Новости за 19.02.2020

Reality TV vet and producer Bethenny Frankel is set to headline a new business competition series for HBO Max. The streamer has handed an eight-episode order to The Big Shot with Bethenny (working title), from MGM Television, Mark Burnett and Frankel’s B Real Productions. In each half-hour episode, the next generation of business moguls will […]

As Democratic candidates prepared for what is likely to be the most consequential debate so far of the cycle,  Michael Bloomberg and Bernie Sanders’ campaigns engaged in a back and forth over whether they each were using the issue of their respective heart health as a form of innuendo. Both candidates are 78, and the […]

Defense attorneys in the rape trial of Harvey Weinstein failed in their attempt to obtain a gag order against attorney and victims rights advocate Gloria Allred on Wednesday, prompting Allred to tell Deadline, “Harvey Weinstein is not going to silence me.” Allred is not directly involved in this criminal trial, but has been in the […]

Tony-winning actress Patina Miller is set to star opposite Omar Epps in Power Book III: Raising Kanan, Starz/Lionsgate’s upcoming Power prequel series created by Courtney A. Kemp. Miller will play Raquel Thomas. To the streets, “Raq” Thomas is cold, hard and fierce — a successful and deadly woman taking names in a man’s world. She […]

EXCLUSIVE: A year after setting sail with an inventive business plan in which Truly*Adventurous  digitally generates a longform, magazine-quality article every three weeks through a partnership with Medium and Audm, the company has put in play 15 film and TV projects they will produce, some with major elements attached. The venture is run — from […]

EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime is expanding its relationship content with an eight-episode order for Battlefield of Love, a new docuseries that focuses on military couples. The most popular search on dating apps is for active duty military members, according to Lifetime. Battlefield of Love focuses on members of the military who have fallen in love with civilians […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Man of Bronze is headed to the small screen. Sony Pictures Television and Neal H. Moritz’s Sony-based Original Film have partnered with Condé Nast Entertainment to develop a scripted television series based on the Doc Savage pulp fiction franchise from the Street & Smith library. The project is part of the new three-year […]

EXCLUSIVE: Dame Harriet Walter has joined Ridley Scott’s new epic, The Last Duel, the revenge story that stars Matt Damon, Jodie Comer, Adam Driver and Ben Affleck. Based on Eric Jager’s novel, the script is by Damon, Affleck and Nicole Holofcener. Shooting is just getting underway with filming due to take place in Ireland and […]

Spectrum Originals will launch Josh Hartnett-fronted Southern gothic mystery drama Paradise Lost on April 13. Charter Communications’ original content division will launch the ten-part drama ad-free on its on-demand service. The show, which comes from Paramount Television Studios and Anonymous Content, launches first on Spectrum, before running on the Paramount Network later this year as […]

Odessa Young (Assassination Nation) and Ella Rumpf (Raw) are the latest to join HBO Max’s forthcoming series Tokyo Vice as series regulars. They join previously announced cast members Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe in the adaptation of Jake Adelstein’s book of the same name. Michael Mann is set to direct the pilot with a script […]

NBC’s favorite heartfelt, tear-jerking family drama This Is Us kept its spot as Tuesday’s highest-rated show, drawing a 1.3 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and roping in 6.42 million viewers. Although down a tenth, This Is Us along with Ellen’s Game of Games (1.0, 4.61M) and New Amsterdam (0.7, 4.75M), which both ticked up in the […]

Satellite TV provider Dish Network said Wednesday net pay-TV subscribers dropped by 194,000 in the fourth quarter to about 12 million, including 9.4 million for DISH TV subs and 2.59 million for Sling TV. But the Denver-based company reported a net decrease of 334,000 in the year-ago quarter, so the loss has narrowed year-over-year. Dish […]

EXCLUSIVE: Martin Scorsese is set to re-team with Paul Schrader on the First Reformed director’s next movie The Card Counter. Fresh off his latest Oscar nominations for The Irishman, Scorsese will executive-produce the revenge thriller pic, marking his fifth collaboration with Schrader after Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, The Last Temptation Of Christ and Bringing Out The Dead. […]

Jakob Mejlhede Andersen has stepped down as CEO of Nordic Entertainment Group’s UK division. Mejlhede Andersen was appointed to the role in October 2019, having joined from his role as EVP and Chief Content Officer for NENT Group’s Viaplay streaming service. The company is now searching for a new chief executive. Anders Jensen, NENT Group […]

Following another streamer-dominated Sundance where deal-making soared beyond $120M, the onus at the European Film Market in Berlin is expected to shift back to a more traditional scene of single territory theatrical acquisitions, largely by European buyers. Scroll down for our list of hot market debuts. The EFM, which officially gets underway tomorrow, doesn’t often […]

EXCLUSIVE: I can reveal that iFeatures, the UK funding initiative that has developed successful low-budget pics including Lady Macbeth and Apostasy, is facing an uncertain future with Creative England and its partners now reviewing the program. Rumors started swirling in UK producing circles last week that participants in the current iteration of iFeatures had been […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Boy and The Devil Inside filmmaker William Brent Bell is set to direct contemporary folk-horror Lord Of Misrule, which Bankside is launching world sales on at the EFM. Set in a small town in the English countryside, the film will follow a desperate search for the young daughter of the town’s new minister. […]

Jill Halfpenny, Jonas Armstrong and Rupert Penry-Jones are to star in an identity thriller for British broadcaster Channel 5 from Noel Clarke and Jason Maza’s Unstoppable Film & Television. The Drowning is the latest drama order for the ViacomCBS network, which has been aggressively ramping up its scripted slate with shows including Cold Call and […]

Christoph Waltz, Guy Pearce and Patrick Gibson are attached to star in comedy-fantasy The Portable Door, which Arclight is launching at the EFM. In the family pic, a young man lands a job at a magical firm, only to find that its leaders are hiding darker motives. Muppets creator Jim Henson Company is producing. Jeffrey […]

The ninth debate of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary cycle is tonight on NBC News and MSNBC, beginning at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT in Nevada ahead of the state’s February 22 caucuses. The political match-up marks former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s debate debut. He’ll face off against Sen. Bernie Sanders; former South […]

Ja’Net DuBois is being remembered by her former co-workers for bringing “light” to the set of Good Times. DuBois, who played Willona Woods on the 1970s sitcom, passed away Tuesday at her home in Glendale, California. She was 74. As news of the actress and singer’s death spread, members of the Good Times family — […]

Ben Affleck has finally revealed the real reasons he decided to leave The Batman. In an interview published Tuesday by The New York Times, the two-time Oscar winner said his struggles with alcohol, his divorce from Jennifer Garner, and a “troubled shoot” on Justice League prompted him to abandon the role of Bruce Wayne. “I […]

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has just taken the upcoming YA novel All This Time by Mikki Daughtry and Rachael Lippincott off the table for six figures after multiple studios were circling. The novel from Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers hits store shelves on Oct. 6. This is the much anticipated follow-up book from the team behind Five Feet […]

EXCLUSIVE: Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz is set to co-star opposite Jonathan Tucker and Riann Steele in Debris, NBC’s sci-fi drama pilot from Almost Human creator J.H. Wyman and Legendary Television. NBC Written by Wyman, Debris is said to be in the vein of The X-Files and Men in Black. In it, two agents from two different continents and two different mindsets — CIA’s […]

EXCLUSIVE: Good Deed Entertainment has ac today that they have acquired the North American distribution rights tthe World War II drama Enemy Lines starring Ed Westwick, John Hannah, Tom Wisdom, Corey Johnson, Pawel Delag, Vladimir Epifantsev and Kirill Pletnyov. The deal came out of AFM and the film is set to open in select theaters […]