Many remember Regina Hall from her legendary role as Brenda in the Scary Movie series. Her career didn’t start there, though. She starred in Best Man, and Love and Basketball. Both films are hallmarks of Black American Cinema and she hasn’t stopped since. On the film side, Hall has starred in the Scary Movie, The […]
Futurama voice actor John DiMaggio revealed he got respect but no more money after his salary standoff with Disney and Hulu last winter, a dispute he dubbed #bendergate. DiMaggio, who plays Bender, the show’s degenerate robot, made the revelation to attendees at Phoenix Fan Fusion last week. “People are like, ‘I’m so glad you got […]
Kaley Cuoco seems satisfied with two seasons of The Flight Attendant. “It’s going to take a lot of thought to make sure if we go back that it’s better than the last two, which is very hard to do,” she told People.com, noting there are no current plans for a third season of the HBO […]
Jurors deliberated for their first full day in Johnny Depp’s $50 million defamation trial against Amber Heard on Tuesday, as they posted a question to the judge over how they should weigh the headline in Heard’s Washington Post op ed. The headline for the online version of the December, 2018 piece read “I spoke up […]
EXCLUSIVE: MRC Television has promoted Kristen Kuroski to Senior Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs. In her expanded role, Kuroski is responsible for structuring, negotiating, and managing above-the-line talent deals, underlying rights deals and overall/first look agreements, as well as overseeing and guiding day-to-day production legal matters. She reports to EVP, Head of Business […]
Some Stranger Things fans see a mystery behind the mysteries of the show’s fourth season. With seven episodes of Stranger Things 4 now streaming on Netflix, fans are worried that Charlie Heaton’s character, Jonathan, has been sidelined. Jonathan has moved to California with his mom, away from Hawkins, Indiana, where much of the show is […]
AMC Theatres announced its first newly-built theater of 2022 – the AMC Dine-In Topanga 12 in Canoga Park — will open June 2 as the pandemic-rattled exhibition business reshuffles. The launch will follow by a day the close of operations at nearby AMC Promenade 16 in Woodland Hills as the exhibitors continue to fine tune […]
UTA has upped 26 colleagues to partners, representing more than 15 divisions and corporate functions. This marks the largest partner class announced in UTA’s 31-year history. The list of the newest UTA partners announced today are: David Anderson- MediaLink Robert Arakelian- Production Arts Natasha Bolouki- Unscripted Television Rob Carlson-Motion Picture Literary David Evenchick- UTA Speakers […]
EXCLUSIVE: Rudy Pankow has signed with CAA. The actor is best known for his role as JJ in the Netflix series Outer Banks, which is currently filming its third season. He’s also in the Sony film Uncharted opposite Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland. He plays the younger version of Sam, the older brother of Nathan Drake (Holland). Pankow […]
EXCLUSIVE: Adrienne Warren is set as a lead in Hulu drama series Black Cake, from Women of the Movement creator Marissa Jo Cerar, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. Andrew Dosunmu (Where Is Kyra?) has been tapped to direct the pilot episode of the project, which landed at the Disney streamer with […]
Fox Sports, a few weeks after making a splash by announcing Tom Brady would be joining the network as an NFL analyst when his playing career is over, has confirmed its lead announcing talent for 2022. As expected, Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen have been named lead play-by-play announcer and analyst, replacing Joe Buck and […]
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah is bringing its “Heroes of the Freedomsurrection” display to Los Angeles this week, the mock commemoration of the January 6th siege on the Capitol that features monuments to figures including Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley. The display will appear on June 3-5 at Westfield Century City Nordstrom […]
EXCLUSIVE: Rashad Raisani is extending his relationship with 20th Television, signing a new multi-year overall deal at the Disney TV Studios division which has been his home for the past five years. Raisani is currently writing and executive producing ABC’s Criminal Nature drama pilot (fka untitled National Parks project), which 20th Television is co-producing with […]
Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen, Andy Garcia, Don Johnson and Craig T. Nelson are returning for Book Club 2 – The Next Chapter, which has entered production in Italy, with Giancarlo Giannini (Across the River and Into the Trees), Hugh Quarshie (Breeders) and Vincent Riotta (House of Gucci) joining the sequel as […]
EXCLUSIVE: Orange Is The New Black star Jackie Cruz has replaced Stephanie Beatriz as co-lead in horror-thriller movie History Of Evil, which has just wrapped. The Vampire Diaries actor Paul Wesley co-stars in the feature, which as we reported earlier this year was pre-bought by AMC’s genre streamer Shudder for North America, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. We’re told Brooklyn […]
EXCLUSIVE: Dark Dreams Entertainment, the production company owned by Magic Mike and I Am Number Four star Alex Pettyfer, has received backing from an angel investor and has set a three-picture deal with UK, LA and Buenos Aires-based production firm Infinity Hill. Dark Dreams, which Pettyfer steers with his manager-producer James Ireland, has had “substantial” backing […]
EXCLUSIVE: Welcome to Earth producer Nutopia has struck a deal with former Travel Channel and BBC Productions boss Pat Younge to develop a slate of global TV franchises with a focus on diversity and inclusion. Younge and Nutopia will forge shows “rooted in the stories and perspectives of the African and Asian diaspora.” The strategic collaboration reunites […]
EXCLUSIVE: British arts and culture streamer Marquee TV has bought fellow arts SVoD Helio Arts, initiating a restructure that sees long-serving Marquee COO Nina Laricheva promoted to CEO of the combined entity. Helio’s video content and partnerships will be folded into the Marquee TV catalogue, including the likes of Bon Appétit, a one-woman opera about […]
Kevin Spacey will “voluntarily” appear in a UK court on four counts of sexual assault, following questions over whether he would need to be extradited from the U.S. In the past hour, the American Beauty star has given a statement to Good Morning America in which he said he is “confident” he can prove his innocence. The Oscar winning […]
Vice Puts FAST Channel In Gear On Fox’s Tubi Vice Media Group’s free ad-supported streaming channel Vice FAST is to launch on Fox’s streaming platform Tubi. Vice Distribution, the company’s licensing arm, struck the deal, which also includes an agreement for 200 hours of programming made available on Tubi for the first time. These shows […]
The 56th Karlovy Vary Film Festival has unveiled its official selection, which comprises 33 films from five continents screening across three sections. Scroll down for full list. Artistic director Karel Och’s program includes twenty-seven world premieres, three international premieres, and three European premieres, covering five continents. Among the lineup are Jake Paltrow’s drama June Zero about […]
Joe Weinstock, Co-President of Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse Entertainment label Spoke Studios, has exited to launch a JV with The Masked Singer UK and Netflix’s Hard Cell super-indie Argonon. Rose Rock Entertainment will focus on delivering “cinematic American factual content” that is entertaining and edgy, building on Weinstock’s male-skewing factual expertise. The indie will operate out of offices in Hollywood […]
The first Arabic language version of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s British cult comedy classic The Office will air in the Middle East later this year, following a deal struck between licence holder BBC Studios and local producer-broadcaster MBC. Airing on the network’s TV channels and via streamer Shahid VIP, the 20-part series will be […]
“Authorities said the gunman was able to obtain the weapon legally.” The New York Times put that seemingly pedestrian sentence into high relief this weekend, elevating it to the status of cover line on the front of the outlet’s Sunday Review section. The sentence is set in white type on a stark black background, the […]
Bo Burnham today dropped an edit of unreleased material from his 2021 Netflix comedy special Inside to mark the project’s one-year anniversary. He called it The Inside Outtakes. “a year ago today,” he wrote on Instagram, “I released a special called inside. i’ve spent the last two months editing together material that i short for […]
