While Tom Cruise could see into the future in Minority Report, his co-star Colin Farrell might have benefitted from a little foresight while making the movie. The Oscar nominee recalled getting drunk one night before “one of the worst days I’ve ever had on a film set” while making the 2003 sci-fi film based on […]
YouTube is undergoing a staffing shakeup as the company pivots to focus on artificial intelligence, offering its US-based employees voluntary buyout packages with severance. The online video platform, which launched in 2005, is restructuring its products team for the first time since 2015, according to an internal memo from YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, as parent […]
It’s the first time since 2014 that Halloween falls on a Friday in what is expected to be horrific for the weekend box office. For the most part, the crowds are expected to shrink greatly on Friday due to festivities, though a scary movie like Black Phone 2 might be able to find some semblance […]
Hello Kitty‘s cinematic debut is set for July 21, 2028, via New Line and Warner Bros Pictures Animation, the news was just unveiled on Instagram. The project, as exclusively made known by Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr, was first announced in March 2021. It was billed then as an animated/live-action hybrid effort. New Line landed rights […]
“The station was lucky to have him on the air. We were all lucky to have him as a guide to his musical galaxy and I was lucky to have him as a friend.” That’s how Jon Bon Jovi today described legendary Philadelphia rock DJ Pierre Robert, who was found dead yesterday in his home, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Grindstone Entertainment Group has taken domestic distribution rights to the mixed martial arts action drama Beast in Me starring Oscar winner Russell Crowe, Daniel MacPherson, and Luke Hemsworth. Crowe co-wrote the movie David Frigerio in a story about a former MMA legend turned family man who is lured back into the cage for a […]
EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Mackie, Pablo Schreiber and Ben Foster are boarding the Corey Large produced thriller Raven. Ron Livingston and Hassie Harrison are also starring in the movie which Tom Sierchio (Gasoline Alley, The Girl Who Invented Kissing) is directing from his own script. Cameras roll this autumn. Raven follows Fay Darrow (Schreiber), a former Detroit […]
Margaret DePriest, an actress and five-time Daytime Emmy Award nominee who wrote on numerous soaps including General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, All My Children, Sunset Beach and others, has died. DePriest passed away on September 29 of natural causes at her home in Greenwich Village, her daughter Sara Kimbell confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. […]
Some films are just ripped from the headlines, but in the case of the new political thriller Anniversary, it appears that this story of an authoritarian government and one-party system taking over America has simply stumbled coincidentally on to the headlines blazing daily about the ever-evolving threat to our democracy. That said, at its heart […]
As one of Stephen King‘s scariest pieces of IP gets the HBO Max series treatment, the bloodbath has commenced with the first episode. Following this week’s debut of IT: Welcome to Derry, the show’s co-creators explained how they pulled off the pilot’s big twist, which they thought they’d “have to fight” the network to keep […]
A carriage battle may see all the Disney-owned channels disappear from YouTube TV on Thursday, but today the Bob Iger-run company and the Google-owned platform have reached a detente over an executive they both wanted working for them. “A Notice of Settlement of Entire Case has been filed in this case,” said an order placed […]
Sophie Flay, general assignment reporter at ABC7/KABC-TV in Los Angeles, is joining ABC News as correspondent and overnight anchor of World News Now and Good Morning America First Look. Flay has worked at the Los Angeles station, owned by the network, since March 2019. She has covered the Monterey Park mass shooting and the raid […]
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount’s motion picture divisions, including production, literary, marketing and music, were impacted Wednesday by the wider company layoffs, with many Melrose Ave lot vets exiting. The new David Ellison-run conglom is handing out about 1,000 pink slips as it looks to achieve $2 billion in overall savings. We understand that some of those savings […]
EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the November 14 unveiling of his Netflix animated feature In Your Dreams, filmmaker Alex Woo has signed with Verve for representation. In the film, which Woo wrote and directed, Stevie (Jolie Hoang-Rappaport) and her little brother Elliot (Elias Janssen) journey into the wildly absurd landscape of their own dreams to ask the […]
Whether you prefer Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz (1939) or Fairuza Balk in Return to Oz (1985), the Wicked franchise won’t be associating Dorothy with a new actress anytime soon. Ahead of the Nov. 21 premiere of Wicked: For Good, director Jon M. Chu recently clarified that the second part of his movie […]
EXCLUSIVE: Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza) is in talks to star alongside Aubrey Plaza in The Heidi Fleiss Story, the forthcoming dark comedy serving as a biopic for “Hollywood Madam” Heidi Fleiss. The Heidi Fleiss Story takes place in 1993 Los Angeles, where a powerful young woman named Heidi Fleiss (Plaza) is arrested for running the […]
EXCLUSIVE: Looks like there might be a Round 2 in the bitter barfight between Amazon MGM and director Doug Liman over Road House. Liman, who revived the franchise with a streamer hit remake that starred Jake Gyllenhaal and Irish MMA fighter Conor McGregor, quietly has acquired the sequel rights to Road House scripted by original […]
UPDATED, 2:24 PM: The man convicted or murdering model and aspiring actress Christy Giles and her friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola was sentenced today to life in prison. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Eleanor J. Hunter imposed the maximum sentence David Pearce, 43, which actually was 146 years to life. Hunter called Pearce “the worst kind […]
