Amazon took last year’s festival market by storm with eight-figure deals for ‘Late Night,’ ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ and ‘The Report,’ and $5 million for ‘Honey Boy.’ Although the collective box office of those buys raised strategy questions, the Amazon Prime boss says not only is there no regret over last year’s spree, it plans to be as competitive in the bidding as anyone again this year.
Even before the great James Cromwell arrives at the punchline of a decrepit dirty nun joke, or the incomparable Jane Alexander gets to a vibrator bit exhausted seasons ago by Grace and Frankie, Bess Wohl’s affable, unremarkable marriage comedy Grand Horizons has its “something borrowed” locked down. The “something…
On this third day of testimony in the Senate impeachment hearings, The Late Show host Stephen Colbert noted that on day one of the hearings, there were 11 million viewers watching the proceedings.
“That’s a lot of people,” he said. “That’s not Super Bowl ratings, but it’s at least Puppy Bowl ratings. But that’s not…
Maybe the plot felt too forced? Specifics are elusive but the high-luster Obi-Wan Kenobi revival for Disney+ has been paused for a reshuffling of the creative team. Hossein Amini is no longer attached to write.and the show will go back to the drawing board and wait for a new hope to emerge for a show that has a star…
EXCLUSIVE:The Content Group, the flagship division of Steve Michaels’ Asylum Entertainment Group, has acquired reality production company Collins Avenue Entertainment, which is behind Lifetime’s popular Dance Mons franchise, from Kew Media Group.
Under the deal, TCG will retain all of Collins Avenue's physical…
Many emotional moments are expected at tonight’s opening of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival with Crip Camp, but few will top the elegant farewell offered by Robert Redford. With a declaration of “much love to you,” the festival founder praised outgoing festival director John Cooper onstage Thursday at a packed Eccles…
Some might feel that it manipulates your heartstrings, but writer-director Todd Robinson’s The Last Full Measure is the real deal, an effective Vietnam War movie told in flashback, that all too sadly shows how easy it is to forget who true heroes when politics gets in the way.
In a time where the current resident of…
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon took the acquisitions market at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival by storm, making eight-figure deals for Late Night, Brittany Runs a Marathon and The Report, with another $5 million for Honey Boy. All of them were fine films, but the collective box office gross of around $26 million on films acquired…
Today is a comedy pilot pickup day at NBC as the network made the bulk of its half-hour orders within the past several hours.
NBC has given pilot green light to three single-camera projects: Someone Out There, a romantic comedy based on a Spanish format, from Forever creator Matt Hubbard and the writing team of Josh…
UPDATED, 3:30 PM:CNN today canceled its planned “Closing Arguments” town halls with the Democratic presidential candidates as the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump continues.
Three White House hopefuls — Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — are off the campaign trail while they…
EXCLUSIVE:Ray Donovan‘s Eddie Marsan is set as a series regular opposite Leslie Mann in The Power,Amazon's 10-episode global thriller drama series based on Naomi Alderman's feminist sci-fi book, from Jane Featherstone's Sister (Chernobyl). Reed Morano (The Handmaid's Tale) is directing and executive producing The Pow…
Vital Pictures/NME will distribute its first film with Beneath Us,a “suspenseful and socially-relevant original horror story” from Max Pachman, who makes his feature directorial debut with the project. Beneath Us (opening in select theaters on March 6) features both English and Spanish dialogue and will be distributed…
EXCLUSIVE: Viggo Mortensen is returning to the Sundance Film Festival for the first time since 2016 when Captain Fantastic made a big splash and led eventually to a Best Actor Oscar nomination for the star. This time however he is adding director and screenwriter to his resume, with his behind the camera debut, Falling…
Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie and an all-star ensemble take a powerful deep-dive into the downfall of Roger Ailes, with director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph.
