Новости за 09.04.2021

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed James Reed, the co-writer and director behind My Octopus Teacher, Netflix’s first original documentary from South Africa that is up for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar. It follows Foster as he free-dives in a cold underwater kelp forest in South Africa and develops a relationship with a wild common octopus and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Three-time Oscar nominated screenwriter John Logan will make his feature directorial debut with Blumhouse’s new horror movie Whistler Camp. Whistler Camp is a queer empowerment story set at a gay conversion camp. The film, we hear, is currently casting. Logan received the Tony award for his play Red and wrote the book for the musical Moulin Rouge. […]

In a snap, Universal was ready to backfill July 2 today with its long-awaited Blumhouse sequel The Forever Purge with the news of Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick leaving the Fourth of July weekend for Nov. 19. The last two Purge movies, 2018’s The First Purge and 2016’s Purge: Election Year played the July 4th corridor. The Forever Purge moves up from July 9. The […]

Coming up on 10 years since his turn as Jaime Lannister in Game Of Thrones, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has found another TV starring vehicle. Sony’s TriStar Television has made a miniseries deal for the Christina Clancy novel The Second Home, and Coster-Waldau will star. Coster-Waldau will be exec producer along with Joe Derrick & Jeffrey Chassen […]

EXCLUSIVE: Andres Velez (Coyote Lake) has been cast as a lead alongside Christina Ochoa and Mariel Molino in ABC’s drama pilot Promised Land. Written by Matt Lopez, the project is an epic, generation-spanning drama about two Latinx families vying for wealth and power in California’s Sonoma Valley. Velez will play Carlos Rincón, a young immigrant […]

Truly Original, the Banijay-backed producer behind the Ink Master and Swamp People franchises, has been dipping its toes into new areas of unscripted television with a remake of a British panel show for The CW and is now working on a hybrid animated series. Glenda Hersh and Steven Weinstock, Co-Presidents and Co-CEOs of the company, […]

EXCLUSIVE: We learned today that Paramount’s Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins is moving up from its October 22 release date to July 23. The G.I. Joe movies play younger and it only makes sense for the new stand-alone from eOne/Hasbro to play the summer. The first movie, 2009’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, also played […]

Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment has bought the assets of Sonar Entertainment, the well-established production entity built by Robert Halmi Sr. The up-front cost is just $19.5 million, but the ultimate valuation will likely grow over time, as future licensing proceeds will also be split with Sonar. The initial payment is considered an advance, […]

EXCLUSIVE: We can tell you first that Top Gun: Maverick is leaving its July 2 weekend for November 19, taking over the release date where Paramount/Skydance’s other Tom Cruise sequel Mission: Impossible 7 resides. Meanwhile, Mission: Impossible 7 will now open on May 27, 2022, Memorial Day weekend, a holiday frame that has been a home for the […]

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max is heading to summer camp. The streaming service has put in development a half-hour comedy series set at a summer camp from Peabody Award-winning writer Lauren Herstik (American Vandal, Pearson) and Adam Goodman’s Invisible Narratives. Written by Herstik, the untitled project revolves around four lifelong “Camp Friends” during their highly anticipated CIT […]

EXCLUSIVE: Clé Bennett, who can currently be seen playing Lemar Hoskins a.k.a Battlestar in the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, has signed with Hyperion for agency representation. Before landing the key Marvel role, Bennett recurred on the fourth season of Amazon’s Emmy-winning drama series The Man in the High Castle, as well […]

Cagney & Lacey stars Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly will guest on the Stars in the House livestream this month, the latest in the YouTube channel’s popular reunion episodes. The Cagney & Lacey livestream, which like all episodes raises money for The Actors Fund, is set for Wednesday, April 14 at 8 pm ET. “It […]

Last Man Standing will conclude with an hour-long series finale, Fox unveiled on Thursday. The series finale will air Thursday, May 20 from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET/PT on Fox. In October Fox revealed that the Tim Allen-fronted sitcom will end with its ninth season. Last Man Standing stars Allen as Mike Baxter, a […]

How do you turn the latest crop of social media influencers – many with tens of millions of followers – into traditional television stars? That’s been the question that networks and producers have been asking for years. It’s also the question that Wheelhouse Entertainment, the business created by Leftfield Entertainment founder Brent Montgomery, thinks it […]

Gentefied‘s Annie Gonzalez and newcomer Sofia Capanna are set as series regulars opposite Shannon Woodward, Jane Lynch and Nicole Richie in ABC comedy pilot Bucktown, from The Conners‘ Emily Wilson, Tom Werner and Sara Gilbert and ABC Signature. Written by Wilson and directed by Betsy Thomas, Bucktown centers on Amy (Woodward), who, after being dumped […]