Amazon took last year’s festival market by storm with eight-figure deals for ‘Late Night,’ ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ and ‘The Report,’ and $5 million for ‘Honey Boy.’ Although the collective box office of those buys raised strategy questions, the Amazon Prime boss says not only is there no regret over last year’s spree, it plans to be as competitive in the bidding as anyone again this year.
Before the world premiere of BadHair at Sundance, Justin Simien stepped out on in front of a packed house at the Ray Theater and gushed about his love for films like Carrie and Rosemary’s Baby. That said, his latest feature can be described as many things: a psychological thriller, a satire and a horror, but he…
Disney is closing its theme park in Shanghai as efforts continue to contain the coronavirus outbreak in China,
“In response to the prevention and control of the disease outbreak and in order to ensure the health and safety of our guests and Cast, Shanghai Disney Resort is temporarily closing Shanghai Disneyland…
Snow banks and the 28-degree weather in Park City, Utah didn’t stop armies of fans from coming out to see Taylor Swift tonight, who swarmed the Eccles Theatre for the Sundance world premiere of the Netflix documentary about her life, Miss Americana.
The Lana Wilson-directed doc takes an up close and personal look at…
Discovery Networks has abandoned a plan to eliminate royalties to music composers for its shows on HGTV, Food Network, Animal Planet and more. The move by Discovery came after pressure from composers and their advocates.
Discovery said in December it would no longer pay royalties on music composed for its US TV shows…
Even before the great James Cromwell arrives at the punchline of a decrepit dirty nun joke, or the incomparable Jane Alexander gets to a vibrator bit exhausted seasons ago by Grace and Frankie, Bess Wohl’s affable, unremarkable marriage comedy Grand Horizons has its “something borrowed” locked down. The “something…
On this third day of testimony in the Senate impeachment hearings, The Late Show host Stephen Colbert noted that on day one of the hearings, there were 11 million viewers watching the proceedings.
“That’s a lot of people,” he said. “That’s not Super Bowl ratings, but it’s at least Puppy Bowl ratings. But that’s not…
Maybe the plot felt too forced? Specifics are elusive but the high-luster Obi-Wan Kenobi revival for Disney+ has been paused for a reshuffling of the creative team. Hossein Amini is no longer attached to write.and the show will go back to the drawing board and wait for a new hope to emerge for a show that has a star…
EXCLUSIVE:The Content Group, the flagship division of Steve Michaels’ Asylum Entertainment Group, has acquired reality production company Collins Avenue Entertainment, which is behind Lifetime’s popular Dance Mons franchise, from Kew Media Group.
Under the deal, TCG will retain all of Collins Avenue's physical…
Many emotional moments are expected at tonight’s opening of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival with Crip Camp, but few will top an elegant farewell offered by Robert Redford.
With a declaration of “much love to you,” the festival founder praised outgoing festival director John Cooper onstage Thursday at a packed Eccles…
Some might feel that it manipulates your heartstrings, but writer-director Todd Robinson’s The Last Full Measure is the real deal, an effective Vietnam War movie told in flashback, that all too sadly shows how easy it is to forget who true heroes when politics gets in the way.
In a time where the current resident of…
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon took the acquisitions market at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival by storm, making eight-figure deals for Late Night, Brittany Runs a Marathon and The Report, with another $5 million for Honey Boy. All of them were fine films, but the collective box office gross of around $26 million on films acquired…
Today is a comedy pilot pickup day at NBC as the network made the bulk of its half-hour orders within the past several hours.
NBC has given pilot green light to three single-camera projects: Someone Out There, a romantic comedy based on a Spanish format, from Forever creator Matt Hubbard and the writing team of Josh…
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.
