This Week's Headlines:
- Nikki Glaser will host the next Golden Globes Awards, scheduled for Sunday, January 5, 2025 on CBS, and will stream on Paramount+ as well. The Globes have suffered, both critically and ratings-wise, since 2021, the last time Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted. Glaser was effusive in her praise of the Awards show. Glaser said: "This is truly a dream job. Plus, I no longer have to feel guilty about every TV show and movie I've binged over the last year."
- Horror grows up as Blumhouse and Atomic Monster announced they are developing Soulm8te, an erotic thriller to be released in 2026. If the peculiar spelling of the title seems familiar, it should. This movie is the next installment in the M3GAN universe. A man grieving over his recently deceased wife acquires an AI android companion to help him cope with his loss. What could possibly go wrong? Kate Dolan will direct.
- The summer season is starting out poorly at the movie box office but even worse for the iconic drafthouse chain, Alamo Cinema. One of their largest franchisees just declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy and closed six locations, five in the Dallas area and one in Minnesota. After the closings, 35 locations remain open, including 15 owned by other franchisees.
- The big-screen Green Lantern movie with Ryan Reynolds was a major flop, but that hasn't stopped DC Studios from developing new projects for the popular comic superhero. The latest version will be entitled Lanterns and will feature both popular embodiments of the superhero, Hal Jordan and John Stewart. Damon Lindelof, co-creator of Lost, will headline a production team that includes Chris Mundy, the showrunner of Netflix's Ozark, and veteran comic author Tom King.
- Director Sean Baker's Anora won the Palme d'Or award at this year's Cannes Film Festival, beating out some heavy hitters like Francis Ford Coppola, David Cronenberg, Yorogos Lanthimos, and Paul Schrader in the process. Anora has been described as a modern-day Cinderella story. The film stars Mikey Madison as a Brooklyn stripper who marries the son of a Russian oligarch. When his parents learn about the wedding, they go to America to get the marriage annulled.
- The heavily promoted comic book villain sequel, Joker: Folie a Deux, led the box office with a mediocre $37.7 total. Animated sci fi movie, The Wild Robot, finished second with nearly $19 million, while the late summer smash Beetlejuice Beetlejuice continued added another $10 million in third place.
- Last weekend was highlighted by the annual BET Awards, and Taraji P. Henson got the show off to a rousing start with her rendition of "It's about Us." Later, Usher received the Lifetime Achievement Award. Watch the highlights below. We've also got trailers for the look back at a piece of television history, Saturday Night, and the Pharrell Williams Lego movie, Piece by Piece.
TARAJI P. HENSON PERFORMS AT BET AWARDS
USHER RECEIVES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD AT BET AWARDS
SATURDAY NIGHT TRAILER
PIECE BY PIECE TRAILER
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