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Issue Date: 05/01/2025 | Click headlines for full story, pics, video or to comment
SHOOT News of the Day
“Baby Reindeer,” “Shōgun,” “Daughters” and “Will & Harper” Among Winners of 85th Annual Peabody Awards
The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors has unveiled the winners selected to represent the most captivating and inspiring stories released in broadcasting and streaming media during 2024. The winners were chosen by a unanimous vote of 27 jurors from over 1,000 entries from television, podcasts/radio and the web in entertainment, news, documentary, arts, children’s/youth, public
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Director Joseph Kosinski Drives Into Formula One, With Brad Bitt and Lewis Hamilton
“Top Gun: Maverick” filmmaker Joseph Kosinski came to Formula One like many Americans: “Drive to Survive.” In that popular Netflix series, he saw the potential for a cinematic event, full of immersive thrills, the high stakes of the competitive racing world and the idea that your teammate could be your greatest rival. “I don’t think
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Martin Scorsese To Produce Documentary With Pope Francis, “Aldeas — A New Story”
Martin Scorsese is a producing a documentary made with Pope Francis that will chronicle the late pontiff’s work with cinema in the global educational movement he founded before his death. “Aldeas — A New Story” will feature conversations between Pope Francis and Scorsese, including what the filmmakers say are the Pope’s final in-depth on-camera interview
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Apple TV+ Cooks Up “Carême,” A Sexy Celeb Chef Series With A Historic Recipe
He’s a dream in the kitchen — and elsewhere in the house. He makes a mean cream-puff tower. And he’s got moves like Jagger. Alas, Antonin Carême has been dead since the 1830s, but nobody’s perfect, right? Most people have heard of Napoleon, but not many are familiar — even in France — with the
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Documentary From RadicalMedia and Modern Arts Chronicles Landmark Decision On New F1 Driver
WhatsApp and the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula 1 (F1) racing team are releasing a new documentary on Netflix entitled The Seat, an inside look into the private WhatsApp calls and chats that led to a once-in-a-generation driver change in Mercedes and F1 history. The 45-minute documentary, created in partnership with Modern Arts and RadicalMedia–and premiering May
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Cannes Lions To Honor Sonita Alizadeh As Its 2025 LionHeart
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has named its 2025 Cannes LionHeart: Sonita Alizadeh. One of the Festival’s most prestigious awards, the LionHeart accolade is given to a person who has harnessed their position to make a significant and positive difference to the world around us. Through her work as the first professional Afghan
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“60 Minutes” report that prompted Trump lawsuit is nominated for an News & Documentary Emmy Award
It got “60 Minutes” sued by the man who became president of the United States. Now it’s up for a major award — for precisely the same aspect of it that so enraged Donald Trump. Last fall’s “60 Minutes” story on Kamala Harris — the subject of Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit against CBS — was
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Harvey Weinstein’s Lawyers Question Accuser Miriam Haley At #MeToo Retrial
Harvey Weinstein ‘s lawyers got their turn Thursday to question a woman who alleges the one-time Hollywood heavyweight held her down and forced oral sex on her nearly two decades ago. Miriam Haley, testifying for a third day at Weinstein’s rape retrial, was grilled about details of her recollections — such as exactly how she
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Review: Director Lorcan Finnegan’s “The Surfer”
For a long, sun-addled stretch, Lorcan Finnegan’s beach-set “The Surfer” simmers as a deliciously punishing nightmare, driving Nicolas Cage into his most natural state: a boil. “Don’t live here, don’t surf here,” is the slogan at a pristine stretch of beach along Luna Bay on the Australian coast where our unnamed protagonist (Cage) has come
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Ray Romano and Sebastian Maniscalco share banter while atop Italian Alps in Winter Olympics promo
NBC is continuing its strategy of infusing the Olympics with pop culture and celebrity appeal to generate momentum ahead of the Milan-Cortina Winter Games in Italy next year. This time, Italian American comedians Ray Romano and Sebastian Maniscalco will make their debut during a comical promotion, the network said on Wednesday. The commercial will air
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“Buena Vista Social Club,” “Death Becomes Her” and “Maybe Happy Ending” lead Tony Award nominations
Three Broadway shows — “Buena Vista Social Club,” “Death Becomes Her” and “Maybe Happy Ending” — each earned a leading 10 Tony Award nominations Thursday, as nominators spread out the joy and gave nods to George Clooney, Sarah Snook and Bob Odenkirk in their debuts. Twenty-nine shows got at least one nomination across the 26
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Issue Date: 05/01/2025 | Click headlines for full story, pics, video or to comment
SPW News of the Day
“The Good Wife” Star Archie Panjabi Boards ‘FLIGHT 182’ as EP, Calls It Her “Favorite Film of the Year”
Emmy®-winning actor Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife, Hijack) has joined the acclaimed live-action short FLIGHT 182 as an executive producer. The film has been nominated for Best Short Film at Sundar Prize Film Festival, awarded Best Short Honorable Mention at International South Asian Film Festival of Canada, and will head to Oscar-qualifying festivals including the
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2025 AMP Awards For Music & Sound Releases Shortlist
The AMP Awards for Music & Sound, sponsored by the Association of Music Producers, has announced its Shortlist for the 2025 competition and saluted the work of its Curatorial Committee as it gears up for its 12th awards presentation, set for May 21st at Sony Hall in New York City. Tickets are on sale now
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Boris FX Sapphire Empowers Artists With Effortless AI Masking
Boris FX announces a major update to Sapphire, its Emmy® Award-winning plugin collection. The 2025.5 release dramatically streamlines post-production workflows with two new AI masking and tracking tools, user-friendly updates to its custom interfaces, a stunning new lens flare pack, gorgeous visuals, and support for AMD GPUs. “The powerful addition of AI-driven masking and tracking
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DWA Presents Ultimate Events, May 2025 Edition (Hybrid Special)
Over the past few years, we have adapted together; now, our ships are coming in. Comparatively, we may go less often, stay closer to home, and spend more time phoning things in … but new days are growing heavy with promise. In our refined order, learning opportunities beckon, inviting us to build and fortify relationships,
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