After a period when Netflix, Hulu and Amazon reigned virtually unchallenged, the SVOD landscape is getting more crowded than the last act of ‘Avengers: Endgame.’ How will the Big Three fare as big-budget competitors enter the fray?
Julian Fellowes has admitted that he was "daunted" about turning Downton Abbey from a television series to a feature film and that it was "peculiar" but "nice" to have the cast back together.
The writer was doing a Twitter Q&A after the launch of the debut trailer for the film. It comes as Universal Pictures…
With the Cannes Film Festival now lining up in front of the Palais for the world premiere of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Sony Pictures has dropped the full trailer for the Los Angeles in 1969-set drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt.
The most anticipated screening of the fest, the film…
Alabama Public Television has refused to air PBS’ recent episode of kids series Arthur, which featured a same-sex marriage.
In the episode, titled “Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone”, the title character’s third-grade teacher Mr. Ratburn gets married — to Patrick, a chocolatier.
Mike McKenzie, director of…
EXCLUSIVE: The Alienist writer John Sayles is developing a limited series set in the world of televangelism with AGC Television.
Sayles, who has been nominated for a best screenwriting Oscar for Passion Fish and Lone Star, is developing Electric Church with Black Mirror director John Hillcoat on board to…
EXCLUSIVE: The OA: Part II's Kingsley Ben-Adir has booked a recurring guest star role on High Fidelity, the reimagining of Nick Hornby's 1995 novel and the 2000 feature starring John Cusack. The series, which recently moved from Disney+ to fellow streaming platform Hulu, is told from a female point of view with Zoë…
Late-night TV hosts celebrated Game of Thrones’ triggered fans and stealth water bottles the night after the HBO’s highly hyped series finale.
“Let's kick it off with the story everyone is talking about,” The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah began his Monday monologue, noting “some people are taking it very hard.”
Noah was…
EXCLUSIVE: Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired world rights to Eco-Terrorist: The Battle for our Planet, Peter Jay Brown's follow-up to his 2010 feature documentary Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist. The deal, made at the Cannes film market, has the film targeting a September theatrical release in the U.S.
The pic (see…
Netflix has unveiled episodic trailers and titles for Season 5 of its Emmy-winning anthology series Black Mirror. See above and below.
The first is titled, “Smithereens” and stars Andrew Scott, Damson Idris and Topher Grace. It centers on a cab driver with an agenda becomes the centre of attention on a day that…
Little Island Productions, one of the producers of BAFTA-winning Patrick Melrose and Amazon's forthcoming epic fantasy drama The Wheel Of Time, is looking to enter its next phase of growth with plans to open a base in LA and ramp up its slate of originals.
This comes as its latest original series, Stephen Poliakoff's…
George R.R. Martin is sharing his thoughts on the ending of Game of Thrones on his Not a Blog. After eight seasons, Martin says “it is hard to believe it is over,” thanking the cast, crew, showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss, co-executive producer Bryan Cogman, and the team at HBO.
The author of A Song of Ice and F…
While Netflix for years has insisted it has no plans to introduce an ad-supported layer to its streaming service, it has formed a new teaming with Coca-Cola that fuses both brands in a promotion for the new season of Stranger Things.
Such is the heat on the show and the rarity of an opportunity to have proximity to…
“I call them my children, because they are.” So says Olympia Dukakis’ Anna Madrigal about her extended, lovingly constructed tribe of Barbary Lane kindred spirits in the official trailer for Netflix’s new Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City limited series.
Set for a June 7 global launch, this Tales – the fourth TV…
Forty years after the Cannes Palme d'Or saved Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece from oblivion, the ultimate disruptor reflects on life before and after "Apocalypse Now."
