Johnny Depp will likely take the stand to answer allegations he punched a location manager on set. But it just won't come next week, or even this year, after all. As the Pirates of the Caribbean star faces ongoing legal dust-ups with his ex-wife Amber Heard and his ex-law firm, on Wednesday a Los Angeles Superior…

Just two weeks after the Season 1 finale, the CW has ordered a second season of its sci-fi action series Pandora. It’s slated for premiere in 2020. Set in the year 2199, Pandora stars Priscilla Quintana (Polaroid, Traffik) as Jax (aka Pandora), a resourceful young woman who has lost everything after the death of her…

EXCLUSIVE: Derek Cecil (House of Cards) and Jamestown star Max Beesley are set to recur opposite Ben Mendelsohn in The Outsider, based on Stephen King's bestselling novel, from The Night Of co-creator/executive producer Richard Price, director-producer Jack Bender (Mr. Mercedes) Jason Bateman's Aggregate Films and…

HBO Max on Wednesday said it has hired former Fox Entertainment exec Roberto Alcantara, Universal Content Productions’ Chika Chukudebelu and A+E Studios’ Mark Tuohy with the titles of VP Drama, tasked with creating a slate of original scripted dramas as WarnerMedia’s streaming service that launches in the spring. The…

The Netflix management team spent a large portion of their 38-minute “earnings interview” for the third quarter highlighting their aggressive push into the film business and their view of streaming competition. CEO Reed Hastings touted the fourth-quarter slate of films, a nearly billion-dollar array of work from…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS has put in development The Three of Us, a multi-camera comedy from writer Frank Pines (Everybody Loves Raymond, The New Adventures of Old Christine); Late Late Show with James Corden producer Fulwell 73; and CBS Television Studios, where Fulwell 73 is under a deal. Written by Pines, The Three of Us…

UPDATED, 3:47 PM: The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office confirms that the woman stabbed to death at Tarzan actor Ron Ely’s home was his wife, Valerie, and that the suspect later killed by deputies there was their son, Cameron Ely, 30. It’s not clear whether the son was living at the home. PREVIOUSLY, 10:25 AM: The…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has given a script commitment with penalty to The Service, a one-hour drama from writer Drew Lindo (The 100, Reign); Blindspot creator Martin Gero; and Warner Bros TV, where Gero and his Quinn’s House production company are under an overall deal. The project is a co-production between WBTV and Fox…

Endeavor Holdings Group has officially withdrawn the registration of its planned IPO, about three weeks after it halted the launch of the stock on the New York Stock Exchange the same day it was to debut. In a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday, the company requested the “withdrawal of…

EXCLUSIVE: The two-time Golden Globe winning X-Files and Californication actor has joined Blumhouse/Red Wagon Entertainment/Sony’s reboot of The Craft.  David Duchovny will star alongside the already announced cast of Cailee Spaeny, Gideon Adlon, Lovie Simone, Zoey Luna and Nicholas Galitzine. Zoe Lister-Jones is…