Новости за 09.01.2020

UPDATED, 12:55 PM: SAG-AFTRA has gotten the all-clear from law enforcement after evacuating their offices on both coasts today for the second time in three days. “Earlier today, SAG-AFTRA received a telephone threat targeting both Los Angeles and New York national offices,” a spokesperson for the union said. “We notified law enforcement and evacuated the […]

FX has given a status update of its adaptation of DC Comics’ Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra. John Landgraf, Chairman of FX Networks and FX Productions, said that the project was in pre-production. “We’ve seen five, six scripts. We haven’t scheduled it because it hasn’t gone into production. We changed […]

Sarah Paulson is coming back for American Horror Story season 10. “I did ask if Ryan if the question was asked to me, could I say that I was coming back, and he said ‘yes’ you could say. So, yes I will be back on American Horror Story. Paulson didn’t have details on who she would play, or […]

Some Democratic presidential campaigns blasted Facebook’s reiteration of a policy to allow political ads, even those with claims that are false, a contrast to other social media platforms like Twitter that are not accepting candidate spots. “Donald Trump’s campaign can (and will) still lie in political ads,” Bill Russo, campaign spokesman for Joe Biden, said. […]

As part of his overall deal with FX Productions, Ex Machina and Annihilation filmmaker Alex Garland is looking to continue his work with the network on another TV series following his upcoming spring series Devs.  “The next thing I’m going to try to do is another television show with FX. I’m in the process of writing it. I’ve […]

EXCLUSIVE: FX has passed on Gone Hollywood, its period drama pilot from Tes Griffin and Scott Rudin. Written by and directed by Griffin, Gone Hollywood was set in the 1980s and centered on a group of talent agents who defect from an old-guard percentery to launch their own, which skyrockets to industry dominance, disrupting the business […]

EXCLUSIVE: Discovery Channel has promoted company veteran Josh Kovolenko to SVP Marketing for Discovery, Animal Planet and Science Channel. In his new role, Kovolenko — who had been SVP Marketing Strategy and Operations since 2017 — will oversee all marketing efforts adding to his responsibility the creative development and execution for marketing and branded entertainment […]

Judd Apatow will host the 72nd annual DGA Awards – his first time since 2018 – and Don Mischer will return as Awards Chair for the third consecutive year, DGA president Thomas Schlamme announced today. The event is set for Jan. 25 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. “I am so excited to […]

FX boss John Landgraf has called the launch of its branded digital hub on Hulu a “transformative” opportunity for the network and a chance to take more “quality programming swings”. Landgraf, Chairman of FX Networks and FX Productions, revealed details plans for FX on Hulu for the first time at the Winter TCA Press Tour. He […]

Director Christopher McQuarrie has tweeted that Nicholas Hoult will join Tom Cruise in the next installment of Mission: Impossible, through Paramount and Skydance. Hoult has been close on a lot of things recently, getting down to the wire with Robert Pattinson before the latter got the Batman role in Matt Reeves’ The Batman, the first […]

EXCLUSIVE: Detective Chinatown 3, the latest installment in the hugely successful Chinese action-comedy franchise, has scored UK and Ireland distribution after producer Wanda Pictures struck a deal with Brit outfit Trinity Cineasia. The film is set to be released in China by Wanda on January 25, which is Chinese New Year, typically one of the […]

At last summer’s TCA, FX handed an early fourth-season renewal to acclaimed comedy series Atlanta. At the time the network unveiled that production of season 3 — delayed due to the busy schedule of Atlanta creator and star Donald Glover and the cast — and Season 4, eight episodes each, was scheduled to begin in spring […]

Dracula, the BBC and Netflix’s blood-soaked retelling of Bram Stoker’s mythical vampire story, has sunk its teeth into a much-improved audience with the addition of catch-up viewing in the UK. The seven-day rating for the first episode of Hartswood Films’ drama stood at 6.6M viewers, according to BARB figures provided by the BBC. This was […]

British actor and Oscar-winner Jeremy Irons is to serve as the president of the International Jury at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival this year. The festival takes place between February 20 and March 1 in the German capital, with Irons and his jury judging the festival’s competition lineup and handing out Golden and Silver […]

A+E Networks has signed a first-look production agreement with OZY Media, a onetime magazine brand that has tech backing and has evolved into a producer of original series, podcasts and live events. While no projects were announced along with the news of the partnership, the companies said the multi-platform deal is seen as encompassing multiple […]

Discovery is planning to launch its lifestyle channel HGTV in Italy and 11 central European countries in the first quarter of 2020. HGTV will go live in Italy as a free-to-air channel on February 2, while it will be a pay-TV proposition in 11 other European countries — including Romania, Hungary and Serbia — in […]

BBC Studios has fallen well short of its targets for commissions from third-party streamers and broadcasters, and is too reliant on old brands like Doctor Who to prop up its revenue. That’s the verdict of a detailed 43-page report on the BBC’s commercial production and distribution arm by the National Audit Office (NAO), the UK’s […]

ABC just opted to go without a traditional host at the Oscars for a second straight year but it would consider employing a host for the 2020 Primetime Emmys as the Disney-owned network is targeting double-digit ratings growth for the TV awards show. ABC, whose turn it is to host the Emmys, announced earlier today […]

The 2020 edition of European Shooting Stars has unveiled the 10 young acting talents it will spotlight, with participants arriving with credits including Polish Oscar shortlisted feature Corpus Christi. On the list is Polish actor Bartosz Bielenia, whose turn as an amateur priest in Jan Komasa’s Corpus Christi has already earned him acting awards at […]

ABC is looking to anthologise Revenge as it develops a Latinx reboot of the hit drama series. The Disney-owned network has bene developing a follow-up to the 2011 series, which starred Emily VanCamp and Madeleine Stowe. The reboot hails from the original series’ creator/executive producer Mike Kelley, writer-producer Joe Fazzio, Temple Hill and ABC Studios, now […]

For Bachelor Nation fans hoping for a nice, wrapped-in-a-bow The Bachelor finale after the shocking endings of the last two installments, The Bachelorette: Hannah and The Bachelor: Colton, that’s not in the cards. The current Peter Weber-fronted installment of The Bachelor too will have a surprise ending, host Chris Harrison revealed at TCA Wednesday. “Yes, stunningly […]

ABC is ramping up its efforts to move its development process off-cycle and has rebranded it a “second cycle”. ABC Entertainment president Karey Burke told Deadline that it is currently budgeted for around 16 comedy and drama pilots but that this total would include pilots orders picked up outside of the traditional January to March […]

The National Board of Review lavished love on The Irishman at its annual gala Wednesday, marking the second straight night for the Martin Scorsese epic to soak up awards-season adulation in New York. The Netflix title was honored as Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay, and also got the NBR Icon Award, presented to Scorsese and […]

Genius, a giant, legendary – those are just some of the words that writers strained to come up with to describe the titantic impact that Buck Henry had on their world. The Graduate screenwriter and SNL host passed today at age 89. Here are some of the initial reactions from friends, fans and industry as […]

Buck Henry, the legendary screenwriter behind The Graduate and What’s Up, Doc? who also co-created Get Smart and was a regular presence in the early years of Saturday Night Live, died tonight of a heart attack at Cedars-Sinai Health Center in Los Angeles. He was 89. A family member confirmed the news to Deadline. Henry scored a pair […]