Новости за 06.02.2020

Fox Entertainment has given a series order to I Can See Your Voice, a music mystery game show hosted and executive-produced by The Masked Singer panelist Ken Jeong. Like hit The Masked Singer, which also involves music and mystery/guessing, I Can See Your Voice is based on a South Korean format.The series, produced in-house by […]

Days after she kicked off the Super Bowl with a stirring performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” Demi Lovato has a new gig. She will lead a talk show for the upcoming shortform digital service Quibi. The platform has greenlighted Pillow Talk with Demi Lovato (working title), a 10-episode series fronted by the Grammy winner that will […]

UPDATED with CBS News statement, 12:02: CBS This Morning anchor Gayle King posted a two-part video on social media Thursday morning, saying she was “mortified” and “very angry” at CBS for posting a “salacious” clip of her interview with Lisa Leslie about Kobe Bryant. (See King’s video below.) In the clip, King asks Leslie, a […]

UPDATED with closing stock price. Saturday’s return of the XFL — an upstart pro football league being resurrected by pro wrestling impresario Vince McMahon — is being overshadowed by trouble at McMahon’s main company, the WWE. The wrestling and entertainment concern reported spotty fourth-quarter results Thursday, with earnings per share of 78 cents beating Wall […]

Supporters and potential backers of presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg gathered on Wednesday evening in Hancock Park for an event to build buzz for his candidacy, with a special celebrity guest among the speakers: Michael Douglas. Hours earlier, Douglas had announced that his father, legendary actor Kirk Douglas, had passed away at age 103. At the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Rudd, Jack McBrayer, Amber Ruffin and Paula Pell will lead the cast of Escape from Virtual Island, a new scripted Audible Original comedy series from SNL vet John Lutz and Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video. Scott Adsit, Jane Krakowski, Seth Meyers, Jason Sudeikis, Kenan Thompson, Olivia Wilde and Henry Winkler round out the ensemble cast. […]

Twitter early Thursday posted $1.01 billion in fourth-quarter revenue, beating Wall Street estimates in a crucial quarter that’s being heavily scrutinized after some glitches in its advertising products resulted in disappointing  sales growth in the quarter before. Earnings of 0.25 per share came it below estimates (of between 0.27-0.29 cents). Net income was $118.8 million. […]

Scandi major TrustNordisk will handle world sales on The Marco Effect, which is based on Jussi Adler-Olsen’s bestselling crime-thriller novel of the same name. Danish filmmaker Martin Zandvliet, whose credits include the Oscar-nominated war pic Land Of Mine, is helming the project, which is budgeted at $8.1m (€7.4m) and began shooting this week. Written by […]

British pay-TV broadcaster Sky has unveiled its latest diversity figures, highlighting its success on screen although it is struggling with its own writer quotas. In 2014, the Comcast-backed company became one of the first British TV firms to put its own quotas in place, targeting 20% of onscreen roles and 20% of writing positions going […]

Fulwell73, the production co behind The Late Late Show, Carpool Karaoke and feature doc Bros: After The Screaming Stops, has named Johnny Moore as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Taking up his position immediately, Moore will driving the company’s financial and operational performance and ongoing growth globally as it plots continued expansion. He […]

Aardman Animations is cooking up a Christmas caper for Shaun The Sheep, which is set to premiere on BBC One in 2021. A Winter’s Tale From Shaun The Sheep (working title) will follow Shaun as his seasonal excitement turns sour when a farmhouse raid to get bigger stockings for the flock leads to baby lamb […]

As we come to a close of what many have said is another #OscarsSoWhite awards season, UCLA has released their annual Hollywood Diversity Report which surveys representation of women and people of color in film during 2018 and 2019. As opposed to their 2017 study, this year’s report will solely examine film. Their TV study […]

Jameela Jamil has joined with Women of Color Unite (WOCU) to combat sizeism in the entertainment business. Jamil, who wrapped up her role in The Good Place last week and has been cast in HBO Max’s ballroom vogue competition, Legendary, is the founder of I Weigh, a platform that explores social issues, including the representation […]

The clown princes of political comedy had a huge task in front of them tonight. They had to take what was perceived as overwhelmingly bad news to their liberal audiences and try to elicit laughs in the face of a collective abject misery. But the show must go on, so the three late night political […]

EXCLUSIVE: Amirah Vann was revealed as the mysterious and devious string puller Parker Campbell at the end of Queen Sugar’s fourth season last year, and now the NAACP Image Awards nominee is pulling some other intergalactic strings too. As fans of Star Trek: Picard will find out when the latest episode drops tomorrow, Vann is […]

Kirk Douglas’ acting career spanned 60 years, three Best Actor Oscar noms and a host of lifetime honors. Click on the image above to launch a photo gallery of some iconic screen roles of the Golden Age legend who died Wednesday at 103. The images include his most famous characters — the boxer Midge Kelly […]

Michael Douglas reminisced just last Friday about the father/son kinship and occasional rivalry shared with Kirk Douglas, which came to a head over the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Michael made his remarks at the closing event of the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival, during an onstage conversation with me. Kirk Douglas, who died […]

When you’re doing a movie trailer launch nowadays and need to grab everyone’s attention, it helps to throw a concert. Universal’s trailer for F9 (aka Fast & Furious 9), since dropping its near four-minute trailer on Friday ahead of the Super Bowl, has clocked a massive 439.3 million global views across YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. And […]

We’ve confirmed that it’s true: Marvel is looking to close a deal with Sam Raimi to direct Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness following Scott Derrickson’s departure from the project. Derrickson will remain an executive producer on the sequel. The sequel was announced at San Diego Comic-Con last summer, with Derrickson then saying the follow-up […]

Two-time Oscar winner Michael Douglas, the eldest son of Hollywood icon Kirk Douglas, paid tribute to his father Wednesday in officially announcing his dad’s death at age 103. “To the world he was a legend, an actor from the golden age of movies who lived well into his golden years, a humanitarian whose commitment to […]

On the heels of New Amsterdam landing a massive three-season renewal by NBC, the studio behind the medical drama, Universal Television, has signed creator/executive producer David Schulner into a big new four-year deal. Under the pact, believed to be in the eight-figure range, Schulner will continue as executive producer/showrunner on New Amsterdam, now in its second […]

Hollywood lost an icon today, as Kirk Douglas died at age 103. The acting legend drew immediate comment from friends, industryites and fans who remembered him in such films as Spartacus, Lust for Life and The Bad and the Beautiful. The outpouring for the actor on Twitter and other social media often called him “legendary.” […]

Kirk Douglas, an icon of Hollywood’s Golden Age and star of such films as Spartacus, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Bad and the Beautiful and Champion died Wednesday of natural causes. He was 103. “It is with tremendous sadness that my brothers and I announce that Kirk Douglas left us today at the age of 103,” […]

EXCLUSIVE: Broadway Video’s Above Average Productions and veteran film and television producer M. Blair Breard are teaming to create a new production services offering focused exclusively on premium scripted content. Breard and Above Average say the partnership will leverage Breard’s production expertise, approach to creative producing, and deep industry relationships with Above Average’s established production […]

President Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate today after a five-month impeachment process. The acquittal on both articles of impeachment was not a surprise, as few expected enough Republicans to break ranks and reach the 67 vote threshold needed to convict and remove Trump from office. But still it was dramatic and historic, covered across […]