The pandemic brought progress on the project to a screeching halt. The Emmy-nominated writer-director did many pre-interviews and some on-camera interviews in the interim, but he felt that Zoom interviews don’t measure up to being face-to-face with a subject — even if you are 6 feet apart.
EXCLUSIVE: Monarch Media has teamed with award-winning, record-setting country music duo Florida Georgia Line, made up of Tyler Hubbard and Brian "BK" Kelley, and award-winning director TK McKamy to produce an Untitled Country Musical feature film.
Monarch principals Steve Barnett and Alan Powell will produce. …
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany faced questions on Friday about President Donald Trump’s efforts to challenge the election results and concerns that he is trying to negate the will of voters in key swing states, but she finished the briefing by snapping at CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.
As McEnany began to leave…
HBO has given a series order to The Last of Us, the adaptation of the Playstation video game, from Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin, video game creator Neil Druckmann and Game of Thrones exec producer Carolyn Strauss.
The series is a co-production with Sony Pictures Television in association with PlayStation Productions…
EXCLUSIVE: As Disney continues to figure out what to do with Fox properties they acquired in the merger, one of the biggest IPs, Deadpool, looks to be gaining momentum. Sources tell Deadline that Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Loeglin to write Deadpool 3 with Reynolds set to reprise his role as wise-cracking…
Distributing the COVID-19 vaccines now being developed is shaping up to be the largest and most complex public health effort in L.A. County’s history, and concerns are growing that officials are already falling behind, it was reported on Friday.
There are two vaccines expected to apply for emergency approval from U.S…
Nicki Minaj is heading to HBO Max.
The Pink Friday rapper is to front a six-part half-hour docuseries for the WarnerMedia streaming platform.
Minaj revealed the news on her social media platforms saying that she's going to give viewers a "raw unfiltered" look at her personal life and professional work.
She will give…
Overbrook Entertainment executive Clarence Hammond is joining Paramount Players as SVP Production, reporting to Paramount Players president Jeremy Kramer. Hammond starts on November 30.
In his new role, Hammond will help oversee the development and production of the label’s contemporary genre fare.
Says Kramer, "With…
EXCLUSIVE: Human rights activist and author Kimberly Latrice Jones is moving into television after striking an overall deal with Warner Bros. Television Group.
Jones is the co-author of I'm Not Dying With You Tonight, alongside attorney Gilly Segal, a YA novel that focuses on prejudice and the racial tension in…
EXCLUSIVE: Saoirse Ronan, Sam Rockwell and David Oyelowo have signed on to star in a new untitled murder mystery thriller from Searchlight Pictures. This Country director Tom George is on board to helm from a script by Mark Chappell. Iron Lady producer Damian Jones will produce following his work with Searchlight on…
NBC has firmed up its January lineup and has set premiere dates for new Tina Fey-Robert Carlock comedy series Mr. Mayor, starring Ted Danson, and for Season 2 of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.Mr. Mayor will take over the 8 p.m. anchor slot in NBC’s Thursday comedy block starting January 7, with Superstore sliding to…
EXCLUSIVE: Sydney Sweeney has been added to the cast of American Sole, joining Pete Davidson, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Camila Mendes, Bad Bunny and Offset in the film, which is set up at STXfilms.
Written and directed by Ian Edelman, the pic follows two twentysomethings (Davidson and Jackson) with mountains of college debt…
