EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios is teaming with Mandeville Films to turn the Antti Tuomainen novel The Rabbit Factor into a star vehicle for Steve Carell. Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman are producing and Alex Young will EP for Mandeville Films.
In the adaptation of the darkly comic novel by the Finnish author, Carell…
Steve Carell plays Santa Claus leading an elf reinvention of Christmas in The Greatest Gift, the latest long-form ad for Xfinity TV and broadband.
The Comcast division debuted a two-minute version of the short film on NBC’s broadcast of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, with a three-and-a-half-minute version going…
Netflix has ordered a second season of Space Force, its workplace comedy which may have drawn inspiration from President Donald Trump's Space Force initiative. Production is slated to begin in Vancouver in 2021.
Co-created by Steve Carell and Greg Daniels and starring Carell, the series centers on a decorated pilot…
In The Morning Show, Jennifer Aniston plays a kind of angel to Billy Crudup's devil. Aniston's Alex Levy, an utterly dedicated and focused television news anchor, holds tight to a good-person identity, so she's floored when co-anchor Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell) is outed for sexual misconduct, and she's forced to…
After their comedy Emmy nom record, Jennifer Aniston and Steve Carell landed their first lead Drama Primetime nominations today for their respective turns in AppleTV+’s The Morning Show as news anchors Alex Levy and Mitch Kessler.
Aniston has been nominated 6x before in the comedy category –5x for Friends–Â winning…
Coming off a coronavirus pandemic dominated second quarter, Netflixtoday revealed not just strong subscriber and revenue growth, but also a lot of eyeballs for some key series and films.
“In Q2, we notched successes in many of our key content verticals,” the the now Ted Sarandos co-CEO'd streamer circumspectly noted…
Irresistible is a timely and smart political satire that is exactly what I would expect and hope for from its writer-director Jon Stewart. What I wasn’t expecting, however, is that it would evoke fond memories of Frank Capra and, even in its most wickedly twisty moments, Billy Wilder. Stewart is a shrewd dude, and he…
Former football quarterback turned activist Colin Kaepernick is setting up a legal defense fund to help protesters arrested in Minneapolis’s street confrontations.
In his NFL playing days, Kaepernick started a movement by kneeling before the national anthem to protest injustice and alleged police violence. After…
America may have to wait a few days or even more to see the first NASA astronauts to take off from the US in almost a decade finally head to the skies, but there are some pretty big launches on the small screen this weekend.
Out of our quartet of contenders, only one will plant the flag to be the show you have to…
The World Health Organization, the United Nations Foundation and Chris Meledandri's Illumination have partnered to launch a PSA that lends Despicable Me's Gru — voiced by Steve Carell — and the Minions to reinforce safe and healthy practices during these challenging times. The PSA focuses on lifesaving behaviors to…
Here’s another notable theatrical release to hit PVOD due to COVID-19: Focus Features’ Jon Stewart-directed political comedy Irresistible. Originally scheduled for a May 29 theatrical release, the Steve Carell-Rose Byrne-Chris Cooper movie now will play in homes starting Friday, June 26.
Irresistible will be available…
The posthumous accolades are pouring in for comic actor Fred Willard, whose career spanned 50 years in film, television, stage and nightclubs.
A four-time Emmy nominee, Willard was known for characters who appeared slightly off and outside the norm. But his real-life personal warmth and quick wit made him a Hollywood…
