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EXCLUSIVE: CBS Studios plans to make a supernatural splash at San Diego Comic-Con later this month. The hit comedy series Ghosts is returning to the convention center for a supersized panel block alongside the upcoming vampire comedy from the same creators, Eternally Yours. The panels will take place on Friday, July 24 from 11:15am – […]

To quote Jessie, “Sweet mother of Abraham Lincoln,” Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 5 has cracked past the eight century mark at the global box office with $808.6M worldwide. Yesterday, the fifthquel is now Pixar’s ninth all-time grossing movie around the world ahead of Monsters University ($746M), Up ($735M) and The Incredibles ($633M). The movie currently stands […]

The merger of Banijay Entertainment and All3Media was completed today, creating an $8BN production and distribution giant, based in London with a 265,000-hour catalog. The new entity, the result of Banijay Group and RedBird IMI merging their content assets, is called Banijay Entertainment. Marco Bassetti is CEO and Jeff Zucker is chairman of the board. […]

iHeartMedia has agreed to enter into a consent decree with the FCC to end an investigation into whether it provided artists with greater or less airplay depending on whether they performed for free or at a reduced amount at a company sponsored music festival last year in Austin. iHeart will develop a compliance plan that […]

EXCLUSIVE: Blair Redford (Three Women, The Gifted) has been tapped for a heavily recurring role in Baywatch, Fox’s upcoming reboot of the famous lifeguard action drama. Redford will play Hunter, a rugged, seen-it-all camera guy who has worked everywhere from Hollywood film sets to war zones. He’s charming, easygoing, and knows how to handle himself. […]

Warner Bros. Pictures has tapped Mary-Margaret Kunze and Jade Halley Bartlett to write the film reimagining of Free Willy that the studio has in the works with the Russo brothers’ AGBO. The first Free Willy film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures in 1993, launching a franchise of movies about the beloved orca whale that […]

EXCLUSIVE: Teton Ridge Entertainment has set King Richard director Reinaldo Marcus Green to write, direct and produce a feature film celebrating the life and legacy of beloved Puerto Rican Hall of Fame baseball star Roberto Clemente. A previous draft of the script was written by Jaquén Castellanos. The film will be produced Ben Silverman, Jay […]

EXCLUSIVE: Noomi Rapace, Ron Funches, Michael Biehn, Roland Møller, Laz Alonso, Basil Eidenbenz, and Dan Fogler are joining Amazon MGM Studios and Thunder Road’s The Kellys, opposite previously announced Arnold Schwarzenegger, Liam Hemsworth, Kelsey Asbille, Abby Elliot, and Geena Davis. Brad Peyton is directing, as we first told you, off Tze Chun’s screenplay. Pic follows Jack Kelly, a […]

The bargaining committee of the union representing Broadway cleaners has reached a tentative contract agreement with Broadway’s theater owners, avoiding a possible strike that was authorized by the workers last week. The agreement was reached last night in negotiations between the bargaining committee of the local 32BJ SEIU union and the Broadway League representing theater […]

EXCLUSIVE: One of the boldest documentaries of the year is about to reach theaters, the award-winning American Doctor. The film directed by Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Poh Si Teng centers on three American physicians of differing backgrounds who volunteered their services in besieged hospitals in Gaza, treating Palestinian children grievously injured in Israel’s sustained […]

Trevor Donovan has signed to star in Jack Gill’s The Devil’s Train as the lead character of Hondo, a Hollywood stuntman with a double life as a time-traveling cowboy. Donovan is set to perform most his own stunts for the physically demanding role. He recently wrapped production on Ethan Almighty, in which he stars as […]

Netflix has set September 3 for the Season 2 premiere of Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen. The streamer also released a first-look teaser which you can see above. Set in the world of Ritchie’s 2019 Miramax film of the same name, the series’ first season centered on Eddie Horniman (James) who unexpectedly inherits his father’s sizeable […]

Paramount Pictures will release its adaptation of the best-selling novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow for November 12, 2027. The film stars Daisy Edgar-Jones. Siân Heder is directing and writing the screenplay based on drafts by Mark Bomback and Zevin.  Temple Hill’s Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen and Isaac Klausner are producing the pic. Zevin is executive producing.  […]

Tay Keith, the music producer known for his work with artists like Drake, Travis Scott and Eminem, has died. He was 29. The Grammy-nominee (real name Brytavious Lakeith Chambers) was found dead in his Nashville apartment during a welfare check on Thursday afternoon, according to Metro Nashville PD. No foul play is suspected, and the […]

Kyle Cooke of Bravo’s Summer House had many people thinking he had quit the show after 10 seasons. However, in an edit to his original social media post, the DJ and entrepreneur is explaining that the show is not canceled. “End of Season 10 and a decade of filming this show as I know it. […]

After their names were included in a list of alleged attendees at Peter Thiel’s Dialog conference, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Sophia Bush are clearing the air. The actors insisted they “do not know” Thiel and they “could not pay me to be in a room” with him, noting that the billionaire was not present at the […]

Netflix continues in the rom-com business, sometimes getting it right, sometimes getting it wrong. Despite its No. 1 stature on the streamer’s viewing charts for the past two weeks, I think the higher-profile Jennifer Lopez-Brett Goldstein “romantic” comedy Office Romance failed largely not just because of its tonally off-balance crudeness mixed with a desire to […]

A calm and gracious man, Steven Spielberg over the years has carefully masked his passion for mayhem – creative mayhem, that is. Perhaps it has cost him: Through the last decade he has missed the unique excitement of a summer mega-hit. The opening of Disclosure Day this week would seem to fulfill Spielberg’s appetite, but will it do […]

BET Awards host Druski knows how to get attention. After sparking anger by donning whiteface in his recent NASCAR and Erika Kirk skits, the viral comedian has done it again for a promo of his BET Awards gig. The setup sees the awards show’s former host, Chris Rock, interviewing attendees at the “Desert Rodeo.” Most […]

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s teen psychological drama series Bet has added a pop star to its cast. “Icy Grl” star Saweetie has joined the show alongside series star Miku Martineau as the second season of the show starts production in Toronto. Bet follows the students at a boarding school for the global elite, where underground gambling determines the […]