UPDATED with speech video:Sacha Baron Cohen on Thursday used his speech accepting the ADL’s International Leadership Award in New York to call out social media giants including Facebook, Twitter and Google for their roles in amplifying hatred and violence in society.
“All this hate and violence is being facilitated…
In the final weeks before Viacom and CBS' latest reunion becomes a $30 billion fact, Showtime boss and rising corporate starDavid Nevins today had praise for the launch of Disney+ and promised surprises with the remerged media giant.
"I think it is impressive," the CBS Chief Content Officer bluntly noted of the 10…
You know it's September when the NFL is back tonight for the kick-off of its 100th season, TIFF is in full flight, the 71st Primetime Emmys are just around the corner and the new TV season is just a couple of weeks away from launch.
However, with all that action, there's also a lot of competition for your attention on…
EXCLUSIVE: Aaron Sorkin's The Trial Of The Chicago 7 is finally getting its day in court. Paramount Pictures has come aboard for domestic distribution, and Cross Creek has boarded as co-financier and is producing along with Amblin Partners. The collective funding infusion has the film now on track to begin production…
Ask yourself how you’d reply to these questions: “Do you consider yourself a patriot?” “If your country needed you to lie to your friends, your family, your wife — would you do it?” One Israeli clerk answered in the affirmative, and this is his story.
Here is the trailer for The Spy, Netflix’s limited-series thriller…
When Showtime broadcast the Emmy-nominated seven-episode series Who Is America, Sacha Baron Cohen’s exploration of conservative ideals he felt were fomented by President Donald Trump led to embarrassing moments for several public servants who, with the slightest provocation, fomented extreme views on guns…
At the Deadline Emmy season screening of Showtime’s Who Is America, Sacha Baron Cohen held a packed house rapt. At the Landmark Theater, he gave a humorous tutorial that was the equivalent of a magician explaining his repertoire of magic tricks. Baron Cohen discussed in detail the painstaking work that went into…
Netflix has set September 6 for the premiere of its upcoming limited series The Spy, starring Emmy-nominated Sacha Baron Cohen(Who Is America?). The internet TV network also released some first-look photos (see above and below).
Written and directed by Gideon Raff, creator of the Israeli drama Prisoners of War on…
Sacha Baron Cohen’s groundbreaking Showtime series Who is America got three big Emmy nominations this morning, and while he was busy writing, Baron Cohen took a moment on twitter to issue a lot of thank you missives. That included Sarah Palin — who took part in a segment and got cut out — and Dick Cheney, whose…
Sacha Baron Cohen’s 2006 film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan apparently was not so good for Pamela Anderson.
Baron Cohen, out talking in advance of Emmy nominations to drum up support for his Showtime series Who Is America?, finally acknowledged that Anderson’s…
In the seven episodes of his Showtime series Who is America?Sacha Baron Cohen played a series of characters thrown into meeting real people, and served up some of the year's finest laughs, even as he charged into dealing with chilling alt-right subjects who were all too quick to demonstrate their racism, homophobia…
EXCLUSIVE: Following a strong response from buyers, Aaron Sorkin’s starry drama The Trial Of The Chicago 7 is now being fast-tracked for an early summer start after pre-production was put on pause last December.
Rocket Science was selling the $30M-budgeted drama at the EFM in Berlin last week and closed significant…
