‘When They See Us’ Creator Ava DuVernay & Cast Seek “Restorative Justice” In Central Park Five Series
With 16 Emmy nominations, the Netflix program gives the young men who were cleared of the high-profile crime the voices they always deserved. It also is one of the streamer’s most-watched shows this year. Here’s some background on how the show came about.
EXCLUSIVE: Actor-comedian Vladimir Caamaño (Superstore) has been added to cast of CBS’ upcoming drama series Tommy as a regular.
Tommy, from the Bull team of co-creator Paul Attanasio and producer Amblin TV, stars Edie Falco as Abigail "Tommy" Thomas, a former high-ranking NYPD officer who becomes the first female…
UPDATED with final numbers: CBS’ Big Brother topped a Thursday again littered with NFL preseason preemptions, coming away as the night’s top-rated and most-watched program with a 1.2 rating and 4.36 million viewers. The show saw only a tenth of a point shaved from its NFL-inflated preliminary numbers, which were…
The cinematographer behind FX comedy What We Do in the Shadows, D.J. Stipsen would have been "petrified" by the prospect of shooting the series, had he not already collaborated with Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi on a 2014 film of the same name.
Following vampire roommates, as they cope with the mundane tasks of…
EXCLUSIVE: Jasmine Mathews, one of the stars of the Sweetbitter series on Starz, is set to appear alongside Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, J.K Simmons, Betty Gilpin Theo Von, and Sam Richardson in the Skydance sci-fi film, Ghost Draft.
Chris McKay is directing the Zach Dean-penned thriller about a husband and father…
EXCLUSIVE: Last we saw Kit Harington, the Game of Thrones star’s Jon Snow character ended that HBO series with a walk north of The Wall into the forest with the Free Folk Wildlings, his punishment for slaying his mad queen lover, Daenerys Targaryen. So where did he go?
Deadline hears it is to the Marvel Cinematic…
A former U.S. Attorney has been appointed by a Chicago judge as special prosecutor to investigate the Jessie Smollett case. Dan Webb will be tasked with finding out why the Cook County State's Attorney dropped charges against the Empire actor in March.
Smollett was charged with 16 counts of disorderly conduct for…
Nick Jones Jr., the opposition candidate for secretary-treasurer of the WGA West, is a Marine Corps veteran who said in a statement today that the guild has been outflanked in its ongoing battle with Hollywood's talent agents.
"I was taught in the military to have an appreciation of the enemy," he said. "Know their…
EXCLUSIVE: As the dust settles on the Disney/Marvel and Kevin Feigeexit from the Sony’s Spider-Man franchise, the next looming tug of war might well be over director Jon Watts, who catapulted from the small-budget Sundance film Cop Car to the A-list helmer of the $880 million-grosser Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider…
The 20-episode, two-part final season of Netflix’s The Ranch kicks off next month, and now we have our first trailer for what’s being bill as Part 7 of the comedy starring Ashton Kutcher, Sam Elliott, Debra Winger and Elisha Cuthbert. Check it out above and see some first-look photos below.
The final season sees Colt…
UPDATED with closing numbers An escalation of the U.S.-China trade war Friday, with new tariffs eliciting harsh rhetoric from President Donald Trump, sent U.S. stocks tumbling as the media business kept a wary eye on the situation.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average entered the final minutes of trading at 25,628.90…
Netflix has ordered eight episodes of Brews Brothers, a new comedy series from brothers Greg Schaffer(That ’70s Show, Notes From the Underbelly, Lab Rats) and The League creator Jeff Schaffer, with Alan Aisenberg (Orange Is the New Black) and Mike Castle (House Guest, Clipped) set to star.
Written by Greg Schaffer, Br…
Universal’s Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw muscled into China on Friday, grossing an estimated $34.5M (RMB 245M). The figures do not include Thursday midnights and rep the 2nd best debut of 2019 for an imported movie, behind only Avengers: Endgame. Overall, this is the No. 7 best opening day ever for a foreign…
