Facebook has renewed four original series for second seasons, financing shows that build community and spark conversation on the Watch platform — features that the social network sees as differentiating its video service from rivals. Five Points, Huda Boss, Sacred Lies and Sorry for Your Loss will return to Facebook Wa…

As festivals around the world continue to come to terms with the rise of serial television and new viewing platforms, TIFF hosted a special premiere this year of the first two episodes of Sorry For Your Loss, a 10-episode, half-hour drama from Facebook Watch. Directed by James Ponsoldt, it stars Elizabeth…

Facebook Watch has released the trailer for Sorry for Your Loss ahead of its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. The dark comedy stars Elizabeth Olsen as Leigh, a young widow dealing with the grief of losing her husband. Kelly Marie Tran (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) co-stars as her sister Jules, along…

Jimmy Kimmel kicked off Night 4 of his late-night show’s Marvel Marathon announcing a special promotion in honor of The Avengers, telling his audience if they can name all 64 superheroes rumored to be in the film they win back their virginity. Cast members Benedict Cumberbatch, Don Cheadle, Elizabeth Olsen and Winston…

You might have heard the old Paul Simon song “Kodachrome," a lyric inspired by the Kodak film, but now in the new similarly titled film that Netflix unleashes on Friday, it is a wholly different story altogether. Kodachrome, which had its world premiere at last year’s Toronto Film Festival where the streamer won distri…

UPDATED throughout: Mamoudou Athie (Unicorn Store) is in talks for a lead role and Kelly Marie Tran (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) and Fences star Jovan Adepo have joined the cast of Sorry For Your Loss (fka Widow), a half-hour female-driven dramedy starring and executive produced by Elizabeth Olsen for Facebook…

EXCLUSIVE: Facebook has given a ten-episode straight-to-series order to a half-hour female-driven dramedy, starring and executive produced by Elizabeth Olsen. The untitled series (fka Widow), which will run on streaming platform Facebook Watch, was created and written by Kit Steinkellner (Z: The Beginning of Everything…

EXCLUSIVE: In their first public statements since the makers of the drama Wind River regained control of the drama amid the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal, writer-director Taylor Sheridan, stars Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen, and producers Basil Iwanyk and Matthew George sat for a highly emotional, even tearful…

EXCLUSIVE: The Taylor Sheridan-directed Wind River has severed the connection between the film and the scandal-scarred Harvey Weinstein and his former The Weinstein Company label. A deal has been completed that will excise all mention of Weinstein both on its home video release through Lionsgate and streaming release…

EXCLUSIVE: In a deal worth $4 million, Netflix has acquired Kodachrome, the Mark Raso-directed drama that stars Ed Harris, Jason Sudeikis and Elizabeth Olsen. The film is set during the final days of the still-photo development system known as Kodachrome. When it ended abruptly and Kodak got out of that game, if you…

Writer and now director Taylor Sheridan is getting to the finish line with The Weinstein Company’s Wind River, the latest installment of a trilogy of sorts that includes Sicario and Hell Or High Water. Both of the those pics were Oscar nominated, the latter landing a Best Picture nom this year as well as for…

Fresh off of its Cannes debut, The Weinstein Company has released the first official trailer to Taylor Sheridan’s written and directorial debut thriller Wind River, starring Elizabeth Olsen and Jeremy Renner on the hunt to catch a criminal. The pic, which premiered at Sundance this year, is slated for a limited…