Новости за 15.10.2021

The Conners‘ Katey Sagal is recuperating after she was clipped by a car in Los Angeles Friday morning. Sagal was crossing the street in a marked crosswalk when she was struck by a car making a left turn, according to TMZ, which first reported the accident. The driver reportedly helped her and called an ambulance. […]

IFC presents Mia Hansen-Løve’s Cannes entry Bergman Island, Searchlight debuts Antlers, Film Movement brings Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy to the arthouse this weekend, as A24’s surprise hit Lamb and Greenwich Entertainment’s The Rescue go wider week two after a strong open. It’s early days but a nascent specialty revival may be in the works ahead […]

Now things are really getting messy. Netflix has fired a long time employee who leaked confidential financial information in response to the streamer’s launch of Dave Chappelle’s controversial The Closer special on October 5. “We have let go of an employee for sharing confidential, commercially sensitive information outside the company,” a Netflix spokesperson said Friday.”We […]

Common is the latest star to join Apple TV+’s dystopian drama Wool. The actor and rapper will star in the series alongside Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Robbins, Rashida Jones and David Oyelowo. The series comes from writer Graham Yost and director Morten Tyldum and AMC Studios. Wool is a set in a ruined and toxic future where […]

EXCLUSIVE: Three of the most dynamic creators in Tinseltown have brought together two of the most preeminent advocacy organizations to further advance Latine representation and equity in the industry. America Ferrara, Tanya Saracho, and Gloria Calderón Kellett have partnered HARNESS and the Untitled Latinx Project that they respectively co-founded to create DEAR Hollywood. With the […]

A stuntman on America’s Got Talent: Extreme, the spinoff of the long-running NBC series, suffered a terrifying accident that has led to a pause in production. Jonathan Goodwin reportedly was crushed between two cars in a daredevil stunt that went wrong, causing an explosion on the set. TMZ reports that he was airlifted to a […]

EXCLUSIVE: In a very competitive situation with eight bidders, Sony Pictures Television’s TriStar has won the television rights to author Kirstin Chen’s upcoming novel Counterfeit. Chen will executive produce the series adaptation alongside Ben Smith of Captivate Entertainment and Kay Cannon and Laverne McKinnon through K&L Productions. The producers have started a search for a […]

Kasie Hunt, who recently joined CNN as anchor and chief national affairs analyst, revealed in an interview with People that she recently had surgery to remove a benign brain tumor. Hunt has been recovering after the discovery of the tumor, which doctors initially thought were migraine headaches. But that changed in August, when she started […]

ABC has set the fourth installment of its successful Singalong franchise with The Queen Family Singalong. Hosted by Darren Criss, the special one-hour, one-night-only event will air at 8 p.m. Thursday, November 4. The special will feature an hour of killer Queen hits, performed by musical artists including Adam Lambert (“The Show Must Go On”), […]

Netflix and Caruso are re-opening the legendary Bay Theater in Palisades Village, which was closed during the pandemic. The previous lease holder was Cinépolis, which revived the venue back in 2018. The theater adds another footprint in an awards voter neighborhood for streamer Netflix; which also operates the Paris in NYC and teamed with the […]

Masked men stormed a Moscow showing of Agnieszka Holland’s film Mr Jones yesterday night, chanting “Shame on the Motherland” as they took over the stage. In footage posted on Twitter, the group of what appeared to be around 20 people took to the front of Moscow’s Memorial Human Rights Center, where the film was being shown. […]

MGM/Eon/Universal’s No Time To Die stormed the UK when it opened on September 30, going on to become the market’s highest-grossing film of 2021 across just its launch frame. The film’s full weekend bow was $35.1M, the UK’s sixth biggest of all time and the biggest three-day start in the franchise’s history — and this […]

Fremantle and Bron-backed prodcuer The Immigrant and Cosabona Films have financed their comedy-documentary Bull Run in less than 24 hours by offering digital tokens to private investors. Appropriately, the film sees director Ana Ramon Rubio delve deep into the inhospitable world of cryptocurrencies to analyze if this new technology can revolutionize the financial system forever, […]

From the moment Netflix announced itself as an original programming player with House Of Cards, the streamer has been touting its great relationship with talent. That reputation has taken hit over the last week in the wake of Dave Chappelle’s controversial new special The Closer which has had top Netflix talent denounce the comedian’s comments […]

A host of heavyweight European execs have debated the difficulty of competing with US streamers on big budgets, while criticising these players for failing to nurture local talent and buying up studio space. Many of the panellists involved in today’s Getting Your Projects Financed session at the MIA Rome Market are involved with the European […]

EXCLUSIVE: Following its success at the Australia/New Zealand box office, Australian feelgood drama June Again been snapped up for North America by Samuel Goldwyn Films. Released by Studiocanal in its home territory, the film has taken $2.7M locally. It also won the Audience Award for Best Feature at the Sonoma International Film Festival 2021. June […]

The No. 1 rule of North Korea is, “Don’t be the first one to stop clapping.” Exception: Unless the subject is South Korea’s smash hit show Squid Game. While the dystopian Squid Game is the No. 1 show on Netflix in 90 countries, its not a big hit in North Korea, where the show is slammed […]

Disney+ has unveiled plans to launch Marvel Studios’ Hawkeye series with two episodes upon its November 24 debut. It also issued another trailer today spotlighting sidekick archer Kate Bishop. After the debut, subsequent episodes will be out each Wednesday. Hawkeye is an original new series set in post-blip New York City, where former Avenger Clint […]

UPDATE, OCTOBER 14: Former child start Matthew Mindler committed suicide by using sodium nitrate that he ordered from Amazon.com, his mother said today. Mindler bought the product for $15. The Lancaster County Medical Examiner’s Office has confirmed that he died from suicide by sodium nitrate toxicity. Sodium nitrate is used to preserve foods and kills […]

Money, the pop song says, changes everything, and as Broadway’s magnificent The Lehman Trilogy so splendidly demonstrates, everything means everything, from the most private of personal circumstances to – if you’ve got enough cash (or even the suggestion of it) – the grand sweep of history. And did the Lehmans ever have enough cash (complete […]

Former President Bill Clinton has been admitted to UCI Medical Center in Orange to receive treatment for a non-Covid related infection, his spokesman said. Spokesman Angel Urena said that Clinton was admitted on Tuesday evening. “He is on the mend, in good spirits, and is incredibly thankful to the doctors, nurses and staff providing him […]

Diane Weyermann, the longtime Chief Content Officer at Participant who also produced or exec produced dozens of films including Oscar winners An Inconvenient Truth and Citizenfour, died today of cancer in New York, the company said. She was 66. Showbiz & Media Figures We’ve Lost In 2021 – Photo Gallery A two-time Emmy nominee, including one […]

EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood is on the precipice tonight as talks between IATSE and the AMPTP continue in the hope of averting a strike early next week that could bring most of the industry to a standstill. “Assume there will be a strike and hope there isn’t,” Local 800 members were told this afternoon in the first […]

HBO Max has released the first images of Elizabeth Olsen as Candy Montgomery in Love & Death, a limited series about the true story of Texas housewife Candy Montgomery’s murder of Betty Gore in 1980. See the images above and below. Olsen stars as Montgomery in the series, from the Big Little Lies and The […]

IATSE and the AMPTP are making progress at the bargaining table, but the two sides still have a ways to go to avert a threatened strike on Monday. “We did make progress,” a union source said. “Yesterday was a pretty good day, but we’re not there yet, by any means.” In the event of a […]