Новости за 22.05.2024

News Corp. and OpenAI have reached an multi-year agreement to provide content for use in artificial intelligence. The deal is the latest that OpenAI has reached with news publishers, even as it defends itself from lawsuits filed by other content creators over the use of their work in training models. According to a joint announcement, […]

From Whitney Houston to Elvis, there is no shortage of iconic singers who inspire sweeping films that dramatize their life stories. No matter the genre, cinematic features have captured the careers of the King of Rock and Roll Elvis Presley to country singer Jonny Cash. Most recently, Back to Black (2024) launched in theaters to […]

Filming for The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season 14 is underway, and Bravo has confirmed the cast for the new season. Kyle Richards, Garcelle Beauvais, Dorit Kemsley, Sutton Stracke, and Erika Jayne are all returning for the new season of the reality series. Bozoma Saint John is joining the cast as a full-time housewife. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has launched development on What Kids Want, a new feature scripted by the Like a Boss duo of Sam Pitman and Adam Cole-Kelly, sources tell Deadline. The film follows up the high concept comedies What Women Want (2000), starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt, and What Men Want (2019), starring Taraji P. […]

The Native American Media Alliance, in partnership with the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, has announced the selected fellows for the 4th Annual Native American Writers Seminar. “It’s an incredible experience to see emerging indigenous talent develop through the seminar.” Announced Ian Skorodin, director of strategy for the Native American Media Alliance. “Each fellow […]

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation with several major adult animation players interested, Hulu has landed for development Bad Friends. The animated project comes from Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee, the duo behind the comedy podcast of the same name. Created by Lee, Nick Kreiss, Santino and Andres Salaff, the potential series will be written by […]

The Alexander White Agency is expanding its Los Angeles Commercial Division with the hire of veteran agent, Stephany Burns. Burns began her career in entertainment as an intern with several high profile commercial casting directors in 2009. She went to become an agent and led the Commercial Division at Avalon Artists Group in 2012. After over a decade […]

A Nurse Jackie sequel series, originally set at Showtime, is now in development at Amazon MGM Studios, with Edie Falco set to star, Deadline has confirmed. As we previously reported in 2023, the potential sequel series from Lionsgate Television, producer of the original series, was in development at Showtime. Showtime‘s linear network, which launched more […]

Two-time Oscar nominated and Emmy-winning actor Richard Jenkins has joined the cast of Criminal, Prime Video’s upcoming drama series based on Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips’ multi-Eisner Award-winning graphic novel series.  Criminal is an interlocking universe of crime stories based on the graphic novels. Jenkins will play Ivan, Leo’s dad’s best friend, who has always been an […]

A Sky News journalist was forcibly removed from an event at which UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak launched the Conservative election campaign. Political correspondent Darren McCaffrey was muscled out of the room live on air, just as Sunak was about to take the stage at an event at London’s Excel centre. McCaffrey told Sky News […]

Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière’s three-hour French epic, The Count Of Monte-Cristo, had its world premiere screening out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival this evening, eliciting an enthusiastic nearly 12-minutes of applause. This latest adaptation based on the classic adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas stars Pierre Niney, Anaïs Demoustier, Laurent Lafitte, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Peacock’s new comedy series Laid is rounding out its cast with 8 guest stars: Andre Hyland (Barry), Olivia Holt (Totally Killer), David Denman (The Office), Finneas O’Connell (Academy Award and Grammy Winning Singer/Songwriter), Chloe Fineman (SNL), Indya Moore (Pose), Ettore “Big E” Ewen (WWE Superstar) and John Early (Would it Kill You to Laugh). […]

Charles Barkley, one of the mainstays of the long-venerated studio show Inside the NBA, says the current media rights situation “sucks right now” for Warner Bros. Discovery staffers. About 200 jobs could be lost, Barkley said in an interview Wednesday on SiriusXM, if WBD loses out to NBCUniversal. (Listen to a clip below.) Sports Business […]

EXCLUSIVE: Independent Artist Group has signed screenwriter, producer, director and showrunner Michael Petroni for representation. Most recently, Petroni co-wrote Sony/Screen Gems’ supernatural horror flick The Pope’s Exorcist, starring Russell Crowe, which grossed over $77M worldwide. He’s best known for scripting 20th Century Fox’s adaptation of Markus Zusak’s novel The Book Thief, starring Geoffrey Rush, Emily […]

Disney Marvel Studios’ first R-rated release, Deadpool & Wolverine, is already heating up eight weeks before its release having already collected some $8M in first day ticket sales. The Shawn Levy directed, Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman starring threequel opens July 26. That’s pretty remarkable for an R-rated movie two months before release. While there’s […]

EXCLUSIVE: Francis Ford Coppola‘s $120 million passion project Megalopolis has closed a fresh raft of deals following its buzzy world premiere in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival last week.  It has sold to Australia (Madman Entertainment), Benelux (September Films), Bulgaria (Profilm), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Film Europe), Ex- Yugoslavia (MCF Megacom Film), Greece (Feelgood Entertainment), Hungary (Mozinet), Israel (Lev Cinemas), […]

EXCLUSIVE: Kyle MacLachlan (Fallout), Fiona Shaw (IF) and Edmund Donovan (Civil War) have signed on for roles in Echo Valley, Apple Original Films’ thriller from director Michael Pearce (Beast), which is led by Julianne Moore, Sydney Sweeney and Domhnall Gleeson. Written by Brad Ingelsby (Mare of Easttown), the film centers on Kate Garretson (Moore), who […]

Anita Gou is no stranger to the festival circuit. Her L.A.-based Kindred Spirit banner saw a raft of its first projects debut at Sundance (think Lulu Wang’s Mandarin-language comedy The Farewell, which made $23M worldwide, Shia LaBeouf-starrer Honey Boy and Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation) but, more recently, her co-production Silent Twins was selected in Un Certain Regard in 2022, while Dominic […]

Charlie Colin, founding bassist of the rock band Train, has died after reportedly slipping in a shower. He was 58. Colin’s mother reported the death to TMZ. She said her son was housesitting for a friend in Brussels, Belgium, when the bathroom accident occurred. Colin’s body was discovered by the homeowners when they returned from […]

Brad Paisley will perform at Thursday night’s White House state dinner for  President William Ruto of Kenya. The country singer is the latest performer to appear at a White House state dinner. Paul Simon and Jon Batiste are among those who have appeared at previous dinners hosted by the Bidens. Paisley performed at the White […]

EXCLUSIVE: The first trailer for Sony Pictures and Wayfarer Studios’ It Ends With Us, exec produced by and starring Blake Lively, has made quite an impact since its launch last Thursday. Garnering 128.1M views in its first 24 hours, according to WaveMetrix, the trailer has hit 222M as of today. For the sake of comparison, […]

The Directors Guild of America is standing in solidarity with Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof who had fled authoritarian Iran, and is currently at the Cannes Film Festival with his competition title The Seed of the Sacred Fig. “The Directors Guild of America strongly supports Director Mohammad Rasoulof in his flight from unjust sentencing and we […]

David Letterman is back with a couple more episodes of his Netflix talk show. The former host of The Late Show is bringing My Next Guest Needs No Introduction back for two more episodes with Miley Cyrus and Charles Barkley. It’s hard to call two episodes a season, but it will launch on June 12. […]

Charlamagne Tha God was a guest on The View to promote his book Get Honest or Die Lying and starred in a tense moment with the morning co-hosts. Sunny Hostin asked the radio personality why he has not openly endorsed Joe Biden in his presidential reelection as he did in 2020. “Well, since this book […]

Hulu Originals is staying in the dating show lane by picking up a new reality dating series called Virgin Island. From producers ITV America (Love Island USA, Queer Eye) and Plimsoll Productions (Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters, A Real Bug’s Life), Virgin Island promises a “stunningly attractive and confident” group of singles who have yet to […]