Новости за 22.01.2020

Hot of Netlfix’s reveal during its Q4 earnings report yesterday that its fantasy series The Witcher is on track to become the streaming giant’s most successful Season 1 show ever, it said Wednesday that it has greenlighted an anime feature film The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf. The logline: The world of The Witcher expands […]

The Karate Kid is being developed as a musical for Broadway, with the 1984 film’s screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen penning the book and Drew Gasparini writing music and lyrics. The project was announced today by producers Kinoshita Group, Kumiko Yoshii, and Michael Wolk. The Karate Kid will be directed by Japanese director Amon Miyamoto and […]

Long-time CBS Television Studios business affairs executive Allison Brightman has been promoted to EVP and head of Business Affairs and Operations. She replaces Dan Kupetz following his surprising recent move to Disney where he will lead business affairs for 20th Century Fox TV. Brightman will have dual report to Deborah Barak, President of Business Operations […]

EXCLUSIVE: Spotify has struck a podcast deal with Audity, the audio division of Steve Michaels’ Asylum Entertainment Group. This comes as the nascent company hires former Legendary Digital Networks exec Frank Hajdu to oversee its audio slate. The deal will see Audity, which launched last year, produces podcasts across all scripted and unscripted genres for […]

Top Chef and Project Runway producer Magical Elves has hired veteran TV producer and development executive Joel Zimmer as EVP Development, and promoted longtime Magical Elves casting executive Samantha Hanks to EVP, Casting and Talent Relations. “With the addition of Joel, and the elevation of Samantha, Magical Elves has the right leadership in place to […]

It’s January, and the broadcast pilot season is kicking into high gear with pilot orders. As has been the case every year for the past 5-6 years, scripts are late, delaying pickups much to the chagrin of network executives who want to get their pilots up and running early to allow more time for casting […]

The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump continues Wednesday on Capitol Hill after a marathon Tuesday session set the rules for the proceeding. Here’s is a guide on how to watch it on TV and online. The easiest way to watch as much trial coverage as you want (or can take) is to click back […]

Disney has sold FoxNext Games LA, maker of the video game Marvel Strike Force, and Cold Iron Studios in San Jose to mobile game specialist Scopely, the companies announced Wednesday. The deal stems from Disney’s $71.3 billion acquisition last year of most of 21st Century Fox, including FoxNext Games. The transaction does not affect the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Sean Durkin, whose sophomore feature The Nest starring Jude Law and Carrie Coon premieres at Sundance on Sunday (January 26), is already hard at work on his next film project. The Martha Marcy May Marlene filmmaker is scripting a pic that will tell the rise and fall of the Von Erich family, a dynasty […]

NBC’s This Is Us won Tuesday in primetime with a 1.4 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 6.50 million viewers, with the rating steady compared with a week ago. It helped the network top the night in the demo, while CBS’ crime dramas took total viewers. Ellen’s Game of Games (1.0, 4.70) led off […]

EXCLUSIVE: Imagine Entertainment Chairmen Brian Grazer and Ron Howard have tapped Lori Rovner to head business and legal affairs for Imagine Entertainment. As EVP in the newly formed role, Rovner will lead the business affairs operations and manage all aspects of the company’s legal strategy, policy and procedure across all divisions. Rovner will report to […]

New York Assistant District Attorney Meghan Hast described a pattern of repeated sexual assault by producer Harvey Weinstein, telling jurors in her opening argument Wednesday that they will come to see the famous Hollywood producer as “a sexual predator and a rapist.” The jury of seven men and five women listened intently this morning as […]

UK funding body the British Film Institute (BFI) has published a study on how its ‘Diveristy Standards’, the guidelines introduced in 2016 to improve diversity in film production, engaged with representation in 235 movies across a three-year period. The disclosed data is complex to draw concise conclusions from, but the org said the topline is […]

Reality TV drama UnREAL is set to be remade in Brazil after A+E Networks International sold the format rights to Sony-backed Brazilian producer Floresta Produções. This marks the first scripted format sale for the U.S. company in Latin America. The show, which starred Shiri Appleby and Constance Zimmer, ended with its fourth season in 2018. […]

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday reappointed UTA Co-President Jay Sures to the University of California Board of Regents. The reappointment requires confirmation by the state senate and will take effect on March 2, Newsom’s office said. There is no compensation. The talent agency exec, a Democrat, was first appointed to the board in January 2019, […]

Day one of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial got underway Tuesday, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) laying out the rules and proposing some last-minute changes in an effort to speed up the process. Tonight on the CBS Late Show, Stephen Colbert said he hopes Trump is found guilty of breaking the law, but […]

Recently ousted Recording Academy president and CEO Deborah Dugan’s explosive EEOC complaint includes allegations that she was sexually harassed last year by Joel Katz, the Academy’s general counsel. Katz today issued a statement through his attorney “categorically” denying her claim. Dugan alleges that Katz harassed her while they were attending the first of a three-day meeting […]

EXCLUSIVE: ABC has passed on its multi-camera comedy pilot starting stand-up comedian Nate Bargatze, from The Carmichael Show creators Jerrod Carmichael and Ari Katcher and showrunner Danielle Sanchez-Witzel. Drew Goddard directed the pilot, produced by 20th Century Fox TV in association with Brillstein Entertainment Partners, which received an off-cycle pilot order in late May. While ABC has opted not […]

Recently ousted National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences president and CEO Deborah Dugan’s discrimination complaint filed Tuesday with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission included allegations that her predecessor Neil Portnow raped a female recording artist, and is the “real reason” his contract was not renewed. The bombshell allegation comes five days before the 62nd […]

EXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe nominee Guy Pearce and Italian model Matilda Lutz have joined Andrew Baird’s sci-fi movie Zone 414 which is currently shooting in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Highland Film Group is handling worldwide sales. Set in the near future in Zone 414’s colony of humanoid robots, private investigator,  pic follows David Carmichael (Pearce) who is hired by […]

Uncut Gems writer-director Benny Safdie and Succession star Sarah Snook have joined Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces of a Woman which is currently in production. Pieces of a Woman follows a grieving woman who is thrust into an emotional inner journey by trying to come to terms with the loss of her baby after a home birth goes wrong, while dealing […]

Nearly 40 years after its celebrated Off Broadway debut and subsequent hit movie adaptation, Charles Fuller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier’s Play, opening tonight on Broadway at the Roundabout’s American Airlines Theatre, has lost little of its power. Even in a Broadway landscape that could give home to the explosive Slave Play, Fuller’s 1981 mystery remains […]

EXCLUSIVE: TNT has put in development Liars Club, a one-hour dramedy/thriller from actress and writer Amy Rutberg (Netflix’s Daredevil), Paul Giamatti and Dan Carey’s Touchy Feely Films, NCIS: New Orleans showrunner Christopher Silber and CBS TV Studios, where Touch Feely Films and Silber are under deals. Written by Rutberg, Liars Club is a show about […]

EXCLUSIVE: I hear that Bad Robot, through its new deal at Warner Media, is exclusively developing both film and TV ideas based on DC’s Justice League Dark universe at Warner Bros. This deal is all very nascent and at this point in time there aren’t any specific projects or characters that are being specifically developed […]

Tubi, one of the leading U.S. players in ad-supported streaming, will expand its service into Mexico later this year through a deal with TV Azteca. The expansion comes as the startup also prepares to enter the UK market later this year. TV Azteca, one of the world’s two top producers of Spanish-language television, will offer […]