The 30th anniversary of the Oscar-winning classic is being celebrated by Paramount with the release of “Coda: The Death Of Michael Corleone,” on which the director made 363 picture changes to his “Godfather III,” eliminating and adding shots with a different beginning and ending to focus the storytelling and quicken the pace. “Film is like magic,” says Pacino as the two discuss their groundbreaking collaboration, “and it constantly surprises me how people who understand it can cut out a closeup or trim a scene and make such a difference.”
Last Week with John Oliver will be battling it out with Saturday Night Live for an Emmy after the Television Academy merged two key awards categories as part of a range of changes.
The Academy has remerged the Variety Talk and Variety Sketch Series categories into one category: Outstanding Variety Series starting in…
The diversity of late-night writers rooms is not a new topic of conversation.
For years, these shows have been accused of being too white and too male and while that may still be the case, there has been improvement across the board both in terms of gender and ethnicity. But progress is being made…
EXCLUSIVE: Midway through its second season, BET+ has picked up a third season of Carl Weber’s The Family Business, based on Weber’s bestselling crime drama book series. Production is scheduled to begin next month in Los Angeles. You can watch a trailer below.
The Family Business follows the Duncans, an upstanding…
Deadline has confirmed that Dan Silver, Disney+ VP of Nonfiction Originals is going to Netflix as Director of Documentary Feature Films.
He’ll report to Lisa Nishimura, VP Independent Film and Documentary Features at Netflix.
As part of a recent Disney restructuring, the Disney+ Unscripted Content and Production teams…
EXCLUSIVE:Desmin Borges (You’re the Worst, Utopia) is set for a recurring role in Fox’s This Country, Jenny Bicks' and Paul Feig's remake of the BBC comedy.
In the half-hour series, a documentary crew goes to a small town to study young adults and their current concerns. Their focus is the daily lives of cousins…
Movie theater stocks were mixed Friday as the industry absorbed shock waves from Warner Bros.' window-smashing announcement the day before when the cinema group collectively plunged by double digits.
The smaller, publicly-traded U.S. chains have lower debt and are in better financial shape. Third- and fourth-ranked…
National correspondents Jericka Duncan and Adriana Diaz have been named new anchors of CBS Weekend News.
Duncan will anchor on Saturdays from Chicago, and Duncan will have Sunday duties from New York. Duncan will anchor this Sunday and Diaz will helm on Dec. 12. They will assume their permanent positions in January.
CB…
The day after California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a new “Regional Stay at Home” plan that will take effect tomorrow, the state reported a 16% jump in new daily Covid-19 infections, at 22,018. It’s the second record high this week. The other was Wednesday’s 20,759. On Thursday, there were 18,591 new…
For his documentary directorial debut, Wildflower, Matt Smukler set out to tell the inspiring story of his niece Christina Stahl, a high school senior and classic overachiever who balances honors classes, sports activities and a full-time job. But what makes Christina’s story quite remarkable is that she also cares…
EXCLUSIVE:Mythical Entertainment has hired Mallory Schwartz as VP, Television & Film Development.
Schwartz served most recently as Director of Development for Alec Baldwin's El Dorado Pictures, where she oversaw a robust slate of television and film projects under first-look deals with Universal Television and…
AT&T CEO John Stankey made his first comments on the WarnerMedia/HBO Maxstreaming bombshell as the shockwaves continued Friday.
The move to put the studio’s entire 2021 slate on HBO Max at the same time as theaters is “an appropriate decision for the moment we’re in,” Stankey said in an interview streamed on the Washi…
Home Improvement‘s Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor meets Last Man Standing‘s Mike Baxter in the time period premiere for Fox comedy Last Man Standing.
In the “Dual Time” episode, Tim Allen does double duty as a repairman (his former alter ego Home Improvement‘s Tim Taylor) and Last Man Standing‘s Mike Baxter. The network’s…
