Quibi, the streaming platform that creator Jeffrey Katzenberg said would revolutionize the media landscape, is shutting down operations after only six months. The Wall Street Journal reports that the platform, which featured short programs geared towards mobile smartphones, just never took off in the already crowded streaming market. Buh bye, Quibi, we hardly knew ya. […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness With Halloween fast approaching, let’s escape our 2020 COVID-19 nightmare for a bit and focus on some fun movie horror. The streaming platforms have been adding lots of content for the holiday – and frankly, a lot of it is garbage – so we thought we would come up with […]
Dust off the Oscars kids, ’cause Glenn Close and Amy Adams are a’ comin’ for them with the latest Ron Howard film due to drop on Netflix next month – Hillbilly Elegy. The adaptation of the best selling 2016 memoir from author J.D. Vance is about the Appalachian values of his Kentucky family in relation […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness Regal Cinemas, the second largest movie theater chain in the United States, has announced it is again temporarily closing its theaters, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the film industry. Regal, which operates 536 theaters across the U.S., is owned by parent company Cineworld, whose shares have dropped […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness The biggest news from Sunday’s 72nd annual Emmy Awards was Pop TV’s Schitt’s Creek, which made Emmy history, sweeping all of the main comedy series categories – winning for best series, best directing, best writing and all four acting categories. It had also won Emmys for costuming and casting last week. […]
Diana Rigg, the Tony and Emmy award winning actress who career included the iconic 1960s TV series The Avengers, a slew of stage and screen performances, a stint as a Bond girl, and more recently, success as sharp-tongued Lady Olenna in Game of Thrones, has died at age 82. Rigg, who was diagnosed with cancer […]
Chadwick Boseman, who gained famed as the lead role in the Marvel movie Black Panther, has died of colon cancer at the age of 43. Boseman died at his home in Los Angeles with his wife and children by his side. Boseman had been battling colon cancer privately since 2016, two years before his big […]
Could Diane Lane and Kevin Costner find themselves in the hunt for Oscars, IF there IS an Oscar race this year? The duo star in the upcoming Western mystery/thriller Let Him Go, about a retired sheriff and his wife who leave their Montana ranch to rescue their grandson from a dangerous family living off the […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness Beloved drag entertainer Chi Chi DeVayne, stage name of Zavion Davenport, made famous for appearances on RuPaul’s Drag Race, has died at the age of 34. The RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 8 and All-Stars 3 contestant had recently been hospitalized with pneumonia, asking fans via an Instagram Story video post […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness After months of being shuttered due to the coronavirus, AMC Theatres, the world’s largest movie theater chain, has announced it will start re-opening 100 of its 600 movie theaters across the United States on August 20th, just in time for the new Russell Crowe film, Unhinged. AMC says it plans […]