Jerry Fogel, a longtime screen actor best remembered as the beleaguered bridegroom Jerry Buell on the NBC sitcom The Mothers-in-Law, has died, He was 83. Fogel, who diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2008, died Monday at the Kansas City Hospice House in Kansas City, Missouri, his family announced. The son of a…

Wednesday Update: Fandango reports that in the opening hours of Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker going on sale, the pic sold more tickets than any other Star Wars movie on Fandango, surpassing Star Wars: The Force Awakens. In regards to daily sales, as of Wednesday, Skywalker is the #1 daily ticket-seller on…

No huge shocker here, but Warner Bros/Village Roadshow/Bron Studios’ Joker is going to churn a profit on its way to becoming the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time. How much profit, you ask? Our sources say the Joaquin Phoenix pic is poised to make at least $464 million after global theatrical, TV and home…

Quibi, Gunpowder & Sky and Complex Networks are teaming on a daily curated news show about the hip-hop industry and culture that will be part of the upcoming short-form video site’s Daily Essentials programming. The episodes will be available when Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s mobile-first short-form video site…

UPDATED with Netflix’s own numbers. Netflix’s El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie reached nearly 8.2 million viewers in the U.S. in its opening weekend last Friday through Sunday, according to the latest data from Nielsen. But that’s just in the U.S. On a global basis, according to fresh stats tweeted today by the…

EXCLUSIVE: Feature helmer Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman) will make his TV directing debut with Foundation, Apple TV+'s upcoming drama series based on Isaac Asimov's science fiction novel trilogy. Sanders will direct the pilot episode of the series starring Lee Pace and Jared Harris. Sanders had been…

EXCLUSIVE: Adam Nelson has filed a 13-count complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor protesting SAG-AFTRA's recent election. Nelson was the campaign manager for Matthew Modine, who lost the presidential race to incumbent Gabrielle Carteris. Nelson's complaints had previously been dismissed by the union's national…

Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell, Kristen Welker and Ashley Parker will moderate the next Democratic debate, scheduled to be hosted by MSNBC and The Washington Post on November 20 in Georgia. The all-female team likely will preside over a smaller field of candidates at the event, the fifth this cycle, as the Democratic…

Disney’s distribution deal with Verizon, which will see the wireless giant give new and existing subscribers one free year of Disney+ will help the subscription service grow even more quickly than expected. That’s the takeaway from at least two veteran Wall Street media and telecom analysts, Michael Nathanson of…

This is Q&A season in Hollywood, but the rules of the game are changing. To wit: I am onstage with Meryl Streep. Her new movie titled The Laundromat has just been screened and I am posing questions. Why did she decide to star in a very political movie? Why does she depict a victim — a woman who is put upon by two evil…