Новости за 10.09.2020

English actress Diana Rigg has died at the age of 82, the BBC is reporting. A celebrated performer on stage and screen, Rigg was known for her roles in The Avengers, Games Of Thrones, as James Bond’s wife in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, and in theater for productions including the musicals Colette and Follies. […]

Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg will deliver the opening keynote at January’s CES, but not in its usual cavernous Las Vegas setting. The event, slated for January 11-14, has gone all-digital due to concerns about the coronavirus. In non-pandemic times, the lack of social distance is a trademark of the massive confab, which draws hundreds of […]

Munich-based Night Train Media, the film and TV production outfit launched by former Tele Munchen Group MD Herbert L. Kloiber earlier this year, has hired Olivia Pahl as Head of Development and Co-Production. Pahl joins the fledgling company having served similar roles at StudioCanal TV and Tandem Productions. Based in Munich, she will take over […]

Universal will be releasing Blumhouse’s Freaky on Nov. 13. The black horror comedy, directed by writer-director Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, the Paranormal Activity franchise) follows a teenage girl who switches bodies with a relentless serial killer, The Butcher. Kathryn Newton of Blockers and HBO’s Big Little Lies stars as 17-year old Millie alongside Vince Vaughn who plays the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Staged, the Michael Sheen and David Tennant-starring lockdown comedy that has been a breakout hit after broadcasting on BBC One in the UK, has landed a U.S. streaming deal with Hulu. Rainmaker Content, the recently launched international distributor specializing in drama, factual and special event programming, boarded the project’s sales rights back in June […]

MIPCOM organizer Reed MIDEM has cancelled the physical edition of its TV market, which was due to take place next month in Cannes, citing ongoing coronavirus-related uncertainty. Instead, it will take place entirely online as MIPCOM ONLINE+, a digital platform that will host various events October 12-16. MIPCOM was facing an uphill battle after several […]

Studiocanal will be launching sales at Toronto for The Jonsson Gang, the latest pic from Tinker Tailor Solider Spy filmmaker Tomas Alfredson. SF Studios is handling the project’s Swedish release, which is set for December 2020. The pic is a reboot of a successful Swedish film comedy series. Following a failed heist, a man ends […]

The controversy surrounding Disney’s live-action update on 1998 animated classic Mulan is heating up just as the film is about to be released in China. In recent days, backlash outside the Middle Kingdom has increased over a line in the movie’s credits roll that reportedly thanks the Xinjiang authorities, including one entity that is on […]

Baz Luhrmann’s Warner Bros. Elvis movie is back on track, and will resume filming on Sept. 23 in Queensland, Australia. The news comes six months after the production was forced to shut down after leading man Tom Hanks, who is playing the King of Rock & Roll’s manager Colonel Tom, came down with COVID-19, as we […]

Trevor Noah tonight took issue with President Donald Trump’s methods of dealing with the early stages of the pandemic, as revealed by the President’s conversations with journalist Bob Woodward that recently surfaced in connection with Woodward’s new book Rage. In those conversations, Trump said that he purposely downplayed the COVID-19 virus in his early public […]

The producers of the Ben Affleck action film Hypnotic are suing their insurance company over its failure to extend existing production coverage without including a new, pandemic-related clause. Hypnotic, directed by Robert Rodriguez and backed by Solstice Studios and Studio 8, was set to head into production in April. But the project was postponed by […]

In an expected move, actress Denise Richard will be exiting Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills franchise, her representative has confirmed. She was on the show for two seasons. While RHOBH has been a top-rated cable show on Wednesday nights, Richards has been embroiled in intra-cast battles, including a public fight with Brandi Glanville […]