Новости за 05.01.2024

Shareholders of Disney and Apple will be given the chance to vote on proposals regarding the use of artificial intelligence, the Securities and Exchange Commission has determined. As first reported by Reuters, the SEC issued notices on Wednesday saying the companies could not exclude proposals calling for an assessment of their use of AI. Neither […]

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has exclusive first look photos for Pink Flags, an indie thriller starring married actors Raye Levine Spielberg & Sawyer Spielberg (Merry Good Enough), which is currently finishing up post. Written and directed by Misha Calvert, the film follows figure skater Liberty (Levine Spielberg) as she is stalked, or so she thinks, by a […]

Christian Oliver, (real name Christian Klepser), who starred in films including Speed Racer and Valkyrie among others, was killed Thursday along with his two young daughters when their small plane crashed into the sea off a Caribbean island. The owner and pilot of the plane, identified as Robert Sachs, also died in the crash. Oliver […]

Francesca Sloane is being refreshingly candid about her upcoming Amazon series reboot of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. In an open letter, the co-creator and showrunner, Sloane admitted that when Donald Glover, who co-created and stars in the series, first asked her if she wanted to make the show, she thought he was “kidding around”. “Based […]

Sundance Institute announced the addition of the documentary The Greatest Night in Pop to the 2024 Sundance Film Festival film program and the lineup for the Festival’s Beyond Film programming.  In addition to the three annual series — Power of Story, Cinema Café presented by Audible, and The Big Conversation — this year’s lineup also […]

EXCLUSIVE: It’s quite the start to 2024 for Taylor Tomlinson. Weeks after the premiere of After Midnight, the CBS late-night game show that she landed, the comedian will also have her third special air on Netflix. The streamer will air Have It All on February 13. Tomlinson has previously recorded two specials for Netflix; Quarter-Life […]

There’s always been a demand for horror in the New Year, and Universal, Blumhouse and Atomic Monster are meeting that this weekend with Night Swim which made $1.45M in previews at 2,750 theaters from showtimes that began at 5PM. The PG-13 horror movie aimed at 17-34 year olds isn’t expected to be M3GAN, the early […]

EXCLUSIVE: Terrifier 2 and 3 sales firm The Coven is making its first foray into production with exorcist horror Shadow Of God, which quietly wrapped principal photography in Calgary, Canada, last month. The film follows an elite exorcist who suspects that he might be battling a holy entity with the ability to change the present […]

EXCLUSIVE: Visit Films has sold doc Mom & Dad’s Nipple Factory to Kino Lorber for the United States. The film tells the story of the Johnson family and focuses on Randi, Justin’s mother, after she is diagnosed with breast cancer and her husband Brian, a conservative Midwest family man, who embarks on a journey to […]

Xumo & Euro Nets Cling To ‘Silverback’ Streaming service Xumo and a trio of European public broadcasters – ORF in Austria, UR in Sweden, and YLE in Finland – have bought the upcoming feature doc Silverback from Off the Fence. The doc, about Congo’s critically endangered eastern lowland gorillas and from My Octopus Teacher producer […]

Disney+ is not proceeding with a second season of Disney Branded Television/20th Television’s action fantasy series American Born Chinese, which stars Oscar winners Ke Huy Quan and Michelle Yeoh. The decision comes more than seven months after the eight-episode first season was released May 24. It also comes after the options on the cast expired […]

David Soul, who was best known for playing Detective Kenneth “Hutch” Hutchinson in the hugely popular 1970s Starsky & Hutch TV series. He was 80. In a statement to press, Soul’s wife Helen Snell said he died on Thursday “after a valiant battle for life in the loving company of family.” “He shared many extraordinary […]

Avant-garde composer-performer Laurie Anderson, R&B icon Gladys Knight, groundbreaking rap group N.W.A, disco queen Donna Summer and country legend Tammy Wynette are among this year’s Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award honorees, the academy announced today. Also included on the list: gospel vocal group The Clark Sisters and, in the non-performing categories, Peter Asher, the longtime, […]

The U.S. economy added 216,000 jobs in December, slightly higher than expected, while the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.7%. The latest figures confirm a surprisingly robust job market despite predictions of a recession last year. Previous month figures, in November and October, were revised down by a total of 71,000 jobs, but they still […]

Happy New Year, everybody. Jesse Whittock with you for the first Insider of 2024, as we look forward to bringing you the biggest stories throughout the year. Read on, and please and sign up here to get the newsletter delivered to your inbox every week. 10 Stories To Track In 2024 What to follow: This year is […]

The BAFTA Film Awards have unveiled this year’s longlists for 24 categories, and in the lead are Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, and Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon. Scroll down for the lists in full. The heavyweight trio is tied with 15 longlist nods apiece. All three films pop up in best […]

Derek Draper, the husband of British broadcaster Kate Garraway and the subject of ITV’s Finding Derek documentary, has died aged 56. Garraway posted the news on her Instagram this morning, announcing that her husband had been “critically ill following a cardiac arrest in early December which, because of the damage inflicted by Covid in March […]

EXCLUSIVE: Meta, parent company of Facebook, is closing its Frank Gehry-designed London base, Deadline has learned. It will further reduce the number of offices it occupies in London, where the tech giant has its largest staff presence outside of the U.S. The news Meta is shuttering its sizable HQ at One Rathbone Square, in the […]

The BBC has received almost 900 complaints about a documentary that follows King Charles III in his first year on the throne. The corporation revealed in its fortnightly complaints report that Charles III: The Coronation Year was the subject of 897 complaints from people who felt it showed “bias in favor of the monarchy.” The […]

An ad for climate change programing in which politicians and business leaders were shown with a ‘carbon skid mark,’ which attracted the ire of Conservative lawmakers, was Channel 4’s most-complained-about content of 2023. Releasing its complaints list for the first time, which is separate from regulator Ofcom’s annual breakdown, the Channel 4 Change Climate Season […]

Taiwan’s government has suspended its Taiwan International Co-funding Program (TICP) in a move that appears to signal a change in direction towards more mainstream projects.  The decision has prompted concern among Taiwan’s production community, as the fund was being accessed to set up a wide range of international co-production projects, many of which have secured […]

Port Charles is about to welcome back an old friend. After recently revealing that he’s leaving his one-year gig on Days of Our Lives, Steve Burton is now headed back to General Hospital. He will reprise his role as Jason Morgan in early 2024. The news was revealed at the end of GH‘s 60th Anniversary […]

Don’t X him out of the picture just yet. In a new interview with Happy Sad Confused host Josh Horowitz, Stewart hinted that Professor X is “still around,” and he has “every confidence” in that fact. The good Professor has been killed off a few times in the Marvel films, but always seems to return […]

Shaquille O’Neal is proving you can go home again. The TNT Inside the NBA analyst left the Orlando Magic following the 1995-1996 season. He was the team’s No. 1 pick in 1992, and teamed with Penny Hardaway, helped take the team to an NBA Finals appearance in 1995. But O’Neal’s exit for the Los Angeles […]

Indonesia’s cinema admissions grew by 14.5% year-on-year to reach 114.5 million in 2023, compared to 100 million the previous year, according to local box office analyst Bicara Box Office. That figure puts the market around 24% below the pre-pandemic figure of 152 million admissions in 2019.  Despite having a slow start to the year, local […]