Anthony (Tony) Cianciotta, a Canadian film industry veteran of 50 years, has died. The well-regarded distribution and exhibition executive passed away peacefully on June 26. He was 85. Cianciotta started his career in the film industry in 1965, in Toronto, as a key film buyer for the J. Arthur Rank Organization, which ultimately became Cineplex Odeon […]
Jon Stewart returned to The Daily Show after the Comedy Central show scrapped plans to broadcast from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee following the Donald Trump assassination attempt. “What a terrible f***ing week,” Stewart said on the show. The host then mocked his decision to return to the show to cover the presidential elections. […]
A new study confirms what many women in TV production already suspect: males continue to outnumber females when it comes to how reality shows are made. Men make up 58.4% of executive producers, supervising producers, and show creators, while women only make up 41.5%, according to a study commissioned by the Geena Davis Institute, Banijay […]
EXCLUSIVE: Bonnie Abaunza will be feted this Thursday by the ACLU of Southern California with the Advocates for Justice Award. She will be bestowed with the honor by Spectrum News 1 anchor, Giselle Fernandez. Abaunza has been a longtime supporter of the ACLU and served on its Foundation Board. Throughout her career, and prior she’s been […]
Andy Cohen acknowledges that The Real Housewives of New Jersey needs a shakeup and teases that changes are coming to the Bravo reality series. As Season 14 of RHONJ wraps up, Cohen knows there’s a problem with the show and revealed that producers are working on something for Season 15. The current cast doesn’t seemingly […]
Madonna is teasing she is back working on her biopic and is titling it Who’s That Girl. The singer shared a social media post where she is seen with a typewriter and making edits to a movie script. “I Need A-lot of Bandz to make this………..OKAY. (Story of my life),” she captioned the post on […]
Nikki Haley told the Republican National Convention that “Donald Trump has my strong endorsement, period,” mending fences with the former president after a bitter primary race in which she had called him “not qualified” for office. “We have a country to save, and a unified Republican Party is essential for saving her,” Haley said, with […]
The taglines for The Real Housewives of Orange County Season 18 have been revealed during the second episode of the Bravo reality series. Heather Dubrow: “Just because I drink from a flute doesn’t mean you can play me.” Shannon Beador: “Even in the harshest of times, this Storms will always weather it.” Emily Simpson: “I […]
Savannah Chrisley, the reality star, blasted prosecutors in her speech at the Republican National Convention, claiming that her parents were “persecuted” by the justice system “due to our public profile and conservative beliefs.” Her parents, Todd Chrisley and his wife Julie Chrisley, stars of the reality series Chrisley Knows Best, are serving sentences in prison […]
Kari Lake, the former TV news anchor and U.S. Senate candidate, used a moment of her speaking slot at the Republican National Convention to express a common theme: Bashing the media. “Welcome to everybody in this great arena tonight. We love you all. Actually, actually, wait a minute. I don’t mean that. I don’t welcome […]
Michael Mann is making a sequel to his 1995 film Heat and is sharing an update on when he plans to begin production. In a new interview, the filmmaker said he is working on writing the screenplay for the sequel based on his novel Heat 2. Mann told the Los Angeles Times that he wants […]
Ryan Seacrest is excited to be the new host of Wheel of Fortune after Pat Sajak ended a four-decade run as host. Seacrest chronicled his first day of filming the game show and showed how he got familiar with the set. “My heart’s pounding,” Seacrest says in the video he posted on Instagram. “I’m so […]
Naomi Pomeroy, the Portland-based Top Chef Masters contestant who was the recipient of the James Beard Award for Best Chef Pacific Northwest in 2014, died on Saturday in an accident on the Willamette River, according to multiple reports. She was 49. Pomeroy was reportedly one of several people floating down the river near Corvallis via […]
East End Studios has broken ground on its downtown Los Angeles Arts District facility, East End Studios Mission Campus. Demolition and excavation are currently underway with the vertical phase of construction set to begin this summer. The project, with a total cost of approximately $230 million, is expected to be completed by the end of […]
Elon Musk is moving the headquarters of social media platform X and rocket ship maker SpaceX from California to Texas, blaming a new law that bars school districts in the state from requiring that parents be notified of changes in their child’s gender identification. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the law, the of its kind in […]
Almost immediately after Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial for the 2021 killing of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was tossed out, the lawyer for the troubled film’s incarcerated armorer vowed to make a move to free Hannah Gutierrez-Reed Today he has. Based on the prosecution and local police’s failure to fully disclose evidence in Baldwin’s trial, Jason Bowles has […]
More than 10,000 satellites are currently spinning around the globe – and there would be even more had a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket not failed in its upper stage last week, preventing the proper deployment of a batch of Starlink satellites. That anomalous incident notwithstanding, the number of satellites orbiting Earth, commercial and otherwise, is […]
Mandy Moore is remembering his This Is Us co-star Ron Cephas Jones and the “intrinsic connection” he had to his role on the television series. On the latest episode of the rewatch podcast That Was Us, which Moore co-hosts with Sterling K. Brown and Chris Sullivan, the trio recapped the episode titled “Pilgrim Rick” from […]
Fox has unveiled premiere dates for its fall schedule, including new and returning scripted, unscripted and animation series. The 2024-2025 television season kicks off with the series premiere of the new animated comedy Universal Basic Guys on Sunday, Sept. 8, immediately following the Fox NFL doubleheader (8-8:30PM ET/5-5:30PM PT, live to all time zones). Universal Basic Guys will […]
Viewership of the first night of the Republican National Convention rose slightly from 2020, with an estimated 18.13 million tuning in to the 10 p.m. ET hour across 12 networks, according to Nielsen. That’s up slightly from the first night of the Republican National Convention in 2020, which was held in Washington and largely virtual […]
EXCLUSIVE: Hannah Einbinder has signed with CAA for representation. Einbinder currently stars as Ava Daniels in Max’s Hacks, which premiered its third season this summer. She has been nominated for two Emmy and two Golden Globe Awards for her performance in the comedy. Her debut comedy special, Everything Must Go, also premiered this summer on Max with The […]
It’s that time again! Come 8.30 a.m PT on Wednesday, you’ll likely be hoping to hear the names of your favorite shows and stars announced on the list of Primetime Emmy nominees. But, as always, it’s easy to lose track of what actually made it to the ballot, so if you’re wondering, where’s my show? […]
EXCLUSIVE: Higher Ground is stepping up its TV series efforts. President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s media company, which just re-upped its Netflix deal with a multiyear first-look film and TV agreement, has brought in Showtime’s Jessie Dicovitsky as Head of Television. This marks the first time Higher Ground has had a dedicated senior TV […]
AMC is selling more shows including a trio of The Walking Dead spinoffs to third parties. The company has closed a deal with Netflix in the U.S. to bring 15 shows to the streamer as part of a “curated selection” of AMC-branded shows. It comes after AMC did something similar with Max last year, a […]
