As the virtual European Film Market officially gets underway today, there are multiple hot-button topics reverberating behind the scenes. It starts with the growing frustration felt by a number of international buyers as the world continues to struggle with the pandemic.
Chris Harrison, who has stepped aside as host of The Bachelor after controversy erupted after he defended a contestant and her past photos and social media posts, will sit down this week with Michael Strahan on Good Morning America, Extra reported on Tuesday.
GMA is not commenting on the interview, and Harrison’s…
EXCLUSIVE: Ed Harris has set Robert Duvall and Garret Hedlund to star in The Ploughmen. This will be the third film that Harris directs, after Pollock and Appaloosa. Harris wrote the screenplay, adapted from Kim Zupan's 2014 debut novel. Amy Madigan and newcomer Lily Harris are also set for the film.
Pic is slated to…
Portrayals of Black women and girls in film are showing signs of progress, with those characters more likely to be depicted as leaders or as working in STEM professions than white females, but issues of” colorism” still exist, according to a study released Tuesday.
The research by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in…
Required 'opt-ins' will squeeze Facebook's ad business as Apple's upcoming iOS 14 update asks consumers for permission to be tracked, the social media giant's CFO reiterated Tuesday, noting other headwinds like a post-Covid spending shift from products to services, and lowering expectations for FB's Ray-Ban smart…
FuboTV ended 2020 on an upswing, reporting $105.1 million in revenue and 547,880 subscribers to its internet-delivered pay-TV bundle.
The company reported a net loss of $167.8 million in the period. That figure as well as the revenue number — Fubo’s first quarter above $100 million — beat Wall Street analysts…
Actor-comedian Alec Mapa (Doom Patrol, Ugly Betty) has been cast as the co-lead opposite Alec Baldwin and Kelsey Grammer in ABC’s straight-to-series multi-camera comedy from Modern Family co-creator/executive producer Chris Lloyd, executive producer Vali Chandrasekaran and studio 20th Television, where Lloyd and…
EXCLUSIVE: Hulu is celebrating that Lee Daniels’ The United States vs. Billie Holiday was the streamer’s No. 1 most watched movie this past weekend.
The news comes in the wake of Andra Day’s surprise Golden Globe Best Actress Motion Picture Drama win for her turn as Billie Holiday; the Grammy nominee becoming the…
Ten days before Pedro Almodóvar's first English-language film arrives in theaters, Sony Pictures Classics has a released a new trailer for The Human Voice. Watch it above.
Clocking in at an attention-span-friendly 30 minutes and starring Tilda Swinton, the pic screened at last year’s Venice, New York and London fests…
Just minutes after California announced that seven counties — including San Francisco — were being allowed to reopen further due to falling Covid-19 numbers, Governor Gavin Newsom excoriated a Tuesday decision by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to lift that state’s mask mandate.
Sharing an Associated Press story on…
UPDATE With Fox News going all in on today’s news that six Dr. Seuss books will no longer be published due to their offensive depictions of racial caricatures, White House press secretary Jen Psaki lauded efforts at diversity and inclusion in children’s literature.
Psaki was asked specifically about the wording of…
EXCLUSIVE: Mandy Patinkin has inked with ICM Partners.
Patinkin played CIA vet Saul Berenson on 96 episodes of Showtime’s Homeland, a role which landed him a Golden Globe TV supporting actor nomination and four out of his seven Emmy nominations. Patinkin won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the…
EXCLUSIVE: Scandal and United We Fall alum Guillermo Diaz is returning to ABC with a series regular role on National Parks, the network’s drama pilot co-written and executive produced by Yellowstone star Kevin Costner. The project hails from Costner's Territory Pictures Entertainment, 20th Television and A+E…
