Новости за 19.11.2020

The Los Angeles-based East West Players, the nation’s first professional Asian American theatre organization, is teaming with musician AJ Rafael again for the holiday edition of Crazy Talented Asians, the ninth edition of the live show celebrating represenation of Asians in the arts. This year will feature performers  Isa Briones (Picard, Hamilton), Josh Dela Cruz […]

EXCLUSIVE: A crew member working on CBS’ The Bold and the Beautiful tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday, Deadline has learned. The positive result triggered procedures set by state/county and industry protocols, including contact tracing, and everyone who had interacted with the infected individual was asked to self-isolate. The daytime drama, produced by Bell-Phillip Television, has a […]

AMC dropped a bunch of news for the upcoming extended 10th season of The Walking Dead on Thursday. First off, the six new episodes are set to debut on February 28 while AMC+ will have them earlier starting on February 25 before their linear debut. In addition, Robert Patrick (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Perry Mason, Scorpion) will […]

AppleTV+ revealed new details about season two of its space drama For All Mankind. Set to join the For All Mankind cast as series regulars are Cynthy Wu, Coral Peña and Casey W. Johnson. For All Mankind, created by Ronald D. Moore, Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolpert; will return for its second season on AppleTV+ […]

EXCLUSIVE: We can tell you first that French filmmaker Alexandre Aja is set to direct the horror feature Elijah for Searchlight Pictures as the newly owned Disney label continues a streak with genre fare following last year’s Ready or Not and Scott Cooper and Guillermo del Toro’s Antlers. The Last Witch Hunter scribe Cory Goodman sold […]

President Donald Trump teased a press conference featuring Rudy Giuliani, his personal attorney now leading his challenge of the election results, and for sheer theatrics, it did not disappoint. “Well, that easily was the most outlandish press conference ever held by a team of lawyers representing the President of the United States,” wrote National Review […]

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm grabbed the No. 8 spot in Nielsen’s ranking of top streaming titles, with Schitt’s Creek topping the list for the third week of the last four. Amazon Prime Video’s Borat sequel marked a rare appearance by a non-Netflix title on the U.S. chart, which also tracks Amazon, Disney+ and Hulu. After the […]

EXCLUSIVE: The MTV Entertainment Group (formerly Entertainment and Youth) is looking to make progressive change in its creative community with the newly launched comprehensive DE&I (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) orientation called “Culture Code”. The immersive employee-led initiative is in partnership with The Museum of Tolerance, Color of Change, GLAAD, Anti-Defamation League, The Jed Foundation, MPAC, […]

Adam Conover, creator and host of truTV’s Adam Ruins Everything, has teamed with Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions to pull back the curtain on government in a new sketch comedy series for Netflix. The streamer has ordered The G Word with Adam Conover, which will go inside the machine of government and introduce […]

EXCLUSIVE: A year ago at this time, a stink was raised by the studios and NATO over Netflix and its audacity to actually crunch the theatrical window with The Irishman. And a deal was on the table with AMC, but in the end, the streamer wanted a more limited time in theaters — far less than […]

France’s Oscar selection committee has chosen comedy/drama Two Of Us as its submission to the International Feature Film category at the 2021 Academy Awards. From director Filippo Meneghetti, the feature debut world premiered in the Discovery section of Toronto last year and was released in France in early 2020 via Sophie Dulac Distribution. Magnolia has […]

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired feature comedy Student Driver, an original pitch from writer Peter Hoare (Standing Up, Falling Down) and Jason Bateman’s Aggregate Films, sources said. Written by Hoare, with Murder Mystery helmer Kyle Newacheck attached to direct, I hear Student Driver is an action comedy involving a substitute driver’s ed teacher and his students […]

LeBron James said his emerging political nonprofit More Than a Vote has a lot more activity ahead of it beyond 2020. “We didn’t want this to just be a one-off. Everyone heard about the election and we knew how important that was. But we’re not a one-off group and we’re not a one-off team,” he […]

UPDATED: Warners has made the whole Wonder Woman 1984 December 25 day-and-date theatrical/HBO Max release official. WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar released a note about the media conglom’s wild decision. Director Patty Jenkins also tweeted confirmation of the news this afternoon, saying in part: “At some point you have to choose to share any love and […]

Film, TV, guilds and sports industry groups from NASCAR to the NFL on Wednesday sent a plea for action to lawmakers ahead of a key Capitol Hill committee meeting on pandemic insurance. The hearing set for Thursday morning, called “Insuring Against a Pandemic: Challenges and Solutions for Policyholders and Insurers,” is the first major step […]

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Reunion that premieres Wednesday on HBO Max. On September 10, 1990, we were introduced to a young man from West Philadelphia where he was born and raised. He spent most of his days on the playground where he would be chillin’ out and […]

Gravitas Ventures has picked up the rights to Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy, the documentary about late underwater cinematographer Mike deGruy. Mimi deGruy, Mike’s widow and filmmaking partner, wrote and directed the doc, which will begin its rollout starting with Apple TV/iTunes and Amazon rentals on January 19. A man for […]

UPDATED, Wednesday 3 PM: The Good Doctor star Richard Schiff, who was hospitalized last week and treated with Remdesivir, oxygen and steroids, posted an encouraging update on his COVID battle Wednesday afternoon. “I was just taken off Oxygen!! Markers are down. Cautiously optimistic for release soon,” he wrote on Twitter, adding that his wife, actress […]

Footage Films has tapped Power star Cynthia Addai-Robinson and Lauren London to star in the Always and Forever. The psychological thriller follows the lives of four childhood friends who experienced trauma long ago at a summer camp. Determined to get past it, the group moves on with their lives, barely talking about what happened. Though […]

A wrongful death lawsuit was filed today in Ventura County Court on behalf of the four-year-old son of drowning victim Naya Rivera, claiming the county failed to adequately warn swimmers of the dangers at Lake Piru. The suit comes four months after the July 8 death of the Glee actress, who was swimming in Ventura […]

UTA has signed Xolo Maridueña, who plays Miguel Diaz in Cobrai Kai, The Karate Kid sequel series. Maridueña, who also featured in NBC drama Parenthood, has signed with agency in all areas. This comes as Maridueña is set to star in season three of the karate drama, which has moved from YouTube to Netflix. The […]

Awkwafina has joined the cast of Swan Song, an upcoming Apple Original film starring Academy Award-winner Mahershala Ali and Academy Award, Golden Globe and SAG nominee Naomie Harris. Benjamin Cleary, also an Oscar winner for his short film Stutterer, wrote the screenplay and is directing the pic. Produced by Apple Studios, Anonymous Content and Concordia […]

When word seeped out this week that Netflix was considering adding Malcolm & Marie to its list of Oscar-contending movies for this year, shudders went through the competition from other distributors. Can one studio/distributor/streamer — whatever — possibly grab all five Best Actress Oscar slots? That would certainly be a first in Academy history in that category, or […]