Новости за 08.01.2024

Mayim Bialik may no longer be part of the Jeopardy! hosting team, but she has mad props for the woman who just became the first game show host in 15 years to break though the boys club. On Sunday, Password‘s Keke Palmer beat Jeopardy! hosts Bialik and Ken Jennings, as well as Family Feud’s Steve Harvey and Wheel of Fortune’s Pat Sajak, in the […]

As we head into Oscar balloting on Thursday, let’s not forget about Chloe Domont’s Fair Play which reawakened the erotic thriller, and specifically spoke to the Me-Too era. The MRC and T-Street production went into Sundance last year under the radar and became the fest’s first big deal with Netflix scooping up the Alden Ehrenreich […]

French actor-director Samuel Theis, best known for starring in Justine Triet’s awards season favorite Anatomy of a Fall, has been accused of rape by a crew member on Je te jure (I Swear), Theis’ latest directorial feature.  The French newspaper Libération broke the story and reported that the alleged assault took place last year at […]

OpenAI claims The New York Times “intentionally manipulated prompts” to provide examples of where ChatGPT mimicked Gray Lady content. OpenAI’s comments came in a blog post response to the Times’ copyright infringement lawsuit against the company. Times claims that OpenAI seeks “to free-ride on The Times’s massive investment in its journalism by using it to […]

UPDATED, 12:28 PM: A$AP Rocky pleaded not guilty today to charges stemming from an allegation that he pulled a gun on a fellow rapper during a 2021 altercation in Hollywood and then fired at him soon afterward during another confrontation. The multiplatinum artist (real name Rakim Mayers) is charged with two counts of assault with […]

Paramount+’s long-in-the-works crime drama series Happy Face is headed to production with Emmy-nominated and Tony-winning actor Annaleigh Ashford (Welcome to Chippendales, Impeachment: American Crime Story) set as the lead. Michael Showalter (The Dropout, The Eyes of Tammy Faye) has been tapped to direct the first episode of the CBS Studios-produced series, from executive producers Jennifer […]

Prime Video has given a series order to Criminal, a drama based on the multi-Eisner Award-winning graphic novel series created by Ed Brubaker, who writes the comic, and Sean Phillips, who illustrates it. Brubaker, who penned the pilot script, will co-showrun the TV series with crime fiction author Jordan Harper (Hightown). The project, produced by […]

Once upon a time, you could attend a dozen afterparties following a Golden Globes ceremony and never leave the Beverly Hilton estate, they were all under one roof. Cities were constructed up on the actual roof or atop the parking lot. You’d emerge from the show and trot downstairs to HBO. Then you’d queue by […]

As the producers of Disney‘s Wish, Peter Del Vecho and Juan Pablo Reyes Lancaster-Jones say that every aspect of the film was inspired by each Disney animated film for the past 100 years. This included the animation style, the character of Star, and especially the villainous turn of Magnifico. Wish follows Asha (Ariana DeBose), a young girl who disagrees with […]

EXCLUSIVE: MindRiot Entertainment, the transatlantic indie behind Danielle Deadwyler’s Parallel and the upcoming OceanGate pic Salvaged has locked the rights to adapt former pro skater Josh Swindell’s memoir into a feature film.  The memoir, which features a forward by Jay Mohr, has yet to be published. MindRiot’s Jonathan Keasey, who has been tapped to write […]

Jo Koy, reflecting on negative reviews of his debut hosting gig at the 2024 Golden Globes, tells GMA3 that the criticism stings, and that he understands the backlash over the now-infamous Taylor Swift joke. While insisting he had fun last night, a candid Koy conceded that it was “a tough room,” a “hard job” and […]

EXCLUSIVE: After setting the stage with its robust line-up of holiday programming, Great American Family is ready to get into the scripted series business. The channel is launching County Rescue, an action-adventure medical drama starring Julia Reilly (Stranger Things) as an EMT in training who is vying for one of three openings on the team. […]

ABC has something to celebrate after its first televised Bachelor wedding in years. The Golden Wedding welcomed 5.22M live + same-day viewers for Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist’s nuptials on Thursday, according to Nielsen data. That outpaces the season’s 4.83M average viewers by 8%. The special was also up 5% among adults 18-49, managing a […]

For Zac Efron, A24’s The Iron Claw was the most challenging project in a career of more than two decades, but “in the best ways possible.” In the film from writer-director Sean Durkin, he chronicles the real-life rise to greatness, and journey through gobsmacking tragedy, of Kevin Von Erich, the eldest son in a family of […]

CNN anchor Sara Sidner told viewers that she is being treated for stage three breast cancer, even as she continues in her network duties. In a segment on CNN News Central, Sidner fought back tears as she relayed her experience. “I have never been sick a day in my life. I don’t smoke. I rarely […]

Tiger Woods said Monday that his sponsorship relationship with Nike has ended, bringing to a close a 27-year partnership that teamed golf’s and the sports world’s biggest athlete with the biggest athletic brand. The partnership began when Woods turned pro at the age of 20. For Nike, it was perhaps the most prominent teaming with […]

Sarah Rice, who performed the pivotal role of the endangered Johanna in the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, died Saturday of cancer. She was 68. Her death was announced in an Instagram post by her friend and fellow performer Rebecca Caine, who remembered Rice for her […]

Producer Joyce Pierpoline has been appointed chair of BAFTA North America’s Board of Directors. She succeeds Kathryn Busby.  Pierpoline’s credits include Mediha, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at DOC NYC 2023, Angelica (2016), and Sundance-winning Teeth (2007). She founded Pierpoline Films based in New York and Paris, serves as chair of BAFTA North America’s […]

‘Barbie’ Leads UK Home Entertainment Charts  Greta Gerwig’s Barbie topped the UK’s home entertainment charts in 2023 with 700k sales across platforms, according to figures released by the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) and Official Charts Company (OCC). The figures state the value of the UK Home Entertainment Category rose to £4.9bn in 2023. […]

Kevin Negandhi will continue to be a presence on ESPN. The anchor and studio host has signed a new multi-year contract with the network in which he’ll continue to host weekday SportsCenter, as well as Special Olympics and ABC’s coverage of college football and the NBA draft. “I’m excited and honored to continue my career […]

With CES set to kick off tomorrow in Las Vegas, NBCUniversal has announced an expansion of its tech-enhanced One Platform offering for advertisers. One Platform Total Audience, the media company’s AI-driven planning and activation suite of tools, is touted as a way for advertisers to attain unduplicated reach through a single media buy across linear […]

Kyung Lah has been named senior investigative correspondent at CNN, joining the network’s investigative team. Lah has served as senior national correspondent, covering the 2024 presidential campaign. The network also named Ryan Young as senior national correspondent, based in the network’s Atlanta bureau. He’ll report on law enforcement and on other news stories across the […]

It’s official. Production is underway on the fifth and final season of Stranger Things. The show posted a cast photo on X (fka Twitter) Monday morning with the caption: “THIS IS A CODE RED STRANGER THINGS 5 has officially begun!!” The Netflix series was close to starting production on Season 5 when the WGA strike began […]

EXCLUSIVE: Gigi Gustin will star and executive produce Stiletto, a slasher pic from Samuel Gonzalez Jr. Gustin (Night of the Missing) will star the cast alongside Charlotte McKinney (Fantasy Island) and Colleen Camp (Amsterdam, American Hustle). AEW star Stephon ‘Swerve’ Strickland, Pancho Moler (3 from Hell), Tyler Abron (Fear), Stephen Blackehart (Guardians of the Galaxy), […]

EXCLUSIVE: With interest in the great 20th Century American writer Thornton Wilder about to get one of its periodic surges – a major Broadway revival of Our Town is coming this year, and Hello, Dolly!, the musical based on Wilder’s 1954 play The Matchmaker, will open on London’s West End this summer in a revival […]