Новости за 04.11.2022

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to coming-of-age drama Who Are You People, starring Ema Horvath (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power), Devon Sawa (Gasoline Alley), Alyssa Milano (Brazen) and Yeardley Smith (The Simpsons). Written and directed by Ben Epstein, the film is due to get a day-and-date theatrical release […]

“Well Twitter…it’s been real, and it’s been fun. But the end hasn’t been real fun,” wrote one former employee from the company’s Global Wellness team last night. He was among the estimated 3,700 of the company’s 7,500 or so employees being laid off by new owner Elon Musk this week. Others offered telling pop culture […]

Indie distributor Utopia, currently in theaters with Holy Spider, anticipates music documentary Meet Me In The Bathroom will be its biggest weekend opening to date. It’s holding onto numbers for Sunday from one-night premieres this past week in LA at the Fonda and in NY at Webster Hall with live performances by The Moldy Peaches, […]

Rebecca Godfrey, the author whose best-selling true-crime book Under the Bridge was ordered to series by Hulu just more than a month ago, has died of lung cancer at a New York City hospital. She was 54. Her passing on Oct. 3 is just now being widely reported. Godfrey’s death was confirmed by agent Christy […]

It’s sunset for HBO-Bad Robot’s Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy created series Westworld, the pay-cabler announced this afternoon. The show ended its fourth season on Aug. 14. The series, an adaptation of the 1973 Michael Crichton directed and written film, boasted nine Primetime Emmy wins during its run and 54 noms, as well as a […]

UPDATED, with additional details of network decision: NBC News retracted a report on Today that aired on Friday about Paul Pelosi, explaining that it did not meet the network’s journalistic standards. “The piece should not have aired because it did not meet NBC News reporting standards,” the network said in a statement that was posted […]

EXCLUSIVE: Vincent Maraval and Kim Fox’s banner The Veterans has launched international sales at the AFM on horror reboot Return To Silent Hill. CAA Media Finance is repping domestic. Filmmaker Christophe Gans and producer-distributor Victor Hadida of French indie major Metropolitan are back for the next movie in the franchise, which we hear is already […]

This week’s guest is Zoe Saldana. Since her “grueling” early years fighting to make it as a prima ballerina, Saldana says she has always pushed back against “being outcast and isolated because I was different.” From her mom who imbued her with self-belief and refused to let her and her sisters have posters of men […]

EXCLUSIVE: Singer and actress Sabrina Carpenter (Tall Girl 2) is set to star in Nicholl Fellowship winner Into The Deep Blue. Carpenter will play Fiona, a young woman dealing with the loss of her mother, anxiety and a complicated relationship with her best friend, Nick, whom she met in grief therapy. The script, from writer […]

They say the third time’s the charm, but it remains to be seen if that is the case for Kyrie Irving. After making two less-than-contrite statements in the past week about the impact of posting a link to a movie that espouses disproven anti-Semitic tropes, Brooklyn Nets superstar point guard Kyrie Irving finally used the […]

Disney Branded Television has promoted Alyssa Sapire to SVP, Development, Series and Strategy at Disney Junior. Sapire has been acting in the role since March, succeeding Joe D’Ambrosia who left to join Sony Pictures TV. The promotion has now been made permanent. In the top programming post, Sapire serves as the creative lead for Disney […]

EXCLUSIVE: Corey Fogelmanis (Ma) has been tapped to lead the drama I Wish You All the Best, based on Mason Deaver’s bestselling 2019 novel of the same name, which Tommy Dorfman will write, direct and produce for ACE Entertainment.  Others set for Dorfman’s first feature, which had previously cast The White Lotus‘ Alexandra Daddario, include […]

EXCLUSIVE: Petey Gibson (Broad City), Fivel Stewart (Atypical) and Bre Blair (Game of Silence) are set for major recurring roles opposite Scott Caan and Dania Ramirez in Alert, Fox’s character-driven police procedural from The Blacklist showrunner John Eisendrath and Jamie Foxx.  Written by Eisendrath, Alert is a procedural drama about the Philadelphia Police Department’s Missing Person’s Unit (MPU).  […]

EXCLUSIVE: Good Girls creator Jenna Bans has sold two more hourlong projects to NBC this development season. The network has handed a put pilot commitment to Grosse Pointe Garden Society from Bans and her frequent collaborator and former Good Girls executive producer Bill Krebs, and a script commitment to Point Nemo from Heather Mitchell (Scandal, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Jack Bannon has signed with Verve for representation. Best known for the title role of Alfred Pennyworth in the HBO Max series Pennyworth which had its season three premiere on the streamer last month. The fan-favorite series tells the origin story of Batman’s butler Alfred Pennyworth and is set well before the caped crusader […]

CAA has promoted five graduates of its CAA Elevate training program: Justin Corporan-Browning, Allison Lin, PJ Picon, Tiziana Vazquez and Sophie Wiener.  Corporan-Browning has been promoted to Agent in the Motion Picture Literary department, led by Dan Rabinow and Ida Ziniti, with Lin to serve as Strategic Communications Manager in the company’s Corporate Communications department.  […]

As Twitter employees face mass layoffs starting today, a group of them has sued new overlord Elon Musk for not giving proper termination notice under federal and California law. The suit — read it here — comes as the platform has seen “a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers,” Musk said. […]

Douglas McGrath, the director and writer whose work spanned film, stage and television and earned him a Tony nomination for Beautiful: The Carole King Musical and an Oscar nomination for the Bullets Over Broadway screenplay he co-authored with Woody Allen, died suddenly yesterday in New York City. He was 64. Hollywood & Media Deaths In […]

Paramount Pictures has made two more major tweaks to its release schedule, moving the next film in its Scream franchise up from March 31 to March 10, 2023 while pushing back the starry Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves from March 3 to March 31, 2023. Both titles will open in theaters nationwide. The studio […]

Taylor Swift has added eight concerts to her 2023 U.S. tour, including additional performances in Los Angeles and the New York City area. On Instagram today, Swift wrote, “Looks like I’ll get to see more of your beautiful faces than previously expected… we’re adding 8 shows to the tour.” The eight shows represent additional performances […]

Guy Ritchie To Receive Honorary Award At Red Sea Film FestivalGuy Ritchie is to receive an Honorary Award at this year’s Red Sea Film Festival. During the Festival (Dec 1—10), Ritchie will also take part in an ‘In Conversation’ event where he will talk through his cinematic career. Mohammed Al Turki, CEO of the RedSeaIFF, […]

Mehmet Oz, running for Senate in Pennsylvania, got a big boost in his TV career from Oprah Winfrey. But she’s not lending that support to his political ambitions. Winfrey said that if she lived in Pennsylvania, she would support his rival, John Fetterman. Weighing in with just days left before the midterms, Winfrey said that […]

The U.S. economy added a still-robust 261,000 jobs in October and the unemployment rate ticked up to 3.7%, giving a final snapshot of the market before the midterm elections. The number of jobs added was nearly same same as in September, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics noted that the unemployment rate has remained steady […]

Controversial plans to privatize Channel 4 are set to be dropped as British PM Rishi Sunak reassesses campaign and policy pledges made by his past two predecessors and gears up to set his own legislative agenda, according to new reports. Sunak’s office has signaled his decision to scrap the sale of Channel 4 to industry […]

The clocks have gone back in the UK, meaning longer, darker nights and the sense summer is long gone. Happily, there’s plenty of news to keep us occupied. Jesse Whittock here taking you through the first Insider of the month. Let’s go. Roku Gets Down With Weird Al Eilenberg! Right ahead!: I sat down, albeit […]