One of the interesting aspects of this year’s contest will be to see how a few new guidelines impact the outcome of the nominations — in positive and negative ways.
Well over a half-century after they landed in America and hit the stage on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Beatles are still the real deal. Yesterday is proof. The new film, a teaming of Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting) and screenwriter Richard Curtis (Notting Hill, Four Weddings and a…
Leaked audio of a conversation between Harvey Weinstein and two New York Times reporters reveals the onetime mogul’s last-minute scrambling just prior to his epic downfall.
Inside Edition acquired the audio of a conference call, emphasizing that the Times was not the source of the recording. The syndicated series…
An impromptu press conference by President Donald Trump shed little light but created some heat when a CNN question about conversations with Russia’s Vladimir Putin came up.
Heading to Marine One on Wednesday, Trump was asked by CNN’s Sarah Westwood whether he will ask Putin “not to meddle in the 2020 election” when…
The first Democratic debate of the 2020 presidential primary will air Wednesday and Thursday nights across NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo from the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. Each night will feature 10 candidates and be broadcast live from 9-11 PM ET/6-8 PM PT, with Telemundo offering real-time…
Jon Wax, YouTube’s head of Drama, Scripted & Current Programming, is in negotiations to join Amazon Studios. He is expected to take over the head of genre drama post recently vacated by Sharon Tal Yguado.
Wax, a respected development executive, had been on the market for a new job since YouTube late last year paused…
EXCLUSIVE: Beating out bidders from several studios in a fevered auction, Sony Pictures has scored The Tree With Matchmaking Powers, an article in The Atlantic by Jeff Maysh. Peter Chiarelli (Crazy Rich Asians) will script a movie based on the true story of a German mailman who delivers love letters to a magical tree…
The union for Broadway’s musicians announced a three-year bargaining agreement with producers today, a pact the union says features the largest wage increase in two decades.
The agreement was announced by the Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802 AFM and marks a collective bargaining agreement with the Br…
Despite the ongoing battle between the WGA and the Association of Talent Agents, Michelle and Robert King, co-creators, executive producers and showrunners of CBS All Access’ The Good Fight and creators, executive producers and showrunners of CBS’ upcoming drama series Evil, say they've easily staffed the writers'…
EXCLUSIVE: New Line has set Lindsey Beer to write Hello Kitty, the movie based on the iconic Sanrio pop culture brand. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the film will be designed for four quadrant global audience appeal.
The studio and Beau Flynn and his FlynnPictureCo banner made a deal last March to…
A year ago today, AMC Theatres launched its AMC Stubs A-List program where for $19.95 a month in 34 states, moviegoers can get three movie tickets a week, plus other benefits. Also, close to a year ago today, MoviePass largely imploded after the opening of Paramount’s Mission: Impossible-Fallout, curbing back on a…
Rita Tuzon, Fox Corp’s EVP and Corporate General Counsel, is stepping down after a 22-year run at the company during its different iterations.
In announcing her exit, Chief Legal and Policy Officer Viet Dinh paid tribute to Tuzon.
“Rita is inarguably one of the most gifted legal minds in the media business, and we…
