From Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ to ‘Rocketman’ and Pedro Almodovar, Pete Hammond breaks down the films and performances that have gotten a head start on awards season.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange finds himself more legal trouble today as federal prosecutors have charged him with 17 new counts. Among them is an espionage charge for publishing classified information — the first such indictment ever handed down against a non-government employee by the U.S. Justice Department.
The…
EXCLUSIVE: Pretty Little Liars fan favorite Ian Harding is set as a series regular opposite Whitney Cummings in Good People, Amazon's half-hour comedy pilot from Empire co-creator Lee Daniels and 2 Broke Girls co-creator Cummings, Amazon Studios and Fox 21 Television Studios.
Written by Daniels and Cummings, Good Peopl…
Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer honored the company’s policy of declining comment on M&A rumors during the company’s conference call with Wall Street analysts to discuss its fourth-quarter financial results.
Nevertheless, Feltheimer and CFO Jimmy Barge emphasized the long-term plan to continue investing in Starz despite…
EXCLUSIVE: Leah Remini, the host and creative force behind A&E’s Emmy-winning docu series Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, has signed with Verve for producing with an emphasis on unscripted programming.
Remini recently left APA, which represented her in all areas. Verve signed Remini and her No Seriously…
EXCLUSIVE:Altered Carbon executive producer Alison Schapker is expanding her relationship with Skydance Television, the studio behind the Netflix sci-fi drama series, signing an exclusive, multi-year overall production deal.
Schapker joined Altered Carbon as executive producer and co-showrunner for Season 2 alongside…
Colleen Bell has been picked by Gov. Gavin Newsom to become the new director of the California Film Commission.
The announcement of the former The Bold and the Beautiful producer as overlord of the Golden State's annual $330 million film and television tax incentive program comes less than a month after it was…
The binge-watching model of watching TV series on streaming platforms has become commonplace, but how do we, as a society, evolve that? Russian Doll co-creators, executive producers and writers Leslye Headland, Amy Poehler and Natasha Lyonne (who also stars) are here to take on that challenge with their existential…
DamagesandBloodline co-creator Glenn Kessler has signed an overall deal for TV and film with Amazon Studios. Under the pact, the Emmy-nominated writer-producer will create, develop and produce original series and films to premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Video worldwide in more than 200 countries and…
Pitch Perfect star Anna Kendrick is set to star in and executive produce Love Life, a 10-episode half-hour romantic comedy anthology series from Lionsgate TV and Paul Feig’s Feigco Entertainment, for WarnerMedia’s forthcoming streaming service. The series greenlight was announced today during Lionsgate’s analyst call…
EXCLUSIVE:Felisha Terrell (Shooter) and Dustin Ingram (Watchmen) are set to recur opposite John Cusack, Sasha Lane and Rainn Wilson in Utopia, Amazon's straight-to-series adaptation of the British drama, written by Gone Girl author and screenwriter Gillian Flynn.
Utopia follows a group of young adults who meet online…
Critics have often been stumped by satire. This seemed again the case this week as puzzled TV reviewers wrestled with George Clooney's superbly astringent rendition of Catch-22. Shouldn't there be more laughs in satire, some asked? Ironically, I revisited this question as I paid a visit to the Comedy Store (a guilty…
ABC says it will rebroadcast its last-night-of-season special, Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons,' on Saturday, May 25 at 8 PM ET.
Following the broadcast, ABC also will replay the Nightline doc on creator Norman Lear that followed the live remounting of an…
Forty years after the Cannes Palme d'Or saved Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece from oblivion, the ultimate disruptor reflects on life before and after "Apocalypse Now."
