By Abb Jones The Reelness The nominations for the 72nd annual Emmy Awards are out, which, due to the coronavirus pandemic, will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel as a virtual event on September 20th on ABC. Netflix reaped the biggest nominations haul Tuesday – a whopping 160 – breaking HBO’s record last year of 137 […]
The Christopher Nolan sci-fi/thriller Tenet is poised to make pandemic history, when it premieres next month at theaters OUTSIDE of the United States and China – the two largest movie box office markets. The risky decision, during the midst of our global coronavirus pandemic, is aimed at threading the needle between getting the movie business back off […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness Olivia de Havilland, the oldest surviving Oscar winner and one of the last of Hollywood’s Golden Era, has died of natural causes at the age of 104. De Havilland died overnight in her sleep at her home in Paris, where she had lived for the past 64 years. Following her […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness The only certainty during our current global coronavirus pandemic is that nothing is certain anymore. With movie studios Warner Bros. and Disney again recently postponing the releases of blockbuster films Tenet and now Mulan, AMC Theatres, the world’s largest theater chain, says it is again pushing back its planned July 30th […]
A controversial young doctor tries to save a Russian cosmonaut after he returns to Earth infected with an alien parasite, in this sci-fi thriller scheduled for release on home rental August 14th. Set in the early 1980s, director Egor Abramenko’s Sputnik is a throwback to the 1979 sci-fi classic Alien, blending big budget visual effects […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness Authorities have confirmed that the body pulled earlier Monday from Lake Piru, north of Los Angeles, is that of missing actress Naya Rivera, star of the hit TV series Glee. Search and recovery operations began last Wednesday after Rivera’s four-year-old son Josey was found sleeping alone on the pontoon boat […]
Actress Kelly Preston, wife of John Travolta, died Sunday in Houston of complications from breast cancer. A family spokesman said Preston had decided to keep her battle private since being diagnosed two years ago. Travolta posted a tribute to his wife on Instagram: Among Preston‘s notable performances were the 1988 comedy Twins with Arnold Schwarzenegger and […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness Authorities say they believe actress Naya Rivera, breakout star of the TV show Glee, has drowned after she was reported missing Wednesday while boating on Lake Piru just north of Los Angeles with her four-year-old son. Search and recovery operations continue. Authorities say another boater contacted them after spotting the […]
by Abb Jones The Reelness Ozark, the wildly-popular Netflix crime drama series starring Jason Bateman, Laura Linney and Julia Garner, will be returning for a fourth and final season. The fourth season of the taut thriller will consist of 14 episodes, split evenly over two parts, a bit of a super-sizing compared to the prior […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness In a sudden change of heart, AMC has reversed course, now saying face masks WILL be required in its theaters when they reopen next month. Friday’s announcement comes after intense social media backlash following news just 24 hours earlier that the three major U.S. movie chains – AMC, Regal Cinemas […]