Новости за 20.02.2020

The 70th Berlin International Film Festival, and the first under new leadership team Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian, got underway tonight with a screening of Philippe Falardeau’s My Salinger Year, starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley. The Opening Gala included a minute’s silence to honor the victims of yesterday’s terror attack in the German town […]

Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art announced the complete lineup for the 49th annual New Directors/New Films running March 25 – April 5 and opening with Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss’s Boys State, winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize for documentary at Sundance. The closing film is Maite Alberdi’s The […]

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Emmy and two-time Tony winner Bebe Neuwirth is set as a recurring opposite Zosia Mamet in HBO Max’s thriller drama series The Flight Attendant, starring and executive produced by Kaley Cuoco. The Flight Attendant is a story of how an entire life can change in one night. A flight attendant (Cuoco) wakes up […]

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has set up Sheela, an intriguing drama that Barry Levinson will direct with Priyanka Chopra starring as Ma Anand Sheela, a guru who perpetrated what is called the largest bio-terrorist attack executed on U.S. soil. She was the personal secretary of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh from 1981 through 1985, and supervised his move […]

Newly merged ViacomCBS is having a really bad day. The stock tanked, and is still down more than 17%, after disappointing quarterly earnings and a barrage of questions from Wall Street entertainment analysts – answers to which they clearly did not find reassuring. The inquiries themselves were unusually anxious: “Looking at your guidance for 2020, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Hayley Law, from CW’s Riverdale and Netflix’s Altered Carbon, and Ben Rosenfield (Six Years, Mrs. America) will topline Mark, Mary & Some Other People, an indie comedy about a young couple who are exploring an open relationship from writer and director Hannah Marks. Odessa A’Zion, Nik Dodani, Matt Shivley, Sofia Bryant, Gillian Jacobs, Joe […]

New Republic Pictures has won an auction for Peter Hoare’s pitch Family Jewels, a multigenerational family comedy that returns Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler and Diane Keaton back on the big screen together for the first time since the 1996 blockbuster The First Wives Club.  In Family Jewels, Hawn, Midler and Keaton’s characters are forced to […]

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Classics is finalizing a U.S. pre-buy of period drama Farnsworth House, which is to star Ralph Fiennes and Elizabeth Debicki. Debicki, who is soon to be seen starring in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, is in final negotiations to join in the co-lead role which was previously going to be Maggie Gyllenhaal but the latter […]

Laura Neal (Sex Education, Secret Diary of a Call Girl) has been tapped as the next lead writer on BBC America’s critically acclaimed and award-winning series Killing Eve, from Sid Gentle Films. Neal will work on the upcoming season 4. BBC America handed the series an early season 4 renewal last month, well ahead of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Brian J. Smith is the second Sense8 alum to reteam with Lana Wachowski on Matrix 4 following Eréndira Ibarra’s addition. Smith played Chicago police officer Will Gorski on the Netflix series. His role, natch, is being kept under wraps for the Warner Bros.-Village Roadshow fourthquel. He joins Keanu Reeves (Neo), Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity), Jada Pinkett Smith (Niobe) as […]

Comcast has promoted company veteran Jennifer Khoury to Chief Communications Officer, overseeing its external and internal corporate communications. She succeeds D’Arcy Rudnay, who is retiring at year’s end after a 16 years at Comcast. “Jenn is a fantastic leader and the perfect person to lead us into the future,” said Brian Roberts, Chairman and CEO […]

UPDATED with some detail from film, TV, cable divisions: Breaking out the numbers by division, revenue at cable networks declined 2% on the continued erosion of linear television subscribers. Financials were squeezed by increased investments in programming and OTT. Television entertainment – led by CBS – saw fourth-quarter ad sales dipped 5% to $1.7 billion; […]

Simon West, the director of Con Air and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, is to helm an Amazon miniseries about two 16th century explorers who set out to disprove the theory that the world is flat. Four-part drama Boundless will tell the story of Juan Sebastián Elcano and Ferdinand Magellan’s epic voyage around the world after […]

EXCLUSIVE: Sister, the UK production house run by Jane Featherstone that has recent credits including HBO and Sky’s Emmy-winning Chernobyl and BBC/Netflix series Giri/Haji, has won rights to Helena Merriman’s buzzy podcast Tunnel 29 in what I understand was a highly competitive situation. Since launching in November on BBC Radio 4, Tunnel 29 has scored […]

The Berlin Film Festival has issued a statement in response to last night’s terror attack in Germany and updated on its security measures. The attack was among the deadliest hate-crime incidents in the country since the Second World War. A festival spokesperson told us, “We are deeply saddened to hear what has happened in Hanau […]

ViacomCBS has revealed more details about its digital future with plans to expand CBS All Access by launching a “House of Brands” product. The company said it would look to “accelerate momentum in streaming” after laying out a strategic update as part of its fourth-quarter fiscal 2019 results, the first since it closed the merger […]

Amazon Prime Video became the fastest-growing streamer in the UK in the final three months of 2019 after broadcasting Premier League football for the first time. The streaming service embarked on a giant marketing push to promote its Premier League coverage, which coincided with two of Amazon’s biggest deal days: Black Friday and Cyber Monday. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Dubai-based Cercamon has boarded international sales on Paper Spiders, starring Lili Taylor, Stefania LaVie Owen and Peyton List. The drama will be handled by Cercamon outside North America and will be proffered to buyers, including a promo reel, at the EFM which kicks off today in Berlin. The film is directed by Inon Shampanier […]

UPDATE 02:43AM PST, THURSDAY: Investigators believe last night’s attack was racially motivated. The local interior minister said, ‘Our current insights give enough ground for a xenophobic motive’. The shooter was named by police as 43-year-old Tobias R. His surname was not given. The perpetrator shot himself and his 72-year-old mother at home, police said. They also […]

EXCLUSIVE: Line of Duty and This Is England star Vicky McClure is to front a bomb squad drama for ITV, produced by HTM Television, the production company set up by Line of Duty and Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio. Trigger Point is a six-part thriller, written by new writer Daniel Brierley, that follows counter terrorism policing […]

Jeremy Irons used the platform of this morning’s opening jury press conference at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival to address controversial statements he has been reported to have made in the past about same-sex marriages, women’s rights and abortion. Pre-empting questions from the attending press, jury president Irons spoke about the issues head-on, saying […]

Veep creator Armando Iannucci is joining forces with Intouchables and Death Of Stalin producer Yann Zenou on a coming-of-age comedy set in the world of amateur Sumo wrestling. Iannucci will act as executive producer and will be joining fellow BAFTA-winning producers Emily Leo and Oliver Roskill as well as Ado Yoshizaki Cassuto and Gianluca Chakra. […]

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is heading back to the Dickensian-era for its latest family comedy. The British public broadcaster has ordered Dodger from NBCUniversal International Studios. The series is a family adventure comedy set in 1830s Dickensian London and tells the story of the Artful Dodger, the infamous pickpocket character from Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist.  The […]

The former boyfriend who authorities believe killed Dr. Amie Harwick on February 15 is back behind bars and facing the death penalty for the Hollywood therapist’s death. Less than 24 hours after posting a $2 million bond and walking free, Gareth Pursehouse was arrested for a second time today by the LAPD and will face […]

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details from the series finale of Criminal Minds. After 15 seasons, CBS’s long-running procedural created by Jeff Davis is coming to an end. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the gang at the BAU said farewell tonight with back-to-back episodes. Like many series, it ended with a gathering of the cast, glasses […]