EXCLUSIVE: Lucifer alumna Rachael Harris has signed with The Gersh Agency for theatrical representation. Harris is coming off a six-season run on Emmy-nominated supernatural series Lucifer. She portrayed Linda Martin on the series which aired its first three seasons on Fox, before it was picked up by Netflix in 2018 for its final three seasons. […]
That sigh of relief you just heard was from execs at the NBA, TNT, ABC & ESPN after LeBron James’ two-year contract extension with the Los Angeles Lakers was announced. The deal will keep the league’s marquee player in the league for at least two more years — health permitting. It means James, who is […]
Galeca: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics today announced the winners of its 14th Dorian TV Awards, which recognizes both mainstream and LGBTQIA+ programs. Galeca is comprised of 360 film, TV and pop culture critics and journalists in the U.S., Canada, Australia and the U.K. See more of this year’s winners in the list below. […]
As its title suggests, She-Hulk: Attorney At Law is a subversive delight. Unleashing a healthy serving of Dorothy Parker tinged satire, and lovingly pulling on the decades of network legal drama tropes, the Tatiana Maslany-led comedy from Rick and Morty vet Jessica Gao rapturously cavorts around the superhero genre, breaking the fourth wall and expectations. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Emmy Award winner Kelly Thiebaud (General Hospital, Days of Our Lives) is returning to Station 19 as Eva Vasquez for the drama’s sixth season, premiering on October 6. Eva is the widow of fallen Station 19 firefighter Rigo Vasquez (Rigo Sanchez) who appeared in Season 3. Eva had a steamy affair with her husband’s […]
Simone Kessell (Obi-Wan Kenobi) is joining the second season of Showtime’s Yellowjackets as the adult Lottie Matthews. The teen version of Lottie was played in season one by Courtney Eaton (Mad Max: Fury Road), who has been upped to series regular in season two. A New Zealand native, Kessell can currently be seen opposite Ewan McGregor […]
Gwyneth Paltrow is heading into the Shark Tank. The actor and founder of Goop will join the ABC series as a guest shark for its 14th season. It marks the Shakespeare in Love star’s first appearance on the business format. She will be joined by DoorDash CEO and co-founder Tony Xu as a guest shark […]
The long-awaited Season 3 premiere of Hulu‘s Ramy has been set for September 30. Ramy Youssef returns for 10 episodes of the acclaimed series which follows first-generation, Egyptian-American Ramy Hassan (Youssef) and his family as they navigate spirituality in their politically-divided New Jersey neighborhood. Ramy continues to bring a new perspective to the screen as […]
EXCLUSIVE: Mammoth Pictures has acquired film and TV rights to the bestselling novella Diary of a Murderer from award-winning Korean author Young-ha Kim. The company’s Creative Director Kourosh Ahari (The Night, Parallel) is set to direct an English-language feature adaptation, marking the first production under the deal, from a script by Henry Chaisson (Searchlight’s Antlers, Apple TV+’s Servant). […]
At a time when we were coming out of quarantine, HBO’s The White Lotus, enwrapped with its murder mystery and imperfect, looney people, just made us want to go to Hawaii. Even if we were booked in the wrong room, and everyone around us was ticking us off. Mike White’s opus about class divide, abuse of […]
Kirby Howell-Baptiste (The Sandman, The Good Place) will star opposite Colin Farrell in the Apple TV+ series Sugar. Deadline revealed exclusively in December that the genre-bending series was in development with Farrell set to star and executive produce. Sugar is created by Mark Protosevich, whose feature work includes Thor and I Am Legend. 2022 Apple TV+ Pilots & […]
Ving Rhames (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One), Nicholas Hoult (The Menu), Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso) and Cecily Strong (Saturday Night Live) have signed on to star alongside Chris Pratt and Samuel L. Jackson in Alcon Entertainment’s animated feature adaptation of Garfield. The film from director Mark Dindal (Chicken Little, Emperor’s New Groove) is […]
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and daughter Chelsea Clinton now have double the reason to head to the Toronto International Film Festival next month. TIFF unveiled its documentary lineup today, which includes the world premiere of In Her Hands, a film executive produced by the Clintons through their banner Hidden Light. Hillary and […]
The USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, known for its oft-critical reports on Hollywood’s hiring practices and portrayals of underrepresented groups, is launching a “new focus” that will measure the film and TV industry’s depictions of a wide range of political issues, including abortion, gun violence, voting, marriage equality and interracial relationships. The new approach comes in […]
EXCLUSIVE: Yellow Veil Pictures has acquired world sales rights to Daphné Baiwir’s feature documentary King On Screen. The film, which centers on the journey of works by legendary horror author Stephen King from the page to cinema and television screens, will premiere at Fantastic Fest in September. Approved by King, the doc features an inside […]
EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Kitsch and Kate Mara are among the cast of a new scripted biker gang audio series. The Waco star and House of Cards star are lending their voices to Koz, a scripted podcast series that tells the true story of Special Agent Darrin Kozlowski, who spent two decades climbing the ranks of the […]
Two wide studio releases will hopefully prevent this summer from reaching another low at the box office after last weekend’s $67.3M. If there’s one movie that’s going to pull ahead, sources are betting on Crunchyroll’s Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero. That distributor has proven in a short amount of time that they can draw a […]
Vice World News will launch a news channel on the streaming platform Twitch, including live shows twice a week. The two-hour show will debut on Aug. 23, and stream Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11 AM ET to 1 PM ET on the channel. Dexter Thomas and Samir Ferdowsi co-host the show, and it will highlight Vice […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Affair star Ruth Wilson and Peaky Blinders and Good Luck to You Leo Grande actor Daryl McCormack have been set to lead new blue chip BBC and Showtime TV series The Woman In The Wall, inspired by Ireland’s controversial Magdalene Laundries. In the 6×60’ gothic thriller, two-time BAFTA nominee Wilson will play Lorna Brady […]
A pair of Scottish animators struggle to make a film in A Cat Called Dom, world premiering as part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s feature strand. Chiefly a live-action documentary, it shows friends and collaborators Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson (The Making Of Longbird) trying to shoot a semi-scripted film for Will’s mother, who […]
Recording impresarios Swizz Beatz and Timbaland are suing social media platform Triller, claiming they are owed more than $28 million after the TikTok-like outfit acquired the duo’s music enterprise Verzuz last year. Triller in 2021 said it was buying the Verzuz web series — which had become a breakout hit during the pandemic, pitting music […]
Stephan Schäfer is exiting his post at German media giant RTL Deutschland after less than a year, amid a management restructure that follows the takeover of publishing company Gruner + Jahr (G+J). A new look management board will see Bertelsmann and RTL Group CEO Thomas Rabe taking over as Chairman of the German operation, with other […]
ITV has taken over UK coverage of the NFL for three years from the BBC, another sports rights coup for the commercial broadcaster following last Friday’s La Liga football deal. ITV’s coverage will start on Friday September 9 with the first in a series of hour-long highlights shows airing at 11.30PM BST (3.30PM PT), kicking […]
Cineworld, the globe’s second largest exhibitor, today provided an update on its current trading, liquidity position and capital structure. The company, which also owns Regal in the U.S., said it is in “active discussions with various stakeholders and is evaluating various strategic options to both obtain additional liquidity and potentially restructure its balance sheet through […]
More than 350,000 households ditched subscriptions to the likes of Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney+ last quarter, according to regulator Ofcom’s annual Media Nations UK report, which showed a record year for British high-end TV production. While still high at 19.2M, the proportion of UK households subscribing to an SVoD fell by 1pp to […]
