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EXCLUSIVE: Alan Cumming, the multihyphenate who was nominated for multiple Emmys, SAG Awards and Golden Globes for his turn on The Good Wife and won a Tony for Cabaret, has signed with ICM Partners. The move comes as he is co-starring opposite Daniel Radcliffe in the Old Vic production of Endgame, which wraps its run…

EXCLUSIVE: The moment that La La Land mistakenly won the best picture Oscar is one of a number of stories that will be featured in the latest podcast from Malcolm Gladwell’s Pushkin Industries. Cautionary Tales, hosted by Tim Harford, will feature re-enactments of true stories of things going wrong from Instinct's…

Instinct star/executive producer Alan Cumming took to Instagram Saturday to react to the CBS crime drama’s cancellation after two seasons. He recalled the origins of the series, which started as a pitch based on then-upcoming novel by James Patterson and Howard Roughan. Cumming came on board the adaptation, written by…

Ed Asner and Alan Cumming are set for key recurring roles opposite Rosario Dawson in Briarpatch,the first season of USA Network’s anthology series, from writer-executive producer Andy Greenwald, executive producer Sam Esmail, UCP and Paramount Television. The series is currently in production in Albuquerque, New…

The Crown's Claire Foy and Matt Smith are reuniting after their royal outing – this time on stage at London's The Old Vic Theatre. The pair are set to star in Duncan Macmillan's Lungs, an "emotional environmental rollercoaster". The play, which is directed by The Old Vic's Artistic Director Matthew Warchus, who…

Feature documentaries from stars including Tilda Swinton and Alan Cumming as well as producers such as Searching For Sugar Man's John Battsek and Shooting Bigfoot's Morgan Matthews are some of the high-profile projects searching for funding at this year's Sheffield Doc/Fest. Major broadcasters including HBO and the…

Refresh for updates After months of scandal and decades of alleged criminality, Harvey Weinstein’s initial day in court came and went pretty quickly Friday. But not so fast, Harvey: Hollywood isn’t letting you slip away so quietly. “Harvey Weinstein is free on bail,” tweeted Patricia Arquette today, one of the first…

CBS is sticking with its new midseason drama series Instinct starring Alan Cumming, which has been renewed for a second season. Instinct has been a so-so ratings performer, averaging a 1.1 adults 18-49 most recent rating and 0.6-0.7 Live+same day in the past few airings. But has been in line with its fellow Sunday CBS…

Broadway producer Jordan Roth is schooling us with another episode of his mostly-animated The Birds and the BS, the kids show for adults that routinely features some of Broadway’s biggest voices. This time around: Alan Cumming. The subject: The American Dream. The cartoon Cumming stops by the show to refute Roth’s…

After Louie, the debut feature film from artist and AIDS activist Vincent Gagliostro that stars Alan Cumming, has been acquired by Freestyle Digital Media. The drama will now bow theatrically March 30 in New York day-and-date with VOD. Cumming plays Sam, a New York artist and activist for ACT UP (Gagliostro was a…

Instinct star Alan Cumming was effusive in his praise of CBS for “having the courage” to put on its schedule a procedural crime drama in which his lead character is gay. "I applaud everyone at CBS for having the courage to put that on, in the climate that might not be the best time to do it,”  Cumming said at the show…

PETA has filed a suit against a Missouri facility that it has been warring with since late last year over the housing of a number of chimpanzees — two of  which were used in Hollywood productions — to get these chimps out of cages and into a sanctuary. Actor Alan Cumming (The Good Wife, Battle of the Sexes) is helping…