The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ annual report for Fiscal Year 2019 shows that Oscar-related revenue dipped half a percentage point, to $131.1 million. It’s not a big drop, but it’s an unhappy marker for a group that has taken pride in annual increases and has been banking on future income to finance its ambitious Academy Museum.
EXCLUSIVE: Mohammed Ali Naqvi’s latest documentary feature, The Accused: Damned or Devoted?, will receive its first UK broadcast on BBC Four on March 2.
The BBC Storyville project focuses on Pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws by following ambitious Cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi, examining the cases of those accused…
Oliver Stone will preside over the International Competition jury at the first Red Sea International Film Festival, which takes place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 12-21.
The Platoon filmmaker's jury will hand out six prizes: the Golden Yusr for Best Feature Film (which comes with $100,000), and Silver Yusrs for Best…
Sky has unveiled the first trailer for its Patrick Dempsey-fronted financial thriller Devils.
The broadcaster is launching the series, which comes out of its Italian division, in April.
Dempsey, who is to star in CBS pilot Ways and Means, plays bank CEO Dominic Morgan in the ten-part drama, who welcomes Massimo…
Disney has struck a multi-year film and TV deal with Nordic Entertainment Group that covers the latter's Viaplay streaming service and linear channels.
The contract extension will give Viaplay and Viasat pay-TV channels the exclusive first-pay window for 20th Century Studios's latest blockbuster films from in the…
A petition to “save our BBC” has attracted more than 100,000 signatures in less than 24 hours after unnamed government sources threatened to “whack” the British broadcaster by scrapping the licence fee and forcing it to radically scale back its services.
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EXCLUSIVE: New York investment firm KKR began its remarkable German buying spree 12 months ago. When it was done, one of the world’s biggest film and TV markets looked dramatically different.
The ambitious studio it created, Leonine, is an accumulation of companies including film and TV powerhouse TMG, film…
John Oliver opened his seventh season of HBO’s Last Week Tonight by taking aim at the media hyping a potential rift between William Barr and Donald Trump, after the attorney general complained last week about the president’s tweeting about Justice Department matters.
Oliver even gave credit to Fox News host Laura Ingr…
Dr. Amie Harwick, a well-known Hollywood family and sex therapist, was killed Saturday at her home in the Hollywood Hills, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
“On Saturday, February 15, 2020, around 1:16 a.m. Hollywood patrol officers responded to a radio call of a ‘woman screaming’ in the 2000 block of…
Jason Davis, a former child star and voice actor on the Disney Channel animated series Recess, died Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 35.
On Recess, Davis voiced the character of Mikey Blumberg from 1997-2001 during the show’s six-season run. In addition to his voice work, he appeared on Dave’s World and Roseanne as a…
Jennifer Hudson turned in an emotional tribute to late Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant Sunday at the NBA All-Star Game in Chicago.
The award-winning singer and actress sang the classic “For All We Know” just before the game got underway. As images of Bryant and his daughter Gianna played on a screen behind her…
International Women’s Day arrives on March 8, and NBC Sports Network will celebrate by using an all-female crew to broadcast and produce game coverage of the St. Louis Blues vs. Chicago Blackhawks National Hockey League matchup.
The game will mark the first NHL contest broadcast and produced solely by women in the…
A woman who claims singer/songwriter Rick James raped her at a group home in 1979 is suing his estate.
The woman, who was not identified in court papers, said James raped her at a group home in Buffalo. The lawsuit was filed on Thursday against the James Ambrose Johnson Jr. 1999 Trust, which is run by the singer's…
