Новости за 17.01.2020

Wall Street analysts, many of whom sat in the audience Thursday as Comcast and NBCUniversal execs showed off their new streaming service, Peacock, have given the presentation high marks. Comcast shares rose 1% to a new high of $47.35 with about an hour left in Friday’s trading day. The stock has risen more than 30% […]

Hulu presented its new series High Fidelity to reporters at the TCA winter press tour and brought out executive producers Sarah Kucserka, Veronica West, and Scott Rosenberg, co-writer of the 2000 feature adaptation, along with show headliner and EP Zoë Kravitz as well as co-stars David Holmes, Jake Lacy and Da’Vine Joy Randolph. The streaming […]

Proving that what goes up must come down, last night’s primetime fell to Earth after shooting up into the ratings stratosphere with more Jeopardy!: Greatest of All Time and the ABC News special Truth and Lies: Jeffrey Epstein. With an adults 18-49 win for Fox (0.7/4) and a viewership victory for CBS (5.4 million), the […]

UPDATED with more details: A major development in the standoff between the WGA and the agencies — Gersh has become the first major full-service talent agency to make a deal with the WGA. It will immediately resume representation of writers. The agreement comes after months of negotiations between Gersh and the guild. It is one […]

UPDATED with more early winners: The Producers Guild has revealed winners in some categories ahead of the 31st annual PGA Awards, set for Saturday at the Hollywood Palladium. The early honors were bestowed Monday night at the guild’s East Coast celebration of the 2020 nominees at Ascent Lounge in New York City, and Thursday night […]

Shannon Bream, anchor of Fox News @ Night, has signed a new multiyear deal with the network and will continue to serve as chief legal correspondent. Bream is the lead reporter on breaking stories out of the Supreme Court, and in September anchored a one-hour special in which Neil Gorsuch sat for his first televised […]

Hulu content boss Craig Erwich has opened up about the future of three dramas – Reprisal, Light As A Feather and Castle Rock. Erwich, who was speaking at his exec session at the Winter TCA panel, told Deadline it was “continuing to evaluate” whether to hand Abigail Spencer-fronted Reprisal a second season, “has not made […]

EXCLUSIVE: HBO, TNT and TBS are heading to the Sundance Film Festival with “Our Stories to Tell”, a 3-day pop-up experience that will celebrate their commitment to multicultural storytelling, creators and audiences. This event will take place January 24-26 on Main Street in Park City, Utah. Similar to the event held in November in Los […]

UPDATED, 12:45PM ET: The jury in Harvey Weinstein’s criminal rape trial has been seated after a final series of clashes in a New York courtroom over the gender and racial makeup of the panel. The jury consists of seven men and five women. Three alternates were also designated. Selecting the jury has taken nearly two […]

Bird Box writer Eric Heisserer will produce an English-language re-imagining of the Paraguayan thriller Morgue under his Chronology banner, which has a freshly inked first-look deal with Paramount Pictures. The original version of Morgue was written, produced, and directed by Hugo Cardozo, and featured dialogue in Spanish and Guarani. Based partly on real-world events that led to paranormal reports, the […]

Freeform and Hulu have acquired linear and digital rights to three hit films from STXfilms – Hustlers, The Upside and I Feel Pretty, all set to roll out beginning in 2020. This marks the latest collaboration between Hulu and a Disney cable network, following Hulu and FX’s deal with Lionsgate, and is another vivid illustration of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games), Bryce Gangel (Crisis), Curtiss Cook (The Chi), and Darren Pettie (Sneaky Pete) are set as series regulars opposite Lena Headey in Showtime dramedy pilot Rita, based on Christian Torpe’s award-winning Danish series. Torpe will pen the pilot and serve as showrunner. Rita is a co-production of Showtime and Platform […]

Keira Knightley is attached to star in an untitled Brit movie about how the British spend Christmas, we have confirmed. Details are being kept under wraps on the project, which hails from producers Trudie Styler and Matthew Vaughn. Casting is underway for the role of Knightley’s husband in the film. The couple’s screen son will […]

Jack Lowden (Dunkirk) is attached to star as WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon in writer-director Terence Davies’ upcoming biopic Benediction, we have confirmed. Lowden, a recent BAFTA Rising Star nominee, will portray English soldier and poet Sassoon, who was decorated for bravery on the Western Front, and is best remembered for his poems about the First […]

Here’s the first image from Ali & Ava, the next project from Dark River and The Selfish Giant director Clio Barnard. The film follows Ava (Claire Rushbrook) a respected matriarch on a predominantly white Bradford estate, and Ali (Adeel Akhtar), a charismatic son, brother, boss and landlord, an avid music and book lover and moon […]

Mark Jenkin, whose indie pic Bait was a breakout hit this year in the UK and is up for two BAFTAs, has set his next project, Enys Men (Cornish for “stone island”), with backing from Film4. The horror film is planning to shoot in Cornwall in May this year. Film4 is co-financing, with senior commissioning […]

Zinc Media Group, the UK factual producer that houses indies behind shows like Inside Europe: 10 Years Of Turmoil, has secured £3.5M ($4.6M) of investment in a City fundraising round. Zinc raised the cash through a new share issue, which was supported by existing investors, including the company’s biggest shareholder, Herald Investment Management. The funds […]

AMC is developing a number of ideas that could be the basis for a third season of historical horror anthology drama The Terror. The network has been pitched concepts by production company Scott Free and is talking about which would make it for a third run. The first season of the drama, which was based […]

Baby, meet Daddy. The Mandalorian showrunner Jon Favreau has tweeted out a charming shot of Star Wars creator George Lucas holding a Baby Yoda. Lucas seems bemused by the doll, which is part of the Disney merchandising machine line of licensed toys that will be out later this year. The toys were delayed because Disney […]

The first female president of the Recording Academy has been put on leave from her position as the organization’s head after just over five months tenure. The Los Angeles Times first reported the news. Dugan’s leave comes just ten days before the 62nd annual Grammy Awards on Jan. 26. Ironically, the Times ran a profile […]

AMC Networks ended the day at TCA with one of their most critically acclaimed shows Better Call Saul. Big news was unveiled as showrunner Peter Gould and fellow executive producer and co-creator Vince Gilligan announced that they have been picked up for a sixth season ahead of the February 23 premiere of the fifth season. They […]

Joanna Vanderham (Warrior, Man in an Orange Shirt) is set to play a recurring role as one of the “big bads” for Season 5 of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, the time-traveling superhero series that returns Jan. 21 with its season premiere on The CW. No word yet on the name of the character but it’s a […]

EXCLUSIVE: Facebook Watch has opted not to renew its original series Sorry For Your Loss, starring Elizaeth Olsen, for a third season and Limetown, headlined by Jessica Biel, for a second. The critically praised Sorry For Your Loss is being shopped around, I hear. Facebook Watch still has several scripted series in the pipeline, which […]

Christopher Tolkien, the son of Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien who helped to expand understanding of the mythical world of Middle-earth, has died. He passed in Provence, France at age 95, according to his brother-in-law and the Tolkien Society. J.R.R. Tolkien died in 1973, and his son worked to illuminate the world of […]

Marcia Brady is heading back to HGTV… Maureen McCormick, who played Brady in the ABC comedy, is fronting Frozen in Time for the Discovery-owned network. McCormick, who was one of the six surviving Brady Bunch cast members to appear in A Very Brady Renovation, will host another home renovation series for the network. The show, […]