The beast — being, after all, the leisure information cycle — by no means sleeps.
There was the ruckus out of final week’s Berlin Movie Pageant that has trickled into this week’s — now placing creative director Tricia Tuttle within the crosshairs of the German ministry of tradition within the wake of the competition’s celebrity-criticized, seemingly equivocating stance on world points. Open letters abound because the competition comes off one other rocky version. It’s solely Tuttle’s second yr out of a five-year time period. It’s too unhealthy there have been so many nice movies and winners this yr that had been overshadowed by political ruckus.
Then, there was the BAFTAs gaffe to finish all of them, when John Davidson’s Tourette’s situation led him to blurt out the N-word when Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan had been onstage (amongst different epithets directed at presenters), after which the BAFTAs didn’t lower the offensive expletive from the ceremony. (It did, nonetheless, lower “My Father’s Shadow” director and winner Akinola Davies Jr. concluding his speech with “Free Palestine.” That one needed to go!)
Then — we’re not completed but — Paramount Skydance’s steep and finally intimidating bid to the tune of a cool $111 billion to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery finally trumped (sorry) Ted Sarandos and Netflix. Has the sky fallen? The trade is in panic mode, as this merger poses existential threats not solely to movie and content material manufacturing, however probably to cable community information forward of the midterm elections. (Warner Bros. Discovery owns CNN, which is able to now be run by the Ellisons’ Paramount Skydance.)
All this chaos and extra on the most recent episode of IndieWire’s “Display Discuss” podcast, the place co-hosts Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio recap the week that was. Per week that solely tangentially introduced us out of the awards season area, solely to convey us again in as we inevitably preview the Producers Guild Awards and the SAG’s Actor Awards, each occurring this weekend. Past the noisy headlines, if the BAFTAs indicated something for the guild awards forward, it’s that “Sinners” stays very robust because of an sudden BAFTA win for Wunmi Mosaku. “One Battle After One other” supporting actor Sean Penn additionally took the BAFTA — that would repeat on the Actor Awards, the place “Sentimental Worth” projected Oscar frontrunner Stellan Skarsgård is just not a nominee.
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