Hot off a big New Series win at the WGA Awards earlier this month and heading in to this weekend’s NAACP Image Awards, HBO’s Watchmen is taking on a new category and perhaps more seasons. "We discussed with the producers and felt limited series was the most accurate representation of the show and any possible future…

EXCLUSIVE: In some big podcasting news, Serial Productions, creator of hit podcasts Serial and S-Town, has hired writer-producer and former film director Neil Drumming as its new managing editor. Drumming will lead the expansion of Serial Productions' development slate, recruiting producers, writers and reporters to…

It's official. Months after the 25th anniversary of the launch of Friends, the cast will be reuniting exclusively for an untitled unscripted special for HBO Max. It will be directed by Ben Winston and produced by Fulwell 73 (The Late Late Show with James Corden) and Warner Bros. Unscripted & Alternative…

After being pressed repeatedly by Elizabeth Warren during this week’s presidential debate, Michael Bloomberg said that his company will release women from non-disclosure agreements they signed to settle complaints over sexually suggestive or offensive comments they say he made. In a statement <a…

2nd Update, Midday: Weekend estimates right now show Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog ahead of Disney/20th Century Studios’ The Call of the Wild, $26.6M to $23.6M. If you see some media reports showing Call of the Wild, ahead or in a tight race, note that’s because the outlet is only using one studio’s…

One of the more intriguing titles of this year’s Berlin Film Festival is the new Johnny Depp true life drama, Minamata in which Depp plays the famous Life magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith who in 1971 undertook the most challenging and important subject of his career in travelling to the small Japanese village of…

Netflix has ordered The Chair, a new six-episode half-hour dramedy starring and executive produced by Killing Eve‘s Sandra Oh and co-starring Jay Duplass (Transparent, Outside In). It hails from Amanda Peet (The Romanoffs) and Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Written and executive produced by…

Musician John Legend will go out on the campaign trail for Elizabeth Warren next week in advance of the South Carolina primary. Legend will appear with Warren at two rallies on Wednesday, including events in Orangeburg and Charleston. Legend and his wife, Chrissy Teigen, announced their endorsement of Warren in…

UPDATE, with additional analysis The jury in the Harvey Weinstein trial might be deadlocked on two of the weightiest counts against the former producer: predatory sexual assaults involving actress Annabella Sciorra and at least one of two other women. Each count carries a possible life sentence. Questions sent by the…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has inked filmmaker Aneil Karia, who was recently directed and co-wrote the Protagonist Pictures thriller Surge which made its world premiere in the competition slot at the Sundance Film Festival. The movie, starring 007 Q actor Ben Whishaw, is set over 24 hours in London, and follows a man who goes on…