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.”
Slave Play playwright Jeremy O. Harris and New York Theatre Workshop – the Off Broadway company where he developed the acclaimed work – announced today the establishment of two $50,000 commissions for new theatrical works, keeping a pledge the author made when he signed a two-year overall deal with HBO last March.
The…
Ava DuVernay is doubling down on DC Comics IP for her latest television project – an adaptation of teen superhero story Naomi.
DuVernay, who is set to direct the feature film adaptation of DC's New Gods, is developing the drama for The CW. She has teamed up with Arrow writer and co-exec producer Jill Blankenship to…
EXCLUSIVE: Dermot Mulroney and Leslie Bibb have signed on to star in The Inhabitant, an indie horror thriller about infamous ax murderer Lizzie Borden's bloodline that runs straight through the heart of American suburbia where a series of supernatural events reveal a dark truth behind a tormented teenager.
Mulroney…
Lewis Pullman, Noah Reid, Shaun Sipos and Isabel Arraiza join Josh Brolin and Imogen Poots in the Amazon series Outer Range. Pullman, Reid, Sipos, and Arraiza round out the cast of series regulars, alongside previously announced lead actors Lili Taylor, Tamara Podemski and Tom Pelphrey.
Outer Range centers on Royal…
Country singer Morgan Wallen is appropriately attired in these two brief promos for NBC’s Saturday Night Live, his black face mask even matching that of this week’s guest host Jason Bateman (Heidi Gardner’s is a lovelier floral print).
Wallen, you might remember, had been booked as musical guest earlier this season…
A conversation on CNBC’s Squawk Box about the economic strain of Covid-19 devolved into a pointed exchange between Rick Santelli and Andrew Ross Sorkin about masks and restrictions on businesses.
Santelli, a Chicago-based correspondent known for delivering on-air rants like his 2009 diatribe against President Barack…
A multi-union coalition of Hollywood unions has reached an agreement with the Association of Independent Commercial Producers for new return-to-work protocols that largely mirror those adopted by the film and TV industry in September. Testing for the coronavirus is one of the major changes in the new AICP agreement…
EXCLUSIVE: A lawsuit filed Friday by Activision Blizzard against Netflix for snagging one of the video game giant's top executives surely must be an unwelcome case of deja voodoo for the streamer.
"Netflix unapologetically recruits talent without regard to its ethical and legal obligations," declares the complaint…
It’s two days after Thanksgiving when George Clooney speaks to Deadline to discuss his ambitiousThe Midnight Sky, a timely sci-fi film split between a spacecraft and the frozen Iceland tundra. Scripted by The Revenant writer Mark L. Smith and just as rugged in its outdoor scenes, the film provides an up-the-road look…
Apple TV+ has ordered a new, six-part documentary series about the world’s best surfers as they compete for the World Surf League title.
From Box to Box Films and the World Surf League, the as-yet-untitled docuseries will go behind-the-scenes to chronicle the aspirations, failures and accomplishments as each surfer…
The late Chadwick Boseman will be honored as Hero for the Ages at the MTV Movie & TV Awards: Greatest of All Timeretrospective special.
Don Cheadle and Robert Downey Jr. will present the posthumous award, which honors a star whose heroism on-screen was only surpassed by the true hero they were off-screen. Hosted by…
ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, which took another walk on the beach with Meredith Grey running into a new old friend, topped the night in Thursday’s primetime ratings with a 1.2 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 5.67 million viewers. It paired with Station 19 (0.8, 5.38M) and A Million Little Things (0.6, 3.84M) to give the…
