{"id":26955,"date":"2026-02-27T21:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/26955\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T21:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:43:11","slug":"paramount-buys-wbd-baftas-gaffe-berlin-chaos-and-more-screen-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/26955\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount Buys WBD, BAFTAs Gaffe, Berlin Chaos, and More \u2014 Screen Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"

The beast \u2014 being, of course, the entertainment news cycle \u2014 never sleeps.<\/p>\n

There was the ruckus out of last week\u2019s Berlin Film<\/a> Festival that has trickled into this week\u2019s \u2014 now putting artistic director Tricia Tuttle in the crosshairs of the German ministry of culture in the wake of the festival\u2019s celebrity-criticized, seemingly equivocating stance on global issues. Open letters<\/a> abound as the festival comes off another rocky edition. It\u2019s only Tuttle\u2019s second year out of a five-year term. It\u2019s too bad there were so many great films and winners<\/a> this year that were overshadowed by political ruckus.<\/p>\n

Then, there was the BAFTAs gaffe to end them all, when John Davidson\u2019s Tourette\u2019s condition led him to blurt out the N-word when Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan were onstage (among other epithets directed at presenters), and then the BAFTAs didn\u2019t cut the offensive expletive<\/a> from the ceremony. (It did, however, cut \u201cMy Father\u2019s Shadow\u201d director and winner Akinola Davies Jr. concluding his speech with \u201cFree Palestine.\u201d That one had to go!)<\/p>\n

\"Max<\/a> \"Black<\/a> <\/p>\n

Then \u2014 we\u2019re not done yet \u2014 Paramount Skydance\u2019s steep and eventually intimidating bid<\/a> to the tune of a cool $111 billion to buy Warner Bros. Discovery eventually trumped (sorry) Ted Sarandos and Netflix. Has the sky fallen? The industry is in panic mode, as this merger poses existential threats not only to film and content production, but potentially to cable network news ahead of the midterm elections. (Warner Bros. Discovery owns CNN, which will now be run by the Ellisons\u2019 Paramount Skydance.)<\/p>\n

All this chaos and more on the latest episode of IndieWire\u2019s \u201cScreen Talk<\/a>\u201d podcast, where co-hosts Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio recap the week that was. A week that only tangentially brought us out of the awards season space, only to bring us back in as we inevitably preview the Producers Guild Awards and the SAG\u2019s Actor Awards, both happening this weekend. Beyond the noisy headlines, if the BAFTAs indicated anything for the guild awards ahead, it\u2019s that \u201cSinners\u201d remains very strong thanks to an unexpected BAFTA win for Wunmi Mosaku. \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d supporting actor Sean Penn also took the BAFTA \u2014 that could repeat at the Actor Awards, where \u201cSentimental Value\u201d projected Oscar frontrunner Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd is not a nominee.<\/p>\n

Listen to the episode below or on your preferred podcast platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The beast \u2014 being, of course, the entertainment news cycle \u2014 never sleeps. There was the ruckus out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,1138,190,9409,17395],"class_list":{"0":"post-26955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-film","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-podcasts","12":"tag-screen-talk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}