state Senate on Monday. The proposal, which would put it to voters [Read More…]