Новости за 25.02.2020

Knives Out and Watchmen star Don Johnson has been cast alongside John Boyega in the Netflix film Rebel Ridge from writer/director Jeremy Saulnier. Also joining the cast are Erin Doherty (The Crown), James Badge Dale (Mickey and the Bear, Hold The Dark), Zsane Jhe (Underground Railroad, Good Trouble) and Oscar Nominee James Cromwell (Jurassic World: […]

Stella Baker (Tell Me Your Secrets) is set as the titular lead in the CW drama pilot The Republic of Sarah, from writer-producer Jeffrey Paul King, producer-director Marc Webb, CBS TV Studios and studio-based Fulwell 73. Baker landed her first starring role after testing for the part alongside several other young actresses. The project was redeveloped by the […]

Hulu’s chief marketing officer Kelly Campbell has been promoted to president of the Disney-controlled streamer. The appointment was made by Direct-to-Consumer & International chairman Kevin Mayer less than a month after Hulu was integrated into Disney’s business operations under him. Reporting to Mayer, she succeeds Randy Freer, who  exited as Hulu CEO  in that restructuring. […]

Jurassic World 3 director Colin Trevorrow on Tuesday announced Day 1 of shooting for the Universal sequel, plus the pic’s title: Jurassic World: Dominion.  It’s Trevorrow’s second time directing the dinosaur franchise, after J.A. Bayona took over for the second movie, 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Trevorrow is also exec producing with Steven Spielberg. Frank Marshall […]

AMC Networks Tuesday announced today a comprehensive, long-term distribution agreement with DISH Network and Sling TV that includes continued carriage of AMC Networks’ linear channels AMC, BBC America, IFC, SundanceTV, WE tv and BBC World News, as well as the launch in the coming months of AMC Networks’ targeted SVOD services Acorn TV, Shudder, Sundance […]

President Donald Trump told reporters that Harvey Weinstein’s conviction sends a “very strong message” and was a “great victory” for women, while he noted Democratic figures who “loved” the movie mogul. Weinstein was found guilty on Monday of committing a criminal sexual act in the first degree and third-degree rape. “I was never a fan of Harvey Weinstein. […]

BBC Studios has raided rival ITV Studios for the executive producer of one of its tent-pole brands, Ant And Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway. Pete Ogden will join the BBC’s commercial production arm in early May as the creative director of entertainment North, having been at ITV Studios for the past eight years. He is overseeing the […]

Giant Miami-based Spanish language broadcaster Univision is being acquired by two private investment firms, ForgeLight and  Searchlight Capital Partners, and will enter a new era led by Wade Davis – longtime media executive, former Viacom CFO and ForgeLight founder-CEO – and marked by enhanced collaboration with core programming partner and remaining shareholder, Televisia of Mexico. […]

Hillary Clinton has said that yesterday’s guilty verdict in the Weinstein trial shows “it was time for an accounting”, and confirmed that she would support the Democrat nominee in the forthcoming U.S. election regardless of who secures the role. Speaking at the Berlin Film Festival today, where her Hulu doc series Hillary is screening, Clinton […]

EXCLUSIVE: Filmax has boarded sales on Basque-language genre movie All The Moons, the new feature from writer-director Igor Legarreta (When You No Longer Love Me). The Barcelona-based outfit is launching the film at the EFM. Shoot got underway last week on the project, which is set in the north of Spain at the end of […]

When Stateless gets its world premiere at Berlinale on Wednesday, it will be the culmination of a seven-year journey for Cate Blanchett. The two-time Oscar winner first conceived of the drama in her kitchen in 2013. A conversation about immigration with writer Elise McCredie sparked an ambition to thread together stories about people caught up […]

President Donald Trump got a king’s welcome in India, but in Trevor Noah’s opinion, Trump squandered whatever goodwill he received, by offending the Indian people with an embarrassing speech. Trump kicked off his first state visit to India Sunday at a massive welcome reception in Ahmedabad. With Prime Minister Narendra Modi by his side, the […]

It’s been a while since Stephen Colbert did his Bernie Sanders impression, but tonight he dusted it off in honor of Bernie’s big win in Nevada. Colbert recapped the results of this weekend’s caucus, noting that Sanders hit the jackpot with 46% of the vote, thanks to a diverse coalition of voters that included “blackjack […]

ABC’s venerable The Bachelor reality franchise may be getting another extension. The network floated the idea for the new show during the Monday episode of The Bachelor. A card during one of the commercial breaks sent those interested in participating to ABC’s casting page. The card was tweeted by ABC’s head of alternative programming Rob […]

The Democratic debate on Tuesday night has all of the ingredients of the most consequential one yet this cycle: Bernie Sanders, now the front runner, likely will be the main target of rivals’ attacks. Michael Bloomberg, blanketing the airwaves with his campaign commercials, is looking for a reset after last week’s debate fumble. And Joe […]

Teri Polo leads a quartet of actors cast in The Big Leap, Fox’s ballet-themed hourlong comedy-drama pilot from The Passage writer/executive producer Liz Heldens. Matt Lucas, Jumanji;s Ser’Darius Blain and Ray Cham also are cast in lead roles in the project, inspired by the UK reality series Big Ballet. It is a co-production between 20th Century Fox Television and Fox Entertainment. […]

Harvey Weinstein never made it to jail Monday after being found guilty on multiple counts in his New York rape trial. Instead the disgraced producer is currently at Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital. Having left the Criminal Courts Building near the Big Apple’s Chinatown Monday afternoon, the already hobbled Weinstein complained of pains while in the ambulance […]

Netflix said Monday it is expanding the rollout of a Top 10 listing that will show its subscribers the 10 most-watched titles each day on the streaming giant. The service said in a blog post that it had been experimenting with the lists recently in Mexico and the UK, and is now rolling it out […]

Saturday Night Live alumna Ana Gasteyer is set to lead the ensemble cast of NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot American Auto, from Superstore creator Justin Spitzer, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and Universal Television. Written by Spitzer, American Auto is set at the headquarters of a major American automotive company in Detroit, where a floundering group of […]

The BBC has commissioned a slate of four dramas from first-time TV writers, including a police series starring The Hobbit and Sherlock actor Martin Freeman as a night shift officer in the British city of Liverpool. The Responder is written by Tony Schumacher, a former police officer who is fulfilling a lifelong ambition to write […]

The BBC’s drama chief Piers Wenger has defended Doctor Who following a drop in ratings and a mixed reception from fans for Season 12 of the sci-fi drama. At a BBC drama even in London on Monday, Wenger was asked if he would consider resting Doctor Who given some of the malaise around the show, […]

The BBC’s drama chief Piers Wenger has bristled at the idea of the British broadcaster becoming a subscription service amid growing talk of the government abandoning the licence fee. During an event in London on Monday, Wenger made a passionate case for the BBC’s place in a TV ecology that is becoming increasingly dominated by […]

Actor Christopher Naoki Lee, whose credits include AMC’s The Terror and Fox’s Deputy, is set to make his feature directorial debut with the socially-minded pic Dinner Party which he co-wrote with Greek alum Daniel Weaver. Lee also stars in the film which, as the title suggests, centers on a dinner party with a group of diverse Millennials. As […]

Sebastian Chacon is set as a series regular opposite Riley Keough and Sam Claflin in Amazon’s musical drama series Daisy Jones & The Six, based on the best-selling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, from Amazon Studios and Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine. Daisy Jones & The Six details the spectacular rise and precipitous fall of a […]

UPDATED with more details as ceremony ends: Beyoncé opened the Celebration of Life for Kobe and Gianna Bryant’s memorial service Monday at Staples Center by singing “XO,” complete with a chorus and multi-piece orchestra for a song she said was Kobe Bryant’s favorite. It kicked off an event heavy on emotion and themes of loss, […]