Новости за 17.12.2020

Weta Digital has tapped Ken Kamins, and former Disney COO Tom Staggs, and Google SVP Jeff Huber to its Board of Directors. The appointments come as the Peter Jackson studio has offices planned in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The trio join Weta Digital board members Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Sean Parker, Joe Letteri and […]

Peacock has renewed its comedy A.P. Bio for Season 4, the NBCUniversal streaming service confirmed Thursday. The eight-episode season is due in 2021. A video helped announce the news today (see it below). Peacock picked up the comedy for a third season after it was canceled by NBC after two seasons. Season 3 debuted in […]

EXCLUSIVE: Wired Studios, Condé Nast Entertainment and Loki Films will bring the mysterious 2018 death of an unidentified hiker to screen. From Loki Films’ Oscar-nominating directing duo Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp), the newly announced project is based on the viral story by Wired’s editor in chief Nick Thompson. “This is a special story […]

Deadline has confirmed that Jennifer Lopez is set to star and executive produce a feature take on the Isabella Maldonado novel The Cipher.  Lopez will play FBI agent Nina Guerrera, who is pulled into a serial killer’s case after he leaves complex codes and riddles online, which are linked to his recent murders. Netflix optioned The Cipher for […]

The Crown, whose latest season offers a provocative look at the meeting and matrimony of Prince Charles and Lady Diana in the 1980s, dominated Nielsen’s U.S. streaming chart for the week of November 16. The show’s 40 available episodes racked up almost 3.4 billion minutes of viewing, the best Nielsen showing of any title since […]

EXCLUSIVE: Ray Fisher is set co-star in ABC’s limited series Women of the Movement, from creator-writer Marissa Jo Cerar and a producing team that includes Jay-Z, Will Smith and Aaron Kaplan. The six-episode series, set to premiere in 2021, centers on Mamie Till-Mobley (Adrienne Warren), who devoted her life to seeking justice for her son […]

It was a big night Wednesday on Fox as The Masked Singer did the ceremonious unmasking of its winner for Season 4. The singing competition, primed with a Road to the Finale special as its lead-in, delivered a 1.7 rating and a season-high 7.14 million viewers, helping the network dominate in primetime. The Road to the Finale […]

Your Honor star Michael Stuhlbarg is set as a series regular in Dopesick, Hulu’s eight-episode limited series based on Beth Macy’s bestselling book. The project is from The Handmaid’s Tale executive producer Warren Littlefield and Touchstone Television. Written by Danny Strong and directed by Barry Levinson, Dopesick is described as an ambitious, harrowing and compelling […]

EXCLUSIVE: Eduardo Minett is set to make his English-language feature film debut co-starring opposite Clint Eastwood in Warner Bros’ Cry Macho, which Eastwood will also direct. Natalia Traven, Dwight Yoakam, Horacio Garcia Rojas and Fernanda Urrejola are also on board. Eastwood has shown a knack for finding fresh new talent to share the screen with […]

A UK judge has ruled against producer Paolo Branco in a case in which he sought damages from RPC, the UK producers of Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Portuguese filmmaker Branco and production company Alfama Films sought damages from RPC, claiming Jeremy Thomas’s UK firm was in breach of an agreement to […]

James Gunn’s Suicide Squad spinoff HBO Max series Peacemaker has added Chukwudi Iwuji, as Clemson Murn in a series regular role, and three recurring guest stars, those being Lochlyn Munro as Larry Fitzgibbon, Annie Chang as Detective Sophie Song and Christopher Heyerdahl as Captain Locke. Peacemaker will explore the origins of John Cena’s character from the […]