Новости за 19.10.2021

EXCLUSIVE: Emily in Paris co-star Lucas Bravo has joined Julia Roberts, George Clooney and Kaitlyn Dever in Ticket To Paradise, the Universal Pictures romantic comedy that will be directed by Ol Parker (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again). In the comedy, a couple of exes find themselves on a shared mission: stop their lovestruck daughter […]

Maid, which stars Margaret Qualley and Andie MacDowell, is on track to beat The Queen’s Gambit as Netflix’s most-watched limited scripted series. The drama, which centers on Qualley’s Alex, a single mother who turns to housekeeping to make ends meet as she battles against poverty, homelessness and bureaucracy, is set to be watched by 67 […]

The Recording Academy announced today that its Grammy Awards will be the first major music award production to commit to the use of the contract addendums known as inclusion riders. In a statement released today, the Academy said that the rider is “designed to be a robust tool to ensure equity and inclusion at every […]

Alyssa Milano was among those arrested Tuesday at a demonstration outside the White House to urge action on protecting voting rights. Milano tweeted, “I was just arrested for demanding the Biden Administration and the Senate to use their mandate to protect voting rights. Stand with me and @peoplefor and tell the Senate and White House […]

CAA co-chair Richard Lovett said the agency’s battle with Warner Bros. and Walt Disney over client compensation – conflicts that in the past have rarely spilled into view publicly – are part of a broad struggle to define value in a streaming landscape where numbers are scarce. “How do you understand and protect the value […]

Netflix revealed Tuesday that it plans to shake up the way it measures and releases ratings data. The streamer, in reporting its third quarter financials, noted that it will switch to reporting on hours viewed for its shows and movies rather than the number of households or accounts that choose to watch them. This comes […]

Hubert Point-Du Jour (The Good Lord Bird), Jessica Allain (The Laundromat), Mishel Prada (Vida), Nhung Kate (The Housemaid) and Ben Robson (Animal Kingdom) are set as leads opposite Colin Woodell and Mel Gibson in Starz’s The Continental, the prequel to the Keanu Reeves film series John Wick. The Continental will be presented as a three-night special-event […]

Celine Dion has canceled fall dates for her new Las Vegas residency at Resorts World Theatre due to “severe and persistent muscle spasms,” a condition being evaluated by her medical team. The singer posted a statement on her website today announcing the cancelation of the scheduled performances from November 5 to 20, 2021, and January […]

Netflix beat forecasts for subscriber growth — its own as well as Wall Street’s — in the third quarter, adding 4.38 million to reach nearly 214 million worldwide. Revenue matched estimates for the period ending September 30, rising 16% year-over-year to $7.48 billion. On the bottom line, the company demolished earnings per share estimates. After […]

Squid Game has been watched by a “mind-boggling” 142 million Netflix households. The streamer revealed the latest viewing figures Tuesday when it released its third-quarter earnings report. “A mind-boggling 142m member households globally have chosen to watch the title in its first four weeks. The breadth of Squid Game’s popularity is truly amazing,” the company […]

Colin Woodell (The Flight Attendant) has been tapped as the lead in The Continental, Starz’s TV series prequel to the Keanu Reeves film franchise John Wick. Woodell, who will play Winston Scott, the younger version of Ian McShane’s character from the John Wick films, joins Mel Gibson in the three-night special-event TV series, produced by Lionsgate […]

EXCLUSIVE: Jo Koy will bring more of his humor to Netflix as he sets his fourth stand-up special with the streaming giant. Set to premiere sometime in 2022, Koy will film the special, currently untitled, on March 25th and 26th at The Forum in Los Angeles. Koy made his Netflix stand-up debut in 2017 with […]

Katie Couric appeared on Today on Tuesday to promote her new memoir Going There, which has generated pre-publication buzz for her frank comments and her own revelations. Today co-host Savannah Guthrie asked Couric about Matt Lauer, who was abruptly fired in 2017 amid sexual misconduct allegations. Couric said that “it took me a long time […]

Discovery+ has picked up North American streaming rights for Hostile Planet producer Plimsoll Productions’ Handmade: Good With Wood format. The deal was struck by Andrea Jackson’s distributor Magnify Media, which became fully owned by Plimsoll last year. Good With Wood launches on UK network Channel 4 on Thursday as Handmade: Britain’s Best Woodworker and is hosted by Great British Bake Off […]

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Cash Cab’ Producer Lion Television US has promoted Allison Corn and Stan Hsue to Co-Presidents of the UK-headquartered firm almost a year after long-time CEO Tony Tackaberry’s departure. The pair move up from their respective Senior Vice President Of Production And Development and Senior Vice President Of Development roles. They will continue to supervise […]

EXCLUSIVE: PRX, the public media organization that distributes series including This American Life, has promoted two of its top podcast executives. Julie Shapiro, who has been exec producer of the organization’s podcast network Radiotopia, now becomes Vice President of Editorial at PRX and Radiotopia, while Mardavich, who has served in a number of roles at […]

Netflix’s Formula 1: Drive To Survive director Nick Hardie is behind a documentary feature following elite Olympic climbers from the US, UK, Slovenia and Japan, which is being backed by Adidas. The Wall – Climb for Gold will chart Brooke Raboutou, Shauna Coxsey, Janja Garnbret and Miho Nonaka’s journey to this year’s Tokyo event for the […]

M. Night Shyamalan will serve as jury president at the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival. The American filmmaker, who is of South Asian descent, has had a consistent output of regular box office successes since his 1999 breakout The Sixth Sense, which was nominated for six Oscars. His recent credits include Old and Glass, while […]

MTV’s Europe Music Awards (EMA) will go ahead in Hungary this year in a bid to counter the country’s new stringent anti-gay laws, with President & CEO Chris McCarthy saying the outfit will “use the opportunity to stand in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community in Hungary and around the world.” The awards will take place […]

Experienced Canal+ drama exec Vera Peltekian is to head up HBO Max’s French original production offering as the streamer gears up for launch in Europe. Although HBO Max currently has no plans to launch in France, Peltekian will join the pan-regional EMEA team responsible for commissioning and producing drama, comedy, docs and unscripted content, as […]

EXCLUSIVE: 108 Media has picked up rights to Ying Chang Compestine’s YA book A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts and is planning an animated anthology horror series adaptation. Los Angeles-based showrunner Tricia Lee will write all eight 30-minute episodes of the show, she previously sold feature scripts to Hulu and Universal and was named on the […]

ITV Studios’ longstanding Director of Production Sally Debonnaire, a former Managing Director of Talkback and Avalon, is to step down after a decade, and her team is to be restructured. Debonnaire is calling time on an illustrious forty-year career that has seen her spend the last decade leading ITV Studios’ global production management teams, overseeing […]

After reports that children as young as six were copying the challenges depicted in Netflix’s hit Battle Royale-style Korean series Squid Game, a council in the south of England has urged parents not to let their kids watch the show. Per the Guardian, the education safeguarding team from Central Bedfordshire council emailed parents in the […]

EXCLUSIVE: The story of black British boxing sensation Len Johnson is to be told in a feature film from Rush exec Guy East, written by the “godmother of black British playwrights” Winsome Pinnock. Champion is the first major project from UK commercials producer MindsEye’s two-year-old film and TV division and is based on Rob Howard’s […]

Gal Gadot described in detail today her reaction when, she says, director Joss Whedon “threatened my career” during reshoots for Warner Bros.’ Justice League. While the Wonder Woman actress has described what she called her “experience” with Whedon before, she’s never been so candid about how his alleged actions impacted her. “I was shocked by […]