UPDATED, SATURDAY AM: w/chart When it comes to releasing a long-delayed sequel, or rebooting an old popular franchise, it’s risky business.
Yes, sometimes, there’s slam dunks like Jurassic World, but then you have disasters like Terminator: Dark Fate. But with Bad Boys for Life, the third title in the franchise in 17…
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi visited Los Angeles on Friday for HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maherand was welcomed with a fist-bump, some softball questions, and a PG-13 monologue from the show’s deferential host.
The Friday night episode was Season 17 premiere and Pelosi, the most visible and calmly capable of…
Nat Geo talked up feature doc The Cave, Aretha Franklin's Genius drama and reality competition series Race to the Center of the Earth today at TCA.
The Disney-owned broadcaster also had a busy day of announcements with a new science series fronted by Chris Hemsworth, a short-form digital doc series from Wonder Woman…
Bong Jong Ho’s South Korean film Parasite continued its remarkable awards-season run tonight, winning the top prize for editor Jimmo Yang at the 70th annual ACE Eddie Awards. It’s the first time the American Cinema Editors has given its marquee Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic) award to a foreign-language…
Two of AMC Networks' most offbeat hits are musical comedy Sherman's Showcase and short-form series State of the Union.
The group is now looking at the future of both shows. State of the Union aired on SundanceTV and Sherman's Showcase airs on IFC.
The good news for the latter is that the company is set to give it a…
As TheAmazing Race co-creators and executive producers Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri are making Race To the Center of the Earth, NatGeo's first global competition series, they're incorporating the same type of efficiency and organization as they plan the complicated routes four teams will take in the…
“Aretha not only makes art that is timeless that runs through the fabric of our lives and endures through time, but she does what genius also should be doing and does do. She's inclusive and ignites the genius in each and every one of us,” said Suzan-Lori Parks, executive producer and showrunner of Nat Geo’s Genius: Ar…
Freeform's new drama series Motherland: Fort Salem is set in an alternate America where witches ended their persecution more than 300 years ago by cutting a deal with the government to fight for their country. At TCA on Friday, creator by Eliot Laurence (Claws) said most of the show pays homage to witch history and…
With Sony’s Bad Boys For Life in the midst of raking in what looks like the second-best MLK Weekend opening of all time at the domestic box office, the wheels are in motion for a sequel to the franchise. Deadline confirmed Friday that Bad Boys For Life screenwriter Chris Bremner has been set to return and write the…
Thor star Chris Hemsworth is to front a science series for Nat Geo from the producers behind One Strange Rock.
The actor will host Limitless from Jane Root's Nutopia and Darren Aronofsky's Protozoa Pictures. The series will ask questions such as what if aging is not inevitable or what if it's a disease that can be…
Streaming and other leisure-time enticements appeared to take a bite out of movie ticket sales in 2019, with total admissions declining nearly 5% to 1.244 billion, according to the National Association of Theater Owners.
Although the 2019 tally was slightly higher than the 1.236 billion recorded in 2017, the totals…
On-location film and TV production in Los Angeles hit a five-year low last year, down 5.8% from 2018, according to FilmLA, the city and county film office. On-location feature film shooting days were off by 15.1% last year, commercials were down by 12.3%, and TV was down 6.6%.
In one of the few bright spots, TV comedy…
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.
