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Doris Roberts, ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ Star, Dead at 90
10 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Doris Roberts, who played Ray Barone’s prying mother on the sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond,” died Sunday, a representative for the actress told TheWrap on Monday. She was 90. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1925, Roberts began acting in 1952, appearing on the television series “Studio One.” Appearances on “The Naked City,” “Ben Casey” and “The Defenders” followed. She first appeared on the big screen in the 1961 film “Something Wild.” Roberts’ other film credits include “A Lovely Way to Die,” “No Way to Treat a Lady” and “The Honeymoon Killers.” On television, she also appeared on “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,” »
- Tim Kenneally
J.J. Abrams, Daisy Ridley to Reunite on Supernatural Drama ‘Kolma’
11 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
A supernatural force may soon be reuniting J.J. Abrams and Daisy Ridley.
Paramount is developing the supernatural drama “Kolma” with Abrams producing through his Bad Robot production company and Ridley in talks to star.
Marielle Heller is in talks to direct from a script by Megan Holley. Besides Abrams, producers are Ram Bergman, Sherryl Clark and David Lonner.
The remake of the 2003 Israeli TV movie Kol Ma — which translates to English as “All I’ve Got” — centers on a man who died in a car accident 50 years ago who waits on the other side for his former girlfriend who survived.
Abrams directed and co-wrote “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” He’s also produced the rebooted “Star Trek” franchise and the last three “Mission: Impossible” films.
Ridley is currently shooting “Star Wars: Episode VIII.” She’s also executive producing “The Eagle Huntress,” which premiered at Sundance and is being released through Sony Classics. »
- Dave McNary
Mel Gibson, Kurt Russell, Kate Hudson to Star in ‘Barbary Coast’ TV Series
14 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Mel Gibson will co-write and direct TV series “The Barbary Coast,” with Kurt Russell and Kate Hudson starring, TheWrap has learned. Gibson will also co-star in a recurring role. The drama, from The Mark Gordon Company, begins with The Gold Rush in 1849 which saw the biggest influx of gold-seekers, gamblers, thieves, harlots, politicians and other felonious parasites to the infant city. Thus arose a unique criminal district that for almost seventy years was the scene of more viciousness and depravity – yet at the same time possessed more glamour and intrigue – than any other area of vice and »
- Linda Ge
‘Jurassic World 2’ Director Confirmed: It’s J.A. Bayona
16 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Updated, 10:18 Am: Jurassic World helmer Colin Trevorrow and producer Frank Marshall have confirmed what Deadline told you in January: Juan Antonio Bayona is set to direct Jurassic World 2. Proud to collaborate with one of my favorite filmmakers on the next Jurassic adventure. Ja Bayona, it's all yours. — Colin Trevorrow (@colintrevorrow) April 18, 2016 Thrilled to announce Ja Bayona is on board to direct JW2. Welcome to the team @FilmBayona! — Frank Marshall… »
'Jungle Book' Opens with Massive $103 Million, Global Cume Tops $290M
17 April 2016 9:37 AM, PDT | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »
Disney's The Jungle Book delivers the third $100+ million opener of 2016, two more than 2015 had at this point in the year and Captain America: Civil War is just around the corner. The weekend's two other new wide releases saw WB and MGM's Barbershop: The Next Cut finish second while Lionsgate's Criminal settled for a sixth place finish. Altogether, the weekend top twelve finished up 50.2% compared to last year and up 76.6% from last weekend. With an estimated $103.5 million opening, The Jungle Book will be the talk of the town for the next couple weeks. It's an opening number that exceeds all expectations despite the pre-release buzz. Heading into the weekend the film had an impressive 95% rating at RottenTomatoes, a rating that was reflected in audience opinion as opening day moviegoers rewarded it with an "A" CinemaScore. The result is the second largest April opening weekend of all-time behind only last year's Furious 7. »
- Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
Kevin Bacon to Star in Transparent Creator's Amazon Pilot I Love Dick
14 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Kevin Bacon has found his next TV role, and Ryan Hardy it is not.
The Following vet will fill the title role in I Love Dick, Amazon’s comedy pilot from Transparent creator Jill Soloway, Deadline reports.
Based on Chris Kraus’ 1997 novel of the same name, the potential series follows a struggling married couple in Texas and their mutual obsession with an off-putting but charismatic professor (played by Bacon).
Through that fixation, failing wife and independent filmmaker Chris (Transparent‘s Kathryn Hahn) goes on a journey »
Cannes: Critics’ Week Announces 2016 Lineup
23 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
There are no American features to be found in Critics’ Week at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, as the parallel section dedicated to first and second films will privilege both European productions and fresh discoveries from such countries as Turkey, Lebanon, Cambodia and Singapore.
The 55th edition of Critics’ Week will kick off on May 12 with Justine Triet’s “In Bed With Victoria,” a light-hearted, frank and modern comedy about a young single mother (played by Virginie Efira) trying to find the balance between her career and her love life.
According to Critics’ Week artistic director Charles Tesson, this sophomore offering from the Cesar-nominated director of “Age of Panic” (which opened in Cannes’ Acid sidebar in 2013) underscores a willingness to shake up the sidebar and marks a change in tone from the typically serious-minded movies that constitute the rest of the section.
The Critics’ Week selection committee sifted through »
- Elsa Keslassy and Peter Debruge
HFPA Sets Date For Golden Globes 2017
14 hours ago | AwardsDaily.com | See recent AwardsDaily news »
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Dick Clark Productions has set a date for the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards – Sunday, January 8, 2017. The ceremony will air on NBC from 5- »
- Jazz Tangcay
CinemaCon: The Buzz, the Highs and the (Surprise) Biggest Loser
20 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas — except when it comes to CinemaCon, which is always certain to generate headlines and controversy as Hollywood promises theater owners that it's got the goods. This year's convention, which ran from April 11-14, was no exception, offering up new trailers and footage for a wide array of films, a parade of top stars (including Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt and Will Smith), James Cameron's announcement on stage that he's making four Avatar sequels instead of three and much talk about Sean Parker's divisive proposal to make new movies in the home for
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- Pamela McClintock, Rebecca Ford
Naomi Watts To Lead Sam Taylor-Johnson's Psychological Thriller Series ‘Gypsy’ For Netflix
17 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Naomi Watts has been dipping her toes in different waters lately, going blockbuster with "Allegiant" and indie with fare like "The Sea Of Trees." Now she's going to give a Netflix series a try. The actress will star in "Fifty Shades Of Grey" director Sam Taylor-Johnson's previously announced Netflix series "Gypsy." Lisa Rubin will pen the show that centers on Jean Holloway (Watts), a therapist who begins to develop dangerous and intimate relationships with the people in her patients' lives. Doesn't sound like she's following the ethics of her trade... The ten-episode series will debut on Netflix in 2017. Press release below. Beverly Hills, Calif., April 18, 2016 — Netflix, the world’s leading Internet TV network, announced today that two-time Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts will star in the 10-episode season of the one-hour psychological thriller Gypsy, a new series from Universal Television, Working Title and writer Lisa »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Amazon takes aim at Netflix
17 April 2016 10:24 PM, PDT | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Jeff Bezos’ e-commerce giant has moved aggressively against the VOD market leader in the Us with a new subscription tier.
From Sunday [April 17] customers are able to watch film and TV via Prime Video, a content-only package that costs $8.99 per month and is not contingent on paying for Amazon Prime.
Crucially that price-point puts Prime Video one dollar a month below what Netflix will begin charging its subscribers for a two-streaming option in May (upm from $7.99) – and Prime Video offers each customer three streams.
This means customers will no longer need to pay $99 a year for Amazon Prime as a way of getting content.
In fact the Prime pay structure has been overhauled and from now on will exist as a more expensive monthly outlay of $10.99. According to reports Bezos said Prime customers had requested a more flexible payment approach.
The move is clearly aimed at Netflix and caps a triumphant week for the content side of Bezos »
- jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
Ronit Elkabetz, Actress and Filmmaker, Dies at 51
35 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Tel Aviv – Ronit Elkabetz, one of the great luminaries of the Israeli film industry, died Tuesday morning after a private battle with cancer. She was 51.
The actress and filmmaker was known equally for her striking dark looks and immense emotional vulnerability onscreen. Her life ended just as her career was at an all-time high: In 2014, Elkabetz’s film “Gett: The Trail of Viviane Amsalem,” which she co-wrote and co-directed alongside her brother Shlomi Elkabetz, was awarded the Israeli Ophir Award for best film, the Jewish State’s equivalent of the Academy Award. “Gett” went on to serve as Israel’s 2014 entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, and also earned a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2015 Golden Globes.
“Gett” was the third installment in a trilogy about a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage; the Elkabetz siblings began telling the story of shackled Viviane Amsalem, »
- Debra Kamin
Scarlett Johansson in 'Ghost in the Shell': Japanese Industry, Fans Surprised by "Whitewashing" Outrage
1 hour ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
The casting of Scarlett Johansson as Major Motoko Kusanagi in the Paramount/DreamWorks adaptation of Japanese anime hit Ghost in the Shell has drawn accusations of "whitewashing" and sparked fierce debate on social media across the Western world. But in the home of the manga and anime cult classic, the reaction to the media firestorm was mostly surprise as many Japanese had already assumed that the lead role in a Hollywood version of the story would go to a white actress. While there has been criticism and some resigned disappointment expressed by online commenters at the fact that a non-Japanese
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- Gavin J. Blair
Series Mania: ‘Section Zero,’ ‘Frozen Dead,’ ’Contact’ Underscore France’s New TV Ambitions
2 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Paris – Three high-profile Gallic series – “Section Zero,” “The Frozen Dead” and “Contact” – feature at Coming Next From France, a Series Mania/Tvfi showcase which captures the French TV in evolution.
French broadcasters still have to think of their home markets. Of the six-scripted dramas, three are procedurals made in large part for France, where murder mysteries have a long tradition. All, however, show an ambition to also sell outside their country of origin, while others capture a burgeoning attempt at diversification of France’s scripted-tv offer.
Produced by the Luc Besson-owned EuropaCorp TV’s Bad Company, and a Canal Plus original series co-financed by Studiocanal, which sells world rights, and Belgium’s UMedia, tapping into Belgian tax breaks, “Section Zero” is budgeted at €2 million ($2.3 million) an episode, per Edouard de Vesinne.
That makes “Section Zero” one of the most expensive French TV shows ever made, doubling France’ average TV »
- John Hopewell
Ricky Gervais Likens Johnny Depp, Amber Heard Dog Apology to Hostage Video
2 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's dog smuggling apology video, mandated by an Australian court, has drawn reactions from figures from the entertainment and political worlds. Comedian Ricky Gervais likened the now viral clip to a hostage video, while Australia’s deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce said it looks like an audition video for The Godfather. They were among a slew of people who mocked the 42-second video, made by the couple on Monday as penance for smuggling their dogs into Australia last year. But the mentions by celebrities and social media reaction beyond likely has had the desired effect –
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- Pip Bulbeck
Viacom to Launch Comedy Central in the Middle East and Africa on Osn (Exclusive)
2 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Viacom International Media Networks is launching Comedy Central in the Middle East and Africa on the region’s leading pay-tv player Osn, two years after the two companies forged an alliance that marked a significant strategic move for Viacom in an area where it has considerable room for growth.
Comedy Central HD will be the third brand for Vimn in the region, complementing the existing presence of MTV and Nickelodeon/NickJr.
The channel’s offerings will include “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” which Noah will make the trek to launch in Dubai. Comedy Central favorites “Tosh.0” and “Inside Amy Schumer,” and a dedicated block of Spike content comprising “Lip Sync Battle,” as well as “Catch a Contractor,” the non-scripted series that sees host Adam Carolla on a mission to track down shady contractors and drag them back to the scene of their crimes. Internationally produced shows will include sitcom “I Live with Models. »
- Nick Vivarelli
‘Supergirl’ Sails Toward Future in Cliffhanging Season Finale (Spoilers)
3 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Beyond lauding the pilot, Variety’s initial review of “Supergirl” posed several questions, the most pointed (or at least pragmatic) being whether this sort of unabashed superhero series – having thrived on the network’s kid sister, the CW – could take off on CBS. The answer was not entirely, which didn’t prevent producers Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg and their team from applying a very “The Flash”-like formula to this handsome, fun, chaotic, slightly geeky addition to DC’s stable of TV heroes.
As with their other shows, the series chewed through great chunks of story, revealing Supergirl’s secret identity to multiple characters, introducing additional heroes (as in J’onn J’onzz, a.k.a. Martian Manhunter), and digging deep into comic-book mythology. While those weaned on comics might readily know the effects of red Kryptonite or the rules surrounding alternate universes, these series simply dive in and let »
- Brian Lowry
‘Fresh Prince’ Star Alfonso Ribeiro Wins Last Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race at Long Beach Grand Prix
3 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
“Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” star Alfonso Ribeiro proved he still knows how to live life in the fast lane this past weekend when he won the final ever Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race at the Long Beach Grand Prix in California. He beat out star drivers including Adam Carolla, Frankie Muniz, Brian Austin Green and fellow “Silver Spoons” alum Ricky Schroder at the 40th annual race, which ends after this year. The “America’s Funniest Home Videos” host, who is also a past “Dancing With the Stars” champion, was the celebrity winner in 1994 and 1995, and the Pro winner in 2015. Also Read: »
- Debbie Emery
‘Nina’ Review: Zoe Saldana, What Happened to Your Miss Simone Biopic?
4 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
“Nina,” an infuriatingly amateurish picture about the great singer and pianist Nina Simone, is a new low for the musical biopic genre. First time writer-director Cynthia Mort, whose main experience is as a writer on the sitcoms “Roseanne” and “Will & Grace,” unforgivably exploits Simone’s memory and name with a movie that plays like a sketch comedy parody of the worst possible Nina Simone biopic. No one involved seems to have a clue who Simone was or what she stood for. Mort has said that she could not get financing for “Nina” when she submitted the names of her preferred. »
- Dan Callahan
Stephen Colbert Makes ‘Late Show’ Change in First Night Under New Showrunner
4 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Stephen Colbert isn’t afraid of change.
Viewers who tune in regularly to CBS’ “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” may have noticed something different about Monday night’s program. Yes, the host still came on and delivered jokes and made the usual nod to his bandleader, Jon Batiste, and his band, Stay Human. But the show opened with the video introduction that typically comes after Colbert has run out on stage and made a few jokes. The opening segments seemed quicker and tighter. And the host teased what he called an “exclusive” interview in a restaurant with Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during which they discussed the merits of cheesecake.
Why, it almost seemed as if someone had imposed the discipline of a morning-news show on the late-night host.
Indeed, that is what is taking place. Colbert’s broadcast this evening was his program’s first under a new showrunner, »
- Brian Steinberg
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