Thursday’s primetime January 6 House select committee’s public hearing is prompting some programming shifts by the broadcast networks. CBS has moved Thursday’s eviction episode of Big Brother, originally scheduled for 8 pm ET, to Friday, July 22 at 8 PM ET, replacing the previously scheduled second season premiere of Secret Celebrity Renovation, which will now […]
EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Green (The Outpost) is the latest addition to the cast of Ben Affleck’s Nike drama for Amazon Studios, Skydance Sports and Mandalay Pictures, in which Affleck will star opposite his Good Will Hunting collaborator Matt Damon. The untitled sports marketing pic has Damon playing maverick sneaker salesman and former Nike executive Sonny Vaccaro, with Affleck […]
Broadway’s long-running musical Chicago has cast Madam Secretary actor Erich Bergen in the role of Billy Flynn, producers announced today. Bergen will join the show on Monday, August 1, and continue through Sunday, September 11. The musical revival is playing at the Ambassador Theatre. Bergen is the latest actor best known for TV and film […]
Time to retrofit that Stormtrooper mask. The organizers of this week’s San Diego Comic-Con are requiring “all attendee groups, including but not limited to exhibitors, guests, staff, press, professionals, volunteers, and cosplayers…to wear an approved face covering regardless of vaccination status.” In case there’s any doubt in year three of the pandemic what an approved […]
Craig McCracken, Emmy-winning creator of The Powerpuff Girls and Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends, has teamed with Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe to bring new animated versions of the classic series back to the small screen. McCracken, who first began his career at Hanna-Barbera Cartoons 30 years ago, is developing animated reboots of both series at the […]
Amazon is starting to roll out a long-awaited redesign of its Prime Video interface this week, with the new look shifting away from the previous maze of small tiles and toward what the company calls a “super carousel” intended to be more “cinematic.” The new design emphasizes Prime originals, with trailers embedded in the expanded […]
UPDATED, 10:54 a.m.: The Sundance Institute and Adobe have named their Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellows for 2022. The list of emerging filmmakers selected includes Rubing Zhang, Thomas Percy Kim, Advik Beni, Esteban Bailey, Tae Catalina, Justin Kim WooSŏk. Fernando Rocha, Giovanna Molina, Anna R. Japaridze and Mykea Fairweather Perry. The Ignite x Adobe Fellowship is […]
Mickey Rooney Jr., the eldest son of Hollywood actor Mickey Rooney who went on to a show business career of his own that included being an original – if short-lived — Mouseketeer, an actor and a member of Willie Nelson’s band, died Saturday at his home in Glendale, AZ. He was 77. His death was […]
EXCLUSIVE: For the upcoming Hunger Games prequel, the odds are in its favor to add an Emmy-winning star to the cast. Sources tell Deadline that Peter Dinklage is set to join the growing ensemble of Lionsgate’s Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. Dinklage will play Casca Highbottom, dean of the Academy. He will star […]
EXCLUSIVE: Mike Hayes, who was an agent with ICM Partners for nearly 17 years, has joined APA as Senior Vice-President, Global Music. At ICM Partners, Hayes represented a slew of clients, many of whom are expected to make the move to APA, including The Go-Go’s, Belinda Carlisle, Jon Bellion, Ryan Adams, Phantom Planet, Mark Owen, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Daniels (The Big Leap), Academy Award-nominee Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler), and Vivica A. Fox (Independence Day) has signed on to star in the spoof-comedy Not Another Church Movie from Monty the Dog Productions. Others set for the film include Kyla Pratt (Call Me Kat), Lamorne Morris (New Girl), Tisha Campbell (House Party) and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Grounded is the latest videogame that is being adapted as a TV series. The Xbox videogame, which was inspired by A Bug’s Life and Honey I Shrunk The Kids, is being adapted by Star Wars: Clone Wars writer Brent Friedman. It marks the latest videogame to get the television treatment following the likes of […]
Just days before Rap Sh!t’s HBO Max debut, the Issa Rae produced comedy looks to be coming back for a second season and heading out to the Golden State. Penned by the Insecure co-creator and starring Aida Osman and KaMillion, Rap Sh!t was awarded over $12.6 million this morning in the latest round of small […]
There’s going to be some serious California financial meat on the bones of Star War series Skeleton Crew. Hauling in a near-record $20.9 million in Golden State tax incentives, the Disney+ series starring Jude Law was among seven shows awarded lucrative credits today. As you can see in the list below, the 2023-premiering Skeleton Crew […]
Season 3 of Apple TV+’s animated comedy Central Park will premiere Sept. 9. It will feature original cast member Kristen Bell who is rejoining the series as a new character, Abby, Paige’s (Katherine Hahn) little sister. (first-look image above) Bell voiced Paige (Hahn) and Owen’s (Leslie Odom Jr.) mixed-raced daughter Molly in Central Park’s first […]
EXCLUSIVE: Cynthia Erivo, just weeks away from starting rehearsals for the two-part Wicked musical movie, has stopped off in London to wow an audience at the Royal Albert Hall with a concert performance for the BBC Proms that will broadcast and stream in the late fall. It was her first time headlining at the august venue situated […]
Martine Marignac, the French producer who worked with a myriad of iconic directors including Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard and Leos Carax, has died in France at the age of 75. Born in 1946, Marignac broke into cinema in the 1970s as a press attaché, working for seven years alongside Simon Mizrahi, the cinephile and publicist […]
Casey Bloys, the hitmaker head of content at HBO and HBO Max is getting a new five-year contract from parent Warner Bros. Discovery. The newly forged media conglom has been settling its executive slate and direction under CEO David Zaslav. The news comes a week after the premium network and streaming service secured 140 Emmy nominations. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Denton Brierley, the UK agency representing stars from Ted Lasso, The White Lotus and Killing Eve, has signed talent agent Katy Wale. Several agencies were vying for Wale, who brings clients to Denton Brierley including Lou Llobell (Foundation), Lyna Dubarry (Liaison), Luke Roskell (Outlander) and Hattie Gotobed (Game of Thrones). She joins from Vivienne Clore Artist Management […]
Adorable Canadian preschool series Mittens & Pants has been snapped up by Sky UK, with Thunderbird Distribution taking global media and consumer products rights. The CBC Kids live action series follows best friends Mitten the kitten and Pants the puppy as they head out on adventures in their hometown of Kibble Corners, while celebrating the joys […]
After 12 years in a lock box, former Los Angeles County prosecutor Roger Gunson’s conditional testimony in the Roman Polanski sex case was unsealed by court order on Thursday, and copies of a transcript were made available on Sunday night. What the several hundred pages of testimony—taken over three days in 2010—finally delivered was not […]
The International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk (ICFR), the Amsterdam-based body set up in 2019 to support cinema professionals in danger, has posted an open letter addressing the recent crackdown on Iran’s filmmaking community. “The last weeks have seen a wave of arrests amongst the filmmaking and artistic communities in Tehran… a huge crackdown is […]
The third Conservative Party TV leader debate has been canceled after two frontrunners, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, pulled out. Sky’s debate was due to take place tomorrow night, after ITV and Channel 4 hosted similar debates in the past few days with the final five candidates to replace Boris Johnson facing off against each […]
Channel 4 Greenlights Boris Johnson Landmark From ‘Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story’ producer 72 Films Channel 4 has greenlit a landmark documentary about disgraced UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson from prolific Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story producer 72 Films. The indie has gained access to rare archive footage for Boris (working title) and […]
Sylvester Stallone was the writer and star of the hit 1976 film Rocky and its 5 sequels, but he doesn’t own any of the rights to his creation. The action star is calling for producer Irwin Winkler to give him “what’s left of [his] rights back,” a “painful subject” Stallone says “eats at my soul.” “After […]
