‘When They See Us’ Creator Ava DuVernay & Cast Seek “Restorative Justice” In Central Park Five Series
With 16 Emmy nominations, the Netflix program gives the young men who were cleared of the high-profile crime the voices they always deserved. It also is one of the streamer’s most-watched shows this year. Here’s some background on how the show came about.
CBS’ Big Brother led a night littered with NFL preseason preemptions on Thursday, drawing a preliminary 1.3 rating and 5.13 million viewers in numbers that as usual will likely be adjusted down later today.
As of now, CBS and NBC tied for primetime’s top spot in the demo while the latter edged the former in total…
The Hamptons Film Festival will open with Just Mercy, a legal drama that Warner Bros. plans to release commercially this Christmas, and will also screen Disney’s Ford v Ferrari as its Centerpiece selection.
The 27th annual edition of the fest will be held over Columbus Day weekend, October 10-14.
Along with the two…
At least some of the followers of Ellen DeGeneres’ Instagram account might have thought they hit pay dirt last night when the talk show host’s account was hacked and briefly offered a treasure trove of giveaway items.
“My Instagram account was hacked last night (despite my clever password "password"),” DeGeneres…
It might be melodramatic to suggest that Marvel Studios has something to prove this weekend at Disney’s D23 Expo in Anaheim but there’s no denying that Hollywood’s most bankable brand has reached a crossroads as it moves forward without some of its signature stars and characters.
This week Deadline scored the biggest…
From too many years in and around the movie business, I've consciously kept exactly one souvenir. It's a smallish chip of concrete, about 3" x 4", with some daubs of red and blue paint.
Ray Stark gave it to me not quite thirty years ago. He was just back from the Berlin Film Festival, which in February of 1990 had…
Season 8 of Game of Thrones was as cruel to Brienne of Tarth as it was kind. In the moments prior to the big Battle of Winterfell, she was knighted by her longtime paramour Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), and the pair consummated their relationship, before Jaime abandoned her to run back to his sister…
YouTube and parent company Google took down 210 channels after they posted a co-ordinated series of videos seen as undermining the anti-government protests in Hong Kong.
Shane Huntley, director of Google’s Threat Analysis Group, confirmed the takedowns in a blog post, noting that the action was consistent with similar…
2nd Update, Friday AM: Lionsgate/Millennium’s Angel Has Fallenraised $1.5M from 7PM previews yesterday at roughly 2,600 locations.
That’s higher than not only Focus Features’ release of previous Butler pics in the series, 2016’s London Has Fallen ($850K, $7.5M Friday, $21.6M opening) and Film District’s 2013’s Olympus…
The Texas county sheriff isn’t happy that county leaders have given A&E’s Live PD a ticket outta town, saying Commissioners “did not support my decision to maintain a relationship to grant access” to the docuseries.
News came this week that Williamson County, Texas, would no longer cooperate with Big Fish…
David Koch, a libertarian supporter of many conservative causes who reshaped America’s political landscape and also funded many charities, has died at age 79.
His brother, Charles Koch, confirmed the news in a statement Friday. "It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of my brother David,” he said…
EXCLUSIVE:BET has put into development half-hour multi-camera comedy W.H.I.P.s (working title), from Wanda Sykes and Page Hurwitz’s Push It Productions and Werner Entertainment. Alyson Fouse (All About the Washingtons, Black Jesus) is slated to write the pilot and executive produce.
Based on an original pitch by…
Shoot is under way in Sydney, Australia, on rom-com Long Story Short, starring Rafe Spall (I Give It A Year), Zahra Newman, (Truth), Ronny Chieng (Crazy Rich Asians), Noni Hazlehurst (A Place To Call Home), Dena Kaplan (Dance Academy) and Josh Lawson (Anchor Man).
Lawson directs his original screenplay, which is…
