Новости за 15.12.2022

EXCLUSIVE: Till‘s Jalyn Hall will play another important Black American historical figure after booking a guest-starring role playing the young Martin Luther King Jr in Genius: MLK/X, the upcoming fourth installment in the Disney+/National Geographic anthology series. Kelvin Harrison Jr. (The Trial of the Chicago 7) plays the adult Martin Luther King Jr in the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Riot Games, the developer and publisher behind League of Legends and the breakout animated series Arcane, has appointed former Disney exec Cristina Fiumara as its first-ever Global Head of Animation Content Development for Film & TV. Fiumara comes to Riot after serving as VP of Streaming Content at Walt Disney Animation Studios. In her […]

Disgruntled angels are coming to Hulu. The streamer has ordered Standing By, a satirical look into the lives of a group of eternally bound, irritated guardian angels and the lessons they’ll eventually learn from not only the dysfunctional humans they’re in charge of protecting, but also each other.   The animated series is from 20th TV […]

EXCLUSIVE: A year ago, Yellowjackets got an early Season 2 renewal five episodes into its freshman run. The Showtime series delivered on the vote of confidence with seven Emmy nominations and over 5 million weekly viewers, and now it’s getting an ever earlier Season 3 renewal. More than three months ahead of Yellowjackets’ March 26 […]

EXCLUSIVE: Black Adam breakout Sarah Shahi is set to executive produce and star in the Christmas film The Hollys with 17 Again helmer Burr Steers attached to direct. The film, co-written by Floriana Lima, Yolanda Pecoraro, and Ilaria Urbinati, will be produced by Denise Di Novi and Margaret French Isaac of Di Novi Pictures.  The package is just […]

ABC is taking a ride with the Hospital Urgent Response Team. The network has ordered a pilot for medical drama The Hurt Unit. The project comes from Promised Land creator Matt Lopez and former SEAL Team showrunner John Glenn with The Amazing Spider-Man and (500) Days of Summer director Marc Webb helming the pilot. The Hurt […]

EXCLUSIVE: A Black Lady Sketch Show‘s Bridget Stokes and Robin Thede are reteaming on Killing it — a zombie horror-comedy that Stokes will direct for Amazon Studios, from a script by Thede. The upcoming film sees four best friends attempt to redeem their college reputations by traveling to the SpelHouse homecoming. Their quest for vindication […]

EXCLUSIVE: Talent management firm One Entertainment is joining forces with Talent Management and Production Company Circle of Confusion. The two will merge under Circle’s banner. One Entertainment heads Heather Reynolds and Anthony Aiello will join Circle of Confusion as Managers based in the company’s NY office, bolstering the former’s footprint there. One Entertainment has made […]

Media and entertainment stocks led by Netflix were among big losers Thursday as economic data and the latest Fed move has investors panicking about an imminent recession. Netflix in particular — off nearly 10% — was knocked by a report that its ad-supported tier is having a tough debut. The DJIA is currently down 910 […]

EXCLUSIVE: Perfectman Pictures, the production company founded by creator, showrunner and producer Alexi Hawley, is expanding with the hire of Rachel Abarbanell as Senior Vice President and a new project in development at ABC. Hawley’s latest series is an untitled legal drama, hailing from Natalie Callaghan — the fourth born of out the former TV […]

It’s been nearly five decades since the publication of Octavia E. Butler’s critically acclaimed Black sci-fi novel Kindred. In an interview with Publisher’s Weekly, Butler explained that she wanted to write a thought-provoking novel “that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that Black people have had to live through in order […]

AARP is out with the nominees for its 21st annual Movies for Grownups Awards for the best films, TV and filmmakers of 2022. Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans leads with the way with six noms, followed by fellow awards-season favorites Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Woman King are next with five each, and Tár […]

Trevor Noah will return to host the Grammy Awards for his third consecutive year. Noah will serve as master of ceremonies for the the 65th Annual Grammy Awards, set for Feb. 5 at Los Angeles’ Cryto.com arena. “I don’t think it’s normal to host it once, so I don’t have a great frame of reference for this,” […]

A trio of teens navigates relationships in contemporary Helsinki in Girl Picture, Finland’s entry for the Best International Feature Oscar. Directed by Alli Haapasalo (Love and Fury), it’s an engaging portrait of young women that’s as refreshing as it is entertaining. To call this a “Finnish Booksmart” would be doing its originality a disservice, but […]

Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk has unloaded another 22 million shares of his publicly-traded electric automaker Tesla, raising north of $3.5 billion. The move follows a sale in November of 19.5 million shares of Tesla and that company’s stockholders are growing increasingly restless and vocal about the founder and CEO’s commitment and highly public distractions […]

The official trailer for Spinning Gold has dropped and it explores the rise of Neil Bogart as the founder of Casablanca Records. Watch the preview in the video posted above. Donna Summer, Parliament, Gladys Knight, The Isley Brothers, The Village People, and Bill Withers all have one thing in common with the rock band KISS […]

Streaming bundle provider FuboTV said a widespread outage during Wednesday’s France-Morocco World Cup soccer match was caused by a “criminal cyber attack.” Service was fully restored by Wednesday evening, the company said, and law enforcement authorities were contacted along with a private security firm. Fubo expressed regret over the episode and said in a statement […]

EXCLUSIVE: Rising Italian actress Simona Tabasco, known for her breakout role in season 2 of HBO’s The White Lotus, has signed with WME for representation. Tabasco starred in The White Lotus as the tenacious and ambitious Sicilian local, Lucia, who frequents the hotel in search of both personal and professional opportunities amongst its clientele. Originally known […]

Hollywood’s seven major film studios all received bad grades in GLAAD’s latest report card on LGBTQ inclusivity. The group’s 10th annual Studio Responsibility Index report (read it here) found that the percentage of LGBTQ-inclusive films released by the major distributors decreased in 2021 from 2020, as did the percentage of LGBTQ women and characters of […]

The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the first titles selected for its Panorama section at the upcoming in-person edition that takes place February 16-26. (Scroll down for the full list) Among the highlights are Tina Satter’s debut feature Reality starring Euphoria and The White Lotus’ Sydney Sweeney and focusing on the arrest of the American […]

Prince Harry, during the second half of their Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan, has drawn a direct link between the Daily Mail’s reporting of his wife, Meghan Markle, and her 2020 miscarriage. At the top of episode 6, the last episode in the docuseries, the royal pair dedicate a significant portion to the Daily Mail’s […]

The Les Arcs Film Festival in the French Alps kicked off its 14th edition last weekend amid sub-zero temperatures and freshly laid snow, to run from December 10 to 17   Some 600 film professionals from across Europe headed to its four-day industry program, unfolding December 10 to 13, to check out project and work-in-progress […]

Netflix’s second tranche of episodes from its Harry and Meghan doc have dropped and the allegations keep on coming. Among the most explosive moments is when Prince Harry claims his brother Prince William screamed and shouted at him at a family crisis meeting at Sandringham in 2020. The meeting, to discuss Harry and Meghan’s plans […]

The semi-final World Cup match between France and Morocco on Wednesday night was watched by an average 20.7 million viewers on TF1 from 8pm French time. This is the network’s biggest audience since 2016, and is also the best for any program on any French channel in those six years. A peak of 23.3 million […]

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-nominated casting director Julie Harkin has partnered with casting director Nathan Toth to form Harkin & Toth Casting. The pair (pictured below) have worked together since 2017, having collaborated on projects including I May Destroy You (BBC/HBO), The Serpent Queen (Starz/Lionsgate), War of the Worlds (Fox/Disney+) and Half Bad: The Bastard Son & The […]