Новости за 16.02.2020

UPDATE, writethru: Paramount’s Sonic The Hedgehog raced to a $100M worldwide opening this weekend, including $43M from the international box office, and a domestic record for a videogame pic. The adaptation of Sega’s globally popular property is playing in 40 offshore markets, repping 60% of the overseas footprint. Directed by Jeff Fowler, Sonic had his […]

The indie distributor Neon is becoming the cool, popular kid in Hollywood and on the box office playground since they dominated the Oscars with the multiple Parasite wins. This weekend, the distributor founded by Tim League and Tom Quinn saw the return of Portrait of a Lady on Fire in theaters while Parasite took a victory lap after winning four Oscars, […]

ITV has postponed another episode of Love Island following the death of Caroline Flack but the show will return on Monday night with a tribute to the former presenter. The British broadcaster said that the decision had been made after “careful consideration” between Flack’s representatives and the Love Island production team. The British commercial broadcaster […]

A planned April premiere in Beijing and a tour of other cities in China for the new James Bond film, No Time To Die, has been cancelled because of ongoing problems caused by the coronavirus quarantine, Deadline has confirmed. Daniel Craig and the cast will not attend the Beijing screening or the subsequent publicity tour […]

EXCLUSIVE: Megan Fox and Bruce Willis are joining Emile Hirsch in Randall Emmett’s directorial debut Midnight In The Switchgrass, which Highland Film Group will be selling at the upcoming EFM. Set in 2004, the film will follow an FBI agent (Fox) and a Florida State officer (Hirsch) who team up to investigate a string of […]

Nikita Pearl Waligwa, an actress who starred in the 2016 Walt Disney film Queen of Katwe, has died. She had been diagnosed with a brain tumor, according to Ugandan media. The film was about a chess prodigy rising from a Ugandan slum and was based on the true story of Phiona Mutesi. She began playing chess […]

President Donald Trump has a special task on his agenda today – make the “Great American Race,” aka the Daytona 500, great again. He will be the grand marshal of the event and give the “start your engines” command. It’s also rumored that the President will take a lap around the track in the vehicle […]

The Masked Singer has replicated its winning formula in the UK after the singing contest ended on a big ratings high for commercial broadcaster ITV. The final episode of the Bandicoot TV-produced entertainment show was watched by 6.4M viewers at 7PM on Saturday night, according to live BARB figures provided by overnights.tv. That was The […]

Saying she was “overwhelmed” with emotion from portraying the Queen of Soul, Jennifer Hudson announced Saturday that she just wrapped production on Aretha Franklin biopic Respect. “It is officially a wrap on @respectmovie wrap it up, it’s done!” Hudson shared on Instagram. “Too overwhelmed to get into it right now but words can’t express how […]

UPDATED AT 6:58 p.m. PT: The New York City Fire Department confirmed the substance released at the Broadhurst Theatre was pepper spray.  A matinee performance of “Jagged Little Pill” was halted Saturday in New York, after someone sprayed a substance at the theatre where the musical was taking place. Crews from the New York City […]

Michael Bloomberg’s campaign is downplaying a report claiming the billionaire presidential hopeful is considering former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate. “We are focused on the primary and the debate, not VP speculation,” Jason Schechter, the campaign’s communications director, said in a statement to Deadline Saturday evening. The statement came […]

Former President Barack Obama remembered Kobe Bryant and eight others killed in a helicopter crash during a speech at the NBA All-Star Weekend Newsmaker Brunch in Chicago. “That loss is something that I know many are still grappling with,” Obama told attendees Saturday, adding, “particularly Kobe because he was with his daughter and those families, […]

The Grammys and the Oscars are in the rear-view mirror, and South by Southwest is still a month away. That means the music industry gets to take a deep breath and contemplate the more important things in life, like whether a song is any good. One of the oldest axioms of the music business is, […]

Following the death of British TV presenter Caroline Flack on Saturday, ITV and Channel 4 are changing their schedules. ITV’s youth channel ITV2 pulled Love Island: Unseen Bits soon after the news of Flack’s death broke on Saturday evening local time. It was replaced by an episode of home video show You’ve Been Framed!. Flack […]