With less than two weeks to go before November 3, the one phrase that might best define how the industry’s most influential Democrats are viewing the election is “cautious optimism” about their ticket. “If it were a big movie, I’d say the tracking looks good and pre-sales are encouraging, but you never know what happens on opening day,” Sony Motion Pictures Group chairman Tom Rothman says.
YouTube Originals said Friday that a new one-off documentary special, Justin Bieber: Next Chapter, will launch on the platform October 30. The 30-minute special follows the success of YouTube’s 10-episode original docuseries Justin Bieber: Seasons, the biggest YouTube Originals debut to date with more than 32 million…
Disney officials on Friday announced they will reopen stores and restaurants in the Disney California Adventure park starting in November, despite the continued closure of theme parks due to reopening restrictions put in place by Governor Gavin Newsom.
Theme park executives from Disneyland, Universal Studios…
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Sacha Baron Cohen responded to Rudolph Giuliani’s denial of any inappropriate behavior allegedly caught in that hand-in-his-pants scene from the new Borat movie: “He did what he did.”
Baron Cohen, who created and plays the title character in the new Borat Subsequent Moviefilm on Amazon Prime, appeared with costar…
California on Friday reported a massive surge in new coronavirus cases, from 3,707 the day before to 6,141. That’s a number of daily infections not seen in the state since August.
California’s governor, however, failed to mention the high new numbers in a nearly hour-long press conference he participated in on…
Nina Wolarsky is leaving her post as VP, Original Series – Drama at Netflix. She will stay on to help with the transition; her last day will be in November.
Wolarsky was one of the first senior executive hires for Cindy Holland’s original content team, joining the streamer from Smoke House in 2012.
The departure is…
EXCLUSIVE:Lili Taylor(Perry Mason), Tamara Podemski(Four Sheets to the Wind) and Tom Pelphrey(Ozark) are set as series regulars opposite Josh Brolin in Amazon's mystery drama Outer Range, from playwright Brian Watkins, Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment and Amazon Studios.
Created by Watkins, Outer Range centers on…
Rick and Morty showrunner Dan Harmon has called the global pandemic a “net zero” on his productivity during a virtual PaleyFest New York panel released Friday. The Emmy-winning writer and co-creator of Adult Swim’s animated juggernaut remarked that the isolating effects of the pandemic has led to some interesting…
The Strand, New York City’s 93-year-old independent bookstore so familiar as an East Village literary signifier that it’s long been a go-to for filmmakers and location scouts, is in danger of closing, its owner says.
The three-story shop and its “18 miles” of new and used books has appeared in such movies and TV shows…
Melissa Francis, a regular on the Fox News talk show Outnumberedand co-anchor of Fox Business’ After the Bell, has not been on the network since October 7 and her future is uncertain.
The Los Angeles Timesreported that Francis is in the middle of a gender-based pay discrimination claim against the company that is in…
Don’t be looking for a third season of Mindhunter anytime soon. There has been speculation about a possible renewal for Netflix’s crime thriller drama since January when options on the show's leads, Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, and Anna Torv, had expired and the show was put on “indefinite hold.” Now, executive…
From a dangerous car accident to an unsuccessful adoption, the Season 2 finale of A Million Little Things left viewers stunned and in need of processing before the coronavirus began closing down the nation in March. Now the series is set to return in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.
During a PaleyFest New York…
