Новости за 14.09.2021

Warner Bros/Legendary Pictures’ sci-fi epic Dune is starting early rollout this weekend, looking to capitalize on momentum coming off of its star-packed world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, which was followed by an event at Paris’ Grand Rex cinema and screenings in Deauville and Toronto — all in just the past two weeks. The […]

EXCLUSIVE: Winona Ryder is starring alongside Dermot Mulroney, John Gallagher Jr., Owen Teague and Brianne Tju in The Cow, a mystery thriller that marks the feature directing debut of Eli Horowitz, co-creator of Amazon’s anthology series Homecoming. Plot details are under wraps in the script co-penned by Horowitz and Matthew Derby. Production has just wrapped. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has given an eight-episode series order to Grendel, a series based on the masked vigilante from Matt Wagner’s popular, award-winning Dark Horse comic book series, with Abubakr Ali (Power Book II: Ghost, Katy Keene) set to star in the titular role. Ali will be the is the first Arab Muslim male actor to […]

EXCLUSIVE: Clea DuVall and Mary Holland, who co-wrote Kristen Stewart-fronted romantic crime feature Happiest Season, are turning their attention to the small screen for their next project. The pair are developing single-camera comedy series Day Job with Dave producer Temple Hill and Lionsgate TV. The half-hour series, which the pair came up with while working […]

Paul Rabil, the most recognizable name in the sport of lacrosse, is retiring as a player in order to focus on building the Professional Lacrosse League. The PLL, which played its first season in 2019, is coming to the end of a three-year rights deal with NBCUniversal. Its games initially aired on NBCSports Network and […]

HBO Max will debut the first three episodes of season 2 of Love Life on Thurs. Oct. 28 with the focus shifting to a new singleton, Marcus Watkins (Emmy Award nominee, William Jackson Harper), who has just exited a years-long relationship with the woman he thought was going to be his person. After the rug […]

The CW is continuing its interest in international series. The youth-skewing network has acquired Professionals, a loose remake of the Christian Slater-fronted action movie Soldiers of Fortune for Scandinavian SVOD service Viaplay. The series, which was first revealed by Deadline in 2019, stars Smallville’s Welling as Vincent Corbo, a top-tier security operative, who is paid to protect the interests […]

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has acquired North American rights to writer-director Lissette Feliciano’s debut film Women Is Losers, the 1960s-set indie drama that world premiered at this year’s SXSW and is toplined by Lorenza Izzo, Chrissie Fit and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings star Simu Liu. The streamer will now debut the film […]

LisaGay Hamilton (To Kill A Mockingbird), Michaela Watkins (Werewolves Within), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (NOS4A2), Kevin Sussman (The Big Bang Theory), Sam Straley (Hala) and Shaun J. Brown are set for recurring roles opposite Amanda Seyfried in The Dropout, Hulu’s limited series about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. The series hails from Liz […]

EXCLUSIVE: Eugene Pack, creator of the live stage comedy show Celebrity Autobiography and writer-director of The Pack Podcast, has signed with CAA. Celebrity Autobiography, which played a limited engagement on Broadway in 2018, features celebrities on stage performing the memoirs of other celebrities. The show tours the United States and abroad, and in addition to […]

When a studio is looking to get traction on their awards season contender, there’s no better start at this early point in the fall than the Toronto International Film Festival’s Grolsch People’s Choice Award. The top prize at the Great White North cinema fest has often been a predictor of Oscar’s Best Picture, or notable […]

UTA is expanding to Atlanta, billing its full-service presence in the burgeoning entertainment and sports market as a first for any major Hollywood agency. Klutch Sports Group, as part of the move, will continue to have its NFL representation business based in Atlanta, and enlarge its operations there. UTA bought a stake in Klutch in […]

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to The Blazing World, the feature helming debut of actor-director Carlson Young (Scream: The TV Series). The fantasy thriller, which had its world premiere earlier this year at the NEXT section at the Sundance Film Festival, will now get an October 15 day-and-date release. Young also co-wrote […]

Sahraa Karimi To Head Stockholm Jury Sahraa Karimi, the Afghan filmmaker who hit the headlines last month as she staged a dramatic escape from the Taliban as they took over her home city of Kabul, will head the jury at this year’s Stockholm International Film Festival. She will also participate in a panel that aims […]

The worldwide box office for 2021 is projected to come in at $20.2B, 52% down on the record-breaking 2019 and 68% above the pandemic-hobbled 2020, says a new report from Gower Street Analytics. The London-based film tech company, which specializes in predictive box office for the distribution and exhibition sectors, calculated the end-of-year estimate following […]

The Marrakech International Film Festival has opted to postpone its 19th edition, citing the current global health situation. However, the Festival Foundation will continue to present its industry and talent development program with the fourth edition of the Atlas Workshops to be conducted online from November 22-25 with the support of Netflix. This follows a […]

The classic Chucky film horror franchise is making the leap to television with the upcoming USA/Syfy series from Child’s Play creator Don Mancini and Channel Zero creator Nick Antosca, with Brad Dourif returning as the voice of Chucky alongside the movies’ Jennifer Tilly. In the eight-episode series, which premieres Oct. 12 for a Halloween run, after a […]

There was much cause for celebration on Monday’s episode of The Late Show, following New York City’s return to in-person schooling. “It’s an exciting day here,” said host Stephen Colbert. “For the first time in 18 months, kids can enjoy class without seeing their friends’ dads wandering behind them in boxers—if they’re lucky.” Naturally, Colbert noted, […]

Sean Bean is to lend his voice to a natural history documentary about Osprey. The Game of Thrones star is narrating Osprey: Sea Raptor, a one-hour doc for wildlife brand Love Nature that will air on PBS in the U.S. and Sky in the UK. The film, which is produced by Love Nature and CosmoVision […]

UPDATE, 7:41 PM PT: President Joe Biden helped Gavin Newsom finish up his anti-recall campaign on Monday, as both evoked Donald Trump in their closing arguments as a warning for the state should Newsom be ousted and radio talk host Larry Elder be selected as the next govermor. Biden called Elder a “clone of Donald […]

The 2021 Met Gala, the biggest night in fashion, kicked off tonight in celebration of the history of American fashion. Usually held on the first Monday of May, the Gala was postponed this year due to COVID-19. This is the first Gala since 2019, since 2020’s was cancelled due to the pandemic. Actor Timothée Chalamet […]

Robin French, a talent agent who worked with legends including Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor and later headed production at Paramount Pictures in the late 1970s, has died. His family said he had been in declining health for the past few months and died September 6 in Palm Desert, CA. “Dad left knowing that we […]

Broadcaster Gray Television has acquired Third Rail Studios, a film and TV production facility in Georgia, from Integral Group for $27.5 million. The studio built in 2016 is adjacent to and will now be integrated into a studio and community development Gray is building in Doraville, about 20 minutes from Atlanta. The project, called Assembly, […]

Ten-time Grammy nominee Nicki Minaj opted out of the 2021 Met Gala, citing the event’s vaccination requirement. The rapper spoke to this decision in a Twitter post published on Monday. “They want you to get vaccinated for the Met,” she wrote. “if I get vaccinated it won’t [be] for the Met. It’ll be once I feel […]

Mike Richards’ head-spinning string of humiliations continued tonight with the first day of his last week as Jeopardy! host airing in syndication, all the proof needed that even without the recent resurfacing of sexist and crude past comments the blink-and-miss-him replacement for Alex Trebek never was destined for game show greatness. A Central Casting caricature of […]