Новости за 09.02.2021

There was a lot of history made at the Super Bowl last night for Tom Brandy, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and halftime show headliner The Weeknd, but Nielsen today are making some history of their own. As America waits and waits on the viewership verdict, it appears at this late hour that there will be […]

Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations have dropped by 77% and 44% over the past month, respectively, said LA County Health Officials on Monday. That’s great news for the country’s hardest-hit region. The question remains, however, if new variants of the virus will create another surge. LA County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said on Monday that, […]

French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, who has penned the scripts for films including The Unbearable Lightness of Being and That Obscure Object of Desire, has died. His daughter Kiara Carrière told AFP that the screenwriter died on Monday of natural causes at his Paris home. He was 89. Throughout his decades-long career as a writer, actor and […]

For filmmaker Francis Lee, his lesbian love story Ammonite between notable 19th century fossil hunter Mary Anning and socialite Charlotte Murchison wasn’t so much a response to the uber-conservative culture we’ve experienced over the past four years, rather, it was more personal for the 2017 Sundance-winning filmmaker of God’s Own Country. “I’m a working class person, and […]

Vubiquity, which was acquired in 2018 by media and communications tech vendor Amdocs, has made two senior executive appointments as it shores up its dealings with North American studio clients. The company, which is led by former Warner Brothers technology chief Darcy Antonellis, said John Smith has been promoted to SVP of studio sales in […]

The CW will introduce Superman & Lois to the masses on February 23 with a 90-minute series premiere. During the TCA panel for the new standalone series, showrunner Todd Helbing spoke about how the new standalone series is bringing a fresh perspective of the iconic comic book superhero and journalist to the Arrowverse — one that […]

The WGA took a victory lap Monday, having won its historic campaign to reshape the talent agency business. On Friday, WME became the last of the major agencies to sign the guild’s franchise agreement, which will return the big agencies to a 10% commissioning business model not seen in decades, phasing out packaging next year […]

Netflix swapped one major hit for another on Nielsen’s streaming chart for the week of January 4 to 10, with Cobra Kai unseating Bridgerton to take the crown. Initially launched by YouTube as a premium show, Cobra Kai switched to Netflix for its second season and saw its popularity continue to rise after a third […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Greatest Showman actor Sam Humphrey has signed with Kazarian/Measures/Ruskin & Associates for representation. Humphrey will be represented by Gail Williamson, the Head of KMR’s Diversity Department alongside the Diversity Department’s Lyndsey Staib and KMR’s Literary Head Amy Lanier. KMR’s Diversity Department specifically represents talent with disabilities with the mission of creating more inclusive […]

Billy Brown, the star and patriarch of Discovery Channel’s Alaskan Bush People reality series, died Sunday after suffering a seizure, his son Bear Brown, who also stars on the show, confirmed on Instagram. He was 68. “We are devastated to hear of Billy Brown’s sudden passing. He has been part of the Discovery family for […]

EXCLUSIVE: New Regency has secured the film and television rights to Meg Mason’s novel Sorrow and Bliss in what was said to be a competitive situation. The book is set to be released via HarperCollins in the U.S. and Canada on Tuesday and by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK on June 10. It was published […]

California Governor Gavin Newsom was half an hour late to his own party on Monday. Scheduled to speak at a Covid-19 news conference at 11:30 pm, he didn’t appear until noon. That’s unlike the governor, but this is an unusual time for him. Newsom is the target of a statewide recall effort, and activists working […]