Over the decades, vampire movies have made a star of many a young actor, from Kirsten Dunst to Kirsten Stewart. Soon, the same should be said of Ireland’s Alisha Weir, who at 13 years old, held Universal’s monster movie Abigail on her…
EXCLUSIVE: The co-chairman of Independent Talent Group, the UK agency that reps Claire Foy and Daniel Craig, has stepped back from his management role, with three agents joining its board. Paul Lyon-Maris, who has repped the likes of…
EXCLUSIVE: Almost 30 years after they first started working together on Saturday Night Live, Molly Shannon and Steve Koren have re-teamed for a comedy series, which is in development at HBO. Shannon and Koren are executive producing the…
Sony Pictures Classics is reissuing the 1999 German cult thriller Run Lola Run for its 25th anniversary on June 7. The re-release will feature a new DCP from the 4K restoration, created in collaboration with the filmmakers. Written and…
Samantha Davis, the wife of Willow star Warwick Davis who appeared alongside her husband in various films and co-founded with him the charity Little People UK for the dwarfism community, died March 24. She was 53. Her death was announced…
Fourth in a series on broadcast network series renewals. Fox is looking forward to the 2024-25 season after a strike-disrupted 2023-24 lineup which featured only three live-action scripted series, returning dramas The Cleaning Lady and…
EXCLUSIVE: Kelly Marie Tran (Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi, Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker) and Miles Robbins (Blockers, Halloween) will star in Shal Ngo’s Control Freak, a psychological thriller from WorthenBrooks…
EXCLUSIVE: Joe Manganiello has come aboard to produce and star in Mountain Man, a zombie thriller set to enter production later this year, which will launch sales via Film Bridge International at Cannes. An adaptation of the popular book…
Bad Wolf’s Jeff Boone is transferring to Fremantle. Boone has landed a role as Vice President of Scripted Development at the Poor Things and Baywatch firm in the U.S.. He’ll oversee development of new series and play an active role within…
EXCLUSIVE: SAG-AFTRA is expected on April 25 to meet with former and current clients of KMR Talent who haven’t received compensation for work they already completed. The union is asking members to show “proof of loss” in the wake of KMR’s…
All of the nominations are in for the 51st annual Daytime Emmy Awards, which will air live in June 7 on CBS and Paramount+. See the full list below. Netflix’s African Queens: Njinga is tied with three daytime drama staples — CBS’ The Bold…
The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the poster for its upcoming 77th edition which pays tribute to Japanese master Akira Kurosawa and his late career feature Rhapsody in August. The image shows a scene from the pic with a family seated…
Lionsgate is calling their all-in previews for Guy Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare at $1.45M, however that includes around $600K in advance shows from last weekend in addition to Thursday’s cash. Which means Universal’s…
Mandisa, a Season 5 Top 10 American Idol competitor who went on to a Grammy-winning career in Christian music, died at her home in Nashville yesterday. She was 47.
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Former President Bill Clinton is debuting a new video today in which he reflects on the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, warning that the threat that toxic political discourse has on democracy.
EXCLUSIVE: Brooklyn-based indie film distribution and production company Factory 25 has acquired North American theatrical rights on writer-director Kit Zauhar’s sophomore feature This Closeness, which debuted at SXSW 2023. The film will…
David Zaslav saw his total compensation package last year jump by more than $10 million to $49.7 million in 2023 — with Warner Bros. Discovery awarding him a base salary of $3 million, plus $23 million in stock awards, and non-equity…
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BAFTA has confirmed that the 2025 BAFTA Film Awards will be held on Sunday 16 February, 2025. This means the event will take place two weeks before the Oscars, which are due to take place March 2, 2025, and once again during the Berlin…
EXCLUSIVE: US-Bangladeshi action movie MR-9: Do or Die, starring ABM Sumon, Michael Jai White and Frank Grillo, has been picked up by Quiver Distribution for a North American VOD/digital release this month. After getting a limited…
EXCLUSIVE: Ryuhei Kitamura (The Midnight Meat Train) is set to direct roller coaster thriller Thrill Ride, which Film Bridge International is launching for sales ahead of next month’s Cannes market. Production is being lined up for the…
Taylor Swift’s eagerly awaited new LP The Tortured Poets Department dropped in the early hours of Friday with a surprise double album format and 15 additional songs. “It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE…
Netflix has boarded a big screen adaptation of Spanish director Cesc Gay’s award-winning theatre play 53 Domingos, which he will direct. The drama, exploring family relationships, follows three brothers who meet to discuss what to do with…
EXCLUSIVE: John Cleese’s Channel 4 show about cancel culture appears to be a dead parrot. The Monty Python legend announced the project in 2021, pledging to discover how the “impeccable idea of ‘Let’s all be kind to people’ has been…
EXCLUSIVE: Iconic British driver James Hunt is the subject of a landmark feature doc from Deep Fusion Films. The British production house has entered into a creative partnership with the James Hunt Estate on the production of Hunt: We Need…