EXCLUSIVE: Former Timeless star Malcolm Barrett, Alexis Louder (Copshop), Amirah Vann (Underground) and Jared Abrahamson (Ramy) are set for key recurring roles opposite LaKeith Stanfield in The Changeling, Apple TV+’s upcoming drama series based on Victor LaValle’s bestselling book of the same name. Adina Porter, Clark Backo and Samuel T. Herring also star. The Changeling, […]
Stowe Story Labs announced it is now accepting applications for both its Writers Room and Feature Campus online programs. Writers Room is a program for one-hour episodic shows. The Sinner’s Derek Simonds and Stowe Story labs co-founder David Pope will lead it. The Feature Campus, also led by Pope, will lead screenwriters in developing new […]
EXCLUSIVE: This weekend marks four years since 12 members of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach walked into the Tham Luang cave complex in Thailand’s Chiang Rai province, and were soon trapped 1000 meters down by rapidly rising floodwaters. Leading to an extraordinary 17-day rescue effort in which the Thai government and its […]
EXCLUSIVE: Calabasas Films + Media and Sterling Road Films are partnering to produce the first official documentary about former tennis player and actor Vijay Amritraj. Directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sami Khan (St. Louis Superman), the currently untitled feature is being executive-produced by Calabasas partners Kapil Mahendra and Paul Beahan, alongside Prakash Amritraj and Dhaval Desai. The […]
Documentaries rarely turn out as originally conceived. They evolve once the cameras roll — unexpected characters may emerge or new facts come to light. It’s in the nature of an unscripted artform. But in the case of the new film Accepted, that documentary truism reached an extreme. Director Dan Chen and producers Jason Y. Lee […]
EXCLUSIVE: Korean-American actor Don Lee (aka Ma Dong-seok) is playing the long game — and it’s paying off. Acting since 2005, the 51-year-old star broke out with 2016 zombie smash Train to Busan and has seen his career speed along ever since with leading roles in such local hits at The Outlaws, The Bad Guys: […]
EXCLUSIVE: Beyond Salem may end up luring a whole new set of fans from General Hospital now that Steve Burton has joined the Days of Our Lives spinoff on Peacock. The beloved actor, who who left the ABC soap in 2021 after failing to adhere to its vaccine policy, has joined the second installment of Beyond […]
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s My Unorthodox Life is headed into some unorthodox territory with a multimillion-dollar fraud lawsuit filed Friday by the unscripted series’ star Julia Haart against her estranged husband and co-star. Seeking more than $257 million in damages to be determined at trial, Haart’s lawyers accused Silvio Scaglia of being “a liar and a fraud” […]
Former trade editor and journalist Elspeth Tavares has passed away peacefully at her home in London following a short illness. Tavares was the founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of The Business of Film, an independent film industry trade publication founded in 1980. Educated in London, she began her career in publishing with London’s The Observer newspaper […]
EXCLUSIVE: Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, actor and television host Luis Fonsi (Despacito) has signed on to star in the romantic comedy The Answer to My Prayer, in his feature film acting debut, with Oscar nominee Edward James Olmos (Stand and Deliver) coming aboard the project as an executive producer. The film from director Patrick Perez Vidauri follows the […]
Focus Features will open Champions on March 24, 2023. In the movie, Woody Harrelson plays a former minor-league basketball coach who, after a series of missteps, is ordered by the court to manage a team of players with intellectual disabilities. He soon realizes that despite his doubts, together, this team can go further than they ever imagined. […]
WGA leaders, saying that they’ve reached a “critical time” in contract negotiations with Audacy (formerly CBS Radio), are asking their members to join a letter-writing campaign to urge the U.S.’ second-largest radio company to agree to a fair contract for guild members employed at radio stations KNX Los Angeles, WCBS New York City and WBBM […]
Ghosts is coming to San Diego Comic-Con. The breakout CBS/Paramount+ comedy is bringing its full cast to the confab, including “livings” Rose McIver and Utkarsh Ambudkar, as well as “ghosts” Brandon Scott Jones, Richie Moriarty, Danielle Pinnock, Asher Grodman, Román Zaragoza, Sheila Carrasco, Rebecca Wisocky and Devan Chandler Long. Executive producers Joe Port and Joe […]
EXCLUSIVE: Beam us all in Scotty. Comic Con is back in almost full swing for its first truly in-person gathering in three years, and Paramount+ is planting a big flag of legends, fan favorites and a couple of incredibly annoying cackling dudes. From the vast expanse of Hall H and beyond in the San Diego […]
Gregory Itzin, who played the U.S. president in Fox’s hit series 24, died today. He was 74. His death was announced by 24 executive producer and director Jon Cassar. A cause has not been specified. “My friend Greg Itzin passed away today,” Cassar wrote on Twitter. “He was one of the most talented actors I […]
EXCLUSIVE: Wildling Pictures, the Toronto-based indie behind Mary Goes Round and David Bowie biopic Stardust, is moving into the kids programing space and has set a loose adaptation of book series Professor Goose Debunks Fairy Tales as its first project. The book series will be adapted by Jocelyn Geddie (Pinecone & Pony). Matt Code (Random Acts of […]
The U.S. economy added a robust 372,000 jobs in June, as unemployment remained at 3.6%, signaling resilience amid concerns of a recession. The largest gains were in professional and business services, leisure and hospitality and health care. Jobs in information industries increased by 25,000, including 9,000 in publishing. Even with the strong jobs numbers, there […]
Stephen McDonogh’s Lone Wolf Pictures has acquired rights to Anthony Ryan’s Raven’s Shadow fantasy book franchise to develop into a television series. Paul Telegdy and Stefan Telegdy’s The Whole Spiel will executive produce the project. Tentatively titled Queen of Fire, the TV series will feature the legends, worlds and characters of the Raven’s Shadow book […]
Afternoon Insiders. A week is a long time in TV and film, and it’s also a long time in politics. Max Goldbart here and we’ve got you covered on all three. Read on. Bye Bye Boris All over in 36 hours: Few in Britain’s London politics bubble would have predicted that the scandal to bring […]
EXCLUSIVE: Bankside Films has picked up world sales rights to Colm Bairéad’s critically acclaimed debut feature The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin), which won seven Irish Film and TV Awards earlier this year, including Best Film, Director and Lead Actress. Set in 1981 rural Ireland, the movie charts the story of a quiet, neglected girl […]
EXCLUSIVE: Unorthodox star Shira Haas and Stephen Graham are to lead Netflix’s mind-bending graphic novel adaptation Bodies, rounding out main cast alongside Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (The Queen’s Gambit), Kyle Soller (The Inheritance) and Amaka Okafor (The Responder). Graham will play Elias Mannix, a central character to the story, while Haas, who broke out in Shtisel, will play one of the […]
Prince Harry has won a legal battle against the UK’s Mail on Sunday, with parts of an article about the Duke of Sussex’s security arrangements called “defamatory.” The Prince, who has been involved with a number of such cases along with wife Meghan Markle, sued the paper’s owner Associated Newspapers Limited for an article about […]
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has greenlit a landmark documentary film and 10-part podcast on Shamima Begum – the teenager who travelled to Syria to join ISIS before trying to return and having her citizenship revoked – from the team behind the multi award-winning I’m Not A Monster. For the past 12 months, Begum, now 22, has been […]
NBC, The Washington Post and other media outlets reported today that Japan’s former prime minister, Shinzo Abe, was shot while giving a speech in western Japan near Kyoto. Both outlets cited the nation’s chief cabinet secretary Matsuno, who said the former PM was shot around 11:30 a.m. local time. Abe was said to be bleeding […]
It’s not a new comedy special. But Netflix continues to ride the Dave Chappelle train, quietly releasing What’s In A Name, a chronicle of a speech Chappelle gave in June at a naming ceremony at Washington D.C.’s Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Chappelle wasn’t warmly received, and faced some angry students. The appearance was […]
