#GOLDENGLOBES: “ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER” AND “ADOLESCENCE” DOMINATE 2026 GOLDEN GLOBES

The 83rd Golden.Globe Awards took place last night in Beverly Hills, California and leading the way were Paul Thomas Anderson’s ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER in the Film categories, and ADOLESCENCE in the TV categories. Each took home four trophies, including Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, and Limited Television Series, respectively.

Funnywoman Nikki Glaser hosted the evening again this year, drawing big laughs with her unfiltered yet thoughtfully-crafted humour. Canadians shone bright with Seth Rogen winning for Actor in a Television Series Comedy with The Studio, and Writer/Director Maggie Kang winning Animated Feature with global smash KPop Demon Hunters. Meanwhile the stars of Canadian production Heated Rivalry, Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie, continue to be Hollywood’s new “It Boys”, being the center of attention this past weekend on the party circuit. The pair presented to Adolescence‘s Erin Doherty on the broadcast.

Quick Recap:

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Full list of winners and nominees below:

Film categories

Best film – drama

WINNER: Hamnet
Frankenstein
It Was Just an Accident
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners

Best film – musical or comedy

WINNER: One Battle After Another
Blue Moon
Bugonia
Marty Supreme
No Other Choice
Nouvelle Vague

Best non-English language film

WINNER: The Secret Agent
It Was Just an Accident
No Other Choice
Sentimental Value
Sirât
The Voice of Hind Rajab

Best animated film

WINNER: KPop Demon Hunters
Arco
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
Elio
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Zootopia 2

Best actress – drama

WINNER: Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
Jennifer Lawrence – Die, My Love
Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value
Julia Roberts – After the Hunt
Tessa Thompson – Hedda
Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby

Best actor – drama

Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent
Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams
Oscar Isaac – Frankenstein
Dwayne Johnson – The Smashing Machine
Michael B Jordan – Sinners
Jeremy Allen White – Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere

Best actress – musical or comedy

WINNER: Rose Byrne (pictured) – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Cynthia Erivo – Wicked: For Good
Kate Hudson – Song Sung Blue
Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another
Amanda Seyfried – The Testament of Ann Lee
Emma Stone – Bugonia

Best actor – musical or comedy

WINNER: Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
George Clooney – Jay Kelly
Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
Lee Byung-Hun – No Other Choice
Jesse Plemons – Bugonia

Best supporting actress

WINNER: Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another
Emily Blunt – The Smashing Machine
Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value
Ariana Grande – Wicked: For Good
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan – Weapons

Best supporting actor

WINNER: Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value
Benicio Del Toro – One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
Paul Mescal – Hamnet
Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
Adam Sandler – Jay Kelly

Cinematic and box office achievement

WINNER: Sinners
Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
KPop Demon Hunters
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Weapons
Wicked: For Good
Zootopia 2

Best director

WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein
Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident
Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value
Chloe Zhao – Hamnet

Best screenplay

WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident
Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value
Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell – Hamnet

Best original song

WINNER: Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo, Park Hong Jun, Kim Eun-jae (EJAE), Mark Sonnenblick – KPop Demon Hunters; Golden
Miley Cyrus, Andrew Wyatt, Mark Ronson, Simon Franglen – Avatar: Fire and Ash; Dream as One
Raphael Saadiq, Ludwig Göransson – Sinners; I Lied to You
Stephen Schwartz – Wicked: For Good; No Place Like Home
Stephen Schwartz – Wicked: For Good; The Girl in the Bubble
Nick Cave, Bryce Dessner – Train Dreams; Train Dreams

Best original score

WINNER: Ludwig Göransson – Sinners
Alexandre Desplat – Frankenstein
Jonny Greenwood – One Battle After Another
Kanding Ray – Sirāt
Max Richter – Hamnet
Hans Zimmer – F1

TV categories
Best series – drama

WINNER: The Pitt
The Diplomat
Pluribus
Severance
Slow Horses
The White Lotus

Best series – comedy or musical

WINNER: The Studio
Abbott Elementary
The Bear
Hacks
Nobody Wants This
Only Murders in the Building

Best limited series

WINNER: Adolescence
All Her Fault
The Beast In Me
Black Mirror
Dying for Sex
The Girlfriend

Best actress – drama

WINNER: Rhea Seehorn – Pluribus
Kathy Bates – Matlock
Britt Lower – Severance
Helen Mirren – Mobland
Bella Ramsey – The Last of Us
Keri Russell – The Diplomat

WINNER: Noah Wyle – The Pitt
Sterling K Brown – Paradise
Diego Luna – Andor
Gary Oldman – Slow Horses
Mark Ruffalo – Task
Adam Scott – Severance

Best actress – comedy or musical

WINNER: Jean Smart – Hacks
Kristen Bell – Nobody Wants This
Ayo Edebiri – The Bear
Selena Gomez – Only Murders in the Building
Natasha Lyonne – Poker Face
Jenna Ortega – Wednesday

Best actor – comedy or musical

WINNER: Seth Rogen – The Studio
Adam Brody – Nobody Wants This
Steve Martin – Only Murders in the Building
Glen Powell – Chad Powers
Martin Short – Only Murders in the Building
Jeremy Allen White – The Bear

Best actress – limited series

WINNER: Michelle Williams – Dying for Sex
Claire Danes – The Beast in Me
Rashida Jones – Black Mirror
Amanda Seyfried – Long Bright River
Sarah Snook – All Her Fault
Robin Wright – The Girlfriend

Best actor – limited series

WINNER: Stephen Graham – Adolescence
Jacob Elordi – The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Paul Giamatti – Black Mirror
Charlie Hunnam – Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Jude Law – Black Rabbit
Matthew Rhys – The Beast in Me

Best supporting actress – limited series

WINNER: Erin Doherty – Adolescence
Carrie Coon – The White Lotus
Hannah Einbinder – Hacks
Catherine O’Hara – The Studio
Parker Posey – The White Lotus
Aimee-Lou Wood – The White Lotus

Best supporting actor (television)

WINNER: Owen Cooper – Adolescence
Billy Crudup – The Morning Show
Walton Goggins – The White Lotus
Jason Isaacs – The White Lotus
Tramell Tillman – Severance
Ashley Walters – Adolescence

Best stand-up comedy performance

WINNER: Ricky Gervais – Mortality
Bill Maher – Is Anyone Else Seeing This?
Brett Goldstein – The Second Best Night of Your Life
Kevin Hart – Acting My Age
Kumail Nanjiani – Night Thoughts
Sarah Silverman – Sarah Silverman: PostMortem

Best podcast

WINNER: Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Call Her Daddy
The Mel Robbins Podcast
SmartLess
Up First from NPR

The Academy Awards are set to take place March 15, 2026, capping-off Awards Season.

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#FIRSTLOOK: “KPOP DEMON HUNTERS SING-ALONG” RETURNS FOR HALLOWEEN

Looking to slay Halloween this year? A golden opportunity awaits for KPop Demon Hunters fans.

Back by popular demand, the KPop Demon Hunters Sing-Along event — a full-length sing-along version of the hit animated original film — is returning to theaters just in time for spooky season. Ready to join the hunt? Gear up and catch the limited theatrical event Friday, Oct. 31 through Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025.

For the US and Canada, tickets for the sing-along will go on sale Oct. 17 at 6 a.m. PT. Screenings will initially be available at select theatres across Canada, with more locations to be added in the coming weeks. Fans can head here to find the most up-to-date screenings near them beginning October 17.

The film will also play in additional theatres in the US and internationally, including the UK, Ireland, Korea, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Australia, and New Zealand.

It’s your moment to show your KPop Demon Hunters fandom and come dressed as your favorite character. Unleash your inner Demon Hunter with officially licensed HUNTR/X costumes from Spirit Halloween, or show others how it’s done with Hunter and The Pride-approved must-haves from the Netflix Shop.

Last week, Netflix debuted KPop Demon Hunters lyric videos for fans who want to first practice at home. The line-up includes “How It’s Done,” “Golden,” “Soda Pop,” “Takedown,” and “Free.”

This October, the singing voices of HUNTR/X — EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, and REI AMI — performed live as a trio for the first time with surprise appearances on Saturday Night Live and a debut performance of “Golden” on The Tonight Starring Jimmy Fallon. As part of their appearance on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon announced that the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack had officially gone platinum.

Since its June 20 release, the film has pulled ahead of the pack as the most-watched Netflix animated original film of all time and is now Netflix’s most popular movie ever. Plus, KPop Demon Hunters (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film) is the first soundtrack with four simultaneous Top 10 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 — with “Golden” rising to No. 1 — and has scored more than 7 billion global streams to date.

KPop Demon Hunters, produced in partnership with Sony Pictures Animation (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Mitchells vs. The Machines), is directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, and features a script by Danya Jimenez, Hannah McMechan, Kang, and Appelhans. The voice ensemble includes Arden Cho, May Hong, Ji-young Yoo, Ahn Hyo-seop, Yunjin Kim, Joel Kim Booster, Liza Koshy, Daniel Dae Kim, Ken Jeong, and Byung Hun Lee.

Original songs are performed by EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI, Andrew Choi, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee, Neckwav, and Lea Salonga; with TEDDY, 24, IDO, DOMINSUK, Jenna Andrews, Stephen Kirk, Lindgren, and Ian Eisendrath among the soundtrack’s producers. Songwriters include TEDDY, 24, Danny Chung, IDO, Vince, KUSH, EJAE, Jenna Andrews, Stephen Kirk, Lindgren, Mark Sonnenblick, and Daniel Rojas. Plus, composer Marcelo Zarvos wrote the original score.

Prepare for the upcoming theatrical event by streaming KPop Demon Hunters (again) on Netflix.

#TIFF25: DAY ONE SIGHTINGS – CHARLI XCX, RENATE REINSVE, STELLAN SKARSGARD, RYAN REYNOLDS, COLIN HANKS, BEN FOSTER, BARBIE FERREIRA, KPOP DEMON HUNTERS, PLUS TIFF WALK OF FAME STAR UNVEILING

It’s only Day One but feels like Day 30? Overall, a very productive day today, covering a lot of ground and lot of stars. Some of the names we spotted:

•Ben foster at TIFF for Motor City.
•Jeffrey Latimer, Olivia Chow and Cameron Bailey unveil TIFF’s Canada Walk of Fame star
•Jeremy O. Harris, Charli XCX, Lena Góra at TIFF for Erupcja
•Ryan Reynolds, Colin Hanks, Chris Candy at TIFF for John Candy: I LIKE ME
•Barbie Ferreira, Devon Bostick, Chandler Levack, Robert Naylor, Juliette Gariépy, Stanley Simons,
Isaiah Lehtinen, at TIFF for Mile End Kicks
•Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve, Joachim Trier, Elle Fanning, and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas at TIFF for Sentimental Value
•Rei Ami and Audrey Nuna at TIFF for KPop Demon Hunters critics event

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We were up and at it early appearing on CP24 Breakfast! Our appearance, and also TIFF’s Canada’s Walk of Fame induction star unveiling highlights!

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#BOXOFFICE: “WEAPONS” FIRES A FOURTH STRAIGHT WEEK IN TOP SPOT

For a fourth straight week, WEAPONS continues to fire at the Box Office, taking $13 million from 3,416 theatres for Warner Bros. Note, these are Friday through Labour Day numbers and projections. This takes it to $135 million domestically. What a run these past few months have been for the studio, including smashes F1, MINECRAFT, SUPERMAN and SINNERS!

The 50th anniversary re-release of JAWS registers in second with $9.7 million from 3,200 theatres for Universal Pictures. The 1975 film prior had grossed $477 million worldwide.

CAUGHT STEALING debuts in third with $9.5 million from 3,578 theatres for Sony Pictures. Starring Austin Butler and Zoe Kravitz, this latest from Darren Aronofsky gets 85% on the Tomatometer.

FREAKIER FRIDAY continues to engine-on in third with $8 million, a run of $82 million for Disney in North America.

THE ROSES debuts in fifth with $7.5 million from 2,700 theatres and a 63% Tomatometer score for 20th Century Studios. This is an updated adaptation of the book THE WAR OF THE ROSES, which also was made into a film in 1989.

While it didn’t get a weekend run, noteworthy this week was KPOP DEMON HUNTERS SINGALONG pulling-in a stellar $19 million from a limited two-day run at the Box Office for Netflix! An incredible showing for this smash success Animated Feature (with a 97% score on the Tomatometer nonetheless) by the streaming giant.

#FIRSTLOOK: “KPOP DEMON HUNTERS A SING-ALONG EVENT” COMING TO THEATRES

To celebrate the fans of the Netflix hit film KPop Demon Hunters, Netflix announced today it will host “KPop Demon Hunters A Sing-Along Event,” a series of screenings across the U.S. and Canada on August 23 and 24, 2025. This will play exclusively at TIFF LIGHTBOX in Toronto. tiff.net for more.

As part of the event, HUNTR/X and SAJA BOYS fans can join together to sing their hearts out and seal the Honmoon with a one-weekend-only, limited theatrical screening event and view a sing-along version of the Netflix hit film with a theater full of singing fans!

“GOLDEN” from the Film hit #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, certifiably the song of the summer!

Tickets will go on sale on Wednesday, August 13, 2025 at 6AM PT. To choose from the full list of theaters and showtimes in your area, and to download tickets, visit SingKPopDemonHunters.com.

Since its release on Netflix June 20, KPop Demon Hunters has skyrocketed to become the most popular Netflix animated film of all time, and is the first original animated film to enter the Most Popular Movies List (English). KPop Demon Hunters (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film) has dominated the charts this summer, boasting over 3 billion global streams to date, with breakout hit “Golden” hitting #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

For the latest updates on all things KPop Demon Hunters, follow along on Instagram and TikTok at @kpopdemonhuntersnetflix

ABOUT KPOP DEMON HUNTERS:

SYNOPSIS: When they aren’t selling out stadiums, Kpop superstars Rumi, Mira and Zoey use their secret identities as badass demon hunters to protect their fans from an ever-present supernatural threat. Together, they must face their biggest enemy yet – an irresistible rival boy band of demons in disguise.

CREDITS:

DIRECTORS: Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans

PRODUCER: Michelle L.M. Wong, p.g.a.

SCREENPLAY BY: Danya Jimenez & Hannah McMechan and Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans

STORY BY: Maggie Kang

EXECUTIVE MUSIC PRODUCER: Ian Eisendrath

ORIGINAL SCORE BY: Marcelo Zarvos

PRODUCTION BY: Sony Pictures Animation

CAST: Arden Cho, Ahn Hyo-seop, May Hong, Ji-young Yoo, Yunjin Kim, Joel Kim Booster, Liza Koshy, with Daniel Dae Kim, Ken Jeong and Byung Hun Lee

CO-PRODUCERS: Scott Berri, Jacky Priddle

ORIGINAL SONGS WRITTEN BY: EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, TEDDY, 24, Danny Chung, IDO, Vince, KUSH, DOMINSUK, Jenna Andrews, Stephen Kirk, Lindgren, Daniel Rojas

ORIGINAL SONGS PRODUCED BY: TEDDY, 24, IDO, DOMINSUK, Jenna Andrews, Stephen Kirk, Lindgren, Ian Eisendrath

ORIGINAL SONGS PERFORMED BY: EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI, Andrew Choi, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee, Neckwav, Lea Salonga

FEATURING AN ORIGINAL SONG PERFORMED BY: Jeongyeon, Jihyo, and Chaeyoung of TWICE