Few expect any of the new players to dislodge the dominant digital brands right away, but Disney’s push that begins today symbolizes the extraordinary and pricey efforts by traditional media giants to voluntarily disrupt themselves.
We exclusively told you back in September that Jonah Hauer-King was in the running for the role of Prince Eric in Disney’s live-action The Little Mermaid, and today he won the role in the Rob Marshall directed movie.
Hauer-King was tested along with Krypton actor Cameron Cuffe London’s Pinewood Studios for the role…
EXCLUSIVE: Coming off the the success of The Little Mermaid Live!, Auliʻi Cravalho has been tapped to co-star opposite Leslie Mann in The Power, Amazon's 10-episode global thriller drama series based on Naomi Alderman's feminist sci-fi book, from Jane Featherstone's Sister.
Adapted for screen by Alderman, who is…
Put all of Hollywood’s classic racing dramas on the track, including Grand Prix, Le Mans, Days of Thunder and Rush, and they all come up short of the checkered flag against James Mangold’s smashing Ford v Ferrari, a truly exciting movie in the genre that never forgets it isn’t as much about as the cars as it is about…
Robert Eggers made a black & white movie — literally. Meaning, we’re not talking digital. He shot in 35MM Double-X black and white, a negative that hasn’t changed since the 1950s for his two-hander New England ghost story starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe.
In the color era, no matter what the year, it’s…
After years of mini reunions on TV and a recent selfie that almost broke Instagram, the Friends cast may finally get together for a proper television reunion.
Talks are underway for an unscripted Friends reunion special on the upcoming streaming platform HBO Max, sources said.
Aniston, who orchestrated the recent reuni…
CNN Films has acquired the documentary feature Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice and set its television premiere for New Year’s Day on CNN.
Ronstadt was 21 when she first hit the national charts with the Stone Poneys’ “Different Drum,” and her plaintive vocal leapt off the radio from the opening line. By the…
Gotham City is no Mickey Mouse town and the homicidal Harley Quinn will never be Disney princess material. The are two indirect takeaways from the just-released trailer for Harley Quinn, the animated original series that premieres Nov. 29 on the DC Universe subscription streaming service. The show is traditionally…
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation will bestow a Solve Together: A Special Recognition for World Changing Ideas award on WarnerMedia for Chasing the Cure, the TNT/TBS series and 24/7 digital platform that helps people suffering from undiagnosed, misdiagnosed or uncured medical mysteries in real time.
The honor…
EXCLUSIVE: Fast & Furious star Jordana Brewster is set to lead opposite Jeffrey Dean Morgan in Shrine, the Screen Gems feature adaptation to James Herbert's 1983 horror novel of the same name. Evan Spiliotopoulos is directing the film from a screenplay he adapted.
It’s about a disgraced journalist who discovers a…
There’s a very good chance that an original movie, 20th Century’s Ford v Ferrari, is poised to best a rival studio franchise reboot, Sony’s Charlie’s Angels at the box office this weekend, $20M-$30M+ to $10M-$12M. That’s great for these types of adult titles in a year when most major studios have flooded the…
UPDATED with closing prices.Disney stock bucked an otherwise break-even Tuesday trading day as the tech issues that marred the Disney+ streaming debut seemed only to stoke investor interest.
Shares in Disney led the Dow Jones Industrial Average higher, rising 1.5% to close at $138.74 on twice its normal trading…
UPDATED, 2:05 PM: WGN America has set the Season 2 premiere of its Jerry O’Connell-led comedy Carter for 10 p.m. Wednesday January 20, and released a new trailer. Watch it above, and read details of the show and its sophomore season below.
PREVIOUSLY, January 23: WGN America, Sony Pictures Television’s networks, and…
