UPDATED with Kennedy Center Honors, NBC football and Trump: President Obama will be late for the ceremony for tonight’s Kennedy Center Honors, though he will host a pre-ceremony reception for honorees at the White House as planned. Earlier, it was unclear whether the president could show up for the ceremony. The…

Spotlight, the feature film account of how The Boston Globe broke a major series of stories about the Catholic Church’s child sex abuse scandal that encompassed “not just Boston, it’s the whole country, the whole world” as one character puts it, figured prominently at Deadline’s The Contenders event Saturday. Director…

Illumination Entertainment finally has a title for its upcoming toon with a voice cast that includes Louis C.K., Kevin Hart and Modern Family's <a style="line-height:1.5;"…

NBC News and its chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel have posted revised accounts on the network’s website of the 2012 kidnapping of Engel and five other members of his team while they were covering events in Syria. Engel and his colleagues were held for five days and released following a gun battle at a rebel…

Warner Bros has come up with a nifty clip retrospective of previous Mad Max movies seguing into the upcoming reincarnation Mad Max: Fury Road. Introducing what the studio calls a “legacy” trailer is a logo that sparks a bit of déjà vu. The stylized zooming W against a red background is from the ’70s-’80s incarnation…

Longtime Disney/ABC Television Group digital chief Albert Cheng is leaving the company. After 10 years as the the company’s digital media czar, Cheng informed his staff about his plans late Friday but will remain through May to ease the transition, ABC confirmed. Cheng said he felt it was time to move on after…

“They said it would be a cross between 60 Minutes and Monty Python.” It turned out to be much more than that, something completely different — at least at the time of its mid-1970s debut — that endures as as a kind of “living time capsule” of U.S. life, politics, and pop culture. A chronicle of the fabled NYC and…

Here’s the initial trailer for HBO’s new half-hour series about current and former pro football players. Dwayne Johnson stars as Spencer Strasmore, one of the retirees. Cast also features Omar Benson Miller, John David Washington, Rob Corddry, Troy Garity, Donovan Carter, Jazmyn Simon, Taylor Cole and LeToya Luckett…

Best Actor Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne tops the list of prospects to play Newt Scamander in the Harry Potter spinoff trilogy Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them from author J.K. Rowling, who is making her screenwriting debut on the project. David Yates is directing the Warner Bros. pic slated to open November 18…

Wayne Goldstein has been promoted to senior VP international research for Sony Pictures Television. Goldstein will oversee research supporting the division’s international TV distribution business, as well as sales planning, digital ad sales and marketing. He’ll continue to lead new media research, as he has as VP in…

Lisa Simon, a longtime producer and director on Sesame Street, died in New York City on April 4, her 64th birthday. The winner of 20 Emmys over a career spanning than four decades started with a summer job as a file clerk and a caretaker for children who appeared on the show during its early days. She ended up staying…

Here’s another creepy trailer, a very quick teaser that debuted at the Blumhouse Productions presentation this afternoon at WonderCon. Picking up after events in the first movie, Sinister 2 traps a mother (Shannyn Sossamon) and her 9-year-old twin sons (real-life twins Robert and Dartanian Sloan) in a rural house…