Jay Roach’s film about the Fox New-Roger Ailes scandal so far had failed to reach the top tier of other contenders, and pundits did not expect it to do this well today. The other big news is the Outstanding Cast mention for South Korea’s “Parasite.”
Tony Award-winning actor Richard Easton, who broke a 30-year break from Broadway to make an acclaimed performance in Tom Stoppard’s 2001 play The Invention of Love, died Dec. 2 at age 86.
Easton’s death was announced in a Facebook post by his friend and colleague James Wallert, co-artistic director of Epic Theatre…
South by Southwest has unveiled a new batch of keynote conversations and featured speakers for their forthcoming tech-film-music confab which will take place March 13-22, 2020.
CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King will hold court in a Keynote with Bumble CEO and Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, and Blackstone's Global Head…
UPDATED with new trailer:HBO has slotted Sunday, January 19 (10:30-11:07 pm), for the 10th season premiere of Larry David’s Emmy-winning comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm. The return is a long time coming for Curb fans, who have been waiting for a new season since 2017. HBO also released a new trailer (watch above).
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Christmas might not feel so merry for the Walt Disney Company this year after a hearing this morning on the potential class action pay equity lawsuit from 10 female employees of the House of Mouse did not go to a happy place for the Bob Iger-run company.
With LaRonda Rasmussen and seven more of the probable plaintiffs…
EXCLUSIVE: Earlier this year, Screen Gems has announced its partnership with Scott Glassgold's management and production company Ground Control to launch Scream Gems, an initiative to identify up-and-coming director talent and develop high concept horror films through proof of concepts. Now the studio is revealing the…
The Circus is coming back to town, just in time for the Donald Trump impeachment inquiry. Showtime said today that Season 5 of its political documentary seires hosted by John Heilemann, Mark McKinnon and Alex Wagner will premiere at 8 p.m. Sunday, January 26.
After covering the burgeoning field of Democratic…
EXCLUSIVE:Jenna Lamia (Good Girls) has been tapped to write and executive produce The Perfect Couple adaptation, based on Elin Hilderbrand’s bestselling novel, which is in the works at Fox. The previously announced one-hour mystery drama hails from Fox Entertainment’s SideCar Content Accelerator.
Based on…
The House Judiciary Committee will meet tonight to consider articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, gathering for the first time in primetime hours for what likely will be moments of acrimonious debate and political fireworks.
The broadcast networks, though, are leaning against covering the proceedings live…
Playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda has tweeted Warner Bros’ first-look teaser for the film adaptation of his Broadway hitIn The Heights. A full trailer will arrive tomorrow.
“This is the story of a block that was disappearing,” begins the 15-second clip, with snippets of the jubilant title song being performed by an…
EXCLUSIVE:The Illuminatus! Trilogy is coming to television and Hivemind is in on the conspiracy. Hivemind, the production company behind The Expanse and Witcher, is partnering with writer-director Brian Taylor(Crank, Happy!) and the European production company Kallisti to adapt The Illuminatus! Trilogy, the…
Fox News Sunday has landed to guests for Sunday’s show who are frequent targets of Team Trump and the channel’s primetime hosts: former FBI director James Comey and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA).
They will appear in separate segments with Chris Wallace, who has a record of aggressive…
Simon Cowell has put pen to paper on a new five-year deal for Britain’s Got Talent with UK broadcaster ITV.
It represents ITV’s longest commitment to the variety show since it launched in 2007 in the UK, and comes as America’s Got Talent is mired in controversy amid an NBC investigation into working conditions.
Britain…
Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie and an all-star ensemble take a powerful deep-dive into the downfall of Roger Ailes, with director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph.
