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      'Birds of Prey' Scores Lowest DC Adaptation Opening at Box Office

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      Though dethroning Will Smith’s ‘Bad Boys for Life’ from the top spot, the ‘Suicide Squad’ spin-off starring Margot Robbie falls short of expectations with $33.3 million earnings.
      Feb 10, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Margot Robbie’s “Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn” has landed atop the North American box office with a lukewarm $33.3 million (£25.8 million) gross.
      The “Suicide Squad” spin-off, which features the “Bombshell” star reprising her role as DC Comics villain Harley Quinn, banked enough to fly to number one, but fell far short of earning expectations for its launch, which experts guessed would reach at least $50 million (£38.8 million).
      The muted opening makes the R-rated “Birds of Prey”, which had an estimated budget of $100 million (£77.5 million), the lowest-grossing movie adaptation in the DC Extended Universe; “Shazam!” previously held that title with a $53 million (£41.1 million) debut last year (19).
      The film, directed by Cathy Yan, struggled at the international box office too, generating just $48 million (£37.2 million) from territories outside North America, although Warner Bros. studio officials cite the coronavirus outbreak for putting a big dent in global box office figures, particularly in Asia.
      Despite the disappointing start, it was enough to beat Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s “Bad Boys for Life”, which falls to second place with $12 million (£9.3 million) after three weeks at number one.
      Oscars favourite “1917” takes third place, with “Dolittle” and “Jumanji: The Next Level” rounding out the new top five in fourth and fifth place, respectively.
      Top Ten Movies at Weekend Box Office for Feb. 7-9:
      “Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn” – $33.2 million
      “Bad Boys for Life” – $12 million
      “1917” – $9 million
      “Dolittle” – $6.6 million
      “Jumanji: The Next Level” – $5.5 million
      “The Gentlemen” – $4.1 million
      “Gretel & Hansel” – $3.5 million
      “Knives Out” – $2.35 million
      “Little Women” – $2.32 million
      “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” – $2.2 million

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      Oscars 2020: Laura Dern Wins First Academy Award, Calls It Best Birthday Present

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      The actress, who will celebrate her 54th birthday on February 10, nabs the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role ‘Marriage Story’ after three nominations.
      Feb 10, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Laura Dern has received her early birthday present at the 2020 Academy Awards. The actress, who will turn 54 on Monday, February 10, won her first ever Oscar at the Sunday ceremony, being named Best Supporting Actress for her role in “Marriage Story”.
      “Thank you all for this gift. This is the best birthday present ever,” she said in her speech. She thanked her parents Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern, whom she called her “heroes.” She continued, “Some say never meet your heroes. I say if you’re really blessed, you get them as your parents. I share this with my acting hero my legends, Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern. You got game. I love you.”
      Dern also gave a shout-out to the film’s director Noah Baumbach, who also wrote the script. “Noah wrote a movie about love and about breaching divisions in the name and in the honor of family and home and hopefully for all of us in the name of our planet, and I would like to say a special thank you to the gifts of the love stories in my life, my step-children, C.J. And Harris, my heart and inspiration, Ellery and Gia,” she added.
      Not forgetting her friends, she ended her speech with, “I love my friends. You lift me up every day.”
      Dern defeated Kathy Bates (“Richard Jewell”), Scarlett Johansson (“Jojo Rabbit”), Florence Pugh (“Little Women (2019)”) and Margot Robbie (“Bombshell”) in the category. She was previously nominated for Best Actress for her role in 1991’s “Rambling Rose” and for Best Supporting Actress for 2014’s film “Wild”.
      Other winners recently announced at the live ceremony were “Ford v Ferrari” for Best Sound Editing (Donald Sylvester) and for Film Editing (Michael McCusker and Andrew Buckland), “1917” for Sound Mixing (Mark Taylor and Stuart Wilson) and for Cinematography (Roger Deakins), “Little Women” for Costume Design (Jacqueline Durran), “American Factory” for Documentary Feature and “Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl)” for Documentary Short.

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      Oscars 2020: 'Parasite' and Taika Waititi Make History With Academy Awards Win

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      The Bong Joon Ho-directed film marks the first Asian winner of a screenplay Oscar, while the ‘Jojo Rabbit’ helmer is the first Academy Award winner of Maori descent.
      Feb 10, 2020
      AceShowbiz – “Parasite” continues to make history during this award season. The South Korean film nabbed the Best Original Screenplay at the 92nd annual Academy Awards, which is currently airing live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
      The black comedy thriller film was written by Bong Joon Ho, who also directed the film, and Han Jin Won. This marks the first Asian movie ever to claim the original screenplay Oscar. The movie beat out other nominees, including “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” (Quentin Tarantino), “Marriage Story” (Noah Baumbach), “1917” (Sam Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns) and “Knives Out” (Rian Johnson).
      “Thank you, great honor,” Bong Joon Ho said when accepting the award. He dedicated the win to his country, saying, “We never write to represent our country, but this is very personal to South Korea.” He also thanked his “wise wife” and the film’s actors, who stood on the stage behind him. Han Jin Won additionally showed his gratitude to the Korean film industry in his speech.
      The Best Adapted Screenplay, meanwhile, went to Taika Waititi who wrote and directed “Jojo Rabbit”. It’s the first Oscar win for the filmmaker and makes him the first person of Maori descent to win an Oscar.
      Waititi, who is also known for his work on Marvel’s “Thor: Ragnarok”, credited his mother for his win, revealing that she gave him the book on which the film was based. He dedicated the award to “all the indigenous kids in the world who want to do art and write and dance and who are the original storytellers.”
      Other nominees in Best Adapted Screenplay category were “The Irishman” (Steven Zaillian), “Joker” (Todd Phillips and Scott Silver), “Little Women (2019)” (Greta Gerwig) and “The Two Popes” (Anthony McCarten).
      Both “Parasite” and “Jojo Rabbit” won an award each in the same category at the 2020 WGA Awards, so their Oscars win was not really a surprise. They are also vying for the Best Picture Award against “1917”, “The Irishman”, “Joker”, “Little Women”, “Marriage Story”, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and “Ford v Ferrari”.

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      Oscars 2020: Brad Pitt Is Early Winner, Grabs His First Acting Oscar

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      The 56-year-old star pays tribute to his children while accepting the trophy for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’.
      Feb 10, 2020
      AceShowbiz – The Academy has handed out the first trophy at the 92nd annual Academy Awards, which is currently ongoing at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The first category to be announced was Best Supporting Actor, which went to Brad Pitt for his role in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”.
      It’s the first acting Oscar for the 56-year-old actor after four nominations. He was previously nominated as an actor for his role in “12 Monkeys” (1995), “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (2008) and “Moneyball” (2011). He won an Oscar as producer on the best picture winner “12 Years a Slave” in 2014.
      Taking the stage to accept his award, Pitt opened his speech with a political remark, noting that he only had 45 seconds to deliver his speech, which is “45 seconds more than the Senate gave John Bolton this week.” He continued joking about Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, “I’m thinkin’ maybe Quentin does a movie about it. In the end, the adults do the right thing.”
      He then thanked the movie’s director Quentin Tarantino and Hollywood’s stunt community. He also paid tribute to his children, “This is for my kids who color everything I do,” he said. “I adore you.”
      For the Best Supporting Actor award, Pitt beat out other nominees, including Tom Hanks (“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”), Al Pacino (“The Irishman”), Anthony Hopkins (“The Two Popes” and Joe Pesci (“The Irishman).
      “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” has already won its second win at the Academy Awards for Best Production Design, thanks to Barbara Ling and Nancy Haigh’s works. Other early winners at the Sunday, February 9 event included “Toy Story 4” as Best Animated Feature Film and “Hair Love” as Best Animated Short Film.
      The 2020 Academy Awards is going without a host, marking the second year in a row for the annual prize-giving event.

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      Sam Mendes Congratulated as 2020 Oscar Winner for Best Picture and Best Director

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      The ‘1917’ director receives congratulations from his team at the upcoming Broadway play ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ as an Oscar winner hours before the Academy Awards officially kicks off.
      Feb 10, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Officials behind Sam Mendes’ upcoming Broadway play were left red-faced on Sunday, February 9, 2020 after accidentally releasing an advertisement prematurely listing the director as a double winner at the 2020 Oscars.
      The Academy Awards take place in Los Angeles on Sunday night, but hours before the biggest event of the Hollywood calendar, a representative in charge of the social media account for “The Lehman Trilogy” leaked a pre-prepared Instagram promo, hailing Mendes as the recipient of the Best Picture and Best Director Oscars.
      The filmmaker’s critically-acclaimed war movie, “1917”, is nominated for 10 awards at the prestigious ceremony, including the two mentioned.
      The post read, “From Sam Mendes, winner of the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture for his WWI epic ‘1917,’ THE LEHMAN TRILOGY opens on Broadway March 26. Previews begin March 7.”
      It remained live for several hours before it was removed.
      A spokesperson for the production tells TMZ the upload was done by mistake, insisting they have no idea if Mendes will win big, although they will be rooting for him.

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      Adam Sandler on Academy Snub: Let Those Douchebags Get Their Oscars

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      The ‘Uncut Gems’ actor doesn’t care about the Academy Awards as he wins big at the 2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards which he dubs ‘the Best Personality awards of Hollywood.’
      Feb 10, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Adam Sandler joked his “independent personality will shine on forever” as he scooped the Best Male Lead for his role in “Uncut Gems” at the 2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, February 8, 2020.
      The 53-year-old actor missed out on an Oscar nomination for his acclaimed performance in the crime thriller movie, but as he took the stage at the ceremony in Santa Monica, California, he took the opportunity to make a pointed remark on the snub.
      “I’d like to give a shout-out to my fellow nominees, who will forever be known as the guys who lost to f**king Adam Sandler,” he joked, before getting into his Oscar snub.
      “You know, a few weeks back, when I was ‘snubbed by the Academy,’ it reminded me when I briefly attended high school and was overlooked for the coveted yearbook superlative category, Best Looking,” he recalled. “But my classmates did honour me with the allegedly less-prestigious designation of Best Personality. And tonight, as I look around this room, I realised the Independent Spirit Awards are the Best Personality awards of Hollywood.”
      He added, “So, let all those feather-head, douchebags, motherf**kers get their Oscars tomorrow night… Their handsome good looks will fade in time, while our independent personalities will shine on forever!”

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      Leslie Jones Only Votes for Cynthia Erivo for 2020 Oscars and Ignores the Rest

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      Ahead of the highly-anticipated Academy Awards, the ‘Saturday Night Live’ funnywoman tells her online devotees she only voted for black people for the awards show.
      Feb 10, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Leslie Jones has taken a stand against the 2020 Academy Awards by only voting in categories that included people of colour.
      The Academy has come under fire since revealing the nominations for this year’s Oscars, after announcing an all-male directors shortlist and Cynthia Erivo as the only black nominee across the acting categories.
      Taking to social media, actress and comedian Leslie, who’s been a member of the Oscars voting pool the last few years, revealed she only voted in categories that included a diverse selection of nominees.
      “Welp I just finished voting for the Oscars,” she penned. “It didn’t take long cause there are no black people on it. So I voted for @cynthiaerivo and abstained from the rest.”
      She also included the hashtag, “#moreblackpeopleplease.”
      The “Ghostbusters” star later amended her initial post after people reminded her that Matthew Cherry’s “Hair Love” was nominated for Best Animated Short Film.
      “Ok geeeez yes I voted for @MatthewACherry tooo didn’t think I needed to say that! The post was obvious! No chill. His film was on before @AngryBirdsMovie #iswearimdonewithyall”
      The 2020 Oscars take place on Sunday, February 9, 2020 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

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      'The Farewell' and 'Uncut Gems' Win Big at 2020 Indie Spirit Awards

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      A24

      ‘The Farewell’ is named the best indie film while Adam Sandler is crowned as the best male lead and Renee Zellweger takes home the best female lead title.
      Feb 9, 2020
      AceShowbiz – “The Farewell” and “Uncut Gems” were the big winners at the 2020 Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California on Saturday, February 8, 2020.
      Robert De Niro presented the Best Feature honour to “The Farewell”, which also earned Zhao Shuzhen a Best Supporting Female prize, while “Uncut Gems” landed Adam Sandler the Best Male Lead honour, and brothers Benny & Josh Safdie the Best Director trophy. The movie also claimed the Best Editing award.
      Renee Zellweger added to her 2019/2020 awards season haul, scoring the Best Female Lead honour for “Judy”, while Willem Dafoe (“The Lighthouse”) picked up the Best Supporting Male gong.
      The full list of winners at the 2020 Independent Spirit Awards is:
      Best Feature: “The Farewell”
      Best First Feature: “Booksmart”
      Best Female Lead: Renee Zellweger – “Judy”
      Best Male Lead: Adam Sandler – “Uncut Gems”
      Best Director: Benny & Josh Safdie – “Uncut Gems”
      Best Documentary: “American Factory”
      Best Supporting Male: Willem Dafoe – “The Lighthouse”
      Best Supporting Female: Zhao Shuzhen – “The Farewell”
      Best Screenplay: “Marriage Story” – Noah Baumbach
      Best First Screenplay: “See You Yesterday” – Fredrica Bailey & Stefon Bristol
      Best Editing: “Uncut Gems” – Benny Safdie & Ronald Bronstein
      Best Cinematography: Jarin Blaschke – “The Lighthouse”
      Best International Film: “Parasite”
      Robert Altman Award: “Marriage Story” (Noah Baumbach, Douglas Aibel, Francine Maisler, Alan Alda, Laura Dern, Adam Driver, Julie Hagerty, Scarlett Johansson, Ray Liotta, Azhy Robertson, & Merritt Wever)
      John Cassavetes Award: “Give Me Liberty”
      Producers Award: Mollye Asher
      Someone to Watch Award: Rashaad Ernesto Green – director of “Premature”
      Truer Than Fiction Award: Nadia Shihab – director of “Jabboland”
      The Bonnie Award: Kelly Reichardt – “American Factory”

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