Новости за 12.01.2021

The Affair co-creator Sarah Treem and actor Adam Shapiro have teamed with Partnership for Los Angeles Schools’ Families First Campaign to help families in need amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Treem and Shapiro, who both attended public schools themselves, have joined forces with the organization to raise money for essential supplies, such as computers, headphones, hi-speed […]

Actors’ Equity has temporarily paused its consideration of safety plans for live theater productions in California as the state battles unprecedented infection rates of Covid-19. The union, which represents more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers nationwide, noted that there are currently no Equity-approved theatrical productions running in California. Since the pandemic hit in […]

EXCLUSIVE: Sophia Loren, the Oscar winner who has returned to the screen starring in this year’s Netflix move The Life Ahead directed by her son Edoardo Ponti, will receive this year’s KCET Cinema Series Lumière Award. The honor, which recognizes excellence, artistry and innovation and outstanding contribution to film, will be bestowed during a special […]

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off scoring eight nominations from the London Critics’ Circle Film Awards today, A24’s Saint Maud will be hitting theaters in a limited release on Jan. 29. Additionally, I hear Epix went after the movie strongly for a pay TV-all platform release on Feb. 12 in a deal that was estimated to be in the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Chicago’s first Black mayor Harold Washington, an influential figure to politicians including President Barack Obama, is getting the TV treatment. Ike Holter, a writer on FX’s Fosse/Verdon, is penning a limited series about Washington for Wayfarer Studios, the production company founded by Jane The Virgin star Justin Baldoni, who produced and directed Disney+’s Clouds, and […]

Acquired titles — chief among them The Office — dominated streaming in 2020, according to a newly released year-end summary from Nielsen. The measurement firm began incorporating subscription streaming into its weekly ratings last summer, though with an extended lag time, by arrangement with Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and Disney+, the four SVODs it […]

With more and more theatrical features being released via premium video on demand [PVOD], Nielsen is launching a dedicated tool to capture movie viewing. The company officially calls it Theatrical Video On-Demand, or TVOD, but the rankings will encompass PVOD titles that have had to skip or curtail theatrical runs due to the coronavirus pandemic. […]

There’s a new hero in town. Javicia Leslie is donning the cape and cowl for the second season of Batwoman on The CW and she is hitting the ground running. On January 17, Leslie will make history as the first Black Batwoman — and the first Black “Bat” hero for that matter. She will play […]

EXCLUSIVE: Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem are in negotiations to play Lucille Ball and Desi Ricardo in Amazon and Aaron Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos, the film about the relationship between Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Having penned the screenplay, Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin will also direct the Amazon Studios’ and Escape Artists’ film. The […]

Former Walt Disney Animation vet Ann Le Cam has joined Weta Digital as SVP, Global Talent & Animation Production. She will be based in Weta Digital’s Los Angeles office and report to CEO Prem Akkaraju. Le Cam recently served as SVP of Studio Planning and Talent at Walt Disney Animation Studios and held executive positions […]