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- Film Academy Invites Record 774 New Members, From Gal Gadot To Betty White
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 03:06 PMThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have unveiled 774 new members (although 30 0f those names are duplicates over several branches) invited to join the Oscars organization, bringing the total membership closer to 8,500 -ish.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Elvis Presley Prequel ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ Is Broadway Bound. Or Not.
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 03:17 PMEXCLUSIVE: Heartbreak Hotel, a new musical that follows Elvis Presley’s career from unknown singer to chart-busting star, will tryout this summer at the Ogunquit Playhouse, a venerable straw hat-circuit venue in southern Maine.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- ‘F Is For Family’ Renewed For Season 3 By Netflix
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 03:45 PMNetflix has ordered a third season of animated series F Is For Family, from Vince Vaughn's Wild West Television and Gaumont Television.
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Series co-creator Bill Burr announced the news on Twitter: - Netflix Developing ‘Tales Of The City’ Revival With Laura Linney & Olympia Dukakis
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 04:29 PMNetflix is developing a revival of Armistead Maupin’s San Francisco-set Tales of the City, with original cast members Laura Linney and
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘Step Up: High Water’: Ne-Yo, Naya Rivera & Faizon Love To Topline YouTube Red Drama Series
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 01:00 PMStep Up: High Water, YouTube Red’s new original drama series based on the film franchise that grossed $650 million at the global box office, has set its cast as production begins in Atlanta.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Aidan Turner Joins Sam Elliott In ‘The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot’
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 01:08 PMEXCLUSIVE: Poldark star Aidan Turner has been set to co-star in The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot, the film
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - James Gunn Dispels Rumors He’s Producing A ‘Howard The Duck’ Movie For Marvel
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 01:23 PMGuardians of the Galaxy franchise director James Gunn put to rest social media rumors this morning that he will produce a Howard the Duck movie for Marvel.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Newbie Smith Global Media Acquires Animated Pics ‘Gnome Alone’ & ‘Charming’
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 02:16 PMSmith Global Media, the nascent distribution company founded by Will Smith’s brother Harry Smith, has acquired distribution rights to the animated family features Charming with a voice cast including Demi Lovato and Wilmer Valderrama, and
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ABC News Reaches Settlement In “Pink Slime” Defamation Lawsuit
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 10:51 AMABC News says it has reached a settlement with a South Dakota meat producer in a lawsuit over a 2012 report that referred to the company's beef products as "pink slime".More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Talent Agent Danielle Shebby Moves From WME To CAA
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 11:20 AMDanielle Shebby has joined CAA as an agent in the Motion Picture Talent department. She moves from WME, where she had been since 2010, and where she was promoted to agent in December 2013.
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- ‘Destined’ Destined For Fall Release Via XLrator; Uncork’d Acquires ‘Almost Amazing’
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 03:16 PMXLrator Media has acquired North American rights to Destined, the Cory Hardrict-starring drama written and directed by Qasim Basir that bowed at last year’s Los Angeles Film Festival. It will bow in theaters in the fall via XLrator’s Pace label.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘Pretty Little Liars’: Creator Marlene King Talks Finale Mysteries, Reunions & Alternate Endings
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 03:24 PMSPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of last night's series finale of Freeform's Pretty Little Liars.
By now, everyone who’s paid attention to Pretty Little Liars knows the big ugly truth: The evil twin did it.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - FX Networks Promotes Colette Wilson To SVP Current Series; Pair Upped To VP
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 04:01 PMFX Networks has promoted three key execs on its current series and development teams responsible for all original scripted programming across its suite of networks.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Are Bots Flooding The FCC With Bogus Calls To Weaken Net Neutrality Rules?
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 04:34 PMSeems like there’s a lot of fakery in Washington these days — not just involving the President’s dim view of the Fourth Estate or bogus Time magazine cover.
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Today, House Committee on Energy and Commerce ranking member Frank Pallone (D-NJ) asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe to investigate whether bots flooded the FCC with thousands of fake comments favoring a weakening of - Mercedes Ruehl Joins Harvey Fierstein’s ‘Torch Song’ Revival
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 01:01 PMTony and Oscar winner Mercedes Ruehl has signed on for Second Stage Theatre’s fall revival of Harvey Fierstein’s landmark dramedy Torch Song. Michael Urie
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘A Bad Moms Christmas’ Redband Trailer: It’s The Mother Of All Holidays
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 01:22 PMBad Moms pounced on an unsuspecting box office last year, pulling down $113M from a $20M budget. It was the first $100M domestic hit for STXfilms, which quickly greenlighted a sequel.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘Better Things’ & ‘You’re The Worst’ Get Late-Summer Premiere Dates On FX, FXX
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 02:02 PMFX Networks has announced late-summer return dates for two its comedy series.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Universal, Mike De Luca Win ‘Spiderwick Chronicles’ Holly Black Novel ‘The Cruel Prince’
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 02:20 PMEXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has won an auction for screen rights to The Cruel Prince, the new fantasy novel by The Spiderwick Chronicles author
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - CBS News To Launch ‘CBSN: On Assignment’; Summer Primetime News Series Sets Premiere Date
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 11:15 AMCBS News will launch CBSN: On Assignment next month, a new primetime summer series featuring what the network is calling “experiential reports” from around the world by more than a dozen CBS correspondents.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Donald Trump’s Latest Twitter Tantrum Targets New York Times, Washington Post
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 11:22 AMThe morning after the Donald Trump White House took press-briefing questions from Laura Ingraham’s LifeZette wondering if Trump wants the New York Times to maybe retract Russia-related reporting on him, POTUS did his
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- Court Frees Steven Mnuchin From Relativity Media-Related Fraud Case
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 03:08 PMTreasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s off the hook in a fraud charge tied to his tenure on the board of Relativity Media in a seven-month period leading up to its 2015 filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Kenya Barris To Write Russell Simmons Biopic For Fox, ‘Life And Def: Sex Drugs Money + God’
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 03:38 PMEXCLUSIVE: Fox has set Life And Def: Sex Drugs Money + God, a feature biopic that chronicles the rise of Russell Simmons from the inner city streets of Queens to one of the most influential music/fashion culture impresarios of his era.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘World Of Dance’ Ratings Rise, ‘iZombie’ Falls To Finale Low, NBC Wins Night
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 03:53 PMAfter several hours of delay from Nielsen, we finally have last night's Big 4 primetime ratings, which showed another easy Tuesday win for NBC.
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Sure, America's Got Talent (2.4/10) dipped 8% among adults 18-49 from its June 20 show to a season low, but the Comcast-owned net ultimately snared a 2.3/9 rating overall and 10.65 million viewers. - Bart & Fleming: As Daniel Day-Lewis Exits, Who Wears Greatest Living Actor Crown?
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 04:35 PMPeter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this occasional column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Fox News Officially Confirms Retiring Rep. Jason Chaffetz Joining As Contributor
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 01:00 PMUtah’s GOP Rep.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Deadline Ratings Advisory: Nielsen Delay For ‘America’s Got Talent’ & More
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 01:22 PMYou can joke that it was the huge online reaction to the series finale of Pretty Little Liars on cable last night but Nielsen numbers for Tuesday's primetime ratings are nowhere to be found so fat today.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - E! Adds To Programming & Development Team
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 02:00 PME! continues to expand its programming and development team, with two promotions and a new hire.
Julie St. Aubin has been promoted to VP Programming and Development; Alyssa Gerbasi has been upped to Director, Programming & Development and Jonathan Unger has moved from Dick Clark Productions to E!More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kathy Baker & Greg Grunberg Join HBO’s Joe Paterno Movie About Penn State Scandal
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 02:33 PMKathy Baker (The Ranch) and Heroes alum Greg Grunberg have been cast in lead roles opposite Al Pacino in HBO Films' untitled movie about the Penn State sexual abuse scandal, directed and executive produced by
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘Baby Driver’ Starts Its Engine Tuesday Night; ‘Wonder Woman’ Beating ‘Suicide Squad’ With $325M+ Running Cume
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 11:06 AMSony is reporting $2.1M in Tuesday night previews for Edgar Wright’s TriStar/Media Rights Capital action title Baby Driver. That money will be rolled into the film’s opening-day gross as it expands to 3,226 venues today.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- ITV Studios America Adds Jed Valdecantos & Jim Dietle To Exec Team
Wednesday - 06/28/2017 - 11:25 AMITV Studios America is expanding its executive team with the hires of Jed Valdecantos as VP Scripted TV Development and Jim Dietle as VP Business and Legal Affairs.
Based at the company's Los Angeles headquarters, Valdecantos will report to EVP Creative Affairs Michael Azzolino, and Dietle will report to Tom Lane, EVP Business and Legal Affairs.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share