Новости за 21.04.2021

Spoiler Alert: This story contains details from tonight’s episode of Fox’s The Resident. On Tuesday’s edition of The Resident, original cast member Shaunette Renée Wilson made her final appearance. The actress took to Twitter before the episode aired to confirm her exit from the Fox medical drama. “After deeply thoughtful reflection, I approached the producers some time […]

Earlier today, former Minneapolis Derek Chauvin was convicted of the murder of George Floyd—just as Stephen Colbert was gearing up to tape The Late Show. Subsequently, the late-night host shifted gears to address the verdict. “After 10 hours of deliberation, a jury in Minneapolis decided that it’s illegal for the police to murder people, that Black […]

UPDATED, 7:35 PM: The announced European Super League appears to be crumbling. By late today, all six of the English Premier League clubs involved in the widely panned venture — Arsenal, Manchester United, Manchester City, Tottenham, Liverpool and Chelsea — had pulled out. See their tweets and/or statements below. In a statement (read it below), […]

UPDATED: On Tuesday night, fallout from recent controversies surrounding the Hollywood Foreign Press Association continued. We can confirm from sources with knowledge that Diversity and Inclusion Advisor Dr. Shaun Harper walked away earlier today from the Golden Globes organization, as first reported by THR. The USC professor was hired by the HFPA on March 9. […]

UPDATED with latest: After a cascade of events that saw his name withdrawn from consideration for for a spot on the powerful Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, Dr. Drew Pinsky spoke out on Tuesday. In a statement to Newsweek, Pinsky said he never sought the appointment. “I went in with an open heart and mind and […]

On a day when many in Hollywood voiced their support for the guilty verdicts against former police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, one response drew a pointed rebuke. WarnerMedia tweeted the following: While this verdict doesn’t bring back those we’ve so wrongly lost, we know that it brings us closer to […]

EXCLUSIVE: Prolific TV pilot director James Griffiths has been tapped to direct and executive produce ABC’s fairytale drama pilot Epic, from Once Upon a Time creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis and ABC Signature. Shooting is currently underway in Ireland. Epic, starring Brittany O’Grady, is described as a romantic anthology series that reinvents fairy tales […]

Netflix has been tightening its controls on password-sharing, a shift that could reap billions in previously lost revenue, but the company acknowledges it is a delicate process. “We test many things but we would never roll something out that feels like turning the screws” on consumers, Co-CEO Reed Hastings said during the company’s first-quarter earnings […]

Netflix scored a big haul of Oscar nominations this year – 35 in total – putting the streamer in the top three for a studio in the history of the awards. The company’s big cheeses, including co-CEOs Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos, were asked today, on their first-quarter financials video, out of these films, which […]

President Joe Biden called the conviction of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd a “step forward” in ending systemic racism in the country. Joined by Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House, Biden said, “Systemic racism is a stain on the nation’s soul, the knee on the neck of justice for Black Americans, […]

Is Netflix making an aggressive move into the video game business? There was definitely some talk on the company’s latest earnings call to back up all of the smoke that has been rising in Hollywood. When asked directly by moderator Fidelity Management & Research’s Nidhi Gupta, founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings said that “in ways, […]

Hulu’s Sasquatch is not really about bigfoot, although the mythical creature looms large in the three-part series. The Joshua Rofé-directed project is, in fact, a murder mystery centered around a dangerous, weed-growing community in the Pacific Northwest. Rofé told Deadline, which broke the news of the series in January, that after he finished Lorena, the […]