'Shogun' Rules at Creative Arts Emmys; CMAs Snub Beyoncé; 'Beetlejuice 2' Opens Big; Brady Corbet Talks 'The Brutalist'; Latest Toronto Reviews

[View on web]( [New reader? Subscribe]( September 09, 2024 What's news: The Tonight Show is being cut back to four-nights a week. A24 has acquired the U.S. rights to Brady Corbet's The Brutalist. Kendrick Lamar will headline the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show. Nathan Gary is out at Annapurna. Hulu has greenlit an untitled limited series based on the Murdaugh murders case. — [Abid Rahman]( Do you have THR's next big story? Confidentially share tips with us at [tips@thr.com](. 'Shōgun' Rules Creative Arts Emmys ►🏆 Japaneasy 🏆 The Creative Arts Emmys, the annual two-day event, which takes place the weekend before the Primetime Emmys, saw 99 TV awards handed out to mostly below-the-line categories, as well as recognition for guest actor and actress roles. Awards announced on Sunday included honors for comedy, drama and limited series, after Saturday was largely devoted to variety, nonfiction and reality. Shōgun was the far-and-away winner at Sunday’s ceremony, collecting 14 of the evening’s 49 awards. The Bear cleaned up in the comedy categories, landing seven honors. [The Sunday winners.]( —🏆 Big night for the Oscars 🏆 Night one of the 2024 Creative Arts Emmys on Saturday, saw big wins for Jim Henson Idea Man, Saturday Night Live, Billy Joel: The 100th — Live at Madison Square Garden, Welcome to Wrexham and The 96th Oscars, which each took home multiple trophies. Jimmy Kimmel, who won as an EP for the Oscars, joked that the win does not change his mind about not wanting to host again this year. [The Saturday winners.]( —"It feels good. Really, really good." Angela Bassett is a first-time Emmy Award winner after taking home the award for best narrator at the Creative Arts Emmys on Saturday. The actress was nominated for her work on National Geographic's Queens. It is her first win from nine nominations. [The story.]( —The streak is over! Alan Cumming is the new reigning best reality or competition program host after winning the Emmy for the category at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, putting an end to RuPaul‘s eight-year streak as host of Drag Race. The win earned Cumming his first Emmy Award as host of Peacock’s The Traitors. [The story.]( —EGOT status achieved. Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are the latest artists to achieve EGOT status, winning the Emmy for best original music and lyrics for their Only Murders in the Building composition, alongside Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?.” The duo, who took home the trophy Sunday, during the second night of the Creative Arts Emmys. [The story.]( Venice Winner Brady Corbet Opens Up About Making of 'The Brutalist' ►"To completely disrupt everyone’s comfort is actually an important part of the cinematic experience." THR's Patrick Brzeski spoke at length to Brady Corbet about the seven-year journey to the big screen for his buzzy 3.5-hour historical epic The Brutalist. The filmmaker, who won the best director prize at the Venice Film Festival this weekend, discusses the weighty themes and the challenges of portraying architecture in his film that has the critics raving. [The interview.]( —🏆 A winner in any language 🏆 The 2024 Venice Film Festival awards ceremony took place on Saturday night. The Golden Lion award for best film went to Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, the Spanish auteur's first-ever English-language feature. As mentioned above, the best director prize went to Brady Corbet for The Brutalist. Elsewhere, the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize went to Vermiglio by Maura Delpero. Vincent Lindon won best actor for his performance in The Quiet Son, about a father and son separated by their political ideologies. The Special Jury Prize went to April, directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili. [The winners.]( —"The collision of life and art is heartbreaking, and my heart is broken." Nicole Kidman abruptly left the Venice Film Festival awards, due to the sudden death of her mother, Janelle Ann Kidman. The Oscar-winning actress took home the prize for best actress for Babygirl at the Italian festival, but was not in attendance to accept the award. Instead, her director, Halina Reijn, accepted the award on Kidman’s behalf. [The story.]( CMAs Nominations: Beyoncé Snubbed! ►Wait, what? The 2024 CMA Awards have showered Morgan Wallen and Post Malone with multiple nominations but snubbed Beyoncé. Wallen leads the way at the CMAs with seven nominations. He’s followed by Chris Stapleton and Cody Johnson, who each earned five nods, while Malone and Lainey Wilson picked up four apiece. Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter made history this year when it spent four weeks on top of Billboard’s Top country albums chart — making her the first Black woman to achieve the feat. She also became the first Black woman to hit the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Hot country songs chart with “Texas Hold ‘Em,” which held the top position for a whopping 10 weeks. [The story.]( —NFL pop out. Kendrick Lamar is set to headline the 2025 Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show. Roc Nation, NFL and Apple Music made the announcement on Sunday, and the big game will take place on Feb. 9, 2025, at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. It will air on Fox. Lamar previously performed at the hip-hop heavy 2022 halftime show starring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and 50 Cent. [The story.]( —ICYMI. Nathan Gary is stepping down as the president of Megan Ellison’s Annapurna, a post he has held since 2021. Gary will also be departing the company. The co-heads of Annapurna’s indie gaming division, Deborah Mars and Nathan Vella, are also departing. Hector Sanchez recently rejoined Annapurna from Epic Games and was named the company’s president of interactive and new media. (Sanchez helped launch Annapurna Interactive in 2016.) He will oversee the company’s indie gaming efforts as Annapurna is also looking to expand into AAA, or large-budget, games. [The story.]( Dimitri, Hollywood's Million-Dollar Maitre D’, Sails Off Into the Sunset (Tower) ►"Our regulars will be thrilled that he’s back." After six years of holding court at Jeff Klein’s tony San Vicente Bungalows, Dimitri Dimitrov is departing this week to become the major domo of Tower Bar, the star-packed Hollywood eatery at Klein’s Sunset Tower Hotel where the legendary 75-year-old maître d' first started working 20 years ago. THR's Benjamin Svetkey talks to Dimitri about going home. [The interview.]( 'Beetlejuice 2' Scares Up Near-Record $110M Domestic Opening ►Still go the juice. Tim Burton’s long-awaited sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is off to a rip-roaring start at the domestic box office as if no time had passed between now and when the first film graced the big screen 36 years ago. From Warner Bros., the first event pic of the fall season opened to a monstrous $110m, coming in on the high end of expectations. Whether it can successfully revive the franchise will depend on its staying power. THR's [Pamela McClintock]( writes that there’s also the question of overseas, where the original film didn’t play in theaters so doesn’t have the same nostalgic factor (it has developed some markets including the U.K and Australia). Beetlejuice Beetlejuice‘s foreign launch of $35m from 69 markets is notably behind its domestic showing, but the hope now is that it picks up momentum after placing No. 1 in numerous territories, and also has yet to open in such major markets as France, Germany and Japan. [The box office report.]( Studios to Avoid Releasing Movies Around Election Day ►"It’s going to be a s***show." The studios have voted — and the decision is unanimous. For the first time anyone can remember, the box office marquee notably will be devoid of new all-audience releases the weekend following the 2024 presidential election. The first and second weekends of November have become fertile ground in terms of launching a movie before the year-end holiday glut begins. But the noise from this year’s Kamala Harris-Donald Trump race is expected to be so loud that distributors are staying on the sidelines when it comes to tentpoles. [The story.]( —🤝 Huge get 🤝 A24 has won the bidding war to acquire U.S. rights to Brady Corbet's buzzy feature, The Brutalist. The indie studio announced the deal, brokered with CAA Media Finance, on Sunday, ahead of the film’s North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 10. The epic drama, starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, and Guy Pearce, was the toast of the Venice Film Festival, and screens in Toronto this week. [The story.]( —🎭 In-demand 🎭 Eve Hewson is in early talks to star in Steven Spielberg's untitled event film. The Irish actress most recently starred opposite Nicole Kidman and Dakota Fanning in Netflix’s limited series, The Perfect Couple. Her other credits include Bad Sisters, Flora and Son, The Knick, Enough Said and This Must Be The Place. Spielberg’s film would also be a reunion for Hewson and the Oscar-winning filmmaker after they first worked together on his Bridge of Spies. [The story.]( —🎭 Topical 🎭 24 actor Anthony Azizi is set to star in Cast Aside the Clouds, an Iran-set romance thriller to shoot in Athens, Greece. The indie from director Mary Darling and WestWind Pictures will see Azizi play Farhad Khosrovi, a Tehran bookstore owner whose daughter Utab (Parmiss Sehat) attends a secret university aligned with the Iranian Bahá’í spiritualist faith. [The story.]( 'Tonight Show' to Drop Friday Show ►Cutting back. NBC says that beginning with the new fall season, The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon will only run four new episodes per week on Mondays through Thursdays, and will run a repeat on Friday evenings. While the show had taken a hiatus on Fridays over this past summer, in previous seasons it aired new episodes five days per week. ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! has only aired new episodes four days per week for years, as has CBS’ Late Show with Stephen Colbert. NBC's Late Night Seth Meyers, and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show are also on a four-day schedule. [The story.]( —🎭 Reunited 🎭 Todd Stashwick has joined Paul Bettany and James Spader in Marvel Studios’ untitled Vision series, the follow-up series to its Emmy-winning WandaVision. The Star Trek: Picard actor is reuniting with Terry Matalas, the much-heralded showrunner Picard, who is spearheading the new show that has sometimes been referred to as Vision Quest, although that is not its official title. The story. [The story.]( —🎭 Dream team 🎭 Hulu has greenlit an untitled limited series based on the Murdaugh murders case. Emmy winner Patricia Arquette is set to star in the project as Maggie Murdaugh The series comes from co-creators Michael D. Fuller and Erin Lee Carr and executive producer Nick Antosca. The project is a reunion for Arquette and Antosca, who worked together on Hulu’s The Act — for which Arquette won an Emmy for best supporting actress in a limited series or movie. [The story.]( —"It will also be the last season, bringing to a fitting close a 10 season run with this character." Harry Bosch is about to work his last case at Amazon. Author Michael Connelly, creator of the character and an executive producer of Bosch: Legacy, announced on Instagram Friday that the series will end with its forthcoming third season. That season is slated to premiere in March 2025. Bosch: Legacy premiered on Amazon’s free streaming service, Freevee (then known as IMDb TV), in May 2022 (it also streams on Prime Video). The show is a follow-up/extension of Bosch, which ran for seven seasons on Prime Video. [The story.]( Film Review: 'Nightbitch' ►"More bark than bite." THR's chief film critic [David Rooney]( reviews Marielle Heller's Nightbitch. Amy Adams, and Scoot McNairy star in Heller’s adaptation of the Rachel Yoder novel about a stay-at-home mom transformed by resentment toward the trap of domesticity. [The review.]( —"Slender but tender." David reviews Gia Coppola's The Last Showgirl. Pamela Anderson, Jamie Lee Curtis and Kiernan Shipka star in this peek behind the sequins, feathers and neon at the lives of Las Vegas women once their dreams dissolve. [The review.]( —"Exerts a hold." David reviews William Goldenberg's Unstoppable. Jharrel Jerome and Jennifer Lopez lead, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Peña and Don Cheadle also star in the directing debut of veteran editor Goldenberg, based on the underdog story of wrestling champion Anthony Robles. [The review.]( —"A sweeping heartbreaker that feels both classic and fresh." For THR, Jourdain Searles reviews Daniel Minahan's On Swift Horses. Jacob Elordi and Daisy Edgar-Jones co-star with Will Poulter, Diego Calva and Sasha Calle in this 1950s-set romantic drama about secret yearnings and societal pressures. [The review.]( —"It's basic, all right." THR's [Angie Han]( reviews Fox's Universal Basic Guys. The animated comedy follows two South Jersey brothers through a series of wacky adventures funded by an income pilot program they were enrolled in after losing their factory jobs. [The review.]( Film Review: 'Hard Truths' ►"Solid, mid-tier Leigh boosted by a bravura performance." THR's [Jon Frosch]( reviews Mike Leigh's Hard Truths. Oscar-nominee Marianne Jean-Baptiste reunites with her Secrets & Lies director, playing a woman whose anger issues alienate her from her family. [The review.]( —"A modern day profile in courage." THR's Frank Scheck reviews Steve Pink's The Last Republican. The documentary chronicles the former Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger's valiant efforts to defy his own party and preserve democracy. [The review.]( —"Beautifully performed, thoughtfully executed." For THR, Michael Rechtshaffen reviews John Crowley's We Live in Time. The two-hander starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield, about a contemporary British couple facing a devastating medical diagnosis, is the latest from the Brooklyn director. [The review.]( —"Hauntingly benign." Michael reviews Mike Flanagan's The Life of Chuck. In this adaptation of a Stephen King novella, Tom Hiddleston, Mark Hamill, Karen Gillan and Chiwetel Ejiofor star in the genre-tripping film about embracing hope in the face of tragedy. [The review.]( Film Review: 'Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter Two' ►"Git along now, little horsey." THR's Leslie Felperin reviews Kevin Costner's Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 2. Costner, Sienna Miller, Giovanni Ribisi and Luke Wilson star in the sweeping adventure, intended as part of an epic four-film series about the settlement of the American frontier. [The review.]( —"Well worth looking out for." Leslie reviews Yeo Siew Hua's Venice competition entry Stranger Eyes. The latest from the Singaporean director behind A Land Imagined centers on a couple whose secrets are exposed after their young daughter goes missing. [The review.]( —"What the world needs now." Leslie reviews Dag Johan Haugerud's Venice competition entry Love. The Norwegian film, about two colleagues with very different approaches to sex and romance, is the second in a planned thematic trilogy from writer-director Haugerud. [The review.]( —"Two terrific actors, but a taxing sit." THR's Jordan Mintzer reviews Christopher Andrews' Bring Them Down. Christopher Abbott and Barry Keoghan star in Andrews' debut feature about a violent turf war between two Irish families of sheep herders. [The review.]( —"Attempts to capture the unspeakable." Jordan reviews Dani Rosenberg's Of Dogs and Men. The Vanishing Soldier filmmaker shot his latest feature at the Nir Oz kibbutz just weeks after the Oct. 7 attacks that ignited the current Israel-Hamas war. [The review.]( Film Review: 'The Wild Robot' ►"A delightful story of survival and community." THR's [Lovia Gyarkye]( reviews Chris Sanders' The Wild Robot. Lupita Nyong’o and Pedro Pascal lend their voices to a story, based on Peter Brown's best-selling books, about a robot who must raise an abandoned gosling with the help of other animals on a secluded island. [The review.]( —"Plays it safe." Lovia reviews Angelina Jolie's Without Blood. Adapted from a novella by Alessandro Baricco, the director's latest feature focuses on two strangers revisiting their memories of an unnamed war over a long evening, starring Salma Hayek Pinault and Demián Bichir. [The review.]( —"An engrossing drama that fumbles the third act." Lovia reviews Fleur Fortuné's The Assessment. Elizabeth Olsen, Alicia Vikander and Himesh Patel star in this drama that takes place in a government-controlled future where a couple undergoes a strenuous examination to determine if they are allowed to have kids. [The review.]( —"Moving performances anchor smartly interconnected stories." Lovia reviews Scandar Copti's Happy Holidays. In this cleverly constructed Palestinian drama, the latest feature by the Oscar-nominated filmmaker, we observe four characters whose fates are linked through a series of surprising events. [The review.]( In other news... —[Frank Griffin]( Steve Martin’s makeup man on Roxanne and much more, dies at 95 —[Paul Harrell]( YouTube gun safety advocate, announces his own death in video message —[Sérgio Mendes]( Brazilian bossa nova giant and bandleader, dies at 83 —[Screamin’ Scott Simon]( longtime Sha Na Na performer, dies at 75 ​​​What else we're reading... —Justin Sayles believes the news that Kendrick Lamar will perform at the Super Bowl LIX halftime show is the final nail in Drake’s coffin [[Ringer]( —David Canfield snags a rare interview with South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone who discuss Trump, Casa Bonita and more [[Vanity Fair]( —Austin Carr and Max Chafkin have an interesting piece charting Apple's rise to becoming the biggest company in the world, and whether it can stay on top [[Bloomberg]( —Self-confessed Swiftie B.D. McClay questions the real value of a Taylor Swift endorsement this election cycle [[NYT]( —Mark Cuban has emerged a strong pro-Kamala Harris voice on social media, Joseph Zeballos-Roig looks into what the popular billionaire might be after [[Semafor]( Today... ...in 2011, Warner Bros. Pictures released Steven Soderbergh's Contagion in theaters. The prescient pandemic disaster film featured an all-star cast, including Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Elliott Gould, Jude Law, Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet, Bryan Cranston, Jennifer Ehle, Sanaa Lathan, and Gwyneth Paltrow, and was a critical and commercial success. [The original review.]( Today's birthdays: Michelle Williams (44), Adam Sandler (58), Hugh Grant (64), Kelsey Asbille (33), Chloe Van Landschoot (27), Julie Gonzalo (43), Henry Thomas (53), Goran Visnjic (52), Jeffrey Combs (70), Zoe Kazan (41), Akshay Kumar (57), Eric Stonestreet (53), Amy Manson (39), Nikki Deloach (45), Julia Sawalha (56), Bonnie Aarons (64), Michelle Johnson (59), Charles Esten (59), Oliver Dench (31), Adam James (52), Constance Marie (59), Shaun Johnston (66), Tom Wopat (73), Charles Vandervaart (24), David Bennent (58), Stephen Bogaert (57), Emma de Caunes (48), Timothy Granaderos (38), Kevin Grevioux (62), Gretchen Egolf (51), Yang Yang (33), Jamie Beamish (48), Jung Il-woo (37), [Nathan Lee Graham]( (56), Haley Reinhart (34), Lúcia Moniz (48) Will Jennings, the Grammy- and Oscar-winning co-writer behind such hits as "My Heart Will Go On," "Up Where We Belong," and "Tears in Heaven," has died. He was 80. 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