Новости за 10.04.2024

EXCLUSIVE: Lumanity Productions announced that a feature film adaptation deal has been inked with Christine Mangan for her novel The Continental Affair.   This adds to Mangan’s previously optioned debut novel Tangerine originally signed by Imperative Entertainment for producers George Clooney and Grant Heslov at Smokehouse with Scarlett Johansson attached to star.  With an eye towards […]

On Monday, some sharp-eyed members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences were surprised by a small but perhaps significant twist in an invitation to recommend recipients for the next round of honorary Oscars. That is, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, historically given to those whose “humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the […]

“Disney had enough” In a filing last night to dismiss Gina Carano’s wrongful discharge and sex discrimination lawsuit over being fired from The Mandalorian, the Mouse House states that the former MMA-fighter lost her Star Wars job in 2021 because she decided “to publicly trivialize the Holocaust by comparing criticism of political conservatives to the […]

Jeopardy! Masters is back for its second annual tournament on ABC beginning May 1. The six current highest-ranked Jeopardy! contestants will be featured in the primetime tournament, playing two action-packed games per hourlong episode. Ken Jennings returns as host, and the show will feature Jeopardy! Masters 2023 champion James Holzhauer, returning contestants Matt Amodio and […]

Warner Bros is getting back in business with The Color Purple director Blitz Bazawule, with the studio landing rights to the tentatively titled Black Samurai with Bazawule directing. He wrote the pic on spec and will also produce under his Inward Gaze banner. The story will follow Yasuke, an African warrior who served under Japanese […]

SFFILM on Wednesday unveiled the program slate of the Sloan Science in Cinema Initiative at the 67th San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs April 24–28. Presented in a partnership between the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and SFFILM, this year’s program includes three films and participation by Sloan fellows and grant recipients at events throughout […]

Former Netflix Head of Comedy Jane Wiseman is joining Jane Featherstone and Liz Murdoch‘s Sister entertainment group in a newly created position as Head of U.S. Television. Based in Los Angeles, Wiseman will report to Cindy Holland, Sister’s Global CEO, and will lead the company’s U.S. television business, specifically focused on development and production of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Daniella Pineda, Allison Robertson, Robert Morgan and Grant Harvey have joined the upcoming Amazon MGM Studios and Artists Equity feature The Accountant 2, the sequel to the 2016 thriller. Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, J.K. Simmons and Cynthia Addai-Robinson are reprising their roles, with Gavin O’Connor returning as director. Bill Dubuque penned the script. The […]

SAG-AFTRA is responding to calls for more safety protocols for working child actors following Investigation Discovery’s documentary Quiet on Set. The five-part series delved into the toxic work environments that many child actors faced working on some of the most popular kids’ television shows in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including allegations of abuse, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Norman Reedus is going to have a busy year. The second season of his TWD spinoff series The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol looks set to debut this summer. Then, early next year, Reedus’ Bigbaldhead Productions and Blackstone Publishing’s imprint will be putting out the first publication under the shingle. […]

Yes, this just happened — to big cheers. Producer Graham King showed up to close Lionsgate CinemaCon 2024 session in a big way with a very emotional first trailer to the movie which hits theaters on April 18, 2025. Antoine Fuqua is still directing the movie, but a first look clip was assembled. King said […]

Flamethrowers, judo chops, Anjelica Huston, a Keanu Reeves cameo and ballet dancing are just some of the things you’ll see when Lionsgate drops first trailer for Ballerina. Exhibs got to see that today at CinemaCon. “You’re childhood was taken from you,” Huston’s matriarch type tells Ana de Armas assassin, who is as fierce offstage as […]

Although Meghan McCain has expressed she didn’t like to talk about The View, the former co-host is once again invoking her time on the ABC talk show. On the latest episode of her podcast, McCain recalled a moment she yelled during a meeting of the show over the wealth gap. “I had an experience while […]

“I don’t buy into this thing that theatrical comedies aren’t a thing,” said Good Fortune director and star Aziz Ansari on presenting his Lionsgate movie Good Fortune today in what was the first look. He also hysterically teased Lionsgate Motion Picture Chair: “You’ve casted Henry Cavill in five films! Adam’s nickname for me is Henry […]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today set the date and timeline for the 97th annual Academy Awards. The envelope, please… The Oscars will be handed out Sunday, March 2 — a week earlier that this year’s March 10 show — and will return to the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood for a 24th […]

Lionsgate just showed off its recently added 2024 fall release, Alexandre Aja’s Never Let Go, a freaky tale about a mother, her fraternal twins who have never gone beyond their forested environs: Whenever they leave the cabin, they are bounded by rope as they venture into the scary woods. “It was a creepy environment that […]

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Brearton is stepping down from Amazon, 18 months after taking on a new role. Brearton has been VP, PVS Corporate Strategy, MGM+ and MGM Alternative Television since November 2022. Brearton initially joined MGM as Chief Operating Officer in February 2018. He spent four years in that role before taking on a broader role […]

“If you thought you’d seen me do sword work before, you haven’t seen anything yet” Such were Henry Cavill’s promises about the new Higherlander movie he’s doing with Lionsgate and John Wick director Chad Stahelski. The star showed up at stuido’s 2024 CinemaCon sessions today. But there was more. The actor’s new movie with Jake […]

Curb Your Enthusiasm ended on a high note. The series finale delivered 1.1M viewers across HBO and Max on Sunday night, according to Warner Bros. Discovery. That’s the best audience of the season and, in fact, it’s the largest audience the series has seen since the Season 10 finale, which drew 1.4M viewers. Audiences seem […]

BravoCon is set to return to Las Vegas in 2025 at the Caesars Forum on Nov. 14-16. The fan convention for Bravoholics is taking a year off and returning in 2025 following BravoCon 2023, which saw 27,000 fans and more than 160 Bravolebrities coming together in Sin City. To hold fans over until 2025, the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has rounded out the cast for its romantic comedy The Life List, based on the 2013 novel by Lori Nelson Spielman. Newcomers include José Zúñiga (Griselda), Jordi Mollà (Aggro Dr1ft), Dario Ladani Sanchez (Dear Edward), Federico Rodriguez (American Rust), Marianne Rendon (In the Dark), Michael Rowland (Animal Control), Chelsea Frei (Poker Face), Luca […]

EXCLUSIVE: Noah Centineo, Taylor John Smith, Adain Bradley, Michael Gandolfini, Henrique Zaga and Evan Holtzman have joined the ensemble cast of A24’s Warfare from Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland. They join Charles Melton,’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Joseph Quinn, Kit Connor, Cosmo Jarvis, Will Poulter and Finn Bennett. Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza is co-directing. The project is […]

Lionsgate and Hasbro have entered into a deal with Barbie producer LuckyChap to shepherd development and produce Monopoly, a feature based on the classic board game. The project is currently in development and Hasbro Entertainment will also produce. The news landed during Lionsgate’s presentation at CinemaCon this morning in Las Vegas. Lionsgate extended its development […]

Following their collaboration on horror pic Imaginary, Lionsgate and Blumhouse are partnering again, this time to develop and produce a brand new take on The Blair Witch Project. This will be the first film in a multi-picture pact with Blumhouse reimagining horror classics from the Lionsgate library. The announcement was made by Adam Fogelson, chair, […]

EXCLUSIVE: In celebration of its 10th anniversary, Bleecker Street has unveiled a reel showcasing both where the company has been and where it’s headed, unveiling never-before-seen footage from numerous upcoming titles. Titles nearest on the horizon that are teased include Nathan and David Zellner’s acclaimed Sundance pic Sasquatch Sunset, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough, […]