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NEWS:
AWARDS - From Deadline: The Producers Guild of America revealed its nominations for the 2026 / 37th PGA Awards. The winners in six categories will be announced February 28, 2026 In the primary category of the "Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures," the nominees are as follows:
"Bugonia" – Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone and Lars Knudsen
"F1" – nominees to be determined (TBA)
"Frankenstein" – Guillermo Del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Scott Stuber
"Hamnet" – Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Sam Mendes, Steven Spielberg and Nicolas Gonda
"Marty Supreme" – nominees to be determined (TBA)
"One Battle After Another" – Adam Somner, Sara Murphy and Paul Thomas Anderson
"Sentimental Value" – Maria Ekerhovd and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar
"Sinners" – Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Coogler and Sev Ohanian
"Train Dreams" – Marissa McMahon, Teddy Schwarzman, William Janowitz, Ashley Schlaifer and Michael Heimler
"Weapons" – Zach Cregger and Miri Yoon
From Deadline: The Directors Guild of America revealed its nominations for the 2026 / 78th DGA Awards. The winners in 12 categories will be announced February 7, 2026 In the primary category of "Theatrical Feature Film," the nominees are as follows:
DISNEY - From EW: Teagan Croft will play "Rapunzel" and Milo Manheim will play "Flynn Rider" in Disney's live-action version of its 2010 animated hit, "Tangled."
MOVIES - From Variety: In one of those filmmaker to filmmaker interviews that "Variety" does, Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro tells Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper that he has written 42 screenplays and 13 of them have been produced.
BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficePro: The winner of the 1/2 to 1/4/2026 weekend box office is 20th Century Studio's "Avatar: Fire and Ash" with a estimated total of 40 million dollars.
NETFLIX - From IGN: Sources say that Netflix will allow a 17-day window for Warner Bros. theatrical releases after it obtains the studio.
SCANDAL - From Deadline: After toppling its leader, Nicolas Maduro, President Trump says that the U.S. (meaning himself) will run Venezuela until...
MUSIC - From Forbes: Beyonce is now a billionaire, the fifth musician to reach that financial milestone.
OBITS:
From Deadline: American Actor, T.K. Carter, has died at the age of 69, Friday, January 9, 2026. Carter was best known for his role in John Carpenter's "The Thing" (1982) as "Nauls" (the cook). Carter also made his mark in roles on such television series, "Punky Brewster," "The Sinbad Show," "Good Morning, Miss Bliss," and in the HBO miniseries, "The Corner."
From Deadline: American television director and producer, Tom Cherones, has died the age of 86, Monday, January 5, 2026 after a battle with Alzheimer's disease. He is best known for his work on the former NBC sitcom, "Seinfeld," for which he directed 81 of the first 86 episodes of Seasons 1 to 5. He won a "Outstand Directorial Achievement in a Comedy Series" Primetime Emmy Award for directing the infamous "Seinfeld" 1992 episode, "The Contest." He also shared another Primetime Emmy win, this time the category of "Outstanding Comedy Series" for "Seinfeld" in 1993. Cherones received seven other nominations for his work on "Seinfeld."

