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🏆 Golden Globes 2026 🏆 ►Congratulations! Hamnet was named best motion picture, drama, at the 83rd annual Golden Globes, which were handed out Sunday night. The film’s Jessie Buckley was named best actress. One Battle After Another nabbed the award for best motion picture, comedy or musical. The film scooped three more awards, including best supporting actress for Teyana Taylor and best director and best screenplay for Paul Thomas Anderson. Rose Byrne won best actress in a comedy or musical for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, while Timothée Chalamet won the best actor award for Marty Supreme. Wagner Moura won best actor in a drama for The Secret Agent, and Stellan Skarsgard took home the award for best supporting actor for Sentimental Value. The winners.
—Snubs, surprises and shutouts. Sentimental Value went into the Globes with 8 nominations, the second most of any film behind One Battle After Another‘s leading 9 nods. But while OBAA won a leading 4 film awards, Sentimental Value picked up just 1 prize. Frankenstein, despite its 5 nominations and racking up nods from the producers, directors and screen actors guilds over the past week, didn’t win any awards. Four-time nominee It Was Just an Accident was also predicted by some pundits to nab either best non-English-language film or screenplay, but went home empty-handed. The snubs.
—Scott's take. THR's executive editor of awards coverage Scott Feinberg dissects Sunday night's Golden Globes results. Scott writes that "this year’s Globes will almost surely have a greater influence on the shape of the Oscar nominations than did last year’s Globes or will this year’s Critics Choice Awards, given that Oscar nomination voting starts bright and early on Monday." The analysis.
—"At the Golden Globes, a Warner Bros. party, and a hint of worry." THR's Steven Zeitchik writes that the Globes saw One Battle After Another, Sinners and Mike De Luca all get their flowers, even as you could feel the anxiety about the studio's — and Hollywood's — future. The story. |
Review: Glaser Outshines an Otherwise Tone-Deaf Telecast ►"This Is Fine." THR's chief TV critic Daniel Fienberg reviews Sunday's Golden Globes. Daniel writes, "For anybody looking to see a 200-minute, star-studded illustration of the “This Is Fine” meme as presented by CBS, the self-appointed broadcasting embodiment of the “This Is Fine” meme, look no further than Sunday night’s telecast of the 83rd Golden Globe Awards." The review.
—"In Sinners, Michael played two brothers. Am I allowed to say that? It doesn’t sound right." In her monologue, Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser took jabs at Leonardo DiCaprio, CBS News and Hollywood's proximity to the Epstein files. The comedian, who returned to host the annual awards show for the second year, also aimed jokes at George Clooney, Michael B. Jordan and Timothée Chalamet, among others in the room, during her opening address. The monologue.
—Timmy, the old charmer. From A-listers taking and firing off jokes throughout the night to some playful and powerful acceptance speeches, here are some of the highlights from the 2026 Golden Globes. The memorable moments.
—A brief fire in the press room! From Snoop Dogg's bleeped-out moment to a pair of winners congregating back stage, here’s what didn’t make it onto the broadcast Sunday night inside the Beverly Hilton ballroom. The missed moments. |
Best Dressed Stars at the Globes ►Damn son! THR's Laurie Brookins picks out the best dressed stars at the 2026 Golden Globes, including Kate Hudson, Chase Infiniti, Damson Idris and Colman Domingo. Laurie writes that on the red carpet, pops of bold color and ethereal florals stood out amid a sea of gowns and tuxes in black or white. The looks.
—More looks! Laurie Brookins and Laura Tucker gathered together a wider selection of the best looks from Sunday night's Globes red carpet. The looks.
—"It’s hot boys, God damn." The Golden Globes couldn’t get enough of Heated Rivalry stars Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie. From their red carpet looks to their onstage presenting bit, Williams and Storrie were all the rage at Sunday’s award show. The story.
—Inside Timmy's big night. From scoring his first Golden Globe win to enjoying a date night with his girlfriend Kylie Jenner and being involved in several of the night's jokes, THR has rounded up a list of what the actor's night was like. The roundup. |
David Ellison Takes Warner Bros. to Court ►Proxy battle. Paramount is upping its fight for Warner Bros. Discovery. In a letter to WBD shareholders Monday, Paramount CEO David Ellison said his company has filed suit against WBD in Delaware seeking greater financial disclosure of the Netflix deal. Additionally, Ellison said his company plans to nominate its own slate of directors for WBD’s board who they believe would vote against the deal with Netflix. The story.
—Big W. Paramount will not have to face a lawsuit from the cousin of a writer for Top Gun: Maverick, who alleged he co-wrote the screenplay. U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff found on Friday that the studio could not have infringed on Shaun Gray’s copyright because the scenes he wrote are “themselves infringing derivative works that cannot be copyrighted.” The court stressed that the original film is fully owned by Paramount, meaning the writer has no claim to the movie. And in another loss for Gray, claims that he infringed on Paramount’s copyright by involving himself in the film without its knowledge will go to trial. The writer “indisputably based his entire script on existing material,” wrote Rakoff. The story.
—Back to the future. Can MTV bring the music back? David Ellison seems to be betting that it can. The Paramount CEO is keen to revive the once-iconic brand, and is talking to major companies and music industry figures about strategic partnerships, including an economic stake in MTV, per reports. Such a strategic deal could give it expanded access to music rights or artists. The story.
—"[CBS News] has been trampled on, pissed on, and eviscerated by these idiots that have taken it over." Former CBS star David Letterman sounded off on the network while appearing on podcast posted to his YouTube channel on Friday, lamenting recent events in the late night arena and the decline he perceives in broadcast journalism at CBS News. On an episode of The Barbara Gaines Show, Letterman joined the host, who is the longtime former executive producer of The Late Show, and after about six minutes into the clip, he delivered one of his most pointed critiques yet on both topics — aimed squarely at corporate media ownership and the erosion of editorial courage. The story. |
CAA Loses Arbitration With Range Founders ►No dice. CAA has lost a legal battle over the high-profile exits of former employees Jack Whigham, Dave Bugliari, Michael Cooper and Mick Sullivan, all of whom left the agency to start management firm Range Media Partners, a source familiar with the situation confirms to THR's Winston Cho . An arbitrator sided with the Range founders, who initiated the proceedings after their equity was cancelled in the wake of their departures, on claims for breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty, the source says. With the ruling, they potentially stand to collect tens of millions of dollars, depending on the valuation of the majority stake in the agency acquired by François-Henri Pinault in 2023. The story.
—Let them fight. X has filed an antitrust lawsuit against over a dozen music publishers as well as their trade association the National Music Publishers Association, accusing them of colluding with the goal of coercing the platform into purchasing industrywide licenses. The lawsuit, filed in Texas federal court on Friday, details an alleged years-long campaign to “leverage monopoly power” and force X into acquiring licenses from all music publishers at inflated rates. The story.
—ICYMI. The Washington National Opera has decided to walk away from the Kennedy Center as its performance home after more than 50 years, in a sharp rebuke to Donald Trump’s sweeping changes to the institution. The decision by the storied opera company to leave the Kennedy Center was confirmed to THR by a spokesperson for the nation’s premier arts venue on Friday evening. A resolution to depart was approved by the opera's board of trustees; a rep for the arts center said the decision ultimately came down to budget challenges. The story.
—Charged. Filmmaker Timothy Busfield has been charged with two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and child abuse, according to an arrest warrant issued by Albuquerque police. The police affidavit details an investigation of alleged sexual abuse involving two boys on the set of The Cleaning Lady, where Busfield served as a director. One of the children told an interviewer that Busfield touched him for the first time when he was seven years old, on set. He detailed another incident that took place when he was eight years old, again on set. The story. |
How This Became the Season of Hating on AI ►"Hollywood suits and Hollywood creatives hold opposite interests." Awards season, Hollywood broadly and even the world is filled with anti-AI stances. THR's Steven Zeitchik writes that gleefully (or dolefully) human movies like Hamnet, Sentimental Value, Marty Supreme and, yes, Frankenstein hold lead spots in the Oscar race. All of them embrace an almost throwback vibe of granular emotion well outside the realm of machine intelligence. Steven wonders whether this pro-human pose that has become fashionable on the Oscar circuit will have any impact on the march of AI technology. The analysis.
—Likely strategy. In Duncan Crabtree-Ireland’s ideal world, hiring Tilly Norwood would cost just as much as hiring a real actress. Here’s the thinking: A lack of cost savings could dissuade employers from using AI-generated performers instead of real actors like Emma Stone or Viola Davis. “In my opinion, if synthetics cost the same as a human, they’re going to choose a human every time,” Crabtree-Ireland said. The national executive director and chief negotiator of the actors union SAG-AFTRA enumerated on his dollars-and-cents approach to what the labor group calls “synthetic performers” in an interview at CES on Thursday. The story.
—AI guidance. The Television Academy says it will put some guardrails around the use of artificial intelligence in submissions for the Emmy Awards. As part of a number of rule changes for the 2026 Emmy Awards, the Academy is adding a statement about AI in its rules and procedures manual, which will be posted later in January. The statement reads, "The Television Academy reserves the right to inquire about the use of AI in submissions. The core of our recognition remains centered on human storytelling, regardless of the tools used to bring it to life." The story.
—Not over yet. Grok, the AI chatbot created by xAI, the AI company founded by Elon Musk, last week switched off its image creation and editing function for most users after an uproar over sexualized and violent imagery created with it. On Monday, U.K. media regulator Ofcom said it was investigating the issue, opening “a formal investigation into X under the U.K.’s Online Safety Act, to determine whether it has complied with its duties to protect people in the U.K. from content that is illegal in the U.K.” The story. |
Box Office: 'Avatar 3' Continues Winning Streak ►Lucky Jim. Avatar: Fire and Ash will continue its box office streak over this early January weekend, landing at No. 1 for the fourth weekend in a row with $21.3m from 3,700 theaters. Avatar 3 currently stands at $342.6m domestically. While not performing as well as the first two Avatar films, Fire and Ash has easily cleared the global $1b mark after three weekends in cinemas, and after this weekend, its global total is set to land at $1.23b. THR's Pamela McClintock writes that Avatar 3 is coming in well ahead of the weekend’s two new releases: Paramount horror Primate and Lionsgate’s Greenland 2: Migration.
For its part, Primate is vying for the No. 2 spot, opening at 2,964 venues and $11.3m in ticket sales for its opening weekend. Running close behind Primate is success story The Housemaid with $11.2m in estimated weekend ticket sales. The Paul Feig-directed thriller, which already has a planned sequel, has a $93m total in North America and $150m worldwide. In fourth place is the animated juggernaut Zooptopia 2, which earned $10.1m in its seventh weekend of release and now has a global gross of $1.65b to date. The film is Walt Disney Animation’s top-grossing movie. Greenland 2, a sequel to the 2020 disaster movie, is the weekend’s other new entry and is coming in at No. 5 with $8.5m from 2,710 locations. The box office report. |
'Demon Hunters' Writers to Pen Script for 'Attack of the 50 Foot Woman' ►Massive news. THR's Borys "Scoopz" Kit has the scoop that Danya Jimenez and Hannah McMechan, the screenwriting duo behind KPop Demon Hunters, have been tapped by Warner Bros. to pen the screenplay of Tim Burton’s reimagining of B-movie classic Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. Released in 1958, Attack told of a wealthy heiress, fresh from a stint at a mental institution, who is turned into a giantess and then deals with her philandering husband and his no-good, money-grubbing floozy. WB has been developing a remake since 2024. Gone Girl scribe Gillian Flynn was the previous writer. The story.
—📅 Shut up and take my money! 📅 The sequel to sleeper hit Godzilla Minus One has set a date to rampage into North American theaters. It will arrive on Nov. 6 via distributor GKids. The date follows quickly on the heels of Godzilla owner Toho releasing the feature in Japan on Nov. 3. As previously revealed, the sequel will be titled Godzilla Minus Zero. No casting details are yet available, but the first movie took place in post-World War II Japan and centered on a Kamikaze pilot Koichi (Ryunokuke Kamiki), who lives in shame after choosing not to die in battle. But he ultimately finds redemption as he helps his nation deal with the monster known as Godzilla. The story.
—🤝 Sold! 🤝 Wanda Sykes is taking a swing at dramatic acting. Seismic Releasing has acquired director Tamika Miller’s boxing drama feature, Undercard, and will release it theatrically Feb. 27. Sykes leads the cast that also includes Bentley Green, Xavier Mills, William Stanford Davis, Roselyn Sánchez, Berto Colón and Estella Kahiha. Undercard follows Sykes as Cheryl “No Mercy” Stewart, a former boxing champion and recovering alcoholic who reaches out to her estranged 21-year-old son, Keith (Green). The pair strike an uneasy alliance as they seek to help Keith’s own boxing career get back on track. The story. |
PGA Awards Movie Nominations 2026 ►🏆 Vintage year. 🏆 The Producers Guild of America has revealed its movie and TV nominees for the 2026 PGA Awards. The nominees for the PGA Awards‘ top prize of the Darryl F. Zanuck award for outstanding producer of theatrical motion pictures, historically closely correlated with the Oscars’ best picture winner, are Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, Sentimental Value, Sinners, Train Dreams and Weapons. Last year Anora won the PGA Awards‘ top prize ahead of its Oscar domination. The nominees.
—🏆 Congrats! 🏆 Nominees for the 2026 NAACP Image Awards have been announced, with Sinners leading in overall nominations with a total of 18, including outstanding motion picture, supporting actor nominations for Delroy Lindo and Miles Caton, supporting actress nominations for Jayme Lawson and Wunmi Mosaku and an outstanding actor nod for Michael B. Jordan. Coming in second place with a total of nine nominations is Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest, which garnered an outstanding motion picture nod and outstanding actor nomination for Denzel Washington, as well as supporting actor noms for A$AP Rocky and Jeffrey Wright. The nominees.
—🏆 Golden oldies. 🏆 Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet took home best picture at the Movies for Grownups Awards with AARP, the annual ceremony recognizing film and TV that celebrates the stories and voices of people over the age of 50. The honors were handed out on Saturday at the Beverly Wilshire, with Alan Cumming once again serving as the evening’s host. One Battle After Another came into the show with a leading 8 noms — and left with three wins. Laura Dern (for Is This Thing On?), George Clooney (Jay Kelly), Regina Hall (OBAA) and Delroy Lindo (Sinners) were also among the big winners, as Guillermo del Toro was crowned best director for Frankenstein and Noah Wyle and Kathy Bates snagged wins in the TV categories. The winners. |
'Industry' Co-Creators on Show's New Villain ►"If you show too much of the monster, it feels less scary." THR's Seija Rankin spoke to Industry co-creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay about the season 4 premiere of the critically acclaimed HBO finance drama. The duo discuss the big reset for the series, new cast additions and keeping their heads down amid a potentially looming corporate merger. Warning: Spoilers! The interview.
—"This season, there were some twists and turns that you did not see coming. I tried to predict every bit of it before we read it, and some of it blew me off of feet." THR's queen of chat Jackie Strause spoke to Landman actor Jacob Lofland about the penultimate episode of season 2 of the hit Paramount+ series. The actor who plays the son to Billy Bob Thornton's starring oil fixer peels back the layers of his character on the Taylor Sheridan and Christian Wallace show. Warning: Spoilers. The interview.
—Zut alors! The White Lotus will check into a 19th century chateau for its home base in season 4. The HBO series, created by Mike White, will use the Château de la Messardière in Saint-Tropez, France, to double as part of a luxury hotel chain whose guests keep getting murdered. The hotel, open seasonally from late April to mid-October, sits a little inland from the coastal French Riviera town of Saint-Tropez but offers views of of the sea and accommodations that will set you back about $1,300 per night in the smallest room on opening weekend. HBO confirmed in November that season 4 of The White Lotus would film in France. The story.
—ICYMI. The cogs in Charlie Brooker‘s brain are at work on the next installment of Black Mirror. The hit dystopian series is returning for an eighth season. Netflix confirmed the news on Friday by releasing a transcript of a conversation with Brooker. The seventh edition of Brooker’s dystopian anthology series immediately topped Netflix charts upon its April 2025 release, accruing 10.6m views in its first full week on the platform. The six episodes included a sequel to what is regarded as one of the most popular episodes in the program’s history: "USS Callister." The story. |
TV Review: 'The Night Manager' S2 ►"Gets good once it stops living in the past." THR's chief TV critic Daniel Fienberg reviews season 2 of BBC/Amazon Prime Video's The Night Manager. Previously on AMC a decade ago, David Farr's John le Carré adaptation takes place nine years after the original finale. Starring Tom Hiddleston, Diego Calva, Camila Morrone, Hayley Squires, Paul Chahidi, Indira Varma, Olivia Colman. Directed by Georgi Banks-Davies. Created by David Farr. The review.
In other news...
—Joan Chen plays a lesbian lover in Montreal, My Beautiful trailer
—Juliette Howell named CEO of Happy Valley maker Lookout Point
—Sinners star Wunmi Mosaku reveals pregnancy at Golden Globes
—Guy Moon, The Fairly OddParents and Danny Phantom composer, dies at 63
—Bob Weir, Grateful Dead co-founder, dies at 78
—T.K. Carter, The Thing, The Way Back and Space Jam actor, dies at 69
—Allan Alper, musical director and film composer, dies at 78
—Mark J. Masek, author of Hollywood Remains to Be Seen, dies at 68
—Roger Ewing, Deputy Marshal Thad Greenwood on Gunsmoke, dies at 83
What else we're reading...
—Ben Kamisar reports that business leaders affiliated with AI companies and TikTok and family members of people accused of federal crimes were among those who made big donations to Trump's Super PAC [NBC News]
—Sawdah Bhaimiya reports that Meta is urging Australia to rethink under-16 social media ban after blocking over 500,000 accounts [CNBC]
—On the 10th anniversary of David Bowie's death, Steven Hyden looks back at how death redefined the music icon's final album Blackstar [Ringer]
—Trisha Thadani reports that the human longevity business is booming, and outlines the treatments dominating the trade of living longer [WaPo]
—Samuel Granados, Adam Rasgon, Iyad Abuheweila and Sanjana Varghese report that Israel is still demolishing Gaza, building by building, despite the cease-fire [NYT]
Today...
...in 1971, in the 9:30 p.m. time slot, the first episode of All in the Family debuted on CBS. The original review.
Today's birthdays: Issa Rae (41), Simon Russell Beale (65), Mary Harron (73), Sam Richardson (42), Cynthia Addai-Robinson (41), Oliver Platt (66), Rachael Harris (58), Anthony Andrews (78), Clare Holman (62), Andrew Lawrence (38), Rob Zombie (61), Lisa Rieffel (51), Shirley Eaton (89), Olivier Martinez (60), Mike van Diem (67), Jakob Oftebro (40), Ralf Moeller (67), Alexandra Wentworth (61), Natasha Halevi (44), Zabryna Guevara (54), Debra Feuer (67), Matt Malloy (63), Ally Ioannides (28), Will Tilston (19), Taraneh Alidoosti (42), Will Rothhaar (39), André De Shields (80), Simon Halls (62), Vanessa Johansson (46), Pixie Lott (35), Mithila Palkar (33), Wayne Wang (77), Lee Bo-young (47), Jason and Randy Sklar (54), Isabella Day (22) |
| Tom Cherones, the director and producer who worked on 81 of the first 86 episodes of Seinfeld during the sitcom’s first five seasons, winning an Emmy and a DGA Award in the process, has died. He was 86. The obituary. |
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