Новости за 20.05.2020

EXCLUSIVE: Author Jeffrey Archer has aligned with his first Hollywood rep. He has teamed with veteran book-to-film agent Joel Gotler at IPG to shop his newest bestseller, Nothing Ventured, as well as his back list titles for film and television. Archer has sold 275 million copies worldwide, across 97 countries and in 33 languages, and […]

Francis Lee, the UK filmmaker whose 2017 romantic feature God’s Own Country was a breakout indie hit, has claimed that his film has been “censored” on Amazon Prime U.S.. The Brit took to twitter to say that the version available was “not the film I intended or made” and that he was asking Amazon to […]

Former World Wrestling Entertainment star Shad Gaspard was found dead Wednesday on a Los Angeles beach after going missing in a swimming accident over the weekend, authorities said. He was 39. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s office confirmed to Deadline that a body that was discovered along the shoreline near the Venice Beach Pier […]

The Last Dance continues to wrack up huge viewing numbers. The documentary series about the historic career of Michael Jordan and his dominant Chicago Bulls was watched in 23.8 million households outside the U.S. in its first four weeks on Netflix, the streaming giant tweeted Wednesday. The co-production between ESPN and Netflix has already cemented […]

Facebook stock rose 5% on Wednesday to a new high of $228.20 after the company announced a new feature called Shops, a virtual mall designed to help businesses suffering during COVID-19. Shops, announced Tuesday, will “make it easy for businesses to set up a single online store for customers to access on both Facebook and […]

Writer-director Steven Soderbergh says he’s written a sequel to his 1989 breakthrough Sex, Lies, and Videotape, and hopes to get it on screen. In a remote interview on the YouTube series Flaviar’s NightCap Live (watch it below) Soderbergh tells host Dan Dunn that he’s written three screenplays during the coronavirus shutdown, one of which is […]

Joe Biden will be a guest on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Thursday, marking his fifth visit to the show and first since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee. The visit will be virtual, of course, as Biden has been doing interviews from his Delaware home. But his guest appearance will have special significance. Biden’s […]

John Mahon, an actor, director and writer who played a police chief in 1997’s L.A. Confidential and, as a language lab director in one of the creepiest moments of The Exorcist revealed that recorded demon gibberish was in fact backwards English, died of natural causes at his Los Angeles home on May 3. He was […]

The Queen’s Birthday Honours List, which recognizes the achievements of a wide-range of UK figures, has been postponed from its traditional June date this year due to the coronavirus. The awards, ranging from knighthoods to MBEs, were scheduled to be handed out on the 94-year-old royal’s birthday on the second Saturday in June (her ‘official’ […]

The BBC’s commercial arms are reducing their costs by £140M ($172M) over the next year after the coronavirus pandemic took a painful toll on revenue. The BBC’s commercial units primarily comprise BBC Studios, BBC Global News, and studios business BBC Studioworks, with BBC Studios accounting for nearly 90% of their combined £1.34B of revenue last […]

Class will soon be back in session for Mr. Iglesias. Netflix has set June 17 for Mr. Iglesias Part 2, starring stand-up favorite Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias. In the series created by Kevin Hench, Iglesias stars as Gabe, a good-natured public high school teacher in Long Beach, CA who works at his alma mater. Gabe takes […]

Mediapro Group, the Spanish major that has offices in 36 countries on four continents, is partnering with the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona to implement a series of safety measures that it will use to steer its operations post-coronavirus. Before the virus, producing arm the Mediapro Studio, which has credits including The Young Pope, was in production […]