The prolific multihyphenate who just opened his sprawling production facility — on the site of an old Confederate Army base — talks about that big step, his new shows, the streaming future and his relationship with his loyal audience.
This is Q&A season in Hollywood, but the rules of the game are changing. To wit: I am onstage with Meryl Streep. Her new movie titled The Laundromat has just been screened and I am posing questions. Why did she decide to star in a very political movie? Why does she depict a victim — a woman who is put upon by two evil…
None of NBC’s new fall series will make it to midseason. Comedy Sunnyside already has been pulled off the linear network — it was moved to NBC’s digital platforms while expanding its initial order from 10 to 11 episodes — while drama Bluff City Law will not get a back order, finishing out its 10-episode order on…
EXCLUSIVE:Legendary Television has optioned Grass Kings, the Eisner Award-nominated graphic novel series published by Boom! Studios and created by writer Matt Kindt (Mind Mgmt) and artist Tyler Jenkins (Peter Panzerfaust), for series development. Grant Wheeler & Ben Freiburger are attached to adapt the rural mystery…
Rita Ferro, Disney’s president of ad sales, received the Frank Stanton Award for Excellence in Communication during a luncheon Wednesday in New York attended by a number of senior-level colleagues.
ESPN anchor Kenny Mayne, ABC entertainment chief Karey Burke and Direct to Consumer and International Chairman Kevin Mayer…
EXCLUSIVE:Girls alumna Zosia Mamet is set for a key series regular role alongside Kaley Cuoco in HBO Max's dark comedic thriller drama series The Flight Attendant, starring and executive produced by Cuoco.
The Flight Attendant is a story of how an entire life can change in one night. A flight attendant (Cuoco) wakes…
Made by CNN Films and Statement Pictures, with Neon looking after worldwide theatrical rights, Apollo 11 lovingly retells the story of mankind's mission to the moon in 1969. Director, producer and editor Todd Douglas Miller painstakingly wrestled thousands of hours of archive audio and footage, much of it unseen, into…
Chance the Rapper, pulling double duty as this weekend’s host and musical guest of NBC’s Saturday Night Live Halloween episode, gets into the spirit of the season in the show’s latest promo: a pumpkin-carving contest with SNL‘s Ego Nwodim.
“A little sloppy,” Nwodim says about Chance’s first entry in the carve off…
"I can feel the ancestors at my back when I'm here, when I'm walking the land and when I'm taking it all in," declares Tyler Perry of the Atlanta studio the Madea creator just opened officially in Atlanta on what was once the site of a confederate Army base. "I completely feel it, man. It's overwhelming to me."
Having…
James Murdoch really doesn't watch Succession and also doesn't watch Fox News Channel.
Proving he is far from Roman Roy on the Emmy nominated HBO media dynasty series, Rupert Murdoch's youngest son today circumspectly handled a slew of questions about his family and the new ground he's staking out for himself…
The PGA Foundation has rounded out its lineup for next month Produced By: New York conference, with teams behind awards-season films Dark Waters and Honey Boy joining the event’s masterclass agenda and Dan Lin, Elaine Frontain Bryant, Lori McCreary and Banks Tarver toplining the closing keynote panel entitled “The…
With Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World, directed by her frequent collaborator Hans Pool, producer Femke Wolting offers a first-hand look at the information revolution transpiring in our era, and the rise of a collective of "citizen investigative journalists" known as Bellingcat. Nominated for an International…
