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Oscars 2024: Regina King, Lupita Nyong’o and Zendaya to date

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Famous actresses Regina King, Lupita Nyong’o and Zendaya are amongst those that will take the stage as presenters of the Oscars this 12 months.

The 96th Academy Awards will happen this Sunday on the Dolby Theater at Ovation Hollywood, where the perfect and brightest stars will rejoice the largest night in cinema. This 12 months’s headliners shall be featured, including Oscar winners King and Nyong’o, who won trophies for his or her roles in “If Beale Street Could Talk” and “12 Years a Slave,” respectively.

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Regina King speaks on stage in January on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Governors Awards on the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Hollywood. The actress is scheduled to be a presenter at Sunday’s Oscar ceremony. (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Apparently, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is putting an emphasis on past winners when it comes to presenters for 2024. All 4 winners of last 12 months’s acting categories may even appear, including Brendan Fraser (“The Whale”) and Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis ( “Everything, everything at once”

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Others on the presenter list include Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth, Dwayne Johnson, Michael Keaton, Jennifer Lawrence, Kate McKinnon, Rita Moreno, John Mulaney, Catherine O’Hara and Ramy Youssef.

The 96th Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, will air Sunday, March 10 at 7 p.m. ET, continue to exist ABC.

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2025 Oscar nominations: the biggest sleep and surprises

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. Oscar nominations Finally, he arrived on Thursday morning, the scattering of gloomy headers has been welcome for a month. While some nominees are undoubtedly delighted, others are wondering what went unsuitable.

Oscars Five -person limit According to the category, it inevitably results in glaring skippers. Here is a have a look at the biggest strings and surprises:

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Surprise: Fernanda Torres, “I’m still here” (essential actress)

Torres’s Golden Globe won probably increased her profile, which prompted voters to go to “I’m still here”. Her powerful performance during this era resonated the drama with the audience.

Snub: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, “Hard Truths” (essential actress)

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Jean-Baptiste, a critical beloved, won the essential actress from the essential groups of film critics. Her refined performance on this difficult film seemed undeniable.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, a forged of the forged in the film “Hard Truths”, poses to the portrait during the International Film Festival in Toronto, Saturday, September 7, 2024, in Toronto. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Snub: Angelina Jolie, “Maria” (essential actress)

Despite the critical indifference to the film, the transformation performance of Jolie as Maria Callas at the Venice Film Festival caused significant noise.

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Snub: Nicole Kidman, “Babygirl” (essential actress)

A crowded field and misleading marketing probably hinders Kidman’s possibilities. This appears to be one other example of taking risks that will be appreciated looking back.

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Surprise: “I’m still here” (photo)

This film, anchored by Torres’s performance, got into the race for the best picture, benefiting from the late growth of voters’ interests.

Snub: Edward Berger, “Conclave” (director)

The “conclave” was won by eight nominations, but Berger was surprisingly ignored despite the nomination of the Guild and Baft.

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Snub: Daniel Craig, “Queer” (essential actor)

It was expected that Craig’s performance in “Queer” Luca Guadagnino caused a nod to an Oscar, but the slow pace of the film could stop voters.

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Surprise: James Mangold, “A Complete Unknown” (Director)

Although this just isn’t completely unexpected, taking into consideration his DGA nomination, the inclusion of Mangold is noteworthy, because the academy’s branch was not all the time consistent with DGA.

Surprise: Sebastian Stan, “The Apprentice”

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The strategic decision of Stan to withdraw from the series “Actors on Actors” resulting from the controversial nature of his role in “students” caused significant media attention, probably increasing his profile.

Snub: “Sing Sing” (photo)

This inspiring drama about the artistic program was poorly viewed in theaters and during the shows of the season, ultimately hindering his possibilities.

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Snub: “September 5” (photo)

Despite the well -received by critics, “September 5” was often classified as a “television film”, perhaps hindering his appeal to Oscar voters.

Surprise and Snub: “Nickel Boys” (photo, director Ramell Ross)

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Recognized for the best picture, the branch of directors surprisingly skipped Ross Ross, despite the highly stylized and visually driven nature of the film.

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Snub: Denis Villeneuve, “Dune: part two” (director)

Villeneuve’s constant absence in the director’s race is troublesome, especially considering the recognition of critics of each Dune’s movies.

Snub: Jamie Lee Curtis, “The Last Showgirl” (supporting actress)

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Curtis and Baft nominations caused optimism, but eventually missed the Oscar nod.

Snub: Margaret Qualley, “The substance” (supporting actress)

Qualley’s performance in “The Substances” was very praised, but the concentrate on the acting of the band’s acting could make it difficult for its individual recognition.

Snub: Denzel Washington, “Gladiator II” (supporting actor)

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While the inclusion of Washington was unlikely, the lack of “Gladiator II” from any essential category was a big omission.

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New York, New York – November 21: Denzel Washington attends the Siriusxm town hall with the forged “Gladiator II” with the host of Mike Muse in Siriusxm Studios on November 21, 2024 in New York. (Photo Noam Galai/Getty Images for Siriusxm) – credit: photo Noam Galai / Getty Images

98. The Academy of the Academy will happen on March 12, 2025, the host by Conan O’Brien.

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The announcement of the “Children of Blood and Bone” casting led to some mixed reactions in social media

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The forged of the upcoming film adaptation of the best-selling “Children of Blood and Bone” by Tom Adeyemi “Children of Blood and Bone” directed by Gina Prince-Hydnood, because Paramount Pictures is blindly starling.

The release date was set for January 15, 2027 in cinemas and IMAX.

Cast, Wednesday was announcedIt presents the black Hollywood A-Listers in roles, including Sohoo Medu as the character of the LED film Zelie, Amandla Stenberg as Princess Amari, Damson Idris as Prince Inan, Tosin Cole as Tzain, Viola Davis as the mother of Agba, Cynthia Erivo as Admiral Kaea, Idris Elba As Lashan Lashan Lynch as Jumoke and Chiwetel Ejiofor as King Sarań.

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The story of the Chronicle of the Epician Travel Zelie, who’s trying to regain the magic King Saran stole her village. Because history is just not only a black epic fantasy, but additionally one which supports the Nigerians – more precisely Joruba – culture, a really anticipated casting stimulated mixed reactions of online fans.

“I want to talk about a casting for children and bones, but I’m afraid that some of you are not ready for this conversation”, influential Fumi Ford He wrote about the threads.

Fans connecting on the web raised concerns, mainly about the age of the forged, because the book concerns children, as the title suggests.

“There are no children in the movie called The Children of Blood and Bone”, the user Posted to X.

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Since the forged in the forged he strongly presents black American and black British actors, others have noticed the potential of unsuccessful Nigerian accents.

“We are about to testify to the most glaring” African “accents that look that children and bones are really laughing” One online user said.

Other in addition“They will have families in British, South African, Kenyan and Jorubach accents right away, I just know it.”

There are also fans who had an issue with the forged of Stenberg as a personality who’s a dark skin a black girl who stands in the face of colours in the book.

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“I hope that children and bones could do amazing things for young black actors,” the user began In the post on x. “Do you throw a dark -skinned man to play the lightest colorful character in the series, but a biographal woman who plays her sister, who faces the color too darker? Biblical levels of misoginoir. “

Despite the slack, Stenberg’s casting is a rather full circuit. Some may remember when the writer of the book, Tomi Adeyemi, explained a big part of her inspiration to write a book that was originally published in March 2018, comes from the response to the world to Stenberg’s casting in the series “Hunger Games Games”.

“I am a person who motivates anger, so I thought:” Oh wounds, I’ll write a story that’s so good and black that everybody could have to read it, even when you are racist, “said Adeyemi Entertainment every week then. “It became my writing mission.”

There was also a confusion around how this forged was created. In November 2024 Prince-Bytood published an open conversation Only for actors living in Nigeria, but it surely was not represented in the casting announcement. But according to DiversityNot all casting has been confirmed (for instance, Regina King is supposedly in negotiations about the role of Queen Nehanda), including from an open casting in Nigeria, something that concerned the writer of the book, Adeyeem.

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“Soon we will share subsequent Nigerian castings and results from an open connection,” he wrote in Adeyemi in the signature Post on Instagram Casting announcement.

Not everyone was dissatisfied with the casting. Many, including Adeye, have fun online casting.

“Ooooowweeeee !!!! Star-Studded is an understatement, “wrote the user under Adeyeem’s post.

On the threadsAnother said: “To be honest, the only thing that maintains me is that children and bones reveal. At least you can wait. “

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20 years after “Hitch” broken cash records, Will Smith is reportedly developing a continuation

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Twenty years after the looks of the romantic comedy “Hitch” in theaters and broke the cash records with Willem Smith, during which Suave and Debonire, Alex “Hitch” Hitchens, apparently develops continuation.

The director of the unique film, Andy Tennant, recently discussed Romcom, who hit the theaters on the weekend of Valentine’s Day in 2005, and the long run of the franchise on the twentieth anniversary with Business Insider.

Speaking of the origin of the film, he said in the shop: “I think there was a lot of fear, making a large, expensive romantic comedy at will.”

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At that point, Smith, who didn’t take part in the article, was a reliable leading hero of the motion after “I robot” from 2004. Some wondered if the major role in Romcom could be the proper movement, considering his trajectory in Hollywood, and since many still didn’t think that black romantic trails did well abroad.

“It was the reason why Will wanted to do it,” Tennant continued. (*20*)

Despite this, Tennant revealed that even Smith still had doubts until they began shooting.

“Will tried to withdraw from three days before starting shooting. He desired to close and work on it. It was madness – said Tennant.

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The iconic ROM-COM classic, which Kevin James and Eva Mendes also performed, was a great success. Not only He had the biggest opening weekend of each ROM-COM Business Insider announced that at the moment, but in addition earned $ 371 million all over the world.

Considering the film’s success and Smith’s tendency to seem in franchises, wonderful that no continuations made up of the bottom. In 2014, it was talked about Smith developing a TV series based on a movie with Fox.

Tennant said that he recently learned in regards to the recent continuation project, Smith is developing together with his own production company.

“I just found out about it three months ago. I had a really good idea for a continuation and talked to the director of Sony, and he said that the production company Will is developing a continuation. Hey, it’s Hollywood, “Tennant explained.

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Although Tennant remembers among the many creative challenges, which, he claims, he experienced working with Smith over the unique film, said he didn’t mind. “

“He hired me to make this movie. For anyone it was not an easy job, but we went around the world with a movie, “he said, adding that even in” hard times “working on the film, Smith said:” Wait for garbage. We will walk around the world with it – and we did it and it was great. It was the most amazing journey I have ever been on. “

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