Phoebe Waller-Bridge has gotten a greenlight at Amazon for a new series, Variety has confirmed. Details on the show’s plot are currently being kept under wraps, and it is currently unknown whether it will be a comedy or drama. It is expected the go into production some time before the end of 2022. Waller-Bridge is
Month: March 2022
Kal Penn has joined the “Santa Clause” limited series at Disney Plus, Variety has confirmed. The series, which was announced on Jan. 14, will see Tim Allen once again play Santa Claus/Scott Calvin and Elizabeth Mitchell reprising her role as Scott’s wife, Carol Calvin, a.k.a. Mrs. Claus. Mitchell first played the part in “The Santa
It’s late on a Friday afternoon and as the working week draws to a close, music supervisor Jen Malone is invigorated. The cause for celebration? An email she had been waiting for just arrived, marking the last clearance for a song to be used in the season finale of HBO’s “Euphoria.” Malone’s needle drops for
Justin H. Min graduated from Cornell University with degrees in government and English, and after dabbling in law and a stint in journalism, he had a “crisis” moment where he decided to pursue acting. A recurring role on the Netflix hit “The Umbrella Academy” as Ben Hargreeves proved so popular he became a regular. Now he’s
The Weeknd has announced dates for his “After Hours Til Dawn” stadium tour, which launches in his hometown of Toronto on July 8 and heads across North America before wrapping in Los Angeles on Sept. 2 and then moving overseas. Dates for Mexico, South America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Africa and the Middle East
Pete Ganbarg is a two-time Grammy-winner, president of A&R for Atlantic Records and also president of Atco Records. His most recent signing is Gayle, a 17-year-old pop artist from Dallas via Nashville whose debut Atlantic single, “abcdefu,” topped the singles charts in several countries. His “Rock & Roll High School” podcast, a series of interviews
Verizon, having exited the original content business, is escalating its play as an aggregator of streaming services — including forming a new partnership with Netflix. The telco unveiled plans for “Plus Play,” a platform to let Verizon customers discover, purchase and manage subscriptions across entertainment, audio, gaming, fitness, music and lifestyle. In a way, Plus
Disney Original Documentary has acquired worldwide rights to “Mija,” the inspiring look at a young Latina manager who is working to change the music business. And the story may not end there for the documentary. As part of the deal, FX, which is also owned by the Walt Disney Company, will retain the rights to
Neneh Cherry’s 1989 hit “Buffalo Stance” casts a long shadow: A dance classic about inner-city life that combines a punk attitude with an irresistible beat and melody. The song, from her equally classic debut album “Raw Like Sushi,” reached No. 3 in the U.K. and U.S., top 5 across Europe and No. 1 in Cherry’s
ASCAP Experience, the performing rights organizations annual conference for songwriters, composers and creators, returns virtually this month. It kicks off on Tuesday (March 8) with an International Women’s Day panel featuring three of the industry’s leading composers and songwriters. The conversation is also part of “Women Create Music,” ASCAP’s celebration of Women’s History Month. “Worldly Women in Music,” which takes
Rachel Brosnahan is set to star in and executive produce podcast drama series “Listening In,” in which she will play a woman whose home sound system inexplicably lets her eavesdrop on people living in her apartment building. Audio content studio QCode will finance and distribute the podcast, producing “Listening In” alongside Automatik and Brosnahan’s production
Latido Films, one of Spain’s biggest vendors of Spanish-language arthouse and crossover movies, has swooped on international sales rights to “Unfinished Affairs” (“La Maniobra de la Tortuga”). Domestic distribution in Spain is handled by A Contracorriente Films, one of Spain’s top independent producer-distributors. World premiering in main competition at this year’s Malaga Festival, “Unfinished Affairs”
WarnerMedia has struck a first-look deal with German-Turkish director Fatih Akin. The tie-up marks the first exclusive deal of its kind for Akin in his 27-year career. The helmer is best known for such films as “In The Fade” (2017), “Head-On” (2004) and “Soul Kitchen” (2009). His new film, “Rheingold,” is currently shooting. The WarnerMedia
The Royal Television Society (RTS) has unveiled the nominees for this year’s RTS Programme Awards. “It’s a Sin” has scored six nominations, including nods for Keeley Hawes and Olly Alexander (pictured above), while Tahar Rahim has been nominated for his performance in “The Serpent.” Of the U.K.’s broadcasters, the BBC scored the most noms, boasting
Disney Plus has unveiled its first Dutch original scripted drama series, titled “Nemesis.” The 8-part series will be produced by Netherlands-based production company Pupkin. Described as a “thrilling crime drama,” the show is based on a novel written by Simon de Waal. Showrunners will be Willem Bosch and Pieter Kuijpers (“Van God Los”, “The Spectacular”).
Studiocanal has boarded Thomas Vinterberg’s TV debut ‘Families Like Ours’ as a co-producer and distributor. Varety first broke the news last April that Oscar-winning Danish director Vinterberg (“Another Round”) was re-teaming with Danish production outfit Zentropa on his first television drama. Studiocanal previously distributed “Another Round” in the U.K. “I have worked with Studiocanal in
Denis Ivanov, the Ukrainian producer of critically acclaimed films including Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s “The Tribe,” Sergey Loznitsa’s “Donbass” and Oleh Sentsov’s “Rhino,” has penned an impassioned letter against Russia’s war in Ukraine, describing it as a “genocide against Ukrainians” and accusing the Russian military of war crimes. In the letter, Ivanov gave his full-throated support to
Australian soap opera “Neighbours” is going off air after 37 seasons. The embattled series has been under threat of cancellation ever since its primary funder, U.K. broadcaster Channel 5, pulled the plug in early February. On Thursday, the show confirmed that production would indeed end in June. Following the loss of our key broadcast partner
U.K. broadcaster ITV’s annual results for 2021 were announced Thursday and the picture is rosy. Total external revenue was up 24% to £3.4 billion ($4.6 billion), up from COVID-hit 2020’s £2.7 billion . ITV Studios total revenues grew 28% to £1.7 billion, up from 2020’s £1.3 billion and now stands just 2% below the heights
The VIEW Conference, in partnership with OGR, presents a full slate of free virtual PreVIEW panels in March featuring an array of Oscar nominees. First, on Friday, March 4, at 10 a.m. PT, will be a talk with the filmmakers behind the five nominees for animated feature. Speakers are Byron Howard, Jared Bush and Charise
From decades of reinvention to her enthusiastic embrace of social media, Madonna moves with the times. The Queen of Pop now reminds all that she also has her finger on the pulse of TikTok by releasing a new version of Sickick’s viral “Frozen” remix featuring Fireboy DML. The producer’s dramatic overhaul of Madonna’s 1998 classic
Radhika Madan, star of 2018 Toronto winner “The Man Who Feels No Pain,” will play the lead in acclaimed Indian filmmaker Sudhanshu Saria’s “Sanaa.” The film, a social drama, follows a headstrong and ambitious girl who is raging against an internal battle that is rooted in unhealed trauma. Saria is writing, directing and producing via
Kirk Baily, the actor best known for his role as dim-witted camp counselor Kevin “Ug” Lee on the early Nickelodeon sitcom “Salute Your Shorts,” died Feb. 27 in Los Angeles. His domestic partner, Ranjani Brow, confirmed that he died after battling lung cancer. He was 59. Baily got his start as a sound coordinator for
CNN and Fox News Channel are fierce rivals, and their anchors regularly take pot shots at each other. But there is at least one thing on which they agree: how much a new subscriber to their streaming outlets ought to pay. CNN will charge $5.99 per month for its new CNN Plus, a subscription-video streaming
HBO Documentary Films has acquired the rights to Academy Award-nominated documentary short “When We Were Bullies.” Directed by Jay Rosenblatt (“Phantom Limb,” “Human Remains”), the 36-minute short is a meditation of a Brooklyn schoolyard incident that occurred between the director and his fellow fifth grade classmates 50 years ago. “When We Were Bullies” was, until
Hulu has released an official trailer for “The Girl From Plainville” — a limited series inspired by the true story of Michelle Carter’s “texting suicide” case. Based on Jesse Barron’s Esquire article of the same name, “The Girl From Plainville” dives into Carter’s (Elle Fanning) relationship with Conrad Roy III (Colton Ryan) and his following
The mystery continues. Apple TV Plus announced that “The Afterparty” has been renewed for a second season. Tiffany Haddish is confirmed to return in the role of Detective Danner. The series, which hails from Chris Miller and Phil Lord, is a comedic murder mystery where each episode is told in a different genre and from
The Sundance Institute has announced the 13 writers selected for its 2022 Screenwriters Intensive. Now in its 10th year, the Screenwriters Intensive is an annual two-day workshop that invites emerging creatives from historically marginalized backgrounds to develop their first full-length feature film scripts under the guidance of the Institute’s Feature Film Program. The workshop is
It was only a few months ago that Ivanna Sakhno had every reason to celebrate, when it was announced the “Pacific Rim: Uprising” actor would be joining highly anticipated Star Wars limited series “Ahsoka” opposite Rosario Dawson. But last week Sakhno’s world came crashing down when, during an evening out with friends in New York’s
“End of an era” is a term that’s thrown around a lot in this business, but this time it’s more than appropriate: Curt King is exiting Universal Studio Group at the end of March, marking the end of a more than 25 year career in various positions at the Peacock (the company, not the streamer).
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