The UK government has set out a suite of measures to help boost the high-end TV and indie film sectors: introducing a new indie movie relief of 40%, increasing the film and high-end TV tax credit by 5% and bringing in business rates relief for big studios. The new indie relief will apply to films […]
EXCLUSIVE: India-based animation producer Toonz Media House and New York’s Driver Studios have teamed for 3D-animated kids series The Blahs. The series, targeted at 3-8 year-olds, will launch on YouTube. It comes from Rob Kurtz and Dan Markowitz, who created Driver Studios Cool School YouTube channel, where The Blahs will launch on March 31. The […]
BBC Studios is increasing its debt facility by £250M ($318M) — a move that closely follows the acquisition of BritBox International, its biggest ever single transaction. The agreement with a consortium of commercial banks brings the debt facility to £600M, up from £250M in 2022, the Financial Times reported. A plan to invest heavily in […]
Former Drake & Josh star Drake Bell is set to share publicly claims he was abused by Brian Peck who worked as a dialogue coach on Nickelodeon’s All That and The Amanda Show. Bell starred in the latter from 1999-2002 and, according to Investigation Discovery, will feature in the upcoming docuseries Quiet on Set: The […]
Filipino actress Jaclyn Jose, best known for her role in Brillante Mendoza’s indie feature Ma’ Rosa, which nabbed her the Best Actress gong at Cannes, has died. Jose — who was born Mary Jane Guck — was 60. Jose’s reps at PPL Entertainment confirmed the news with a statement on their Instagram account, stating the […]
Nikki Haley is officially dropping out of the U.S. presidential race following her Super Tuesday defeat, according to reports. Haley is due to make an address in around three hours’ time but The Wall Street Journal and CBS report sources close to her saying she is dropping out. The move was widely expected after Haley […]
A Conservative Party peer in the UK has been forced to apologize and pay damages to a University Challenge contestant who she accused of making a coded antisemitic attack via an octopus mascot and jacket supposedly emblazoned with the colors of the Palestinian flag. Baroness Jacqueline Foster took to X today to apologize “for my […]
EXCLUSIVE: It was a moment of high drama befitting a premium TV series and yet was playing out in real time in front of the people of Poland. Just days before Christmas, when the nation should have been winding down for the holidays, the TVP national broadcaster’s news operation was abruptly taken off air and […]
Pro-Trump Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene had some choice words for British journalist Emily Maitlis yesterday when questioned over her support for certain fringe conspiracy theories. Maitlis was in the U.S. reporting for her daily podcast The News Agents and queried Greene over her promotion of a conspiracy that “state-of-the-art Jewish space lasers” were being […]
STV boss Simon Pitts has unveiled his new gig just a day after announcing he was leaving the Scottish broadcaster-producer. Pitts is moving to British media and entertainment giant Global, where he will replace Stephen Miron in around a year’s time as Global Group CEO. Miron announced last week that he is stepping down after […]
Controversial broadcaster Dan Wootton has quit GB News a day after Ofcom rapped his show over Laurence Fox’s “unambiguously misogynistic” rant. Wootton said in an X statement that he will launch his own platform titled http://www.danwoottonoutspoken.com, “which will feature a brand new daily news and opinion show from later this year that will not be […]
EXCLUSIVE: International Artists Management (IAM) has been removed from the UK’s respected agency professional body after Deadline revealed it sent a client misrepresented self-tape audition invites. The Personal Managers’ Association (PMA) said in a statement that it had revoked IAM’s membership amid concerns over the company’s honesty and integrity. The PMA’s decision comes after a […]
(Updated with more results & Super Tuesday details) The Congressman from Hollywood is one big step closer to becoming the Golden State’s junior Senator and saw up-close this Super Tuesday some of the visceral challenges Democrats face from their own base. In the double header that is California’s primary this Super Tuesday, Schiff secured the top […]
Denis Villeneuve is talking about the “painful choices” he has had to make for Dune: Part Two while adapting the book and cutting the film. Meanwhile, actor Tim Blake Nelson is expressing he’s “heartbroken” after he learned he was edited out of the film’s final cut that premiered to $182.5M worldwide. The film Dune is […]
All of the major news networks carried Donald Trump’s Super Tuesday victory speech live, but MSNBC was the first to cutaway, reflecting an debate at news outlets over how to cover the former president’s fusillade of false claims and unfounded accusations. Rachel Maddow, leading coverage on the network, was clearly disturbed over the airtime given […]
SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the series finale of Freeform’s Good Trouble. Good Trouble has officially taken its final bow. The Freeform series ended Tuesday night after five seasons, concluding more than a decade of television telling the stories of the Adams-Foster family and those closest to them. In some ways, Good Trouble […]
Kirsten Dunst is looking back at her time on the Spider-Man set, wishing she would’ve stood up for herself. The actress that starred as Mary Jane Watson in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy starting in 2002, had a nickname on the set that she was not fond of. Dunst was referred to as “girly-girl,” and […]
Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh on Tuesday weighed in on Netflix’s decision not to proceed with a second season of The Brothers Sun with an emotional Instagram post. “Heartbroken… and finding it so hard to understand why… however, I am so very proud of My Brothers Sun family and what we presented to the world,” she […]
EXCLUSIVE: Louis McCartney describes himself as “a West End baby” because before he was cast to play boyish-looking monster Henry Creel in the Stranger Things stage show The First Shadow, he’d never performed on stage in his life. “They were coaching me how to speak properly, how to project my voice,” McCartney says of the countless recalls he […]
Kate Winslet is looking back at her career and hoped there was a culture around intimacy coordinators as she would’ve benefited from them earlier in her career. “I would have benefited from an intimacy coordinator every single time I had to do a love scene or be partially naked or even a kissing scene,” Winslet […]
Lionsgate Vice Chair Michael Burns said the company is set to split in two by year end with a first step in early April as the studio merges with a SPAC and starts to trade separately from Starz on the Nasdaq under the stock symbol LION. For tax reasons, the parent company will retain 87% […]
Lionsgate is expanding two of its biggest movie franchises, John Wick and Twilight, with new TV series offshoots. The company’s Vice Chairman Michael Burns shared information about the two projects during a Q&A at the Morgan Stanley media conference. “We’re going to go out with the Twilight series, an animated series, I think there’ll be […]
It’s been a remarkable past year for Free Solo directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin. At Telluride, they premiered their first narrative feature Nyad, a dramatization of the relentless pursuit of extreme athlete Diana Nyad to swim from Cuba to Florida without the safety of a shark cage. The Netflix release has gone on to earn […]
The Broadway revival of Monty Python’s Spamalot will play its final performance on Sunday, April 7, completing a 24-week run at the St. James Theatre. The production, which opened to favorable critical notices, failed to attract the strong audience figures that the original 2005 production drew. Last week, the production grossed just $589,970, with attendance […]
EXCLUSIVE: So long for now to Jodie, an animated film-cum-Daria spinoff that was set to feature Tracee Ellis Ross voicing the main character. The long-gestating project first began as a series that would feature Daria and Jodie, and then was narrowed to just focus on the latter character. In 2020, Comedy Central picked up the adult animated show from […]
