When Lauren Boebert put some blame on Hollywood for forcing her to switch Colorado districts in her reelection bid, she was just the latest in a long line of Republicans to target the industry and its lopsided support for the left. Not a cycle goes by where some GOP candidate doesn’t attack Hollywood, with a […]
EXCLUSIVE: Carly Hoogendyk has joined Omnipop Talent Group, the New York-headquartered management and production company known for its work with comedic multi-hyphenates, as a talent manager. She’ll be based out of the company’s West Coast office, there joining partners Bruce Smith and Zack Freedman. Hoogendyk established her knack for identifying rising comedic talent as the […]
Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest is on the up and up. The annual special was up 30% in primetime on ABC, with an average of about 8.4 million viewers tuning in from 8-11:30 p.m. Sunday. Meanwhile, the late-night edition posted a whopping 18 million viewers, soaring to 22.2 million by the time […]
Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon is still No. 1 on Netflix. In its first full week on the streamer, the first part of Snyder’s science-fiction epic racked up 34M views, making it first among the English-language film list from December 25 to 31 — and the most-watched title on the streamer. Add that to the 29M […]
Jordan Peele has come forth to tease his as-yet-untitled fourth directorial effort, previously dated for Christmas Day 2024, following its strike-imposed removal from Universal Pictures’ release calendar. Reflecting on the last year in the latest episode of the podcast Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend, Peele noted that it was an “interesting” one which had him […]
It may have been slaughtered by critics, but Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire was comfortably the most-watched title over the holiday season among UK Netflix subscribers. Zack Snyder’s space opera was watched by 16.5M people over the seven days after its December 21 launch, according to official UK streaming ratings provided […]
UPDATED with full trailer: Jack Harlow is becoming a virtual reality. The rapper and White Men Can’t Jump actor will take canter stage for Jack Harlow No Place Like Home: A VR Concert, a concert and documentary special coming to at Meta Horizon Worlds’ Music Valley next month. Produced by Harlow, Range Media Productions, Jack Harlow, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Production is about to get underway on Warner Bros/Vertigo/Legendary’s feature take on Mojang/Microsoft’s Minecraft, and sources are telling us that Jack Black is joining the cast of the Jason Momoa-led movie. The pic’s plot is under wraps, with writing credits still being determined. We hear Black is playing the role of Steve. Also starring […]
Zendaya has revealed the first poster for Luca Guadagnino’s tennis drama Challengers. Zendaya stars as Tashi, a tennis prodigy-turned-coach in the love triangle movie, which also stars West Side Story‘s Mike Faist and The Crown‘s Josh O’Conner. Tashi Duncan is a force of nature who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court. Married […]
EXCLUSIVE: The first images from writer-director Joel Souza’s Western Rust starring Alec Baldwin have emerged. Deadline has the first look. Late cinematographer Halyna Hutchins’ visual style can be seen in two of the photos: the one of actress Frances Fisher in the doorway, and one of the lone rider to the right of the screen. […]
A second, as-yet-untitled horror film centered on Steamboat Willie, the earliest iteration of Disney’s beloved children’s character Mickey Mouse, is in the works from director-producer Steven LaMorte and the producers of Terrifier 2, the team announced on Tuesday. News of the project comes just a day after Steamboat Willie’s entry into the public domain. The […]
Herman (Hy) Levine, who had a nearly 50-year career in the film industry and worked with Lew Wasserman, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dick Cook, and many other prominent executives, has died at 87. Levine died Dec. 27 in Rockville, MD, following a short battle with pancreatic cancer, according to his son, Stuart Levine, who is the VP […]
B. Riley analyst Eric Wold, who has stayed generally bullish on the movie theater business despite its recent trials, is now warning investors that the arrival of a “down box office year” has made him “increasingly cautious.” In a note to clients about his 2024 outlook, Wold wrote that he expects the stock performance of […]
Gustavo Cisneros, a businessman who expanded his family business into one of the biggest and most diversified holdings in Latin America in the late 20th century, has died. His company, the Cisneros Group, confirmed his death Friday on social media, calling him a “leader who transcended business, characterized by his strategic vision and commitment to […]
The Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild on Tuesday revealed nominations for the 11th annual MUAHS Awards, featuring 23 categories honoring outstanding achievements in make-up and hair styling artistry in motion pictures, television, commercials, music videos and live theater. Disney/Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 scored a leading four nominations on the movie side, landing […]
To be or not to be a troublesome theatergoer? That is the question Andrew Scott tackled head-on during a 2017 production of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The Fleabag and Sherlock star has revealed that he halted his Olivier Award-nominated Almeida Theatre performance after he spotted that an audience member had opened his laptop. Scott told Josh […]
Oops. ESPN has apologized for airing a brief video clip of a woman flashing her breast during its broadcast of the Sugar Bowl Monday in New Orleans. The clip was shown following a commercial during the second half of Washington’s 37-31 victory over Texas in a semifinal game of the College Football Playoff. A group […]
Fox News will host a town hall featuring former President Donald Trump on January 10, counter-programming to CNN’s Republican debate from Iowa that same evening. Trump, the GOP front runner, has skipped all the debates so far, so it’s no surprise that he will not participate in the CNN event. Given the criteria, the CNN […]
As my colleague Anthony D’Alessandro has noted, the domestic movie box office, starved of product by overlapping strikes, will likely be trimmed by a billion dollars in 2024. So here’s question worth pondering: Would the film industry be healthier if most of that pruning occurred at the very top? There’s a case to be made. […]
Actors Stephen Bishop, LeToya Luckett (Greenleaf), and Iyana Halley (This is Us) have signed on to lead the BET+ thriller One Night Stay from Worldwide Entertainment and Media in association with Choice Films. Developed by Jenna Frank and Zach Hunter under the Beautiful Orchid Media label, the pic was written by Curtis Cardwell. Director is […]
Shares in EchoStar were flat Tuesday morning on the first day of trading since the closing of the wireless firm’s merger with Dish Network. The all-stock deal, announced last summer, officially closed on Sunday. Dish had been its own separate entity since being spun off by EchoStar in 2008. The reunion offers Charlie Ergen a […]
As we welcome in the New Year, we can reveal our annual (non-exhaustive) list of U.S. and international movies we think could grace the festival circuit in 2024. We’ve stuck to our criteria that the project must already be in production and have not already been announced for a festival. More than 70% of our […]
Apple TV+ is returning once again to Slow Horses, with a fifth season greenlit, the first major renewal of 2024. The Gary Oldman-starring adaptation of Mick Herron’s novels has proved a hit for the streamer, having aired its first season just 18 months ago and yet already moved to a fifth. It was handed a […]
French exhibitors can start 2024 with renewed confidence as new figures released by the National Cinema Center (CNC) show that audiences are heading back to the big screen. The CNC has recorded 181 million theater admissions for 2023, an 18.9 percent jump compared with 2022. However, the national film body states that the figure remains […]
EXCLUSIVE: Cohen Media Group has set Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone’s latest pic, Io Capitano, for a nationwide release. The film — which has been shortlisted as Italy’s submission for the Best International Feature Oscar — will roll out nationwide on February 23. An Italy-Belgium-France co-production, the timely drama tells the story of the adventurous journey of Seydou […]
