Paramount Global has initiated the next phase of its plan to lay off 15% of its U.S. workforce, saying the cuts will be 90% complete after further cutbacks today. George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy and Brian Robbins conveyed the news to staffers in a memo this morning. (Read it in full below.) The Co-CEOs months ago […]
Netflix has released the official trailer for part 1 of Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black, a 16-episode drama series that will release its first eight episodes on October 24,. Created, directed, written and executive produced by Perry, Beauty in Black follows two women leading very different lives. While Kimmie (Taylor Polidore Williams) is struggling to […]
Brazil has selected Walter Salles’ well-received comeback feature I’m Still Here to represent it in the Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards. The picture stars Fernanda Torres as the real-life figure of Eunice Paiva, whose husband Rubens Paiva disappeared in the early years of the 1964 to 1985 Brazilian military dictatorship. It […]
Italy has selected Vermiglio to represent it in the Best International Feature Film category of the 97th Academy Awards. The second feature from Maura Delpero, Vermiglio premiered in Competition at the Venice Film Festival, winning Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize. At the time of the win, Delpero said she hoped the prize would put her […]
Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Saltburn, Wheel of Time) will make her debut at London’s National Theatre in 2025, and they’ve given her the starring role in the world premiere of a new work by Suzie Miller, the playwright who created Prima Facie, the legal drama that catapulted Jodie Comer to Olivier and Tony Award trophies. […]
Dan Reed’s January 6 Doc ‘Stopping The Steal’ Sells Around The World Emmy-winner Dan Reed’s documentary about the Jan 6 insurrection has sold to a wealth of networks around the world. Channel 4-Max’s Stopping the Steal has been picked up by SBS Australia, NRK Norway, RTL Deutschland, TVNZ New Zealand, SVT Sweden, DR Denmark, Warner Bros. […]
Sherwood, the highly-rated BBC thriller series from James Graham, has been re-upped for a third season as the second ends. House Productions’ show has been one of the BBC’s most successful dramas in recent years, and the latest season’s first ep has been watched by more than 6.5 million viewers so far, the corporation said. […]
Paramount’s Pluto TV and French broadcaster M6 have inked a programming deal that will see each provide content to the other’s digital platforms. AVOD service Pluto TV will seed a dozen channels from its platform to RTL-owned M6, which will carry them on its M6+ catch-up and streaming service. There will be about 3,000 hours […]
Robert De Niro posed a hypothetical that made the audience bust out laughing even as the actor remained utterly stone-faced. “Just imagine Donald Trump directing this film,” he said at Monday’s New York premiere of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. “It’ll never go anywhere, from total craziness. He cannot do anything. He cannot hold anything together […]
The Daily Show‘s host Jon Stewart returned Monday night to criticize Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, likening his country’s remote explosion of pagers and walkie-talkies aimed at targeting Lebanon’s paramilitary group Hezbollah to something out of a 1980s Bond film. “By the way, Lebanon is also a country,” Stewart said, responding to a clip of […]