EXCLUSIVE: Cineworld’s Chief Commercial Officer Renana Teperberg is receiving CinemaCon’s Global Achievement in Exhibition Award in Las Vegas on Monday. The executive has spent essentially her entire career in the business, starting with the group as a cashier in a Jerusalem movie theater and rising through various posts including Head of Programming and Marketing and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Stranger Things and Black Widow star David Harbour will lead cast of Cooper Raiff’s The Trashers, which is on course to shoot this fall. Raiff is coming off Sundance darling Cha Cha Real Smooth, starring Dakota Johnson, with the movie snapped up by Apple TV+ in a $15 million worldwide deal. His next film […]
EXCLUSIVE: Meghan Leathers (Don’t Look Up) has signed on for a role in Paramount+’s crime thriller Finestkind, from Academy Award-winning writer-director Brian Helgeland. She joins an ensemble that also includes Tommy Lee Jones, Ben Foster, Toby Wallace, Jenna Ortega, Aaron Stanford, Scotty Tovar, Tim Daly, Lolita Davidovich and Clayne Crawford, as previously announced. Set in America’s biggest commercial […]
One of the first questions raised on Twitter after Elon Musk’s purchase was announced was whether Donald Trump would be returning to the platform. But Trump told Fox News on Monday that the answer is no. “The bottom line is, no, I am not going back to Twitter,” Trump said. Instead, the former president said […]
2nd UPDATE, 12:25 PM Johnny Depp ended his testimony in his $50 million defamation trial against Amber Heard on Monday with a declaration that he is the victim of domestic abuse, not her. “Yes,” the actor said when asked by his lawyer in a final question if he was “a victim of domestic violence.” The […]
FX’s The New York Times Presents has set its latest documentary feature, centered on controversial Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Revealed on Monday, The New York Times Presents‘ “Elon Musk’s Crash” course will premiere Friday, May 20 at 10 p.m. PT. The doc comes from producer and director Emma Schwartz and features the work of The […]
Here’s some great news as CinemaCon kicks off today, underscoring the value of a 45-day theatrical window. Not only can Warner Bros. celebrate racking up $750 WW and $365M stateside at the box office on Matt Reeves’ The Batman before the pic’s April 18 debut on HBO Max, but the DC movie’s first week viewership […]
The Santa Fe County Sheriff today released “all files associated with our ongoing investigation” into the shooting of DP Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Alec Baldwin-starring film Rust last year. Baldwin was holding the gun when it discharged. “Today the sheriff’s office is releasing all files associated with our ongoing investigation,” said Santa […]
J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot will produce a live-action Hot Wheels film in the works at Mattel Films and Warner Bros. Pictures, the companies announced today. Hot Wheels is a 54-year-old brand of toy cars owned by Mattel, which is billed as the world’s leading vehicle franchise, representing and uniting all segments of car culture. The upcoming […]
HBO is making major changes to its upcoming music industry drama series from The Weeknd and Sam Levinson. The network said it was “evolving” its creative vision for the show, which was set to feature the Blinding Lights singer, otherwise known as Abel Tesfaye, in his first major on-screen acting role as well as Lily […]
Billionaire provocateur Elon Musk has sealed his acquisition of Twitter, leaving a major social media platform in the hands of the impulsive head of two other companies, SpaceX and Tesla. Musk and his backers are paying $54.20 per share in cash. Once the deal closes, Twitter will become a privately held company. Wall Street appeared […]
EXCLUSIVE: Justina Machado (One Day at a Time) and Will Sasso (Loudermilk) have signed on to star in The Throwback, an indie comedy marking the feature directorial debut of Mario Garcia, which is heading into production in Tampa next month. The film follows a married couple (Machado and Sasso) in full-blown midlife crisis who are […]
The Cannes Film Festival said Monday that it backs the decision by French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius to change the name of his film, which originally carried the title Z (Comme Z) and will open the 75th edition of the festival next month. Hazanavicius and his partners earlier in the day changed the name of the […]
Dave Eggers’ book The Every – a dystopian story about an Amazon-esque company – is set for a TV adaptation with HBO. The book, which is a follow up to the A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius author’s 2013 book The Circle, which was turned into a Tom Hanks and Emma Watson-fronted film, is being […]
EXCLUSIVE: American Tragedies: Waco – The Trials, the Paramount+ follow up to the 2018 miniseries, has found its cast. David Costabile and J. Smith Cameron are among the stars joining the series, alongside John Leguizamo reprising his role. John Hoogenakker, Keean Johnson and Abbey Lee also star. Paramount Network’s Waco, fronted by Taylor Kitsch, explored the […]
Adrienne Warren and Joshua Henry will announce the 75th Annual Tony Award nominations on Monday, May 9, Tony organizers said today. “We couldn’t be more thrilled to kick off our 75th Anniversary with Adrienne and Joshua – two of the most talented powerhouse performers on Broadway,” said Heather Hitchens, President and CEO of the American […]
Sunday marked was another winning night for CBS and ABC as the two dominated primetime with new episodes of 60 Minutes and American Idol, respectively. According to fast nationals, American Idol won the night’s highest rating and 60 Minutes, Sunday’s largest audience. CBS’ news delivered a 0.5 rating in the 18-49 demo and 7.26 million […]
UK sales outfit Rocket Science has hired Patricia Arias as Director of Sales. Arias joins from Voltage, where she was Vice President of International Sales and Distribution. Previously, she was VP of Film Mode Entertainment, and had roles at Global Road and AMC Networks’ Sundance TV. For Rocket Science she will be relocating from Los […]
‘Landscapers’ & ‘We Are Lady Parts’ Win BAFTA Craft Trios Olivia Colman’s Landscapers and hit Channel 4 comedy We Are Lady Parts won three BAFTA TV Craft Awards apiece at last night’s ceremony. The pair of shows took the most awards, ahead of heavy favorite It’s a Sin, which won two, alongside The Witcher. Colman’s Landscapers won Original Music, Photography & Lighting: Fiction and […]
Universal International Studios has promoted Ed Havard to lead non-scripted UK programing. The former Channel 4 Commissioner was previously VP, Creative Partnerships for Universal Studio Group but moves to SVP, Creative, Unscripted Programing to lead on the studio’s non-scripted strategy. Havard will build on the studio’s “strategic partnerships with creators, producers and on-screen talent to […]
The BBC has no current plans to commission a fourth series of Miranda Hart’s smash comedy Miranda after news emerged over the weekend that she has penned the next season. Hart confirmed to local newspaper The Devon Life that she written a fourth series, adding: “A lot of lovely people have kept on asking for the return of Miranda so […]
Donald Trump has said the Queen should have stripped Prince Harry of his royal titles on Piers Morgan’s Uncensored show, as Talk TV continues to tease clips of tonight’s much-anticipated exchange. Speaking in traditionally candid fashion, the former POTUS said Harry should have lost the advantages given to the royal family when he made the decision to […]
The Bridge screenwriter Camilla Ahlgren has created a European crime drama series about the head of group solving cold cases in Sweden. Production has been greenlighted on Fallen, which will star The Bridge lead actress Sofia Melin as Iris Broman, the new head of the Kalla Fall. Due to a tragedy, she moves from Stockholm to the […]
The Price is Right host Drew Carey, accepting an award at the NAB Show, believes the syndicated game show “could be around for 100 years on American television, because it’s just that strong.” Carey appeared on the first day of NAB, which is being held in Las Vegas in person for the first time since […]
Smartly sidestepping the obvious comparison from the start – the line-reading of “Hello gorgeous” sounds more conversational, less sing-songy than the one etched in our brains for all these decades – Broadway’s new Funny Girl revival doesn’t so much make a grand play for replacement as a peaceful offering for coexistence: The show that made […]