The Mandeville Pictures co-owner whose credits include ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘The Fighter’ spends time during the pandemic prepping projects for production starts and discussing presidential politics — sometimes in equal measure. Read about how he reached back to his hometown in search of real discussion about the election’s high stakes.
Fox Entertainment is set to open a writers' room for drama Our Kind of People from Karen Gist and Lee Daniels with the hope that it turns into a straight-to-series order for the 2021/22 season.
The drama, which is inspired by Lawrence Otis Graham's book Our Kind Of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class, is the…
EXCLUSIVE: WME and M88, the newly formed company from former WME partner Phillip Sun and MACRO CEO Charles D. King, have signed Nigerian-born actress and star of the CBS/Chuck Lorre sitcom Bob Hearts Abishola, Folake Olowofoyeku. She’s also repped by Del, Shaw, Moonves, Tanaka, Finkelstein & Lezcano and The Initiative…
Universal Pictures has pacted with LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s consumer and entertainment brand The SpringHill Company in a four-year first look deal. Previously, SpringHill had their deal set up at Warner Bros. where they made the animated feature Space Jam: A New Legacy, a sequel to the $230M…
Editor’s note:Todd Lieberman, who with David Hoberman co-owns Mandeville Films and Television, has been a prolific producer of films from Beauty and the Beast to The Aeronauts, Wonder, Stronger, The Fighter, The Muppets and The Proposal. Like most in Hollywood, he spends time in the pandemic prepping projects for the…
Sam Jay is getting a weekly late-night show on HBO.
The Saturday Night Live writer will host the currently untitled show starting in 2021. It will be exec produced by Insecure's Prentice Penny.
Jay joined the writing staff of the NBC comedy in October 2017 and Jay’s first hour-long comedy special, 3 In The Morning,…
EXCLUSIVE: Omar Chaparro, who co-hosted the Mexican version of Netflix's Nailed It!, is to star in a motorcycle docuseries for Lionsgate-backed streaming service Pantaya.
The streamer, which is a joint venture between the U.S. studio and Hemisphere Media Group, has ordered six-part series Chaparreando.
The show will…
EXCLUSIVE:Â Kast Media is partnering with Sarah Silverman to launch her first podcast, The Sarah Silverman Podcast. It will debut October 8 and be available on all platforms.
As a leader in multi-channel shows, inclusive of video simulcast episodes on YouTube, Kast Media is focused on creating shows that entertain…
Giving new meaning to the word museum, the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is going back, waaaay back, with its latest acquisition the Richard Balzer Collection, which just by its sheer breadth will fill in most of the blanks that actually led to the creation of what we now know as cinema.
In conjunction with…
The Film Independent Spirit Awards will also be lauding Television, effective with its April 24, 2021 ceremony which will air on IFC. The awards ceremony is celebrating its 36th year.
Additional categories to the kudo telecast include Best New Scripted Series, Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series, Best Male…
ABC News’ World News Tonight with David Muir topped its broadcast rivals in the first week of the new season.
The newscast drew 8.5 million viewers, compared with 7.33 million for NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and 5.15 million for CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell.
In the 25-54 demo, World News Tonight had…
It’s only appropriate that the revival — or should I say spiritual sequel — to the 1996 occult classic The Craft will debut just in time for Halloween. Blumhouse Productions and Columbia Pictures not only dropped a trailer today that gives us the first look at The Craft: Legacy directed and written by Zoe Lister-Jones…
EXCLUSIVE:Â Following the success of the romantic comedy The Kissing Booth, Netflix and Joey King have found their next project to collaborate on as King has signed on to star and exec produce an adaptation of Scott Westerfeld's International best-selling-dystopian fantasy novel Uglies.McG, whose recent films have all…
