Joe Wright’s Cyrano twirls onto 797 screens, the highest-profile specialty release in weeks (as the market awaits Focus Features The Outfit with Mark Rylance and Sony Pictures Classics Mothering Sunday). But the well reviewed period musical romance from UAR starring Peter Dinklage is landing in a tough place. Industry estimates anticipate a low single digit […]
Mark Stroman, the veteran Fox and Endeavor marketing executive who helped launch memorable global campaigns including “What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas” for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and the “Nobody Better Lay a Finger On My Butterfinger!” campaign featuring The Simpsons‘ Bart Simpson, has died. Stroman died February 22 of complications […]
Refresh for latest…: The César Awards, France’s equivalent to the Oscars, are just getting under way at an in-person ceremony at Paris’ Olympia concert hall with screenwriter/director Danièle Thompson presiding over the proceedings and Antoine de Caunes as host, the latter marking his tenth time as emcee. Along with the winners (scroll down for the […]
With the rollout of Love Is Blind‘s final Season 2 episode today, Netflix has announced that the cast will get together once more for a reunion episode set for Friday, March 4. As they did at the conclusion of Season 1, cast members of the dating reality series will dish about their experiences during the […]
Starz will expand the world of Outlander with a prequel series now in the works. Outlander showrunner Matthew B. Roberts will return to write and executive produce the prequel series. Also returning will be executive producers Ronald D. Moore and Maril Davis under their Tall Ship Productions. Sony Pictures Television will be the studio. Speculation […]
UPDATED, 11:25 AM PT: Ketanji Brown Jackson debuted as President Joe Biden’s nominee to the Supreme Court at a White House event that highlighted her personal biography and experience along with a nod to history. Jackson, 51, would be the first Black woman to serve on the court. “If I’m confirmed as the next associate […]
EXCLUSIVE: Justin Johnson Cortez (911: Lone Star) is set as a series regular on CBS Studios’ CW pilot Walker: Independence, executive produced by Jared Padalecki. Walker: Independence, a prequel to the CW/CBS Studios series Walker, is set in the late 1800s and follows Abby Walker, an affluent Bostonian whose husband is murdered before her eyes […]
EXCLUSIVE: The prestigious Yale Drama Series Prize for emerging playwrights has announced eight contenders selected for its first-ever short list. Prize organizers opted this year to announce the short list, rather than the traditional announcement of the winning play only, to “better reflect the pluralism of its applicant pool, and to provide a broader context […]
EXCLUSIVE: Berlanti Productions, run by Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter, has promoted Eliza Weiss to Creative Executive. Weiss, who is currently working on such Berlanti Productions shows as Doom Patrol, Kung Fu and Stargirl, is a homegrown talent, having started at the company as Berlanti’s executive assistant. “We are so excited to be announcing Leez’s […]
John Mulaney will make his fifth appearance as host of Saturday Night Live this weekend, but can expect to find some changes since his last time in 2020. No wolves, for starters. (Don’t ask, just watch the promo above.) Also appearing on the Feb. 26 installment of the NBC comedy series will be musical guest […]
More spring dating for next year: Universal has set April 14, 2023, for the release of Renfield, its monster movie starring Nicolas Cage, Nicholas Hoult and Awkwafina. The movie is opening up against Sony’s Adam Driver pic 65. In this modern monster tale of Renfield (Hoult), the loyal but tortured aide to history’s most narcissistic […]
Disney has dated Haunted Mansion for a theatrical release on March 10, 2023. The studio already had the date on hold for untitled event movie. No other major studio releases are dated for that weekend currently, but the movie opens the weekend after Paramount’s Dungeons & Dragons. Justin Simien directs Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Rosario Dawson, Danny […]
As the people of Ukraine wake up to the reality of war, many of the country’s top filmmakers and industry professionals have issued statements pleading for international intervention. Those contributing include Oleg Sentsov, the director and activist who spent years in Russian jail on charges that Amnesty International described as “fabricated”, Maryna Er Gorbach, whose […]
UPDATE 01:51am: The UEFA Champions League Final has been moved from Russia to Paris following the Ukraine invasion. A meeting of UEFA officials this morning confirmed the decision that had been reported to be taking place throughout the week, and St Petersburg’s Gazprom Arena will no longer hold the final on May 28. Instead, the […]
EXCLUSIVE: Discovery UK & Nordics Boss James Gibbons has talked up the potential BT Sport JV as being an effective marketing tool for the media company’s deep content catalog, allowing subs to “come for the sport, stay for the rest.” Unveiled earlier this month and expected to launch later this year pending regulatory approval, Gibbons […]
SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about the Season 18 Episode 9 of Grey’s Anatomy, “No Time To Die”. The last time we saw Kevin McKidd’s Owen Hunt, he was in an SUV, rolling down a ravine. The Station 19-Grey’s Anatomy midseason premiere crossover revealed Owen’s fate. He was rescued by the Station 19 crew […]
The initial focus of coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine so far has been on the military action: The sounds of blasts and images of missile strikes. But ABC News’ chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz, stationed in Lviv, and senior foreign correspondent Ian Pannell, based in Kyiv, each with decades of experience covering […]
SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about the Season 18 Episode 9 of Grey’s Anatomy. EXCLUSIVE: In a classic Grey’s Anatomy twist, one actor’s character has their life in grave danger but another one ends up heading for the exit. I hear Richard Flood, who has played Dr. Cormac Hayes for the past three seasons, […]
Starz celebrated the Season 6 premiere of Outlander on Thursday with series stars Caitríona Balfe and her small-screen love Sam Heughan in Los Angeles and London, respectively. Which is par for the course for the two— well, for their characters Claire and Jamie who are often separated by time and space. Balfe teased where viewers […]
The Centers for Disease Control is expected tomorrow to relax its masking guidance in most indoor spaces tomorrow, according to the Associated Press. CDC director Rochelle Walensky also hinted at changes, writing on Twitter this afternoon: “At @CDCgov, we have been analyzing our #COVID19 data and shifting our focus to preventing the most severe outcomes […]
EXCLUSIVE: Bernard White has joined the second season of ABC’s Big Sky in a heavily recurring role. White will play Verr Bhullar, the refined, watchful patriarch of the powerful Bhullar drug cartel. By turns distant, judgmental, and tender, he’s impossible to please, much to the ire of his two children-lieutenants, Ren and Jag. After abruptly […]
EXCLUSIVE: Graham McTavish (Outlander, Men in Kilts: A Roadtrip with Sam and Graham) has signed on to star in Somewhere in Montana, an upcoming indie from writer-director Brandon Smith that will go before cameras later this year. In the film, the Scottish actor will play John Thomas, a ranch owner who allows a Hollywood production […]
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline hears that Quentin Tarantino is in early talks to direct one or two episodes of Justified: City Primeval, the FX limited series that reunites Timothy Olyphant with his six-gun as U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens. No one was commenting. While most felt like Tarantino’s next turn behind the camera would be his final feature […]
The Centers for Disease Control today shared with clinicians newly revised Covid vaccination guidelines for Americans ages 12-64, those people who are moderately to severely immunocompromised and those who had the Janssen vaccine. In issuing the changes, the CDC emphasized that the approved Covid vaccines are safe and that they already have averted an estimated […]
Around 350 items intended for use in the filming of the fifth season of Netflix hit The Crown were taken from vehicles this weekend while filming of the series was taking place. Among the missing items was a replica of the 1897 Imperial Coronation coach egg by Fabergé, 12 sets of silver candelabra and seven […]
