This year’s market has been the toughest one to handicap in a good long time. It might well be quiet, meaning that the sums could be modest with dealmaking for most films lingering beyond the festival. But that doesn’t mean that the mart won’t pop with a handful of big deals.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday accused NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly of violating “basic rules of journalism and decency” regarding a contentious interview and its aftermath.
On Friday, Pompeo abruptly ended his interview with Kelly after she pressed him on why he had not specifically defended former U.S…
For BBC wildlife producer and director Chadden Hunter, there is a scene in Seven Worlds, One Planet that sums up the show’s mission. The sequence centers on manatees gliding around hot springs in Florida’s crystal blue waters, but its dreamy quality ends with a wake-up call, as drone footage pulls out from the ocean…
President Donald Trump faces off today and gets a chance to tell the Senate his side of the story. An early travel and photo lid has been called by the White House, no doubt so the President can watch the proceedings.
Watching, though, doesn’t mean inaction. The Commander-in-Tweet has already been busy on Twitter…
This year, the Sundance Film Festival is showing a strong slate of diverse filmmakers and stories such as Justin Simien’s Bad Hair, Dee Rees’ The Last Thing He Wanted, HBO’s Welcome to Chechnya, Sam Feder’s doc Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen, Bao Nguyen’s Be Water, John James’ Siempre, Luis, Janicza…
The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump continues Saturday on Capitol Hill after four marathon sessions this week that set the rules for the proceeding and laid out the House Democrats’ case. The president’s defense team led by Jay Sekulow takes over today, and here’s is a guide on how to watch it on TV and…
Sundance drama-thriller Surge, starring Ben Whishaw, marks the feature debut of Brit filmmaker Aneil Karia. We sat down with the director to discuss his first movie, which he says “ebbed and flowed in early development for around five years”.
In Surge, Whishaw stars as a man trapped in a soulless job, living a life…
3RD UPDATE, Friday PM Writethru following midday update: Who says January stinks at the box office?
Sony’sBad Boys for Life and Universal-Amblin-New Republic’s 1917 are poised to fly past the $100M mark this weekend, becoming 2020’s first two century-grossing titles at the domestic box office.
Bad Boys for Life…
A couple weeks after Deadline reported that Ruben Fleischer was atop the list to direct Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg in Sony Pictures’ Uncharted, and the race was on to keep the pic on track to shoot before the next installment of Holland’s Spider-Man, the studio changed the release date of the Columbia Pictures…
Megyn Kelly was right, that was fun. When the former Fox News and NBC News host announced Tuesday that she would be a first-time guest on Real Time with Bill Maher she also predicted a lively time (“Now this ought to be fun…,” she told Twitter) and she wasn’t wrong. Some highlights below.
On her time away from the…
Jennifer Aniston guest hosted The Ellen Show today while the regular star was out renewing her driver’s license. So, naturally, it was time to renew some old ties for comic effect.
Aniston, as most people in civilization know, spent 10 years working on the Warner Brothers lot for Friends, where The Ellen Show is now…
The 45th annual Humanitas Prizes honoring film and television writers whose work inspires compassion, hope, and understanding in the human family, were handed out Friday night at the Beverly Hilton.
Motion picture winners included Searchlight Pictures’ Jojo Rabbit, the Taika Waititi written and directed war satire…
Rapper YG was arrested this morning at his Chatsworth, Calif. mansion on suspicion of robbery by Los Angleles County sheriffs.
He is scheduled to appear Sunday as part of a Grammys tribute to slain rapper Nipsey Hussle, performing with John Legend and Meek Mill, among others.
YG, whose real name is Keenon Jackson, was…
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.
