The Game Awards has set December 8th as the date for its ninth annual awards show, celebrating the best in video games. The ceremony will take place live and in-person from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles — streaming for free worldwide across more than 40 digital platforms including YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok […]
UPDATE Broadway’s The Kite Runner will add a second weekly performance requiring audiences to wear masks, producers announced today. Beginning Sept. 7, Wednesday matinees, as with the previously announced Friday evenings, will be masked. “We have received feedback from some theatregoers who remain cautious about being in an audience with non-masked patrons,” said producer Victoria […]
EXCLUSIVE: After expanding one popular long-running procedural drama, The Rookie, with a planted spinoff for next season, ABC is looking to do it for another, The Good Doctor with an embedded episode. I hear the network is developing legal offshoot The Good Lawyer, from The Good Doctor executive producers/co-showrunners David Shore and Liz Friedman, Sony Pictures […]
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate’s Grindstone Entertainment Group has acquired North American rights to A Place in the Field, a drama infused with magical realism, which marks the feature directorial debut of 2021 AFI graduate Nicole Mejia. Shot safely over the course of the pandemic, A Place in the Field follows Army Veteran Gio Scuderi (Green Book’s Don DiPetta) […]
EXCLUSIVE: M88 has signed emerging, young actress Leah Sava Jeffries (Beast, Empire). Jeffries most recently starred in the Baltasar Kormákur-directed Beast alongside Idris Elba, Iyana Halley, and Sharlto Copley. She portrays Norah Samuels, daughter of Elba’s character, Nate, in the thriller about a dad and his two teen daughters who are hunted by a massive rogue […]
Laura Whitmore has confirmed that she will not be coming back to Love Island UK when the reality show returns for its winter season at the beginning of 2023. “Some news! I won’t be hosting the next series of Love island,” Whitmore posted on Instagram. “There are certain elements of the show I’ve found very […]
Netflix has unveiled a trailer and first-look photos for its action-thriller Lou, starring Oscar winner Allison Janney (I, Tonya) and Emmy nominee Jurnee Smollett (Lovecraft Country), which is slated for release on September 23rd. The film from cinematographer-turned-director Anna Foerster (Westworld) follows Lou (Janney), a woman who thinks she’s put her dangerous past behind her, but finds […]
EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Shane Paul McGhie is stepping in for actor Skylan Brooks as one of the leads in the Suretone Pictures-Lionsgate horror title Creepers which is shooting in Bulgaria. The pic directed by music video and commercial filmmaker Marc Klasfeld, follows a group of young urban explorers who plan to investigate an old, […]
Two-time Oscar nominee Andrew Garfield has come out in defense of Method acting, making the case that the craft is misunderstood. His comments come following those of such actors as David Harbour, Mads Mikkelsen and Sebastian Stan, who have respectively referred to the method as “dangerous,” “bullsh*t” and “self-indulgent.” “There’s been a lot of misconceptions […]
EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea Frei (Dollface) has been tapped for a major recurring role opposite Oliver Hudson on the upcoming second season of Fox’s series The Cleaning Lady. Written by Miranda Kwok, The Cleaning Lady stars Élodie Yung as Thony, a doctor who comes to the U.S. for a medical treatment to save her ailing son. But […]
Julianna Margulies is set to return for Season 3 of Apple TV+’s The Morning Show in the role of UBA news anchor Laura Peterson. Production on the new season is currently underway. Emmy Award winner Margulies’ return follows the recent casting of Mad Men star Jon Hamm, who will portray Paul Marks, a corporate titan […]
EXCLUSIVE: PlayStation Productions and Scott Free Productions have launched development on Gravity Rush—a film based on the 2012 action-adventure video game of the same name, which Anna Mastro (Secret Society of Second Born Royals) is attached to direct from a script by Emily Jerome (Panopticon). The open-world PlayStation Vita game developed by Japan Studio’s Project Siren and […]
AMC Entertainment’s new APE securities — AMC Preferred Equity Units – began trading today late morning in a messy session for the big exhibitor, whose primary stock is down by almost 40%. APES were being distributed to AMC shareholders via their brokers starting this morning. Shareholders are getting one APE for each share of common […]
EXCLUSIVE: Holly Sutton is finally returning to Port Charles. Emma Samms, who briefly returned in General Hospital in 2020 to reprise her beloved role, had to postpone her comeback after contracting COVID-19. She then suffered from long COVID, which kept her away from the set of the ABC daytime drama. She’s now set to return […]
Peacock’s The Resort is coming to NBC primetime. The premiere episode of the popular comedy thriller series will air on NBC Wednesday, August 24 at 9 pm ET/PT following a live results telecast of America’s Got Talent. “Peacock audiences are hooked on the week-to-week mystery of The Resort, and bringing the premiere episode to NBC […]
EXCLUSIVE: Showtime’s political docuseries The Circus will return on Sept. 25 for an eight-episode run, expected to focus on the midterms and the ongoing threats to democracy. John Heilemann, Mark McKinnon, and Jennifer Palmieri are returning as the hosts/correspondents for the show’s seventh season. The series — with the tagline “Inside the Greatest Political Show […]
Brendan Fraser will be honored with a TIFF Tribute Award for Performance at the 2022 Toronto Film Festival’s eponymous gala fundraiser, which is set for an in-person return at Fairmont Royal York Hotel on Sunday, September 11. The award comes in recognition of Fraser’s work on Darren Aronofsky’s anticipated drama The Whale, which makes its […]
The series finale of Better Call Saul last week was the most-watched episode of the season with an audience of 2.7 million on AMC, according to Nielsen Live+3 ratings. The episode also averaged 1.1 million in the adults 25-54 demographic. In Live+Same Day viewing, the series finale August 15 was the most-watched episode on AMC […]
Singer-actress Maureen McGovern says she will no longer perform live concerts after being diagnosed with posterior cortical atrophy with “symptoms of Alzheimer’s and/or Dementia.” McGovern, who rose to national stardom with her recording of the Al Kasha-Joel Hirschhorn 1972 Oscar-winning song “The Morning After” from the hit disaster film The Poseidon Adventure, revealed the diagnosis […]
AGC Studios, Stuart Ford’s independent content studio, is pushing into kids and young adult entertainment. The LA-based company has hired children’s content veteran Aghi Koh to spearhead its move into the space on an initial consulting basis, it was announced today by AGC’s Chief Creative Officer Lourdes Diaz. Koh has over 20 years experience in the industry […]
Anthony Fauci, who has been the public face of the U.S. response to the Covid pandemic after a long tenure leading the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Monday that he plans to step down in December. He also will depart as President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser. “I will be leaving these […]
EXCLUSIVE: Merritt Wever (Godless) is joining Michaela Watkins and Owen Painter as recurring guest stars on Hulu’s Tiny Beautiful Things, the Kathryn Hahn starrer in the works from Liz Tigelaar that’s based on Cheryl Strayed’s New York Times bestseller. Wever plays Frankie, the resilient and resourceful single mother of Young Clare and Young Lucas (portrayed by […]
Altitude has boarded international sales and UK and Irish distribution on Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras’s Nan Goldin bio-pic All The Beauty And The Bloodshed, ahead of its world premiere at Venice and North American debut at Toronto. The Participant-backed production is billed as “an epic, emotional” story about the renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin, […]
ITV has greenlit an adaptation of Israeli comedy-drama Significant Other with Katherine Parkinson and Youssef Kerkour leading, along with a feature-length Plebs, an AI impressionist show and a number of other comedies. Significant Other will be one of the flagship shows for new streamer ITVX, along with the likes of Cary Grant Biopic Archie, Helena Bonham Carter-starring Nolly and […]
BAFTA-Winning ‘The Missing Children’ Producer Nevision Promotes Anne Morrison Nevision, the indie behind Brian Cox’s directorial debut Glenrothan, has upped BAFTA-winning exec Anne Morrison to CEO and Creative Director. Morrison was previously Creative Director, Factual, and will continue in that role. She will focus on the future growth and strategic expansion of the company, working with both […]
