Новости за 22.11.2021

The New Frontiers section of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival will be presented both in person, at a new Park City venue, and via a remote VR platform, the Sundance Institute announced today. Sundance’s new in-person venue, The Craft, will be free to access from the festival’s kick-off on January 20 through the 25th, allowing […]

EXCLUSIVE: Nyle DiMarco and Melrose Placed’s Sami Housman have partnered with Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary’s Revelations Entertainment to develop and produce the drama series Deaf Punk. DiMarco is set to lead the series exploring how a cultural revolution was supported by the unlikely union of two minority groups. Deaf Punk is inspired by San […]

More than 50 prominent showrunners, including J.J. Abrams, Shonda Rhimes and Mike Schur, have signed the WGA West’s Safe and Inclusive Workplace Pledge, committing to “partner with the guild in developing best practices proven to drive change, alongside support programs for the wider show-running community that ensure every leader has the tools and understanding necessary […]

Universal has set a release date for DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls 3 for Nov. 17, 2023. This is the first announcement of the threequel, which isn’t shocking given that the pic’s extensive brand value, not to mention the first movie earned $350M at the global B.O. and the sequel last year, Trolls World Tour, grossed more than $100M […]

EarthX, the Texas-based environmental group building out its presence in TV and streaming, has appointed six senior execs with experience from Discovery networks and Ride TV. The appointments cover areas such as content, global distribution, marketing, production, finance, ad sales and impact. Michael Fletcher, who co-founded and ran Ride TV for a decade, was named […]

An arbitrator has ruled in favor of MRC, the production company behind House of Cards, in its case against Kevin Spacey over his firing from the show as he faced allegations of sexual misconduct. The ruling, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, awarded MRC $29.5 million in damages and $1.4 million in attorneys fees […]

Everyone’s favorite Days of Our Lives troublemaker Sami Brady will be part of the holiday fun as Alison Sweeney boards Peacock’s Original A Very Salem Christmas, premiering Dec. 16. Sweeney made her debut as the character in 1987. The film, a first for DOOL‘s Corday Productions, follows Will Horton (Chandler Massey) as he writes a […]

ViacomCBS has promoted Scott Mills to Chief Executive of BET. Mills has been upped after spending four years as President of the network. He has been with BET and ViacomCBS in a variety of roles since joining the former in 1997 as SVP, Business Development. He was COO of BET Interactive, CFO, and President and […]

As Netflix expands its footprint as a one-stop shop studio, the streamer’s VP of Studio Operations, Amy Reinhard, announced in a company blog post this morning that they’re buying Scanline VFX, which was one of the effects shops to work on the first season of Cowboy Bebop and the third and upcoming fourth season of Stranger […]

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles and WarnerMedia OneFifty have named the winning writers for its NewNarratives content program. Filmmaker Jim Vendiola has been honored with the NewNarratives inaugural grand award for 2021 and will receive $40,000 for the development of his latest narrative feature film Argus. The program, which kicked off in June 19, 2021, drew from […]

EXCLUSIVE: John Wells Productions has optioned the rights to Swedish author Tove Alsterdal’s three-book crime series The High Coast for series adaptation. A writer is not yet attached. The first novel, We Know You Remember, was published in Sweden in 2020 and won the Best Crime Novel of the Year Award as well as The […]

EXCLUSIVE: Mexican actress Maite Perroni has signed a multi-year overall deal with Pantaya—the Spanish-language streamer’s first-ever overall deal of its kind. Perroni will star and co-produce original series and films for the company. Films developed as part of this deal will be produced in tandem with Pantelion Films, Pantaya’s partner company. The deal builds on […]

Royal Family Angered by BBC Princes Doc Members of the Royal Family are reported to be threatening to boycott the BBC over a documentary set to air tonight about Prince William and Prince Harry’s relationship with the press. According to the UK’s Daily Mail, the Royal Family has been angered by the BBC’s refusal to show […]

Filming wrapped on the second series of Netflix smash period drama Bridgerton over the weekend, with the show set to air next year. Creator and showrunner Chris Van Dusen posted a photo of himself of himself hugging leads Jonathan Bailey and Simone Ashley, declaring a “wrap on season two.” “So proud of this cast and crew […]

The opener of ITV’s Winter entertainment smash I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! lost almost 3M viewers from the previous year when it kicked off last night, matching Strictly Come Dancing’s results show on BBC1. Last year’s I’m a Celebrity opened in the midst of the second UK lockdown to a mammoth 10.9M viewers, which at […]

Ridley Scott has hit back at the Gucci family’s criticism of his upcoming film, called for “someone to get in trouble” over the Rust incident and revealed his Napoleon biopic will start filming on January 15. Scott also gave an update on early-stage TV versions of Alien and Blade Runner. Speaking to the BBC’s Today programme, the 83-year-old director […]

Nine global indies have joined together to form a Fremantle-backed alliance to create high-end drama series and films. The Creatives alliance kicks off with a three-year partnership with Fremantle to develop and fund high-quality international projects. The Creatives is comprised of the likes of France’s Haut Et Court and Unité, U.S. producer Masha and UK’s […]

UPDATE 11 PM PT: As of late Sunday night, five people had been killed and more than 40 were injured in the Waukesha, Wisconsin incident, in which a vehicle drove into a Christmas parade, city official said in a Twitter post, cautioning that “these numbers may change as we collect additional information.” According to Police Chief […]

The American Music Awards hosted its annual celebration live from Los Angeles on Sunday night and winners include Cardi B, BTS, Taylor Swift, Megan Thee Stallion, Doja Cat, and Bad Bunny, among others. The awards show was hosted by Cardi B and featured performances by BTS and Coldplay; New Kids on the Block and New […]

Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg, two longtime conservative commentators on Fox News, said that they are quitting the network, concluding that “the voices of the responsible are being drowned out by the irresponsible.” They specifically cited Tucker Carlson’s three-part documentary Patriot Purge, which ran on Fox Nation, which they said was “a collection of incoherent […]

Jussie Smollett was apparently doing more than visiting Subway since his enforced downtime. The former Empire star has a new film, B-Boy Blues, an effort that marks his directorial debut. He screened the film, which still needs a distributor, on Friday in Harlem, and the auteur appeared in-person for a rare sighting outside the court room. […]

Don’t count out Tiger Woods just yet. One of golf’s all-time greats, who has been out of action since being badly injured in a February car crash, showed today he’s not done. Woods shared a video Sunday on social media showing him back on a golf course. His smooth swing is apparently still there, as […]

Introducing, Selma Blair subject Blair said she allowed director Rachel Fleit to film her coping with multiple sclerosis treatments because she could not find examples of other people going them. Blair and director Rachel Fleit spoke with Deadline’s Matthew Carey at The Contenders: Documentary. “I just really craved seeing someone else in my position,” Blair […]

An open letter in the Washington Post from the woman who was engaged to slain reporter Jamal Khashoggi is urging Justin Bieber not to play a Dec. 5 show in the kingdom. Bieber is set to perform in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah. He is the headliner among a group of artists performing as part […]

The 1960s were a time of cultural upheaval for society in general, but also within the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican II Council, which ran from 1962-1965, enacted liberalizing reforms intended to connect the church much more closely with the contemporary world the faithful were living in. The sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary […]