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Parasite Makes Oscars History As The 1st Foreign-Language Best Picture Winner
History has been made at the Oscars.
Bong Joon-ho's Parasite pulled off a major upset at Sunday's Academy Awards by winning Best Picture over the heavy favorite, 1917. In doing so, Parasite becomes the first foreign-language film to ever win Best Picture in the 92- year history of the Oscars.
Foreign-language films have competed for Best Pic- ture before, with 11 others having been nominated in Oscars history. This included in 2019, when Roma was considered the favorite to win
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Best Picture but ultimately lost to Green Book. Parasite was also the first South Ko- rean movie to be nominated for Best Picture.
'Power' Prequel Series, Two More Spinoffs Set At Starz
Fans of “Power” just hit the jackpot, as Starz has offi- cially ordered another three shows set within the world of the show. The news comes just hours ahead of the series finale of the mothership show.
Along with the previously announced “Power Book II: Ghost,” the premium cabler has also commissioned “Power Book III: Raising Kanan,” “Power Book IV: In- fluence,” and “Power Book V: Force.”
“Raising Kanan” is a pre- quel set in the ‘90s during the early years of “Power” char- acter Kanan Stark. “Influ- ence” will follow Rashad Tate in his pursuit of politi-
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cal power. “Force” centers on Tommy Egan after he cuts ties and puts New York in his rearview mirror for good. Larenz Tate will reprise his role as Rashad Tate in “In- fluence,” while Joseph Sikora will return as
Tommy for “Force.” “Ghost” was announced
last year and will pick up where the original series leaves off. It will star Mary J. Blige, Method Man, and several members of the original “Power” cast.
16 Years Later, Renée Zellweger Scores Her 2nd Oscar
Renée Zellweger is back, and the Academy is giving her a warm welcome.
As expected, Zellweger on Sunday won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Judy Garland in Judy. This was her second Oscar win after taking Best Supporting Ac- tress in 2004 for Cold Moun- tain, but it's her first win in the Best Actress category. She was also nominated for
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Chicago and Bridget Jones's Diary.
Lil Wayne's 'Funeral' Album Becomes Rapper's Fifth No. 1 On Billboard 200 Chart
Lil Wayne's latest album Funeral has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
The project is also the rap- per’s fifth No. 1 album on the chart, which dropped on Jan. 31 via Young Money/Repub- lic Records. It arrives on the Billboard 200 with 139,000 equivalent album units for the week ending on Feb. 6, Billboard reports.
Streaming activity was a big factor in Funeral’s ascen- sions, which drove 72% of its first-week units, or 99,000 units. The remainder was comprised of 38,000 album sales and 2,000 track equiva- lent album units. Funeral’s
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first week sales were also re- inforced by sales from a con- cert ticket and album sale redemption offer, and mer- chandise and album bundles sold on Weezy’s website.
The new chart where Fu- neral is No. 1, for the week of Feb. 15, will be posted on Bill- board’s websites on Feb. 11.
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