Новости за 18.04.2024

My guest this week is Rebecca Ferguson. She recently reprised her role of Lady Jessica with Dune: Part Two, and plays the lead role in Silo, Apple TV+’s dystopian series about a community gone underground following an apocalyptic event. Ferguson stars as Juliette, an engineer-reluctantly-turned-sheriff, who uncovers alarming secrets while investigating a mysterious death. Here, […]

Netflix said today it will stop reporting quarterly subscriber numbers starting in 2025, a huge change for the giant streamer whose stock tends to get buffeted up or down (mostly up lately) by those numbers. In a letter to shareholders along with first-quarter earnings, the company said it’s now focused on other metrics and that […]

Netflix added 9.3 million subscribers in the quarter ended March 31, reaching 269.6 million worldwide, and outperformed expectations in other key areas in its latest strong financial report. Revenue and earnings per share both handily exceeded Wall Street forecasts at $9.37 billion and $5.28, respectively. In its quarterly letter to shareholders, Netflix said it planned […]

The Directors Guild of America said Thursday that it will hold its 77th annual DGA Awards on February 8, 2025 at the Beverly Hilton. The awards’ timeline, which includes voting schedules, key deadlines and a nominations date, are still in the works. The 2025 film awards season is taking shape after the Academy of Motion […]

NCIS: Origins has added Daniel Bellomy (Power Book II: Ghost), Caleb Martin Foote (Made For Love) and Robert Taylor (Longmire) in recurring roles. The CBS prequel to the venerable procedural has a straight-to-series order for the 2024-2025 broadcast season. Executive produced and narrated by Mark Harmon, Origins begins in 1991, years before the events of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Film Movement has acquired U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to the acclaimed documentary Obsessed with Light, which explores the influence of one of the most remarkable figures in American arts – dancer-choreographer Loïe Fuller. Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum directed the film, which premiered at the 2023 Rome Film Festival and has screened at […]

Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham) is pushing forward with Christmas Karma, a contemporary Bollywood musical set in London and inspired by Charles Dickens’ seminal A Christmas Carol, with Kunal Nayyar (The Big Bang Theory) signed on to lead an ensemble cast.  Nayyar will star as Scrooge in pic alongside an expansive cast, including Eva […]

EXCLUSIVE: NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), the Black List, the Redford Center, and the CAA Foundation today announced the recipients of the 2024 NRDC Climate Storytelling Fellowship and the Hollywood creatives who will mentor them. Along with new partner NBCUniversal, the organizations also announced the opening of the submission window for the 2025 cycle of […]

EXCLUSIVE: ABC Signature has acquired The Redemption of Al Sharpton, the recent Esquire profile of the civil rights activist by Pulitzer Prize winner Mitchell S. Jackson, to develop as a limited series. No talent is attached at this point but the intention is for Anthony Anderson to star as Sharpton and executive produce. Artists First’s […]

The dual Hollywood strikes are history, but production has been slow to return in Los Angeles, especially for television projects. The city and county’s film office said today that local on-location filming declined by 8.7% the first quarter, recording only 6,823 shoot days from January through March. The quarterly report from FilmLA (read it here) […]

EXCLUSIVE: Violett Beane and newcomer Jacob Robinson have joined the cast of Christopher Landon’s Drop for Platinum Dunes and Blumhouse. The duo will star alongside previously announced Meghann Fahy and Brandon Sklenar. The film’s logline is being kept under wraps at this time but is said to be a fast-paced thriller. Drop is written by Jillian Jacobs […]

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew DeYoung has been tapped to direct and executive produce HBO’s half-hour comedy pilot The Chair Company, starring Tim Robinson. The project hails from Robinson and his writing partner Zach Kanin, and is executive produced by Adam McKay and Todd Schulman for McKay’s Hyperobject Industries. In The Chair Company, written and executive produced by Robinson […]

FX’s pilot The Sensitive Kind from creator Sterlin Harjo (Reservation Dogs) has added five to its cast: Killer Mike (Ozark), Kaniehtiio “Tiio” Horn (Reservation Dogs), Cody Lightning (Echo), Michael Hitchcock (Grand Death Lotto) and Ryan Kiera Armstrong (Star Wars: Skeleton Crew). Details as to the roles these actors will play are under wraps. Also written, […]

A new face is about to pop up in Manhattan, Kansas: Olafur Darri Ólafsson is joining the season 3 cast of Somebody Somewhere on HBO. Ólafsson will recur as Iceland, the new renter of Sam’s (Bridget Everett) family farm. Production on the seven-episode season recently wrapped in Chicagoland. From Mighty Mint, Duplass Brothers Productions, and executive […]

British special effects artist Roger Dicken, best known for his work on Ridley Scott’s Alien and the 1970s sci-fi thriller When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth has died. He was 84.  Dicken died on February 18 at his home in North Wales. His career began in the mid-60s when he accepted a freelance effects role on […]

IFC Films announced that Ghostlight, acquired by the studio out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival where it made its world premiere, will open in New York City and Chicago on Friday, June 14, 2024 before expanding nationwide the following week.  The film is co-directed by Chicagoans Alex Thompson and Kelly O’Sullivan and written by […]

The 2024 Cannes Classics sidebar will open with a restored version of French filmmaker Abel Gance’s silent epic Napolean.  A major work of the silent era, Napolean has taken sixteen years to restore. The festival said today that “various sources were used to rediscover the original storyline” of the seven-hour feature, with reels found at […]

CBS has renewed the freshman series Elsbeth for the 2024-2025 season. In Deadline’s latest Renewal Status Report released on Wednesday, Co-Editor-in-Chief Nellie Andreeva projected Elsbeth would be renewed for a second season. This leaves The Equalizer, NCIS: Hawai’i, So Help Me Todd and CSI: Vegas pending renewal/cancellation news. Across broadcast and streaming, Elsbeth is netting nearly 11M […]

EXCLUSIVE: With the kids podcast market booming, Starglow Media and Atomic Entertainment are launching a new scripted show. The two companies are launching Mysteries About True Histories. The weekly scripted audio series follows Max and Molly, two best friends who work together to solve riddles and math equations during their time-traveling adventures. In each episode, […]

Universal has struggled to in recent years to bring back its classic horror franchises like Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolfman, The Mummy, etc., attempts that were perhaps too literal. But thanks to the filmmaking collective known as Radio Silence they have, with Abigail, perhaps stumbled onto a way to keep the party going. In this case […]

In one of his first big moves as chairman of NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, Luis Fernandez has restructured Telemundo Studios, promoting Ronald Day and installing veteran exec Javier Pons in a key role. Day has been upped to President, Entertainment and Chief Content Officer and will continue to report to Fernandez. Pons, who has decades of […]

Joe Biden was joined by members of the Kennedy family in Philadelphia today to promote their endorsement of the president, a conspicuous rebuke of the independent bid of Robert Kennedy Jr. Kerry Kennedy, RFK Jr.’s sister, introduced Biden at the event, noting that “nearly every grandchild of Joe and Rose Kennedy supports Joe Biden. That’s […]

Along with the shift of animated movie Transformers One by one week in September this year, Paramount pushed the Aang Avatar animated movie from Oct. 10, 2025 to Jan. 30, 2026. The Lauren Montgomery directed animated film stars the voice of Dave Bautista (this was made official at CinemaCon last week), Eric Nam, Dionne Quan, Jessica Matten […]

Just days after President Joe Biden decried the wage disparity between female and male athletes, Whoopi Goldberg said on ABC’s The View that ESPN should “sweeten” its deal for the broadcast rights of WNBA games. After pointing out the Clark will make an initial annual salary of $76,535 as a player for the Indiana Fever, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Peacock is staging the world’s first wildlife reality competition show. The streamer has ordered The Hungry Games: Alaska’s Big Bear Challenge, a three-part series narrated by Flight of the Conchords star Rhys Darby. The series, which is a co-production with Canada’s Love Nature, follows the bears of Alaska’s Katmai National Park as they bulk […]