UPDATED with Doald Trump’s reaction via Twitter: At the start of his MSNBC show The Last Word on Wednesday, host Lawrence O’Donnell apologized for his report that Russian billionaires co-signed Deutsche Bank loans to Donald Trump, hours after one of the president’s lawyers issued a legal threat and demanded a…
Deutschland '86 star Anke Engelke is to lead a German Netflix original as a funeral eulogy speaker who sabotages her own husband's funeral.
The SVOD service has ordered The Last Word, a six-part series from Pantaleon Films, which produces Amazon's You Are Wanted. It will be showrun by Aron Lehmann and Carlos V…
EXCLUSIVE: Producer Aaron Magnani has acquired screen rights to Castle of Water, the 2017 romantic adventure novel from Dane Huckelbridge. Peter Arneson has adapted the screenplay, and the pic will be produced by Magnani via his Aaron Magnani Productions and executive produced by Brendan Deneen. A search for a…
Having watched what happened to MSNBC primetime star Lawrence O'Donnell when someone leaked footage of him having an on-camera meltdown during a glitch-riddled taping, CBS late-night star Stephen Colbert decided to get out in front of his own similar embarrassing Late Show incident.
In video leaked this week, The Last…
MSNBC primetime host Lawrence O’Donnell had the last word on some folks in his control room late last month, venting first about someone talking in his ear about “a Labor Day rundown” then some apparent knucklehead using a hammer. Video of his tirade, spiced with no shortage of colorful language, was leaked today, and…
Lawrence O’Donnell took to Twitter tonight to end the long nightmare of his fans:
Yes I will be saying hi to Rachel @maddow at 10pm for the foreseeable future. https://t.co/LKlkRTXL3F
— Lawrence O'Donnell (@Lawrence) June 1, 2017
A couple weeks back, The Last Word host – again on Twitter – had scared the daylights…
I have just two words for The Last Word: Shirley MacLaine. The legendary star is back with a leading role worthy of her talents and she lets it rip in this amusing, and ultimately touching, film about an 81-year-old divorced woman determined to control her own departure by creating her obituary while she is still…
When The Last Word director Mark Pellington saw his cast read through first-time screenwriter Stuart Ross Fink’s script for the first time, he new their film would be something special. Starring screen icon Shirley MacLaine, Amanda Seyfried, Anne Heche and AnnJewel Dixon, the movie that just bowed at the Sundance Film…
EXCLUSIVE: Harriet Lauler (Shirley MacLaine) is a successful retired businesswoman who needs to control everything — including her obituary. So she hires young local writer Anne Sherman (Amanda Seyfried) to pen her life’s story. When the initial result doesn't meet Harriet’s high expectations, she sets out to reshape…
“The thought of leaving my obituary to chance is completely unreasonable to me.” So says Harriet Lauler (Shirley MacLaine), a very successful retired businesswoman who needs to control everything. So she goes to her local newspaper’s obit writer (Amanda Seyfried) with a plan: Lauler basically will co-write her own…
EXCLUSIVE: Hyde Park International has boarded offshore sales onSo B. It. Based on the New York Times bestseller by Sarah Weeks, the film is directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal and written by Garry Williams. The YA title will have its world premiere at the LA Film Festival on June 7. Jay Cohen at Gersh is repping…
Bleecker Street has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Mark Pellington's The Last Word, a dramedy that has Shirley MacLaine and Amanda Seyfried attached to star.
The pic, written by Stuart Fink, centers on MacLaine as a retired businesswoman who wants to control everything around her, including her own obituary, so…
