What's streaming now: Dolly Parton rocks out, Godzilla stomps, 'The Crown' returns, 'Rustin' marches
This weekโs new entertainment releases include an album of rock songs by Dolly Parton, the first half of the final season of โThe Crownโ returns to Netflix and three dudes from โSaturday Night Liveโ get their first feature-film shot.
George C. Wolfe, Anne Carson win PEN achievement awards
FILE - Playwright George C. Wolfe attends a special screening of "Fences", in New York on Dec. 19, 2016. Wolfe and the Canadian poet-translator Anne Carson are among this years winners of PEN America awards for career achievement. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)NEW YORK โ Tony Award-winner George C. Wolfe and Canadian poet-translator Anne Carson are among this year's winners of PEN America awards for career achievement. AdโAmong this yearโs winners are revolutionaries, icons, and trailblazers,โ PEN Americaโs Jane Marchant, director of the Literary Awards program, said in a statement. โBy poetry, translation, screenwriting, dramaturgy, performance writing, and the art of editing, these honorees transform the arc of the literary canon and infuse it with striking originality.โThe winners will formally receive their awards during an April 8 ceremony.
With โMankโ and โThe Crown,โ Netflix dominates Globes noms
In this image released by Netflix, Gary Oldman portrays Herman Mankiewicz in a scene from "Mank." On Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021 the film was nominated for a Golden Globe for best motion picture drama. โMank,โ about โCitizen Kaneโ co-writer Herman Mankiewicz, landed nominations for best film, drama; best actor for Gary Oldman; best director for Fincher, best supporting actress for Amanda Seyfried; best score; and best screenplay for Jack Fincher, the directorโs father who penned the script before dying in 2003. Netflix, which topped all studios at the Globes last year, too, led with a commanding 42 nominations, with 22 coming in film categories and 20 in television. AdThe Globes are typically the first major show of Hollywoodโs awards season, which ends with the crowning of the best picture winner at the Oscars.
Golden Globes nominations Wednesday could belong to Netflix
Nominations for the 78th annual Golden Globes will be announced on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2021. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)NEW YORK โ Whether anyone will be attending the Golden Globes in person remains uncertain and improbable. On Tuesday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association said the Globes โ typically a bubbly dinner gathering with flowing drinks โ will be held bi-coastally for the first time. digital channels and the Golden Globes' website. Last year's Golden Globes culminated in awards for โ1917โ and โOnce Upon a Time ... in Hollywood."
'Never Rarely' tops Spirit Awards, 'Da 5 Bloods' leads NBRs
The film was nominated for seven Independent Film Spirit Awards including one for best feature. The 36th annual Spirit Awards, like most awards shows during the pandemic, are adjusting to the difficult circumstances. Eliza Hittman's โNever Rarely Sometimes Always,โ a Pennsylvania's teen's odyssey in getting an abortion, racked up nominations for best feature film, best director and best female lead for Sidney Flanigan. Chloe Zhoe's โNomadland,โ starring Frances McDormand, scored five nods, including best feature, best director and best female lead for McDormand. None of the nominees for best feature film were directed by a white male.
In 'Ma Rainey,' channeling the blues of August Wilson
Following โFencesโ and โMa Rainey,โ he intends to continue adapting Wilsonโs famed American Century Cycle, a 10-play series spanning each decade of the 20th century. All of Wilson's plays hum with the sorrowful beauty of the blues but โMa Rainey" is soaked through. On a sweaty, summer day, a band has gathered at a white-owned recording studio to cut a new record with Ma Rainey (Davis), the pioneering โMother of the Blues,โ and an unapologetically liberated woman from the South. Itโs Cutler and Slow Drag and Ma Rainey talking," says Wolfe. For Davis, Ma isn't a character she wants to let go of, or stop admiring.
New this week: 'Ma Raineyโs Black Bottom' and Paul McCartney
MOVIESโ โMa Raineyโs Black Bottomโ was always going to be an event picture, even on Netflix, where it will be available Friday. Wilsonโs 1982 play is set around a recording session in 1920s Chicago as a blues band awaits the arrival of Ma Rainey (Davis). โ AP Film Writer Lindsey BahrMUSICโ Paul McCartney will release the final album in a trilogy of classics on Friday. โMcCartney IIIโ comes 40 years after 1980โs โMcCartney IIโ and 50 years after โMcCartney,โ his solo debut released in 1970. โ Director George C. Wolfe said that when he signed on to direct โMa Raineyโs Black Bottom,โ he instantly knew he wanted to work with Branford Marsalis.
With red carpets rolled up, the Oscar race goes virtual
Hollywoods awards season has gone virtual. For Awards Daily founder Sasha Stone, who has been covering the Oscars since 2000, itโs like nothing sheโs ever seen โ an awards season without glamour, without red carpets, without anything that feels real. And awards season, such as it is, has gone virtual. The Oscar race will Zoomed. Not everyone is sorry that awards season โ an increasingly bloated, overlong, high-priced slog from September to February โ has been turned upside down.
Netflix previews 'Ma Rainey' and Boseman's final performance
This image released by Netflix shows Michael Potts, from left, Chadwick Boseman and Colman Domingo in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." Netflix on Monday previewed George C. Wolfes August Wilson adaptation Ma Raineys Black Bottom, showcasing Chadwick Bosemans final performance opposite Viola Davis powerhouse blues singer. (David Lee/Netflix via AP)
Netflix previews 'Ma Rainey' and Boseman's final performance
This image released by Netflix shows Michael Potts, from left, Chadwick Boseman and Colman Domingo in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." Netflix on Monday previewed George C. Wolfes August Wilson adaptation Ma Raineys Black Bottom, showcasing Chadwick Bosemans final performance opposite Viola Davis powerhouse blues singer. (David Lee/Netflix via AP)NEW YORK โ Netflix on Monday previewed George C. Wolfe's August Wilson adaptation โMa Rainey's Black Bottom,โ showcasing Chadwick Boseman's final performance opposite Viola Davis' powerhouse blues singer. Boseman plays Levee, an ambitious trumpeter aiming to launch himself with his own updated versions of Ma Rainey's songs. โMa Raineyโs Black Bottomโ was the first play Wilson wrote in 1984, and the only one of this 10-part Century Cycle not set in Pittsburgh.