Movies/TV category, Page 83
Sacheen Littlefeather, actor who declined Brando Oscar, diesVideo
Sacheen Littlefeather, the actor and activist who declined Marlon Brando’s 1973 Academy Award for “The Godfather” on his behalf in an indelible protest of how Native Americans had been portrayed on screen, has died. She was 75. Littlefeather’s niece, Calina Lawrence, confirmed that she died peacefully Sunday, surrounded by loved...
If looks could kill, they wouldn’t need daggers on ‘House of the Dragon’
If looks could kill, no...
TV Talk: Subscribe to ABC’s ‘Alaska Daily,’ a newspaper drama with low-key ‘West Wing’ vibesVideo
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Comparisons among TV series are tricky. It’s unfair to burden a new show with high expectations by comparing it to a past critical hit. But saying “if you like X, you might like Y” is...
Pittsburgh native, ‘Eyewitness News’ creator Al Primo dies
Many of the conventions of TV news today — on local newscasts or cable news or the “Today” show — originated in the mind of Pittsburgh native Al Primo, a University of Pittsburgh graduate who worked at Pittsburgh’s WDTV, which was re-christened KDKA-TV during his tenure as a news writer,...
Trevor Noah will depart ‘The Daily Show’ after 7 years as host: ‘My time is up’Video
Trevor Noah’s time on “The Daily Show” is coming to a close, the Los Angeles Times has confirmed. While taping the series on Thursday, Noah revealed to his audience that he will be departing the late-night series. He started his statement reflecting on his time on the late-night program, which...
TV Talk: Deb Acklin steps down as WQED Multimedia CEO
After 12 years WQED Multimedia president and CEO Deborah Acklin will step down effective Friday to focus on treatment following a diagnosis of non-smoker’s lung cancer. “Leading WQED — my hometown PBS and classical music station -- has been a singular professional honor,” Acklin said in a statement released by...
Network nightly newscasts morph, adapt for the streaming age
NEW YORK — For more than half a century, ABC, CBS and NBC have aired evening newscasts each weeknight on television. This fall, the competition has spread to another medium. The launch of John Dickerson’s “CBS News Prime Time” in September means that all three news divisions have unique streaming...
TV Talk: ‘Interview with a Vampire’ draws blood; ‘Doc Martin’ pulled from PBS stationsVideo
Already one vampire series debuted this fall – teen-focused “Vampire Academy” on Peacock – and soon there will be three more, beginning with “Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire,” previously adapted as the 1994 Tom Cruise-Brad Pitt movie. This new “Interview,” premiering at 10 p.m. Sunday on AMC and streaming...
Katie Couric reveals breast cancer diagnosis — ‘Why not me?’
Journalist Katie Couric revealed on her website today that she was diagnosed with breast cancer in June of this year on the eighth anniversary of her marriage to John Molner. Couric, who called herself the “screen queen” for colon cancer, underwent a colonoscopy live on the “Today” show in 2000...
Movie review: ‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’ recounts war story that’s stranger than fictionVideo
For his follow-up feature to his Oscar-winning 2018 film “Green Book,” director Peter Farrelly (known mostly for his comic collaborations with his brother Bobby) has turned to a genial true story from the Vietnam War. “The Greatest Beer Run Ever” isn’t your typical Vietnam film. Based on a wild, wildly...
Hugh Jackman returning as Wolverine in ‘Deadpool 3,’ Ryan Reynolds saysVideo
It’s finally happening: Longtime frenemies Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are reuniting onscreen for “Deadpool 3.” Reynolds announced Tuesday on social media that Jackman will return as Wolverine for the highly anticipated Marvel film, coming to theaters Sept. 6, 2024. “We’ve been working very hard on the next ‘Deadpool’ film...
TV Q&A: Will the ‘FBI’ episode CBS pulled in May ever air?
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review. Q: Does CBS ever intend to air or stream what was going to be last year’s season finale of “FBI” that got pulled after the Texas...
New Mexico district attorney may charge Alec Baldwin in ‘Rust’ shooting
The New Mexico State district attorney could file criminal charges against four people, including actor Alec Baldwin, for the fatal shooting on the movie set of “Rust.” In a recent letter to the state’s finance board, Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said as many as four people could face...
Harrowing film, ’11 Minutes,’ tells of Las Vegas shooting and its aftermathVideo
NEW YORK — A pair of cowboy boots that Ashley Hoff never thought she would see again helped unlock a powerful story about the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The resulting film, “11 Minutes,” is an inside account of the 2017 massacre at a country music festival in...
Pittsburgh Pop podcast: Talking ‘Andor,’ Steelers on Amazon, ‘Ghosts,’ ‘Rookie: Feds,’ ‘Reboot’
In this episode of the “Pittsburgh Pop” podcast, host Tim Benz and TV Talk columnist Rob Owen discuss Pittsburgh pop culture news of the moment, including Amazon’s telecast of the Steelers-Browns game on “Thursday Night Football” and WTAE-TV reporter Sheldon Ingram on “Law & Order: SVU.” Benz and Owen also...
Tough to find someone to root for on ‘House of the Dragon’
My father and I sat down once when I was younger and watched Quentin Tarantino’s classic 1994 film “Pulp Fiction.” When it was over, he said that he wanted to enjoy it,...
‘Don’t Worry Darling’ shrugs off drama, opening with $19.2M
After off-screen drama threatened to consume Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Worry Darling,” the Warner Bros. release opened No. 1 at the box office, debuting with $19.2 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. Starring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles, “Don’t Worry Darling” was engulfed by a storm of controversies...
Oscar-winning ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ actor Louise Fletcher dies
LOS ANGELES — Louise Fletcher, a late-blooming star whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” set a new standard for screen villains and won her an Academy Award, has died at age 88. Fletcher died in her sleep surrounded by...
Review: ‘Athena,’ a fiery drama of civil unrest, is mostly blowing smoke
Romain Gavras’ “Athena” opens with a single-take sequence so intricately choreographed, and so breathtaking in its visual sweep and emotional force, it’s almost a shame that there’s another 90 minutes or so of movie to go along with it. It begins at a news conference where a French soldier, Abdel...
Q&A: Lena Dunham on medieval romp ‘Catherine Called Birdy’Video
TORONTO — Lena Dunham estimates her career is now a “tween.” It’s been 12 years since Dunham’s feature film debut, 2010’s “Tiny Furniture.” (She was just 23 when it premiered.) In the time since, she’s packed in just about every aspect of show-business experience. She’s been hailed as “the voice...
‘il Messarggero’ tells the story of how a local Italian immigrant connected others to their homeland
A Sharpsburg native is paying tribute to his hometown with a documentary highlighting an Italian American immigrant who brought over more than just luggage with him from Italy. Pete Ferraro, an Emmy-award winning filmmaker, producer and writer, will premiere his documentary, “il Messarggero” — “The Messenger” — Oct. 1 on...
TV Talk: WTAE-TV reporter Sheldon Ingram guest stars on ‘Law & Order: SVU’
It’s not unusual to see a Pittsburgh news anchor play a reporter or anchor in a fictional movie or TV show shot in Pittsburgh — Sally Wiggin and Ken Rice were in “Striking Distance;” Mike Clark was in “Abduction,” “Unstoppable,” “Southpaw” and “Concussion” — but veteran WTAE-TV reporter Sheldon Ingram...
Review: Sidney Poitier documentary shows a constant strivingVideo
Sidney Poitier was not expected to live. He was born two months premature to uneducated tomato farmers in the Caribbean. His father planned to use a shoe box as a makeshift coffin. Poitier’s rise from that humble origin to become an Oscar-winning box office draw and civil rights figure who...
TV Talk: Dianne Wiest talks filming ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ season two in Pittsburgh
Oscar-winner Dianne Wiest has become a Pittsburgh fan after spending recent months filming season two of Paramount+ series “Mayor of Kingstown” locally. “It’s just wonderful,” she said Tuesday of her first time in the city. “It’s a great town, really. And I get some time off while I’m there in...
TV Q&A: Can local TV stations refuse politicians’ ads?
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review. Q: Can you tell me if local stations can refuse to put political ads on? I would think whichever stations refuse would get a huge bump...
