Новости за 20.05.2024

Swept Away, the musical with music and lyrics by roots rock band The Avett Brothers, will arrive on Broadway this fall following previous stagings at California’s Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Washington’s Arena Stage. Although the Broadway production will be at a Shubert theater, a venue and specific production dates are yet to be released. The […]

It seemed appropriate that the location for the annual Women in Motion dinner in Cannes should be at Place de la Castre, atop Suquet Hill where victors of yore could survey their domain. It was certainly the case that honored guest Dame Donna Langley had captured the castle. Cannes Film Festival president Iris Knobloch struck […]

CBS News announced the creation of a Medical, Health and Wellness unit, led by Senior Coordinating Producer Sara Kuzmarov. Leigh Ann Winick will be the lead producer and Sandra Temko will be producer. Adrienne Roark, president of content development and integration for CBS News and Stations, wrote in a memo, “There is no doubt that […]

The past year has seen Eva Longoria direct the Oscar nominated Flamin’ Hot, form the Banijay-backed Hyphenate Media Group with Cris Abrego, and be awarded $50 million for her advocacy and charity efforts by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. That’s along with the Desperate Housewives alum’s other day jobs on upcoming seasons of Hulu’s Only Murders […]

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Merchant has revealed that The Outlaws Season 3 could be the comedy crime thriller’s swansong. The creator of the BBC/Amazon hit said “never say never” on making more but “the problem at the moment is whenever I finish a project I feel a bit burned out and need to take some time away […]

Julian Assange is not yet being extradited to the U.S. The Wikileaks founder has in the past few minutes won the right to appeal against the extradition following a ruling by the UK’s High Court. Today was a big one in Assange’s ongoing legal battle and his wife Stella Assange told the BBC in the […]

French film finance, production and distribution group Logical Pictures is out in force in Cannes this year with connections to 11 films, including Competition titles Emilia Perez, Limonov and Parthenope. The company helped bankroll the Palme d’Or contenders through its three-year co-production and co-financing deal with French major Pathé, which was announced in early 2023 […]

Nadya Tolokonnikova, co-founder of the feminist protest art collective Pussy Riot, was in Berlin when news broke on February 16 of the sudden death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in an Arctic penal colony.  Two days later, she was protesting in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin alongside Pussy Riot co-member Lucy Shtein, his lawyer Lyubov Sobol and […]

Scandi podcast major PodX has bought the UK’s Platform Media in an eight-figure deal. The highly-acquisitive PodX said the move for a majority stake in Platform will be the UK podcast market’s “most significant deal ever by the time it completes in full.” The deal is also the Stockholm-based company’s largest, and is its third […]

As Horizon: An American Saga filmmaker Kevin Costner recently told Deadline that he’s on schedule to shell out $98 million for the first three movies in his Western series, and a fourth film will take him over the $100 million threshold. On Monday, the day after Horizon premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, the two-time […]

Ofcom has begun the procedure to issue GB News with a sanction following a “serious and repeated” breach of its code over a People’s Forum show in which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak took questions from a live audience. Ofcom has today said GB News once again failed to “preserve due impartiality,” a section of the […]

EXCLUSIVE: British filmmaker Marianna Dean has wrapped production on her latest pic Voidance starring James Cosmo (Highlander, Troy, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan), which we can share a first look from above.  The pic is currently in post-production and marks Dean’s second feature. Starring alongside Cosmo are Zoe Cunningham (Breaking Infinity), Neil Bishop (Beautiful Disaster, Beautiful […]

Demi Moore is officially back in The Substance or, as her co-star Dennis Quaid called it for her at the pic’s Cannes Film Festival press conference Monday, “an incredible third act” for the actress. “Man, it’s inspirational,” said Quaid who also praised the movie’s filmmaker Coralie Fargeat, framing the body horror pic that wowed at […]

When Lee Sung Jin’s limited series Beef wrapped production back in 2022, the cast and crew were so happy with the profound camaraderie they’d developed that they’ve attempted to meet for dinner at least once a week ever since — some irony for a story originally borne out of anger and resentment. Some time ago, […]

Filming Underway On New Alan Partridge BBC Series Filming is underway on new Alan Partridge mockumentary And Did Those Feet. Deadline revealed the BBC series several months back and cameras have rolled on the latest Steve Coogan conception. The mockumentary follows the beloved comedy creation settling into life back in his Norfolk home after a […]

What kind of Christmas movie do you get when your director’s inspirations are early-90s Nickelodeon live-action shows and 1960s European cinema? In Tyler Taormina’s case, the answer is Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point. The movie sees four generations of the Balsano family get together for what, it transpires, may be their last annual Christmas party. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has picked up UK and Irish rights to Bookworm, the latest film from Kiwi filmmaker Ant Timpson (Come to Daddy) starring Elijah Wood. Described as an “adventure comedy”, the film is produced by Emma Slade (Come to Daddy), Roxi Bull (Uproar), and Victoria Dabbs (Malevolent) of Firefly Films New Zealand and Mette-Marie […]

EXCLUSIVE: Jamie Bacon (White Lines, Brighton) and Pradeep Khadka (Prom Geet 3, Prakash) will star in sci-fi flick Eklo from British-Nepalese director Pradeep Shahi. The filmmakers say Eklo will be the first science fiction flick to come out of Nepal. Shahi is currently in Cannes with his latest film, The Last Ritual, which has Scatena […]

EXCLUSIVE: Loaded Films founder Eiko Mizuno-Gray and Kinoshita-Kansei Group CEO Masahide Kinoshita have teamed up to launch Tokyo-based production company, Kinofaction, which aims to focus on minority Japanese co-productions. The new outfit will take a minority stake in feature film projects that have significant Japanese elements and/or talent involved. It is actively seeking projects initiated […]

Terry Gilliam has been to Cannes with three of his own films since 1983, but one of his favorite memories of the festival takes him back to that very first time, at the 36th edition, as the co-writer and co-star of Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life. Along with Graham Chapman and the film’s director […]

EXCLUSIVE: One of the market’s biggest-budget projects, the Will Smith action-crime thriller Sugar Bandits, has sealed multi-million dollar deals across the world for AGC ahead of a planned September start date. Oscar winner Smith, soon to be seen reprising his role in the Bad Boys franchise, will play a former special forces soldier who runs […]

John Oliver trolled Donald Trump on Last Week Tonight after the former POTUS said he had created a new nickname for corn. The HBO late-night show host dedicated Sunday’s episode to corn and noted the way politicians pander to the corn farmers. “There is a long history of American politicians being weird around corn,” Oliver […]

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the winner of American Idol Season 22. Katy Perry took the American Idol stage one last time as a judge before saying goodbye to the ABC reality series competition. The singer, alongside Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie, walked into the Season 22 finale hand in hand. Perry was […]

SPOILER ALERT! This story contains details from the series finale of CSI: Vegas on CBS. Like what happened to So Help Me Todd, CSI: Vegas didn’t get a chance to wrap up its three-season run on CBS with any grand gestures or heartfelt goodbyes. The procedural, which was a followup to the 2000 CSI series, was canceled […]

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the winner of American Idol Season 22. American Idol crowned its Season 22 winner and said goodbye to Katy Perry. Jack Blocker, Abi Carter, and Will Moseley started the night by honoring mentor Jon Bon Jovi. They took the stage to sing “Livin’ on a Prayer,” followed by […]