EXCLUSIVE: Nearly three months after stepping down as president of Paramount's Motion Picture Group when Emma Watts was hired for the top job, Wyck Godfrey has rejoined Marty Bowen as his partner in Temple Hill Entertainment. Godfrey exited the producing game when he signed on to the Paramount exec post in January…

Decision time has arrived: Keep working at home or go back to the office? That choice now confronts millions of employees (and their bosses) around the world. The impact could be profound on business activity, real estate values and the future of city centers. Not to mention marriages. Here are the early results of…

Amazon unveiled a host of new products and features Thursday, including a new Echo Show model with Netflix and a swiveling screen, a Ring car camera that can record encounters with police, and beefed-up Fire TV devices. During a 45-minute recorded video presentation, Amazon executives introduced an array of…

EXCLUSIVE: Following the successful Ride Along films and upcoming Flint Strong biopic, Ice Cube and Universal appear to have found their next high-profile project as Cube is set to star in the untitled grounded sci-fi movie for the studio with Patrick Aiello and Timur Bekmambetov producing. Rich Lee will direct from a…

Lucas Kosoglad has segued from agenting to management. The Innovative Artists veteran has joined Odenkirk-Provissiero Entertainment as a manager. Kosoglad spent eight years in the talent department at Innovative, where he built a diverse roster with a focus on comedic voices and emerging talent. He has represented…

We now know who will be the new voice of Carl, Homer Simpson’s co-worker at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, on The Simpsons. Better Things actor Alex Désert replaces Hank Azaria in the role, at least in Sunday’s Season 32 premiere. It’s not known if Désert is the permanent voice for Carl. The recast follows…

Amazon’s superhero series The Boys is getting a spinoff set in superhero college. The project, written by The Boys executive producer Craig Rosenberg, had been in the works for awhile. It is being fast-tracked in light of the success of the original series’ second season which marked the most-watched global launch of…

Giant Pictures has acquired North American rights to The Sounding, the feature writing and directing debut of Catherine Eaton. She also stars in the pic, which is shifting release gears from theatrical owing to the pandemic lockdown and now will premiere on-demand nationwide October 20. HBO Europe has acquired Central…

HBO Max has boarded a television drama inspired by Akira Kurosawa's 1950 classic Rashomon. The series, which is in development at the streamer, is being written by Billy Ray (Captain Phillips) and Virgil Williams (Mudbound) and produced by Amblin Television. The project has been in the works for about two years after…

EXCLUSIVE: Harold Torres has signed with ICM Partners for representation in all areas. Torres is currently receiving rave reviews for his chillingly brilliant turn as a Narco enforcer in Amazon’s limited series ZeroZeroZero. The series was created by Stefano Sollima, Leonardo Fasoli, and Mauricio Katz; Andrea…