The coronavirus pandemic has led to a new way of doing things, including at the canceled Cannes Film Festival’s usually bustling indie film market. Here’s how a rare coalition of Hollywood agencies and, separately, Marché organizers plan to make the industry’s most vital cultural and business platform as business-as-usual as possible.
As the film and TV industry prepares to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic, Thom Davis, business manager of IATSE Local 80, told his members that "We must recognize that we cannot eliminate 100% of the risk, but we are working toward the goal of providing for the safest workplace possible. There is a deep…
History’s Grantminiseries has made a bit of history itself. The Memorial Day premiere of the six-hour miniseries, which airs over three consecutive nights, drew 3 million total viewers for its first installment, marking the network’s best non-fiction miniseries launch in Total Viewers in six years, and the No. 2…
Director Nisha Ganatra scored points with me for delivering a smart, female-driven comedy last year in Late Night with Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling. It was set in the showbiz sector of late-night television talk shows but focused on two women, very different yet striving for similar professional goals in a…
After years of anticipation, “next-generation” broadcast technology made its full-time debut Tuesday on Las Vegas stations owned by Nexstar Media Group, Sinclair Broadcast Group and E.W. Scripps.
Sinclair's NBC affiliate, KSNV, and CW affiliate, KVCW; Nexstar's CBS affiliate, KLAS; and Scripps' ABC station KTNV are…
MasterChef Australia, one of the biggest non-scripted formats down under, aired its first episode produced under COVID-19 safety protocols last night.
The show, which airs on ViacomCBS-owned Network Ten, offered a glimpse of how reality producers in the U.S. may be able to get their unscripted projects back up and…
Institutional Shareholder Services, an influential de facto corporate watchdog, is advising stockholders to vote no on executive compensation for Netflix, Comcast and Google parent Alphabet at annual meetings this week, while slamming the pay criteria at Facebook.
ISS is one of a handful of firms that recommend how…
EXCLUSIVE: It's all very quiet on the international box office front, but this past weekend saw some decent increases in various markets. Cinemas are still just sputtering back to operations around the world, notably in parts of Europe and Asia.
Germany remains the key major driving admissions — and largely from…
Showtime Documentary Films unveiled a new docu feature from Oscar-winning director Errol Morris (Wormwood, The Fog of War) that will spotlight the polarizing psychedelic drug advocate Timothy Leary. The docu, which currently has the working title of A Film By Errol Morriswill debut later this year on Showtime.
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“I honestly think it may have changed my life.” That was James Corden’s verdict on Normal People after watching the BBC and Hulu series for the first time. He was not alone in being moved by the show.
An adaptation of Sally Rooney’s bestselling novel of the same name, the atmospheric drama about a couple’s on-and-off…
Governor Gavin Newsom announced during his Tuesday Coronavirus press conference that, while he had hoped to present guidelines for restarting film and TV production today, he is pushing back that announcement to confer with guilds and producers.
“We chose to engage a little more formally” in the conversations, he…
Richard Herd, an instantly recognizable character actor who recurred as Mr. Wilhelm on Seinfeld and appeared in All the President’s Men, The China Syndrome and several Star Trek projects, among many other credits, died Tuesday in Los Angeles of cancer complications. He was 87.
Herd’s death was announced by his wife…
