One of the interesting aspects of this year’s contest will be to see how a few new guidelines impact the outcome of the nominations — in positive and negative ways.
Heading into the traditionally lucrative summer period, China's censors are in overdrive as two local films with big potential have been yanked from schedules at the 11th hour, while the fate of at least one other hangs in the balance. This is particularly notable given the upcoming frame would typically kick off the…
Good Deed Entertainment’s Cranked Up Films has acquired the North American distribution rights to the Irish supernatural comedy Extra Ordinary from Epic Pictures with an eye toward a Fall 2019 theatrical release.
Extra Ordinary, which premiered at Austin’s SXSW Festival in March, is the debut feature from…
In one of the first big sales of the 2019-20 broadcast development season, CBS has given a series production commitment to The Lincoln Lawyer, a legal drama from The Practice creator David E. Kelley based on Michael Connelly’s series of bestselling novels. The project hails from A+E Studios, which will co-produce with…
WarnerMedia has given 10-episode orders to two new series from Maniac creator Patrick Somerville for its upcoming streaming service. The series are: half-hour divorce comedy Made For Love, based on Alissa Nutting’s novel; with S.J. Clarkson directing and exec producing, andStation Eleven, an hourlong post-apocalyptic…
A body pulled from New York’s East River has been identified as Desmond Amofah, the popular YouTube and onetime Twitch gamer known as Etika. The NYPD confirmed the news Tuesday after putting out an earlier bulletin seeking information about the whereabouts of Etika, who was last heard from a week ago. He was…
EXCLUSIVE: Trans activist and model Corey Rae is getting a second crown — so to speak. Red Crown Productions has acquired the rights to Harry Tarre’s screenplay Queen which is based on Rae’s article “How I Became the World's First Transgender Prom Queen — A Personal Essay.”
As the title of the article suggests, the…
EXCLUSIVE: Executive producers behind two of Discovery Channel’s signature series of the past two decades, Deadliest Catch‘s Thom Beers and Jeff Conroy and American Chopper‘s Franco Porporino, will be collaborating together. Porporino has closed an overall deal with BoBCat, the Los Angeles-based production company of…
Bob Dorian, actor, magician (The Amazing Dorian) and the first prime-time host of American Movie Classics, died June 15, his family <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:acLz_oU-hPUJ:https://www.dignitymemorial.com/en-ca/obituaries/flagler-beach-fl/robert-vierengel-8745247+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&…
History hasn’t exactly been kind to Nikolai Tesla. First he essentially comes up third in a three-man race with Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, then The Current War, a movie about the whole electrical battle, gets caught up in the Harvey Weinstein scandal and delayed by nearly two years.
But now The Current War…
Disney’s Toy Story 4 drew an estimated $14.2 million Monday, taking its four-day total to $135.1M. It will continue to conquer the box office into this weekend with $60M-$70M ( a 40%-50% drop) before Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: Far From Home brings another flood of cash in next Tuesday.
Toy Story 4‘s first Monday is the…
The story of the Central Park 5 — now called the Exonerated 5 — is a part of American history that is difficult to consume and is, unfortunately, all too relevant to 2019 even though the events happened in 1989. Ava DuVernay painted an emotional, beautiful and cathartic story of the falsely accused Korey Wise, Raymond…
During CAA Amplify on Tuesday morning, President and CEO of National Women's Law Center and Co-Founder of the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund Fatima Goss Graves unpacked a lot when it came to the journey of the organization, how it goes beyond Hollywood and where they are now. Specifically, she talked about the backlash…
