Scary Sweetness at American Horror Story’s Night Bites Bakery
You better get these goodies while they’re hot! Fans of FX’s American Horror Story and its new spinoff, American Horror Stories, are lining up to get into the pop-up location of AHS Night Bites Bakery in Los Angeles after a sold-out run in New York City. But by the time you read this, the LA edition of August 11-14 may be sold out as well– although we have it on good authority that more dates may be added. The nocturnal bakery...
Emmy Nominations Showered on ‘The Crown, ‘The Mandalorian’ and ‘Ted Lasso’
The Crown scored a whopping 34 Emmy nominations Emmy Awards season is now shaping up as hard-fought battles amongst some of television’s hottest heavyweights after nominations for the 73rd annual Emmy Awards were announced Tuesday by father-daughter team Ron Cephas Jones and Jasmine Cephas Jones. Both are also Emmy recipients. Never in recent years have so many programs scored so many massive numbers of nominations with The Crown and...
‘Nomadland’ Scores Again at Independent Spirit Awards
It should not come as any surprise at this point that Nomadland crushed the competition at the Independent Spirit Awards held virtually and televised Thursday night April 22. The film itself won as did director Chloe Zhao and the film’s cinematographer and its editor. So yes, we will be seeing all of them down the road at the Oscars on Sunday night. Another female-led film, Promising Young Woman also garnered more hardware with the...
Even More Trouble for the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.
Just when you thought things could not get much worse for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which has been under fire for two months since the Los Angeles Times broke an explosive series of investigations about the organization which hands out the Golden Globe Awards—well, they did. Earlier this week, the Times revealed that former HFPA president Philip Berk sent out an email to the membership and staff which could be construed...
One for the History Books! Chloe Zhao Scores Biggest Prize at DGA Awards
Everybody in Hollywood knows that if you’re a female film director you have maybe a little more than a snowball’s chance in hell of winning an award for your work. But Chloé Zhao continues to break that mold by racking up reams of hardware, her latest being at the Directors Guild Awards Sunday night. Zhao took home the top award for directing Nomandland, starring Frances McDormand and a cast of mostly non-actors she also wrote the...