UPDATED, 12:15 PM: Actor James Lastovic and his roommate Nevin Dizdari, have been found safe in Hawaii. Dizdari’s sister posted on Instagram the two had gotten lost on a hike, but “had made it back to their car and were on their back to the resort.” PREVIOUS: Actor James Lastovic, known for his roles on […]
Terrific news for fans of Outlander: Several favorites from seasons past will rejoin the action in the seventh season of the Starz drama that’s now filming in Scotland. Graham McTavish — who’s on HBO’s House of the Dragon — will reprise his role as Jamie’s uncle Dougal MacKenzie. Also returning is Nell Hudson as Laoghaire Fraser; […]
Dahmer: Monster – The Jeffrey Dahmer Story continues its ratings spree. The Ryan Murphy series has become Netflix’s second most popular series of all time, behind the fourth season of Stranger Things, after another impressive week. In its third week, the series continued to top Netflix’s global Top 10 English TV List with another 205.33M […]
Disney unveiled or changed the release dates for a slew of movie titles Tuesday, including Marvel’s Blade, which was announced this morning to be delaying production. Among the changes, the as-yet-untitled Deadpool threequel has moved from September 6, 2024 to November 8, 2024, with Fantastic Four bumped from that latter date to February 14, 2025. […]
UPDATED with latest: To paraphrase the old Blondie song, Kevin Spacey’s lawyers today tried to rip Anthony Rapp to shreds. Picking up on the core of her opening statement last week in the $40 million civil trial, Spacey attorney Jennifer Keller’s cross-examination repeatedly targeted apparent inconsistencies and vague elements of the Star Trek Discovery actor’s […]
Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin choked back tears on Tuesday as he described hearing of the leaked audio conversation in which one of his colleagues made racist remarks about his Black son and another compared his child to a fashion accessory. “There are a lot of people who are now asking for forgiveness,” Bonin […]
EXCLUSIVE: In what is turning into one of the more hotter projects in town, Skydance’s The Gorge starring Miles Teller, looks to have found its distributor and Teller’s co-star. Sources tell Deadline, Apple Original Films have come on to the pic with SAG Award-winner Anya Taylor-Joy set to star alongside Miles Teller in the genre-bending love […]
Netflix has found Mike Moon’s replacement on the adult animation side. The streamer has hired former HBO Max exec Billy Wee as Director of Adult Animation Comedy Series and promoted Jermaine Turner to Director of Adult Animation Action Series. Former Disney exec Maggie Malone joins on the film side. It comes after Moon, who was […]
EXCLUSIVE: Peacock is developing St. Donatus, a supernatural mystery drama from Ringer creators Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder, Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner’s Hazy Mills and Universal TV, where Hazy Mills is based. Richard Shepard will direct in his latest collaboration with Charmelo and Snyder after Ringer and The Perfection. Written by Charmelo and Snyder, St. Donatus is about a small […]
EXCLUSIVE: Nick Nolte (Graves) and Jacqueline Bisset (Birds of Paradise) will star alongside Oliver Masucci (Fantastic Bests: The Secrets of Dumbledore) in Shelter Me, a pandemic-set psychological drama marking the directorial debut of actor Jake Weber (Those Who Wish Me Dead, Dawn of the Dead). The film will be Nolte and Bisset’s third together, on […]
A Strange Loop, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Broadway musical, will plays its final performance on January 15, 2023, producers announced today. Michael R. Jackson’s acclaimed musical – it won both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Best Musical Tony -opened April 26 at the Lyceum Theatre to rave reviews reviews, but has seen steadily […]
Netflix has revealed its debut slate of original Thai productions, including four feature films and two TV series. The four films will be produced in partnership with local production partners GMM Studios International, Song Sound Production, Transformation Films, and 18 Tanwa. The slate includes Director Sitisiri Mongkolsiri’s latest Hunger, which is billed as a restaurant […]
The 16th Film London Production Finance Market opened Tuesday morning with a keynote talk featuring BFI CEO Ben Roberts who spoke at length about his 10-year funding plan for British cinema and the financial issues hitting the industry, including the recent shuttering of the Edinburgh Film Festival. “Edinburgh is being seen as something of a […]
An elaborately beaded red shimmy dress becomes a talisman of beauty, truth and freedom in Dionne Edwards’ debut feature, BFI London Film Festival premiere Pretty Red Dress, a vivid portrait of a family with at least one too many secrets lurking in the closet along with that alluring frock. Candice, (Alexandra Burke) a thirtysomething supermarket […]
Fox’s new Entertainment Global sales unit will “go against the grain of other U.S.-based media entities” by being wholly agnostic and selling to everyone, according to CEO Fernando Szew. Late last month, the U.S. studio caused a splash by unveiling its return to the international distribution business after three years out the game, with launch […]
Kill List star Neil Maskell makes his feature directorial debut with the dark comedy Klokkenluider, which had its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival. The title is Dutch for “whistleblower,” and Maskell’s script sees a couple hiding out in a remote Belgian cottage, nervously preparing to spill the beans to a newspaper journalist. When […]
EXCLUSIVE: ITV Studios is taking celeb drag contests international through British reality format Queens For the Night. Ahead of Mipcom next week, the Love Island firm has taken production rights in each territory where it has a non-scripted production base and distribution rights for the format and finished versions (excluding the UK) worldwide. In the […]
A starry group of global talent has been set to join Paolo Sorrentino on the main jury for the 19th edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival which runs from November 11-19 in the Moroccan city. Alongside Sorrentino, who was named jury president last month, panelists are a host of award-winners including Danish writer/director Susanne […]
Amazon Prime Video unveiled a slate of six new Australian originals for 2023 at a showcase in Sydney tonight, along with first looks at three Australian scripted dramas that the streamer has already announced. Described as part of a drive to increase investment into Australian-produced content, Amazon confirmed four docuseries and documentary features, one 90-minute […]
EXCLUSIVE: Backstreet’s back — in Cannes. AJ McLean is headed to Mipcom to promote The Fashion Hero: A New Kind of Beautiful, the latest instalment in Beauty World Search’s The Fashion Hero franchise. He’s interrupting a European arena tour to hit the Croisette and meet buyers on Sunday October 16. Backstreet Boys, which formed in […]
EXCLUSIVE: French-Anglo director J.K. Amalou’s off-beat Cannes and Saint Tropez-set crime comedy Queen Of Diamonds has begun principal photography on the French Riviera. Popular French comedy actress Frédérique Bel, whose credits include Serial (Bad) Weddings and Ducobu Président!, plays a woman who settles in Cannes after the murder of her British husband in London. Out […]
EXCLUSIVE: French family cooking studio Chefclub will create several cooking series for social media platform Pinterest. The strategic agreement for five shows begins this month, with the pair saying the content will remain “completely root in the DNA of Pinterest,” while presenting “high standards that audiences demand.” The shows are The Party Table, about perfectly […]
EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video is to delve into the shocking murder of British student Meredith Kercher back in 2007. Amazon’s streaming service has boarded The Murder of Meredith and taken UK and Ireland rights. British indie Woodcut Media is producing and distributor Abacus Media Rights has the rights elsewhere and will be selling the feature-length doc […]
Austin Stoker, the Trinidadian-American actor from Assault on Precinct 13 and Roots, has died. His wife Robin Stoker confirmed the actor’s death happened on Friday, October 7, his 92nd birthday. Stoker reportedly died peacefully and surrounded by his loved ones due to renal failure. The actor is survived by his wife of over 40 years, […]
Chris Albrecht has been placed on administrative leave from his position as president of Legendary Television after new details from his days at HBO have emerged from the upcoming book “It’s Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO” By Felix Gillette and John Koblin. The book covers how Albrecht allegedly choked former […]