EXCLUSIVE: The comedy is exiting its December 20 theatrical release date to become the first Warner Bros Pictures Group film to premiere on WarrnerMedia’s soon-to-launch streaming service. Marquee moves like this one might become more common as major studios jostle for position in their high-stakes OTT battle.
Little Shop of Horrors, the once and current Off Broadway marvel, announced in 1982 the arrival of two songwriters – Howard Ashman & Alan Menken – who’d soon expand musical theater boundaries to swallow Hollywood like so much plant food. The musical comes home again (you can’t isn’t in its vocabulary) with Michael…
Ben Affleck has signed on to lead the feature adaptation ofFalling to Earth, the novel by Kate Southwood. The project is in development at Bron Studios with Affleck attached to produce with Pearl Street Films partner Matt Damon as well as Bron’s Aaron L. Gilbert.
Eagle Eye co-scribe Hillary Seitz will adapt the…
EXCLUSIVE: Investigators at the U.S. Department of Labor are looking into a range of allegations of wrongdoing during and after the recent SAG-AFTRA elections. Brian Hamilton, a member of the union's Los Angeles local's board of directors, spent 2½ hours with DOL investigator Troy Krouse earlier this week detailing…
Angelina Jolie and her cheekbones steal the day in Disney’s inevitable sequel to its 2014 monster hit, Maleficent.
This one basically picks up where the first one left off. You might recall that Maleficent (Jolie), the evil, winged sorceress who acts as faerie godmother to Aurora (Elle Fanning), aka Sleeping Beauty…
EXCLUISVE: Sonya Walger and Krys Marshall have been promoted to series regulars on the second season of For All Mankind,Apple’s upcoming space race alt-history drama from Ron Moore, which had been quietly renewed ahead of its Nov. 1 series premiere and just started production on Season 2.
Both Walger and Marshall…
Here’s a little, but huge, box office stat: Focus Features’ Downton Abbeyhas outstripped the $83 million domestic box office gross of three-time Oscar winner Brokeback Mountain to become the label’s highest-grossing title of all time stateside. Brokeback Mountain owned the record for the last 13 years, and on Monday D…
EXCLUSIVE: T.I., Tiny & Co. are back for another go-round. VH1 has ordered a third season of T.I. & Tiny: Friends & Family Hustle, which has started production we have learned. The 12 new episodes will air in 2020.
The reality show, a continuation of the long-running T.I. & Tiny: Family Hustle, features rapper-actor…
EXCLUSIVE: Gayme Show is coming to Quibi, honey! The comedy competition series hosted by Las Culturistas podcast co-host Matt Rogers and stand-up comedian Dave Mizzoni has been greenlit by the mobile platform and will be produced by Jax media.
Gayme Show, which has existed as live comedy show, uplifts and celebrates…
The Justice Department and political operative Roger Stone’s attorneys are in a pre-trial legal battle on whether federal prosecutors can play a clip from The Godfather: Part II at Stone’s upcoming trial.
Stone, who helped launch President Donald Trump’s political career, was arrested earlier this year in connection…
Amanda Clayton, who plays the role of Cathy Ryan on Showtime's City on a Hill, has signed with APA in all areas.
Renewed for a second season, the American crime drama series is created by Charlie McLean, based on an original idea by Ben Affleck and MacLean, and set in 1990s Boston. The city is rife with violent…
AFI Fest 2019 said Thursday that it will play host to “An Evening With Peter Morgan,” which will be followed by a gala screening of the Season 3 opener of Netflix’s The Crown. The event is set for November 16, the day before the Morgan-created hit series about the British royal family returns on the streaming service…
