‘When They See Us’ Creator Ava DuVernay & Cast Seek “Restorative Justice” In Central Park Five Series
With 16 Emmy nominations, the Netflix program gives the young men who were cleared of the high-profile crime the voices they always deserved. It also is one of the streamer’s most-watched shows this year. Here’s some background on how the show came about.
Netflix has ordered eight episodes of Brews Brothers, a new comedy series from brothers Greg Schaffer(That 70's Show, Notes From the Underbelly, Lab Rats) and The League creator Jeff Schaffer, with Alan Aisenberg (Orange is the New Black) and Mike Castle (House Guest, Clipped) set to star.
Written by Greg Schaffer, Br…
Universal’s Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw muscled into China on Friday, grossing an estimated $34.5M (RMB 245M). The figures do not include Thursday midnights and rep the 2nd best debut of 2019 for an imported movie, behind only Avengers: Endgame. Overall, this is the No. 7 best opening day ever for a foreign…
Ming-Na Wen, already a Disney staple as the voice of Mulan in the iconic original animated film and as a star of ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., has been confirmed as a castmember of The Mandalorian, the upcoming Star Wars universe series for Disney+.
Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed the news Friday during D23…
An escalation of the U.S.-China trade war Friday, with new tariffs eliciting harsh rhetoric from President Donald Trump, sent U.S. stocks tumbling as the media business kept a wary eye on the situation.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average entered the final minutes of trading at 25,365.32, down 614 points (or more than…
EXCLUSIVE: All American showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll has teamed with fellow All American executive producers Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter for one-hour drama Found, which has landed at ABC with a put pilot commitment. The project hails from Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. TV, where Berlanti and Carroll…
Brittany Runs a Marathon jumps into five New York and Los Angeles theaters this weekend ahead of a steady sprint nationwide in September. Amazon Studios picked up the title, starring Jillian Bell, following its Sundance premiere earlier this year. Fellow Sundancer Give Me Liberty from the festival's Next section heads…
3rd Update, Friday AM: On a sleepy penultimate weekend of summer, Gerard Butler’s Angel Has Fallen is looking to lord over all films with an estimated $20M take after what is looking like a $7.9M Friday – which is by the way, a tad higher than the first Friday of the series’ previous chapter London Has Fallen (+…
Good Morning America‘s Lara Spencer has apologized for a comment she made on GMA‘s Pop News segment Thursday about little Prince George taking ballet. She was criticized on social media after making the comment during the segment in which she talked about Prince George’s demanding curriculum, suggesting it was more…
The Television Academy has unveiled the juried award winners for the 71st Emmy Awards in Animation, Choreography, Interactive Programming and Motion Design categories. Read the full list below.
There are seven first-time winners and one second-time winner in Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation from…
The Austin Film Festival said Friday that Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life, the Harriet Tubman biopic Harriet and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth will be in the lineup for the 26th annual fest, which is set for October 24-31.
The first wave of films also includes the world premieres of the documentary Cowboys, written…
Netflix will take viewers inside the world of Grammy nominated rapper Travis Scott in its documentary Travis Scott: Look Mom I Can Fly, bowing globally on the streamer Aug. 28.
The film takes a look at the fast-paced world of Scott, who performed at the Super Bowl halftime, released the Grammy nominated Astroworld…
Refresh for updates from awards … The 2019 Disney Legends Awards opened this year’s edition of the D23 Expo in Anaheim with a vivid and evocative stage tribute to this year’s class, which is led by Robert Downey Jr., James Earl Jones, Jon Favreau, Christina Aguilera, Kenny Ortega, and Bette Midler.
In all, a dozen new…
