Новости за 22.10.2020

Marc Wooldridge, former Head of 20th Century Fox Film Distribution in Australia, is launching Sydney-based film distribution and production development firm Maslow Entertainment. Wooldridge, a 27-year Fox vet who left the studio last year, will serve as founder and managing partner of Maslow, which will focus on the Australia and New Zealand markets. The firm […]

It’s the day before the last presidential debates of this election year, but there are other races still hanging in the balance as well. Trevor Noah decided in his monologue to give them the once-over. First up was Sen. Lindsey Graham, facing a tight race in South Carolina. Graham is being out-raised by his Democrat […]

Tim McGraw received the Tom Hanks Caregiver Champion Award last night from Tom Hanks himself – virtually – during the Elizabeth Dole Foundations’ third annual Heroes and History Makers event, honoring America’s 5.5 million family caregivers of wounded, ill and injured service members and veterans at home. McGraw accepted the honor on behalf of family […]

Tell us how you really feel, Eric. Former Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said today at a Wall Street Journal conference that “the context of social networks serving as amplifiers for idiots and crazy people is not what we intended,” reports Bloomberg News. Schmidt said social media’s “excesses” would likely results in greater regulation […]

Former top CBS marketing executives Garen van de Beek and Lori Shefa have reteamed to open RM 15, a boutique entertainment marketing agency. Named after the office suite they shared at CBS’ TV City, the agency will focus on producing creative assets to launch and grow new and returning television and streaming content, and marketing […]

Darius McCrary has signed with CGEM Talent. McCrary recently played James Brown in the BET series American Soul, appeared as Otis Leecan in Lee Daniels’ Star on Fox, and on the UMC streaming series Monagmy as the series regular Connor, where he also serves as executive producer. McCrary is currently developing the launch his own […]

The Casting Society of America will host two virtual events this weekend for actors who are veterans of the armed forces. “Business of the Business,” an acting training event, will be held on Saturday, followed by an online open call on Sunday. Both are part of the CSA’s Commitment to Equity in Entertainment in Casting […]

A new, updated take to hit 1983 Paramount movie Flashdance is in early development at CBS All Access, soon-to-be-rebranded as Paramount. The potential series hails from Paramount Television Studios, with Tracy McMillan set to write the script and Angela Robinson on board to direct. The 1983 movie starring Jennifer Beals marked the first blockbuster hit […]

NBC has given a script commitment with penalty to a figure skating comedy from Olympic bronze medalist figure skater Adam Rippon, Susan Kittenplan, writer Billy Finnegan (Grace and Frankie) and 20th Television. Co-created/story by Rippon, Kittenplan and Finnegan, the Untitled Figure Skating Comedy is set in the off-the-wall world of adult figure skating. Oversized ambitions, […]

UTA agents and recently elevated partners David Kirsch and Geoff Suddleson have been appointed as co-heads of the agency’s unscripted television department as part of a restructure of its alternative division. The move will see partner and agent Brett Hansen, who was previously head of Alternative TV, “remain in a focused senior role working with […]

It’s the rare documentary film premiere that triggers worldwide headlines, but that’s what has happened with Evgeny Afineevsky’s Francesco. The film about Pope Francis debuted at the Rome Film Festival today and first the Catholic press and then secular media picked up on something the pope told Afineevsky in the film: Gay people should be […]

James Randi, a magician whose many TV appearances led him to a second career as a respected paranormal investigator, has died at 92. The James Randi Foundation confirmed his death in a tweet on Tuesday, saying he died of “age-related causes.” Born Randall James Zwinge in 1928, he entered show business as a teenager, touring with […]