Eighth Grade director Bo Burnham will star alongside Carey Mulligan in FilmNation Entertainment’s Promising Young Woman, a thriller written and directed by Emerald Fennell. Rounding out the cast are Alison Brie (Glow), Connie Britton (Dirty John), Adam Brody (Shazam!), Jennifer Coolidge (Legally Blonde), Laverne Cox (O…

Awkwafina and Laverne Cox have been set to announce nominees for the 25th annual SAG Awards, which are set for December 12 at the Pacific Design Center. The noms ceremony, which begins at 10 AM ET/7 AM PT, will air live on Turner’s TNT, TBS and TruTV and the networks’ digital outlets as well as on…

EXCLUSIVE: Almost two weeks after enlisting television writers from over 60 series in a campaign to stop the separation of families at the southern border, One Day at A Time and Vida will be taking to the streets of Los Angeles tomorrow with Laverne Cox, Jane The Virgin cast members and John Legend in the downtown…

As part of GLAAD’s “Future of LGBTQ Inclusion on TV” program at TCA, Nick Adams, GLAAD’s Director of Transgender Media & Representation, introduced a panel titled “Transgender Trends on TV Today,” which, as the title entails, focused on the representation of the transgender community in media. He was joined on the…

When in Doubt, bust ’em out. The series that had set the dubious mark for quickest cancellation of the 2016-2017 season will be back next month as co-creator Tony Phelan tweeted that CBS will run the unaired episodes of its short-lived legal drama at 8 PM Saturdays starting July 1. CBS just announced that the…

Orange Is the New Black alumna Laverne Cox has been tapped as the co-lead alongside Meaghan Rath in The Trustee, ABC's comedic one-hour pilot from the Smurfs writers Jay Scherick and David Ronn, Warner Bros. TV and Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman's studio-based Brownstone Productions. Cox is coming off CBS…

EXCLUSIVE: Actress and producer Trudie Styler makes her feature directorial debut with Freak Show which is world premiering in the Generation 14plus section at the Berlin Film Festival today. Alex Lawther stars with Bette Midler, Abigail Breslin, Laverne Cox and AnnaSophia Robb in the story that’s based on James St…

Generations of late-night movie fans have sang, danced and yelled back at the screen at midnight showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show since its big-screen debut in the Glittery era of 1975. Tonight, the Richard O'Brien-conceived tale of flat-tired and guileless Brad and Janet and their eye-opening adventures with…

Laverne Cox has signed with ICM Partners. The Orange Is The New Black standout had been in play for agency representation since April, when her longtime agent Paul Hilepo closed the Hartig Hilepo Agency to launch a management company. He was joined by several clients, including Cox, who retained him as manager. Cox…

This morning, CBS President of Entertainment Glenn Geller was taken to task by the TCA press corps over CBS’ failure to move the diversity needle when it came to series leads on their new fall schedule. However, Geller made a point to give a shout-out to the casting of transgender woman Laverne Cox in the upcoming…

Getting Tim Curry, the original Frank-N-Furter, to participate in Fox’s remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show [watch trailer below] was critical to overcoming push-back by rabid fans of the 70’s musical comedy-horror cult film. “As you can imagine, when we announced we were doing this, there was tremendous backlash…

Unveiling its new primetime plans this morning at its traditional Upfront day press breakfast, CBS took some heat for lack of diversity. First, one reporter noted almost all the new shows star men: Kevin James in sitcom Kevin Can Wait, Matt LcBlanc in sitcom Man with a Plan, Joel McHale in sitcom The Great…