In his first comments addressing the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s protest and threatened defamation lawsuit, the scribe behind Clint Eastwood’s thriller accuses Kevin Riley of using the disputed scene to cloak the paper’s role in ruining the Olympic Park bombing hero’s life.
Reef Break, the crime drama headlined by former Unforgettable and Without a Trace star Poppy Montgomery, which had a 13-episode run on ABC this past summer, will not be returning to the network.
The cancelation of the series, produced by ABC Studios International, comes on the heels of Disney Television Studios’ move…
Former The Walking Deadco-star Austin Amelio was on the small balcony filming a TWD Season 8 scene with stuntman John Bernecker in 2017 when Bernecker fell over, missing the protective pads underneath by two feet and landing on the concrete head-first. He died two days later from the severe head injuries.
“I saw the…
Francesca Reale (Stranger Things,Haters Back Off), Jaboukie Young-White (The Daily Show, Someone Great), Catherine Cohen (High Maintenance), and Brian Muller (The Deuce) star in Dating in New York, an indie comedy from first-time feature helmer Jonah Feingold. Set in New York, the film explores modern dating tropes…
A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit.
Who’s up? Who’s down? Who’s in? Who’s out? After a week that is probably the most consequential yet this shortened awards season, those questions remain after Golden Globes, Critics’ Choice, SAG, ACE, ADG, CDG, LAFCC and who knows who else jumped…
The news that NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke is planning to exit when his contract expires in 2020 comes at the same time the top job is also open at WarnerMedia. The two transitions atop major media companies — with a third, at Disney, looming in 2021, when CEO Bob Iger insists he will finally step away — punctuate the…
The Power Rangers are returning to the big screen thanks to Jonathan Entwistle, who is perhaps best known as the creator of the Netflix dark comedy series The End of the F***ing World. Entwistle is in early talks to direct a new iteration of Power Rangers for Paramount Pictures from a script which is being written by P…
EXCLUSIVE:HBO Max has put in developmentSnow Crash, a drama series based on Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi novel, from writer Michael Bacall (21 Jump Street), director Joe Cornish(The Man Who Would Be King), and Paramount TV.
Bacall will pen the adaptation and serve as co-showrunner with Angela Robinson (The L Word)…
The International Feature Film Oscar shortlist is due out on Monday, with an expanded 10 titles up from the traditional nine. Preliminary voting closed in the category on Wednesday with the first seven films determined (although still held under wraps) and the Executive Committee will meet Monday morning to decide on…
EXCLUSIVE:Martin Scorsese’s epic 3 1/2-hour-plus The Irishman has been at the forefront of the Oscar conversation since its world premiere at the New York Film Festival in September. It was borne from the 145-page shooting script from Steve Zaillian, the four-time Oscar-nominated screenwriter who won the Academy…
Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly says in an Instagram post that her 6-year-old son was “confused” by the movie poster for Bombshell — he apparently mistook Charlize Theron’s look-alike makeover for the real thing — and says she only saw the “loosely based” film “once it was past the point of any possible edits.”
In…
The editorial staff of NBC News Digital has voted 90-40 to join the NewsGuild of New York. The new bargaining unit includes reporters, video journalists, editors, social media strategists, designers and editorial staff from nbcnews.com, today.com, StayTuned, msnbc.com, and NBC News Now.
"We are proud to officially…
Found footage movies are of the horror genre, but filmmaker Jack Henry Robbins is changing all that with his forthcoming comedy VHYES. Oscilloscope Laboratories released the first trailer for the film and as you can see, it takes found footage to a whole new — and kind of bizarre — level.
As seen in the trailer, the…
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.
