Новости за 23.11.2021

EXCLUSIVE: MPI Original Films has acquired film and TV rights to William Forstchen’s bestselling John Matherson Trilogy, consisting of the books One Second After, One Year After and The Final Day, for series development with Michael J. Straczynski attached to write the pilot. MPI will co-produce with Vince Gerardis’ Startling Inc. (Game of Thrones). The […]

Paramount Pictures is beginning development on a sequel to eOne’s Clifford the Big Red Dog.  The live-action family movie based on the 1963 Norman Bridwell children’s classic book, opened on Nov. 10 in theaters and dropped on Paramount+ in homes day and date. The movie has grossed $34.6M stateside to date. Clifford in his first weekend on […]

EXCLUSIVE: Ernest Kingsley Jr. has been cast in the title role and Iola Evans also stars in Washington Black, the Sterling K. Brown-fronted adaptation of Esi Edugyan’s novel, which received a straight-to-series order at Hulu. Twilight Zone writer Selwyn Seyfu Hinds is adapting the limited series for 20th Television. Washington Black follows the extraordinary 19th-century […]

Nominees for the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards were announced on Tuesday and they include Billie Eilish, Doja Cat, and Olivia Rodrigo. The celebration returns to Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena (formerly Staples Center) on Jan. 23, 2022, and will broadcast live on the CBS Television Network and stream live and on-demand on Paramount+ at 8-11:30 p.m. […]

Spotify has launched a Netflix hub with soundtracks, playlists, podcasts and exclusive content related to programming on the streaming video service. The hub is accessible to both free and premium Spotify subscribers in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the U.K., Ireland and India. Spotify has 381 million monthly active users and 172 million subscribers in […]

Fox News anchor Bret Baier was questioned by another network personality, Brian Kilmeade, about the exit of two Fox News contributors following the debut of the Fox Nation series Patriot Purge from Tucker Carlson. Kilmeade, on his radio, show, asked Baier whether he was “bothered” by the Carlson series. “Brian, I won’t go down this […]

Deadline has launched the streaming site for Contenders Film: Documentary, featuring all 25 panels from our Sunday event showcasing the filmmakers behind the buzziest nonfiction feature films of the awards season. The daylong virtual presentation featured participants including Edgar Wright, Liz Garbus, Todd Haynes, Sam Pollard, Selma Blair, Morgan Neville, Matthew Heineman, Betsy West and […]

UK culture secretary Nadine Dorries has signalled it could be some time until she has an answer on the privatization of Channel 4, as she says she is “only interested in how Channel 4 will survive in the future.” Dorries has just taken over from privatization-architects Oliver Dowden and John Whittingdale, both of whom regularly […]

EXCLUSIVE: Skeet Ulrich (Riverdale, #Freerayshawn) has joined the cast of Salvation, a dramatic thriller from director Mackenzie Munro and Walk Like A Duck Entertainment. He’ll star alongside Ashley Moore (Amazon’s I Know What You Did Last Summer), Theo Rossi (Sons of Anarchy), Devon Bostick (Okja), Claire Forlani (Black Beauty) and Thomas Jane (The Vanished). In Salvation, […]

Cast has been set on sci-fi thriller Slingshot, with Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea), Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix) and Emily Beecham (Little Joe) leading the pic about an astronaut struggling to maintain his grip on reality aboard a possibly fatally compromised mission to Saturn’s moon, Titan. Mikael Håfström (Outside the Wire) is directing the […]

Heyday Television and Carnival Films owner NBCUniversal International Studios has rebranded to Universal International Studios. The UK-based studio has a new logo and is being aligned more closely with owner Universal Studio Group and sister studios UCP, Universal Television and Universal Television Alternative Studio. “We want the marketplace to know we are truly Universal,” said […]

Bel-Air, the drama reboot of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is coming to Peacock in 2022 and the streamer has unveiled its first teaser. The hourlong series, based on Morgan Cooper’s popular fan film that re-envisions the original series, hails from Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith’s Westbrook Studios and Universal Television. It received a […]

Warner Bros/Village Roadshow’s highly anticipated The Matrix Resurrections has been cleared for release in China, however an exact date is yet to be fixed. Warner’s official Weibo account posted the news, saying the film “is confirmed to be introduced, and it will be released in theaters nationwide soon!” The fourth Matrix installment, both a reboot […]

EXCLUSIVE: BBC2 and PBS have commissioned a War of the Worlds-style hybrid drama/documentary that spotlights a near future in which extra-terrestrial life has been detected. First Contact will combine real documentary interviews with some of the world’s most foremost scientists alongside a fictionalized narrative written and directed by World According to Jeff Goldblum director Nic […]

This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of Dancing With the Stars Season 30. Dancing With The Stars named its newest Mirror Ball champion on Monday night in a night of freestyle dances and fierce competition. Out of an original field of 15, the winner of the latest edition of ABC’s hit celebrity dance […]

The French comedy Call My Agent and Israeli drama Tehran took the top prizes at the 49th annual International Emmys, which here handed out Monday night during an in-person ceremony in New York. See the full list of winners below. The UK boasts both top acting honors David Tennant for crime thriller Des and Hayley Squires for […]

The Resident Evil films ( six films from 2002-2016), starring Milla Jovovich have a worldwide box office of over $1 billion. The action movies were well liked by international audiences but otherwise shunned by hardcore fans of the game. When Resident Evil first released, fans expected a faithful adaptation but instead what they got was […]

While Samba TV reported today that 707K U.S. households watched the Will Smith drama King Richard over the weekend, an even more interesting detail was how HBO Max subscribers tuned in: The OTT service tells us that a majority of subs watched the biopic about Serena and Venus Williams’ coach father from start-to-finish without pausing. Translation, King […]

Outlander will return with Season 6 at 9 p.m. Sunday, March 6, across all Starz platforms. The news was revealed by Diana Gabaldon, author of the Outlander book series the historical drama is based on, at Monday’s launch of the ninth book in the series, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone. Season 6, […]

Reel Works has announced a first-time partnership with their MediaMKRS workforce development program and documentary film/TV production company Jigsaw Productions, helmed by Academy Award®-winning documentarian Alex Gibney.  “I am thrilled to be working together with Reel Works on this vital mentorship program,” said Gibney. “This inaugural cohort of budding filmmakers bring such unique perspectives to […]

In a move reflecting the diminished viability of beauty pageants in 2021; the free-fall of broadcast TV; the obsession with streaming — or maybe all of the above — the 100th annual Miss America competition will be seen only on Peacock. The live stream on Thursday, December 16 will be available across time zones as […]

House Of Cards creator and showrunner Beau Willimon and his Westward producing partner Jordan Tappis have teamed with Crazy Rich Asians’ co-financier SK Global to develop a television series based on Tom Wright and Bradley Hope’s bestseller Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World. Tony Award-winning M. Butterfly playwright […]

David Attenborough will choose his favorite recordings from the natural world that have revolutionized our understanding of song as part of a packed BBC Christmas slate on which he features twice. The majority of shows on the slate, one of the BBC’s largest of the year, have already been announced, and The Wonder of Song from […]

EXCLUSIVE: Disney Television Animation, the division responsible for series including Monsters at Work and Marvel’s Spidey and his Amazing Friends, is staffing up. The business has hired former Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox Animation exec Lisa Fragner and promoted Elizabeth Waybright Taylor. Fragner, who has been consulting with Disney Television Animation since April, […]

Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James was suspended by the NBA for one game Monday after he hit Detroit Pistons Isaiah Stewart in the face in a game Sunday night as the two fought for a rebound. James seemed to gesture apologetically to Stewart immediately after, but Stewart was having none of it. His brow […]