Veteran Actor Elizabeth McGovern steps out with her first producing gig in The Chaperone. The title is also the first narrative release for PBS Distribution, which had a who's who screening earlier this week at MoMA in New York, hosted by publicity maven Peggy Siegal. McGovern stars opposite Haley Lu Richardson in the…

Director Alison Klayman’s upcoming documentary The Brink chronicles Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon through the 2018 midterm elections, and as seen in this trailer, the provocateur hasn’t stopped provoking since leaving the White House. "I'm going to get so crushed in this film," the ever-rumpled…

Two weeks ahead of its kick-off, Sundance Film Festival has released the final round of titles with the addition of documentaries Leaving Neverland and The Brink, each set to world premiere in Park City, Utah. Directed and produced by Dan Reed, Leaving Neverland follows the long-standing accusation of sexual abuse by…

HBO has reversed its July decision to renew freshman comedy The Brink starring Jack Black and Tim Robbins. The series will not be going to Season 2. “After evaluating our schedule and our programming needs, we unfortunately decided we cannot give The Brink the attention it deserves for a second season,” HBO said in a…

Pablo Schreiber may be notorious now as George 'Pornstache' Mendez in Netflix's Orange is the New Black, but the actor's vast resume also includes a Tony nomination for his Broadway debut in Awake and Sing, roles in Vicky Christina Barcelona, The Wire, Weeds, Lords of Dogtown, The Good Wife, Law and Order: SVU and…

HBO has given a second-season order to freshman comedy The Brink starring Jack Black and Tim Robbins. The renewal comes a day before the options on the cast were set to expire after the pay cable network had secured a weeklong extension last week. It follows a small ratings uptick for the Sunday episode, which drew…

Jerry Weintraub, the legendary producer who worked with everyone from Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra to Led Zeppelin and George Clooney and produced films ranging from Oh, God! and the Karate Kid to the Ocean’s Eleven reboot franchise, died this morning of cardiac arrest in a Santa Barbara hospital. He was 77…

Nic Pizzolatto’s brooding drama True Detective picked up where it left off, opening its second season with 3.2 million viewers at 9 PM and 4.3 million for the night. The 9 PM premiere was up +36% from True Detective’s series debut (2.3 million viewers) and ranks as the anthology drama’s second most watched telecast…

They have a very sweet slot right after the Season 2 debut of True Detective on June 21 but HBO's new comedies are neither good nor funny – which is a real shame because both Ballers and The Brink have such great real life material to draw from. As my video review above says, Ballers is really little more than a…

HBO’s The Brink drops Jack Black into Pakistan where he plays a foreign service officer, one of secretary of state Tim Robbins’ minions on the ground amid an escalating geopolitical crisis. The unlikely trio of Black, Robbins and ace fighter pilot played by Pablo Schreiber will need to pull together to prevent the…

HBO will use the second-season bow of its Emmy-winning drama to drive sampling for a pair of rookie comedies. The next iteration of True Detective will premiere at 9 PM on June 21, followed by the series bow of Ballers at 10 and The Brink at 10:30. Ballers explores the lives of a group of former and current football…

HBO’s summer political satire The Brink follows three disparate and desperate men – a U.S. Secretary of State (Tim Robbins), a low-ranking foreign service officer (Jack Black) and a Navy pilot (Pablo Schreiber) – who must find a way to prevent World War III amidst chaos. After the Pakistan embassy’s press attaché…