SPOILER WARNING: This article contains major plot details about the Season 4 finale of Animal Kingdom. The creative team of TNT’s Animal Kingdom was ready to shuffle the deck in a big way as the show’s fourth season drew to a close and so, in last week’s penultimate episode, the Cody  family matriarch, Janine ‘Smurf…

UPDATED with David Goodman response: ICM Partners has accused the WGA of dropping the lawsuit it had filed in state court against the Big 4 talent agencies because "WGA leadership knew their lawsuit against the agencies was about to be found baseless and be dismissed." The agency on Tuesday claimed the guild dropped…

File this under … just plain old weird. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office can't or won’t say why, but the criminal case against the man who allegedly stole Frances McDormand's Best Actress Oscar in 2018 is over, at least for now. Terry Bryant was up against a felony grand theft charge for lifting the Th…

EXCLUSIVE There have been a handful of exits of Netflix executives from different areas related to kids and family programming, I have learned. I hear the layoffs took place over the past two to three weeks. Five people were impacted. The list includes Jenna Boyd, Director, Kids & Family Original Series; Jill Stewart…

A recent addition to Harvey Weinstein's rape indictment by the Manhattan D.A. could see the disgraced producer's trial pushed back, and now Weinstein wants the whole thing moved out of Gotham. “It is safe to say that New York City is the least likely place on earth where Mr. Weinstein could receive a fair trial, where…

Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber on Tuesday said they have co-acquired U.S. rights to Ken Loach's Sorry We Missed You, which had its world premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The news comes as the pic readies for a screening at the Toronto Film Festival next month. The plan is for Zeitgeist to release the…

Rebel Wilson (Pitch Perfect, The Hustle, Isn't It Romantic) has signed on to host and executive produce the first Australian Amazon Original series, LOL: Last One Laughing. The comedy-variety series, produced with Endemol Shine Australia, will feature a cast of 10 Australian comedic actors and stand-up comics…

Mike Gillespie has been staffing up his Brave Artists Management, which he launched in January. Eric Kind, formerly of Kind Management, was brought in as Executive Partner in late April, while Eric Skinner has joined as Partner, reuniting with Gillespie. Additionally, BAM has added managers Tom Bixby, Karli Doumanis…

3RD UPDATE with lawsuit filed: Playboy senior White House correspondent and CNN contributor Brian Karem filed a lawsuit Tuesday against President Donald Trump and White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham over the suspension of his White House “hard pass” credential last week. The filing (read it here) in the…

British broadcaster Channel 4has unveiled its latest programming slate including a Muslim punk comedy, a three-part doc series about Russian President Vladimir Putin and a reality series set within a Namibian tribe. The shows were announced by Channel 4 at the start of the Edinburgh International Television…