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Judith Parker Harris, the president and CEO of Worldwide Entertainment Corp., the home of the 1958 sci-fi classic The Blob that featured Steve McQueen in his big-screen debut, has died. She was 74.

Parker Harris died March 31 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after a long battle with multiple sclerosis, a publicist announced.

The Blob, directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. at Paramount, revolved around an oozing, amoeba-like alien that crashes on Earth in a meteorite, then grows as it sucks up people and menaces a small town in Pennsylvania.

The movie, made for just $110,000 and produced by Parker Harris’ future husband, Jack H. Harris, went on to gross more than $3 million.

The Blob spawned a 1972 sequel — directed by Larry Hagman — and, a year after she wed Harris, a big-budget 1988 reboot that was helmed by Chuck Russell and released by TriStar Pictures. There’s another Blob film in the works, to...

Michael B. Jordan popped up at CinemaCon to offer hints at his new version of The Thomas Crown Affair.

The star appeared in a video segment at Amazon MGM Studios’ presentation Wednesday, where he told the crowd that he wished he could attend the Las Vegas event but was busy working on the film in London. Jordan directs and stars opposite Taylor Russell in the heist feature.

“This isn’t just another remake,” Jordan said. He also added, “It’s a kind of movie that demands the big screen.”

Amazon MGM exec Kevin Wilson, who was on the stage, shared that the movie “promises to surprise audiences with a few modern twists.”

The Thomas Crown Affair originated with director Norman Jewison’s 1968 film starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in the story of an insurance investigator working to track down the perpetrator of a bank heist. It landed two Oscar nominations.

Shortly after a starring turn in Arthur Hiller’s 1970 classic Love Story opposite Ryan O’Neal made her a Hollywood phenomenon, Ali MacGraw found her place in Malibu. She mostly loved a small home, something close to the water with its fresh ocean air with easy access to Pacific Coast Highway. MacGraw shared a stunning home on the sand during much of the mid-to-late 1970s while married to screen icon Steve McQueen. But even after they split, MacGraw stayed on the coast and never planned on leaving. That changed when a catastrophic fire ripped through Malibu in 1993, destroying her modest rental in the Rambla Pacifico neighborhood, taking with it all of her belongings, save for two dogs and a cat rescued by a friend of her only son, Josh Evans, from a marriage to producing legend Robert Evans. It proved to be a life-altering disaster that ultimately led her to a forever home in Santa Fe,...

In its eight seasons, The Vampire Diaries managed to make audiences feel butterflies, grief, pain, joy, and even fear. Damon, Stefan, Elena, Bonnie, Caroline, and Matt were compelling characters who kept fans hooked with their personalities, and they had intriguing adventures with the best and worst of the supernatural in Mystic Falls. However, they also exhibited unintentional hilarity sometimes, which kept the show fresh.

These moments were not meant to be funny most times, but the way the actors delivered them happened to tickle people's funny bones. Otherwise, the writing of a particular scene was so odd and out of character that fans were reduced to tears of laughter. Most times, these unintentionally amusing moments in Tvd endeared the audience to the characters and created memorable occasions.

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Jeremy Gilbert was often the butt of the joke in The Vampire...

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One star Tom Cruise reveals that his showstopping motorcycle cliff jump stunt very nearly ended in disaster. The seventh film in the long-running Mission: Impossible franchise sees director Christopher McQuarrie once again at the helm with Cruise returning as superspy Ethan Hunt to face off against a new enemy. The movie continues Cruise's penchant for dangerous stunts, with one standout sequence involving the star driving a motorcycle off a cliff before then deploying a parachute and gliding to safety.

Ahead of the Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One release date next month, Cruise tells Et Canada at the film's Rome premiere that prepping for his motorcycle stunt almost went very wrong. During an initial parachute jump in the location to get a feel for the wind, the star describes how a miscalculation almost resulted in parachuting into the cliff face. Check out Cruise's recollection of...

Tom Cruise famously does all of his own stunts, but one of them very nearly ended in disaster on the set of “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One”.

Et Canada’s Sangita Patel chatted to Cruise at the movie’s premiere in Rome, where she brought up engineering and the planning behind the death-defying stunt that saw Cruise ride his motorcycle off a cliff before jumping off and pulling a parachute to land safely.

Read More: Tom Cruise Pulls Off ‘The Biggest Stunt In Cinema History’ In New ‘Mission: Impossible’ Behind-The-Scenes Promo

Cruise shared when asked what’s going through his mind at that moment and how he keeps himself calm and focused, “It’s funny that you mentioned engineering, because there’s as you know, there’s a lot of engineering in there to figure out that ramp, where the bowl is, the speed, you know, we’re testing wind conditions early on,...

“They don’t make the Gladiator/Braveheart-type movies anymore” is the kind of complaint you’ll hear when talking about the state of popular cinema, specifically in regard to the growing disconnect between audiences and Academy voters. True: those rousing Hollywood epics are a sign of a distant past. But Apple Studios, with its seemingly infinite cash flow, has heard these cries. And nearly a decade after Steven McQueen’s harsh yet Oscar-triumphant 12 Years a Slave earned critical laurels as the definitive film on the subject of America’s greatest shame, they’re here to show there’s a new, seemingly gritty but also populist way to approach the matter.

Yet Emancipation is above and beyond a work of streaming-service hubris, in which 100 million-plus is put into turning the story of “Whipped Peter,” the most famous photograph to come out of American slavery, into the new historical epic.

Sarah Polley will receive the Director of the Year Award for “Women Talking” at the Palm Springs International Film Awards, which will take place in-person on Jan. 5 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The Palm Springs Film Festival runs through Jan. 16.

“Sarah Polley continues her outstanding work as a writer and director in her latest film ‘Women Talking.’ She brings together a stellar cast in her adaptation of the Miriam Toews book, taking us on a cinematic journey filled with raw emotions and performances,” said Festival Chairman Harold Matzner.

Past recipients of the Director of the Year Award include Jane Campion (“The Power of the Dog”), Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Steve Mc Queen (“12 Years a Slave”), Alexander Payne (“Sideways”), Jason Reitman (“Up in the Air'”), David O. Russell (“The Fighter”), Quentin Tarantino (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”) and Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”) who all went on to receive Best Director Academy Award nominations.

Steven Spielberg has found his Bullitt. Bradley Cooper has been cast in the director’s upcoming original film about Frank Bullitt, the character made famous from the 1968 Steven McQueen thriller.

Based on the 1963 novel “Mute Witness” by Robert L. Fish, the original “Bullitt” starred the late McQueen as the title character, a San Francisco Police Department lieutenant seeking to take down Chicago mobster Johnny Ross (Pat Renella). Spielberg will direct the new Warner Bros. film, which will not be a remake of the original movie by Peter Yates, instead telling a completely original story starring Bullitt. Sources close to the project confirmed the news to IndieWire.

Cooper will join Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger as producers on the film — the three also serve as producers on Cooper’s upcoming feature “Maestro,” about the life of Leonard Bernstein. That film, currently in post-production, is set to release on Netflix in 2023. Oscar-winning...

Exclusive: Steven Spielberg looks to have found his Frank Bullitt as sources tell Deadline Bradley Cooper has closed a deal to play the no-nonsense San Francisco cop in the new original Bullitt story centered on the classic character famously played by Steven McQueen in the 1968 thriller, which is set up at Warner Bros. Cooper will also produce the pic along with Spielberg and his producing partner Kristie Macosko Krieger (marking their second collaboration after Maestro), with Josh Singer on board to pen the script. Steve McQueen’s son, Chad ,and granddaughter Molly McQueen will exec produce the new movie.

Sources are adamant this is not a remake of the original film but a new idea centered on the character. In the original film, Frank Bullitt is a no-nonsense San Francisco cop on the hunt for the mob kingpin that killed his witness. Considered one of McQueen’s more iconic roles,...

Polish film and TV writer/director Agnieszka Smoczyńska's biographical film "The Silent Twins" is heading to Peacock. The movie is inspired by the book of the same name written by investigative journalist Marjorie Wallace. Published in 1986 under the title "The Silent Twins: A true story of love and hate, dreams and desolation, genius and destruction," Wallace's book is itself based on the true story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, twin sisters who only communicated with each other, and came to be known as "the silent twins."

Smoczyńska's film is heading to Peacock after getting a very limited theatrical release from Focus Features on September 16, 2022 -- meaning, this is probably the first time most people have even heard of the movie. So, before it joins acclaimed 2022 films like Scott Derrickson's "The Black Phone" on NBCUniversal's streaming service, here's everything you need to know about the film ahead of time.

For Steve McQueen, creating Small Axe — his landmark BBC/Amazon five-part anthology film series set within London’s West Indian community between the 1960s and 1980s — came from a burning desire to put important stories on screen that simply hadn’t been there before.

“It was a want, a must and a need,” he says as part of a Q&a with THR Presents, powered by Vision Media. “Things which I had wanted to see on TV, on the big screen, hadn’t been. It was an attempt to fix the cannon of cinema, fix the narrative, and things [that] have been missing from ...

Are you ready to follow Jensen Ackles to his new role?

Amazon Studios has released the long awaited first-look of the former Supernatural star in the Soldier Boy supersuit for Season 3 of the hit series The Boys.

The Super Suit was designed by Laura Jean Shannon and concept artist Greg Hopwood.

When designing the Soldier Boy Super Suit, Shannon noted, “Soldier Boy is the original bad ass. "

"Our goal was to highlight a bygone era of overt masculinity and grit. With that pedigree we dove headfirst into baking in an all-American quality grounded in a military soldier’s practicality with a heavy dose of old school cowboy swagger."

"We knew that the actor had to have Steve McQueen looks and chops with a John Wayne attitude, luckily Jensen Ackles embodies all of that.”

Knowing that Soldier Boy is a fan-favorite character from the original graphic novels, Showrunner Eric Kripke knew...

The long awaited first-look of Jensen Ackles in the Soldier Boy supersuit for Season 3 of the hit series 'The Boys'. The Super Suit was designed by Laura Jean Shannon and concept artist Greg Hopwood. When designing the Soldier Boy Super Suit, Shannon noted, "Soldier Boy is the original bad ass. Our goal was to highlight a bygone era of overt masculinity and grit. With that pedigree we dove headfirst into baking in an all-American quality grounded in a military soldier’s practicality with a heavy dose of old school cowboy swagger. We knew that the actor had to have Steve McQueen looks and chops with a John Wayne attitude, luckily Jensen Ackles embodies all of that."

Knowing that Soldier Boy is a fan-favourite character from the original graphic novels, Showrunner Eric Kripke knew the importance of the Super Suit, saying, “When I cast Jensen as Soldier Boy, the first thing I said was,...

Almost four years after journalists Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor dropped the explosive New York Times report outing Harvey Weinstein as a serial sexual predator, a Hollywood movie is finally being spun out of the story that changed the industry forever. Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan are set to star as Twohey and Kantor in “She Said,” a new drama film being set up at Universal Pictures and adapted from the New York Times bestseller “She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement.” IndieWire has confirmed the project with Universal. Deadline first reported the news.

Production on “She Said” will kick off this summer with director Maria Schrader, the German actress and filmmaker who helmed Netflix’s beloved series “Unorthodox.” The screenplay comes from Rebecca Lenkiewicz, the co-screenwriter behind Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film winner “Ida” as well as the drama “Disobedience.” Lenkiewicz also served...

“The Boys” has finally revealed the long-awaited first look at “Supernatural” alum Jensen Ackles suited up as Soldier Boy, a fan-favorite character from the comics the raunchy Amazon Prime Video superhero series is based on.

“He’s the f’n Captain now, America,” reads the Monday tweet accompanying the first photos of Ackles in his Soldier Boy Super Suit, which was designed by Laura Jean Shannon and concept artist Greg Hopwood.

“Soldier Boy is the original bad ass,” Shannon said. “Our goal was to highlight a bygone era of overt masculinity and grit. With that pedigree we dove headfirst into baking in an all-American quality grounded in a military soldier’s practicality with a heavy dose of old school cowboy swagger. We knew that the actor had to have Steve McQueen looks and chops with a John Wayne attitude, luckily Jensen Ackles embodies all of that.”

“The Boys” showrunner Eric Kripke...

Now this is a look: The Boys has unveiled the first image of Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy in Season 3 of Amazon Prime’s gritty comic book series.

The Supernatural vet portrays the very first Superhero, who after he fought in World War II became the first “super celebrity” and a mainstay of American culture for decades. The gig reunites the actor with Supernatural creator Eric Kripke, who serves as showrunner on The Boys.

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The BAFTA Film Awards took place on April 11, and now the time has come for the BAFTA Television Awards to take centre stage. On April 27, the Virgin Media must-see moment award nominees were announced, which saw the likes of Gogglebox, Bridgerton, and Britain's Got Talent featured on the list.

On April 28, the full list of nominees were announced, with The Crown nominated for 10 awards, Michaela Coel's I May Destroy You nominated for eight awards, and Steve McQueen's Small Axe leading the charge with an impressive 15 nominations. On June 6, the full BAFTA Television Awards ceremony took place on BBC One, with I May Destroy You leading the charge after winning two awards.

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It’s time to salute Soldier Boy! Amazon Prime Video has released a first look at Jensen Ackles in his superhero suit ahead of Season 3 of “The Boys.”

Designed by Laura Jean “L.J.” Shannon and concept artist Greg Hopwood, the suit embodies military green worthy of, as Shannon puts it, “the original bad-ass.”

“Our goal was to highlight a bygone era of overt masculinity and grit. With that pedigree we dove headfirst into baking in an all-American quality grounded in a military soldier’s practicality with a heavy dose of old school cowboy swagger,” Shannon says. “We knew that the actor had to have Steve McQueen looks and chops with a John Wayne attitude — luckily Jensen Ackles embodies all of that.”

Ackles steps into the third season of the comic book-inspired drama as the original superhero, created by Compound V in the 1940s. He fought in World War II...

“The Good Doctor” star Antonia Thomas is departing the series, Variety has confirmed.

Thomas has been with the ABC medical drama since it began in the role of Dr. Claire Browne, but will not return for the fifth season. “The Good Doctor” was renewed by ABC back in May.

In addition to her role in “The Good Doctor,” Thomas is known for starring in shows such as “Misfits” and “Lovesick.” She also recently appeared in Steve McQueen’s critically-acclaimed anthology “Small Axe.” Her film roles include projects such as “Freedoms Name Is Mighty Sweet,” “Sunshine on Leith,” and “Survivor.”

“The Good Doctor” has proven to be a very strong performer in delayed viewing, rising 397% above its live+same day audience in adults 18-49 for a 2.98 rating this season across all platforms after 35 days of playback. In the same time frame, it also averaged 12.1 million viewers per episode in Season 4.

David Shore developed the series,...

“I May Destroy You” won both Best Limited Series and Best Actress for creator Michaela Coel at Sunday’s BAFTA TV Awards. She’d taken home the Best Writer prize at last month’s craft awards and also shared then in the directing prize with Sam Miller. This BBC/HBO co-production also won the editing award. Coel plays a newly famous novelist who works to rebuild her life after being sexually assaulted. She and her show are strong contender at the upcoming Emmy Awards.

The BBC/Amazon co-production “Small Axe,” which had claimed five craft awards added another to its haul with a win for supporting actor Malachi Kirby. This anthology series from Oscar winner Steve McQueen (“12 Years a Slave”) is also expected to do well when Emmy nominations are announced next month.

Paul Mescal won Best Actor for his breakthrough role in “Normal People,” a Channel 4/Hulu co-production that contended at the 2020 Emmys.

John Boyega may not be appearing in any “Star Wars” films at the moment, but the franchise hasn’t left him yet. The actor, now courting talk of Emmy awards for his performance in Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” anthology, “Red, White, and Blue,” sat down with IndieWire’s Libby Hill to talk about the series and its brief reference to a galaxy far, far away.

Boyega said upon seeing the reference to being a “Jedi” in the script, he was initially taken aback. “I was more like, ‘Is this a moment where professional actors are supposed to come and say, ‘Oh, Steve, don’t you think this is a bit too much?'” Boyega said. “And then something in my brain said, ‘Do you actually even care?'”

The actor said, ultimately, he was fine with the reference being put in there considering the context. The film takes place...

The BAFTA TV Awards winners have been announced, and it was a big night for Michaela Coel, whose BBC and HBO series I May Destroy You scooped two of the biggest prizes of the evening.

During a pre-recorded ceremony at London’s iconic Television Centre, Coel walked away with best leading actress for her performance as sexual assault survivor Arabella, while I May Destroy You also scooped best mini-series, beating Steve McQueen’s Small Axe.

It follows I May Destroy You’s strong showing last month at the BAFTA TV Craft Awards, which celebrates the work of those working behind the scenes. Coel scored a BAFTA mask for best drama writer and best director at the ceremony.

After winning leading actress on Sunday, Coel collected her award in-person and thanked intimacy coach Ita O’Brien. Coel said O’Brien’s presence meant she could make a series about “exploitation, loss of respect,...

Michaela Coel’s “I May Destroy You” won two BAFTAs in a year where there was no single dominant winner at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ (BAFTA) Television Awards on Sunday.

The BBC/HBO show won best mini-series and leading actress for Coel, who dedicated the award to the production’s director of intimacy Ita O’Brien.

“Thank you for your existence in our industry, for making the space safe for creating physical, emotional, and professional boundaries so that we can make work about exploitation, loss of respect, about abuse of power, without being exploited or abused in the process,” Coel said.

Paul Mescal won leading actor for BBC/Hulu show “Normal People.”

In the coveted drama series category, Lennie James’ Sky Atlantic show “Save Me Too” won over fancied rivals “The Crown,” “Gangs of London” and “I Hate Suzie.”

At the BAFTA TV Craft Awards that were announced in May,...

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Steve McQueen has launched movies at Cannes, Venice, and Telluride. He’s received rapturous reviews calling him “masterful” and declaring his work Oscar-bound. But no premiere compared to his anthology series, “Small Axe,” when it hit the BBC and Amazon Prime Video late last year.

“It’s been tremendous. In fact, it’s quite overwhelming and quite emotional, really,” McQueen said. “I never had a debut like this ever.”

As part of their rollout, the director and co-writer of all five films said he was very fortunate, at a time when many festivals were being canceled, to see “Mangrove,” “Lovers Rock,” and “Red, White, and Blue” premiere at the New York Film Festival.

“I was very happy that our film could give that much joy to people,...

An adaptation of the novel “We Go Around in the Night and are Consumed by Fire” by “Loaded” producers Hillbilly Films and Television has attached its key creative team.

BAFTA-nominated helmer Georgi Banks-Davies (“I Hate Suzie”) is set to direct the limited drama series, while Clare McQuillan (“Impulse”) is writing. The film deal was brokered by Luke Speed of the Curtis Brown Group on behalf of Alexander Cochran of C&w Agency.

Inspired by graffiti found on an overpass in Manchester, Jules Grant’s debut novel is a queer love story and revenge thriller that provides a little-seen view of British gangland in Manchester, from a female perspective.

Banks-Davies most recently served as the lead director on Sky series “I Hate Suzie,” which is nominated for the best series BAFTA TV Award as well as an emerging talent (fiction) nod for the director. Her additional credits include short drama “Garfield,...

For music supervisor Ed Bailie, working on Steve McQueen‘s five-part anthology “Small Axe” was “the equivalent of working on five features.” Instead of a single overarching narrative in a film or a TV series, this presented the challenge of “individual tales, each with their own musical identity rooted within an overarching concept that Steve was getting across.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Bailie above.

The five films tell different stories, but all of them explore the experiences of West Indian immigrants living in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s, from the true story of Black protestors railroaded by the police and the justice system in “Mangrove” to a fictional account of a joyous house party in “Lovers Rock.” A lot of the music had already “been written into the script,” Bailie says, which “for us as music supervisors — for myself and my colleague Abi Leland — was a...

As with so many festivals, it’s easy to feel a little overawed when first glancing at the full program of films on offer at Sheffield DocFest (June 4-13).

Despite the challenges of programming during a pandemic, the Sheffield team has pulled together an impressive lineup of 78 features and 88 shorts in its films program.

Among the 55 world premieres are Oscar winner Steve McQueen’s 1981-set race relations series “Uprising,” “Leaving Neverland: Michael Jackson and Me” director Dan Reed’s latest “In the Shadow of 9/11,” Peabody Award winner Mark Cousins’ meditation on sight, “The Story of Looking,” and Nick Green’s biopic of the fugitive former CEO of Renault-Nissan “Carlos Ghosn: The Last Flight.”

It’s the second edition of DocFest to be led former DocLisboa director Cintia Gil, both of them realized during the pandemic.

Casting her eye over a lineup that has offerings from Senegal to Latvia,...

Gavin MacLeod, the actor who starred on the classic sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show and captained The Love Boat, has died at the age of 90.

MacLeod’s nephew Mark See confirmed the actor’s May 29th death to Variety. While no cause of death was provided, See noted that MacLeod’s health had declined in recent months.

Ed Asner, MacLeod’s castmate on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, tweeted following news of the actor’s death, “My heart is broken. Gavin was my brother, my partner in crime (and food) and my comic conspirator.

Gavin MacLeod, the veteran television actor known for his roles on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “The Love Boat” has died, his nephew Mark See confirms. The five-time Golden Globe nominee was 90 years old.

MacLeod passed away early Saturday morning at his home in Palm Desert, California. According to TMZ, the actor had been in and out of the hospital with various illnesses for the last few months, although Covid was not one of them.

MacLeod found his breakout role on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” where he played Murray Slaughter, the head writer at Mary’s fictional television station. He appeared in all 168 episodes of the sitcom’s seven-year run. Betty White and Ed Asner are now the only surviving cast members of the classic series. The latter star has already posted a sweet tribute to the actor in which he describes him as “my brother, my partner...

Gavin MacLeod, who was the Love Boat captain and played Murray on the Mary Tyler Moore Show, two of the top television shows of the 1970s and 1980s, died today at his home in Palm Desert, Calif. MacLeod was 90 and his death was confirmed by his nephew, Mark See.

No cause of death was revealed, but MacLeod had been in ill health over the last few months.

The affable actor played head writer Murray Slaughter on the Mary Tyler Moore Show and appeared in all 168 episodes over seven years, ending in 1977. He then pulled off a rarity, moving from one long-running hit show to another.

As Captain Stubing on The Love Boat, he appeared in 249 episodes, and later returned in the role for the TV movie The Love Boat: A Valentine Voyage in 1990 and for the “Reunion” episode of the rebooted series Love Boat: The Next Wave in 1998.

MacLeod was...

Gavin MacLeod, a sitcom veteran who played seaman “Happy” Haines on “McHale’s Navy,” Murray on “Mary Tyler Moore” and the very different, vaguely patrician Captain Stubing on “The Love Boat,” has died. He was 90.

MacLeod’s nephew, Mark See, confirmed his death to Variety. MacLeod died in the early morning on May 29. No cause of death was given, but MacLeod’s health had declined in recent months.

MacLeod played a relatively minor character on ABC hit “McHale’s Navy,” starring Ernest Borgnine, but as newswriter Murray Slaughter, he was certainly one of the stars of “Mary Tyler Moore,” appearing in every one of the classic comedy’s 168 episodes during its 1970-77 run on CBS. Murray was married to Marie (Joyce Bulifant) but was in love with Moore’s Mary Richards. His desk was right next to Mary’s in the Wjm newsroom, so MacLeod was frequently in the shot during the sitcom,...

It’s finally (almost) here.

Monday, May 31 marks the close of the 2020-2021 Emmy Award eligibility period, stemming the fire hose of Peak TV for the briefest of moments, before immediately resuming. (Don’t worry about the resumption just yet. That’s future you’s problem.)

And while the closing moments of May saw a few high-profile releases, including the return of both HBO’s “In Treatment” and Netflix’s “Master of None,” the main source of Emmy buzz came in the form of outside awards bodies this week.

We start with the 2021 BAFTA TV Craft Awards, as distributed by the British Academy, honoring the finest behind-the-scenes work in the industry. With an event presented on the organization’s social media channels, there were a few big winners that might just give their shows a boost when it comes to July’s Emmy nominations.

It was Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe...

Movie genres grow and wane in popularity, and, throughout much of the 1950s, Westerns were all the rage. It's hard to say just why Westerns struck a chord with general audiences, but they did. Not only were they incredibly popular, but they earned critical acclaim, as well. To this day, the 50s are generally regarded as the Golden Age of Westerns, being filled with iconic movie stars like John Wayne and many classic films.

Related: Steve McQueen's 10 Best Westerns, Ranked According To IMDb

No one can agree on which 50s Western is the best, but there are a lot of great ones. These are the best of the best, according to Metacritic.

Steve McQueen and Michaela Coel shows dominate with eight awards.

Steve McQueen’s Small Axe and Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You were the big winners at the Bafta Craft Awards, taking home eight of the 21 awards between them.

Small Axe, the BBC1 drama anthology about the lives of West Indian immigrants in 1960s, 70s and 80s London, claimed five gongs including: JoJo Williams for make-up & hair design; Jacqueline Durran for costume design; Helen Scott for production design; Shabier Kirchner for photography & lighting: fiction and Gary Davy for scripted casting.

Coel’s BBC1/HBO true-life inspired dramedy about a...

Steve McQueen is one of the most famous, talented, and eccentric actors from the 1960s until his untimely death from mesothelioma in 1980. His rise to becoming "The King of Cool" that we know today was an interesting road. It's even been alleged many times that he intentionally crashed his car to get out of his TV show Wanted: Dead Or Alive in order to shoot The Magnificent Seven, and in addition to being stubborn, McQueen was also a fan of fast cars and motorcycles.

Related: The 10 Best Western Remakes, According To Metacritic

Whether his crash was intentional or not, his multiple-year break from acting, shortly after becoming the highest-paid actor in the world, was definitely intentional. His relatively young passing, paired with his eccentric personality, leaves us with a rather small list of feature films he starred in, and even fewer in the genre that helped make him famous, the Western.

Steve McQueen’s anthology series Small Axe and Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You dominated the BAFTA TV Craft Awards on Monday.

Small Axe clinched five wins, the most on a night that celebrated behind-the-scenes craftspeople, but it was I May Destroy You that secured two of the biggest gongs for Coel: Director: Diction, and Writer: Drama. The BBC/HBO series was also victorious in the Editing: Fiction category.

Coel, who beat McQueen in the directing category alongside co-director Sam Miller, accepted her writing win. “I would like to thank every draft. There are hundreds of them, each living only briefly and sacrificing themselves so the version we watched that won this BAFTA could exist,” she said.

BBC/Amazon series Small Axe’s prizes included JoJo Williams for Make Up & Hair Design; Jacqueline Durran for Costume Design; Helen Scott for Production Design; Shabier Kirchner for Photography & Lighting: Fiction; and Gary Davy for Scripted Casting.

Michaela Coel’s “I May Destroy You” and Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” were the big winners at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ (BAFTA) TV Craft Awards on Monday.

BBC/HBO’s “I May Destroy You” won the key awards of director, fiction, editing, fiction and writer, drama. BBC/Amazon’s “Small Axe” had the most wins with five BAFTAs, including for make up and hair design, costume design, production design, photography and lighting, fiction and for scripted casting.

The BBC’s “Lee Miller – A Life on the Front Line” and “His Dark Materials” won two BAFTAs each.

“Small Axe” had nine nominations, while “I May Destroy You” had five. Netflix’s popular Royal drama “The Crown” was shut out, despite having six nominations going in.

The ceremony was broadcast live on BAFTA’s social channels and hosted by actor and writer Gbemisola Ikumelo (“Famalam”).

The Television...

Small Axe and I May Destroy You were the big winners at the 2021 BAFTA TV Craft awards, celebrating the best creativity behind the camera, on Monday night.

In a virtual event broadcast on the British Academy’s social channels, Steve McQueen’s hit anthology series claimed the most awards of the night with five — costume design, scripted casting, make up and hair design, production design and photography and lighting. Meanwhile, Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You landed three wins, including two of the biggest prizes, with Coel claiming writer: drama, Coel and Sam Miller winning directing: fiction and for editing: fiction....

Small Axe and I May Destroy You were the big winners at the 2021 BAFTA TV Craft awards, celebrating the best creativity behind the camera, on Monday night.

In a virtual event broadcast on the British Academy’s social channels, Steve McQueen’s hit anthology series claimed the most awards of the night with five — costume design, scripted casting, make up and hair design, production design and photography and lighting. Meanwhile, Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You landed three wins, including two of the biggest prizes, with Coel claiming writer: drama, Coel and Sam Miller winning directing: fiction and for editing: fiction....

Every year we say it, and each year it becomes even more accurate than it was the year before: the Outstanding Limited Series category is out of control.

There are plenty of reasons why limited series is so often the horse race to watch when it comes to the Emmy Awards. For one thing, like film and the Oscars, there’s no chance of repeat winners mucking up the category, making each year’s showdown a blank slate, pitting new project against new project, with marquee actors facing off against complete unknowns in categories increasingly difficult to predict.

It’s a reality made even more glaringly obvious this year by the slightly underwhelming offerings that will almost certainly populate the comedy and drama categories, where disrupted production schedules saw a lot of contenders fold, hoping for a better hand come the 2021-2022 awards season and all but guaranteeing some truly unconventional series nab nominations.

Barry Jenkins has a stellar track record directing award-winning performances, from Mahershala Ali’s Oscar-winning turn in Best Picture champ “Moonlight” (2016) to Regina King’s Oscar-winning performance in “If Beale Street Could Talk” (2018). Now that Jenkins has turned to television for his latest project — a stunning, 10-episode adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Underground Railroad” — might his direction help its breakout star Thuso Mbedu win an Emmy?

“The Underground Railroad” centers on Mbedu’s character Cora as she embarks on a harrowing journey to escape the antebellum South via Whitehead’s imaginatively literal underground railroad. The Amazon Prime miniseries has earned rave reviews, and Mbedu is at the heart of its praise. Doreen St. Félix (New Yorker) calls Mbedu a “revelation,” James Poniewozik (New York Times) commends her performance as “magnetic,” and Melanie McFarland (Salon) applauds how Mbedu brings Cora “alive through an array of tempers,” especially...

When he premiered “Lovers Rock” — one chapter in his five-part anthology series “Small Axe” — at the 2020 New York Film Festival, Steve McQueen was surprised that so many in the audience were crying in reaction to his film about a 1979 house party.

“That was the amazing thing, that people responded and reacted to that in such an emotional way,” said McQueen. “It was a celebration of all the senses, and I think that was pretty amazing that abstraction of the narrative through color and movement could be celebrated in that way.”

When McQueen and his “Small Axe” cinematographer Shabier Kirchner were on the Toolkit podcast, the director gave his young Dp a great deal of the credit. According to McQueen, in the “Lovers Rock” script, whole dance sequences were given simple two-sentence descriptions. The key was creating a real mood and atmosphere on set with the ensemble cast, and then to let his young Dp rip.

Film4’s Daniel Battsek, BBC Film’s Rose Garnett and BFI’s Lizzie Francke on Restart Conference panel.

The UK’s public broadcasters have issued a rallying cry to filmmakers as the industry emerges from the pandemic, highlighting their unique commissioning and rights processes compared to streaming platforms.

On a panel titled ‘The path ahead for the UK’s public film funds’, BBC Film director Rose Garnett explained the public bodies offer opportunities that are not available at private companies.

“The energy and dynamism and funding that streamers have brought in is really exciting, and has probably made many more...

[Warning: The following story contains spoilers about the fifth episode of “Mare of Easttown.” Read at your own risk.]

Despite the numerous acting nominations received by several actors who’ve starred on Ryan Murphy’s long-running FX anthology series “American Horror Story,” Evan Peters, who has appeared in eight seasons thus far, has never been nominated for any of his performances on the show. Some think he’s long overdue for Emmy recognition, and while it won’t be coming this year since the show is not eligible, the 34-year-old actor still has a chance to nab his first Emmy nomination thanks to his turn on a different limited series: HBO’s thrilling mystery “Mare of Easttown.”

Created by Brad Ingelsby, the show, which has received rave reviews and seen a growing weekly audience since debuting in mid-April, stars Kate Winslet as Mare Sheehan, a gruff detective sergeant investigating the death of a teen mother and the disappearance of another girl...

On a late April evening this year, dozens of cars sat parked in front of a large, inflatable screen outside the Rose Bowl in Pasadena for a pop-up drive-in experience. Such socially distanced screenings have seen a resurgence in these pandemic times, but this wasn’t any ordinary drive-in.

This crowd consisted of Emmy voters, who had all made the trek to watch an episode of Bravo’s “Top Chef” while snacking on such artisan dishes as Korean fried chicken with a kimchi dipping sauce, a pupusa with braised jerk pork and cheddar masa, and popcorn sprinkled with chicken-skin furikake and spiced caramel.

It was a twist on the Emmy For Your Consideration events of yore, when Television Academy members and their guests would trek to a venue to watch an episode of a contender, sit through a panel with series stars and producers, and then gorge on free food and booze in the lobby.

The projects join a new Shane Meadows series, announced earlier.

A project from I May Destroy You creator Michaela Coel and a series from Working Title are in the works from the BBC drama department, which set out details of six new commissions today.

The commissions were announced by Piers Wenger, BBC director of drama, and include Shane Meadows’ The Gallows Pole, announced earlier by Screen.

New BBC dramas include Working Title’s Everything I Know About Love, adapted by journalist Dolly Alderton from her memoir of the same name.

The series will follow Maggie and Birdy, two best friends...

For the anthology series “Small Axe,” Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen sought to rectify the historical erasure of the Black experience on British television.

“We’re missing two generations or so of Black artists in the UK because that industry was not welcoming to Black people,” McQueen said in an interview with Indiewire last year. “There’s a hole in our narrative. These stories shaped the history of the UK. So it’s no small feat in what the West Indian population has done in the UK and the Black population has done in the UK.”

The five individual films that combine to make “Small Axe,” all of which debuted on Amazon last fall, focus on the lives of West Indian immigrants living in London from the 1960s through the 1980s. To create the standalone movies, McQueen enlisted a group of highly decorated below-the-line collaborators, including Oscar winners like editor Chris Dickens...

Exclusive: Discovery+ has given a series greenlight to The Haunted Museum, a horror anthology series from Ghost Adventures host and paranormal investigator Zak Bagans and director-filmmaker Eli Roth.

The Haunted Museum will present the frightening and hellish tales behind the spooky relics on display in Bagans’ Las Vegas museum, via scripted shorts produced by Roth and his team, and with featured commentary from Bagans himself. Bagans’ extensive collectibles, numbering in the thousands, are exhibited across the 30-room, 14,000-square-foot mansion, and span from paranormal legends and true crime to Hollywood pop culture and haunted history. The series consists of a special two-hour episode, plus eight additional hour-long episodes. It’s set to launch exclusively on discovery+ later this year.

In the series, Bagans shares the secrets and stories behind a curated selection of his most prized haunted items, including the Dybbuk Box, a carved wooden statue owned by actor Steve McQueen,...

It’s been a mere 10 years since the sci-fi classic ‘Attack The Block’ hit the big screen, so what better time to announce that a follow-up is in early development.

Studiocanal and Film4 have confirmed that Nira Park, Joe Cornish, John Boyega & James Wilson have reunited to develop and produce the highly anticipated second film. Cornish will write and direct with John Boyega returning to star as Moses.

Details about the plot are currently being kept under wraps.

Joe Cornish said “I’m thrilled we’re officially announcing our return to the world of ‘Attack The Block’ on the tenth anniversary of the film’s release. I can’t wait to work alongside John again, bringing audiences an even bigger slice of inner-city alien action.”

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Boyega added “It’s been a decade since Attack The Block...