Новости за 25.01.2020

It’s finally time for the 62nd annual Grammy Awards, but what a time it’s been over the past few weeks, with the drama ramping up even more just before the show. Music’s biggest night has turned into an embarrassment for the organization running it. This week saw more accusations from suspended CEO Deborah Dugan and […]

Donald Trump’s legal team laid out their case against his removal from office in a truncated day of the impeachment trial on Saturday, with senators gathered for less than three hours to hear the president’s team outline why he had done nothing wrong in his interactions with Ukrainian leaders. Broadcast and cable networks covered the […]

Wrestling’s stranglehold on the Friday ratings continues, as Fox’s two-hour WWE Friday Night SmackDown again topped the demo wars on the evening. On the final SmackDown before Sunday’s Royal Rumble, Universal Champion “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt turned his Strap Match Contract Signing with Daniel Bryan into chaos. Plus, SmackDown Women’s Champion Bayley brawled with Lacey […]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday accused NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly of violating “basic rules of journalism and decency” regarding a contentious interview and its aftermath. On Friday, Pompeo abruptly ended his interview with Kelly after she pressed him on why he had not specifically defended former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, who […]

For BBC wildlife producer and director Chadden Hunter, there is a scene in Seven Worlds, One Planet that sums up the show’s mission. The sequence centers on manatees gliding around hot springs in Florida’s crystal blue waters, but its dreamy quality ends with a wake-up call, as drone footage pulls out from the ocean to […]

President Donald Trump faces off today and gets a chance to tell the Senate his side of the story. An early travel and photo lid has been called by the White House, no doubt so the President can watch the proceedings. Watching, though, doesn’t mean inaction. The Commander-in-Tweet has already been busy on Twitter, sending […]

This year, the Sundance Film Festival is showing a strong slate of diverse filmmakers and stories such as Justin Simien’s Bad Hair, Dee Rees’ The Last Thing He Wanted, HBO’s Welcome to Chechnya, Sam Feder’s doc Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen, Bao Nguyen’s Be Water, John James’ Siempre, Luis, Janicza Bravo’s Zola among many others. Even so, this does not make up for […]

Sundance drama-thriller Surge, starring Ben Whishaw, marks the feature debut of Brit filmmaker Aneil Karia. We sat down with the director to discuss his first movie, which he says “ebbed and flowed in early development for around five years”. In Surge, Whishaw stars as a man trapped in a soulless job, living a life devoid […]

3RD UPDATE, Friday PM Writethru following midday update: Who says January stinks at the box office? Sony’s Bad Boys for Life and Universal-Amblin-New Republic’s 1917 are poised to fly past the $100M mark this weekend, becoming 2020’s first two century-grossing titles at the domestic box office. Bad Boys for Life should cross some time on Saturday with […]

A couple weeks after Deadline reported that Ruben Fleischer was atop the list to direct Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg in Sony Pictures’ Uncharted, and the race was on to keep the pic on track to shoot before the next installment of Holland’s Spider-Man, the studio changed the release date of the Columbia Pictures actioner. […]

Megyn Kelly was right, that was fun. When the former Fox News and NBC News host announced Tuesday that she would be a first-time guest on Real Time with Bill Maher she also predicted a lively time (“Now this ought to be fun…,” she told Twitter) and she wasn’t wrong. Some highlights below. On her time away from […]

Jennifer Aniston guest hosted The Ellen Show today while the regular star was out renewing her driver’s license. So, naturally, it was time to renew some old ties for comic effect. Aniston, as most people in civilization know, spent 10 years working on the Warner Brothers lot for Friends, where The Ellen Show is now […]

The 45th annual Humanitas Prizes honoring film and television writers whose work inspires compassion, hope, and understanding in the human family, were handed out Friday night at the Beverly Hilton. Motion picture winners included Searchlight Pictures’ Jojo Rabbit, the Taika Waititi written and directed war satire based on the book Caging Skies by Christine Leunens. […]

Rapper YG was arrested this morning at his Chatsworth, Calif. mansion on suspicion of robbery by Los Angleles County sheriffs. He is scheduled to appear Sunday as part of a Grammys tribute to slain rapper Nipsey Hussle at Sunday’s Grammys, performing with John Legend and Meek Mill, among others. YG, whose real name is Keenon […]

NBC has greenlight its fifth drama this cycle, Ordinary Joe, from House veterans Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner, The Batman writer/director Matt Reeves, his 6th & Idaho banner and 20th Century Fox TV. Written by Friend and Lerner, Ordinary Joe explores the three parallel lives of the show’s main character after he makes a pivotal […]

Deadline’s studio at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival kicked off Day 1 at Hotel Park City by hosting fest-goers such as Aubrey Plaza of Black Bear, Ron Howard of Rebuilding Paradise, Sasheer Zamata of Spree and many more. Click on the photo above to launch the gallery. Stay tuned for more photo galleries and video interviews […]

Marvel is not moving forward with its Hulu animated series Howard the Duck and Tigra & Dazzler, a source with knowledge of the situation confirmed to Deadline. That leaves two Marvel animated series remaining at Hulu, Hit Monkey and M.O.D.O.K.. along with the live-action Helstrom. All projects originated at Marvel Television, the now defunct television […]

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. Just a little more than two weeks to go until the big night on February 9, and a key moment will happen Saturday when the winner of the all-too-Oscar-predictive DGA Award will be announced at the Ritz Carlton in downtown Los Angeles. If it is […]

The Oscars arrive in just over two weeks, which means street closings, adjusted train schedules, extra tourists and traffic nightmares in Hollywood near the Dolby Theatre and Hollywood & Highland Center. As part of that, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and Los Angeles City Council have issued their […]

Editors Note: Barry Avrich is a filmmaker who has made dozens of high-profile documentaries including The Last Mogul, Blurred Lines, Prosecuting Evil and is currently in production on Made You Look, a film about the largest art fraud in U.S. history. As Harvey Weinstein finds himself cast in the most anticipated production of the year […]

EXCLUSIVE: British playwright and screenwriter Nina Raine has been tapped to write the limited series adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is The Night novel for Hulu. The project, from Colin Callender’s Playground Entertainment, has been in development at Hulu since 2018. Tender Is The Night, which was published in 1934, was Fitzgerald’s fourth and […]

Disney’s Bambi is returning to the screen but this time he will roam a digitally created photorealistic forest and interact with animals that have been brought to “live action” cinema via a hard-drive not a soundstage. Following in pixel paw-prints of The Jungle Book and The Lion King, the next Disney classic from the hand-drawn […]

The Senate impeachment schedule will see President Donald Trump’s White House and personal lawyers begin their allotted 24 hours of oral arguments defending Trump on Saturday. As any former reality TV host-turned U.S. President knows, that’s no good for ratings. “After having been treated unbelievably unfairly in the House, and then having to endure hour […]

Buchwald has hired Sola Fasehun and Tim Patricia to its motion picture and television literary departments, respectively. Fasehun got her start working under Academy Award-winning producer Michael Phillips at Lighthouse Productions. She then spent six years as a film production, sales, and distribution consultant at Submarine Entertainment/Deluxe. She joins Buchwald from UTA, where, as a […]

EXCLUSIVE: Jessalyn Gilsig (Vikings) has been cast as a female lead opposite John Stamos in Big Shot, Disney+ upcoming original series written and executive produced by David E. Kelley and Dean Lorey and produced by ABC Studios, part of Disney Television Studios. The 10-episode series follows a temperamental college basketball coach (Stamos) who gets fired […]