EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM has added three more to its Joey Power rom-com Love Love: Adeline Rudolph (Mortal Kombat II), Audra McDonald (The Gilded Age), and Dylan McDermott (FBI: Most Wanted). Character details are being kept under wraps. Isabel May and Tyriq Withers lead the film, as we announced in July. Written by Power and Daniel Sweren-Becker, Love Love follows […]
EXCLUSIVE: A24 vet Kate Fassl is heading to Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen’s Square Peg as its new Head of Communications and Talent Relations. In her new role, Fassl will lead comms for Square Peg, overseeing strategy, press and brand while working closely with filmmakers and talent. Fassl joins Square Peg, founded and led by […]
Netflix is now in the co-production business. The streamer has made a deal with AMC Studios to jointly develop and produce original series, believed to be the first of its kind for the global platform. The first greenlight to come out of the arrangement is drama Bannerman, from Shane Black (Lethal Weapon) and Craig Silverstein […]
EXCLUSIVE: Andy Weil, Netflix’s VP Comedy and the streamer’s second-longest-serving programming executive, is leaving to join Amazon MGM Studios as Head of Comedy. Amazon MGM Studios‘ Head of Global Television Peter Friedlander just announced the hire internally in a memo, which you can read below. Weil’s first day is September 14. The Head of Comedy […]
EXCLUSIVE: Monarch Media has enlisted Kali Bailey to adapt the screenplay for The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, a live-action feature adaptation of the children’s book by L. Frank Baum. First published in 1902, Baum’s book follows Santa Claus from an abandoned baby in a magical forest near Oz, to his beloved role of spreading peace, […]
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II shares his take on the online discourse over Disney and Marvel’s decision to cancel Wonder Man after one season, and the continued postponement of the Blade reboot. In a new interview, the actor is asked about the conjecture that fans are making about the Disney+ series and the Marvel superhero film, both led by Black men. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Universal and Joseph Kosinski’s Miami Vice ’85 movie is adding even more star power to its growing ensemble as Camila Morrone is set to co-star opposite Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler. Kosinski will direct the latest feature adaptation of the classic ’80s crime series, which has a script by Dan Gilroy. Alden Ehrenreich […]
Lanterns is shining brightly on upon its series debut. The DC Studios series raked in 9.3 million global cross-platform viewers and 6.6 million in the U.S. in its first three days of availability on HBO and HBO Max, per Warner Bros. Discovery. With regard to streaming, it now ranks among the top five series premieres on […]
EXCLUSIVE: Teyonah Parris is joining the Apple Original Films pic Running from director Gavin O’Connor that stars Spike Fearn, Brian Tyree Henry and Rhea Seehorn. Bill Dubuque penned the script, which is based on a story by O’Connor and Dubuque. The film, a co-production between Makeready and Waffle Iron Entertainment, follows a homeless high school […]
Paramount’s pending acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery has evoked a range of emotion in Hollywood, mainly fear among creatives at the planned merger of two more major studios. But now that uncertainty is tinged with panic after CEO David Ellison threatened to relocate his Los Angeles-based company to Tennessee, Texas or Georgia. Separately, the risks […]