The latest: ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ star Rob McClure on the delayed Broadway premiere and when theater may return: “All I’m hearing is that we’ll be back”; Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory on launching platform to feed NHS workers, 6,000 meals a day and counting; A3 Artists Agency’s James Murray on the changing tenor of voice-over work; Suze Orman’s no-holds-barred coronavirus financial survival plan
EXCLUSIVE: UK actor, comedian and writer Stephen Mangan is set to make his feature film screenwriting debut with the adaptation of Alan Temperley's popular children’s novel Harry And The Wrinklies.
First published in 1997, the book follows a young boy who, after the sudden death of his parents, is sent off to live…
EXCLUSIVE: Sundance Now has picked up the U.S. rights to Australian drama Bad Mothers starring Treadstone's Tess Haubrich.
The AMC Networks-owned streaming service will launch the eight-part drama on May 7 after acquiring the rights from Red Arrow Studios International.
The drama explores the underbelly of modern…
Fugitive, the content development, financing and executive producing company run by Anthony Kimble and Merrily Ross, has partnered with Alex Holder's Rogo Productions, with the former taking international distribution rights to feature doc Keep Quiet, about a far-right Hungarian radical who discovers he is Jewish…
A group of 51 European film and audiovisual organizations and individual companies has released a call for action by EU and member state decision makers to safeguard the future of the sector in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The statement, see it in full below, says the industry requires “urgent financial…
There are concerns bubbling up in the UK television industry that Boris Johnson’s government could revisit the issue of privatizing Channel 4 after it has been left exposed by the brutality of the coronavirus pandemic. Channel 4 has been stunned by the sudden advertising downturn and industry sources have said that…
Series Mania has hailed the success of the online forum that replaced its physical festival in Lille, France, last month as a result of coronavirus pandemic.
Series Mania published user engagement figures that could point the way for other digital industry events in 2020, revealing that 1,500 of the festival’s 2,000…
On the latest edition of the Tonight Show: Home Edition, Jimmy Fallon got emotional paying tribute to Hal Willner, the music producer who died from COVID-19 complications this week at the end of 64.
Willner was the sketch music producer on Saturday Night Live from 1981, overlapping with Fallon when he joined the show…
Very soon it will be no mask, no service at Los Angeles’ grocery stores. Mayor Eric Garcetti on Tuesday night mandated that, “starting Friday, April 10th, employees and customers at many non-medical essential businesses such as grocery stores will be required to wear face coverings.” He also authorized businesses to…
Many a raging Hollywood night was ended at Swingers, the Beverly Boulevard retro coffee shop, and many a day began there. Sometimes, they blended together. For 27 years, the place served all comers.
But last week marked the last roundup for the restaurant, which closed after spending a quarter century as part of the…
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about tonight’s series finale of Schitt’s Creek.
In the penultimate episode of Schitt’s Creek, we hit one of many emotional mile markers on its journey to Tuesday night’s final hurrah with the Rose family. The scene in question shows David (Dan Levy) and Stevie (Emily…
No, the local Arcadia, Louisiana police weren’t kicking off the annual Purge. But to citizens already jittery from the COVID-19 virus, the eerie sound of the familiar siren from the horror film frayed nerves.
The Arcadia police, in an effort to remind the locals of a 9 PM curfew, used an alarm that fans of horror…
Veteran film character actor Allen Garfield has died from COVID-19 complications. He was residing at the Motion Picture Home in Woodland Hills, Calif. at the time of his death at age 80.
Garfield’s long resume includes such films as The Conversation, The Candidate, The Stunt Man and Nashville.
Actress Ronee Blakely…
