Новости за 04.09.2020

DC FanDome kicked off in August with the Hall of Heroes, giving us a look at some of the most highly anticipated film and TV series including Wonder Woman 1984, The Suicide Squad, The Batman, The Flash and Titans. The fandom will continue on September 12 with DC FanDome: Explore The Multiverse. The 24-hour event allows […]

Happy Friday readers, Tom Grater here with your weekly rundown of news from around the world. This week, we’ve been on the ground at the Venice Film Festival learning about what it’s like to attend a major international fest in the COVID era, covering controversy around the Netflix movie Cuties, and looking at Tenet‘s international […]

As the world seems like it is aflame with a pandemic, divisive rhetoric from an oppressive administration and the unjust killing of Black lives at the hands of police officers, hope seems dim. However, there are voices and role models in the world that are fighting for change and on the frontlines fighting against 45, […]

Sara Haines has been confirmed to return to ABC’s The View as a permanent co-host as the show returns next week for its 24th season, when a focus of the show will be on the final months of the 2020 presidential campaign. Haines was previously on The View from 2016 to 2018, and departed to […]

Telepool, the German producer and distributor that is owned by Will Smith and Swiss investor Elysian Fields, has appointed Jan Frouman as CEO and Managing Director. Frouman was previously founder and CEO at Red Arrow Studios. At Telepool he is replacing André Druskeit, who has stepped down after 15 years at the company to pursue […]

Former Italian PM and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi has been admitted to hospital two days after testing positive for the coronavirus. Representatives of his political party Forza said, “A small precautionary hospitalization was needed to monitor the progress of COVID-19 but he is fine”. His partner, the the Forza Italia MP Marta Fascina, and two […]

Cameron Roach, Director of Drama at Sky Studios, is leaving his position at the UK producer. In an internal note to staff, CEO Gary Davey said the exec was departing to “spend more time with his family.” Roach has been at Sky since 2013, working on shows including Britannia, Bulletproof and Riviera. Since Autumn 2018 he has led […]

Luca Guadagnino has signed up to preside over the jury of the 68th San Sebastian Film Festival, which runs September 18-26. The filmmaker will attend with his latest work, the series We Are Who We Are, which has its world premiere Out of Competition at the festival. He will be joined on the Official Selection jury […]

You wait the best part of 30 years for one and then two come along at once…Orson Welles movies. Pieced together from the 1,083 reels of footage for The Other Side Of The Wind (which debuted in 2018), Hopper/Welles is the latest ‘new’ feature from the industry titan, who died in 1985. Ahead of its […]

Two more Warner Bros. Television TV series, both from John Wells Prods., are resuming production in Los Angeles next week. Shameless is set to start filming its 11th and final season on Sept. 8; TNT’s Animal Kingdom will begin shooting Season 5 on Sept. 7. They are the first WBTV series to restart production in […]

November elections are just around the corner, and celebrities are getting behind a new nonprofit that wants to increase turnout. When We All Vote is a nonprofit organization that aims to increase participation in every election and close the race and age voting gap. The goal is to change the culture around voting, harnessing grassroots […]

EXCLUSIVE: The group that persuaded Will Smith to bungee jump out of a helicopter to celebrate his 50th birthday are launching a podcast with Cadence13 and Headspace Studios. The founders of The Yes Theory, a content company and YouTube channel with over 1.8M viewers, are launching the The Yes Theory Podcast. It will feature Thomas […]

On Thursday, Deadline reported on the bombshell news that U.K. production on The Batman had shut down after star Robert Pattinson contracted coronavirus. As production continues to ramp up, Deadline asked Los Angeles County Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jeffrey Gunzenhauser on Thursday about the virus and its impact on film and TV production here. While […]

EXCLUSIVE: Saban Films has acquired North American rights to Ambush, the Vietnam War action thriller toplined by Aaron Echkart. Cody Christian, Dermot Mulroney and Jason Genao have also joined the cast of the pic, which is co-written and to be directed by Mark Earl Burman (Dog Eat Dog). Principal photography is now set to begin […]

We’ll be seeing more of David, Emily, Leif and Tobin on the second season of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist. Andrew Leeds, Alice Lee, Michael Thomas Grant and Kapil Talwalkar, who recurred respectively as the characters in season 1, have been promoted to series regular for season 2 of the NBC musical dramedy starring Jane Levy. The […]