Divers for a History Channel documentary on World War II-era ocean wreckages have instead found a large, long-missing piece of the space shuttle Challenger, which exploded and fell into the Atlantic Ocean 73 seconds after liftoff at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 28, 1986. NASA confirmed the authenticity of the find today […]
Range Media Partners is continuing to build out its sports division, Range Sports, partnering with Richmond Flowers’ Collective Sports Advisors and tapping Flowers to become the President of Football and Coaching at Range Sports. Flowers will lead the newly formed football division Range Collective, which will serve as the umbrella company for all football verticals. […]
Twitter’s Chief Information Security Officer Lea Kissner has left the company along with others overseeing security and privacy at the social media platform thrown into chaos after Elon Musk took the reins. “I’ve made the hard decision to leave Twitter. I’ve had the opportunity to work with amazing people and I’m so proud of the […]
Netflix is utilizing its move into live streaming technology with Chris Rock becoming the first person to test it out. Rock will perform live in a global streaming event in 2023. It comes after Deadline revealed in May that the streamer was experimenting with the technology. It was noted upon that Rock had another Netflix […]
The Oscar prospects for Fire of Love, The Territory, and All That Breathes got a significant boost today with the announcement of the nominations for the 16th Annual Cinema Eye Honors. Sara Dosa’s Fire of Love and Alex Pritz’s The Territory tied with a leading seven nominations apiece, while All That Breathes, from director Shaunak Sen, […]
While over 60 thousand residents were without power in surrounding Lake and Orange counties this morning, Walt Disney World Resort was left relatively unscathed by the passing of Tropical Storm Nicole overnight. The system dropped 4-5 inches of rain on Orlando, portions of which were flooded six weeks ago by Hurricane Ian. The resort’s theme […]
EXCLUSIVE: Actress Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel) has signed with APA. Salazar rose to prominence with turns on the film side in The Divergent Series: Insurgent for Lionsgate, the Maze Runner franchise for 20th Century Fox and Robert Rodriguez’s sci-fi actioner Alita: Battle Angel for 20th Century Fox. She more recently appeared in Dean Fleischer-Camp’s […]
Fred Hickman, one of CNN’s original on-air personalities as co-host of the network’s Sports Tonight, has died a Kissimmee, Florida, hospital following a battle with cancer. He was 66. His death was confirmed by CNN, which did not provide details. “Hard to explain the magic of Fred Hickman and Nick Charles on CNN’s Sports Tonight […]
Hulu has renewed This Fool for a second season. The first season premiered August 12 and all 10 episodes are now streaming on Hulu. This Fool is a half-hour comedy set in working-class South Central Los Angeles. The show centers around Julio Lopez (Chris Estrada), a 30-year-old who still lives at home, has been dating his girlfriend […]
EXCLUSIVE: Creature feature Elevation, starring Anthony Mackie (Captain America), Morena Baccarin (Deadpool) and Maddie Hasson (Malignant), has pre-sold out of the AFM to 25+ markets for Mossbank. Currently filming in Colorado, the George Nolfi-directed post-apocalyptic action-thriller from A Quiet Place producer Brad Fuller follows a single father and two women who must venture from the […]
Good Night, And Good Luck, the 2005 feature film directed by and starring George Clooney, is being adapted for the small screen. AMC Networks is developing a series based on the movie and has opened a writers’ room as part of its scripts-to-series model. Jonathan Glatzer, a writer/producer on series including AMC’s Better Call Saul […]
Media shares joined the broader market Thursday in a major rally as data this morning showed inflation easing in October. Hard hit tech shares were led by a 10% jump by Amazon. Google parent Alphabet, Facebook parent Meta and Apple were up 6% or more. Netflix by 4%. Battered Warner Bros. Discovery, which hit a […]
David Walliams has apologized for making “disrespectful comments” about Britain’s Got Talent contestants. BGT judge Walliams was caught making the sexually explicit and derogatory remarks during a recording of the ITV show two years ago, according to a transcript leaked to The Guardian. “I would like to apologise to the people I made disrespectful comments […]
As more live sports programming migrates from linear TV to streaming, Roku is rolling out a new area within its streaming interface designed to help fans follow the action. Dubbed a sports “experience,” the area within Roku is a centralized hub for sports programming, with the goal of reducing the friction of toggling between separate […]
Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti, who was at the Cannes Film Festival this year with Competition Title Leila’s Brothers, has posted an image of herself on social media without her headscarf in support of ongoing protests in Iran calling more freedom of women. Her defiant removal of her headscarf, which is obligatory in public settings for […]
Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ will return to Broadway this spring, 41 years after the original hit production left the stage. The musical revival will begin previews at The Music Box Theatre on Thursday, March 2, 2023, with opening night set for Sunday, March 19. Producer Joey Parnes made the announcement today. The production will be directed […]
Roku is cooking up a pair of new original non-scripted series. The streamer has ordered sushi competition series Morimoto’s Sushi Master and The Cupcake Guys from Michael Strahan. Morimoto’s Sushi Master, which is the first-ever cooking competition series focused on the art of sushi-making, is hosted by Lyrica Okano (Marvel’s Runaways). The six-part series will […]
Soccer’s governing body FIFA estimates that five billion people will tune in to watch the Qatar World Cup, marking a new record for a global sporting event. This will be a spectacle like no other. The World Cup tends to put a country’s social order under the microscope. Spain, Argentina and Russia are among previous […]
The Queen of Christmas is back with a two-hour primetime concert special next month. CBS will present Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to All! on Tuesday, Dec. 20 from 8:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT. The show will also be available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+. Filmed in New York City at Madison Square Garden, the concert special will […]
Rainn Wilson, who is best known for his role as Dwight Schrute in the U.S. version of The Office and was also recently seen in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, has changed his name to Rainnfall Heat Wave Extreme Winter Wilson to raise awareness about the environmental crisis and rapid warming of the Arctic region. […]
The BBC has appointed an independent safeguarding expert to assist its investigation into what was known about disgraced DJ Tim Westwood’s conduct while he worked at the broadcaster. Jahnine Davis, an expert in the safeguarding of young people, will work with Gemma White QC of Linklaters to assist with the review. White noted Davis would […]
French agent Laurent Grégoire led a freewheeling masterclass at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece Thursday, where he dug into the tricky negotiations he has overseen as the advisor to some of the industry’s biggest names, including the story behind Marion Cotillard’s 2008 Oscar win for La Vie en Rose. Grégoire, who is the co-founder […]
Cryptocurrency prices dropped to two-year lows overnight after major cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced late Wednesday that it was pulling out of a proposed merger with ailing rival FTX, leaving the latter on the verge of collapse. The failure of the cryptocurrency giant could have a ripple effect on the world of sports and entertainment. A […]
Production expenditure on Australian scripted content reached an all-time high of A$2.29BN ($1.47BN) in the 2021-2022 period to June, according to Screen Australia’s annual drama report, with a record A$1.51BN ($977M) spent on Australian titles and A$777M ($503M) on foreign productions. Overall, A$2.29BN ($1.47BN) was spent across 162 productions that started production or post-production in […]
SPOILER ALERT: The following story reveals major plot points from the series finale of Paramount+’s The Good Fight. The date was September 22, 2009 when viewers were first introduced to the character of Diane Lockhart in the CBS series The Good Wife, portrayed by Christine Baranski. Now, 13 years later, Diane walks off into the […]
