The Power actor/co-creator calls the Mission: Impossible actor the man after the action movie star sent back his three Golden Globe trophies in protest of the HFPA.
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It’s not yet Memorial Day but cable networks and streamers are already setting up their summer scripted series premieres, in part to get them out the door before the Summer Olympics in late July, a noticeably lighter month for premieres.
On Friday Amazon’s Prime Video debuts “The Underground Railroad,” adapted from the 2016 Colson Whitehead novel. The premiere episode of the series depicts brutal torture – this is not an easy watch – as slave Cora (newcomer Thuso Mbedu) escapes from an antebellum Southern plantation via an actual subterranean train.
A Washington Post analysis found that over the past 15 years, winning a Golden Globes award for best dramatic film brought in an additional $6 million in box office receipts the weekend after the Globes, compared with the previous weekend.