Terrence Clay
2023-05-09 00:35:02 UTC
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/writers-strike-era-mtv-movie-155755958.html
Nardine Saad
Mon, May 8, 2023 at 8:57 AM PDT
Absent a host and amid industrywide labor unrest, MTV forged ahead Sunday with its Movie & TV Awards honoring the year's most popular titles and stars of the big and small screens.
It was the first big awards show to take place — sort of — during the ongoing Hollywood writers' strike, which took a dramatic toll on the zeitgeist-mirroring ceremony.
MTV opted last-minute to pretape what was supposed to be a live show after Drew Barrymore resigned as host and the Writers Guild of America announced plans to picket outside the ceremony's venue, the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. The red carpet was also scrapped after stars reportedly dropped out of the event.
Show producers said they were "pivoting away from a live event" format and leaned heavily into a retrospective-style broadcast, one that ended up being hastily reminiscent of low-rated pandemic-era awards shows. Sunday's ceremony was packed with remote and pretaped acceptance speeches, video montages of past performances and outlandish moments, as well as sneak peeks for upcoming projects, including a clip from Disney's live-action "The Little Mermaid," Showtime's "Yellowjackets" and Paramount's summer tentpole movie "Transformers: Rise of the Beast."
No stage was set and no golden popcorn trophies were handed out in front of a live audience. Instead, MTV condensed its fan-voted awards show into a zippy flashback reel that was a far cry from the must-see, pop-culture-shifting fare that the cable network previously traded in.
The show also lacked its bankable star power, save for an in-flight speech from "Top Gun: Maverick" star Tom Cruise, Jennifer Coolidge quoting "Hamlet," Sofia Carson getting emotional and a trio of acceptances from "The Last of Us" star Pedro Pascal. The evening's other notable winners — Adam Sandler, the Kardashians, Selena Gomez, Jenna Ortega and "Outer Banks" stars Madison Bailey and and Rudy Pankow (the marquee best kiss prize winners) — did not send in videos.
"Scream VI," which earned the prize for best movie, was represented by a person costumed as the villainous Ghostface delivering thank yous on behalf of the film.
Despite the glaring setbacks, a scaled-back ceremony aired on MTV and its sister networks.
Nardine Saad
Mon, May 8, 2023 at 8:57 AM PDT
Absent a host and amid industrywide labor unrest, MTV forged ahead Sunday with its Movie & TV Awards honoring the year's most popular titles and stars of the big and small screens.
It was the first big awards show to take place — sort of — during the ongoing Hollywood writers' strike, which took a dramatic toll on the zeitgeist-mirroring ceremony.
MTV opted last-minute to pretape what was supposed to be a live show after Drew Barrymore resigned as host and the Writers Guild of America announced plans to picket outside the ceremony's venue, the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. The red carpet was also scrapped after stars reportedly dropped out of the event.
Show producers said they were "pivoting away from a live event" format and leaned heavily into a retrospective-style broadcast, one that ended up being hastily reminiscent of low-rated pandemic-era awards shows. Sunday's ceremony was packed with remote and pretaped acceptance speeches, video montages of past performances and outlandish moments, as well as sneak peeks for upcoming projects, including a clip from Disney's live-action "The Little Mermaid," Showtime's "Yellowjackets" and Paramount's summer tentpole movie "Transformers: Rise of the Beast."
No stage was set and no golden popcorn trophies were handed out in front of a live audience. Instead, MTV condensed its fan-voted awards show into a zippy flashback reel that was a far cry from the must-see, pop-culture-shifting fare that the cable network previously traded in.
The show also lacked its bankable star power, save for an in-flight speech from "Top Gun: Maverick" star Tom Cruise, Jennifer Coolidge quoting "Hamlet," Sofia Carson getting emotional and a trio of acceptances from "The Last of Us" star Pedro Pascal. The evening's other notable winners — Adam Sandler, the Kardashians, Selena Gomez, Jenna Ortega and "Outer Banks" stars Madison Bailey and and Rudy Pankow (the marquee best kiss prize winners) — did not send in videos.
"Scream VI," which earned the prize for best movie, was represented by a person costumed as the villainous Ghostface delivering thank yous on behalf of the film.
Despite the glaring setbacks, a scaled-back ceremony aired on MTV and its sister networks.