Новости за 07.03.2020

“MSNBC used to run this thing, ‘This is who we are,’ ” Bill Maher said Friday during his panel session on HBO’s Real Time, referring to one of the cable news network’s oft-used marketing slogans. “Well, I don’t like who you were this week, and I don’t think a lot of people who work there […]

Author Stephen King is once again stirring the bubbling cauldron of the Twitterverse with a controversial stance. King, who found himself in hot water in January when he made remarks about diversity and the Oscars, has again raised some eyebrows with an online position. This time, it was a complaint about Hachette Book Group dropping […]

The news is increasingly bleak for the founders of the South by Southwest conference, which was canceled today for the first time in its 34-year history. Two founders of the event, which was set for March 13-22 in Austin, Texas, told The Austin Chronicle that the organization lacks insurance coverage for disease outbreaks. The festival […]

The WGA will begin bargaining March 23 for a new film and TV contract with management’s Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers, Deadline has confirmed. The guild’s current contract expires May 1. WGA West president David A. Goodman and WGA East president Beau Willimon told guild members last month that “The 2020 Minimum Basic […]

UPDATED with latest: The death toll of victims of coronavirus in the U.S. grew to 17 on Friday, with 15 of the deaths in Washington state, according to the Seattle Times. Also, three students at University of California, Los Angeles, are being tested for coronavirus, said UCLA Chancellor Gene D. Block. Two patients who tested […]

Whatever televangelist Jim Bakker is selling, the New York Attorney General ain’t buying. Lisa Landau, Chief of the Health Care Bureau, gave The Jim Bakker Show 10 days to comply with a cease-and-desist letter that tells him to stop touting an alleged cure for the coronavirus. The letter was sent Thursday to Bakker’s office and […]

Universal is teaming with James Wan and his Atomic Monster production shingle on an original horror thriller that will be inspired by the studio’s monster-movie legacy. Wan is aboard to produce and Robbie Thompson (Netflix’s Cursed) is writing the script. Details are under wraps (no Mummy pun intended), but we hear it will be part […]

2nd Update, Friday 5:14PM: Disney/Pixar’s elfin adventure movie Onward in 4pm numbers is looking at $11.3M today, and between $37.5M-$40M over 3-days at 4,310 locations. While that’s on the lower end of an original Pixar movie, in the neighborhood of Ratatouille ($47.5M), and the 3-days of Good Dinosaur ($39.1M) and A Bug’s Life ($33.2M, the latter two titles being 5-day Thanksgiving launches), blasting […]

EXCLUSIVE: Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Deuce) and Bill Heck (Locke & Key) are set as two of the leads alongside star Jeff Bridges in the FX’s drama series The Old Man, from Fox 21 Television Studios in association with The Littlefield Company. In a recasting, Heck will play a younger version of Bridges’ character Dan Chase. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Starz/Lionsgate is rounding out the cast for its upcoming Power prequel series. London Brown (The Hustle), Malcolm Mays (Snowfall), Shanley Caswell (NCIS: New Orleans), Toby Sandeman (The Royals) and Joey Bada$$ (Mr. Robot) have been cast as series regulars alongside previously announced Patina Miller, Mekai Curtis, Omar Epps, Hailey Kilgore and Lovie Simone in […]

President Donald Trump toured the Centers for Disease Control on Friday and, as he often does, he took questions from the press. When a correspondent asked him a question about the administration’s response to the wave of cancellations of public events and other hits to the economy, Trump veered off into an aside about ratings. […]

McCoy Tyner, one of the most influential pianists in jazz history, died Friday at his home in northern New Jersey. He was 81 and his death was confirmed by a nephew. No cause was given. Tyner was a part of John Coltrane’s seminal 1960s quartet, and his distinctive, clean and percussive sound on acoustic piano […]