With the SAG, PGA and ACE Eddies all weighing in, it is clear two films absorbed the most mojo in these precursor shows from the guilds, all of which overlap with the membership of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Nearly 40 years after its celebrated Off Broadway debut and subsequent hit movie adaptation, Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play, opening tonight on Broadway at the Roundabout’s American Airlines Theatre, has lost little of its power. Even in a Broadway landscape that could give home to the…
EXCLUSIVE:TNT has put in development Liars Club, a one-hour dramedy/thriller from actress and writer Amy Rutberg (Netflix’s Daredevil), Paul Giamatti and Dan Carey’s Touchy Feely Films, NCIS: New Orleans showrunner Christopher Silber and CBS TV Studios, where Touch Feely Films and Silber are under deals.
Written by…
EXCLUSIVE: I hear that Bad Robot, through its new deal at Warner Media, is exclusively developing both film and TV ideas based on DC’s Justice League Dark universe at Warner Bros.
This deal is all very nascent and at this point in time there aren’t any specific projects or characters that are being specifically…
Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said Tuesday that the streamer's army of nominations and awards — flowing freely this season — is a magnet for top talent and an insurance policy of sorts to attract A-listers in a cycle of prestige content to keep and attract viewers.
Every nod and statuette furthers the…
David Valentine Osper, a longtime executive producer and showrunner for MTV, VH1 and History, has died. He was 47.
Opser died December 30 of cancer in Los Angeles.
Most recently serving as VP Unscripted Development at MTV, his roster of producing and exec producing credits stretches from the early 2000s to last yea…
EXCLUSIVE: Disney Channel has given a cast-contingent pilot order to Ultra Violet & Blue Demon, a superhero coming-of-age luchador action-comedy from a girl’s point of view, starring and executive produced by Mexican luchador and professional wrestler Blue Demon Jr.
Written/executive produced by Pokémon Detective Pikac…
The high-profile departure of Friends from Netflix after its run as one of the most-watched shows on the streaming service elicited shrugs from the company’s management team during their fourth-quarter earnings interview Tuesday.
Asked by Michael Morris, the Guggenheim Securities analyst who moderated the earnings…
UPDATED with WGA and ATA statements and more details: Another full-service agency and Association of Talent Agents member, APA, has reached a deal with the WGA. The agency, which immediately will resume its representation of writers, also said it will bring the Television and Motion Picture Literary businesses…
UPDATED with statement from Duban’s lawyer:Deborah Dugan, the recently fired president and CEO of the Recording Academy, has filed a discrimination complaint with the EEOC, claiming that she was sexually harassed by Joel Katz, the Academy's general counsel. The complaint also alleges that she witnessed "egregious…
EXCLUSIVE:Quibi has given a series order toFlorida Man (working title), a comedy series from Blue Mountain State writers Romanski (aka Chris Romano) and Drew Hancock, and Ace Entertainment.
Written by Hancock and Romano, this outrageous anthology comedy series rips real headlines from insane stories, and tells us…
Paramount Network said that the premiere of its 68 Whiskey on Wednesday, January 15 drew 2 million viewers in Live+3 Nielsen numbers. The network today said time-shifted viewing saw double- and triple-digit ratings increases compared with the dramedy’s Live+Same Day ratings.
The first episode of the scripted series…
Tubi, one of the leading U.S. players in ad-supported streaming, will expand its service into Mexico later this year through a deal with TV Azteca.
The expansion comes as the startup also prepares to enter the UK market later this year.
TV Azteca, one of the world’s two top producers of Spanish-language television…
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.
