Few expect any of the new players to dislodge the dominant digital brands right away, but Disney’s push that begins today symbolizes the extraordinary and pricey efforts by traditional media giants to voluntarily disrupt themselves.
Gotham City is no Mickey Mouse town and the homicidal Harley Quinn will never be Disney princess material. The are two indirect takeaways from the just-released trailer for Harley Quinn, the animated original series that premieres Nov. 29 on the DC Universe subscription streaming service. The show is traditionally…
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation will bestow a Solve Together: A Special Recognition for World Changing Ideas award on WarnerMedia for Chasing the Cure, the TNT/TBS series and 24/7 digital platform that helps people suffering from undiagnosed, misdiagnosed or uncured medical mysteries in real time.
The honor…
EXCLUSIVE: Fast & Furious star Jordana Brewster is set to lead opposite Jeffrey Dean Morgan in Shrine, the Screen Gems feature adaptation to James Herbert's 1983 horror novel of the same name. Evan Spiliotopoulos is directing the film from a screenplay he adapted.
It’s about a disgraced journalist who discovers a…
There’s a very good chance that an original movie, 20th Century’s Ford v Ferrari, is poised to best a rival studio franchise reboot, Sony’s Charlie’s Angels at the box office this weekend, $20M-$30M+ to $10M-$12M. That’s great for these types of adult titles in a year when most major studios have flooded the…
UPDATED with closing prices.Disney stock bucked an otherwise break-even Tuesday trading day as the tech issues that marred the Disney+ streaming debut seemed only to stoke investor interest.
Shares in Disney led the Dow Jones Industrial Average higher, rising 1.5% to close at $138.74 on twice its normal trading…
UPDATED, 2:05 PM: WGN America has set the Season 2 premiere of its Jerry O’Connell-led comedy Carter for 10 p.m. Wednesday January 20, and released a new trailer. Watch it above, and read details of the show and its sophomore season below.
PREVIOUSLY, January 23: WGN America, Sony Pictures Television’s networks, and…
The WGA West is asking its members to prioritize the issues they would most like to be addressed at the guild's upcoming negotiations for a new film and TV contract. The current pact with management’s AMPTP – known as the Minimum Basic Agreement – expires on May 1. In a survey sent today to guild members, the union's…
When Nicolas Brown was asked to helm The Serengeti Rules, a nature documentary loosely based on the book of the same name by Sean B. Carroll, he wasn't entirely sure that a film adaptation of this particular title would be possible, or whether he'd be interested in making it.
"Sean is a molecular biologist, and [the…
Shana Tepper has joined YouTube as Head of Entertainment Communications. Starting today she will lead all press and communications strategies for the global slate of YouTube Original Series and specials focused on personalities, artists and learning.
Based in Los Angeles, she will work closely with Susanne Daniels…
British comedian John Bishop is going to cast a satirical eye over the week’s events in a new topical entertainment show for ITV.
Details on the new format were thin, but it was unveiled at the ITV Palooza, an annual upfronts event at which the broadcaster attempts to wow advertisers with its line-up for the weeks and…
Maybe Lin-Manuel Miranda really can do everything. When Broadway’s favorite bookstore — The Drama Book Shop — was evicted from its longtime Theater District home in January, Miranda and some influential pals came to its rescue.
But as any New Yorker knows to their bones, the only thing riskier than an audition is…
AGC Studios has closed several multi-million dollar territory sales for Neill Blomkamp’s next sci-fi movie, Inferno, which is set to go into production this March in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
In Inferno, Taylor Kitsch plays a cop who is called to investigate a seemingly ordinary murder in the New Mexico desert. The…
