AWARDS HEADLINES
Grammys: All of the Performances of the Night in One Place
Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd and Taylor Swift were among the artists who took the stage at the 58th annual Grammy Awards on Monday night. Here are all the performances in one place. (THR)
Grammys: The Complete Winners List
The 58th annual Grammy Awards rocked the house last night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift, Muse, Alabama Shakes and Mark Ronson all took home honors at the show. (RS)
OTHER HEADLINES
From Death to Life – ‘Deadpool’s’ Ryan Reynolds Circling ‘Life’ Film
Reynolds is in talks to star with Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation’s Rebecca Ferguson in Life, a Skydance Productions film that Daniel Espinosa will direct from a script by Reynolds’ Deadpool scribes Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese. (DL)
Bubblebee Will Get His Moment to Shine in ‘Transformers’ Spinoff
Paramount will sandwich a Bumblebee movie between its next two Transformers pics. The three films will roll out in successive summers beginning with a Michael Bay-helmed Transformers 5 on June 23, 2017, followed by the Bumblebee spinoff June 8, 2018. Another stand-alone will arrive June 28, 2019. (THR)
Lena Dunham & John Cho Will Team Up for ‘Reagan’ Black List Live Reading
Girls creator and avowed Hillary Clinton supporter, Lena Dunham, will take on the role of the then-President’s top speechwriter in Reagan next month in Hollywood. (DL)
Cyber Warfare Doc ‘Zero Days’ Nabbed by Magnolia & Showtime
Magnolia Pictures has acquired all U.S. rights to Alex Gibney’s Zero Days, apart from pay TV rights, which have been picked up by Showtime. Participant Media’s documentary feature film makes its world premiere this week at the Berlin Film Festival in competition. (VAR)
Are John Oliver, Samantha Bee and Others Disruptive Enough to Usurp TV News?
A new cadre of talk-show hosts say they just want to make you laugh, but to do so, they are tapping the techniques of the newsroom. (VAR)
Trailer Buzz: Idris Elba and Richard Madden in ‘Bastille Day’
Studiocanal’s Bastille Day is headed to UK cinemas on April 22. The first trailer for the thriller, which sees Idris Elba as a CIA agent trying to thwart a terrorist attack on French soil can be viewed here. (DL)
Trailer Buzz: ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’
Here’s the extended TV spot that debuted Monday night during the Grammy Awards on CBS. The sequel to 2010’s Alice in Wonderland follows the titular heroine as she returns to Underland to travel back in time and save the Mad Hatter. (VAR)
Online Film School: How Two Directors Can Create a Singular Vision
The modern concept of a film director is being the one person who guides a film with his or her vision, yet the current film landscape is filled with sibling directing pairs who we think of as a singular auteur. Here’s how to make that duo directing partnership work. (IW)