What’s going on right now at the box office and with movie theaters and the melting 2020 release schedule goes far beyond the muted $30 million domestic results for Warner Bros’ “Tenet.” This is a come-to-Jesus moment: Movie studios and big-circuit exhibition companies, really, you’ve got to work together.
There is plenty of reason to worry about what may happen on election night, what with an expected uptick in mail-in voting, concerns over suppression in key swing states and President Donald Trump already declaring that the results will be rigged if he doesn’t win.
HBO is giving a reminder of what a disputed election…
EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment One is soon taking out a package, an adaptation of the Sylvain Neuvel novella The Test.John Boyega and Payman Maadi star in the Gavin Hood-drama about a soft-spoken immigrant (Maadi) taking a citizen evaluation test, and a brilliant young behavioral psychologist (Boyega) supervising "the…
EXCLUSIVE: We can expect more trouble from Tierney in the upcoming season of the CW’s Pandora.Tina Casciani, who recurred as the character in Season 1, has been promoted to series regular for Season 2 of the sci-fi action series.
Casciani’s Tierney is the ruthless leader of the criminal organization the Hypatia…
CBS’ Big Brother was the top-rated show in primetime Thursday, scoring a 1.0 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic to go along with 4.14 million viewers. It teamed with fellow reality mate Love Island (0.5, 2.03M) to help the network finish No. 1 in the key demo overall in early Nielsen numbers. ABC was tops in…
Harry Macqueen’s Supernova, which makes its world premiere bow at the San Sebastián Film Festival next week, is a film founded in contrasts. A simple, intimate love story that follows a middle-aged gay couple, Sam and Tusker, on a road trip through England’s Lake District as they get to grips with Tusker’s diagnosis…
Beyond Fest has set the slate for its 2020 edition that will run October 2-8, opening with a double bill of the world premiere of Jim Cummings’ The Wolf of Snow Hollow and Joe Dante’s 1989 pic The Burbs. The fest will close with the world premiere of Blumhouse and Christopher Landon’s body-swap slasher film Freaky…
EXCLUSIVE:JDS Sports has partnered with magazine-turned-media company SLAM and camp business Five-Star Basketball to launch RTG Features. The production shingle’s projects will focus exclusively on basketball.
The acronym RTG is a nod to SLAM’s original slogan, “Respect the Game.” The company will focus on original…
Have a look at The Opening Act, an RLJE Films-released comedy produced by Vince Vaughn and starring Jimmy O. Yang (Silicon Valley), Jermaine Fowler, Cedric the Entertainer and Ken Jeong.
Pic is written and directed by stand-up comedian Steve Byrne, and captures the audacity of bounding onto the stand up comedy stage…
EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed Kurt Russell, repping the prolific actor for worldwide representation in all areas.
Russell is coming off memorable turns in the Quentin Tarantino-directed Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood and before that The Hateful Eight, and the James Gunn-directed Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Before…
Adult animated series Harley Quinn has been renewed for a third season — but not on DC Universe. The third season will premiere on HBO Max with the announcement Friday that DC Universe is moving out of scripted original series and will transition solely to comic book subscription service DC Universe Infinite.
DC…
EXCLUSIVE: WME has announced that Noel Tedla Mesfin has joined the agency as an Agent in Production. He will be based out of the New York office.
Prior to his new position at WME, Mesfin worked on the Sundance 2019 selection As Told To G/D Thyself which is directed by the Ummah Chroma, an international artist’s…
High-profile human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has written to UK foreign secretary Dominic Raab to submit her resignation from her post as Special Envoy on Media Freedom.
In the letter, revealed by UK national The Guardian, she cites Boris Johnson's government's "lamentable" recent actions on Brexit as the key…
