Новости за 15.10.2020

Donna Langley, chairman of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, and Ann Sarnoff, chair and CEO of Warner Bros had the same reaction Thursday when asked if their companies had any interest in buying movie theaters. They laughed. “We have no plans to do that currently,” Langley said, appearing with Sarnoff and CBS CEO George Cheeks on […]

RedBird Capital Partners, the investment firm with stakes in David Ellison’s Skydance Media and the YES Network, is opening a West Coast office in Los Angeles and has hired longtime top Goldman Sachs banker Andy Gordon to lead it. He starts in February as partner charged with extending the firm’s expertise in media, sports and […]

UPDATE: Joe Biden’s presidential campaign said that a third individual, a member of the aviation company that charters the former vice president’s aircraft, tested positive. Campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a statement, “Vice President Biden was not in close contact, as defined by the CDC, with this individual at any time. In fact, […]

EXCLUSIVE: How To Get Away With Murder alum Conrad Ricamora is set for a key recurring role on the upcoming fourth season of Fox’s hit medical drama The Resident. Ricamora will play Dr. Jake Wong, a handsome gay plastic surgeon, and amateur singer-songwriter in his off hours. Jake used to be Dr. Bell’s (Bruce Greenwood) […]

Chris Nee and her production company Laughing Wild are best known for creating all-inclusive children’s programming such as Doc McStuffins and Vampirina in bringing more representation to Netflix. The Peabody, Emmy, and Humanitas Prize-winning producer and writer has unveiled her first slate of series heading to the streaming giant — all of which are part […]

UPDATED, with comment from Debate Commission co-chair, Trump: Steve Scully, the longtime C-SPAN anchor who was to moderate the second presidential town hall debate this evening, is being placed on leave after he admitted that he falsely claimed that his Twitter account had been hacked. Last week, in the face of attacks from President Donald […]

The star stable of television producer Dick Wolf, best known for his Law & Order franchise, has come together for a public service announcement on voter registration. Doing their best for the country are such cast members as Ice-T, S. Epatha Merkerson and Mariska Hargitay, all advising on what’s at stake in the Nov. 3 […]

When a senior adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign thanked Ice Cube for working with the White House on a plan for Black America, it immediately triggered questions of who he was supporting in 2020. Ice Cube explained shortly afterward on Twitter that he was contacted by both parties about his Contract with Black America, […]

The WGA East has launched a Safe Workplace Helpline for members who experience harassment or discrimination. The launch of the helpline “puts in place a secure voicemail and email address for members to confidentially contact Guild staff and report any harassment or discrimination,” said WGA East executive director Lowell Peterson. “The helpline is part of […]

This Is Us season 5 is less than three weeks away and the latest teaser for the NBC series shows the Pearsons starting a new chapter. The official This Is Us Twitter account dropped the clip teasing the major moments in store for when the series returns to TV on Oct. 27. The teaser features […]

Robin DiMaggio, the former musical director of The Arsenio Hall Show, was sentenced today to 27 months in federal prison for embezzling nearly $1 million from a charity concert intended to raise money for children made homeless by wars. He pleaded guilty in September 2019. Arsenio Hall was not involved in the scheme in any […]

Showtime no longer will be making its drama pilot The President Is Missing, an adaptation of the novel by President Bill Clinton and James Patterson, from Christopher McQuarrie and Anthony Peckham. The network had ordered the project to pilot, which was fully cast and ready to go when the coronavirus pandemic halted all production in mid-March. […]

As the exhibition industry teeters, global cinema owners beseeched New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to reopen theaters in areas of the state with low infection rates. The response was not promising. The executive committee of the Global Cinema Federation — led by Alejandro Ramirez Magaña, CEO of Cinépolis, in a letter to the governor Wednesday, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Biden’s presidential campaign is once again doing a national ad buy during an awards telecast with the debut of a new spot on The Billboard Music Awards on Wednesday evening. The 30-second spot, called “Vote For,” features Nina Simone’s New World Coming. The spot is a positive ad, featuring Biden saying, “The days […]

Amazon Prime Video is stepping up its relationship with the NFL, agreeing to a deal to stream a playoff game in January. The wild-card game is being broadcast on CBS and Nickelodeon and ViacomCBS also has rights to stream it on CBS All Access, which by then will be known as Paramount+. Earlier this year, […]