Новости за 07.07.2020

EXCLUSIVE: Billions’ Damian Lewis and The Affair alum Dominic West are in negotiations to headline and executive produce a limited series adaptation of bestselling Cold War espionage thriller A Spy Among Friends for Spectrum Originals and UK streamer BritBox. The six-episode A Spy Among Friends, based on Ben Macintyre’s book, comes from former Homeland executive producer […]

When Genndy Tartakovsky was wrapping up the final season of his Emmy-winning series Samarai Jack, he pitched an idea he’d long been playing with to his former boss at Cartoon Network, Mike Lazzo—the man who’d green-lit the Moscow-born, Chicago-based animator’s career-setting Dexter’s Laboratory, more than 20 years before. Tartakovsky’s Primal started off as an idea […]

MGM claims that Starz is turning a “routine licensing dispute” into “an overblown federal copyright case,” as it seeks to dismiss almost of the pay TV network’s allegations that the studio’s television division violated exclusivity provisions on more than 300 movies and TV titles. In a motion to dismiss filed in U.S. District Court on […]

Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes are launching a “three-headed beast” of a podcast. Arrested Development stars Bateman and Arnett and Will and Grace star Hayes will launch Smartless on July 20 with episodes airing every Monday. The show is centered around the element of surprise with each episode starting with one of the hosts revealing his […]

UCP is adding another true crime series to its slate with Candy (working title) a limited event series based on the true story of Texas killer Candy Montgomery and her victim, Betty Gore, starring and executive produced by The Handmaid’s Tale star Elisabeth Moss, from The Act co-creator Nick Antosca and writer Robin Veith (Mad […]

The Late Late Show host James Corden and exec producer Ben Winston have teamed up with their new corporate siblings Nickelodeon to adapt kids book Real Pigeons Fight Crime. The pair are developing the project through their Fulwell 73 production company and it is the latest example of corporate synergy since the ViacomCBS merger. Corden, […]

Cast is rounding out on counterfeiting comedy Queenpins ahead of a planned shoot in Los Angeles later this year, with Vince Vaughn and Paul Walter Hauser joining Leslie Jones and Kristen Bell in the pic. Emmy-nominated husband and wife team Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly (Beneath The Harvest Sky) are writing and directing the movie, […]

Showtime Documentary Films and Oscar-winner Martin Scorsese are teaming on a new documentary about glam-punk pioneer David Johansen, the frontman of the New York Dolls. Emmy nominee David Tedeschi will co-direct with Scorsese. Scorsese and his team already shot Johansen earlier this year at New York’s Café Carlyle. Johansen performed songs he had written over […]

EXCLUSIVE: Long-distance relationships are easy for some couples, but for others, it can be difficult to navigate — and Quibi is looking to explore exactly that with the forthcoming series The Long Distance Relationship Project (wt) from real-life Oscar-winning filmmaking couple Guy Nattiv and Jaime Ray Newman (Skin) and Stampede Ventures. The scripted series for […]

Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning article by ProPublica and the Marshall project, and an episode of the podcast This American Life, limited series Unbelievable follows the true story of a group of sexual assault survivors and the two detectives (Merrit Wever and Toni Collette) who track down their attacker. Danielle Macdonald’s portrayal of key witness […]

It has been a busy 12 months for Kerry Washington, with a key part in Hulu’s Little Fires Everywhere, a directorial stint on HBO’s Insecure, and a exec producer role on Sundance doc The Fight occupying her time. And while her role in Little Fires Everywhere contines to draw praise, it is only one performance […]

EXCLUSIVE: In another deal that demonstrated the vibrancy of the Virtual Cannes Market, Focus Features is in final talks to fund and distribute worldwide Armageddon Time, the James Gray-directed drama that has Robert De Niro, Oscar Isaac, Donald Sutherland, Anne Hathaway and Cate Blanchett poised to star. Sources said that the Focus commitment will be […]

Dana Canedy, the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes and a winner of the prestigious award during her long tenure at The New York Times, has been named publisher of the Simon & Schuster imprint. As a successor to Jonathan Karp, who took over as Simon & Schuster president and CEO following the heart attack death […]

Editors Note: Journalist-turned-filmmaker Rod Lurie just oversaw the release of The Outpost, an adaptation of a book by CNN host Jake Tapper on the courageous stand made by a small group of U.S. soldiers against hundreds of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. Films are often graded by box office grosses, something that has become a meaningless […]