The Production Guild of Great Britain has revealed the winners of it 2020 PGGB Innovation Awards, in association with Warner Bros Studios Leavesden, which recognize production professionals who have navigated new ways of working to keep UK film and TV production moving forward during lockdown. Four awards were…

Imagine Entertainment and MGM will roll cameras on Ron Howard's upcoming drama Thirteen Lives, based on the 2018 Thai caves rescue incident, in Australia next March. The Australian government is injecting AUD $13 million into the project, which will use Queensland's Gold Coast to double for Thailand. Thirteen Lives is…

Luther actor Idris Elba is set to interview former Beatle Paul McCartney for a 60-minute BBC One holiday special. Produced by The Graham Norton Show outfit So Television, Idris Elba Meets Paul McCartney will be filmed in London over the coming weeks in line with local Covid-19 rules. Elba, who moonlights as a musician…

EXCLUSIVE: Banijay, the world’s largest independent production company, has told staff that internal data was stolen after it was the victim of a cyber attack last week that could impact hundreds of current and former employees. Deadline first revealed the hack on Monday and, in an email update last night, Banijay Righ…

The Asia Pacific Screen Academy honoured regional filmmakers at a special presentation on Australia's Gold Coast last night (November 26). Thailand-based producer Soros Sukhum took home the 2020 FIAPF Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film in the Asia Pacific region. Sukhum is well regarded for work in the Thai…

SPOILER ALERT: This recap reveals details about today's Disney+ drop of The Mandalorian Chapter 13: “The Jedi”, directed and written by Dave Filoni. Christmas came early to Star Wars fans as Rosario Dawson finally made her appearance as Clone Wars fave character, Jedi Ahsoka Tano, on Disney+’s The Mandalorian.  We…

Australian broadcaster ABC’s flagship current affairs show 4 Corners has set the record straight about a scene in Season 4 of The Crown involving the country’s former Prime Minister Bob Hawke. Episode six, Terra Nullius, opens with Hawke — played by Richard Roxburgh — being interviewed at ABC’s studios in 1983 about…

The Nov. 19, 1998 episode of Friends became an instant classic. Twenty two years later, Monica’s (Courteney Cox) dance with a turkey on her head remains an iconic Thanksgiving moment, turned into ubiquitous gifs. On Thanksgiving 2020, Cox took to Instagram to celebrate the holiday and reflect on the infamous turkey…