When comedian Chloe Radcliffe cheated on a boyfriend for the first time, as a sophomore at Minnesota’s Gustavus Adolphus College in 2009, she had an epiphany. “You realize you don’t burst into flames. The person that you’re cheating on doesn’t find out,” Radcliffe explains. “You can still care about them; you can care about multiple […]
Rust director Joel Souza took the stand today in the trial of armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, telling the court that he did not see who gave Alec Baldwin the firearm in the fatal on-set shooting. “I didn’t see anybody give it to him,” Souza said, emphasizing that there was “an enormous amount going on” in the […]
The singular voice of Charlie Ergen, long an outspoken figure willing to express unconventional views on the media business, fell silent Friday as he was absent for EchoStar’s quarterly earnings call. The Dish Network parent, of which Ergen is executive chairman, reported a loss of 314,000 Dish subscribers in the quarter, leaving it with 8.53 […]
FRIDAY UPDATE: Dune: Part Two added 42 international box office markets on Thursday, taking the offshore cume on the Denis Villeneuve-directed sequel to $20.8M in a total 55. This includes two full-days of play and previews in those markets. The Warner Bros/Legendary Entertainment sci-fi spectacular is the No. 1 U.S. title in all markets and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a big one that multiple studios are bidding on right now from Platinum Dunes: Wolf Night. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles filmmaker Jonathan Liebesman is attached to direct on a screenplay that’s being billed as District 9 by way of The Purge –but with werewolves. Will Honley and April Maguire wrote Wolf Night. […]
Dar Salim (The Covenant) has joined the cast of The Terminal List: Dark Wolf in the recurring role of Mohammed ‘Mo’ Farooq. Mo is an Iraqi Special Operations Forces officer, formerly trained in the CIA Scorpions program. He was raised in a world of dictatorship and war. His mission is to strengthen his country and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Malcolm D. Lee’s Blackmaled Productions, announced today a new drama series in development with Peacock titled, Drunk on Love. This latest venture is part of Lee’s first-look deal with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, and marks a step in amplifying the voices of creatives of color within the industry. Drunk on […]
Stewart Talent is expanding its literary footprint with the hires of A3 veterans Ron Gwiazda and Amy Wagner, who will launch the agency’s New York literary division. “We at Stewart Talent are thrilled to welcome Ron Gwiazda and Amy Wagner to our organization,” the Agency said in a statement. “Their extensive knowledge of the industry, […]
After more than a decade, The Walking Dead franchise is still kicking for AMC. Sunday night’s premiere of The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live delivered 3M viewers after three days of viewing, according to Nielsen. That makes it the biggest premiere night audience for a new AMC series in six years, since 2018’s premiere of The […]
EXCLUSIVE: Piper Curda (May December), Noel Fisher (Shameless), and Josh Zuckerman (Oppenheimer) will topline COGN-AI-TIVE, an AI Thriller from first-time feature filmmaker Tommy Savas, which has wrapped production. Written by Angie Simms, the film centers on a pioneering tech startup on the verge of launching COGN-AI-TIVE — a new AI chatbot with unparalleled speed and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Noma Dumezwani (The Little Mermaid) is set as a lead opposite Alexander Skarsgård, in Apple TV+’s sci-fi drama series Murderbot, from Chris and Paul Weitz (About a Boy) and Paramount Television Studios. Based on Martha Wells’ bestselling Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning book series The Murderbot Diaries, Murderbot centers on a self-hacking security android who is […]
Special “Black Out” performances of Jeremy O. Harris’ stage production Slave Play were well-received by the Broadway community in 2019 when producers of the controversial, acclaimed and emotionally complex play about race relations announced that they would set aside a relatively few performances to invite all-Black audiences, an effort to welcome a group traditionally marginalized […]
Actress Toni Collette discussed her journey from a working-class neighborhood in northwest Sydney to Hollywood star in a masterclass at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra talent incubator event on Friday. The Oscar-nominated Muriel’s Wedding, Little Miss Sunshine, Knives Out and Unbelievable acting star said she had been drawn to performance from an early age, firstly […]
Paolo Taviani, the iconic Italian director who helmed numerous films with his brother Vittorio, has died. He was 92. Taviani died in a clinic in Rome after suffering from a short illness, according to media reports. His wife and two children were at his bedside, according to Anasa news agency. Roberto Gualtieri, the Mayor of […]
EXCLUSIVE: Working Title Television is developing a TV series version of Scott Alexander Howard’s buzzy debut novel The Other Valley. Released in the U.S. and Canada this week, The Other Valley is a speculative fiction book set in a town that is physically neighbored by its own future and past. Grieving residents can seek permission to […]
EXCLUSIVE: Vertical has acquired North American rights to The Speedway Murders, a true crime doc examining the real-life unsolved Burger Chef murders that made national headlines and gripped 1970s Speedway, Indiana, home to racing spectacle, the Indy 500. Hailing from writer-directors Luke Rynderman & Adam Kamien and Altitude Films, the film has been slated for […]
EXCLUSIVE: Veteran unscripted agent and producer Bill Thompson, former Head Of Unscripted Television at Verve, is launching his own management and production company, Artists Group | Unscripted. “In the past twenty years, I’ve never seen disruption like we are having now. But disruption breeds opportunity and now is the time to be nimble and pivot […]
The Abandons, Kurt Sutter’s Western action drama for Netflix, has added six as series regulars: Lucas Till (MacGyver), Nick Robinson (Maid), Diana Silvers (Booksmart), Lamar Johnson (The Last of Us), Aisling Franciosi (The Nightingale), and Natalia del Riego (Hail Mary). Till plays Garret Van Ness, with Robinson as Elias Teller, Silvers as Dahlia Teller, Johnson […]
The Last of Us is expanding its Season 2 cast, adding Danny Ramirez (Top Gun: Maverick), Ariela Barer (How To Blow Up a Pipeline), Tati Gabrielle (You) and Spencer Lord (Riverdale). Based on Naughty Dog’s video game, The Last of Us takes place 20 years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, played by Pedro Pascal, a hardened […]
EXCLUSIVE: Middle grader book series Kiranmala & The Kingdom Beyond is getting the animated television adaptation treatment. Undone and The Kollective producer Submarine and Rebel Maverick have teamed to create a TV version of Sayantani DasGupta’s book series. DasGupta will adapt the stories with animation writer veteran and Emmy winner Michael Ryan (Wolfboy and the […]
Jenne Casarotto, who co-founded leading British talent agency Casarotto Ramsay & Associates in 1989 and repped some of the nation’s greatest talents, died Thursday following complications from a short illness. She was 77. Casarotto died “peacefully, according to a statement from the agency. Th 35-year-old outfit described its founder as a “visionary leader and a […]
EXCLUSIVE: Fox is firing up another season of Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars and is shifting filming from California to the UK. The Apprentice-style series from the chef’s Studio Ramsay Global will continue to feature U.S. contestants but this time be filmed across Ramsay’s native Britain. The show originated in the UK on the BBC but […]
UPDATED FRIDAY AM, POST EXCLUSIVE: Legendary/Warner Bros Dune Part Two has now grown to $12M+ per Warners. That’s from 4,500 locations, and Imax alone delivered $4.5M of that number or 38%. Of that preview figure, $2M came from an Imax fan screening on Feb. 25. Audience reactions have hit Rotten Tomatoes and they’re at 95%, […]
Broadway will honor the late actor, dancer and singer Hinton Battle with the traditional dimming of marquee lights on March 12. The lights will dim at Broadway’s Shubert, Marquis, St. James, New Amsterdam, Samuel J. Friedman, Circle in the Square, Hayes, Vivian Beaumont and Todd Haimes theaters for the traditional one minute at exactly 6:45 […]
Outgoing Berlinale head Carlo Chatrian has distanced himself from the criticism made of the fest’s closing ceremony speeches earlier this week. On Wednesday, Israeli filmmaker Yuval Abraham, who last week picked up the best documentary award at the Berlin Film Festival, said he received death threats and had to cancel his flight home after German officials […]
