Watching Hart on the People’s Choice Awards grow introspective about second chances after fracturing his spine and nearly dying in a car accident, maybe he’d reconsider hosting the Academy Awards.
Lawrence G. Paull, an award-winning production designer and art director whose work on the science fiction classic Blade Runner received an Oscar nomination, died Sunday in La Jolla. He was 81 and no cause of death was given.
Paull had a long history in Hollywood, designing for such films as Robert Zemeckis’ Back to th…
ITV and AMC have dropped a first look at Michael Sheen as TV host Chris Tarrant in their dramatization of the cheating scandal on Britain’s Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?.
The still from Left Bank Pictures-produced Quiz recreates the moment Tarrant, who hosted Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? for 16 years on ITV…
Follies, the Tony and Olivier Award-winning Stephen Sondheim musical, is being adapted into a feature film by On Chesil Beach filmmaker Dominic Cooke.
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood and Marriage Story producer David Heyman is overseeing the project with Rosie Alison at their banner Heyday Films. Rose Garnett of BBC Film…
Charlize Theron told the audience at a D.C. screening of Bombshell that even though the movie is about the women at Fox News who exposed Roger Ailes’ sexual harassment, there was no way to avoid getting into politics and Donald Trump.
Theron portrays Megyn Kelly, who moderated the first Republican presidential debate…
EXCLUSIVE:Austin Stowell is joining the upcoming FX on Hulu drama The Old Man as a series regular. He will play a younger version of Jeff Bridges' character Dan Chase. The series is set to premiere in the fall of 2020.
The series is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Thomas Perry and centers on the…
James Murdoch didn’t mention Disney or the streaming wars or TV ratings or any of the myriad topics that marked his run as CEO of 21st Century Fox.
Instead, his 30-minute discussion with LinkedIn co-founder and tech investor Reid Hoffman focused mainly on the mushrooming institution of social media and the complex…
Whistleblowers are quite the topic du jour, not only in the nation’s capital but also in the movies. Upcoming next week is Dark Waters, about one lone lawyer’s battle against DuPont Chemical, but this week brings The Report, which chronicles one man’s dogged five-year journey to shine a light on the U.S. government’s…
EXCLUSIVE: ABC has put into development a family restaurant comedy inspired by the memoir by celebrity chef Aarón Sánchez. The project hails from The Real O’Neals writer-producer Rob Sudduth, Eva Longoria and Ben Spector’s UnbeliEVAble Entertainment and 20th TV, where the company has a first-look deal.
Penned by…
Amazon Studios has picked up a fourth and final season of Goliath, its original drama series starring Billy Bob Thornton. The news Thursday comes a little over a month after the streamer rolled out Season 3 last month, revealing a new case for Thornton’s conflicted super-laywer Billy McBride.
The legal drama, created…
EXCLUSIVE: Platform Media, a Boat Rocker company, has signed a first-look deal with Oscar-nominated producer Jennifer Fox (The Report, Michael Clayton, Nightcrawler) and her Jennifer Fox Productions.
Under the pact, Platform One, the Los Angeles-based global television production and distribution studio led by founder…
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s appearance Thursday at the Paley Center for Media’s International Council Summit wound up being noteworthy for the number of topics he did not address.
He briefly touched on the topic of upcoming collective bargaining negotiations with players ahead of the 2020 expiration of the…
Justin Marks, the creator and showrunner of Starz’s spy series Counterpart, and the screenwriter of Disney’s The Jungle Book and Paramount’s upcoming Top Gun sequel, has signed an overall deal with FX Productions.
The deal, which will see Marks develop new content for the FX network, was unveiled Thursday by Gina…
Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie and an all-star ensemble take a powerful deep-dive into the downfall of Roger Ailes, with director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph.
