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BAFTA TV Awards 2017

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The BAFTA award, designed by Mitzi Cunliffe

‘Happy Valley’ was the big winner of the night, winning two awards, while Netflix’s aristocracy epic drama ‘The Crown’ which led the nominations this year with five, left empty handed. The Night Manager’s Tom Hollander took home the supporting actor BAFTA.

“The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” won BAFTA’s International Award, while the David Attenborough’s Conquest Of The Skies won Specialist Factual. The latter is the only prize of the night that is voted by the public. The new award introduced this year, Virgin TV’s Must-See Moment went to PLanet Earth II: Snakes Vs Iguana Chase.

The night closed with Joanna Lumley being awarded the BAFTA Fellowship, which is the highest honor of the ceremonies.

Leading actor: Adeel Akhtar – “Murdered by My Father”
Leading actress: Sarah Lancashire – “Happy Valley”
Supporting actor: Tom Hollander – “The Night Manager”
Supporting actress: Wunmi Mosaku – “Damilola, Our Loved Boy”
Drama series: “Happy Valley”
Comedy & comedy entertainment programme: “Charlie Brooker’s 2016 Wipe”
Entertainment performance: Michael McIntyre – “Michael McIntyre’s Big Show”
Entertainment programme: “Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway”
Male performance in a comedy programme: Steve Coogan – “Alan Partridge’s Scissored Isle”
Female performance in a comedy programme: Phoebe Waller-Bridge – “Fleabag “

To see the full list: BAFTA

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‘Artemis’, Andy Weir’s follow-up to ‘The Martian’

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Fans of Andy Weir’s “The Martian” should be happy to know that, not only will his follow up “Artemis” be released later this year, but the movie rights was already picked up by Fox, as Deadline reports.

Artemis novel is scheduled to be released on Nov.14, in North America and is already available for pre-order Amazon. This was announced by Crown Publishing on its website, which also included description of the novel as follows:

An adrenaline-charged crime caper that features smart, detailed world-building based on real science and the charm that makes Weir’s writing so irresistible, Artemis introduces a protagonist every bit as memorable as The Martian’s Mark Watney: Jasmine Bashara, aka Jazz. Jazz is just another too-smart, directionless twentysomething, chafing at the constraints of her small town and dreaming of a better life. Except the small town happens to be named Artemis—and it’s the first and only city on the moon.

Weir’s debut novel “The Martian”, which follows the survival efforts of Mark Watney after he becomes stranded alone on Mars, was a huge breakthrough for the novelist. The book received generally positive reviews and sold 3 million copies.

But it wasn’t until Twentieth Century Fox optioned the rights to the film that the novel attracted broader recognition. Directed by Ridley Scott, that film starred Matt Damon, made more than $600 million at the boxoffice, and received seven academy award nominations.

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“Hellboy” Reboot In The Works

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A new “Hellboy” is currently in development, but this time, without director Guillermo del Toro, who directed the first two movies. According to Variety, Neil Marshall of “Game of Thrones” is attached to take over directing duties, while “David Harbour” is in talks to star.

This news might not be a complete surprise to some. In an interview with Screen Rant last year, Ron Perlman, who originally played the character, admitted that making Hellboy 3 is unlikely to happen, or at least not with him on it.

The first ‘Hellboy’ came out in 2004 to minor boxoffice success but developed a strong cult following. The success of Del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth” a couple of years later provided the director enough influence to push forward the production of a sequel in 2008, “Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, which was a slight financial improvement.

‘Hellboy’ is based on the graphic novels of the same name by writer/artist Mike Mignola who also broke the news in his facebook site. In the film, the character is a well-meaning demon superhero brought into this world by Nazis who want to unleash the “Seven Gods of Chaos” but raised to became a superhero to do battle with supernatural enemies.

David Harbour is the current lead character Police Chief Jim Hopper in the Netflix series ‘Stranger Things’ which recently won TV Show of the Year at the MTV Movie & TV Awards.

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‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘Stranger Things’ Big Winners At MTV Movie & TV Awards:

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With a new brand name comes new categories added this year, including including best host, best reality competition, tearjerker, next generation, trending, best musical moment and best American story.

But it was the first category of the night that drew lots of attention. “Billions” star Asia Kate Dillon presented the first gender-less “best actor in a movie,” which went to “Beauty and the Beast” star Emma Watson. The Shrine Auditorium on May 7, 2017 in Los Angeles. The category is the first in history of putting both male and female actors competing in the same category.

Stranger Things won two prize, one for Show of the Year, and another for star Millie Bobby Brown, who was named best actor in a show.

The cast of Fast & Furious was also honored with the MTV Generation Awards, and Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson and Jordana Brewster were there to accept the award for their highly successful franchise. “In 2002, I was standing on this stage and MTV had given Paul Walker and I an award for Best Duo, and now 15 years later, I’m with my whole family and you’re giving us the Generation Award,” Diesel said.

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Ridley Scott Says Alien 5 Will Never Happen

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Just weeks before Alien: Covenant opens nationwide, Ridley Scott puts to rest any hopes and speculations about the possibility of ‘Alien 5’ becoming a reality.

This speculation has been around for a couple of years since ‘District 9’ director Neill Blomkamp posted a concept art on Instagram, and was later followed by Sigourney Weaver (who worked with Blomkamp in ‘Chappi’) expressing interest in doing the movie.

But with production of ‘Covenant’ sequel already underway, currently titled ‘Awakening’, it looks like Scott will be getting busy piloting the Alien franchise. Scott of course directed the original 1979 Alien film and was followed by three sequels by James Cameron, David Fincher and Jean-Pierre Jeunet successively.

Here’s portion of Scott’s statement regarding ‘Alien 5’ (translated by AVP Galaxy):

“Ridley Scott, who was in Paris for the promotion of the new opus of the saga, was even more definitive in our microphone: “I think he will never see the light,” he replied after explaining That the project was far less advanced than previously thought. “There was never a scenario, just an idea that evolved into a pitch of ten pages, I had to participate as a producer but it did not go any further because the Fox decided that She did not want to do it. I had already done Prometheus and worked on Covenant.”

But there will be plenty of ‘Alien’ movies in the pipeline for fans, starting with this summers’ Alien: Covenant. Starring Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender, the movie opens in theaters on May 19.

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2017 Daytime Emmy Award Winners

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‘Good Morning America,’ ‘Jeopardy!,’ ‘Ellen DeGeneres’, and ‘Steve Harvey’ were the big winners of the 44th annual Daytime Emmy Awards which were held Sunday night, April 30th, at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, hosted by Mario LOPEZ and Sheryl Underwood.

Considered the highest accolade given to television shows, the Emmys “recognize outstanding achievement in all fields of daytime television production”. To be eligible, a show must to at least 50% of the US between 2AM and 6PM.

Friday night also saw Animation/Netflix series ‘Trollhunters’ win big at the Daytime Emmy Creative Arts.

Here’s the list of Sunday night’s Emmys:

OUTSTANDING MORNING PROGRAM – Good Morning America (ABC)
OUTSTANDING ENTERTAINMENT TALK SHOW HOSTS – The Talk (CBS)
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES – Steve Burton, The Young and the Restless (CBS)
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES – Kate Mansi, Days of Our Lives (CBS)
OUTSTANDING YOUNGER ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES – Bryan Craig, General Hospital (ABC)
OUTSTANDING YOUNGER ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES – Lexi Ainsworth, General Hospital (ABC)
OUTSTANDING GAME SHOW – Jeopardy

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Snoop Dogg’s “Neva Left” Official Cover Art Released

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Subsequent to declaring another album was underway earlier this month, Snoop Dogg is back with the official cover art for his fifteenth studio album, “Neva Left”, which fills in as the follow-up to 2016’s “Coolaid”. The matchless Doggfather took to Instagram to share the cover art and furthermore the album is to be released on May 19. With the expectation just building all the more every week, the veteran rapper proceeded and debuted the official album cover for his new venture on his Facebook page.

Snoop fused a return photograph of him taken by amazing photography Chi Modu, who has taken shots of notable hip-hop stars since the 1990s. In the cover art for Neva Left, Modu’s exemplary photograph indicates Snoop remaining under an expressway 187 sign in California in 1993, where the words “Neva Left” are written on the post in white paint.

While disclosing the photograph to XXL, Modu expressed, “That is my photograph taken of Snoop in 1993 when we were taking a shot at pictures for his album Doggystyle. We needed to take it at the highway 187 sign as a result of his verse in “Deep Cover”. The photo shows a youthful Snoop Dogg, brandishing his previous jheri curl hairdo that ended up noticeably well-known amid his introductory album years.
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44th Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards Winners

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‘Trollhunters’ was the big winner on Friday night’s Daytime Emmy Creative Arts. The DreamWorks Animation/Netflix series created by Guillermo del Toro won 6 trophies, while ‘Days of Our Lives’ led the drama-series categories with five.

The computer-animated fantasy series won for Outstanding Casting for an Animated Series or Special, Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program, as well as Kelsey Grammer for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program. Overall, ‘Trollhunters’ helped Netflix win 11 statuettes, second best of the night after Amazon which took home 13, which was bolstered by 5 big wins from its soap opera ‘The Bay the Series’.

Some of the other notable winners included “Lost in Oz Extended Adventure,” “SuperSoul Shorts – Maggie the Cow,” “The Young and the Restless,” and “The Bold and the Beautiful”.

Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards honors “excellence in all fields of daytime broadcast production“. This year’s ceremony was held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California. More winners of the Daytime Emmy will be announced this coming Sunday night.

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Shyamalan Announces ‘Split’ / ‘Unbreakable’ Sequel

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If you’re an M. Night Shyamalan fan, you’re probably one of those whose brain exploded after that shock ending in ‘Split’ while realizing that the rest of the audience wondered what the hell was going on.

For 17 years, fans of M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Unbreakable’ have been asking for a sequel but saw that possibility disappear over the years. Well, after the release of ‘Split’ last January, that question was finally answered, somewhat unofficially in latter film’s final minutes, but now officially on Twitter yesterday by Shyamalan himself.

“It’s taken 17 years but I can finally answer the #1 question I get, ‘Are you making a f#&@ing sequel to Unbreakable or what?’ ” he tweeted. “My new film is the sequel to #Unbreakable AND #Split. It was always my dream to have both films collide in this third film.” A couple of hours earlier, Universal Pictures announced the title and dated the film’s release: “Universal Pictures will release #Glass on January 18, 2019 all over the world. How’s that for not keeping a secret!”

Fans will remember that Mr. Glass is the criminal alias of Samuel L. Jackson’s character in Unbreakable, Elijah Price. In that movie, Price has an abnormally fragile bones and is in search of his opposite extreme, one that is “unbreakable”.

Then in the final scene in ‘Split’, that character, Bruce Willis‘ David Dunn shows up in a restaurant, watching the TV. In that scene, as everyday folks were reminded of another criminal character back in the day, David uttered “they called him Mr. Glass.”

Well, there you go. Just like that, Shyamalan has created his very own shared cinematic universe!

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Rest In Peace Jonathan Demme

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The great auteur who gave us ‘Silence of the Lambs’ and ‘Philadelphia’ died this morning in New York. He was 73. The Oscar-winning director died of cancer complications.

Demme rose to prominence with a wide range of genres such as the comedies Melvin and Howard (1980) and Married to the Mob (1988), the concert film featuring Talking Heads’ live performance Stop Making Sense (1984) which is hailed as one of the greatest rock movies ever, and the drama Philadelphia (1993) which won star Tom Hanks his first Best Actor Oscar.

But Demme is probably best known for directing “Silence of the Lambs,” the 1991 horror-thriller which swept the Academy Awards, winning the 5 major awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Anthony Hopkins, Best Actress for Jodie Foster and Best Adapted Screenplay for Ted Tally.

As such, this makes ‘Lambs’ only the third film in history to accomplish such a feat, and the first and only horror film to win Best Picture.

Demme is survived by his wife Joanne Howard, and their three children.

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