Новости за 13.03.2024

EXCLUSIVE: Hello From The Magic Tavern, the hit comedy fantasy podcast, is being turned into an animated series. Sam Rockwell and Mark Berger’s Play Hooky Productions and Starburns Industries, the company behind Rick and Morty, are developing the podcast in cartoon form. This news comes ahead of the fifth season of the podcast, which returns […]

EXCLUSIVE: SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher, Kyra Sedgewick, Frontline’s Raney Aronson-Rath and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Alex Borstein will among those honored at the New York Women In Film & Television Muse Awards later this month. Aronson-Rath, editor-in-chief and executive producer of PBS Frontline, whose doc 20 Days in Mariupol won an Oscar Sunday, will receive […]

The world’s first law governing artificial intelligence (AI) was today adopted by European lawmakers — a move that could have significant impact on film and TV production. The Artificial Intelligence Act are an attempt to government how companies and individuals use AI, as use of generative systems such as ChatGPT becomes more widespread, creating issues […]

Nickelodeon is speaking out following details of sexual assault and abuse revealed by one-time Drake & Josh star Drake Bell by dialogue coach Brian Peck when Bell was a child. Bell detailed the abuse in the third episode of Investigation Discovery’s upcoming four-part docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, which will […]

Star Wars actor Michael Culver has died aged 85. The British actor played a small but famous role in Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back as Captain Needa, whose failure to capture fleeing Rebel Alliance forces results in Darth Vader force-choking him to death aboard a Star Destroyer. “We are very sad […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Mothership writer-director Matt Charman has landed his first Netflix project since the Halle Berry movie was axed by the streamer, Deadline understands. We are told that Charman is writing a UK-set TV series thriller set in the upper echelons of the British political sphere titled The Choice, with filming set to start in […]

“The future of humanity is in her hands,” the opening subtitle reads during the trailer for Atlas, Netflix’s  Sci-Fi thriller starring Jennifer Lopez, for which we can share the first trailer above.  The pic, which opens May 24, follows Atlas Shepherd (Lopez), a brilliant but misanthropic data analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence, […]

Hong Kong Film Development Council (HKFDC) has announced the first ten projects to receive grants under its Content Development Scheme for Streaming Platforms. The ten projects, which will now enter phase two of the scheme, include series to be directed and/or produced by leading Hong Kong filmmakers such as Lawrence Ah Mon, Derek Yee, Peter […]

Yin Chen-Hao’s Call Of Lobster and Gao Linyang’s Dying Fire were presented with the inaugural HCG Awards, a joint initiative of HKIFF Industry and CAA China, as the Hong Kong projects market wrapped with 21 cash and in-kind prizes worth more than US$223,000. The objective of HCG [HKIFF Industry – CAA China Genre Initiative], according […]

House lawmakers overwhelmingly passed legislation today that would force the parent company of TikTok to divest the popular app or face a ban on U.S. platforms. The legislation passed 352-65, easily clearing the 2/3 threshold needed. The bill now goes to the Senate, where the company has been lobbying heavily and the next steps for […]

Neil Young is ending his two-year Spotify boycott. The celebrated singer is returning his music to the audio giant after Joe Rogan signed a $250m deal to make his podcast available on multiple platforms, rather than remaining a Spotify exclusive. Young withdrew his music from Spotify in January 2022 due to its support for Rogan, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Tovah Feldshuh, the multiple Emmy and Tony Award nominee who recently co-starred on Broadway with Lea Michele in the hit musical revival Funny Girl, has signed with Stewart Talent for representation. Feldshuh earned the first of four Tony nominations in 1976 for her performance in Yentl, with subsequent nominations coming in 1979 (Saravá), 1989 […]

EXCLUSIVE: 101 Studios has brought in Matt Summers, an Emmy-winning entertainment and sports executive, with decades of experience in film, television, sports and entertainment marketing, to serve as SVP of Sports, Deadline has learned. Summers joins after nearly a decade at NASCAR, where he served as Managing Director and head of the L.A.-based entertainment division, […]

EXCLUSIVE: MasterChef judge Aarón Sánchez is returning to Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) U.S. Hispanic for more of his LA restaurant series El Toque de Aarón. The second season will premiere next month on Discovery Familia and sister network Hogar de HGTV. In El Toque de Aarón, the celebrity chef who has been judging Fox’s MasterChef […]

Welcome to ElectionLine’s A View From Abroad series, in which we speak with media figures who don’t live in America but keep a close eye on its politics. Every few weeks, these smart observers will provide a unique perspective on what promises to be a fraught and unpredictable campaign for the White House. This week, our […]

EXCLUSIVE: Melanie Marnich is a huge fan of Big Little Lies scribe Liane Moriarty’s work, but when showrunning an adaptation of Moriarty’s Apples Never Fall, Marnich blocked the HBO hit from her consciousness almost entirely. Peacock’s Apples Never Fall, which stars 2024 Oscar-nominee Annette Bening and launches tomorrow with international premiere at next week’s Series […]

Taylor Swift’s song “Death By A Thousand Cuts” has been revealed as one of the four mystery bonus acoustic songs to be included in Disney+’s expanded Eras Tour concert film. The song announcement, made today on ABC’s Good Morning America, is the second reveal made in recent weeks: Earlier this month, Swift disclosed that one […]

BBC News is entering the growing free ad-supported TV (FAST) game in the U.S. AMC Networks and BBC Studios unveiled the launch today of a 24-hour live news channel and have landed distribution with a number of partners including Pluto, Samsung TV Plus and Sling Freestream. The FAST channel will operate in a similar way […]

The fact that both Asia and Europe are finding it more difficult to finance movies following the pandemic may drive the two regions to start working together more closely, despite the huge differences in their funding systems, said a group of leading producers on a two-session Filmart panel. In the first session, the heads of […]

Celebrity Big Brother contestant Louis Walsh has ignited a ramped-up war of words with X Factor breakouts Jedward, with the identical twin singers accusing Walsh of forcing them to give one of his PR workers £70,000 ($89,500). On last night’s Celebrity Big Brother, Walsh branded the singers – who featured on The X Factor during […]

The government of Javier Milei, Argentina’s far-right leader, has pushed through highly controversial plans to defund all state funding to the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA), the country’s national film body. In an official public notice published Tuesday, Milei’s Human Capital Ministry said it discovered a $4 million deficit in INCAA’s budget […]

EXCLUSIVE: Jamie Oliver’s son, Buddy, is following his dad into culinary TV and kids content distributor Cake has boarded his first show. As announced in February, he 13-year-old Buddy will star in his own show, Cooking Buddies, on UK kids channel CBBC later this year, with The Jamie Oliver Group producing. Cake, which sells shows […]

More than 30 years after starring together in silver screen flop Sliver, Sharon Stone and Billy Baldwin are recalling unhappy memories about making the movie. In an appearance on The Louis Theroux Podcast, Stone named former Paramount Pictures chief Robert Evans as the producer who pressured her to have sex with Baldwin to improve his […]

EXCLUSIVE: Danny Dyer’s range is continuing to expand as the Football Factory star lands himself a Channel 4 documentary series exploring modern masculinity. Danny Dyer: How To Be A Man will see the EastEnders alum delve deep into the evolving landscape of masculinity. At a time when people are labeling masculinity ‘toxic,’ Dyer, who made his name […]

EXCLUSIVE: Emraan Hashmi was born to play Raghu Khanna. As a member of the famous Bhatt family who began a two-decade career in Bollywood behind the cameras before becoming a famous face in front of them, playing the son of a media mogul in Disney+ Hotstar’s latest original will have been familiar territory. His role […]