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Full List Of Oscar Nominations 2019: Roma and The Favorite Lead Noms

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Roma (Netflix), The Favorite (Fox Searchlight)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced nominations for the 91st Academy Awards this morning with Kumail Nanjiani and Tracee Ellis Ross revealing the noms from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

Roma and The Favorite came out on top with 10 apiece. Roma also got surprise nominations for Yalitza Aparicio (Best Actress) and Marina de Tavira (Best Supporting Actress). A Star Is Born held its own with 8 nominations, although director Bradley Cooper was snubbed.

The 91st Annual Academy Awards is set to air live on ABC on Feb. 24 from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

Here is the full list of nominees:

Best Picture

Black Panther
Kevin Feige, Producer

BlacKkKlansman
Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele and Spike Lee, Producers

Bohemian Rhapsody
Graham King, Producer

The Favourite
Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday and Yorgos Lanthimos, Producers

Green Book
Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga, Producers

Roma
Gabriela Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón, Producers

A Star Is Born
Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper and Lynette Howell Taylor, Producers

Vice
Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers

Actress in a Leading Role
Yalitza Aparicio, Roma
Glenn Close, The Wife
Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Actor in a Leading Role

Christian Bale, Vice
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate
Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
Viggo Mortensen, Green Book
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Brand New Trailer For “Shazam!” Released

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There is plenty of footage in the DC’s lateset Shazam! trailer, giving us another look at Zachary Levy’s lighthearted and funny superhero.

The new trailer also shows how 14 year old Billy Batson (Asher Angel) jumps from the top of a building and transforms into Shazam.

The overall tone of the trailer is in line with goofy humor of the promos we have seen so far, including of course that poster showing Shazam chilling with a cellphone and bubblegum.

Levi is of course playing the film’s titular superhero. Directed by David F. Sandberg (Lights Out, Annabelle: Creation) from a screenplay by Henry Gayden, the film co-stars Mark Strong, Jack Dylan Grazer and Djimon Hounsou.

“Shazam” is set to storm into US theaters on April 19th, 2019. See the film’s first trailer below.

Here is the film’s official synopsis:

We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson’s (Asher Angel) case, by shouting out one word—SHAZAM!—this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult Super Hero Shazam (Zachary Levi), courtesy of an ancient wizard. Still a kid at heart—inside a ripped, godlike body—Shazam revels in this adult version of himself by doing what any teen would do with superpowers: have fun with them! Can he fly? Does he have X-ray vision? Can he shoot lightning out of his hands? Can he skip his social studies test? Shazam sets out to test the limits of his abilities with the joyful recklessness of a child. But he’ll need to master these powers quickly in order to fight the deadly forces of evil controlled by Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (Mark Strong).

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“Green Book” Wins Top Prize At Producers Guild Awards

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Comedy drama “Green Book” continues its march into the awards season with another accolade on Saturday. The Producers Guild of America Awards awarded the film with Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures during the 30th PGA Awards ceremony, which was held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Directed by Peter Farrelly, “Green Book” tells the real-life story of Italian-American bouncer Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) and his tour with renowned classical pianist Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) during the 1960s. Peter Farrelly (known for gross-out comedies which he directed with his brother Bobby Farrelly) also wrote the screenplay with Brian Hayes Currie and Nick Vallelonga.

The film also recently won Best Picture at the Golden Globes’ musical or comedy category and the National Board of Review’s best film of 2018.

On the animation category, another film is having a strong awards season run as another Golden Globe winner “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” won for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures.

PGA has traditionally been a strong predictor for Oscar glory, although during recent years, 2016 winner La La Land and 2015 winner The Big Short lost to Moonlight and Spotlight respectively.

Here is the full list of winners of the PGA Awards:

The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
Green Book
Producers: Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures:
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Producers: Morgan Neville, Nicholas Ma, Caryn Capotosto

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures:
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Producers: Avi Arad, Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, Amy Pascal, Christina Steinberg

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“Mission: Impossible” Sequels To Be Filmed Back-To-Back

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Two new “Mission: Impossible” films are said to be in the works, with Henry Cavill and Alec Baldwin potentially returning.

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There has been plenty of “Mission: Impossible” related news this week, and with good reason. The last installment Mission: Impossible – Fallout which was released this summer was the biggest installment yet in the hugely popular film series,grossing nearly $800 million and was very well received by critics.

Christopher McQuarrie is set to undertake two more additional Mission: Impossible films, which will be shot back-to-back, and with tentative release dates of summer 2021 and summer 2022,” Variety reports.

Series lead Tom Cruise is also set to return as IMF agent Ethan Hunt, this week Cruise
teased a cryptic video on Twitter, which McQuarrie himself shared on his own account. “Mission Accepted,” the director posted. McQuarrie is a frequent Cruise collaborator. In addition to directing and writing the last twoImpossible films, he also directed another Cruise starrer Jack Reacher.

Per Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision, Henry Cavill and Alec Baldwin are also being considered to return. Cavill played John Walker in Fallout, while Alec Baldwin joined the cast in 2014 for both Fallout and Rogue Nation.

Henry Cavill will next be seen as Geralt in Netflix’s fantasy series The Witcher, which is based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s book series of the same name. Baldwin is in this year’s awards contender BlacKkKlansman and will next be seen in the upcoming comedy Before You Know It.

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Carlos Santana Announces 2019 North American Tour

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Carlos Santana is set to have a very busy 2019 as he embarks on a North American tour dubbed “Supernatural Now”.

The musician is set to hit the road with Doobie Brothers in commemoration of his commemorate 20 years of his seminal star-studded album Supernatural. The tour also celebrates the 50-year anniversary of Santana’s iconic performance at Woodstock in 1969.

“Both were monumental moments in my life. Woodstock and Supernatural took me to places I never dreamed were possible. I embraced those incredible moments in my life with all my heart,” Santana says regarding the important of both anniversaries happening in the same year.

“Both were supreme lessons in maintaining focus, heart and integrity in every step every day and to strive to better oneself with a high standard on and off the stage. I cannot think of these two moments without thinking about Mr. Bill Graham and Mr. Clive Davis. They are two of many angels in my life that helped shape my career.”

Tickets are set to go on sale starting January 25 at LiveNation.com, with each tickets purchase also receiving a download or CD copy of Santana’s upcoming album.

See list dates below for Santana’s upcoming tour:

TOUR DATES:
June 22 — Phoenix, AZ @ Ak-Chin Pavilion
June 23 — San Diego, CA @ North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre
June 24 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl
June 26 — Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
June 27 — Wheatland, CA @ Toyota Amphitheatre
June 29 — Seattle, WA @ White River Amphitheatre
June 30 — Portland, OR @ Sunlight Supply Amphitheater
July 2 — Salt Lake City, UT @ USANA Amphitheatre
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Production Warps On New Dark Shadows Doc – Ian McShane Narrates

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MPI Media Group today announced it has completed production on the highly anticipated
MASTER OF DARK SHADOWS, a comprehensive celebration of the legendary Gothic daytime series Dark Shadows and its visionary creator, Dan Curtis.

The feature documentary, which was shot in New York, LA and London, includes interviews with key actors and filmmakers involved in the undyingly popular story of vampire Barnabas Collins and all the eerie goings-on at the gloomy Maine mansion Collinwood. The documentary was directed by David Gregory(Lost Soul, Godfathers of Mondo)and is set to be released this spring.

Narrated by Ian McShane (Deadwood), MASTER OF DARK SHADOWS offers insights from Curtis himself in addition to Oscar-winning writer-producer Alan Ball (True Blood), screenwriter William F. Nolan (Trilogy of Terror), author Herman Wouk (The Winds Of War), veteran actors Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost), Barbara Steele (Black Sunday)and Ben Cross (Chariots of Fire), Dark Shadows stars Jonathan Frid, David Selby, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Lara Parker, John Karlen, Nancy Barrett, Jerry Lacy, Roger Davis, Marie Wallace, Chris Pennock and James Storm, plus other colleagues and family members.
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The Black Costume Is Back In Symbiote Spider-Man #1

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Peter Parker. The black costume. The sinister secret called Venom. This April, comic legends Peter David (Ben Reilly: The Scarlet Spider) and Greg Land (Domino, Hunt for Wolverine) team up for an all-new tale that will explore Peter Parker just before he learned that his infamous black suit was an otherworldly evil symbiote

“VENOM may be my day job and favorite Spider-Villain, but my favorite fictional character of all time is the one and only SPIDER-MAN – and far and away, this is one of the most exciting projects I’ve ever had the privilege of working on in my five and a half years here at Marvel,” said editor Devin Lewis.

“This is an in-continuity story of Peter Parker A.K.A. The Amazing Spider-Man set in the weeks he was wearing the alien symbiote costume that would later become one of his greatest foes! And all your favorites are there – Black Cat, Aunt May, The Bugle. This is classic Spider-Action in the Mighty Marvel Manner!”

And with SYMBIOTE SPIDER-MAN #1 pitting the wall-crawler against one of Spider-Man’s most enigmatic nemeses, there’s no telling what kind of epic adventure will ensue.

“What’s MYSTERIO doing on the cover?!” teased Lewis. “He never fought Symbiote Spidey! Or did he?! Now, I know a lot of y’all out there in Mighty Marveldom are going to scoff at that – that this story is in-continuity – but TRUST ME! Peter, Greg and I have all done our homework – we’ve read and reread the original ALIEN COSTUME SAGA in its entirety, revisited old stories and talked around those classics literally, for hours. This is Peter Parker as Spider-Man, wearing one of the most iconic costumes in all of comics, and we’re treating this story will the heart, seriousness and respect that that entails as a result.”

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Intense New “John Wick 3” Trailer Released

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Lionsgate

Keanu is back, this time on a horse in the streets of New York in the latest trailer for “John Wick 3: Parabellum,” the third and final installment in the hugely successful John Wick film series which started in 2014.

The trailer is a stirring combo of non-stop action set to Andy Williams’ version of the classic song “The Impossible Dream (The Quest).” The film picks up where the Chapter 2’s cliffhanger ending left off: legendary hitman Wick is still on the run, expelled from from every Continental service after the assassination of another hitman and now with $14 million bounty on his head, everyone’s after him.

Chad Stahelski is back in the director’s chair alongside series screenwriter Derek Kolstad. Also back are

Also back are Ian McShane as Winston, the owner of the Continental Hotel and Laurence Fishburne as underground crime lord The Bowery King. Joining the cast this time around are Anjelica Huston as The Director and protector of John Wick as well as Halle Berry playing another assassin and John Wick’s pal Sofia.

Now slated for a summer release, the series has truly evolved into a summer tentpole from its humble beginnings. In 2014, the first Wick film was a surprise boxoffice hit, grossing $88 million worldwide on a $29 million budget, while the first sequel released nearly two years ago grossed $171.5 million. Critical response to both films were also positive.

John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum is set to arrive in theaters May 17.

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“gen:LOCK” First Trailer Released

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Fresh off the success of his recent sports drama, Creed II, Michael B. Jordan is back voicing a pilot character in Rooster Teeth’s upcoming American animated web series “gen:LOCK.”

Set in the dystopian future Earth, the sci-fi mecha anime series follows a diverse team of young pilots. Jordan is a Vanguard pilot Julian Chase, the lead character in the series.

Alongside Jordan are Dakota Fanning as his love interest, Maisie Williams as the youngest recruit of the Gen:Lock program, Asia Kate Dillon, Golshifteh Farahani and David Tennant.

gen:LOCK’s first two episodes is set to premiere on Saturday, January 26 on the Rooster Teeth website (RoosterTeeth.com) and is available on iOS, Android, Xbox One, Apple TV. Memberships start at $4.99 per month.

Here’s the official synopsis:

Fifty years in the future, an oppressive authoritarian force threatens to conquer the world. A daring team is recruited to pilot a new form of weaponized neuroscience that powers devastating mecha, but they must be willing to sacrifice everything to save the world.

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“Alita: Battle Angel” New Character Posters Revealed

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20th Century Fox has released fresh new character posters for its upcoming cyberpunk action film “Alita: Battle Angel” and they’re glorious.

The film is directed by Robert Rodriguez (“Sin City”) which he produced with James Cameron (“Avatar”), the film is set in the future and features Rosa Salazar as the titular Anita, a disembodied “core” found in the scrapyard and awakens with no memory about herself and the new world.

The film feature an all-star cast including Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein and Jackie Earle Haley.

Alita: Battle Angel is set to be released on February 14, 2019

Here is the film’s official synopsis:

When Alita (Rosa Salazar) awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido (Christoph Waltz), a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past. As Alita learns to navigate her new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido tries to shield her from her mysterious history while her street-smart new friend Hugo (Keean Johnson) offers instead to help trigger her memories. But it is only when the deadly and corrupt forces that run the city come after Alita that she discovers a clue to her past – she has unique fighting abilities that those in power will stop at nothing to control. If she can stay out of their grasp, she could be the key to saving her friends, her family and the world she’s grown to love.

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