The Sacha Baron Cohen pic has generated more headlines than any movie in recent memory, and its Google searches over the past week rival ‘Star Wars.’ Here’s how the streamer’s $80 million negative-pickup deal for ‘Subsequent Moviefilm’ got done while it still was in production.
A Zoom-facilitated love-in was celebrated by nearly two-dozen cast and crew members of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Amores Perros, which has been given a major technical overhaul on the occasion of its 20th birthday. The director's first feature, which won the top prize in the Critics Week sidebar at the 2000 Cannes…
Production has wrapped in London on director Jon Wright's (Grabbers) creature feature The Little People, whose under-the-radar cast is revealed today as fast-rising Brit actress Hannah John-Kamen (Resident Evil) and Douglas Booth (The Dirt) as a couple who escape their urban nightmare to the tranquility of rural…
Meghan Markle is going to have to wait a little longer to see if she emerges victorious from her legal battle with British newspaper The Mail On Sunday after the trial was delayed by nine months to autumn next year.
Court reporter Tristan Kirk confirmed the news, saying the High Court judge had agreed to the delay…
Imax on Thursday reported third-quarter earnings for the period ended September 30. Revenues were $37.3 million versus $86.4M in the third quarter of 2019, largely impacted by the global COVID-19 pandemic. The result is, however, much better than Q2, which saw revenues of just $8.9M. In part that's down to the…
The BBC has published extensive guidelines on how its staff should be conducting themselves on social media amid fears that tweeting could be tarnishing the corporation’s strict code of impartiality.
In an email to staff on Thursday, BBC director general Tim Davie set out the new guidelines, which include a detailed…
Channel 4, the British broadcaster behind global hits including The End Of The F***ing World, has said that it will end 2020 on a sure financial footing after it was ravaged by a 50% drop in advertising revenue at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Great British Bake Off network provided an update on its 2020…
YMU Names Group CEO
European talent firm YMU, which has clients across sports, music, drama and comedy, will appoint Mary Bekhait as its Group CEO on January 1, stepping up from her current role as UK CEO. She replaces Neil Rodford who, after 20 years with the group, will step down to become Chairman or the…
British Comedian Bobby Ball Dies
Bobby Ball, the British comedian and star of shows including BBC One’s Not Going Out, has died at the age of 76 after testing positive for coronavirus. He was one half of double-act Cannon and Ball alongside Tommy Cannon, while he has appeared in comedies including Last of the Summer Wi…
Consumer demand for high-speed internet surged last quarter at NBCUniversal parent Comcast even as theme park revenue plunged 80% in a mixed earnings report that reflected the ongoing pandemic. Theatrical revenue, for instance, plunged 95%, home entertainment sales surged nearly 50%.
Peacock sign-ups hit 22 million…
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the engaging first trailer for drama Under My Skin, which gets its world premiere today at the Raindance Film Festival in London.
The story follows Denny, a free spirit and artist who falls for Ryan, a strait-laced lawyer. When Denny questions gender, their love is tested.
The lead character, Denny…
Pedro Almodovar, Agnieszka Holland and Paweł Pawlikowski are among 592 signatories to a letter calling for the introduction of a levy that would see streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon be forced to re-invest at least 25% of their turnover in European countries back into local independent industry.
This…
Leanza Cornett, the American TV personality and former Miss America winner, has died at the age of 49 after suffering a head injury earlier this month.
The Miss America Organization and her former husband Mark Steines both confirmed the death in separate social media posts. Reports said she suffered the head injury on…
