As the virtual European Film Markets officially gets underway today, there are multiple hot-button topics reverberating behind the scenes. It starts with the growing frustration felt by a number of international buyers as the world continues to struggle with the pandemic.
The Pygmalion myth gets a gender flip in I'm Your Man, the Berlin Film Festival competition entry from Germany's Maria Schrader. Maren Eggert stars as Alma, a single anthropologist who agrees to live with a humanoid robot for three weeks as part of a trial testing period. Thomas (Dan Stevens) has been designed as…
EXCLUSIVE: Tim Story, fresh from directing the number one theatrical film of the weekend, Tom & Jerry, is to helm the pilot for ABC hip hop drama Queens.
Story is best known for directing hit feature films including 2005's Fantastic Four and its sequel, Barbershop, Ride Along and its sequel and Shaft but he has worked…
EXCLUSIVE: A hot TV package is hitting the premium marketplace. Oscar winner Barbra Streisand is set to executive produce Lioness, a drama series about the life of Golda Meir headlined by Emmy-nominated Unorthodox star Shira Haas, from MGM/UA Television in association with Nina Tassler and Denise Di Novi PatMa…
Jean-Rene Zetrenne is set to board UTA as its chief people officer. The agency has selected Zetrenne to lead its Human Resources operations across its global offices, and as UTA partner. Zetrenne is set to officially step into his new role in late March.
Prior to joining UTA, Zetrenne served as chief talent officer…
The Motion Picture Sound Editors are out with nominations for the 68th annual Golden Reel Awards, which recognize sound artists in 22 categories spanning film, TV, toons, computer entertainment and student productions.
Eight films will vie in the marquee Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Underscore…
The term “privilege gone wild” pops out in this new Netflix trailer for the upcoming documentary Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal. Combining original interviews with “narrative recreations” based on actual FBI wiretapped conversations, the doc takes a behind-the-scenes look at the scandal that…
At least 10 women and one man are accusingT.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle stars Tip “T.I.” Harris and Tameka “Tiny” Harris of multiple sex, weapons and drugging crimes spanning 15 years.
Attorney Tyrone Blackburn held a news conference today to announce that he is seeking criminal charges against the couple (read the…
EXCLUSIVE: Open Road Films and Briarcliff Entertainment jointly acquired U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to Separation, a horror film directed by William Brent Bell (The Devil Inside, The Boy) and starring Rupert Friend, Violet McGraw, Mamie Gummer, Madeline Brewer and Brian Cox. The distributor has set an April…
EXCLUSIVE: Former Luke Cage star Theo Rossi is set as a series regular opposite Kevin Hart and Wesley Snipes in the Netflix limited series True Story, written and executive produced by Narcos: Mexico executive producer Eric Newman and produced by Hart's HartBeat Production.
Philadelphia-born comedian Hart will play a…
Rashida Jones has more than a few strings to her bow. Between roles in a slew of cult TV hits like The Office, Parks and Recreation and Angie Tribeca, writing skills that span everything from poignant indie film Celeste & Jesse Forever to Toy Story 4 and Black Mirror, her Grammy-winning documentary Quincy, and a…
Updated Monday AM: Warner Bros is reporting this morning that Tim Story’s Tom & Jerry didn’t do $13.7M for the weekend, rather $14.1M. That’s a very good indication that an upbeat vibe is developing among moviegoer confidence as this pandemic slowly starts to draw its curtains. Rival studio estimates as of yesterday…
