SAG-AFTRA will launch a week-long virtual event aimed at addressing and combating discrimination and intolerance in the entertainment and media industries. The series of presentations, which will begin on Tuesday and run through Friday, will assemble a number of key figures including Olivia Munn, Richard Lui and Brian Tee. The Stop The Hate event will
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Tinopolis has completed a major financial restructuring and recapitalization after being badly hit by the coronavirus crisis — but the move has reportedly angered producers who will stand to lose money after selling their business to the Hell’s Kitchen production group. UK-headquartered Tinopolis announced the refinancing on Monday afternoon, which will involve a “significant” injection
Leonine Confirms U.S. Date For Spy City Leonine has confirmed that Odeon Fiction and Miramax’s high-end spy thriller series Spy City has sold to AMC Networks and will launch on AMC+ in the United States on April 15, 2021. The six-part series from UK writer William Boyd was produced by Leonine Studios’ production banner Odeon
Saturday Night Live’s April 10 telecast, with Carey Mulligan as host, Kid Cudi as musical guest and appearances by Mulligan’s husband, Marcus Mumford, and Timothée Chalamet, drew a 3.6 household Live+Same Day rating in the 44 metered local markets and a 1.5 adults 18-49 rating in the 25 markets with local people meters. That was even
Saturday Night Live took shots at films like Ammonite, Portrait of A Lady on Fire and The World to Come in a sketch featuring Carey Mulligan and Heidi Gardner as secret lovers. The sketch, which took on a trailer format, called out a common trend featured in recent lesbian stories. While the recent titles have
Tonight, Saturday Night Live paid photographic tribute to Anne Beatts and DMX, both of whom died this week. Beatts, one of the late-night sketch show’s original writers, died on Wednesday at the age of 74. Her cause of death was not disclosed. Beginning her career in comedy writing at National Lampoon magazine, Beatts wrote for SNL for five seasons, between 1975
Will the DGA make history tonight? Should Nomadland director Chloé Zhao or Promising Young Woman filmmaker Emerald Fennell win in the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film category, it will rep the second time that the DGA has awarded its top prize to a female director after Kathryn Bigelow for 2008’s The Hurt Locker. The DGA has largely
The UK’s major broadcasters trashed their schedules on Friday to bring audiences wall-to-wall coverage of Prince Philip’s death, but the output proved to be a turn-off for Brits in key evening viewing hours. Ratings data crunched by Deadline shows that the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 all suffered audience declines between the hours of 7PM
“The Oscars need to change their name to the Debbies — as in Debbie Downer. Because judging by this year’s Best Picture nominees, you couldn’t have a worse time at the movies if there was an active shooter in the theater,” fumed Bill Maher Friday. HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher hit all the week’s
During the middle of the pandemic, Kinetic Content scored a six season renewal for Married At First Sight at Lifetime – thought to be one of the largest ever orders. It came a few months after the Red Arrow-backed company had found success with social experiment/dating format Love Is Blind at Netflix – a show
SPOILER ALERT: The following recap contains spoilers from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Episode 4, “The Whole World Is Watching.” Bitter, angry, jaded, doubtful — Wyatt Russell’s Captain America may just be the most intriguing MCU superhero yet. While Episode 4 of Disney+/Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Solider didn’t provide huge cliffhangers like Episode 3 with
Bizparentz Foundation, the nonprofit organization that’d been advocating for child actors and their parents since 2004, has relaunched its website, featuring more than 100 articles – and over 1,000 links to support them – on a variety of issues affecting child performers, including taxes, tips on avoiding talent scams, navigating union contracts and money held
The Motion Picture & Television Fund’s VA Benefits Assistance program has helped Hollywood’s military veterans collect more than $1 million in unclaimed Veterans Affairs benefits since it started tracking outcomes in 2014. To date, 115 veterans have gotten the benefits to which they’re entitled, and 82 more claims are currently being processed. When veterans decides
EXCLUSIVE: A round of seed funding has been completed by Wonder Dynamics, the AI-driven visual effects venture hatched by VFX artist Nikola Todorovic and Ready Player One star Tye Sheridan to democratize the visual effects process using Artificial Intelligence and machine learning to develop production tools for filmmakers to produce VFX and CG elements faster
All Creatures Great And Small has found its new Mrs. Pumphrey following the death of Diana Rigg last September. Miranda and A Very English Scandal actress Patricia Hodge will step into the role for Season 2 of Channel 5 and PBS Masterpiece’s period drama, adapted from bestselling author James Herriot’s cherished collection of stories about
Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years sneak peek episode, and the series premiere of comedy Chad have both gotten off to a solid ratings start for their respective networks, Nickelodeon and TBS. Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years prequel series, the newest addition to the SpongeBob SquarePants universe, scored Nickelodeon the top telecast of 2021 to date
Adnan Virk, a Canadian sports broadcaster whose nine-year run at ESPN ended abruptly in 2019, is reuniting with ex-colleagues Dan Le Batard and John Skipper at Meadowlark Media. The emerging content company, which launched in January, will add Virk as a regular contributor starting in July. Le Batard was a popular host of Highly Questionable
AppleTV+ has launched a non-fiction podcast series about a controversial war crimes story ahead of the premiere of a doc series. The streamer is launching The Line, which tells the story of U.S. Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher who was charged with committing war crimes, before ultimately being acquitted on all but one count—for posing in
It’s not a huge surprise, but still not good news for SAG, TNT & TBS. The one-hour pre-taped special for the 27th annual SAG Awards on Easter Sunday drew 957,000 total viewers across the TNT and TBS simulcast, according to Nielsen, less than half of last year’s viewership of over 2 million on the cable
CBS News is defending a segment of 60 Minutes that probed whether Florida Gov. Ron Desantis showed favoritism to a corporate donor in making decisions about the vaccine rollout earlier this year. The segment, which aired on Sunday, focused on how the wealthy cut the line to gain access to the vaccines. One aspect of
Addison Rae, a TikTok influencer, was on The Tonight Show last month teaching Jimmy Fallon how to dance. However, the segment became slightly mired in controversy as it emerged that many of the dances performed by Rae were created by younger influencers, many of whom are Black. Fallon addressed the situation on the show tonight,
Piers Morgan, in his first interview since quitting ITV’s Good Morning Britain, reiterated his doubts about claims that Meghan Markle made in her interview with Oprah Winfrey. In an interview with Tucker Carlson for his Fox Nation show Tucker Carlson Today, Morgan said that he still doesn’t “believe what they were saying, and in particular
Netflix has set a new premiere date for Selena The Series Part 2. The final installment of the two-part series, starring Christian Serratos as iconic singer Selena Quintanilla, will premiere May 4. It was originally scheduled for May 14. The streamer also unveiled a teaser (above) and key art (below). From writer/executive producer Moisés Zamora,
While many fans are still reeling from the Friday official announcement that Regé-Jean Page will not be returning to Netflix and Shondaland’s Bridgerton, John Oliver is taking the news in stride and finds it fitting for Page’s character, Simon, the Duke of Hastings. Oliver referenced Page’s departure in the main segment of his HBO show
Saturday Night Live’s April 3 telecast, with Daniel Kaluuya as host and St. Vincent as musical guest, drew a 3.6 household Live+Same Day rating in the 44 metered local markets and a 1.7 adults 18-49 rating in the 25 markets with local people meters. That was up in the demo and even in households from
The 27th annual SAG Awards are Sunday, with the one-hour ceremony set to air at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT simulcast at TNT and TBS. Both virtual and abbreviated this year owing to the restrictions from the pandemic, the annual event honoring the best in acting in 13 film and TV categories will be brisk,
Question for anyone who bet against Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update” segment leading with anything other than GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz — what were you thinking? Smartly, Colin Jost began by saying the House member from Florida “looks like a caricature artist’s drawing of me.” But then the hits started — and kept comin’. “[Gaetz]
On Saturday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health released new data on Covid-19, reporting 40 new deaths and 839 new positive cases. While Public Health said that hospitalizations have dropped under 600, case numbers and deaths reported may reflect delays in weekend reporting. The department’s data brings L.A. County to a total of 23,274 deaths,
UPDATED with latest: Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah and her assistant, Stuart Smith, both pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and wire fraud, according to reports from CNN and NBC News. The charges were filed on March 30 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in
The announced relaxation of Covid-19 guidelines across California on Friday is likely the prelude to a much wider reopening. For weeks, Governor Gavin Newsom has been reminding residents that the state tied the loosening of restrictions to vaccine equity. That is: The faster the most underserved communities in the state are vaccinated, the faster the