Refresh for latest…: The Venice Film Festival is unveiling its lineup for the 77th edition this morning in Rome. This will be the first major international film event to take place physically since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, and will be held from September 2-12 on the Lido. Cate Blanchett is president…
UPDATE: Minutes after we dropped the news of Fremantle’s exit from Mipcom, ITV Studios also confirmed it will not attend. Instead, the studio will host the ITV Studios Fall Festival, a series of virtual content sessions for buyers held over three weeks from September 14.
ORIGINAL EXCLUSIVE: Fremantle has joined BBC Stu…
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated Girl With A Pearl Earring writer Olivia Hetreed is to adapt Shankari Chandran's debut novel Song Of The Sun God for Synchronicity Films, producer of Jenna Coleman-fronted BBC drama The Cry, and Australia’s Dragonet Films.
Hetreed is working on a six-part series based on the 2017 novel, which…
Sony Pictures Television has signed an exclusive deal with British historian and author Dan Jones to develop TV drama adaptations of his books through Sony companies including Left Bank Pictures and Eleven.
Jones’ books have sold more than a million copies around the world and include titles like The Plantagenets and T…
The 72nd annual Emmy Awards nominations will be announced live Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. PT/11:30 a.m. ET in a virtual event hosted by Leslie Jones. The noms will be revealed by presenters Laverne Cox, Josh Gad and Tatiana Maslany along with Television Academy chairman and CEO Frank Scherma.
The ceremony will stream live…
About that “drive-in concert” in the Hamptons featuring the Chainsmokers that devolved into a 2019-like show with hundreds of people side by side in the pit: Andrew Cuomo on Line 1.
New York’s governor has launched an investigation of the EDM duo’s Saturday show, which was billed as being only for people in their cars…
You might have detected a whiff of discord in the American Experiment of late. As citizens, groups, politicians and most everyone digests, deals with and/or takes a side on the racial issues roiling the country, one prominent politician went on record last week to label slavery a “necessary evil.”
Actually, GOP Sen. To…
“I’ve said before that additional rollbacks or closures must remain on the table,” said Los Angeles County public health director Barbara Ferrer on Monday. “But at this stage in the pandemic, we believe we have a lot of tools available that if fully utilized should allow us to slow the spread without going back to the…
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation has distributed over $5.5 million to more than 5,900 SAG-AFTRA members and their families since the coronavirus shutdown.
"We're still asking for your help and donations, so if you're in a position to do so, please consider helping our cause," said Foundation president Courtney B. Vance in his…
2ND UPDATE, 6:49 PM: Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and her young daughter have been released from a Mumbai hospital after a week of treatment for coronavirus. Her husband and fellow Indian actor Abhishek Bachchan tweeted the news Monday.
The former Miss World and her 8-year-old daughter Aaradhya, who both…
"Today, we take a big step forward …to ensure equity and justice and fairness for every Angeleno by creating the Community Safety Partnership bureau in the Los Angeles Police Department," said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in an update on the metropolis' battle with the coronavirus, public safety and police…
Senate Republicans on Monday unveiled a coronavirus relief package that reduces the size of enhanced unemployment benefits — in the short term to an extra $200 per week, from the current $600.
Their proposals also include COVID-19 liability protections for businesses so they “can spend their next months actually…
