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'Wicked' was among the big winners at the Costume Designers Guild Awards.The movie-musical - starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo - took the prize for Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film during the glitzy ceremony held at The Ebell of Los Angeles venue on Thursday night (07.02.25) while fellow Oscar contenders 'Conclave' and 'Nosferatu' also landed prizes. 'Conclave' took the trophy for Excellence in Contemporary Film while 'Nosferatu' was honoured with Excellence in Period Film.All three movies will compete in the Costume Design category at the upcoming Academy Awards alongside 'A Complete Unknown' and 'Gladiator II'.Other winners at the Costume Designers Guild Awards included 'Shogun' (Excellence in Costume Illustration and Excellence in Period Television), 'The Masked Singer', 'Dune: Prophecy' (Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Television), 'Hacks' (Excellence in Contemporary Television).The event...

Will Jennings, the two-time Oscar and Grammy-winning co-writer of the beloved Titanic theme, Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On,” has died at 80 in his Texan home, according to multiple reports. Though a cause of death was not identified, those close to the composer said he had been in declining health for a number of years.

The prolific lyricist was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for the tunes “People Alone” from The Competition (1980) and “Up Where We Belong” from An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), the latter of which he won. In 2006, Jennings was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

In addition to his two Oscars, Jennings won three Grammys: “My Heart Will Go On” and “Tears in Heaven” (Song of the Year), from 1992’s Jennifer Jason Leigh-starring cop drama Rush,...

Will Jennings, the lyricist behind hits including “My Heart Will Go On” and “Up Where We Belong,” died Friday in his home in Texas, according to media reports. He was 80 years old.

Jennings was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006, 10 years after he penned the “Titanic” love theme performed by Céline Dion.

The lyricist won his first Oscar in 1983 for “Up Where We Belong” from “An Officer and a Gentleman,” which he co-wrote with Jack Nitzsche and Buffy Sainte-Marie. He received his first nomination in 1981 for “People Alone” from “The Competition.” Jennings ultimately won two Oscars, three Grammys and two Golden Globes.

He enjoyed a prolific career in pop music in which he authored hit songs outside the film world including “Tears in Heaven” by Eric Clapton, “Higher Love” and “Roll With It” by Steve Winwood, “Didn’t We Almost Have It All” by Whitney Houston and “Looks...

James B. Sikking, the Steven Bochco favorite who portrayed the no-nonsense Lt. Howard Hunter on Hill Street Blues and the good-hearted doctor dad on Doogie Howser, M.D., has died. He was 90.

Sikking died Saturday at his Los Angeles home of complications from dementia, publicist Cynthia Snyder announced.

Although best known for his TV work, Sikking did have notable turns on the big screen as a mocking hitman in John Boorman’s Point Blank (1967), as the stuffy Captain Styles in Leonard Nimoy‘s Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) and as the director of the FBI in Alan J. Pakula’s The Pelican Brief (1993).

After spending the better part of two decades showing up on such shows as The Outer Limits, Honey West, The Fugitive, Hogan’s Heroes and Mannix, Sikking was cast as the pipe-smoking Hunter, leader of the Swat-like Emergency Action Team, on NBC’s Hill Street Blues.

Today, Wondery and Audacy’s Pineapple Street Studios, a division of leading premium podcast network Audacy Podcasts, announce Hysterical, a seven-part investigative series hosted by Dan Taberski that explores a mysterious illness contracted by a group of upstate New York high school students in 2011. Taberski, the podcast heavyweight behind several award-winning and genre-defining series, attempts to uncover what really happened in this fascinating case, and in the process, discovers similarities to other more recent mysterious events. Hysterical debuts on Wondery+, and is available for Prime members on Amazon Music and Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers on July 8. Hysterical will be available everywhere you get your podcasts starting July 22.

Hysterical forces listeners to grapple with the mysteries of their own minds and to reckon with a contagion thought to be long dead, but which may be the defining disorder of our time. It forces us to question our preconceived notions about sickness and health,...

In a time when any comment can be taken as being offensive, every public figure has to be careful. Whether you agree with that or not, the situation is like that, and one has to be careful what comes out of their mouth. In light of that, there is a profound confusion when public figures come out and openly do something stupid. And we’re not referring to situations that can be misinterpreted, that can go either way, but about situations when a public figure openly says stupid things and offensive things. How can this happen? Having an opinion is one thing, but being blatantly offensive towards others and slandering them based on their race, gender, religion… why? How?

Well, we’ve recently reported about Michael Richards’ old outburst, and we are now “honored” to report on another, more recent incident that happened in Massachusetts. The incident involves famous actor Richard Dreyfuss,...

Noted American actor Richard Dreyfuss has been on the receiving end of stark criticism after his appearance at a special screening event of Jaws at The Cabot theater in Beverly, Massachusetts. The 76-year-old was the special guest at an “An Evening With Richard Dreyfuss + Jaws Screening” which was held over Memorial Day.

However, hundreds of attendees allegedly walked out of the Q&a session following multiple homophobic, transphobic, and racist comments allegedly made at the event by Dreyfuss. According to social media responses, Dreyfuss allegedly spoke offensively about Barbara Streisand, and criticized the Academy’s rules on inclusivity, before going on a rant against transphobic people ‘affirming their gender.’

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The actor, who was last seen in Sweetwater, has continued to work in recent years but might get in further trouble considering the kind of responses from fans.

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Gloria Stroock, who played Rock Hudson’s secretary on McMillan & Wife and appeared in films including Fun With Dick and Jane, The Competition and The Day of the Locust, has died. She was 99.

Stroock died May 5 of natural causes in Tucson, Arizona, her daughter, Kate Stern, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Stroock was married to Emmy-winning writer-producer Leonard B. Stern (Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, The Phil Silvers Show, The Honeymooners, Get Smart and much more) from 1956 until his death in 2011 at age 87.

Her late younger sister was Geraldine Brooks, a Tony nominee and Warner Bros. contract player (Cry Wolf, Embraceable You).

Stroock recurred as Maggie, the secretary of Hudson’s San Francisco police commissioner Stewart McMillan, on the final three seasons (1974-77) of McMillan & Wife, the NBC series created by her husband.

She portrayed the wife of Richard Dysart’s art director in John Schlesinger’s The Day of the Locust...

Exclusive: Shima Oliaee, the co-creator of hit podcasts including Dolly Parton’s America and Pink Card, is exploring the complicated nature of girlhood in America for her next audio series.

Oliaee has teamed up with Audacy’s Pineapple Street Studios and Wondery for The Competition.

The series explores the Distinguished Young Women program.

Every summer for the past seven decades, 50 high school seniors—one from every state—descend on Mobile, Alabama to take part in one of the country’s most lucrative scholarship competitions for teen girls.

The series follows seven girls as they experience the highs and lows of competing for two weeks, away from home and under the most high-stress circumstances. Some girls enter for the money, some for prestige. All of them are used to being the best and the brightest, but only one will walk away with the top prize. The series asks, what can two...

James Kim, renowned podcast creator of the critical darling Moonface, in collaboration with iHeartPodcasts, the No. 1 podcast publisher globally according to Podtrac, is back to capture the hearts of listeners once again with the latest show You Feeling This?, a mixtape of deeply human stories about love, longing, and connection that shape the lives of Angelenos.

“You Feeling This?”, which premiered at Tribeca Audio Festival on June 15, showcases ten intimate stories from a diverse group of Los Angeles-based creators. From Long Beach to the Hollywood Hills, each episode was recorded on location in the lively streets, homes and landmarks of the city. This naturalistic style of audio recording and storytelling builds upon Kim’s podcast “Vermont Avenue” which was the inaugural winner of the "Best Fiction Podcast" award at the Tribeca Festival in 2021.

Drawing inspiration from the challenges and shared experiences of the city's residents, “You Feeling This?” celebrates the resilience,...

In a brutal post-apocalyptic world, a family fights to survive against ruthless bandits in Geoff Resiner's new movie Fear, and ahead of the thriller's June 15th release on DVD and Premium Tvod via New Era Entertainment, we've been provided with the exclusive trailer to share with Daily Dead readers!

New Era Entertainment have slated their first release for thriller Fear across the USA and Canada on June, 15th 2021.

The film will receive a full home entertainment release, with a day-and-date physical DVD and Premium Tvod, followed by a full digital release.

Fear is an action thriller, set in the desolate regions of Pacific Northwest where a young family faces a group of bandits who steal the last of their supplies; with time running out, they must form an alliance with the outlaws to protect their children.

Starring Marci Miller Jason Tobias,Justin Dray, Danny Druiz (Mighty Oak), Cece Kelly,

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The 70th Berlin International Film Festival has unveiled the six film professionals — three men and three women — who will join jury president Jeremy Irons in picking this year's Gold and Silver Bear winners.

Oscar-nominated French actress Bérénice Bejo (The Artist) and Oscar-winning screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea) will judge the competition lineup, alongside Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho (Bacurau, Aquarius) and Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir (Wajib, Salt of This Sea). Italian actor Luca Marinelli (Don't Be Bad, The Great Beauty) and German producer Bettina Brokemper, whose credits include Lars von Trier's Antichrist and The ...

The broadcast networks have nearly 20 shows debuting this fall, including new sitcoms from Kevin James and Matt LeBlanc, Kiefer Sutherland as Potus and Michael Weatherly’s NCIS follow-up. To help you prep for it all, TVLine is offering First Impressions of the not-for-review pilots.

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