Новости за 16.07.2020

Super Frog, the production company set up by Atlanta director and executive producer Hiro Murai, has inked a first-look deal with FX Productions. The deal covers all scripted and unscripted programming for FX, as well as potentially other divisions of Walt Disney Television. It is a renewal, of sorts, of the first-look deal that Murai signed with […]

Peninsula, Yeon Sang-ho’s follow-up to his 2016 zombie smash, Train To Busan, is off to a thrilling start at the international box office where it kicked off in three markets beginning yesterday. In the home hub of Korea, Peninsula (aka Train To Busan Presents: Peninsula) had a Wednesday take of $2.4M on 2,338 screens to […]

Though pandemic isolation has made Colin Jost appreciate more than ever the routine of working at Saturday Night Live‘s 30 Rock studio, the Weekend Update co-host still isn’t sure if the upcoming season will be his last. Appearing – remotely – on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM show, Jost couldn’t give a definite answer when Stern […]

The forthcoming Season 2 of Fox animated series Duncanville has upped Rashida Jones, Multi-platinum selling recording artist Wiz Khalifa, and Joy Osmanski to series regulars. The series, created by Mike Scully, Julie Scully and Amy Poehler, is currently in production of its sophomore season, slated to premiere in 2021. The comedy centers around the life […]

ABC’s debut of its summer comedy United We Fall won Wednesday night in the ratings, delivering a 0.6 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 4.23 million viewers. The series premiere was the best scripted summer debut when it comes to viewership since CBS’ Blood & Treasure in May 2019, and in the demo since the debut […]

During these turbulent times, HBO Max wants you to just … relax. The streamer has ordered A World of Calm, a series based on the popular app and narrated by a slew of big names. The 10-episode order co-produced by Calm and Nutopia is HBO Max’s first brush with the health and wellness space. From […]

Richard Linklater has a new animated movie in the works at Netflix, Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Adventure.  The movie, directed and written by Linklater, is set against the backdrop of the 1969 Apollo mission to the moon, which launched 51 years ago today, and is inspired by Linklater’s childhood in Houston, TX. The […]

Extraction has come out on top of the first ranking of original movies released by Netflix, with a company-reported 99 million viewers in its first four weeks on the streaming service. Netflix, which reports its second-quarter earnings Thursday, has 183 million global subscribers. Its sizable subscriber gains in recent quarters tilt the list (see it […]

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has inked Oscar nominee and eight-time Emmy nominee Kristen Wiig. The Groundlings alum, who went on to a seven year career on Saturday Night Live, has continued to work with such acclaimed filmmakers as Darren Aronofsky (mother!), Alexander Payne (Downsizing), Richard Linklater (Where’d You Go, Bernadette?), Sebastian Silva (Nasty Baby), Ridley Scott (The […]

The New Mutants has gone through quite a journey since the first trailer was dropped at CinemaCon in 2017 — which was before the Fox/Disney merger. After its release date kept on erratically moving like X-men’s Nightcrawler, the Fox/Marvel pic seems to have stayed put for its August 28 release date but before that, fans will […]

As COVID-19 cases spike across the U.S., New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is launching a national “Mask Up America” ad campaign produced by Tribeca Enterprises CEO Jane Rosenthal and directed by Kathryn Bigelow with Robert De Niro, Kaitlyn Dever, Jamie Foxx, Morgan Freeman, John Leguizamo, Anthony Mackie, Rosie Perez, Ellen Pompeo and Jeffrey Wright. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Insecure EP Prentice Penny has reteamed with Netflix for his next directorial feature following the success of his debut film, Uncorked. Penny has partnered with Chernin Entertainment on an untitled holiday film, which is based on an original concept from himself, his wife Tasha Penny, and Insecure co-executive producer Phil Augusta Jackson. While keeping […]

Donald Trump is shaking up his 2020 reelection campaign, promoting Bill Stepien to campaign manager while Brad Parscale will become a senior adviser. “I am pleased to announce that Bill Stepien has been promoted to the role of Trump Campaign Manager,” Trump wrote on Facebook. “Brad Parscale, who has been with me for a very […]

Even though Paramount’s SpongeBob: Sponge on the Run is heading to VOD and ultimately CBS All Access in the states next year, overseas it will be streamed by Netflix; the exception being China. Netflix has acquired international rights for what was originally intended to be one of Paramount’s big summer movies. Also, Netflix doesn’t have […]

Now that UTA has signed the WGA’s franchise agreement after lengthy negotiations, speculation is mounting over which of the other Big Four agencies – WME, CAA or ICM Partners – will be the next to sign. Sources tell Deadline that WGA West president David A. Goodman told members at a captains meeting Tuesday night that […]

The Hallmark Channel on Wednesday said it has renewed its flagship daily lifestyle series Home & Family for a ninth season along with reupping its original series Good Witch for Season 7 and Chesapeake Shores for Season 5 as Crown Media Family Networks unveiled is 2020-21 programming slate. Crown Media also announced the first 18 of […]

SAG-AFTRA has told its members that they can’t work on two more films because their producers have “failed to comply with SAG-AFTRA’s required COVID-19 safety standards and protocols for a safe set.” One of the films is Macbeth, an adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy by Toil and Trouble Productions LLC; the other is Retaliator, from […]

Heather Morris, who co-starred with Naya Rivera on Fox’s Glee, posted a remembrance of her friend Wednesday. It came two days after Rivera’s body was found following an intensive five-day search at Lake Piru, where Rivera drowned while swimming with her 4-year-old son. “You are and always will be the strongest and most resilient human […]

In the rush to get ready for a 60-game sprint with a reduced number of players available, the Los Angeles Dodgers have been playing their clubhouse attendant, Francisco Herrera, aka “Chico,” in their intrasquad games. He’s not only playing, but starring. In a tweet today, the Dodgers highlighted a difficult catch by Herrera off the […]

Walt Disney Wednesday named company veteran Jill Estorino president and managing director of Disney Parks, Experiences and Products International, effective immediately. Estorino has been been at Disney for 29 years, most recently as Executive Vice President, Global Marketing and Sales, and will now overseeing parks and resorts’ international operations and development, including Hong Kong Disneyland, […]

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is suing to block a Beverly Hills auction house from selling Valerie Harper’s four Emmy statuettes because the sale this week would tarnish the award, according to a complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court. The Emmy awards that Harper received for playing Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary […]

EXCLUSIVE: Former CAA agent and Imagine Artist Management partner-manager Raj Raghavan is joining Echo Lake Entertainment as a talent manager, where he’ll continue to rep a roster of accomplished actors, playwrights, comedians and novelists. Raghavan’s clients include Golden Globe Nominee Jason Lee (My Name Is Earl), four-time Filmfare Award winner and Bollywood superstar Alia Bhatt (Gully […]

You can spend your golden years in the house that served as the home for TV’s The Golden Girls — if you have a spare $2.999 million. A piece of television history is on the market for the first time, part of an estate sale after the death of the original owners. The mid-century modern, […]

EXCLUSIVE: WME just signed Sir Elton John and his company Rocket Entertainment. Agency will represent him in non-music areas including film, TV, podcasts, endorsements and digital. He is coming off Rocketman of course, for which he won the Oscar for the new song “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again,” his recent autobiography, and the three year […]