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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…

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…

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…

First it was Sacha Baron Cohen's Who Is America? late last year, and now Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman is going after Showtime for $750 million and an injunction to shut down the premium cabler's upcoming Roger Ailes series starring Russell Crowe as the now deceased Fox News Channel boss. Representing ex-FNC…

“Alte kakers rule!” said The Kominsky Method‘s Michael Douglas after winning the 2019 Golden Globe Award for best actor in a TV musical or comedy, a double-duty reference to both his role as the aging acting coach Sandy Kominsky and to his 102-year-old Kirk Douglas, name-checked in the tonight’s first acceptance…

Showtime brass had been hopeful about a second installment of Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America? "I'm dying to bring it back," the network’s CEO David Nevins said in August. But Baron Cohen, who earned a Golden Globe nominations for the six characters he played in the gotcha series, does not think a second season is…

After honing the difficult craft of creating laughs with characters embedded in situations where only he is in a comedy in Da Ali G Show, Borat and Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen turned his skill toward exposing highbrow politicians and hard line conservatives with a coterie of new characters in Who Is America? For his…

Golden Globe nominee Sacha Baron Cohen was all smiles at Showtime's holiday party on Sunset Boulevard last night. But the Who Is America? creator can't be cheered about Roy Moore's contention today in his $95 million defamation suit that he was "fraudulently induced" to appear on the satire series earlier this…