Few American Film Markets have taken place amid such tumult, with the harm done to the theatrical business by COVID lockdowns and ongoing issues around travel, insurance and talent backlogs continuing to challenge the sector like never before. Still, a raft of buzz titles are emerging as the buying and selling gets underway.
Los Angeles residents were startled at 7 p.m. Tuesday evening by Amber Alert-style messages on their cell phones warning about COVID-19 in the city.
The alerts had different messages.
One warned of the spread of COVID-19 saying, "cases are increasing. Please wear a mask and social distance."
Another variation…
With days just before President Donald Trump’s Nov. 12 deadline to find a new owner for TikTok, parent company ByteDance headed to the federal appeals court in Washington on Tuesday requesting an intervention in the forced sale of the popular social media app.
The short-form video app, which has amassed more than 100…
Richard Schiff, star of ABC’s The Good Doctor, and his wife, actress Sheila Kelley, who is recurring on the ABC medical drama, have tested positive for COVID-19, the two revealed on social media Tuesday.
Schiff said that his positive result came a week ago, on November 3.
“We're quarantined in our home in Vancouver…
MGM is teaming with Plan B, Harpo Films and Kamilah Forbes on the film adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2019 bestselling novel The Water Dancer, the studio said Tuesday. Coates will adapt the screenplay and Kamilah Forbes, Plan B and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo will produce.
The first fiction work from Coates (he won the…
Tobias Truvillion (Hitch), Taryn Manning (Orange is the New Black), Zach McGowan (Shameless), Chris Tardio (Younger) and Tasha Lawrence (The Looming Tower) have been tapped to star inSanctioning Evil, an indie action-thriller from JARS Media Group and Novakovic Brothers Films.
Directed by Ante Novakovic, the story…
EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures and Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia’s Seven Bucks Productions are looking to relaunch a new Scorpion King movie and have set Jonathan Herman to pen the script. Johnson and Garcia will produce along with Seven Bucks’ Hiram Garcia. With Johnson booked through 2022, the studio will look to…
Tommy Heinsohn, who won 10 NBA titles with the Boston Celtics as a player or coach and went on to a decades-long career as an announcer, died Tuesday in Boston, the club announced. He was 86.
“This is a devastating loss,” the Celtics ownership said in a statement. “Tommy was the ultimate Celtic. For the past 18 years…
The Doctors has reached the significant 2000-episode milestone and will celebrate by airing a special installment on Thursday.
Since its first episode in 2008, the syndicated CBS talk show has featured a range of patients and guests who have shared their health experiences and various journeys with The Doctors team…
Donald Trump, most Senate Republicans and conservative media entities like Newsmax, Fox News and the social network Parler seem to be living in a universe where Joe Biden didn’t win the presidency. They’re insistent about electoral fraud and carefully amplifying those allegations without providing evidence. The…
EXCLUSIVE: Put Mads Mikkelsen atop the list of actors being considered to replace Johnny Depp in the David Yates-directed Fantastic Beast 3, the third installment of the Harry Potter spinoff based on the JK Rowling fantasy franchise. Sources said he is Yates’ choice to play Grindelwald and he is in early talks. The…
HBO's limited series The Undoing is drawing solid ratings for the premium cabler, reaching a series high with its latest episode Sunday night. Viewership totaled 1.7 million across the linear premiere, including two replays and digital. That’s up 18% from episode 2 and 21% from the series premiere on Oct. 25. The…
