Новости за 27.01.2022

EXCLUSIVE: Trioscope, the company behind Netflix’s The Liberator, is working with former Roblox exec Keith Lucas as it looks to expand its animation technology. Lucas was employee number seven at the online games platform, which has over 200M monthly users and served as both Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer for the company. He […]

EXCLUSIVE: There’s another Suicide Squad spinoff series in the works, James Gunn recently told us on the upcoming episode of Deadline’s Hero Nation. “We’re working on something else now, another TV show that’s connected to that universe,” Gunn told us, “I can’t quite say.” In addition, Gunn says about a second season of Peacemaker, which recently […]

Wednesday primetime was a pretty tame one with NBC’s Chicago trio and ABC’s sitcom slate in reruns. Instead of the NBC series topping primetime ratings, as they tend to do, Wednesday belonged to CBS with its broadcast of Let’s Make a Deal. Per fast affiliates, the game show hosted by Wayne Brady earned a 0.6 […]

The Writers Guild of America has penciled in the film nominees for its 74th annual WGA Awards, which will be virtual again this year. The Original Screenplay category will see the scribes behind Being the Ricardos, Don’t Look Up, The French Dispatch, King Richard and Licorice Pizza vying for the hardware. The Adapted Screenplay race […]

EXCLUSIVE: Comedy Central is launching the first new original series under the network’s current push in adult animation. Fairview, executive produced by Stephen Colbert and the team behind Paramount+’s Emmy-nominated Tooning Out the News and Showtime’s Our Cartoon President, will debut at 8:30 pm February 9, followingSouth Park.  Comedy Central in 2020 signaled a programming shift […]

After they won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2019 for their thrilling Free Solo, directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin went underground—in a manner of speaking. They tunneled into the true-life story of kids trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand for their filmmaking follow up, The Rescue, a documentary that […]

EXCLUSIVE: Saban Films has acquired North American and other overseas territory rights to The Old Way, the Western from director Brett Donowho that stars Nicolas Cage. The distributor is targeting a theatrical and VOD release for the pic sometime during the fourth quarter of 2022. The deal marks the the second recent pickup of a […]

Even a day after news broke about Justice Stephen Breyer’s plans to retire from the Supreme Court, networks provided special reports on the official White House announcement on Thursday. The coverage underscored the importance of a vacancy, particularly as it gives President Joe Biden his first chance at leaving a legacy on the high court. […]

Filmmaker, music video director, and video artist Kahlil Joseph is set to make his feature directorial debut with BLKNWS® – The Feature Film (working title), an adaptation of of his video exhibition of the same name for Participant and A24. BLKNWS®​ is described by the art exhibition curator Los Angeles Nomadic Division as “a ‘conceptual news […]

NBCUniversal theme parks posted their most profitable fourth quarter ever today, led by Universal Studio Orlando, where Epic Universe is rising. Universal Studio Hollywood and Japan are close behind and Universal Beijing Resort, which opened last September, will post a modest profit in 2022. “It’s impossible not be excited about our theme park business,” said […]

Disney and the WWE have reached a deal for the WWE Network to stream exclusively on Disney+ Hotstar in Indonesia, a potential prelude to other global pacts. The move follows that of the WWE Network, a pioneering direct-to-consumer service, to NBCUniversal’s Peacock in the U.S. last spring. That $1 billion agreement netted the WWE a […]

Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group has brought on Sydnie Karras in the newly created position of Chief Accounting Officer. In the post, Karras will supervise all corporate accounting as it relates to business operations, strategic investments, mergers/acquisitions, corporate financial planning, risk management and data analysis across all AMG units. Those units include its TV stations, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood and London-based below the line agency WPA is expanding its international and domestic teams with the hires of June Dowad and Daniel Starikov. Veteran agent Dowad has joined the WPA UK office as Partner. She joins from Sandra Marsh & Associates in Los Angeles. Starikov, most recently at Anonymous Content, has joined WPA’s […]

Barry Cryer, the much loved British comedian and TV writer, has died at the age of 86. Cryer was most known on UK shores for being a founding member and consistent panellist on long-running BBC Radio 4 surreal comedy show I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, first appearing when it launched in April 1972 (and […]

‘Nautilus’ Producer Moonriver TV Expands Exec Team Moonriver TV, the producer behind Disney+’s upcoming Jules Verne adaptation Nautilus, has signed Around The World In 80 Days indie Slim Film + Television’s Head of Production Lincia Daniel, while promoting Casey Herbert. Daniel, who has also worked on CBBC series Mystic, joins as Exec Producer, with Herbert promoted to Senior […]

EXCLUSIVE: A former Skins star, a Criminal Defence Solicitor and a TV writer have been selected for training body ScreenSkills  third New Writers Programme delivered by The Responder producer Dancing Ledge Productions. Larissa Hope, Abigail Rolling and Jess Jackson will be paired with New Girl writer Camilla Blackett, Unforgotten scribe Chris Lang and The Long Song’s Sarah Williams respectively, with a fourth unannounced […]

Utama (Our Home) is precisely the sort of discovery that justifies film festivals and makes them useful: a small, hitherto unheard-of work from an out-of-the-way country that grabs you from the opening minutes and afterwards makes you want to tell your friends they’ve got a real treat to look forward to. A rare Bolivian entry […]

Apple has closed the biggest deal of the 2022 Virtual Sundance Film Festival, securing worldwide rights to the Cooper Raiff-directed Cha Cha Real Smooth for around $15 million. The streamer has been the front runner for the picture since it premiered January 23 in the US Dramatic Competition category. Pic is Raiff’s followup to his […]

Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin announced today he will not run for a third term in the June primary, saying he will instead focus on his personal health. “I’ve struggled for years with depression. It’s a constant companion, and often a heavy one. There are times when this job has made that easier, and […]

MSNBC plans to move Stephanie Ruhle to the 11 PM slot, replacing Brian Williams, whose hosted The 11th Hour until his departure in December, according to network sources. Ruhle has been anchoring the 9 AM hour, and plans are for that time slot to be filled by an expanded edition of Morning Joe. Ruhle joined […]

Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney, who plays “Cassie” on the buzzy HBO drama, heads into the series’ second season in a comfortable place, even as her controversial scenes on the show have raised her profile in what could be uncomfortable ways. For the uninitiated, Euphoria follows recovering drug addict Rue, played by Zendaya, who struggles with relationships, […]

Morgan Stevens, who played numerous roles on television before a tragic confrontation with police derailed his career, was discovered dead at age 70 in his home today as part of a police wellness check. No information on the cause of death was released by police. His death was first reported by TMZ. Born October 16, […]

In the most cramped of times – days as economically and emotionally pinched as the ones we’re living through now, and the ones we survived (or didn’t) in 2008 – theater can remind us of, or point the way to, some sense of emotional generosity, of expansive spirit, of connection. Dominique Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew does […]

Of all the contenders vying for Best Picture attention at the Oscars this year, no one really had Sony and Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home in the mix. Other than the social phenomenon of Black Panther, no comic book film has ever even been nominated, and Academy voters have been seemingly more inclined to nominate small, […]

Forty-game Jeopardy! champ Amy Schneider brought her winning streak to a close tonight, losing to challenger Rhone Talsma and taking home a total $1,382,800 in winnings. Schneider’s run of 40 wins puts her in the No. 2 spot on the all-time consecutive victories list behind only Ken Jennings (74 wins). Schneider’s $1,382,800 is the fourth […]