10 Takeaways From the 2019 BAFTA Nominations \\ 4. DONE THE RIGHT THING: Spike Lee finally earned some nomination love on this side of the Atlantic by landing his first BAFTA nods ever – three of them, in fact, for…
The Directors Guild of America has strengthened the Oscar bids of several films in the current awards race. \\ The industry guild announced the nominees for its year-end accolades Tuesday, fortifying the presence of films like BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, scoring…
Deadly Class is that rare pilot, directed by Lee Toland Krieger, that opens up with a mission statement and manages not to feel particularly didactic about it. \\ The series, which follows a homeless teenager named Marcus (Bejamin Wadsworth) after…
Nominations, praise piling up for ‘Dannemora’ \\ No matter how the laurels settle from the many award nominations for “Escape at Dannemora,” director Ben Stiller will walk away with more tools in his actor’s arsenal. The accolades keep coming for…
Lee Toland Krieger directed the pilot and 2nd episode to launch 'Chilling Adventures of Sabrina' into success. \\ Netflix has ordered 16 more episodes of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, which will air in two parts (parts 3 & 4). That…
Jeep Runs 3 Very Different Super Bowl Ads Created by 3 Different Agencies \\ Nostalgia meets metacommentary Fiat Chrysler Automobiles chose a blanket-the-airwaves approach to its marketing efforts during Super Bowl LII, running a series that started with a pregame…
Walmart Will Return to Oscars Ads, Enlisting Female Directors \\ Walmart wants to go to the movies again. The large U.S. retailer will advertise for the second consecutive year in ABC’s Oscars broadcast, refining a concept that sparked word of…
More March Madness goofiness from DDB \\ Charles Barkley, Samuel L. Jackson and Spike Lee are eating steaks on a plane—and Barkley goes to some lengths to get Jackson to say it out loud, much to Lee’s glee—in Capital One’s…
Hyundai's 'live' commercial puts deployed soldiers at Super Bowl with families \\ The greatest comeback in Super Bowl history ended in overtime. How could it get better than that? And then it did. You could see it in the faces…
Hyundai's 'First Date' wins USA TODAY's Super Bowl Ad Meter \\ The main advertising formula for this year’s Super Bowl pretty much boiled down to three words: Make ‘em laugh. And the winner of USA TODAY's Ad Meter certainly was…
