Новости за 19.05.2022

Frank Grillo is set to star in Liam O’Donnell’s horror-thriller Merciless, which Sentient Pictures International is shopping here in Cannes this week. The company also has announced that Columbian actor Juan Pablo Raba (Peppermint, Narcos) has been tapped to lead Antonio Negret’s new action thriller Sombra. Merciless is directed by Liam O’Donnell, the director behind […]

NEON has taken the North American distribution rights to Mark Jenkin’s horror feature Enys Men, starring Mary Woodvine and Edward Rowe. The deal was hatched before Cannes, ahead of the pic’s world premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight section. Jenkin wore several hats on the production beyond director and writer, including cinematographer, sound designer, and composer. Set […]

EXCLUSIVE: In a deal announced today in Cannes, IMAX Corporation and Dolphin Entertainment signed a multi-year agreement to co-finance development and production of a slate of feature-length documentaries for global release. The first film under the partnership will be The Blue Angels, the recently-announced documentary from Bad Robot Productions and Zipper Bros Films that follows the […]

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details about the Halo season finale “Transcendence.”  Halo bounces back from a conflicting moment with an action-packed finale that’s reminiscent of the games and sets a new path forward for John, Cortana, Halsey and more. Written by Steve Kane and Kyle Killen, “Transcendence” picks up after the brutal Spartan-on-Spartan battle. […]

SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about the Season 4 finale of ABC’s A Million Little Things. In a typical A Million Little Things fashion, the most recent fourth season ended with a cliffhanger and once again, someone’s life is in danger. This time, it was not an incident — or an accident — but […]

The International Film Festival Rotterdam has appointed its new team line up and structure as the festival revamps. The selection committee for features consists of former IFFR programmers Stefan Borsos (South and South-East Asia), Michelle Carey (English speaking territories),  Evgeny Gusyatinskiy (Central and Eastern Europe, Israel),  Mercedes Martinez-Abarca (South and Central America, Mexico, Caribbeans), Olaf […]

Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy has been around Hollywood a long time. But she’s still learning. Speaking to Vanity Fair’s Anthony Breznican, she admitted that the 2018 Solo film, about the younger years of the swashbuckling space cowboy Han Solo, taught her a lesson: don’t recast a core role. Kennedy took over Lucasfilm in 2012 with […]

This morning, 11-time Grammy winner Taylor Swift delivered a different kind of acceptance speech. “Hi, I’m Taylor,” she began. “The last time I was in a stadium this size, I was dancing in heels and wearing a glittery leotard. This outfit is much more comfortable.” The outfit in question was black Doctoral regalia bordered in […]

Miami Dade Fire Rescue is reporting that Live Nation executive Theresa Velasquez was heard in the rubble of the 2021 Surfside Condo Collapse in Miami. Velasquez was heard calling out after the initial collapse of the Champlain Towers on June 24, 2021. But she could not be reached before succumbing to injuries sustained in the […]

UPDATE: The promoter behind the crash-and-burn Fyre Festival has been released from prison after serving less than four years for his role in the 2017 Caribbean concert disaster. Billy McFarand, 30, was released on March 30 and transferred to community confinement. He is  expected to remain there through August, TMZ reported today. McFarland pleaded guilty […]

Marvin Josephson, who helped grow a small management company that could not afford a secretary into an international entertainment agency with multiple offices, died May 17 in New York. He was 95. Josephson was born March 6, 1927 in Atlantic City, N.J. to immigrant parents. Upon graduation from Atlantic City High School, he entered the US […]

SPOILER ALERT: Tonight, the seventh season finale of The Masked Singer unveiled its ultimate winner, once again offering the surprise answer to its mystery voice. For the uninitiated, the show is a top-secret singing competition. Hosted by Nick Cannon, and featuring panelists Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke, “The Masked Singer” features […]

CBS likes to renew its strongest series early; last year, the FBI franchise and The Equalizer were picked up in March. When May rolled around this year and none of the the Universal Television-produced CBS drama series, the highly rated FBI dramas and The Equalizer, as well as solid Friday performer Magnum P.I., had been […]

Good news for Love, Death & Robots fans. Netflix has dropped a surprise Season 3 episode ahead of the Emmy-winning animated anthology series’ May 20 premiere. You can watch the full episode, titled “Three Robots: Exit Strategies” at the bottom of the story. In the episode, based on the short story by sci-fi novelist John […]

HBO Max has scrapped its plans for a live-action Wonder Twins film, based on the DC characters of the same name, Deadline can confirm. The news comes only about a month after it was announced that KJ Apa and Isabel May had been tapped to play shape-shifters Zan and Jayna. Black Adam scribe Adam Sztykiel […]

Sex Education producer Eleven is behind a British/Australian drama series about a group of expats in the 1950s for the BBC and Aussie SVoD Stan. The Stranger and Brassic writer Danny Brocklehurst is penning Ten Pound Poms, a rare co-production between the British and Australian networks. The six-parter, which films shortly in Australia, follows a group of Brits as […]

After breaking out internationally in 2012 with his Oscar-nominated drama The Broken Circle Breakdown, and making his Hollywood debut in 2018 with Beautiful Boy, Felix van Groeningen makes his Competition debut in Cannes with The Eight Mountains, perhaps the most understated film of his career so far. This is a gentle tale of a decades-spanning […]

Los Angeles today surpassed the number of daily Covid cases it saw at the height of the summer 2021 surge, according to data released by officials. The county’s data dashboard indicates that on August 9, 2021, at the peak of the wave as a result of the Delta variant, there were 4248 new cases recorded […]

James Corden took to the stage at Carnegie Hall for his final Upfronts as he prepares to exit from The Late Late Show. He kicked off by joking that Paramount ad sales boss Jo Ann Ross promise to keep it to an hour “worked out well” as it overran. “Thank god, this isn’t a place […]

CBS — bringing the rest of Paramount with it — is back at its longtime upfront home, Carnegie Hall, and the network’s late-night host Stephen Colbert is back onstage ribbing his employer. “The moment my bosses at Paramount asked me to introduce this upfront, I leapt at the chance… to read my contract and find […]

Media shares felt the pain as markets swooned Wednesday with glum earnings and outlooks from major retailers reflecting broader economic woes. Target and Walmart, usually considered safe stocks, reported a big hit from higher transportation costs as gas prices soar, without any relief in sight. It’s hard for them to pass higher costs on to […]

James D’Arcy is set to star alongside Noomi Rapace and Jonathan Banks in Constellation, an eight-episode conspiracy-based psychological thriller drama series at Apple TV+. Additionally, Oscar-nominated Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall) and Joseph Cedar (Footnote) are set as directors on the series, joining previously announced director/EP Michelle MacLaren. Created and written by Peter Harness (The War of […]