The ‘Sons of Anarchy’ spinoff’s co-creator was axed from the series Thursday amid an internal dust-up with FX and its new parent Disney. He tells his side of the story in a letter to his inner circle. Read it here.
David Weisman, an Academy Award nominee as producer of Kiss of the Spider Woman and an accomplished graphic artist, died on October 9 from complications from neuroinvasive West Nile virus. He died in Los Angeles at Cedars Sinai at age 77, according to his publicist.
Born in Binghamton, New York, in March 1942, Weisman…
Good for Quentin Tarantino, for not capitulating to the Chinese government and marginalizing his film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, declining to trim scenes of violence, or the one that featured Bruce Lee sparring with Brad Pitt’s stuntman character. It seemed a non-starter that the filmmaker would cave when China…
Columbia Pictures has acquired an untitled horror project that will be produced and directed by Sam Raimi, whose helming credits include genre staples The Evil Dead and Drag Me to Hell.
Details are slim on the script, which will be written by Mark Swift and Damian Shannon, but it will be a thriller set on an island…
A string of events this month related to China and ongoing protests in Hong Kong has tarnished major U.S. brands from the NBA to Apple to Activision Blizzard. While Hollywood usually finds itself in the thick of such controversies, it has managed this time to mostly avoid major reputational damage, at least for now.
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In the wake of a string of bombs, i.e. last Christmas’ Welcome to Marwen ($13M) and the Brad Pitt-Marion Cotillard WWII spy romance Allied ($120M off an $85M production cost), Forrest Gump Oscar winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis is in early talks to direct a live-action version of Pinocchio for Disney. It’s the same…
Travis Van Winkle, who played “Lt. Danny Green” on all five seasons of TNT’s The Last Ship, has signed with APA.
Van Winkle also recently wrapped his series regular role of “Det. Ryan Stock” on the CBS drama, Instinct. His other television roles include recurring on Hart of Dixie for the CW, recurring on Happy Endings…
EXCLUSIVE:My Name Is Earl alum Jason Lee has signed with ICM Partners and Imagine Artist Management for representation in all areas.
Lee is best known in television for his starring role in the Emmy-winning series My Name Is Earl, for which he received two Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor in a Musical or…
Disney+ on Friday revealed some of the new content it is adding to its nonfiction slate on or after the streaming service’s November 12 launch, including newly announced documentaries about Mickey Mouse from Morgan Neville and Marwencol‘s Jeff Malmberg, and about Wolfgang Puck, from Jiro Dreams of Sushi director David…
CBS has put in development Bent, a crime drama from writer Vaun Wilmott (Star Trek: Discovery, Prison Break), Jerry Bruckheimer TV and CBS Television Studios, where JBT is under a deal.
Written by Wilmott, Bent revolves around an instinctive and streetwise Texas law enforcement officer who is caught between two…
“There’s a lot of sitting around watching YouTube cat and dog videos, and we try to inject into these dragons as many of the attributes we see in our own domestic pets as possible,” director Dean DeBlois said during Deadline’s The Contenders London event, where he discussed creating the mythical beasts in How to Train…
2ND FRIDAY UPDATE, MIDDAY: Disney’s Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is leading the weekend with a less-than-expected result of $35.5M after a $11.75M Friday. The expectation here is that overseas will recoup any domestic shortfall for this $185M production, with global projections now at $135M-$140M.
Last night’s…
EXCLUSIVE: Fox has given a script commitment plus penalty toLive, a Washington, D.C.-set police drama series executive produced by This Is Us star Sterling K. Brown through his 20th Century Fox TV-based Indian Meadows Productions.
Written by Chris Collins (The Wire), Live is based on the Korean series of the same…
