First look at Zendaya in ‘Euphoria’ Season 3, Oscar mystery cleared up, Super Bowl ratings record, and more of today’s top stories
Gold Derby’s top news stories for Feb. 10, 2025
Euphoria releases first-look image as new season finally starts filming
It’s been about three years since the premiere of Euphoria Season 2 on HBO, but production has just started on Season 3, and HBO has shared a first-look image of Zendaya in character as Rue (see above).
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Since the series first premiered in 2019, it has made stars of its cast, including Jacob Elordi, Sydney Sweeney, and Hunter Schafer, in addition to Zendaya, who won two Emmys for Best Drama Actress, making her the youngest double winner in the category’s history and the first Black woman to win it twice.
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Super Bowl racks up record ratings … again
For the second year in a row the Super Bowl set an all-time ratings record. Nielsen and FOX report that 126 million viewers watched the game across platforms. That’s up from 123.7 million who watched the big game last year. Though the FOX broadcast likely drew a smaller audience of linear TV viewers than CBS did, the increased streaming numbers for the FOX sports event are likely to bridge that gap.
Oscar nominees have finally been determined
During the Academy Award nomination announcement, presenters Rachel Sennott and Bowen Yang had a running gag that “nominees to be determined” was the most-nominated contender. The designation is used by the Academy when production credits still needed to be reviewed. Well, we finally know the rest of the nominees for Best Picture, Best Animated Feature, and Best Documentary Feature. They are as follows:
BEST PICTURE
The Brutalist (A24)
Nick Gordon, Brian Young, Andrew Morrison, D.J. Gugenheim and Brady Corbet, Producers
Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
Pascal Caucheteux and Jacques Audiard, Producers
I’m Still Here (Sony Pictures Classics)
Maria Carlota Bruno and Rodrigo Teixeira, Producers
Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Joslyn Barnes, Producers
The Substance (MUBI)
Coralie Fargeat and Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner, Producers
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Flow (Sideshow/Janus Films)
Gints Zilbalodis, Matīss Ka?a, Ron Dyens and Gregory Zalcman
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Netflix)
Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham and Richard Beek
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
Sugarcane (National Geographic Documentary Films)
Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie and Kellen Quinn
Kendrick Lamar skyrockets in streams after Super Bowl halftime show
The rapper’s “Not Like Us” saw a 430 percent increase in streams on Spotify following his Super Bowl halftime show performance featuring that and numerous other tracks from his career thus far. Counting the nine other songs in his medley, Lamar’s music was up 175% total on the popular music streamer.
This comes after another momentous event for Lamar: the week prior, on Feb. 2, Lamar swept the Grammys, winning all five of his categories for “Not Like Us”: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song, and Best Music Video. That makes it one of the single most awarded songs in Grammys history. It was also just the second rap song ever to win Record and Song of the Year, following Childish Gambino‘s “This is America.”
Following their Super Bowl performance Lamar and his special guest SZA have announced new dates for their “Grand National” tour, which will take them across Europe with stops in Germany, the U.K., France, Portugal, Spain, Poland, Italy and Sweden. See the complete list of dates and buy tickets here.
The Muppets, Glen Powell, Bill Murray among most viewed Super Bowl ads
Based on game day views on YouTube, Booking.com was the big winner among Super Bowl advertisements, which sold for about $8 million per 30-second slot. Its “Get your stay ridiculously right” spot featured The Muppets. Twisters and Hit Man actor Glen Powell also did well behind the wheel for the Ram Trucks spot “Goldilocks and the Three Trucks,” placing second. Bill Murray for Yahoo.com tantalized viewers by inviting them to email him, which came in at No. 4. Marvel’s new Thunderbolts trailer rounded out the top five.
Kerry Washington and Steven Yeun join Animals, directed by Ben Affleck
The upcoming Netflix film Animals is adding to its cast with Emmy winner Washington and Oscar nominee Yeun joining the project. The film stars Affleck as a mayoral candidate whose child is kidnapped. Washington plays his wife. Yeun plays the campaign manager. And Gillian Anderson has a role as a political fixer. Connor McIntyre penned the script (with revisions by Billy Ray). Production is set to begin in April in Los Angeles.
Affleck previously directed the Oscar-nominated Gone Baby Gone and The Town, and he has two Oscars of his own: Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting (shared with Matt Damon) and Best Picture for Argo (produced with George Clooney and Grant Heslov). Yeun earned an Oscar nomination for his performance in Minari and won an Emmy for starring in the limited series Beef. Washington has earned nine Emmy nominations for her acting and producing. She won her award for Best Variety Special (Live) for Live in Front of a Studio Audience.
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