Новости за 28.04.2020

Netflix and ViacomCBS’s Channel 5 have climbed aboard a special 75th anniversary episode of Mattel’s classic children’s show Thomas & Friends, which will be introduced by Prince Harry and feature the British royal family. Netflix will premiere Thomas & Friends: The Royal Engine on May 1 after acquiring the U.S. rights to the animated series […]

The BBC has dusted off British playwright Alan Bennett’s famous series of Talking Heads monologues and is remaking them for the coronavirus age with a head-turning cast. Killing Eve actress Jodie Comer, Sherlock‘s Martin Freeman and the soon-to-be star of The Crown Imelda Staunton are among those attached to the project, which will breathe new life […]

EXCLUSIVE: The coronavirus pandemic is likely to present investment opportunities for industry consolidators, as production companies seek a cash boost amid the chaos of the film and TV shutdown, according to M&A experts. Independent producers have been at the mercy of the virus, with the filming hiatus hitting revenues and reserves. A recent study by […]

The popular Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is the latest summer event to cancel due to the coronavirus pandemic. The 55th edition of the Czech event was due to be held July 3 – 11. The festival said the cancellation was necessary “in view of the Czech government’s ongoing coronavirus measures and the complicated worldwide […]

Narrativia, the production company launched by Sir Terry Pratchett, is looking to expand the Discworld universe after striking a development deal with Endeavor Content and UK-based producer Motive Pictures. This comes after BBC America ordered The Watch, an eight-part series based on Pratchett’s Discworld novels. This series is produced by BBC Studios, although it sounds […]

It was during a TV interview earlier this month when Dr. Anthony Fauci was asked who he would want to play him on Saturday Night Live and jokingly said, Brad Pitt. In another TV interview on Monday, two days after Pitt portrayed the Infectious disease specialist on NBC’s SNL, he was asked how he thought the […]

Comedy Central today extended The Daily Social Distancing Show with Trevor Now from 30 to 45 minutes — just in time for the late-night host to weigh on President Donald Trump’s historic remarks about self-bleaching to stave off the coronavirus. “From the beginning of this crisis, Donald Trump has been saying a lot not-smart things,” Noah […]

UPDATED with WGA statement, 8:56: Saying the WGA’s claims were “gutted,” Hollywood’s Big 3 talent agencies declared “a resounding victory” in a statement reacting to a federal judge dismissing huge chunks of the union’s antitrust lawsuit against them today. In its own statement later, however, the WGA said it plans to fight on, saying, “The […]

The Amoeba Music’s over at Sunset and Vine. The famed record store announced last year that is moving and said in February that its a new location would be just a few blocks up and over in Hollywood. The move was set for the fall, and a summerlong sendoff was planned — then the coronavirus […]

SPOILER ALERT: This story includes details from tonight’s finale of AMC’s Dispatches from Elsewhere. In Monday’s season finale of Dispatches from Elsewhere, we finally learn the backstory of one mysterious, recurring character, with the unexpected entry of another into the narrative. Titled “The Boy,” episode 10 of the freshman AMC drama opens on a boy in […]

Updated with statement from Alamo: Despite Texas Gov. Greg Abbott permitting movie theaters to re-open on May 1 in his state numbering nearly 30 million, big movies chains like AMC and Cinemark, which is located in Plano, TX, are still eyeing mid-summer re-opening, not only out of safety, but also due to the lack of […]

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about the season one finale of Prodigal Son. Michael Sheen’s love of the theater – he has played Caligula and Hamlet – and an incredibly lucky slice of timing meant that Fox’s Prodigal Son got the gory end that its creators had always planned. The first season of the […]