Blue Marks by German filmmaker Sarah Miro Fischer and Argentinian director Francisco Lezama’s The Two Landscapes have both landed two prizes in San Sebastian’s industry competition sidebar. The industry competition winners were announced this evening in San Sebastian. Blue Marks landed the WIP Europa Industry Award and the WIP Europa Award. The film’s synopsis reads: […]
The first teaser from Saturday Night Live’s upcoming 50th anniversary season has been released and it leans heavily into the show’s storied history. Featuring this weekend’s host (and recent Emmy-winner) Jean Smart, the video seesaws between classic clips from the show and Smart, who tries to get her lines out before being interrupted by the […]
Hollywood strikes and dwindling peak TV have dented U.S. studio occupancy but Lionsgate Studios Yonkers, the first purpose-built complex Stateside from Robert Halmi’s Great Point Studios and the biggest in the northeast, has been pretty much full since its early 2022 debut. On Wednesday, Halmi cut the ribbon for a new public high school in […]
EXCLUSIVE: After a lengthy search, actor-model Matthew Noszka (Star) has landed the main male role in All’s Fair, the upcoming Hulu ensemble legal drama from Ryan Murphy. Cast as a series regular, Noszka joins Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash, Sarah Paulson and Glenn Close, who also executive produce, as well as Teyana Taylor. No […]
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Tim Roth has become the latest high-profile name to join the cast of Netflix’s Peaky Blinders movie which continues to shape up as quite an event. The prolific English actor will join star Cillian Murphy as well as Rebecca Ferguson and Barry Keoghan in the Tom Harper-directed and highly-anticipated feature extension of […]
Actor and media entrepreneur Luti Fagbenle (Maxxx, Robyn Hood), the younger brother of actor O-T Fagbenle (The Handmaid’s Tale) has launched TV production company Osun Group with bases in the U.K. and U.S. Producer Sheila Nortley (Netflix’s Harlan Coben series Stay Close and hit drama Supacell) will lead the company’s TV slate as head of drama […]
Two years after SAG-AFTRA indicated that it wanted to bring intimacy coordinators into the union, the labor group has taken a first step towards making that goal a reality. On Wednesday the performers’ union said it had filed a petition for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board. SAG-AFTRA is seeking to bargain […]
EXCLUSIVE: Julio Macias (On My Block) and Pepe Serna (With Love, Scarface) are leading the cast of the indie thriller Three Years Gone, written and directed by John Gutierrez (Sons of the Sea). The film recently wrapped production. Three Years Gone follows the harrowing journey of Maria (Elizabeth Caro) and her father, David (Macias), as […]
SAG-AFTRA is taking the next step toward organizing intimacy coordinators. The guild has filed an election petition with the National Labor Relations Board to represent the group in any dealings with the major studios, it revealed on Wednesday, in what it calls a “natural evolution of the union’s commitment to help build a stable and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award nominee Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) and Zach Cherry (Severance) swipe right on the Jason James (Entanglement, Exile) comedy feature All Night Wrong. From screenwriter Jason Filiatrault (Entanglement), Bakalova and Cherry lead the cast as Gary, a cowardly husband, and Ell, a heartbroken widow, who meet through a Tinder hookup only to […]