| | | | What's news: Beyoncé, Harry Styles, Bonnie Raitt, Lizzo and Samara Joy all had much to celebrate at the 2023 Grammys. Viola Davis achieves EGOT status. Paramount's 80 for Brady opened to a strong $12.5m. Episode five of The Last of Us is dropping two days earlier than planned. The London Critics' Circle vote Tár best film. — Abid Rahman |
Grammys 2023 ►Beysian inference. Beyoncé made the biggest news of the night Sunday at the 65th annual Grammy Awards, setting the record for most wins by an artist. The big winners also included Adele, Lizzo, Bonnie Raitt, Bad Bunny, Kendrick Lamar, Willie Nelson, Sam Smith, Kim Petras, and Harry Styles. The winners list.
—"Beyoncé, whoa! In the fifth grade I skipped school to see you perform." THR's music editor Mesfin Fekadu recaps Music's Biggest Night™, where Styles' Harry's House won album of the year and best pop vocal album, and Beyoncé won four awards to take her career total to 32. The recap.
—Snubs, shutouts and surprises. DJ Khaled and Jay-Z closed out the Grammys with a performance of “God Did,” but the two rappers went home empty-handed. Khaled went into the show with six nods while Jay-Z had five. Similarly, Taylor Swift and Adele each only won one award despite multiple nominations. The big four categories were the source of some of the night’s biggest surprises. Bonnie Raitt and Lizzo were unexpected picks for song and record of the year, and Samara Joy winning best new artist was also a surprise. The snubs.
—One for the ages. A slew of hip-hop stars took to Grammys stage for a high-energy performance celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. Missy Elliott, Queen Latifah, Run-DMC, Lil Wayne, Big Boi, Grandmaster Flash, Method Man, Public Enemy, Salt-N-Pepa and Spinderella and Busta Rhymes were among those taking part in the all-star tribute, which was produced by Questlove, who also served as musical director. Music was provided by The Roots, with Black Thought narrating. The performance. |
Grammys TV Review: "An Emotional Roller Coaster" ►"[Beyonce's] speech and Petras' served as a reminder that awards ceremonies can be gratifying, even good." THR critic Lovia Gyarkye reviews the telecast of the the 65th Grammy Awards. Music's Biggest Night™ was filled with heartfelt tributes, hackneyed bits, surprising wins and disappointing ones, too. The review.
—"The only music we listened to more than Taylor’s music was the hold music for Southwest Airlines." Trevor Noah returned to host the Grammys for the third time on Sunday night. In his opening monologue, the former Daily Show host joked that Beyoncé inspired him to leave his seven-year stint as the late night talk show host. The monologue.
—Achievement unlocked. Viola Davis became the latest member of the exclusive EGOT club after she won a Grammy for best audiobook, narration and storytelling recording for her memoir, Finding Me. The story.
—Fitting tributes. Touching performances by Kacey Musgraves, Sheryl Crow, Mick Fleetwood, Bonnie Raitt and Quavo marked the Grammys In Memoriam segment. Surrounded by a garden of roses and dressed in red, Musgraves performed "Coal Miner’s Daughter" in tribute to Loretta Lynn. Quavo honored his nephew and fellow Migos rapper Takeoff with a moving performance of "Without You." In remembrance of Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie, Crow, Fleetwood and Raitt closed out the segment to sing "Songbird." The tributes. |
Grammys Best and Most Outrageous Looks ►Fashion's biggest night? From Taylor Swift in a two-piece gown by Roberto Cavalli’s Fausto Puglisi to Harry Styles in a custom harlequin-patterned jumpsuit by Paris-based EgonLab and Lizzo in custom Dolce & Gabbana with a stunning opera coat, A-listers sported a wealth of unabashed fashion that has become a hallmark of this event — which frankly makes the Grammys the most thrilling awards event of the season, writes THR's Laurie Brookins. The fashion.
—"I don’t think I could be here without Madonna." Kim Petras, who won the Grammy for best pop duo/group performance for “Unholy” with Sam Smith, said she is the first transgender woman to win the award. Accepting the honor with Smith standing by her side, Petras thanked her mother, friends and also "all the incredible transgender legends" and LGBTQ allies like Madonna who made her career possible. The story.
—Controversy follows controversy. Dave Chappelle won best comedy album at the Grammys for his most recent special The Closer, which received backlash over material focused on the transgender community. The award is Chappelle’s fourth Grammy and follows Louis C.K.’s controversial win last year for Sincerely Louis CK. The story.
—Most memorable moments. From Beyoncé becoming the most awarded Grammy winner to the celebration of five decades of hip-hop, here are some of the night’s most memorable moments. The moments. |
Box Office: 'Knock' Topples 'Avatar 2' ►He is the one who knocks. M. Night Shyamalan’s newest movie, Knock at the Cabin, topped the domestic chart with $14.2m from 3,643 theaters. While the psychological-tinged horror pic has bragging rights to finally being the film to topple Avatar: The Way of Water from the stop spot, it is nevertheless the lowest North American opening of any film directed by Shyamalan.
THR's Pamela McClintock writes that mediocre word of mouth could be a culprit for Knock's muted start. The film received a C CinemaScore (that’s below the C+ assigned to the prolific writer-director’s last film, Old). Nor are exit scores on PostTrak so great. Males dominated the audience, while more than 60 percent of ticket buyers were between the ages of 18 and 24. Overseas, the Universal pic took in $7m for an early global total of $21.2m.
The weekend’s other new Hollywood studio offering, Paramount's 80 for Brady, opened in second place with a pleasing $12.5m from 3,912 locations after succeeding in winning over older consumers, and particularly older females. Nearly 80 percent of ticket buyers were 35 and older, including a massive 50 percent over 55. The box office report.
—Rejoice! HBO isn’t going to let the Super Bowl tackle the ratings momentum of The Last of Us. The network will make its next episode of the acclaimed post-apocalyptic series available two days early to get ahead of Super Bowl LVII. Episode five will be available on HBO Max and HBO On Demand starting this Friday, Feb. 10, at 9 a.m. ET. The linear telecast on the HBO cable network will still air on Sunday, Feb. 12, at 9 p.m. ET. The story.
—🏆 Blimey! 🏆 Todd Field’s Tár claimed the top prize at the 43rd London Critics’ Circle Film Awards on Sunday night, where it was named film of the year. Meanwhile, Cate Blanchett won actress of the year — the third time she has done so — and Field landed director of the year. Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin was another big winner in London, winning five prizes. The winners.
—"How will you represent the moment when Jackson, a grown man in his 30s, takes a child by the hand and leads him into that bedroom?" The director of Leaving Neverland, the doc that chronicled two accusers’ sexual abuse claims against Michael Jackson, is criticizing a planned biopic about the late singer. In a guest column for the Guardian, Dan Reed questioned why "no one is talking about ‘canceling’ this movie, which will glorify a man who raped children." The story.
—"I don’t find it appealing." Julianne Moore has revealed why she appears onscreen using a gun for the first time in more than a decade in her upcoming Apple movie Sharper. In a new interview, Moore explains that, even if she’s been in movies with guns, not seeing her characters pick one up was a conscious decision but noted that in Sharper, the gun in her hand isn’t portrayed as “gung-ho” but instead feels like a "moral tale, given how badly everything goes when it is fired." The story. |
Arnold Schulman 1925 -2023 ►Legendary scribe. Arnold Schulman, who landed Oscar nominations for his screenplays for Love With the Proper Stranger and Goodbye, Columbus and found success with several incarnations of his Broadway hit A Hole in the Head, has died. He was 97. Schulman died Saturday of natural causes at his home in Santa Monica. Schulman also wrote the HBO drama And the Band Played On and Francis Ford Coppola's Tucker: The Man and His Dream. The obituary.
—"Charlie is the most lovable, lanky, rubbery, sweet, adorable man." Charles Kimbrough, the Emmy-nominated actor best known for his splendid decade-long portrayal of staid network anchor Jim Dial on Murphy Brown, has died. He was 86. Kimbrough died Jan. 11 in Culver City. The Minnesotan also played Harry in the original production of Stephen Sondheim’s Company and was the voice of Victor in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The obituary.
—"The stories that he helped tell, pace, structure and set the mood entertained and made millions experience different worlds." Robert Dalva, the film editor who earned an Oscar nomination for his work on the touching family adventure The Black Stallion and collaborated with director Joe Johnston on five films, including Jumanji and Captain America: The First Avenger, has died. He was 80. Dalva died Jan. 27 of lymphoma in Marin County, California. The obituary. |
TV Review: 'Murder in Big Horn' ►"Powerful in intent, less confident in structure." THR's chief TV critic Dan Fienberg reviews Showtime's Murder in Big Horn. Razelle Benally and Matthew Galkin's three-part series examines the missing and murdered indigenous women crisis in one Montana county. The review.
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