Новости за 15.03.2022

EXCLUSIVE: HBO sports drama Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty scored more viewers in its second week, rising from its debut. The freshman series starring John C. Reilly, Quincy Isaiah and Jason Clarke earned a total of 1.2 million viewers across HBO and HBO Max with its second episode. The latest episode, titled “Is […]

A one-hour special featuring never before seen Whitney Houston interview moments will air on CBS next month to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the singer’s death. Whitney, A Look Back, produced by Entertainment Tonight and made up of footage from ET’s vault, will air Saturday, April 2 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS and will […]

EXCLUSIVE: This Is Us star Chris Sullivan has been tapped as the lead of ABC’s single-camera comedy pilot The Son in Law, from 20th Century Television. As is always the case with a hugely popular broadcast series coming to an end, the cast of NBC’s This Is Us has been in demand this development cycle. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Mark and Dorothy Canton’s Atmosphere Entertainment has launched development on The 18th, a one-hour series inspired by the true story of Nebraska’s “Queen of the Bootleggers,” which has Odessa A’zion (Grand Army) set to star. The series set in the early 1900s will follow Louise Vinciquerra, a young Italian immigrant wife and mother who rose […]

LA North Studios is teaming with production services firms Cinelease and Herc Entertainment Services on a cost-saving initiative aimed at keeping more production in Southern California. The companies are uniting to offer productions discounted rates on an integrated suite of services, including many of the foundational parts of any shoot like lighting and grips. Exact […]

The Bachelor and NCIS were the top titles of Monday primetime, with the former rising in the demo ahead of its season finale on Tuesday. With the first night of Season 26’s final two-parter, The Bachelor was the highest-rated program of the evening earning a 1.0 rating in the 18-49 demo and 4.29 million viewers, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Bomer is in early talks to join the cast of the upcoming Netflix biopic Maestro, which has Bradley Cooper directing and starring as the iconic composer. If a deal closes, Bomer joins Carey Mulligan who will play Bernstein’s wife Felicia. Pic will be produced by Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Cooper and his Joint Effort […]

Kimee Balmilero, Tess Paras and Jason Rogel are the latest additions to ABC’s Filipino American pilot Josep, starring Jo Koy. They join the pilot as series regulars and will appear opposite previously announced cast members Mia Katigbak, Rory O’Malley and Kaden Alejandro. Josep, from 20th Television, follows Koy as a recently divorced Filipino American nurse […]

EXCLUSIVE: Kyle Gallner (Scream 5) and Johnny Berchtold (Gaslit) have been cast in lead roles in Blumhouse Television and Epix’s latest dramatic-thriller The Passenger directed by Carter Smith. The film follows Randolph Bradley (Berchtold) who is perfectly content fading into the background, but when his coworker Benson (Gallner) snaps and goes on a violent killing spree, […]

As Boromir might have said in some deeply unorthodox, parallel universe adaptation of Lord of the Rings: One does not simply walk into a Bond movie. For most artists, recording a signature song for a feature film is a task performed once the contract is signed. Not so on Bond, with its long history of […]

Sony Pictures Classics announced today that its feature documentary Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story, co-directed by five-time Oscar nominee Frank Marshall (The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart) and Ryan Suffern (Mr. A & Mr. M: The Story of A&M Records), will hit theaters in New York and Los Angeles on May […]

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has firmed a splashy Cannes premiere for Elvis, the Baz Luhrmann-directed epic story about the relationship between Elvis Presley and his manager Colonel Tom Parker that shook up the world of rock ‘n’ roll forever. No specific date yet, but the film is locked in for a Palais bow, sources said. Once […]

UPDATE, 9:51 AM PT: Marina Ovsyannikova, who burst onto the set of a state-Russian newscast to protest the war in Ukraine, was fined 30,000 rouble, or about $280. She also pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to the charge of organizing an unauthorized public event, according to the BBC. There are still fears that she could […]

Amazon has won unconditional EU antitrust approval for its $8.5 billion acquisition of storied U.S. movie studio MGM, the European Commission said Tuesday. It said the deal would not pose competition concerns in Europe. That’s a big hurdle passed for the merger, announced last May. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission must still weigh in and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Saban Films is finalizing a deal to acquire North American rights to Ana Lily Amirpour’s Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon, starring Kate Hudson, breakout Korean actress Jeon Jong-seo and Craig Robinson. The fantasy-thriller title, which also stars Ed Skrein and Evan Whitten, debuted at the Venice Film Festival last year before playing at […]

EXCLUSIVE: Nicole Muñoz (Van Helsing), Praneet Akila (Nancy Drew), Jesse Stanley (Van Helsing), and Mark Hildreth (Resurrection) round out the cast for House of Kibaa’s live action NFT series GenZeroes. Muñoz will play Vika, Akila will play Sarmad, Stanley will play Lea, and Hildreth will play Thiess. Last month we announced that Paul “Big Show” Wight, Richard Harmon, […]

Representation of female protagonists and BIPOC women in 2021’s top-grossing films have ticked up slightly, the latest study from San Diego State University’s Dr. Martha Lauzen finds. Lauzen, the executive director of SDSU’s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, revealed that female  The study, titled It’s a Man’s (Celluloid) World, Even […]

Paramount+ has unveiled the first five shows from its UK unscripted slate, including feature docs on paranormal hauntings in the UK and U.S., rise of big tech and the lost MH370 flight. Leading the slate is Haunted (working title) from The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe producer Story Films in association with All3Media International, which will explore […]

A historic first meeting has taken place between the UK and Irish heads of actors union Equity in which they called for film productions in Ireland to ensure equal and fair terms and conditions for both British and Irish performers. Ireland has in recent years become a hotbed of activity for TV and film and a  […]

Blink49 Studios To Adapt ‘Things To Do When It’s Raining’ John Morayniss’ Blink49 Studios has picked up the rights to New York Times bestselling author Marissa Stapley’s romantic drama Things To Do When It’s Raining. The novel, Stapley’s second, is set in Canada’s 1,000 Islands and centers around a woman who is driven by deception and […]

Borgen – Power & Glory, a fresh continuation of hit Danish political drama Borgen, has been set for release on Netflix April 14 in the Nordic markets and June 2 in the rest of the world. Netflix has also dropped first-look photos (see above and below). From creator/writer and executive producer Adam Price, Borgen – […]

EXCLUSIVE: The untold story of Reverend Jesse Jackson is to be made into a theatrical documentary feature and limited TV series, with Jackson’s son Yusef D Jackson set to co-exec and Peabody Award-winning Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed director Shola Lynch attached. Expanded Media and Lawrence Elman/Nick Fraser’s Docsville Studios are behind the as-yet-untitled big-budget […]

Imagine if the seven deadly sins were wealthy gen-z’rs and threw a house party. Now at said party, imagine each of them was high, drunk, and in such a deranged and disconnected state they wouldn’t even know what planet they were operating on. This is what viewers can expect from Halina Reijn’s first English feature […]

Universal/Illumination’s Minions: The Rise Of Gru has been set to open the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in a world premiere on June 13. The fest is returning to a fully in-person event after last year’s hybrid edition. Annecy and the Minions franchise have a long history, going back to 2010’s Despicable Me. The Rise […]

EXCLUSIVE: German major Leonine has rebranded its TV subsidiary Odeon Entertainment as Madame Zheng Production and appointed producer Tina Wagner as Managing Director as part of a restructure. Odeon Entertainment, which will continue to specialize in factual and reality TV productions, documentaries and live broadcasts, will be led by Wagner with Leonine’s Co-Head Of Entertainment Nina Etspüler […]