Новости за 29.02.2020

Longtime Blumhouse writer/director Leigh Whannell has signed an overall deal with Blumhouse for film and television. Over the course of 10 years, Whannell and Blumhouse have collaborated on seven projects, including The Invisible Man, win theaters today. The two year, first-look deal will cover projects that Whannell proposes to write, direct or produce. Jason Blum, […]

UPDATE, writethru: The 70th Berlin Film Festival, and the first under new leadership team Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian, drew to a close this evening with the Golden Bear awarded to Mohammad Rasoulof’s There Is No Evil. Rasoulof is currently banned from leaving Iran for participation in social and political activity. This is the second […]

The first death from the coronavirus in the US has been recorded today in King County in Washington state. Jamie Nixon, a public information officer with the Washington State Department of Health, issued a vague report that said a patient in the state has died from the infection. The individual or details of their illness […]

Local sports will continue on YouTube TV for a while longer, as the service has reached a temporary agreement with Sinclair Broadcast Group to Keep Fox Sports regional networks and the YES Network on board. The deal is in place while the two sides work on a longer-term carriage agreement. Pressure is on for a […]

President Donald Trump celebrated a successful rally in South Carolina last night, urging voters to vote for Bernie Sanders as a way to derail other candidates. But the President has bigger concerns on the horizon with the growing threat of the coronavirus, and indicated he will hold a press conference today to discuss the latest […]

UPDATE, writethru: Kew Media Group’s has collapsed and all of its directors have resigned after the Canadian TV producer-distributor’s lenders called in their debts. In a statement issued to Kew Media Group’s investors on Friday, the company said it has been placed in receivership under the orders of the Ontario Superior Court. FTI Consulting Canada […]

Elliott Management Corp. has taken a big stake in Twitter Inc. and will push for changes at the social media company, including replacing Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey, according to a Bloomberg News report. The firm has nominated four directors for Twitter’s board, with three seats becoming available at this year’s annual Twitter company meeting. […]

Fox’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown again won the Friday demo wars, coming in with a robust 0.8 to top the evening’s primetime offerings. The main attraction on Friday was Goldberg being announced as the new Universal Champion. Elsewhere, the CBS lineup of crime dramas saw MacGyver with an 0.6, Hawaii Five-0 an 0.7, and a […]

Joe Coulombe, whose instinct for what the musicians, museum curators, and journalists wanted out of a market led to a national food retail empire, has died.  He passed at age 89 Friday at his Pasadena, Calif. home after a long illness, according to his son, Joseph. Coulombe started his retail career with a chain of […]

Bill Maher abolished handshakes on his show Friday, opting for a more sanitary Japanese bow as he greeted guests. They included a top epidemiologist he grilled about humanity’s odds at surviving the coronavirus, why it’s called COVID, if his dogs can catch it and whether Bernie Sanders should be pressing the flesh so much at […]

Supermodel Paulina Porizkova has been interviewed for the first time since her late musician husband Ric Ocasek’s death, saying she feels “hurt and betrayal” for being excluded from his will. Porizkova and Ocasek were planning to divorce, but were still living together when he died. She found the Cars front man’s body in their Gramercy […]

A beloved statue of animated legends Rocky and Bullwinkle will soon be unveiled on the Sunset Strip after being gone since 2013. The WEHO TIMES reported the statute’s return today, capturing its image in a brief moment during installation before it was covered. An official unveiling is planned for the end of March, but no […]

Tony Romo has connected on yet another big score. After weeks of speculation on whether a move to ESPN would happen, Romo is now set to remain with CBS Sports for the 2020 NFL season and beyond in a reported $17 million per year deal. Romo joined CBS Sports in April 2017 as the lead […]

In the wake of Disney+ moving its new series based on the movie Love, Simon to Hulu, Hilary Duff called on Disney today to shift Lizzie McGuire reboot series from the family-friendly new streamer to the veteran one. The actress took to Instagram to urge the media giant to consider running her show on Hulu because “I’d […]

Controversial Fox Nation host Britt McHenry has a brain tumor and will undergo surgery. The 33-year-old McHenry revealed the condition in a Twitter post. McHenry has worked for ESPN and joined Fox News in 2018. She is expected to undergo surgery on Thursday after getting an MRI for her neck and brain earlier in the […]

Refresh for updates … As the coronavirus continues to spread, now affecting nearly 60 countries spanning six continents, more events are being canceled or postponed amid travel restrictions and increasing health warnings. As of Friday, the virus had sickened more than 83,000 people worldwide — including 62 people across six states, per the CDC — […]

Continuing a trend that has seen at least five tech conferences cancelled this week, the Game Developers Conference (known as the GDC by many) has decided to postpone its March 16-20 event. “After close consultation with our partners in the game development industry and community around the world, we’ve made the difficult decision to postpone […]

There were bound to be some pin-drop moments during tonight’s César Awards, but for the most part things ran smoothly until Roman Polanski was named Best Director for his Dreyfus Affair drama, An Officer And A Spy, late into the evening. The film had already taken Best Costumes and Best Adapted Screenplay, yet when it […]

Lorraine Toussaint (The Village) is set to co-star opposite Queen Latifah in CBS drama pilot The Equalizer, a re-imagining of the classic 1980s series. The project hails from Andrew Marlowe & Terri Miller, Davis Entertainment, Flavor Unit, Martin Chase Productions, Universal Television and CBS TV Studios. Written by Marlowe and Miller, who will serve as showrunners, The Equalizer stars […]

Networks are ramping up their coronavirus coverage, as concerns escalate of a worldwide spread, major public events are postponed or canceled, and Wall Street experienced its worst week since the 2008 financial crisis. The White House contends that the media is raising unnecessary alarm about the virus and its spread in the U.S., even with […]

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed actress Talia Ryder in all areas. She broke out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival as the co-lead of Eliza Hittman’s critically acclaimed drama Never Rarely Sometimes Always, which played this week at the Berlin Film Festival and will be released by Focus Features on March 13. The pic, which is 100% […]

EXCLUSIVE: CBS’ Hawaii Five-0 will be coming to an end. The popular action crime drama series will wrap its 10-year, 240-episode run with a two-hour series finale on Friday, April 3. Developed by Peter M. Lenkov, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci as a reimagining of Leonard Freeman’s classic series and shepherded by Lenkov for the […]