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Producers Guild Nominees Include “The Post,” “Dunkirk,” “Lady Bird” But Snubs Ridley Scott Movie That Re-shot in 10 Days

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Producers Guild Nominees Include “The Post,” “Dunkirk,” “Lady Bird” But Snubs Ridley Scott Movie That Re-shot in 10 Days

The Producers Guild has nominated a bunch of films we already know for their annual awards. But they’ve left out Ridley Scott’s “All the Money in the World.” That’s surprising since Scott had to re-shoot the movie– and did it brilliantly– in 10 days. That should bring an award in itself. Also missing: “The Darkest Hour.”

Some combination of these movies will make the final 9 for the Oscars. My guess is that “Wonder Woman” won’t make the Oscar cut, nor “Molly’s Game”– one of my personal favorites of the year. Interesting too that Netflix and Amazon were ostracized as well. No “Mudbound” or “First They Killed My Father.” Too bad.

 

The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures:

 

“The Big Sick”

Producers: Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel

 

“Call Me By Your Name”

Producers: Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Marco Morabito

 

“Dunkirk”

Producers: Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan

 

“Get Out”

Producers: Sean McKittrick & Edward H. Hamm, Jr., Jason Blum, Jordan Peele

 

“I, Tonya”

Producers: Bryan Unkeless, Steven Rogers, Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley

 

“Lady Bird”

Producers: Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Evelyn O’Neill

 

“Molly’s Game”

Producers: Mark Gordon, Amy Pascal, Matt Jackson

 

“The Post”

Producers: Amy Pascal, Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger

 

“The Shape Of Water”

Producers: Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale

 

“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

Producers: Graham Broadbent & Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh

 

“Wonder Woman”

Producers: Charles Roven & Richard Suckle, Zack Snyder & Deborah Snyder

 

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures:

 

“The Boss Baby”

Producer: Ramsey Naito

 

“Coco”

Producer: Darla K. Anderson

 

“Despicable Me 3”

Producers: Chris Meledandri, Janet Healy

 

“Ferdinand”

Producers: Lori Forte, Bruce Anderson

 

“The Lego Batman Movie”

Producers: Dan Lin, Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

 

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures:

The PGA previously announced the nominations in this category on November 20, 2017. Producers who have already been vetted for awards eligibility are listed below and the winner will be announced at the official ceremony on January 20th.

 

“Chasing Coral”

Producers: Jeff Orlowski, Larissa Rhodes

 

“City of Ghosts”

Producer: Matthew Heineman

 

“Cries from Syria”

Producers: Evgeny Afineevsky, Den Tolmor, Aaron I. Butler

 

“Earth: One Amazing Day”

Producer: Stephen McDonogh

 

“Jane”

*This film is still in the process of being vetted for producer eligibility this year.

 

“Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower”

*This film is still in the process of being vetted for producer eligibility this year.

 

“The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee”

Producers: Teddy Kunhardt, George Kunhardt

The television nominees are listed below in alphabetical order.

The producers of the programs in the following six categories are in the process of being vetted for awards eligibility this year, and the winners will be recognized at the official ceremony on January 20th.

The Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama:

“Big Little Lies” (Season 1)

“The Crown” (Season 2)

“Game of Thrones” (Season 7)

“The Handmaid’s Tale” (Season 1)

“Stranger Things” (Season 2)

The Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy:

“Curb Your Enthusiasm” (Season 9)

“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Season 1)

“Master of None” (Season 2)

“Silicon Valley” (Season 4)

“Veep” (Season 6)

The David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television:

The Long-Form Television category encompasses both movies of the week and  limited series.

 

“Black Mirror” (Season 4)

“Fargo” (Season 3)

“FEUD: Bette and Joan” (Season 1)

“Sherlock: The Lying Detective”

“The Wizard of Lies”

 

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television:

 

“30 for 30” (Season 8)

“60 Minutes” (Season 50)

“Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” (Season 9, Season 10)

“Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath” (Season 1, Season 2)

“Spielberg”

 

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk Television:

 

“Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” (Season 2)

“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” (Season 15)

“Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” (Season 4)

“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (Season 3)

“Saturday Night Live” (Season 43)

 

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Competition Television:

“The Amazing Race” (Season 29)

“American Ninja Warrior” (Season 9)

“Lip Sync Battle” (Season 3)

“Top Chef” (Season 14)

“The Voice” (Season 12, Season 13)

The PGA does not vet the individual producers of short-form programs, sports programs, or children’s programs and the winning production will be recognized at the official ceremony on January 20th.

 

The Award for Outstanding Short-Form Program:

“Better Call Saul’s Los Pollos Hermanos Employee Training” (Season 1)

“Carpool Karaoke” (Season 1)

“Humans of New York: The Series” (Season 1)

“National Endowment for the Arts: United States of Arts” (Season 3)

“Viceland at the Women’s March” (Season 1)

The Award for Outstanding Sports Program:

“All or Nothing: A Season with the Los Angeles Rams” (Season 2)

“Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers” (Season 12)

“Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” (Season 23)

“SportsCenter with Scott Van Pelt” (Season 3)

“VICE World of Sports” (Season 2)

The Award for Outstanding Children’s Program:

“Doc McStuffins” (Season 4)

“Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards 2017”

“School of Rock” (Season 3)

“Sesame Street” (Season 47)

“SpongeBob SquarePants” (Season 10, Season 11)

OJ Innocent? Producers Will Try and Prove it In New Movie About Disbarred Lawyer and Phony Phone Call

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OJ Innocent? Producers Will Try and Prove it In New Movie About Disbarred Lawyer and Phony Phone Call

Just when you thought you’d heard everything about OJ Simpson comes a casting call for a new movie.

“Nicole and OJ” — if it’s made — will concern a disbarred lawyer named Douglas McCann and his search for the “truth.” A British writer-director named Joshua Newton is going to make a film about McCann’s investigation in 2000 to find a missing phone call that would exonerate Simpson in the double murders of his ex wife Nicole and friend Ron Goldman.

In 2000, Simpson — using McCann– sued the General Telephone Company for its records. They say that Nicole Simpson spoke to her mother at 11pm the night of the murders, thus giving OJ an alibi.

The suit read: “This telephone statement is the most crucial, relevant, exculpatory piece of evidence that goes to the fact that Nicole was alive at 11 p.m., June 12, 1994, as Simpson departed for Los Angeles International Airport via limousine, supporting his claim of innocence.”

The Brown family attorney Dan Petrocelli dismissed the whole thing as hogwash back in 2000. He said. “He’s just trying to make up a story to con the public into buying his protestation of innocence.”

As we now know, nothing happened. And OJ went to jail for nine blissful years anyway on another charge altogether.

Why is anyone making this movie? I don’t know. But McCann was subsequently disbarred by the State of California in 2003 after several infractions.

The tag line for Newton’s movie is: “What they told you. What they showed you. Was fake news.” LOL.

(Watch) Justin Timberlake Gets “Filthy” as a “Man of the Woods” In First New Video

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(Watch) Justin Timberlake Gets “Filthy” as a “Man of the Woods” In First New Video

Here it is: the first single from Justin Timberlake’s “Man of the Woods.” A funky R&B single called “Filthy” that has no particular connection to any woods. Mark Romanek directed the futuristic video.

and then there’s this:

Matinee Idol Zac Efron Is Unlikely Pop Star as “Greatest Showman” Soundtrack Sells Like Crazy– Movie, Not So Much

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Matinee Idol Zac Efron Is Unlikely Pop Star as “Greatest Showman” Soundtrack Sells Like Crazy– Movie, Not So Much

Zac Efron has been a matinee idol for a long time. He’s been in good movies (“Hairspray”) and bad (“Baywatch”). Really bad.

And now Zac Efron is a pop star. As a member of the cast of “The Greatest Showman” starring Hugh Jackman, Efron has a large role. But his most important part in that movie is as a..singer.

For some reason, the soundtrack to “The Greatest Showman” is a massive hit. It was number 1 all through the holidays and continues to be right now. The soundtrack’s popularity is spurred by a track on the album called “Rewrite the Stars” with Zendaya.

So far the album has sold roughly 150,000 copies over two weeks. The movie, meantime, has made $60,721,000, which is ok but not great. “The Greatest Showman” should do around $80 million, which is also alright but not a blockbuster.

What’s making the soundtrack soar? First of all, “Rewrite the Stars” is a hit on iTunes on Spotify. Radio play is still elusive, but that doesn’t matter. “Rewrite” is written by Oscar and Tony winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, who’ve already had an amazing year with “La La Land” and “Dear Evan Hansen.”

 

“The Greatest Showman” CD also boasts SEVEN other individual tracks on the iTunes Top 100 besides “Rewrite.” It’s a phenomenon of some kind. PT Barnum would be proud.

Did Sarah Palin’s Son, Track, Break Her Husband Todd’s Arm in Altercation? Instagram Post Suggests Yes

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Did Sarah Palin’s Son, Track, Break Her Husband Todd’s Arm in Altercation? Instagram Post Suggests Yes

Following an altercation at their house with son Track, Sarah Palin has posted a photo of her family in their vehicle on Instagram.

In the altercation, son Track Palin was arrested and charged with beating his father over the head. For Track, 28, this was his second domestic violence arrest in 2017 in Wasilla, Alaska.

Reports from the local paper say that Track beat his father over the head numerous times. In the posted photo, Todd Palin has a cut along the bridge of his nose.

But he’s also not driving– his daughter is. Todd is in the passenger seat. And his left arm appears to be in a sling.

I called the Wasilla Police and spoke to their public officer Amanda Graham. She says she can’t comment until the case is adjudicated. The police report has not been published. When I asked about the broken arm, Officer Graham said: “It’s hunting season here, you never know.”

Pop: Charlie Puth Takes Away the Biggest Part of Chicago in a Bad New Record Called “If You Leave Me Now”

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Pop: Charlie Puth Takes Away the Biggest Part of Chicago in a Bad New Record Called “If You Leave Me Now”

 Why? Why are these things happening? Are we being punished? Charlie Puth, a kid I like in the new pop biz, has issued a record with the same title and refrain as a Chicago hit from 40 years ago. Does he not listen to the radio? Does no one say to him, this is a bad idea? On top of that, he’s fashioned it as an acappella thing with BoyzIIMen– it sounds like people being strangled on The Andy Williams Show. To make matters worse, they’ve issued this during a blizzard. A cyclone. A polar vortex. Please, is this fair?
We must now pray the Justin Timberlake song is GREAT. If it isn’t, can we make sense of this world again?

 

Charlie Puth:

Chicago:

Writers Guild Nominees Include “Lady Bird,” “The Big Sick,” “Call Me By Your Name,” Jane Goodall Documentary

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Writers Guild Nominees Include “Lady Bird,” “The Big Sick,” “Call Me By Your Name,” Jane Goodall Documentary

The Writers Guild nominations are out. There are no snubs per se– some films that will be nominated at the Oscars are ineligible for WGA nominations.

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The Big Sick, Written by Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani; Amazon Studios

Get Out, Written by Jordan Peele; Universal Pictures

I, Tonya, Written by Steven Rogers; Neon

Lady Bird, Written by Greta Gerwig; A24  

The Shape of Water, Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor; Story by Guillermo del Toro; Fox Searchlight

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Call Me by Your Name, Screenplay by James Ivory; Based on the Novel by André Aciman; Sony Pictures Classics

The Disaster Artist, Screenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber; Based on the Book The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell; A24

Logan, Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold; Based on Characters from the X-Men Comic Books and Theatrical Motion Pictures; Twentieth Century Fox Film

Molly’s Game, Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin; Based on the Book by Molly Bloom; STX Entertainment

Mudbound, Screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees; Based on the Novel by Hillary Jordan; Netflix

DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY

Betting on Zero, Written by Theodore Braun; Gunpowder & Sky

Jane, Written by Brett Morgen; National Geographic

No Stone Unturned, Written by Alex Gibney; Abramorama

Oklahoma City, Written by Barak Goodman; American Experience Films

Grammys Rev Up Mainstream Stars (Gaga, Pink, Little Big Town), Broadway Tribute (Patti Lupone) to Soften Night of Rap Nominees

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Grammys Rev Up Mainstream Stars (Gaga, Pink, Little Big Town), Broadway Tribute (Patti Lupone) to Soften Night of Rap Nominees

The Grammy Awards are stocking up on mainstream stars to soft the blow of a night of rappers.

When the Grammy nominations were announced in November, I told you producer Ken Ehrlich and CBS’s Jack Sussman would be apoplectic — four of the five Album of the Year nods went to rappers and hip hoppers. The fifth spot went to Lorde, who has now attracted her own controversy by boycotting Israel.

So what to do? Stock the show with performers who CBS viewers will like: Lady Gaga, Pink, country stars Little Big Town, and a Broadway tribute from Patti Lupone and new star Ben Platt.

They have also selected Childish Gambino aka Donald Glover, star of FX’s much awarded “Atlanta.” Gambino’s album is one of the nominees.

Bruno Mars should be next, as his album is also nominated. He’ll be a key player for the Grammys because the multi-talented performer cuts across most demographics. Taylor Swift seems likely, too. But her pal, Ed Sheeran, isn’t expected as he received no main nominations. Sheeran can take solace in having the best selling single and album of the year, however.

More Grammy performers will be announced shortly, so look for more country and mainstream pop acts to ameliorate Jay Z, Kendrick Lamar, “Despacito,” and other performers– like Khalid– who should be and must be on the show.

 

“Girls Trip” Star Tiffany Haddish Steals NY Film Critics Dinner, Declares: “I Want to Star in a Japanese Soap Opera!”

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“Girls Trip” Star Tiffany Haddish Steals NY Film Critics Dinner, Declares: “I Want to Star in a Japanese Soap Opera!”

If there’s been a recent breakout star anywhere, it’s comedian Tiffany Haddish. She made a huge splash on “Saturday Night Live” this fall after starring in Malcolm Lee’s “Girls Trip,” which turned out to be a $100 million comedy– a rarity.

Last night Haddish literally stole the New York Film Critics dinner at Tao Downtown, upstaging everything and everyone when she accepted the award for Best Supporting Actress in “Girls Trip.” She was a bold choice since Laurie Metcalf and Allison Janney are in the lead for the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards. Tiffany didn’t even merit a Globe nod.

But this wise, canny, and spicy 37 year old “overnight sensation” took the stage and held forth with a 20 minute performance piece that was alternately hilarious and moving. She labeled the custom drink she was holding throughout the speech her “Tiffanycity-tini.” She said, “It’s delicious. I’ve had two, and I do feel like magic.” I have some excerpts below.

After the show, or rather during the show, Tiffany escaped to the ladies’ room and that’s where she stayed for the rest of the night. When the show was over, I found her back there in the lounge. She stayed longer than any of the winners — Greta Gerwig, Saorise Ronan, Willem Dafoe, etc — and then some. Her long time stylist Dionne was with her, as well as a bunch of friends, and “Get Out” actress Betty Gabriel (a shy beauty).

Tiffany was literally the only one of the NYFCC winners who wasn’t going to the Golden Globes but she took it in stride. “I’ve got to get back on tour!” she declared. “I’m a stand up comedian!”

What does she really want to do? “I want to star in a Japanese soap opera,” she said. Not an American one? “No way! I can speak Japanese!” She demonstrated for us, impressively. Her knowledge, I think, comes from an ex boyfriend. Then there was another ex, British, whom she performed a DNA test on to determine, well, it’s too complicated here…

Tiffany Haddish is the anti-M’Onique, although she did ask, a couple of times, “Does a check come with this?” referring to the award. Later she told me, “I just found out how important this award is. I can’t believe it!”

Attention Academy Awards: if Tiffany Haddish doesn’t get an Oscar nomination, she’d better be a presenter. She’ll get ratings, and we will all be better for it!

 

Tiffany excerpts:

She did talk about the crowd in front of her: “So now that I get to meet the critics, first off, thank you, guys. I don’t even—I don’t read reviews. I don’t. The most reviews you’ll see me read is something that either my publicist sends me and says, “Read this,” and I’m like, “You read it,” because if it hurt my feelings I’m going to cuss their ass out in my soul, and then I’m going to pray for them, and I’ll laugh. Because I’m super-sensitive. I don’t mean to be so sensitive, but that’s just who I am. And I’m not afraid to admit it.”

On her childhood in South Central L.A. “When you’re a little kid going through the [foster-care] system, you wonder, “Does anybody even know I’m alive?” To be able to be this example to so many youth—there’s so many people like me that you guys have no clue about. But they coming. Because I kicked the fucking door open.”

ON a raunchy scene that didn’t make “Girls Trip”: “So, there’s a scene where I tell Regina [Hall] all the things I would do for her, that I got her back, no matter what. I’m like, no matter what, I got your back. I’m talking Timberland boots, hot bricks—I don’t care. We’re going to give him some Ambien, night night. And then, when he sleep, we’re going to burn your name in his dick. And then we’re going to put mud and salt on it so it can keloid over, and then it will be ribbed for your pleasure. And then when he wake up, we’ll look him dead in his eyes, and we’ll tell him right to his face to keep your name out these bitches’ mouths.”

New Trump Book Turns Washington Upside Down: Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” Hits Number 1 Days Before Publication

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New Trump Book Turns Washington Upside Down: Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” Hits Number 1 Days Before Publication

Wednesday was a wild day for Donald Trump. While he was busy tweeting inanities to distract the media, a ticking bomb went off that changed everything.

Excerpts from Michael Wolff’s forthcoming book, “The Fire and The Fury,” exploded like landmines everywhere Trump wasn’t looking: The Guardian, New York Magazine, and so on. In a matter of an hour, everyone knew what was going on. Steve Bannon, Trump’s former right hand man and political philosopher, had done him in interviews with Wolff.

The worst of it: Bannon had created a tagline no one would forget. The Line had to do with Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with the Russians. Bannon said that when Junior was finally interrogated, he’d crack like an egg. Specifically: “They’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV.”

Bannon also called the meetings “treasonous.” He told Wolff: “You realize where this is going. This is all about money laundering. Mueller chose (senior prosecutor Andrew) Weissmann first and he is a money-laundering guy. Their path to f—ing Trump goes right through Paul Manafort, Don Jr and Jared Kushner … It’s as plain as a hair on your face.”

This sent the book to number 1 on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and anywhere else books could be pre-ordered. When it’s released on January 9th, “The Fire the Fury” is going to send Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kellyanne Conway into convulsions.

Plus, the Donald himself didn’t help matters as he disowned Bannon, claiming — as he’s done with Manafort, The Mooch, and Michael Flynn– that he never really knew him or worked with him– all lies,  as everyone, even the grandchildren know.

Trump tried to wiggle out of this mess with a statement that will haunt him:

Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican party.

Now that he is on his own, Steve is learning that winning isn’t as easy as I make it look. Steve had very little to do with our historic victory, which was delivered by the forgotten men and women of this country. Yet Steve had everything to do with the loss of a Senate seat in Alabama held for more than thirty years by Republicans. Steve doesn’t represent my base—he’s only in it for himself.

Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was. It is the only thing he does well. Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books.

We have many great Republican members of Congress and candidates who are very supportive of the Make America Great Again agenda. Like me, they love the United States of America and are helping to finally take our country back and build it up, rather than simply seeking to burn it all down.

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