The Marvel Studios president and MCU architect won’t produce any further Spidey films after Disney and Sony Pictures failed to reach new terms that would have given the former a co-financing stake going forward.
President Donald Trump, who has been lambasted by The Simpsons before, is again the comedy target of a new teaser video from the show’s creators.
This time, Trump is involved in a parody of West Side Story featuring members of The Squad and the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates. Although no Simpsons characters…
EXCLUSIVE:Kyle Patrick Alvarez (The Stanford Prison Experiment) is set to direct and executive produce the second season of Amazon’s psychological thriller drama series Homecoming, from Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail. Additionally, Stephan James, who received a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of Walter Cruz…
Tegna stock, which ran up last week after reports of acquisition interest, shed 5% Wednesday after the company revealed it had rebuffed overtures by private equity firm Apollo Global Management.
Tegna (a near-anagram of “Gannett”) was originally part of Gannett before the company’s newspaper and TV assets were divided…
There are three top Primetime Emmy categories for dramatic storytelling — Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Limited Series and Outstanding TV Movie. In what may be a first, Carolyn Strauss scored a nomination in all three, as executive producer of HBO’sGame Of Thrones (Drama Series), Chernobyl (Limited Series)…
UCP is developing Bad Girls, an anthology series based on Ann Shen’s book Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World, with writer Liz Hannah(The Post) and Echo Lake Entertainment. Ry Russo-Young (The Sun Is Also A Star) is set to direct the pilot and executive produce. UCP is currently…
"Seeing the handwriting on the wall, two days ago the WGA dismissed without prejudice its state court case against the four agencies and simultaneously filed a counterclaim to the suit that was brought against three of the agencies for antitrust violations on the part of the guild," Ken Ziffren said Wednesday as he…
EXCLUSIVE:Â Producer and indie filmmaker Phillip Rodriguez has optioned the film and TV rights to Karl Jacoby's book The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire. Rodriguez is set to develop and produce the narrative-based project
Jacoby's prize-winning book tells the true story…
Taylor Swift’s controversial anti-Scooter efforts to re-record her old music is apparently on track, at least as intentions go. In an interview on CBS Sunday Morning this weekend, Swift confirms the plan to correspondent Tracy Smith.
Smith asks Swift about re-recording her past songs as a way to regain control of…
President Harry S. Truman once said, “Men make history, and not the other way around.”
Well, on Derek Water's long-running Drunk History, it’s the inebriated who make history — or at least try to remember it.
Through 74 episodes over the last 6 years, Waters has created one of the benchmark series for Comedy Central…
EXCLUSIVE:Â Sam Littlefield has been cast as a shady character nicknamed Mouse in a recurring role on the new CW series Batwoman.
Littlefield’s character is described only as a “dynamic figure” who is “working for Alice and the Wonderland Gang,” which suggests that this Mouse might be going down a dangerous rabbit hole…
EXCLUSIVE:Shining Vale, a half-hour horror-comedy from Divorce creator Sharon Horgan, Trial & Error co-creator Jeff Astrof and Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment, has landed at Starz with a pilot order.
The single-camera project, from Warner Bros. TV, where Astrof is under an overall deal, was originally set up at S…
EXCLUSIVE: Robert Rodriguez’s upcoming superhero pic We Can Be Heroes has justed added a flood of talent to their robust ensemble. Christian Slater (Mr. Robot, The Wife), YaYa Gosselin (FBI Most Wanted, The Purge), Akira Akbar (Captain Marvel, This Is Us) and Pedro Pascal (Narcos, Wonder Woman 1984) are set for the…
