The New York Times said that it was moving its staffers out of Russia “for now” after the passage of a censorship law that threatens prison sentences for those whose reporting on the invasion of Ukraine is deemed “fake news.” The Times’ move follows the responses of other media outlets, which have limited broadcasts from […]
GLAAD announced that Grammy Award-winning musician Kacey Musgraves will receive the Vanguard Award at the 33rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton on Saturday, April 2. Kacey Musgraves has used her platform to speak out in support of the LGBTQ community and advance conversations about LGBTQ acceptance in country music. […]
New Metric Media, the Canadian production company behind Hulu’s Letterkenny, is staffing up. The company has hired former Bell Media exec Jeff Hersh as its first Chief Operating Officer and former Pier 21 Films exec Bill Lundy as SVP, Comedy. Hersh has spent the last eight years at the Canadian broadcaster, where he is GM […]
MGM’s Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy will receive the ICG Publicists’ Motion Picture Showpersons Award at the group’s 59th annual awards luncheon on March 25. The news was announced today by awards chairs Tim Menke and Sheryl Main. In 2001, MGM released the Oscar-nominated films House of Gucci and No Time to Die, the […]
EXCLUSIVE: Norman Lear and Brent Miller have boarded Mind Riot Entertainment’s Gamergate as executive producers through their Act III Productions banner. The series is about journalist, game developer and computer programmer Brianna Wu’s experience as a critic and target of the notorious 2014 online harassment campaign. Gamergate is co-created and co-written by Wu and J. Brad […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Zach Sang Show will enter a new chapter as the namesake radio personality teams with OBB Media, in association with FanMade Inc., to relaunch the music and talk show. Set to begin its daily show run on Tuesday, The Zach Sang Show will continue to host buzzy names in music and entertainment each week. […]
The Polish Film Institute is the latest international film organization to show its support for Ukraine as the war-torn country continues to be invaded by the Russian Federation. PFI has called for cultural sanctions to be imposed on Russia, in addition to the already issued political and economic sanctions that have been placed on the […]
Canneseries 2022 has unveiled its Long Form Competition finalists, with Academy Award winners Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Punishment and Jean-Xavier De Lestrade’s The Inside Game, Seeds of Wrath featuring alongside the likes of Zentropa’s The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen. Germany is the only nation to have more than one show on the prestigious list (the other being Alex Eslam’s Souls), […]
Black entertainment channel BET UK has unveiled five originals including shows on queer Black Britain narrated by Gina Yashere, Black British music and relationships. The five programs will complement the BET U.S. pipeline on the Paramount-owned channel, which moved to Channel 5 streamer My5 last year and is now overseen by Cicelia Deane. The shows […]
ScreenSkills Invests £10M In UK High-End TV The ScreenSkills High-end TV Skills Fund is to invest £10.1M ($13.2M) of industry contributions from UK producers, broadcaster in-house productions and inward investors in the coming year to meet training needs within the booming sector. The 2022-23 investment reps a notable increase in spending from £6.7M ($8.8M) this […]
Taron Egerton returned to play the lead in Mike Bartlett’s play Cock last night after fainting during Saturday’s debut performance. The Welsh Rocketman star passed out towards the end of the preview at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End and was replaced by an understudy, Joel Harper-Jackson, while a doctor in the audience attended to him. […]
Creepshow producer Cartel Pictures’ newly-formed distribution arm Cartel Studios International has unveiled its debut Mip TV slate of 18 movies. The outfit’s slate coming to the Cannes market for the first time includes A&E Lifetime’s Deadly Infidelity, Tubi’s Romeo & Juliet Killers and Lifetime Movie Network’s Dangerous Snow Day. Others to feature include Crushed, Deadly Girls Night Out and Cheating […]
Shortly before Walt Disney World closed tonight, guests began posting photos and video of what seemed to be a new water attraction: a lazy river running down Hollywood Boulevard at the resort’s Hollywood Studios park. The source of the cataract was a downpour that hit the area hard, sending guests in shorts and t shirts […]
Hosted by Dolly Parton alongside by co-hosts Jimmie Allen and Gabby Barrett, the 57th Academy of Country Music Awards was a the two-hour concert event of the year live streamed globally on Prime Video tonight from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. One of the highlights of the show is for the first time, industry veteran […]
Among those who Morgan Wallen thanked in his brief Academy of Country Music Awards acceptance speech tonight were “those who showed me grace along the way.” It was about as close as the country superstar got to mentioning the controversy that has dogged him since he was caught on tape making a racial slur toward […]
The Oscar nominees luncheon is always a feel-good event where everyone in the room is still a winner, happy to see their category rivals and others, and the one time in a tense season where they can just lay back and have a great time. “For me this is just a fun thing to go […]
Even though songwriter Diane Warren hasn’t won yet at the Oscars in the Best Original Song category after 13 nominations, what it does underscore is the continued high regard and esteem which the Academy holds her in. Even more so, Warren’s resilience in staying sharp with her craft. And it was resilience which inspired in […]
Sunday marked the 25th anniversary of the death of Brent Hershman, the second assistant cameraman on Pleasantville who was killed March 6, 1997, when he fell asleep at the wheel and slammed his car into a utility pole while driving home after working a 19-hour day – which had been preceded by four 15-hour days […]
EXCLUSIVE: Marking her English-language debut in a major studio film, Bollywood star Alia Bhatt has joined Gal Gadot and Jamie Dornan in Netflix’s international spy thriller Heart of Stone from Netflix and Skydance. Tom Harper is directing the pic from a script by Greg Rucka and Allison Schroeder. Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger […]
HBO ushered viewers back to the starting days of the Los Angeles Lakers with new series Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty making its premiere on Sunday. The series from co-creators Max Borenstein and Jim Hecht debuted to just shy of 1 million viewers. Per HBO, the series opened to approximately 900,000 viewers […]
The quest to land atop the awards season’s best-dressed list is often as heated as the race for Oscar. There is the early glamour of the Cannes Film Festival in May. There’s the rush of the fall festivals. And finally comes the frenzy and flashbulbs of the awards season proper in winter. There are award-winning […]
Oliver Stone is well-known for taking contrarian stands both onscreen and off. Stone went to Russia and interviewed its president for a documentary called The Putin Interviews, which aired on Showtime in 2017. Now, with Putin and Russia driving the 24-hour news cycle, the director has been offering his perspective on his Facebook page and […]
Walt Disney CFO Christine McCarthy said the entertainment giant’s total exposure to Russia and Ukraine combined is about 2% of its total operating income — with Ukraine about 10% of that 2%. During a Q&A at Morgan Stanley’s technology, media and telecom conference, she called the situation there “very unfortunate.” Disney was the first Hollywood […]
Laurel Goodwin, an actor who made her movie debut at age 19 opposite Elvis Presley in the 1962 feature Girls! Girls! Girls! and four years later played a crew member in the original, failed Star Trek pilot starring Jeffery Hunter, died February 25. She was 79. Her death was announced by her sister Maureen Scott. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Jaime King (Black Summer) has signed on to star alongside Frank Grillo in the thriller Man’s Son, which his son Remy Grillo is directing for XYZ Films. The story surrounds a young couple hoping to create an aesthetically pleasing audition tape for an up-and-coming Charles Manson film. But when the couple chooses an eclectic desert […]
