Новости за 27.08.2021

The day after SAG-AFTRA presidential candidate Matthew Modine threatened to sue rival Fran Drescher for defamation unless she issues a public apology, her Unite for Strength slate doubled down on her claim that Modine’s MembershipFirst slate violated the union’s election rules. An attorney for Modine’s MembershipFirst slate has called the allegations “defamatory,” and notes that […]

With a strong $1.9 million box office on Thursday night for Candyman, things are looking pretty sweet today for Colman Domingo.  The Fear the Walking Dead vet joins us for our Hero Nation podcast to discuss the new horror movie executive produced by Jordan Peele, the issues it raises and the places the Nia DaCosta-directed […]

Bravo has slotted 9 pm, Thursday, October 14 for the Season 19 premiere of its Emmy-winning fashion competition series Project Runway. Mentor Christian Siriano returns, along with judges Nina Garcia, Brandon Maxwell, and Elaine Welteroth, and 16 new designers from across the U.S. and abroad, each ready to prove they have what it takes to […]

EXCLUSIVE: Omono Okojie, who recurred as Cleo Sowande on the third season of Legacies, has been promoted to series regular for Season 4 of the CW drama. Okojie plays Cleo, a new witch student at the Salvatore School, who bonds with Hope (Danielle Rose Russell) over their artistic passions. Free-spirited and self-reliant, Cleo is excited […]

George R.R. Martin has set his next project for screen, the short film Night of Cooters, based on Howard Waldrop 1987 sci-fi novel. Vicent D’Onofrio will direct and is set to star as Sheriff Lindley. Trioscope Studios will animate the film. Earlier this week, the Game of Thrones author revealed the short film project on […]

UPDATE, 11:45 am: Woman In Motion, a feature documentary honoring Star Trek alum Nichelle Nichols, has been uploaded to the International Space Station and has been made available to NASA employees to mark Women’s Equality Day. The film, from Stars North films, Shout! Studios and Concourse Media, is available for astronauts aboard the International Space […]

Covid and its real-life controversies have checked in to ABC’s General Hospital, seeming to spark a cast rift that’s playing out on social media and prompting star and vaccine mandate opponent Ingo Rademacher to lash out at the “morons,” “dictators,” and “horrible, horrible” people calling for his firing. All this as another longtime star of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Let the race begin. On the eve of the fall film festivals that signify the official start of Oscar season (just as Emmy final voting is prepared to wrap up Monday evening), the Academy Screening Room this week put up their first four films in the section labeled FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION — and all […]

EXCLUSIVE: Adrienne Warren, star of Women of the Movement, has signed a one-year development deal with Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, which produces the civil rights movement limited series. Under the pact, Warren will collaborate exclusively with Kapital on the development of ongoing and limited series. “It is such a privilege for all of us at Kapital […]

After a two-month blackout period in China for Hollywood movies, Disney/20th Century Studios’ Free Guy is looking to lead all pics in the country at the weekend B.O. with a $18M+, possibly $20M take. That’s a promising start for one of the first big movies from Hollywood after a long-hiatus, besting the $15M opening weekend of A Quiet […]

Netflix has renewed Cobra Kai for season 5 ahead of its fourth season premiere in Dec. Production on the new season is set to begin in Atlanta this fall. The news comes as no surprise after the popular series earned four Emmy nominations in July including Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Shout Studios and Hideout Pictures’ Old Henry has been set for a U.S. theatrical release on October 1. This will follow the western’s world premiere as an out of competition official selection title at the Venice Film Festival on September 7. Check out the trailer above. Billed as an elevated action western, Old Henry […]

Gold House will bring the momentum of its #GoldOpen campaigns to Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. The nonprofit collective of Asian & Pacific Islanders will team up with CAPE and GoFundMe to launch its #GoldOpen events in Los Angeles and New York City, to further bolster support for the Simu Liu-led […]

EXCLUSIVE: Steven Boyer (Hustlers, Chicago Fire) has boarded season 2 of the HBO Max anthology series Love Life as a recurring guest star. Boyer will play Josh, the entitled and oblivious publisher at Marcus’s (executive producer William Jackson Harper) publishing house. Season two of the romantic comedy focuses on Marcus Watkins as he comes out […]

The Gotham Group announced today it has signed model, writer, director and transgender advocate Geena Rocero. Rocero is currently directing and executive producing the four-part original documentary series Caretakers, a partnership with the WNET Group’s Chasing the Dream multi-platform reporting initiative. Caretakers examines poverty, opportunity and justice through the lives of Filipino Americans. It will […]

EXCLUSIVE: Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz is set as a series regular opposite Elle Fanning, Colton Ryan and Chloë Sevigny in Hulu drama The Girl From Plainville, from The Post writer Liz Hannah and Dr. Death exec producer Patrick Macmanus. Written by Hannah and Macmanus and produced by UCP, The Girl From Plainville stars Fanning […]

Broadway producers are joining forces with one another, with unions, and even with Oprah Winfrey to urge potentially jittery theatergoers back into seats, with a new marketing campaign called “This Is Broadway” set to launch on Monday. A centerpiece of the campaign, which is sponsored by the Broadway League, will be a two-and-a-half-minute video featuring […]

Annie Murphy starrer Kevin Can F**k Himself will be back for a second season. AMC has renewed the series from creator Valerie Armstrong and executive producers Rashida Jones and Will McCormack (Claws). The eight-episode second season is slated to premiere on AMC+ and AMC next year. The renewal follows a strong first season. It was […]

Editors Note: Over the horrendous last couple of weeks as America began its final withdrawal from Afghanistan and Taliban zealots took control again after two decades, veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author Hollie McKay has been back in the South Asian nation to see history sadly […]

A group of seven programmers who have worked on leading UK documentary event Sheffield Doc/Fest for the past two editions have publicly stated that they were let go from the event, silently locked out of their email accounts, and removed from the website with “no note of termination”. The move is said to have happened […]

Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh (not Oleg) Sentsov is back to doing what he loves after an incredibly challenging and near-fatal period that saw him incarcerated for a number of years by Russian authorities on charges that were widely condemned by human rights orgs. Sentsov’s plight captured the hearts and minds of the international film community. He […]

EXCLUSIVE: Rob Yang has landed a recurring role on the six-part second season of BBC spy drama series, The Capture, which is now underway in the UK. Starring Holliday Grainger as Detective Inspector Rachel Carey, the second season of the Heyday-produced surveillance thriller will see Carey trying to navigate a Britain under siege from hacked […]

Sheffield-based production house Warp Films (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie) is partnering with production and financing studio outfit Anton on a slate of high-end television series and feature films. Anton will finance a development fund to identify high-value IP and commission scripts from leading UK and international talent, and will handle sales on the projects. On […]

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off wrapping season one of Amazon’s mega-budget The Lord Of The Rings series, Saint Maud star Morfydd Clark is attached to star alongside Sam Riley (Control) and Dominic Cooper (Preacher) in revenge thriller The Duchess Of Malfi. Guillem Morales (Julia’s Eyes) is helming the project from Miriam Segal’s Good Films Collective (Postcard Killings). […]

Kanye West – who recently filed to legally change his name to just Ye – had his third stadium listening party for his evolving album, Donda, on Thursday night. After two similar events at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, West gathered about 40,000 fans inside Chicago’s Soldier Field, according to a local NBC report. Travis Scott, Kanye […]