Posts by Nathan Pine
Actor Awards: Ryan Coogler Becomes First Person To Direct Two Cast Ensemble Winners With ‘Sinners’ Victory
Sinners filmmaker Ryan Coogler is the first person to direct two cast ensembles to Actor Award victory. With the triumph of the vampiric period drama at the 32nd Annual Actor Awards (fka SAG Awards), he followed up his initial 2018 win for Black Panther, which also starred Michael B. Jordan. Though he did not join…
Read MoreSAG-AFTRA’s Actor Awards Winners List (Updating Live)
The 2026 Actor Awards, the ceremony formerly known as the SAG Awards, is getting underway Saturday at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, with Kristen Bell returning to host and Netflix streaming live. At stake tonight are 15 competitive categories across film and TV, with HBO’s The Last of Us in a repeat of last…
Read MoreTwenty One Pilots, Elvis Presley Top Grossers In Breakout Music Weekend – Specialty Box Office
Twenty One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined – Live in Mexico City and EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert are sitting at nos. 4 and 5 in North America making for a great music weekend at the specialty box office. The Twenty One Pilots concert film from Trafalgar Releasing is rocking to a $3.7 million opening…
Read More‘SNL’ Tackles BAFTAs’ Racial Slur Incident With Tourette’s Sketch Featuring Controversial Celebs Like J.K. Rowling, Jill Zarin, Armie Hammer & Ye
NBC’s Saturday Night Live addressed one of the biggest controversies of the week, the shocking incident at the BAFTA Film Awards involving Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson’s involuntary racial slur, in a cut-for-time sketch that may stir its own controversy with its comedic take on the neurological disorder. In the high-wire, PSA-style skit titled ‘Tourette’s,’ a…
Read MoreSurveillance company Flock generates controversy — and a roster of L.A. clients
Santa Cruz tried out the surveillance company Flock Safety for a little over a year before deciding it was time to move on. Cambridge, Mass., also had enough and tore up its contract in December. Now, some officials in San Diego have begun to have second thoughts of their own. In recent months, dozens of…
Read MoreArt Directors Guild Awards: ‘Frankenstein’ & ‘One Battle After Another’ Take Top Film Prizes – Full List
Warner Bros’ One Battle After Another, Netflix’s Frankenstein and KPop Demon Hunters and Disney/Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps took top film honors at the 30th anniversay Art Directors Guild Awards, which were handed out Saturday night at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. See the full winners list below. Frankenstein’s Deverell and Vieau and One Battle’s Martin…
Read MoreNAACP Image Awards Winners List (Updating Live)
The 57th NAACP Image Awards ceremony is underway Saturday night, the culmination of a weeklong stretch of events and awards-giving celebrating Black excellence and achievement across film, TV, books, music and more. Tonight’s event at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium is being emceed by Deon Cole and is airing live on BET and CBS. Along with revealing…
Read More‘Scream 7’ Ghostface Actor [SPOILER] Took It “As A Compliment” Being Cast As Killer
![‘Scream 7’ Ghostface Actor [SPOILER] Took It “As A Compliment” Being Cast As Killer](https://i0.wp.com/deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/MCDSCSE_PA038.jpg?w=1024&w=1024&resize=1024,1024&ssl=1 "‘Scream 7’ Ghostface Actor [SPOILER] Took It “As A Compliment” Being Cast As Killer")
SPOILERS: This post contains details about Scream 7, including the killers’ identities As Neve Campbell returns for another bloodbath as Sidney Prescott in Scream 7, the ‘final girl’ takes on another mysterious Ghostface. In the Kevin Williamson-helmed seventh installment of the slasher franchise, which he launched in 1996 as writer with director Wes Craven, Sidney…
Read MoreWhy Trump Decided to Attack Iran Right Now—and What His Endgame Is
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. The United States and Israel started a military offensive in Iran on Saturday morning. Iran then launched retaliatory strikes. Elizabeth Saunders, a political scientist at Columbia University who studies U.S. foreign policy, and Kian…
Read MoreU.S. & Israel Launch “Major Combat Operations” On Iran As Trump Calls On Iranians To “Take Over” – Update
Updated at 5am PT… with deaths, coverage and reaction: The U.S. and Israel have launched air strikes on Iran with President Donald Trump saying “major combat operations” are underway. Blasts started being heard around the Iran’s capital city around 9.30 am local time on Saturday morning, with reports of people running in the streets in…
Read More‘The Napa Boys’, ‘Idiotka’ & Japan’s First Interactive Anime New In Limited Release, ‘Elvis Presley In Concert’ Expands – Specialty Preview
Hollywood franchise filmmaking spoof The Napa Boys, fashion comedy Idiotka, Jessica Chastain- starring Dreams, and Werner Herzog’s documentary Ghost Elephants debut with the unusual Hypnosismic – Division Rap Battle-Interactive Movie. Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert from Neon expands to 1,000 screens after the buzzy doc’s weeklong Imax exclusive run on 325 big screens.…
Read MoreSony Pictures Classics Continues Sundance Buying Streak With Jon Hamm, John Slattery & Zoey Deutch Pic ‘Gail Daughtry And The Celebrity Sex Pass’
EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Classics has taken their fourth Sundance feature this year with the David Wain directed comedy Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass. The deal for the pic’s global rights was negotiated between Sony Pictures Classics and WME Independent on behalf of the filmmakers. We hear there were about seven offers on the…
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