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Walking Dead's Sonequa Martin-Green Cast as Star Trek: Discovery Lead
13 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
A Walking Dead actress is about to forge the final frontier.
Sonequa Martin-Green has been cast as the lead in the upcoming Star Trek: Discovery, EW.com reports.
Martin-Green will play a lieutenant commander in the sci-fi reboot, a role then-executive producer Bryan Fuller described at last summer’s Television Critics Association press tour as having “caveats.”
The 13-episode first season, which will be available weekly on CBS All Access after launching with a two-hour premiere on CBS network in May, follows an incident in the history of Starfleet that other series/movies in the franchise have touched on but never fully explored. »
Alex Timbers Negotiating To Direct ‘Cruella’ At Disney With Emma Stone
19 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Exclusive: The latest twist in the Alex Timbers/Disney saga is news that the acclaimed Broadway director/writer and co-creator of Amazon’s Mozart In The Jungle is negotiating to direct Cruella at Disney. Emma Stone, who received both a Golden Globe and SAG nomination this week for her role in La La Land, has been attached for a while in the live-action re-imagining of the villain’s tale from the children’s classic 101 Dalmatians. The studio wants to start production on… »
SAG Awards 2017: ‘Manchester by the Sea’ Leads With Four Nominations
22 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Family drama “Manchester by the Sea” led with four film nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awards, while “Stranger Things,” “The Crown” and “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” each took three TV nods.
“Fences” and “Moonlight” captured three film nominations each.
The winners of the 23rd SAG Awards will be announced Jan. 29 in ceremonies at the Shrine Auditorium with live broadcasts on TNT and TBS. Ballots will be sent to 121,546 dues-current SAG-aftra members who are eligible to vote.
Sophia Bush and Common made the announcements Wednesday morning at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood
Nominations were selected by a panel of 2,500 randomly selected SAG-aftra members for films and another 2,500 members for the TV noms.
The full list of nominees is below:
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Casey Affleck, “Manchester by the Sea”
Andrew Garfield, “Hacksaw Ridge”
Viggo Mortensen, “Captain Fantastic”
Denzel Washington, “Fences” »
- Dave McNary
Bernard Fox, Who Played Dr. Bombay on ‘Bewitched,’ Dies at 89
12 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Bernard Fox, the character actor best known for his role as Dr. Bombay on the sitcom “Bewitched,” died of heart failure on Wednesday at Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys, Calif. He was 89.
Fox was born Bernard Lawson in Port Talbot, Wales, in 1927 to stage actors Queenie and Gerald Lawson.
He began his film career at a mere 18 months old, and worked as an assistant manager of a theater by 14. He served in the Royal Navy during World War II and resumed his acting career afterward, eventually landing 30 film credits from 1956 to 2004. In that time period, Fox was featured in two films revolving around the sinking of the Titanic — the 1958 movie “A Night to Remember” and James Cameron’s 1997 version, “Titanic.” His other film roles include the voice of the Chairmouse in the Disney animated features “The Rescuers” and “The Rescuers Down Under,” as well as his role as Winston Havelock in “The Mummy. »
- Sarah Ahern
The How I Met Your Mother Spinoff Might Be Happening Again, But This Time It's Got a This Is Us Connection
12 hours ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Turns out we may get to find out how I met your father after all! Nearly three years after the end of How I Met Your Mother, there's a spinoff in the works, but it's not the spinoff you may think you already heard about. Just after the end of the series, there was a pilot called How I Met Your Dad, starring Greta Gerwig (who talks about the show in the video above) and written by Himym executive producers Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, along with Emily Spivey. CBS shockingly decided not to pick that pilot up, and now the whole concept is getting a rewrite from This Is Us co-executive producers Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, E! News has confirmed. Bays and Thomas will serve as »
Molly Ringwald Joins The CW’s ‘Riverdale’ as Archie’s Mom
17 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Molly Ringwald is bringing a little 80s realness to The CW next year. The “Breakfast Club” and “Sixteen Candles” star has booked a recurring guest role on “Riverdale” as Archie’s mother Mary Andrews, Variety has learned.
Mary left Riverdale two years ago to follow her dreams, but blows back into town in her family’s hour of need. She not only reconnects with Archie and her husband, Fred (Luke Perry), but also her former high school friends Hermione and Alice. Her reappearance coincides with the Homecoming Dance.
“Riverdale” hails from Warner Bros. Television and “Supergirl” and “The Flash” executive producer Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Productions. Set in the present day and based on the iconic Archie Comics characters, “Riverdale” is described as a surprising and subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica, and their friends, exploring the surrealism of small town life — the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome façade. Berlanti »
- Oriana Schwindt
‘The Birds,’ ‘The Lion King,’ ‘Thelma & Louise’ Join National Film Registry
14 December 2016 12:01 AM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
With the addition of 25 new films — including “The Birds,” “The Lion King,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Thelma & Louise” — the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress now includes 700 films that span more than a century.
The 2016 inductees into the registry include movies long considered classics, obscure documentaries and films once too racy or avant-garde to be accepted by the mainstream. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden made the selections after consulting with a panel of experts who make up the National Film Preservation Board.
Congress established the registry in 1988 with the National Film Preservation Act of 1988 — requiring the Library of Congress to designate and preserve films that are “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant. Films must be at least 10 years old to be chosen.
Director Ridley Scott said he was “honored and proud” to have the 1991 feminist empowerment ode, “Thelma & Louise,” selected, noting it joined another of his films on the list. »
- James Rainey
SAG Awards: Stranger Things, Westworld, The Crown, People v. O.J. Lead Noms
22 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Nominations for the 23nd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, to be broadcast Saturday, Jan. 29 on TNT/TBS, were announced this morning.
Check out the complete list of TV nominees below, then make like Internet commenters and share your raves and rants.
Drama Ensemble
Ben Affleck Says ‘The Batman’ On Track to Shoot in Spring: ‘Everything Is Coming Together’
22 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Ben Affleck‘s “Live by Night” is an unapologetic throwback to the era of Cagney and Bogart. It was a time when the big screen was full of fedora wearing criminals, who lived the high life before their cinematic crime sprees ended in a hail of Tommy Gun fire.
“This is a love letter to the great Warner’s gangster films of the ’30’s or ’40’s,” Affleck told Variety at a tastemakers screening at New York’s Metrograph Theater on Tuesday night. “Whether it’s ‘White Heat’ or ‘Angels With Dirty Faces’ or ‘Public Enemy.’ Even going to the great gangster films of the ’60’s or ’70’s — ‘Godfather’ and ‘Chinatown.’ There’s this tradition of gangster genre movies that’s really rich and fun to mine. This is a homage to those films.”
“Live by Night” follows Joe Coughlin, a World War I veteran who becomes the top rum runner in Florida during Prohibition, »
- Brent Lang
Berlin: Richard Gere, Rebecca Hall's 'The Dinner,' Sally Potter's 'The Party' in Competition
1 hour ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
The Dinner from U.S. director Oren Moverman (The Messenger) starring Richard Gere, Rebecca Hall, Laura Linney and Steve Coogan and The Party, the latest star-studded effort from U.K. director Sally Potter (Orlando) will have their world premieres in competition at the Berlin festival next year.
Berlin announced the first handful of competition films on Thursday for the 2017 fest, which runs Feb. 9-19.
The Dinner, which The Orchard picked up for North America at the Cannes market this year, is the story of two family who, over the course of a single meal, struggle with the most difficult decisions of »
- Scott Roxborough
Berlin: 2017 Shooting Stars Announced
1 hour ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
European Film Promotion has announced its European Shooting Stars, the group's annual list of the 10 young actors to watch from across the 28 countries of the European Union.
For its 20th edition, which will be held during the 2017 Berlin Film Festival, Efp has picked 6 young actresses and 4 actors mainly from Northern and Eastern Europe. Unusually, the 2017 list does not include a single actor from the U.K., France or Spain.
Instead, the group features 19-year-old German actor Louis Hofmann, who impressed as a solider conscripted to clear land mines off the Danish coast in Oscar contender »
- Scott Roxborough
Berlin Film Festival Reveals First Competition Section Films
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Oren Moverman’s “The Dinner,” starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, and Rebecca Hall, and Sally Potter’s “The Party,” starring Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Emily Mortimer, Cillian Murphy, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Timothy Spall, are among the first films selected for the competition section of the Berlin Film Festival, which runs Feb. 9-19. All are world premieres.
Also selected are Aki Kaurismaki’s “The Other Side of Hope,” Agnieszka Holland’s “Spoor,” Andres Veiel’s “Beuys,” Ildiko Enyedi’s “On Body and Soul,” Calin Peter Netzer’s “Ana, mon amour,” Teresa Villaverde’s “Colo,” Alain Gomis’ “Felicite,” and Sebastian Lelio’s “Una Mujer Fantastica.”
The festival also revealed four of the films that will play in its Berlinale Special section: Fernando Trueba’s “The Queen of Spain,” Raoul Peck’s “The Young Karl Marx,” Fernando Perez’s “Last Days in Havana,” and the world premiere of a restored »
- Leo Barraclough
[Watch] VFX Supervisor Robert Legato (‘The Jungle Book’) on creating talking animals for new Disney classic
2 hours ago | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
“It wasn’t as daunting to me because technology has grown up to that stage,” reveals visual effects supervisor Robert Legato during our recent webcam chat (watch above) when asked about the massive challenges of bringing Jon Favreau‘s live action adaptation of “The Jungle Book” to the screen. He adds, “The capability of it isn’t put into effect […] »
- Zach Laws
GoDaddy Will Return to Super Bowl Advertising
3 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
A slew of regular Super Bowl advertisers has opted to leave the event in recent years. Gone for now (and, perhaps, for later) are former Big Game stalwarts like FedEx and General Motors. In 2017, Toyota and Doritos will not step on the playing field.
One of the departed, however, is ready to make a comeback.
GoDaddy, the web-services provider with the upstart attitude, is making a return to Super Bowl advertising after sitting out Super Bowl 50 this year. The company plans to run a single 30-second commercial in the first half of the game, said Barb Rechterman, GoDaddy’s chief marketing officer, in an interview. “We finalized the deal within the last month or so,” she said. “We are fast and furious on the creative side.”
The Scottsdale, Arizona, company took to the Super Bowl sidelines as it used 2016 to develop a bigger name for itself overseas, Rechterman explained. In 2017, however, it »
- Brian Steinberg
Netflix Signs Deal With Bollywood Star Shah Rukh Khan
3 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Just a day after Amazon set out its international stalls by rolling out its Prime Video service to India (and now more than 200 territories), streaming rival Netflix has upped the ante by unveiling a pact with one of the country's biggest stars.
The Svod giant on Thursday announced a deal with Bollywood icon Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment banner to license its catalog and new films globally. Described in a statement from Netflix as "the beginning of a long-term relationship between both companies and the first of its kind with any Indian film production company," the deal covers such »
- Nyay Bhushan
Netflix Signs Content Deal With Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies
4 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Global streaming giant, Netflix has struck a long-term relationship with Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan’s production house Red Chillies Entertainment.
Netflix subscribers will have access to more than 30 Red Chillies library titles and any new film produced by the company in the next three years.
First up will be “Dear Zindagi”, starring Khan and Alia Bhatt that released theatrically Nov. 25, followed by box office hits “Happy New Year,” “Dilwale” and “Om Shanti Om.”
The deal was announced only a day after Netflix’s streaming rival unveiled a global rollout of its Prime Video service, and made particular play of its launch in India.
Although India is a key market for both companies, the deal with Red Chillies is Netflix’s first with a production company in India. Amazon has content deals with Bollywood studios Dharma Productions, T-Series and Vishesh Films.
“Shah Rukh Khan is the most sought-after actor in the Indian film industry, »
- Naman Ramachandran
Indian Multiplex Leader PVR Expands 4Dx Rollout
4 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
PVR Cinemas, India’s largest cinema exhibition company, is to install Korea’s 4Dx motion and olfactory technology to ten of its multiplexes.
The deal is an extension of an existing agreement between PVR and Cj 4Dplex, part of Cj-cgv. The deal was announced last week on the sidelines of the CineAsia convention in Hong Kong.
“4Dx offers an experience that is not only impossible to replicate at home, but also enhances the overall viewing experience. With more global exposure, the expectations of audiences are increasing as they look for added experiences that supplement the on-screen viewing. PVR, being an innovator in the cinema exhibition space in India, aims to fulfill this expectation by aligning itself with the world leaders in motion picture technology,” said Ajay Bijli, Ajay Bijli, PVR’s chairman & MD.
PVR cinemas currently have a total count of 557 screens at 121 properties in 48 cities. The company first installed »
- Patrick Frater
'The Great Wall': Why the Stakes Are Sky-High for Matt Damon's $150M Chinese Epic
4 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Legendary Entertainment's much-anticipated period monster epic The Great Wall opens across China on Friday — and the whole industry will be watching to see how the unprecedented fusion project pans out.
With an estimated budget north of $150 million, the film is the biggest Hollywood-China co-production ever, designed to bridge the world's two largest box office territories.
The Great Wall is directed by Chinese maestro Zhang Yimou (Red Sorghum, Hero, House of Flying Daggers) — his first picture in English — and stars Matt Damon, Willem Defoe and Pablo Pascal, along with a phalanx of A-list Chinese talent, including Hong Kong's Andy »
- Patrick Brzeski
European Film Promotion Reveals Shooting Stars Heading to Berlin Film Festival
6 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
European Film Promotion has revealed the names of the 2017 European Shooting Stars, the 10 up-and-coming actors whose talents will be showcased during the Berlin Film Festival.
The Shooting Stars are Italy’s Alessandro Borghi (“Don’t Be Bad”), Latvia’s Elina Vaska (“Mellow Mud”), Denmark’s Esben Smed (“Letters for Amina”), The Netherlands’ Hannah Hoekstra (“The Fury”), Sweden’s Karin Franz Korlof (“A Serious Game”), Germany’s Louis Hofmann (“Alone in Berlin”), Slovenia’s Marusa Majer (“Ivan”), Romania’s Tudor Aaron Istodor (“The Fixer”), Portugal’s Victoria Guerra (“Cosmos”), and Poland’s Zofia Wichlacz, who appears in her country’s Oscar entry “Afterimage.”
The actors were chosen by a jury consisting of casting director Lucinda Syson, Hungarian actor Dorka Gryllus, Swiss director Xavier Koller, Portuguese producer Pandora da Cunha Telles, and Swedish film critic and writer Jan Lumholdt.
Over the four-day Shooting Star event in Berlin (Feb. 10-13), the 10 actors will »
- Leo Barraclough
Fox 2017 Slate Highlights ‘Apes,’ a new ‘Wolverine,’ and Horror, Old and New
7 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
20th Century Fox rolled out four of its most promising film offerings for 2017 — a darker-yet-again take on its “Wolverine” franchise, a terrifying reboot of the 1979 space thriller “Alien,” a “Planet of the Apes” sequel that promises extra pathos and humor, and a psychological horror flick from the maker of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films.
The four films highlight a slate that will be the first under new Fox under Stacey Snider, the new chairman of the studio’s film operation, thought the films were put into production when Jim Gianopulos still headed the studio.
Introducing the latest of the Wolverine films, “Logan,” was director James Mangold, who said that star Hugh Jackman was only ready for another go as the slashing, tormented protagonist if he had a chance to do something really different. The studio showed 42 minutes of the super-charged, super-dark film Wednesday, but embargoed any plot reveals or reviews. »
- James Rainey
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