Новости за 28.02.2020

As Deadline reported yesterday, ViacomCBS is currently going through its second round of layoffs following the CBS-Viacom merger in early December. There are significant staff reductions at Pop TV, which was part of CBS Corp. and was recently folded into the ViacomCBS Entertainment & Youth Brands Group, run by Chris McCarthy. The layoffs are result […]

2nd Update, Friday Midday: The Invisible Man is on his way to a $9.1M first day, including last night’s $1.65M, for a 3-day between $23M-$25M at 3,610 theaters. I’ve heard from various exhibitors that advance ticket sales are far ahead of Universal/Blumhouse’s Ma which posted at first day of $7.2M and opening of $18.1M last June. As […]

Nick Apollo Forte, a longtime cruise ship and cabaret singer most widely known for his co-starring role in Woody Allen’s 1984 comedy Broadway Danny Rose, died Wednesday in Waterbury, CT. He was 81. His death was announced by his family. No cause of death was given, but the family thanked his doctor and staff for […]

Sony’s Escape Room 2 is jumping its release date from Aug. 14 to Wednesday Dec. 30 this year. Adam Robitel, who directed the first $9M production, returns to helm here. The first movie last year grossed $57M stateside, and $155.7M WW with 22% of that latter number coming from China. Originally, Escape Room 2 was dated on April […]

A group of lawmakers are pressing Google to make one of YouTube’s signature anti-piracy features available to a greater number of creators of copyrighted content. Earlier this month, a dozen Capitol Hill lawmakers led by Sen. Thom Tillis (R-TN) sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki asking them if […]

Refresh for latest…: The 45th annual César Awards, France’s equivalent to the Oscars, are getting underway in Paris this evening under tumultuous conditions. The leading nominated film is Roman Polanski’s An Officer And A Spy with 12 mentions, but the controversial director will not be in attendance, nor will anyone from the Dreyfus Affair drama. […]

Courteney Cox has been tapped as the lead in Shining Vale, Starz’s horror-comedy pilot from Divorce creator Sharon Horgan and Trial & Error co-creator Jeff Astrof.  Dearbhla Walsh (The Handmaid’s Tale, Traitors) is set to direct the pilot for half-hour comedy is produced by Warner Bros. Television and Lionsgate in association with Astrof’s Other Shoe Productions, Horgan and Clelia […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Gifted alum Coby Bell is set as a series regular opposite Jared Padalecki in Walker, a reimagining of CBS’ long-running 1990s action/crime series Walker, Texas Ranger. Like the original series, created by Albert S. Ruddy & Leslie Greif, the reboot, in which Walker is getting a female partner, will explore morality, family and […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Sopranos stars Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa, who respectively played Christopher Moltisanti and Bobby “Bacala” Baccalieri, will host the new podcast Talking Sopranos which is dropping this April on Apple, Spotify, YouTube and other podcast platforms. This podcast will follow The Sopranos series episode by episode providing inside info, behind the scenes stories […]

Thanks to the coronavirus, The Amazing Race is not running right now. “Due to increased concerns and uncertainty regarding the coronavirus around the world, CBS and the producers of The Amazing Race have taken the precautionary measure of temporarily suspending production on the 33rd season of the series,” the network said today. “All contestants and […]

EXCLUSIVE: James Graham is among a set of British writers enjoying something of a moment. Fresh from making waves with his Benedict Cumberbatch drama Brexit: The Uncivil War, he wrote a standout episode on Prince Charles for season three of The Crown. He is currently on the publicity trail for his AMC/ITV drama Quiz, which brings […]

The UK’s film and TV industries are facing a gap in public financial support as its now appears certain that the country will withdraw from funding program Creative Europe when the Brexit transition period ends in December 2020. Bodies including the UK creative workers union Bectu and producers union Pact have called on the government […]

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is adapting crime novel You Don’t Know Me with The Crown writer Tom Edge and Mrs Wilson producer Snowed-In Productions. Deadline understands that the British public broadcaster is remaking Imran Mahmood’s novel as a four-part drama. You Don’t Know Me tells the story of a young man, who stands accused of murder. […]

ViacomCBS’ Channel 5 has lost one of its biggest stars after the eponymous star of Cruising with Jane McDonald revealed that she was stepping away from the long-running travel show. McDonald, whose show won Channel 5 its first ever BAFTA award in 2018, is leaving the series “to concentrate on music and exciting new projects”. […]

EXCLUSIVE: RuPaul’s trusted sidekick Michelle Visage has landed her own BBC show, in which she will be joined by celebrity friends to dish out candid advice to dilemma-stricken fans. Following a successful pilot last month (first revealed by Deadline), youth channel BBC Three — which is home to RuPaul’s Drag Race UK — has commissioned […]

The Netflix limited series The Eddy, an intriguing look at a Paris nightclub and the people who run it, is set to debut May 8 on Netflix. Director Damien Chazelle’s television debut features Moonlight star André Holland. ‘The Eddy is an eight-episode drama that takes place in the vibrant multicultural neighborhoods of modern-day Paris. Once a celebrated […]

Tokyo’s two Disney resorts, Disneyland and DisneySea, will be closed for an estimated two weeks because of Japan’s efforts to suppress the spread of the coronavirus in that country. “Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea have decided to proceed with an extraordinary closure from Saturday February 29, 2020, through Sunday March 15”  said a statement from […]

The strange and intriguing tales from the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe, is coming from Amazon Prime. The drama series today unveiled a new trailer and key art by Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag, whose work formed the basis of the […]

Stephen Colbert noted at the top of his monologue that “I, for one, am not panicking.” But some people are panicking over the coronavirus: namely, Wall Street. President Donald Trump spoke to the nation the other night, Colbert noted, to reassure nervous investors. “Today, it bounced back by plunging almost 1,200 points, the largest single […]

Hillary Clinton has done a series of interviews tied to the upcoming Hulu docuseries Hillary, and now she is going into production herself. She has partnered with iHeartRadio to coproduce an original podcast series, set to debut sometime in the second quarter, in the midst of the 2020 presidential race and just before the summer […]

The wait is almost over — Grey’s Anatomy fans will finally get answers to what happened to Dr. Alex Karev and closure to his character’s exit months after the departure of the series’ original cast member Justin Chambers. The March 5 episode of the hit medical drama, entitled ‘Leave A Light On’, will feature a […]

President Donald Trump went after Comcast during a White House meeting on empowering African Americans. During a meeting in the Cabinet Room with prominent African American media and sports figures, Trump noted that an NBC News reporter had left the room. “She just left from NBC because it’s owned by Comcast, and they’re the racists,” […]

A man who was seen beating family members in the viral video of a fight at Disneyland in July pleaded guilty today and immediately was sentenced to six months in jail. Two others involved in the brawl failed to appear for their court date in Fullerton, and warrants have been issued for their arrest. Avery […]

There have been a number of layoffs at ViacomCBS this week, I have learned. The company would not comment but I hear the staff reductions were across the combined organization, both on the CBS and the Viacom side. This is the second round of layoffs at ViacomCBS; the first payroll cut was implemented shortly after […]

The Parasite train keeps on gaining steam, with Bong Joon Ho’s four-time Oscar-winning dark comedy crossing $50 million at the domestic box office. But the real question is, can it beat Life Is Beautiful’s box office gross of $57M? If it maintains its momentum, signs are pointing to yes. As its Imax run comes to an end […]