Following another streamer-dominated Sundance, where deal-making soared past $120 million, the onus at the European Film Market in Berlin is expected to shift back to a more traditional scene of single-territory theatrical acquisitions, largely by European buyers.
James Wolk (Watchmen) has been tapped as the lead in the NBC drama pilot Ordinary Joe, from House alums Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner, The Batman writer/director Matt Reeves, his 6th & Idaho banner and 20th Century Fox TV.
Written by Friend and Lerner, Ordinary Joe explores the three parallel lives of the show's…
EXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe, Tony and Olivier Award winner Janet McTeer (Ozark) has been cast as a lead opposite David Oyelowo in The President Is Missing, Showtime's drama pilot based on the novel by President Bill Clinton and James Patterson from Christopher McQuarrie and Anthony Peckham.
McTeer is a series regular in…
Angelyne director and producer Lucy Tcherniak is expanding her relationship with UCP, signing a first-look deal with the studio behind the upcoming Peacock series. The deal comes as the real-life Angelyne has boarded the eponymous series as executive producer.
Allison Miller (Strange Angel) serves as showrunner and…
The Walking Dead trial over potentially millions in unpaid profits has seen executive producers and heavyweight Hollywood lawyers take the stand the past week, but today the storm over who is owed what by whom went straight into the eye of the hurricane.
Long referenced in the nearly three-year-old suit filed by EPs Ro…
UPDATED with details from call: Imax CEO Rich Gelfond said he expects to see a surge in moviegoing in China as people want to get out and about once the coronovirus in controlled. It’s what happened in 2003 after the SARS epidemic, he noted on a conference call with investors Wednesday to discuss quarterly…
USA Network freshman drama series Briarpatch is moving from its current slot at 10 p.m. Thursdays to 11 p.m. Mondays beginning February 24. The move comes two weeks after its series premiere.
Showrunner Andy Greenwald revealed the news via Twitter, suggesting that the popularity of WWE wrestling could give the show a…
HBO Max has handed a pilot order to Minx, from writer Ellen Rapoport (Paramount’s Clifford the Big Red Dog, Netflix’s Desperados), Paul Feig’s Feigco Entertainment and Lionsgate TV, where the company is under a deal.
Written by Rapoport, the half-hour Minx is set in 1970s Los Angeles and centers around an earnest…
EXCLUSIVE….Developing…We’re hearing that Paramount Players creative executives Matt Dines and Ali Bell are departing the label that they arrived to in late August 2017. While these two key execs are leaving, the Paramount Players will remain in operation under the oversight of Paramount Motion Pictures Group president…
It’s all about the progeny. MTV and Sean “Diddy” Combs have set the judges for their revival of the reality competition series Making the Band, and the acorns didn’t fall far from the tree.
The mogul’s sons Christian Combs, Quincy Brown and Justin Combs are set for the panel along with creative director and celebrity…
EXCLUSIVE: Angus Sampson (Insidious franchise) is set as a series regular opposite Kiele Sanchez in CBS' drama The Lincoln Lawyer, from The Practice creator David E. Kelley based on Michael Connelly's series of bestselling novels. It hails from A+E Studios, which will co-produce with CBS TV Studios.
Sampson will play…
EXCLUSIVE:Tate Donovan is set as the male lead opposite Melissa Leo in the Fox pilot Blood Relative, a forensic genealogy-themed crime drama from writer-producer Chris Levinson and producer Liza Chasin, Paramount Television Studios and Anonymous Content, which will co-produce with Fox Entertainment.
Blood Relative is…
Update, 12:33 pm The second day of deliberations brought more questions from the jurors in the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct trial: They asked to read all emails to, from and regarding actress Annabella Sciorra, re-hear the entire testimony of Sciorra’s friend Rosie Perez, and review all Weinstein’s…
