HKIFF Industry Project Market has completed this year’s line-up with the addition of a new animation section and a tie-up with Jakarta Film Week in Indonesia. According to the event organisers, there has been a 60% surge in animation submissions since last year...
EXCLUSIVE: The Global Entertainment Awards has unveiled its regional winners with work on a raft of big-ticket series, movies and games getting recognition. The GEAs lauds the marketing and promo teams that work on projects, with categories covering trailers, behind...
EXCLUSIVE: The long-gestating Red Sonja reboot has been sold to the UK, where it is due for release “later this year” after two years in post. Signature Entertainment has picked up UK and Irish rights to the action fantasy film from Millennium Media, which has...
On its 50th anniversary special, Saturday Night Live wanted to have its nostalgic cake and eat it, too, owning up to the stereotypes it has perpetuated while also coaxing laughs out of the passage of time. In a send-up of awards-show “in memoriam” segments, a tuxedoed...
(Updated with video) Saturday Night Live has had a lot of POTUS mocking over the decades, but you wouldn’t have known it from Sunday’s SNL50: The Anniversary Special. Tonight’s live show had Alec Baldwin, Will Ferrell, Jay Pharoah, Tina Fey, Jason Sudeikis, Maya...
Eddie Murphy returned for another sketch on the SNL50: The Anniversary Show, this time as one of three prisoners trying to try to scare a trio of young male shoplifters “straight.” The sketch was a spoof of the documentary Scared Straight, the program in which...
While SNL50: The Anniversary Special was not a regular episode, it ended the way every Saturday Night Live show for the last 50 years has, with a curtain call. This time, it was supersized, with the stage of Studio 8H packed by representatives of five decades of SNL...
A little counterintuitive for a joyous celebration, the SNL50 anniversary special brought back Rachel Dratch‘s Debbie Downer. While Debbie could bring down the mood anywhere she goes with her grim remarks, she also is one of Saturday Night Live characters that have...
When the sketch for Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph‘s Bronx Beat With Betty and Jodi dropped on tonight’s SNL50: The Anniversary Special, it felt like a certain someone was missing, even though that certain someone wasn’t a staple to the sketch. And then Mike Myers‘...