Новости за 25.10.2021

Going to the Happiest Place on Earth will cost a little more this holiday season. Disneyland today introduced price hikes on some one-day tickets and also added a new top tier for the most-coveted weekends and holidays, noting “pent-up demand after 14-month closure” in an official statement. The new one day/one park pricing is modified […]

Facebook hit 2.91 billion monthly active users last quarter, up 6% from the year earlier, and reported mixed financial results and a revenue outlook for the current fourth quarter that was below expectations. Revenue of $29 billion for the September quarter was up 35% from the year before but below Wall Street estimates. Earnings per […]

After nearly three weeks of controversy, Netflix firings and suspensions of trans staff, and protests on the streets of Hollywood over remarks centered on the trans and LGBTQ+ communities by Dave Chappelle in his The Closer special, the comedian today is finally responding significantly — and it’s a mixed bag, to put it mildly. “To […]

Alec Baldwin “had been very careful” about the handling of guns used on the New Mexico set of Rust in the days and hours before he accidentally shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza last week, according to the cameraman who was standing next to them when they were shot. The […]

EXCLUSIVE: More/Medavoy Management has promoted coordinator Eric Schulman to manager. Schulman works alongside More and Medavoy with both literary and acting clients such as Salli Richardson-Whitfield (HBO’s The Gilded Age), Sarah Wayne Callies (The Walking Dead), Oscar nominee Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips), Eastsiders creator Kit Williamson, and actor/comedian Jonathan Kite (Two Broke Girls) to name […]

EXCLUSIVE: Lauren Tom (The Joy Luck Club), Oscar nominee Michael O’Keefe (The Great Santini), Tom Everett Scott (That Thing You Do!), Cooper van Grootel (Peacock’s One of Us is Lying), Oona Yaffe (Fox’s Sleepy Hollow) and Phinehas Yoon (CBS’ Bad Teacher) have joined the cast of One True Loves, a romantic drama based on Taylor […]

EXCLUSIVE: Hayley Marie Norman has joined the cast of NBC’s Kenan for Season 2 in a recurring role. Norman will portray the character of Janay, a new force in Kenan’s (Kenan Thompson) life. She is described as funny, beautiful, fierce, loving, and determined to get what she wants. Janay comes into Gary’s (Chris Redd) life […]

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Television has promoted Chris Cikowski to Vice President of the studio’s animation unit. Cikowski has risen through the ranks, beginning as an assistant on the comedy team at the former 20th Century Fox Television studio. He was soon tapped to work directly under the former 20th Century Fox Television studio President Jonnie Davis, […]

S&P has upgraded Netflix to investment grade, admiring the streamer’s financial profile as it continues to lead the market in an increasingly competitive OTT landscape. The ratings agency said Monday it sees the company remaining the dominant player and it took its senior unsecured debt rating from BB+ to BBB blue chip status with outlook […]

EXCLUSIVE: Stephanie Beatriz launched the fictional true-crime podcast Tejana on Monday in collaboration with Sonoro and Telemundo that will be adapted for television. The 6-episode first season is available now across all podcast formats. The drama tells the story of Eileen Castillo, a Texas Ranger who is the only Latina on the force and at […]

EXCLUSIVE: Sentient Entertainment has locked down English-language remake rights to Thesis, a horror-thriller from BAFTA Award-nominated filmmaker Alejandro Amenábar, which nabbed seven Goya Awards and other accolades upon its release in 1996. The original film centered on Ángela (Ana Torrent), a student writing a thesis about violence, who comes upon a snuff video where a […]

EXCLUSIVE: Brendan Fraser is set to join Leslie Grace in Warner Bros and DC Films’ Batgirl. Although not confirmed, sources believe Fraser would play the supervillain Firefly in the pic. Jacob Scipio also recently joined the cast, with Grace on board to play Barbara Gordon, aka Batgirl. Bad Boys for Life directors Adil El Arbi […]

Kit Clarke (Get Even, Leonardo) has been set to play Rupert Everett’s younger self in the autobiographical tale Lost and Found in Paris, which Everett will direct from his own screenplay. John Malkovich and Kristin Scott Thomas are also in the cast, with Everett in a supporting role. The story follows an unruly teenager sent […]

EXCLUSIVE: WME Independent is launching sales ahead of the virtual AFM on under-the-radar Jason Momoa western The Last Manhunt. Today we can reveal first images of the completed movie, which tells “the true story of the last great American manhunt of the old west,” based on the oral history of the Chemehuevi tribe in Joshua […]

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has picked up North American rights on Let Me Be Me, Dan Crane and Katie Taber’s documentary that will have its world premiere at Doc NYC this year. The film is the latest from producer Jenifer Westphal’s Wavelength (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?). When the Westphal family learned that their six-year-old Kyle […]

UPDATE: Director Richard Stanley (Color Out of Space) who was the subject of allegations of abuse by an ex-partner, has filed criminal complaints in France in response. “My attorney has filed criminal complaints of Libel and Harassment on my behalf, in France, against Tracy Robertson, aka ‘Scarlett Amaris’, a screenwriter and fantasist who launched a […]

EXCLUSIVE: Wondery, the podcast company behind series such as Dr. Death and The Shrink Next Door, has found its next strange audio tale. The Amazon-owned company is launching Operator, which tells the story of the people behind American TelNet, the company that singlehandedly brought live phone sex into the mainstream. The series is hosted by […]

Jonathan Lemire, who has been covering the White House for the Associated Press, will be the new host of MSNBC’s Way Too Early. Lemire also will be joining Politico as its White House bureau chief, starting in November. Lemire, who has been an analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, succeeds Kasie Hunt at Way Too […]

Legendary UK broadcaster Sir Trevor McDonald is to be the face of E4’s Gamesmaster reboot as the iconic format returns to screens after almost 25 years off air. McDonald takes on the role originally filled by Sir Patrick Moore in the video games competition, setting up the challenges and watching over competitors as they compete […]

EXCLUSIVE: Principal photography is underway in the UK on contemporary folk horror, Lord Of Misrule, from The Boy and The Devil Inside filmmaker William Brent Bell. Tuppence Middleton (Mank) and Ralph Ineson (The Witch) are starring alongside Matt Stokoe (Outlaw King). Based on a screenplay by Tom de Ville (The Quiet Ones) and set in […]

A petition to ban real guns on film sets has raced past 23,000 signatories following the death of DoP Halyna Hutchins. The change.org petition, launched by filmmaker Bandar Albuliwi, has accumulated 23,600 names after being launched Friday. The petition states: “We need to make sure that this avoidable tragedy never happens again. There is no […]

‘Gangs Of London’ Dominates Bafta Cymru Sky Atlantic drama Gangs of London swept up at last night’s Bafta Wales Cymru Awards, winning four awards, while the leads in It’s A Sin and Saint Maud took home the Best Actor and Best Actress gongs. Pulse Films’ Gangs of London won in four technical categories as ITV’s Pembrokeshire Murders, which starred Luke Evans, […]

Australia is sending Granaz Moussavi’s When Pomegranates Howl to the Academy as its submission for this year’s International Oscar race. The Australia-Afghanistan co-production, from Iranian-Australian filmmaker Moussavi, is an anti-war drama. Shot in Afghanistan, the story follows Hewad, an irrepressible nine-year old boy who hustles on the streets of Kabul – selling everything from pomegranate […]

Senior execs at UK broadcaster ITV will receive bonuses if they successfully meet climate action targets and ITV will stop working with suppliers who fail to meet sustainability criteria by 2025, as a raft of measures are unveiled. The move follows a similar decision to integrate diversity and inclusion targets into manager and leader bonuses, […]

Stu Billett, a veteran TV producer and creator of the venerable TV show The People’s Court, died Oct. 22 from natural causes in Los Angeles, surrounded by his family. He was 85. Billett served in the U.S. Marine Corps and later attended New York University. After college, Billett landed a position as a producer’s assistant […]