EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, along with their production company, Jane Doe Films (fka Chain Camera Pictures), have signed with WME.
Dick and Ziering are an award-winning film team known for their groundbreaking and change-making investigatory work…
In what is perhaps television’s most COVID-19-proof schedule for 2020-21, Fox’s MyNetworkTV is welcoming back an array of off-net staples and adding even more Dateline and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Unlike its corporate siblings at the Fox broadcast network, which is contending with coronavirus on the live sports…
America’s Got Talent returned for Season 15 on Tuesday, delivering a 1.4 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 9.81 million viewers for NBC. The reality competition dominated the night as it has in past summer runs, though it dipped in the demo compared with last year’s premiere.
From one talent show to another, NBC…
Larry Kramer, the playwright whose righteous fury over a lackluster governmental – and societal – response to the early AIDS crisis fueled his groundbreaking 1985 play The Normal Heart and an activism that led in the 1980s to both the Gay Men’s Health Crisis and Act Up, died of pneumonia Wednesday in Manhattan. He was…
After earlier altering eligibility rules for motion pictures to reflect the ongoing impact of the Coronavirus pandemic, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has revealed its annual exhaustive list of eligibility rules and regulations in all their movie and tv categories. There has been very little change — other…
The World Health Organization, the United Nations Foundation and Chris Meledandri's Illumination have partnered to launch a PSA that lends Despicable Me's Gru — voiced by Steve Carell — and the Minions to reinforce safe and healthy practices during these challenging times. The PSA focuses on lifesaving behaviors to…
A new Martin Scorsese joint is coming to screens. Ok, it may not be Killers Of The Flower Moon, but fans will be intrigued by the prospect of a self-shot short made in the filmmaker's NYC home. The project has been commissioned for the BBC's Lockdown Culture with Mary Beard and will premiere in the UK on BBC Two May…
EXCLUSIVE, updated with CBS Statement:ViacomCBS has initiated a new round of post-merger layoffs across all parts of the company, which are impacting primarily the divisions within the CBS Entertainment Group, I have learned. After a couple of CBS Entertainment employees received word Tuesday night, the bulk of the…
EXCLUSIVE: After ‘virtual theatrical’ releases for Sundance title Pahokee and SXSW Grand Jury Winner Alice, Monument Releasing will do the same for SXSW drama The Surrogate, partnering directly with theaters and cultural organizations in the U.S. and Canada on June 12, 2020, with TVOD to follow on September 1, 2020.
Th…
EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Riyaana Hartley and Vincent Tran’s documentary Beyond Driven, about motor racing pioneer Lella Lombardi.
The film charts the story of the former butcher's delivery driver and ex Formula 3 Championship runner up. At the Spanish Grand Prix in 1975…
Walt Disney World Resort executives on Wednesday unveiled a phased plan to reopen its Magic Kingdom and Disney Animal Kingdom on Saturday, July 11 and Epcott and Disney Hollywood Studios on Wednesday, July 15.
Jim MacPhee, Senior Vice President of Operations, Walt Disney World Resort unveiled the timelne at a virtual…
BAFTA Breakthrough Brits, the talent showcase of rising stars in film, games and TV which has touted Florence Pugh and Letitia Wright in recent years, is significantly expanding in scope to welcome applicants from the U.S., India and China.
Under the updated moniker BAFTA Breakthrough, the initiative is taking…
