Новости за 21.02.2020

UPDATE, with additional analysis The jury in the Harvey Weinstein trial might be deadlocked on two of the weightiest counts against the former producer: predatory sexual assaults involving actress Annabella Sciorra and at least one of two other women. Each count carries a possible life sentence. Questions sent by the jury to Supreme Court Judge […]

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has inked filmmaker Aneil Karia, who was recently directed and co-wrote the Protagonist Pictures thriller Surge which made its world premiere in the competition slot at the Sundance Film Festival. The movie, starring 007 Q actor Ben Whishaw, is set over 24 hours in London, and follows a man who goes on a bold […]

Netflix has added new seven cast members for season 2 of The Witcher as production begins in the UK for a planned 2021 launch. Joining the second season are Yasen Atour (Young Wallender) as Coen, Agnes Bjorn as Vereena, Paul Bullion (Peaky Blinders) as Lambert, Thue Ersted Rasmussen (Fast and Furious 9) as Eskel, Aisha […]

Johnny Depp is in Berlin today for the world premiere of Andrew Levitas’ Minamata. A Berlin Film Festival Special Gala Screening, the drama also stars Hiroyuki Sanada, Minami and Bill Nighy. Depp plays celebrated U.S. photographer W Eugene Smith in the true-story thriller that pits Smith against a powerful corporation responsible for poisoning the people […]

Major movie theater chain Cinemark, which also owns the Century, Tinseltown and Rave chains, saw earnings rise last quarter to $26.3 million, or 22 cents a share, as attendance and revenue slipped. Earnings for the latest fourth quarter compared with $19.4 million, or 45 cents, the year before. Revenue of $789 million was down by […]

ITV Studios is hopeful that broadcasters around the world are going to double down on Love Island after the reality show moved to two seasons a year in the UK. The Hell’s Kitchen studio is also planning its next expansion moves, as it looks to acquire more third-party formats and partner with producers in Latin […]

Bankside is launching world sales at the EFM on WWI movie Benediction. Jack Lowden (Dunkirk) is attached to star as poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon in writer-director Terence Davies’ upcoming biopic. Shoot is due to get underway next month in the UK. Lowden, a recent BAFTA Rising Star nominee, will portray English soldier and poet Sassoon, who […]

Riz Ahmed is a multi-talented man. Alongside being a name actor on both sides of the pond – with recent credits including HBO’s The Night Of, Marvel movie Venom and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – Ahmed is also a successful rapper, as well as a vocal activist for race and cultural issues. In […]

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has picked up U.S. distribution on Bradley Liew’s horror movie Motel Acacia after striking a deal with Berlin-based sales agent Picture Tree International. The English-language film is a co-production between five Asian nations – Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Taiwan (with Slovenia). It follows a young Filipino man who is groomed by his […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Bay Of Silence, Paula van der Oest’s thriller starring Claes Bang (Dracula), Olga Kurylenko (Death Of Stalin) and Brian Cox (Succession), has sold into numerous key territories. Vertical Entertainment has swooped on North American rights to the project, striking a deal with Christian de Gallegos of International Film Trust (IFT) who represented the […]

Ready, they are. New Star Wars toys highlighted by the debut of items from the Disney+ hit The Mandalorian will hit the New York Toy Fair this week. But today on Good Morning America, there was a sneak peak at the offerings, including one that will undoubtedly be among the most coveted items. “The Child,” aka […]

Michael Bloomberg will participate in his first televised town hall since he entered the presidential race, as one of six candidates to take part in CNN events in South Carolina next week. Bloomberg will be the first candidate on the town hall schedule, at 8 p.m. ET on Monday. He’ll be followed by Bernie Sanders. […]

Pete Buttigieg is in Los Angeles today for campaign events and an evening fundraiser at the home of Seth MacFarlane, but he also squeezed in time for a guest spot on The Ellen Show. Host Ellen DeGeneres asked him to respond to Rush Limbaugh’s questioning a gay man debating President Donald Trump. “How is this […]

Ozzy Osbourne recently postponed plans for a solo tour, saying he’s heading to Switzerland for treatments of Parkinson’s disease. But the former star of TV’s The Osbournes said in an interview today that the degenerative disease is the least of his health problems right now. Osbourne told Britain’s The Sun that he been in “unbelievable pain” […]

The UK’s National Trust is looking for a passionate fan to guide tourists interested in the childhood home of Beatle Paul McCartney and the nearby abode of John Lennon. The BBC reports that the UK charity, which spotlights environmental and heritage conservation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, needs a new guide to replace a […]

President Donald Trump mocked the Academy Awards for giving its best picture Oscar to Parasite, expressing bewilderment to a rally crowd in Colorado that a foreign language movie could get the top award. “By the way, how bad were the Academy Awards this year, do you see? And the winner is, a movie from South […]

One of the breathtaking moments in director Ivo van Hove’s bold, gorgeous multi-media re-imagining of the great New York musical West Side Story comes when those famously brawling street gangs restrain the tale’s star-crossed lovers from kissing. Each side pulls its own, tug-of-war-style, one holding back Tony, the other Maria, and it takes every last […]

EXCLUSIVE: Deception star Jack Cutmore-Scott will lead the ensemble cast of Jury Duty (fka We the Jury), CBS’ hybrid half-hour comedy pilot from 9JKL co-creator Dana Klein, writer Stephanie Darrow, UK producer Big Talk Productions and CBS Television Studios. Written by Klein and Darrow based on a British format, in Jury Duty, a group of jurors are sequestered together until they […]

The Inheritance, playwright Matthew Lopez’s two-part drama that re-imagines E.M. Forster’s Howards End as a 21st Century tale set among gay men in Manhattan, will close on Sunday, March 15, producers announced today. Directed by Stephen Daldry, The Inheritance began previews at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on Friday, September 27, with an opening night on […]

Mythos Studios has expanded the team behind the animated feature film Cupid with Michael Gracey (the director of The Greatest Showman) joining as executive producer and Mike Vukadinovich (Hulu’s The Runaways) coming aboard to write the script for the Justin Bieber vehicle. Pic is built around the Hellenic tale of Cupid and Psyche with Bieber set to executive produce […]

ABC has given a pilot order to an untitled single-camera comedy written by Splitting Up Together creator/executive producer Emily Kapnek and to be directed by Splitting Up Together director/executive producer Dean Holland. Like ABC has done with several of its hot comedy scripts this year, including Home Economics, the network quietly gave the untitled Kapnek/Holland project […]