The Sacha Baron Cohen pic has generated more headlines than any movie in recent memory, and its Google searches over the past week rival ‘Star Wars.’ Here’s how the streamer’s $80 million negative-pickup deal for ‘Subsequent Moviefilm’ got done while it still was in production.
The AFI Conservatory has canceled the 2022 class of its Directing Workshop for Women due to the coronavirus pandemic. The program, which has trained more than 350 female filmmakers since 1974, will continue teaching its current class, though much of their training has been pushed back until next year.
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EXCLUSIVE: Lela Loren has joined the ensemble of Sony’s action comedy Man From Toronto starring Kevin Hart and Woody Harrelson. Kaley Cuoco is also on board.
The film revolves around a case of mistaken identity after the world's deadliest assassin, known as the "man from Toronto," and a stranger, played by Hart, run…
The Walt Disney Studios is in development on Greek Freak, a live action film for Disney+ inspired by the true life story of NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo and his family. Akin Omotoso is attached to direct.
Giannis Antetokounmpo is one of the NBA’s biggest stars who just won second MVP in a row and his brother Kostas…
EXCLUSIVE: Soumya Sriraman, who stepped down as President and CEO of BritBox this month, is joining another streamer. Sriraman has been named Head of Amazon’s Prime Video Channels in the US.
She will overseeing the division of Prime Video that offers U.S. Prime members access to channels like HBO, Showtime, Starz, PBS…
Byron Allen's Allen Media Group has acquired MGM's over-the-air broadcast television networks This TV and Light TV.
The price wasn't disclosed. The networks, a mix of MGM's film and television content, are available through over-the-air, cable and online for free. This TV launched in 2008. Light TV, with family…
Fox has given a script commitment with penalty to The Counsel (fka Untitled Sunny Hostin Project) a one-hour drama from Sunny Hostin, Scott Free Productions and Universal Television. The project is a co-production of Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, and Fox Entertainment.
Written by Erica…
EXCLUSIVE: Cush Jumbo (The Good Fight), James Nesbitt (The Missing), Richard Armitage (The Stranger) and Sarah Parish (Bancroft) have been set as cast in the series adaptation of Harlan Coben's New York Times bestselling novel Stay Close at Netflix.
Nicola Shindler is exec producing the project for Studiocanal-owned Re…
UPDATE, 2:35 PM:Â Â With just six days to go in a tight Los Angeles County District Attorney’s race, incumbent Jackie Lacey’s office just unveiled seven new sexual assault charges against Ron Jeremy.
Involving six women, including a 17-year old, the new charges that the porn star is facing plus previous claims, could…
EXCLUSIVE: Madison Pettis (American Pie Presents: Girls’ Rules), Peyton Meyer (American Housewife), Isabella Crovetti (Magic Camp), Annie Jacob (Motherland: Fort Salem) and Myra Molloy (The Bold Type) are the latest to be added to the cast of He’s All That, the Miramax modern remix to 90s teen classic She’s All That…
In the MTV Documentary Films feature 76 Days, director Hao Wu (People’s Republic of Desire, All in My Family) chronicles the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan, China. The feature docu immerses the audience in the panic and fear of the emerging COVID-19 outbreak on January 23, 2020 in the city of 11…
Production has started in Toronto on Y: The Last Man, the upcoming Diane Lane-starring FX on Hulu drama series based on the Eisner Award-winning DC Comics series.
There are two new cast changes on the project as Ashley Romans and Olivia Thirlby have joined the series, replacing originally cast Lashana Lynch and Imogen…
