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EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed multi-hyphenate Dennis Quaid for worldwide representation in all areas. The Day After Tomorrow and Midway actor recently co-founded podcast studio Audio Up with Jared Gutstadt. Pods launched to date include The Dennissance, which sees the actor chat through life experiences with fellow…

Let’s get together! Yeah, yeah, yeah! Director Nancy Meyers took to Instagram to reveal that the cast of the 1998 reboot of Disney’s The Parent Trap will be reuniting to celebrate its 22nd anniversary on July 20 at 9 am ET on Katie Couric’s Instagram. Meyers teased days ago that she had news about The Parent Trap and…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran WME agent George Freeman has been let go by the agency today because of an e-mail he meant to send to an individual but mistakenly dispersed to a large number of colleagues. The e-mail contained strong language and insensitive comments at the expense of a fellow WME agent we won’t name here. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Audio Up, the podcast company co-founded by actor Dennis Quaid, has made a number of senior hires including the appointment of reality veteran David Hurwitz. Hurwitz, who has exec produced series including ABC's Don't, NBC's Fear Factor and Ellen's Game of Games, joins the company as Head of Content. This…

EXCLUSIVE: With podcasting continuing to surge as a form of media and entertainment, and audio properties increasingly of interest to the film and TV business, MGM is taking a stake in a new entrant in the field called Audio Up. The company was founded by Jared Gutstadt, former founder and CEO of the audio agency…

Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson, Christopher Nolan and others have proved that with the right director and approach, there is still great life to be found in stirring World War II movies — from Saving Private Ryan and Letters From Iwo Jima and Hacksaw Ridge to Dunkirk. But in the case of special effects…

Don’t let the title fool you. Netflix’s Merry Happy Whatever is no Lifetime-like, one-shot-only Christmas movie, though the trailer, seen above, makes clear that this holiday season is the setting for the family comedy starring Dennis Quaid. The set-up is established quickly: Quaid plays Don Quinn, patriarch devoted…

Dennis Quaid and newcomer Madalen Mills are set to co-star opposite Queen Latifah in The Tiger Rising, a film adaptation to Kate DiCamillo's 2001 New York Times Bestselling children's book. The pic will be presented at the Toronto Film Festival via Highland Film Group, who is managing worldwide sales. Ray Giarratana…

Billy Bob Thornton is back on the case in Goliath, and Amazon Prime Video just release a trailer for Season 3. This time he’s taking on “the biggest law firms in the state, representing one of the wealthiest men in the country.” Pshaw, bring it on. Amazon said today that Season 3 of the drama from David E. Kelley and…

EXCLUSIVE: Fledgling LA film production and distribution outfit Forrest Films is gearing up on mixed martial arts movie drama Mickey Kelley, which will star Sean Patrick Flanery (Powder), Katrina Bowden (30 Rock) and Dennis Quaid (The Day After Tomorrow) alongside MMA fighters Renzo Gracie, Edson Barboza, and Mickey…

When it comes to dog stories, author W. Bruce Cameron is prolific in writing them and then getting them made into movies. Universal released his A Dog’s Purpose in 2017, and now has followed it up with a sequel, A Dog’s Journey. The latter is not to be confused with Columbia’s Cameron opus A Dog’s Way Home, which was…

If there is one solid thing on which to recommend Sony/Screen Gems’ latest thriller The Intruder, it would be the opportunity to watch Dennis Quaid go all out playing the first villain of his big-screen career and making the most of it. As far as I can tell, the only bad guy he ever played was in a 1978 TV movie…