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5 hours ago

Disney is moving forward on a remake of the 1984 film Splash with an interesting twist: Channing Tatum will star as the mermaid character that was played by Daryl Hannah while Jillian Bell will play the character originally played by Tom Hanks. Imagine’s Ron Howard and Brian Grazer will produce along with Tatum, Reid Carolin and Peter Kieran via his Free Association banner. Anna Culp will executive produce. The 1984 original starred Hanks as a man who as a young boy was saved from drowning by a mermaid (Hannah). The mermaid returns 20 years later and finds the boy she

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- Rebecca Ford, Borys Kit

5 hours ago

If Chris Albrecht is frustrated by Starz's lack of Emmy nominations this year, he's not letting it show. When the CEO was asked about his network's absence from the 2016 race during his Monday session at the Television Critics Association's summer press tour, he all but shrugged — saying that his current roster of critically favored series probably won't find themselves in a position like The Americans anytime soon. "I don't think they'll ever break through," he said, referring to dramas Outlander and Power. "Trust me, it's not a level playing field ... I worked with the TV Academy for

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- Michael O'Connell

6 hours ago

Sunday's (July 31) centerpiece panel at the Television Critics Association press tour was probably the send-off panel for SundanceTV's Rectify, one of TV's best shows starting its final season this October. Our full coverage of that panel is here. The rest of the cable day was dominated by comedies, with MTV introducing two new comedies, TBS delivering a pair and even IFC paneling one new comedy and the second season of the terrific Documentary Now! Plus, we got to see Lady Mary from Downton Abbey doing some very bad things in Michelle Dockery's TNT drama Good Behavior. { "nid":

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- Daniel Fienberg

6 hours ago

Dalian Wanda Group, the Chinese real estate and investment conglomerate headed by China's richest man, Wang Jianlin, has abandoned its plan to fold Legendary Entertainment into the group's publicly listed movie theater subsidiary. In April, Wanda Group announced that it would merge Legendary and Chinese movie-production subsidiary Wanda Media with its publicly listed movie theater chain business, Wanda Cinema Line Co. But in a regulatory filing with the Shenzhen stock exchange Monday, Wanda Cinema said that market conditions had changed and the deal was premature. A deal at this time wouldn’t be in the best interest of minority investors,

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- Patrick Brzeski

7 hours ago

Starz is making a return trip to The Girlfriend Experience. The premium cable network has renewed its Steven Soderbergh anthology drama for a second season, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The freshman season was inspired by Soderbergh's film of the same name. The freshman season, consisting of 13 half-hour episodes, explored the relationships of the most exclusive courtesans who provide their clients with far more than just sex. These purveyors — or GFEs (girlfriend experience) — shared intimacies more common to actual romantic partners, becoming quasi-lovers and confidants who are richly compensated for their time and skill. Riley

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- Lesley Goldberg

7 hours ago

Nick Denton, having created and shepherded one of the most influential digital news networks only to rocked by a Florida jury who came to the conclusion that his Gawker had gone too far in the posting of a celebrity's sex tape, has filed for personal bankruptcy. The Chapter 11 filing on Monday occurs after a flurry of activity in the months since Hulk Hogan prevailed in an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit stemming from an October 2012 post where Gawker invited its readers to watch the former professional wrestler have sex with a mysterious woman later revealed to be the wife of his best

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- Eriq Gardner

8 hours ago

Considering that he died in 1999, it's amazing that it took so long for a documentary to come along examining the tragically short life of John F. Kennedy Jr. Spike TV has rectified the situation with I Am JFK Jr., an incisive cinematic portrait featuring commentary by many of his friends and colleagues, as well as extensive archival footage showcasing its subject's magnetic charisma. "He was the closest thing we had to a crown prince," says television journalist Chris Cuomo, a friend of Kennedy's. The son of the slain president was certainly a fanatical object of media obsession, with

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- Frank Scheck

9 hours ago

The Broadcast Film Critics Association and Broadcast Television Journalists Association, the groups that present the Critics' Choice Awards, have established another annual awards show: the Critics' Choice Documentary Awards, which will honor both documentary features and non-fiction television. Awards recognizing this sort of work — such as best documentary feature and best unstructured reality show — have heretofore been presented at the Critics' Choice Awards. Those awards will no longer be presented at that event, but rather at the CCDAs, which will include many other doc-specific categories as well, such as best director of a doc, best first

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- Scott Feinberg

10 hours ago

In the early part of the 20th century, a handful of larger-than-life hustlers came together to create “an empire of their own,” as the writer Neal Gabler has described it. They were mostly immigrants, many of whom had fled either the pogroms or the East Coast establishment that had little room for these fire-breathing, patent-busting, nouveaux riches entrepreneurs. Instead of trying to make a name for themselves in New York, they went West, where they could build businesses in their own image. The studios they created not only survived them, but became the nexus of the

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- Stephen Galloway

10 hours ago

Skip Bayless says his move to Fox Sports 1 — with a new daily program that is set to bow Sept. 6 — will allow him to remove the "handcuffs" he's been compelled to wear at Espn, where he hosted the popular ESPN2 program First Take with Stephen A. Smith. "Too many people in charge at Espn, for my taste, were a little too fearful," Bayless tells The Hollywood Reporter in an interview officially revealing his move. "It's a Disney network. There are just certain boundaries that you can't even tiptoe along. Not that we won't have boundaries at

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- Marisa Guthrie

21 hours ago

Justin Timberlake was honored with the Decade Award at the 2016 Teen Choice Awards, which aired Sunday night. Kobe Bryant presented the award to the singer, who has now won an impressive 23 Teen Choice Awards throughout his career. It was given to him for his continuous evolvement as an artist over the past 10 years and coincides with the 10-year anniversary of his hit album FutureSex/LoveSounds. Read Timberlake’s acceptance speech in full: "Thank you, Teen Choice. As a former teen, a while ago, who's made a few choices along the way, I'm here to tell you that you and your

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- Ashley Iasimone, Billboard

22 hours ago

To understand what the Kremlin thinks about the prospect of Hillary Clinton becoming the U.S. president, it was enough to watch Russian state television coverage of her accepting the Democratic nomination. Viewers were told that Clinton sees Russia as an enemy and cannot be trusted, while the Democratic Party convention was portrayed as further proof that American democracy is a sham. In her acceptance speech, Clinton reaffirmed a commitment to Nato, saying she was "proud to stand by our allies in Nato against any threat they face, including from Russia." In doing so, she was implicitly rebuking her

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- the Associated Press

22 hours ago

The world can safely be divided into two camps: people who love Cats and those who hate it. The former will be happily satisfied by the new revival reuniting many members of the original creative team (with one notable exception), returning to Broadway 16 years after the closing of the show's record-breaking original 18-year run. As for the latter, this slightly scaled-down and rejiggered version is unlikely to change their minds. The 1981 musical was always something of an oddity, foregoing a traditional narrative in favor of a cantata-like structure based on T.S. Eliot's Old

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- Frank Scheck

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