Fleshing out two-dimensional cartoons into 3-D characters for a hybrid of live action and animation is far from child’s play. Just ask the makers of the coming “Sonic the Hedgehog,” who vowed to redesign their version of the beloved video-game critter after outraged fans got a look at the trailer and vehemently objected online to its humanlike teeth.
In 2017, I interviewed John Singleton for an article looking back 25 years to the Oscars in 1992, the year he was nominated for best director and best screenplay for his debut, “Boyz N the Hood.” A few quotes from the director, who died Monday, wound up in the story then. But the interview covered more ground, including how he felt to be the first African-American up for best director. Here’s the transcript:
Super Bowl LIII was a low-scoring game, and the trailers that debuted during the telecast kept their running times down as well. The ad for the Dwayne Johnson-Jason Statham “Fast & Furious” spinoff, “Hobbs & Shaw,” was a one-minute version of the three-minute trailer that was released online Friday, and most of the other clips ran 30 seconds — or half that, in the case of teasers for “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.” Here’s this year’s lineup:
When Michael Imperioli stars in the finale of Showtime’s historical prison-break drama, “Escape at Dannemora,” on Sunday, his roles will have traversed an almost 30-year arc from one extreme end of the law to the other: from New York gangster to New York governor.
Kal Penn took a two-year sabbatical from acting to work in President Barack Obama’s White House, so you would be forgiven for assuming that he’s trying to make a political point with his new television series, “Sunnyside.”
Bill Hader thought he might be pushing it too far with Sunday’s episode of the HBO comedy “Barry.” In it, his assassin and would-be actor character is locked in a series of prolonged, grotesque fight sequences, first with a martial-arts master and then with his daughter, a supernatural-seeming child who scampers on all fours, scurries up a tree and perches atop a house, gargoyle style. And that’s just for starters.
When Harrison Ford went onstage to present best picture at the 1999 Oscars, it seemed obvious that he would be handing the statuette to his old “Raiders of the Lost Ark” pal Steven Spielberg for the World War II drama “Saving Private Ryan.”
The drug conspiracy trial of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, began in November, and Newman said it had been “an amazing open book for us.” He made a special trip to New York just to watch the proceedings in person.
After a stunned Ingrid Bergman announced the two winners in 1969, Streisand famously opened her acceptance speech by greeting the statuette with a saucy “Hello, Gorgeous!” — echoing her ironic first line in “Funny Girl.”
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