Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg publicly addressed a damaging New York Times report that raised questions about her response to mounting evidence that the social network could be exploited to disrupt elections or to spread hatred and propaganda.
The executive said she and CEO Mark Zuckerberg have acknowledged, many times, that they were too slow to respond to Russian interference during the 2016 election. But she took issue with the Times report that she… Read
Your prom probably didn't have a glorious gaggle of Broadway troupers and their trunk loads of self-regard and narcissism gumming things up for your rite of passage – more's the pity – but in some ways I'd guess Broadway's musical The Prom isn't so unlike the one you lived through way back when. The build-up was more fun than the event, right?
Inspired by an actual event – and the inspired is apt – The Prom is the latest razzle-dazzle show-biz love fest from director and… Read
"You picked a great night to show up," Jimmy Kimmel assured his Hollywood studio audience Thursday night when his guests were Lin Manuel Miranda and former First Lady Michelle Obama.
"You remember Mrs. Obama? From when we had a United States?" Kimmel asked.
"Our former First Lady is here to share stories from her new autobiography, Becoming. As in, 'What the hell is this country Becoming?'"
The former First Lady, during her time in the White House, had to be careful about… Read
EXCLUSIVE: After grossing $10.1M in ten offshore markets off 9K screens, Warner Bros.’ Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is eyeing an estimated Thursday night of $7M-$7.5M at approximately 3,300 locations that started showtimes at 5PM, per Deadline sources. These figures do not come from Warner Bros.
As we always footnote, this estimate could go higher or lower, and west coast shows just started an hour and 15 minutes ago. Two years ago at this time, Fantastic Be…Read
The Daily Show's Jaboukie Young-White is underwhelmed with Amazon’s announcement it’s locating half of its new HQ in Queens.
“It’s worse than bad, it’s cliche!” Young-White sniffed. “Amazon has been around for 24 years and now they're doing what any 24-year-old does: Move to New York and gentrify a neighborhood.”
“Do you have any idea how crowded the subway is going to get? It’s already a non-consensual, clothes-on orgy,” he complained to Trevor Noah.
Amazon is promising… Read
Watching Capernaum, Lebanon’s entry in 2018 for Best Foreign Language Film, one point becomes immediately clear: Only a truly dedicated, humanistic director could make such a film, experiencing first-hand so many sorrows so that others around the world might understand. In the case of the Cannes title, which won the fest’s Jury Prize, that director is Nadine Labaki, an esteemed Lebanese filmmaker who had already made her way down the Croisette a number of times before… Read
NBC has put in development Man. Woman. Child., a comedy from writer Vanessa McCarthy (Schooled), Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner’s Hazy Mills (Hot in Cleveland, Grimm), Will Packer Media and Universal TV where Hazy Mills is based.
Written by McCarthy, Man. Woman. Child. centers around a single man in his 30's who makes the calculated decision to start a family and have a baby via surrogacy. With loads of opinions and judgment from his friends and family, only one young woman… Read
UPDATED with comments from Mark ZuckerbergFacebook updated on its progress in combatting hate speech, depictions of graphic violence, terrorist propaganda and other violations of its community standards.
The social network said it is making strides in proactively identifying hate speech, saying it’s able to remove the majority of posts before users report them. It’s also gotten better at finding violent or graphic content.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg published an extensive… Read
EXCLUSIVE: After directing Amazon’s Troupe Zero, Bert & Bertie are set to direct and write Eurydicefor the studio.
We hear that the story is inspired by the Greek mythological daughter of Apollo and oak nymph, but the script is still in the works and described as an inventive female-driven sci-fi thriller. We hear other deals on the project are still being worked on before it’s a complete go.
Troupe Zero is currently in post-production. Lucy Alibar wrote and… Read
John Marshall Jones (Smart Guy), Richard Burgi (General Hospital) and Heroes alum Adrian Pasdar have booked recurring roles on Grand Hotel,ABC’s drama series executive produced by Eva Longoria.
Written by Brian Tanen based on a Spanish format, Grand Hotel is a soapy drama set against the backdrop of a Miami Beach hotel, centering on the family who owns the business, the staff who run it and the explosive secrets they hide under the perfect exterior.
Jones will play… Read
CBS has bought for developmentFamily Emergency, a sibling/medical drama from Instinct developer/executive producer Michael Rauch, Jane the Virgin and Charmed’s Jennie Snyder Urman and CBS TV Studios where Rauch and Urman are based.
Written by Rauch, Family Emergency revolves around three sisters who often clash but always have each other's backs work together in a busy ER, saving patients' lives while navigating the complications of love, medicine and family.
Rauch… Read
The MPAA has named Kelly McMahon to succeed Joan Graves as chair of the Classification and Rating Administration, the group that assigns film ratings.
Graves, a 77-year-old grandmother of two, retires next year after 30 years with the organization. The MPAA’s corporate counsel, McMahon, will succeed her after a transition.
"I look forward to working with Joan and Kelly to shape the future of the rating system and continue our mission of helping American parents make… Read
