Новости за 26.03.2024

K-pop music purveyors HYBE today announced an expanded long-term agreement with Universal Music Group (UMG), providing them exclusive distribution rights across HYBE music for the next 10 years. HYBE is the home of BTS, Jungkook, and dozens of other K-pop acts. Under the partnership, UMG will further collaborate with HYBE’s global superfan platform Weverse, bringing […]

Netflix on Tuesday morning unveiled the cast set for Fear Street: Prom Queen, the latest film in its Fear Street horror franchise, based on the book series from R.L. Stine. The list includes India Fowler (The Nevers), Suzanna Son (Red Rocket), Fina Strazza (Paper Girls), David Iacono (The Summer I Turned Pretty), Ella Rubin (The […]

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s hit conspiracy thriller The Night Agent has added three for guest roles in Season 2: Marwan Kenzari (Black Adam), Elise Kibler (The Sunlit Night), and Dikran Tulaine (The Blacklist). Kenzari plays Reza, a decorated soldier court marshalled for another man’s crime, who’s been given the opportunity to be a night agent. Fiercely intelligent, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is rounding out its cast for The Lincoln Lawyer Season 3 with Michael Irby (Mayans M.C., Barry), Maisie Klompus (Good Trouble) and Wolé Parks (Superman and Lois) in recurring roles. Additionally, Jon Tenney (And Just Like That…) returns to the series as Mickey Haller, Sr. They join returning stars Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Mickey […]

In what is no surprise, Warner Bros Motion Picture Group is getting into business with its Dune and Wonka star Timothée Chalamet, and has hammered a multi-year first look feature film deal with the Oscar nominee as actor and producer. Between the Dune movies and Wonka, Chalamet’s recent pics with the Burbank, CA lot have […]

EXCLUSIVE: Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen is moving home. The Fox hit, which turns 20 next year, has been handed a renewal for seasons 23 and 24 and a rejig with a move to a fresh studio in Connecticut. The new seasons will be filmed in the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, where one of […]

The View moderator Whoopi Goldberg abruptly stopped the panel’s Hot Topics discussion today to scold an audience member apparently recording the proceedings with a cellphone. Getting up from her seat and walking to the side of the stage area, Goldberg sternly said, “Sir, sir “Hold on a second. Sir, I have to stop you with […]

UTA has hired veteran tech and media exec Eric Iverson as its Chief Technology Officer. Iverson is joining the company from Amazon MGM Studios, where he headed up product and artificial intelligence initiatives. Previously, he had exec stints at CAA and Sony Pictures Entertainment. At UTA, Iverson will spearhead UTA’s global IT strategy “at a […]

The boss of GB News has criticized Ofcom for being too slow with its investigations. The UK regulator is in various stages of more than a dozen GB News probes and rapped the network over five breaches of its code last week in what was its biggest finding since GB’s launch. But CEO Angelos Frangopolous […]

EXCLUSIVE: Cohen Media Group’s well-received Cannes, TIFF and NYFF 2023 drama Kidnapped: The Abduction Of Edgardo Mortara is set to be released stateside on May 24. The latest from respected Italian filmmaker Belloccio debuted in Competition at Cannes. It reconstructs the true story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy who was kidnapped by the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Zakhar Perez, the breakout star of Amazon’s hit rom-com Red, White & Royal Blue, has signed with Paradigm for representation. In the film from director Matthew Lopez, which adapts the New York Times bestselling novel from Casey McQuiston, Perez plays Alex Claremont-Diaz, son of the American President (Uma Thurman), whose feud with a […]

Morgan Neville is an Oscar, Emmy, and Grammy winning documentarian who has a knack for going deep inside the worlds of various entertainment and media figures in memorable films like the Academy Award winner 20 Feet From Stardom about backup singers; Won’t You Be My Neighbor about Fred Rogers; The Best Of Enemies focused on […]

Max has given a 15-episode, straight-to-series order to drama The Pitt, starring and executive produced by Noah Wyle (ER, The Librarians). R. Scott Gemmill (NCIS: Los Angeles, ER) will serve as showrunner of the series, from John Wells Productions and Warner Bros. Television.  The project marks a reunion for Wyle, Gemmill and Wells, who all […]

EXCLUSIVE: Nacelle has struck a deal to acquire Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters, a new doc on the creator of the Hellboy comics, from filmmakers Kevin Konrad Hanna and Jim Demonakos. Specifics as to the release plan haven’t been disclosed. Pic tells the story of Mignola — one of the most successful independent comic book creators, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has set Steve Kloves to adapt Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 421. The T.J. Newman bestseller that will be directed by Paul Greengrass. The director initially expected to write the script himself, but then signed on to direct The Lost Bus with Matthew McConaughey and Jamie Lee Curtis for Blumhouse, with script by Mare of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Tyla Abercrumbie (The Chi) and Diany Rodriguez (The Blacklist) round out the series regular cast of NCIS: Origins, CBS’ prequel to the venerable procedural, which has a straight-to-series order for the 2024-2025 broadcast season. In the CBS Studios-produced series, they join previously cast stars Austin Stowell, Mariel Molino and Kyle Schmid. Executive produced and […]

MGM+ has greenlit an adaptation of Earth Abides, a new take on George R. Stewart’s sci-fi novel of the same name. The six-episode limited series will star Alexander Ludwig (Vikings) as Ish; production will begin in Vancouver on April 8. Earth Abides is slated to premiere on MGM+ in late 2024. When a plague of unprecedented virulence sweeps the […]

Disney announced on Tuesday that its new documentary The Beach Boys, on the iconic California band of the same name, will begin streaming on Disney+ on May 24. Directed by Frank Marshall and Thom Zimny, the film is described as a celebration of the band that revolutionized pop music, and the iconic, harmonious sound they […]

Universal International Studios has jumped back into the UK books market for another TV development. In another “highly competitive situation,” the Universal Studio Group subsidiary has acquired rights to develop British author Christie Watson’s novel Moral Injuries as a television series. Parent USG was instrumental in securing the rights, just as it was when UIS […]

EXCLUSIVE: Amy Poehler’s Paper Kite Productions is behind podcasts including Say More with Dr? Sheila and The Chris Chatman Do-Over. The company, via its Paper Kite Podcasts banner, is now growing this as it expands its relationship with Audacy Podcasts. This includes Million Dollar Advice, hosted by Kim Lessing and Kate Arend, Paper Kite’s co-heads […]

The Sundance Institute is partnering with Choose Chicago and the Chicago Film Office on Sundance Institute x Chicago, a new event to kick off in the Windy City this summer. Viewed as an opportunity to highlight Chicago’s cultural scene and bolster its status as a filmmaking hub, while sharing information from the Institute’s artist development […]

EXCLUSIVE: Bryan Cranston is adding a little vocal help to historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s next book. Kearns Goodwin is releasing An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s on April 16 and the Breaking Bad star is providing some narration for the audiobook version. Cranston will read the letters that Doris’s late husband […]

Downton Abbey and The Gilded Age writer Julian Fellowes has written a heartfelt salute to his friend and colleague, the producer Ileen Maisel, who died in London on February 16 aged 68. Ileen Maisel was born in Los Angeles, California, where she was raised. In fact, her father had moved there from Alabama to work […]

Another day, another deal. IATSE Local 695 has officially reached a tentative agreement with the studios. Leadership from the Local 695 — which represents technicians across production sound, video assist, video engineering and studio projection — informed members of the deal in an email on Monday night. According to leadership, their proposal included discussions of […]

ReachTV, the largest streaming television network for travelers, is adding two major executives to the company. Former Facebook and Loop Media executive Bob Gruters will take over as ReachTV’s first ever President while former Warner Bros Discovery executive Andrew Eisner will become Executive Vice President, Sales & Partnerships. As President, Gruters will oversee all divisions of ReachTV and report directly […]