The Marvel Studios president and MCU architect won’t produce any further Spidey films after Disney and Sony Pictures failed to reach new terms that would have given the former a co-financing stake going forward.
To Guillermo Navarro, executive producer of the NatGeo documentary series Hostile Planet, there’s no doubt global warming is dangerously real.
"We've made sure to turn the oven a little hotter and things are cooking quicker," Navarro comments ruefully. "In these last 50 years the planet has evolved more rapidly than…
Showtime has released the first teaser trailer for the forthcoming The L Word: Generation QÂ and there are a lot of familiar faces — and some new ones. The sequel to the popular LGBTQ series is set to premiere on the premium cabler December 8, but while you wait you can enjoy the new L.A. sun-kissed trailer which gives…
EXCLUSIVE: Love Island exec producer Simon Thomas has been promoted at ITV America and has been tasked with finding more "noisy" formats for the production company.
Thomas, who was previously SVP, programming becomes Executive Vice President, Programming, West Coast at the U.S. production division of the British…
Elena Satine(Strange Angel) has been cast opposite John Cho inCowboy Bebop,Netflix’s live-action adaptation of the cult Japanese animated series.
The space Western hails from Tomorrow Studios, Marty Adelstein's joint venture with ITV Studios; Midnight Radio (Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, Jeff Pinkner & Scott…
USA Network has put in development Philly Reign, a 1980s drama executive produced by Mary J. Blige. It hails from Entertainment One and UCP and is also executive produced by JaNeika & JaSheika James (Empire), Drew Comins via his eOne-based Creative Engine Entertainment and Charles Murray (Sons of Anarchy). Blige, who…
Fresh from filming the Ryan Murphy-produced The Boys in the Band for Netflix, Michael Benjamin Washington has been cast in a coveted role in the first major production of Anna Deavere Smith’s acclaimed, one-actor documentary play Fires in the Mirror since its New York premiere 25 years ago.
The original production…
EXCLUSIVE: Miramax, Barnyard Projects and Snoot Entertainment have greenlit Limbo, a horror thriller written by Matthew Jennison and Chris Peckover, with Peckover (Better Watch Out, Undocumented) set to direct.
Limbo tells the terrifying story of a young mother whose body becomes possessed by something evil, rendering…
A four-time Emmy nominee back in the running this year with Hulu's Catch-22, supervising sound editor Jerry Ross surely has one of the most interesting origin stories of anyone practicing his craft.
Thinking, earlier in life, about becoming a chef, Ross was waiting for a spot to open up at Le Cordon Bleu cooking…
EXCLUSIVE: Aidan Quinn, who co-starred in all seven seasons of the CBS drama Elementary, has signed on to star in Spiked, an indie drama inspired by the real-life events surrounding Arizona based newspaper publisher Joseph Soldwedel. Juan Martinez wrote the screenplay and is directing the film, which is currently in…
EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, FX has acquired The Bridgewater Triangle, a short story by Brian Miller, for television series development, with Noah Hawley and his 26 Keys executive producing. Miller is attached to write the pilot. The project falls under Hawley’s overall deal with FX and FX Productions.
The…
“I twitch and shout a lot — makes me look like a damn freak show. But inside my head’s an even bigger mess.” Those lines are from Lionel Essrog, a lonely private eye living with Tourette syndrome in 1950s New York City. Somebody killed his mentor and best friend, and if he figures out whodunnit, “I’m gonna make him…
It seems unlikely that, at 58, Hugh Grant is celebrating his first Emmy nomination after a career spanning more than three decades, and which started on the small screen. Indeed, after his big breakthrough in 1994's Four Weddings and a Funeral, he became such a big star that much of his earlier, lesser-known TV work…
