Month: March 2023

Netflix shared the trailer for the dark comedy series “Beef,” starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong and set to debut on April 6. The show is comprised of 10, half-hour episodes.

The series follows the aftermath after two strangers get into a road rage incident and cause a big reaction. Failing contractor Danny Cho (Yeun) butts heads with picture-perfect entrepreneur Amy Lau (Wong) following the entanglement. As their feud continues, it begins to impact their own lives and relationships.

Along with Yeun and Wong, Beef features Joseph Lee, Young Mazino, David Choe, Patti Yasutake, Maria Bello, Ashley Park, Justin H. Min, Mia Serafino, Remy Holt, Andrew Santino and Rek Lee. Lee Sung Jin is the creator and executive producer of “Beef,” along with Yeun, Wong and Jake Schreier.  The series comes from A24.

Watch the trailer for “Beef” – here.

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Drew Barrymore is set to host the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards, which honors the best in movies and television. MTV shared the news on Twitter, writing:“INTRO-DREW-ING OUR 2023 #MTVAWARDS HOST  @DrewBarrymore  Mark your calendar and get ready for the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards – LIVE on Sunday, May 7th on @MTV!” 

The 48-year-old Barrymore shared the news during an episode of her talk show, The Drew Barrymore Show. In a promo, Barrymore introduced a “special correspondent,” which was herself dressed up as the doll from the movie ‘M3gan’: “I am so honored to have been chosen, especially this year, when the show is all about the fans. It is going to be an epic night — big moments, huge movie stars.”  The actress is a nine-time MTV Movie & TV Awards nominee, and a three-time winner.

The annual awards ceremony will air live from the Barker Hanger in Los Angeles on Sunday, May 7 at 8 PM ET/PT. The ceremony also will air live internationally in more than 150 countries. More details about the show, including nominees and presenters, will be announced in the coming weeks.

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Actress Mindy Kaling and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, singers Gladys Knight and Bruce Springsteen, and designer Vera Wang were among those honored at the White House for the 2021 National Humanities Medals and the National Medal of Arts ceremony.  The ceremony marks the first time President Joe Biden has presented awards at the White House since taking office. According to the White House, the awards ceremony was among a backlog of official events postponed during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The National Medal of the Arts is the highest American award given to artists, art patrons and groups that have advanced arts in the United States. Biden honored 12 artists and groups, with other recipients including “Feliz Navidad” songwriter and singer Jose Feliciano, philanthropist Fred Eychaner, and cultural grant maker Joan Shigekawa, as well as artists Judith Francisca Baca and Antonio Martorell-Cardona. The Billie Holiday Theatre and the International Association of Blacks in Dance received the medal as institutions.

Biden also awarded the National Humanities Medal to 11 recipients, with the list of recipients including a number of acclaimed writers such as Amy Tan (author of “The Joy Luck Club”), Richard Blanco, who delivered a poem at Barack Obama’s second presidential inauguration, memoirist Tara Westover, novelist Colson Whitehead, and Ann Patchett, a finalist in the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Author Walter Isaacson, who served as the chair and CEO of CNN from 2001-2003, received the medal as well, along with Johnnetta Betsch Cole, the first female African American president of Spelman College, historian Earl Lewis, Native American academic Henrietta Mann and Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson. The call-in public radio program Native America Calling also received the award.

Biden said during the ceremony in the East Room: “We’re a nation, a great nation, in large part because of the power of the arts and humanities. That’s stamped into the DNA of America. Today … (we) continue the legacy of awarding two of our nation’s highest honors to 23 extraordinary Americans.”

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Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel will star in ‘Mother Mary’, an “epic pop melodrama” from director David Lowery for A24 — the studio behind the Oscar-winning ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once.’

Lowery wrote the script for Mother Mary, which the studio describes as an “epic pop melodrama following a fictional musician (Hathaway) and her relationship with an iconic fashion designer (Coel).”

In addition, Charli XCX and Bleachers frontman (and frequent Taylor Swift collaborator) Jack Antonoff will write and produce original songs for the project. The original score will be composed by Daniel Hart.

Mother Mary marks Lowery’s third project for A24, after 2021’s ‘The Green Knight’ and 2017’s ‘A Ghost Story.’  His next project is ‘Peter Pan & Wendy’ starring Jude Law, Alan Tudyk, Molly Parker and Yara Shahidi, debuting on Disney+ April 28.

Michaela Coel And Anne Hathaway To Star In Pop Music Epic ‘Mother Mary’ For David Lowery And A24

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James Gunn confirmed he will be writing and directing the upcoming Superman: Legacy film, with Deadline reporting that Gunn — the new head honcho of Warner Bros. DC Studios division — will be helming one of the most important projects for the rebooted DC Universe.

Kicking-off his “Chapter One, Gods and Monsters” of the DC Universe, Gunn and co-chairman & CEO Peter Safran are looking to add younger actors who can carry the DC franchise for the next decade and beyond. Gone from the DC Universe under Gunn’s leadership are Henry Cavill (Superman), Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman), Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (Black Adam) and Jason Momoa (Aquaman).

Gunn announced last fall he was writing a new Superman movie, and that Henry Cavill would not be returning as the Man of Steel as the project deals with the character’s early days. Superman: Legacy will tell the story of Superman’s journey to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as Clark Kent of Smallville, Kansas, and Gunn has noted that his Superman will be younger than his 40s.

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