UPDATED with Magic Johnson comments: Fulfilling a long-held dream, Bob Iger has bought himself a big-city major sports franchise. The ex-Disney CEO and Thrive Capital boss Josh Kushner have scored the Los Angeles Lakers at a valuation of $12.5 billion, Deadline has confirmed. That’s the highest valuation for a sports team in U.S. history, topping […]
Anne Hathaway has five, count ’em, five movies in release this year between May and October. The End Of Oak Street is the one that clearly isn’t going to take her back to the Academy Awards. However considering the sheer hell her suburban wife and mother goes through battling packs of dinosaurs while trying to […]
EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood vet Joe Roth, the former Fox and Disney chairman, and his producing partner Jeff Kirschenbaum, are partnering with writers Cory Todd Hughes and Adrian Speckert to develop a feature adaptation of digital horror game Scary Teacher. Based on the hit franchise created by Z & K Games, Scary Teacher has billions of views […]
What in the world was Warner Bros thinking? In 2023 the studio canceled, shelved and ditched the finished animated/live action hybrid feature Coyote vs. Acme in favor of a tax writeoff rather than releasing the movie in theaters, or even streaming. This sort of corporate move would indicate the studio thinks the movie itself just […]
“The clock’s ticking.” Prime Video has released the first full trailer for Reacher spinoff Neagley starring Maria Sten. Reprising her role as Frances Neagley, Sten takes on a dangerous cult to snare the killer of a longtime friend. “Looks like you had your hands full,” says Reacher star Alan Ritchson to Sten’s Frances Neagley seen […]
EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to Sundance dramedy Run Amok, the feature directorial debut of NB Mager. The Tandem Pictures and Greenmachine production stars Alyssa Marvin, Margaret Cho, Sophia Torres, Elizabeth Marvel, Bill Camp, Yul Vazquez, Grace Reiter, Jim Kaplan, Nuha Jes, Pilot Bunch, Molly Ringwald, and Patrick Wilson. Greenwich plans […]
The guest list at Willy Wonka’s factory is extending to Nicola Coughlan, Charithra Chandran, Samson Kayo, Christopher Chung, Kate Winslet and Helena Bonham Carter. These are the latest names to join the voice cast of Netflix’s Charlie vs. the Chocolate Factory, alongside previously announced stars Kit Connor as Charlie Paley and Taika Waititi as Willy Wonka. […]
EXCLUSIVE: “To be or not to be an actor. That is the question,” states an overly-dramatic Mark in the first trailer for the final run of Son of a Critch. Unfortunately, life isn’t going to make it easy, and he’s soon working as a giant hot dog mascot and, in his own words, “having a […]
EXCLUSIVE: Documentary+ has acquired WrestleHer, a major nonfiction series on the rise of girls’ high school wrestling, one of the fastest growing sports in the U.S. The 11-part series, produced by Substance, will premiere on Documentary+ and Allez! Sports on September 10, just as highschoolers around the country are returning to class for the fall […]
The American Film Market will have an expanded footprint for its upcoming edition with a new space, AFM House, dedicated to programming for its second annual Innovation Hub. AFM House will be located at The Pavilion at Century Park, 2000 Avenue of the Stars, across from the Fairmont Century Plaza where the market will unspool […]