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‘This Is Us’ Renewed For Second & Third Seasons By NBC
16 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
NBC has ordered two minimum 18-episode seasons of its Tuesday night drama sensation This Is Us. "We all got our wish that this is a hit show," said Jennifer Salke, President, NBC Entertainment. "'This Is Us' is as good as anything we've ever had, we're thrilled to renew it for two seasons and there's no doubt it will have a long life on NBC. On behalf of everyone at NBC, we're grateful for the artistry of the cast, crew, and producers assembled by our gifted creator, Dan… »
‘Will & Grace’ to Return to NBC for 10-Episode Run
19 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
NBC is officially bringing back “Will & Grace” for a 10-episode limited run next season, the broadcaster revealed Wednesday during the Television Critics Association press event. Emmy winners Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally are all back for the 2017-2018 run, and original series creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan will act as showrunners and executive producers. James Burrows, who directed every episode of the show during its initial eight-year run, is set to direct and executive produce. Universal Television will produce and distribute the new episodes. “We’re thrilled that one of the smartest, funniest, and most defining comedies in NBC. »
- Tony Maglio
Sundance: Grateful Dead Doc 'Long Strange Trip' Goes to Amazon
17 January 2017 8:34 AM, PST | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Amazon is ready for a Long Strange Trip, acquiring the Grateful Dead documentary ahead of its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
Directed by Amir Bar-Lev, the doc charts the rise of the band from its roots in the Bay Area’s vibrant 1960s counterculture to the top of the rock and roll charts. Encapsulating the group's quintessential character and three decades of legendary concerts-cum-spiritual experiences, the film includes archival stills, film footage, audio recordings and rare live tracks — much of which has never been seen or heard. »
- Ashley Lee
‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Delayed Again, Casts James Frain
19 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
“Star Trek: Discovery” will likely miss its previously announced May premiere target, Variety has learned. The series has also cast James Frain as Spock’s father.
CBS released a statement regarding the possible delay:
“Production on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ begins next week. We love the cast, the scripts and are excited about the world the producers have created. This is an ambitious project; we will be flexible on a launch date if it’s best for the show. We’ve said from the beginning it’s more important to do this right than to do it fast. There is also added flexibility presenting on CBS All Access, which isn’t beholden to seasonal premieres or launch windows.”
More to come…
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- Oriana Schwindt
Karga Seven Expands Into Turkey With New Production Venture
29 minutes ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
L.A.-based production company Karga Seven Pictures has launched a new production venture in Turkey, opening a permanent production office in Istanbul, parent company Red Arrow Entertainment Group announced Thursday.
Karga Seven Turkey will produce original content, including feature films, scripted and factual television, documentaries, game shows, and branded content for mobile and digital platforms. The new operation will be headed by Tamer Uner as president, Ozer Sata as CEO and Todd Cohen as chief creative officer. Cohen previously served with the company as Karga’s executive vice president of development.
“We have a strong and passionate connection to Turkey,” said Karga founding partner Emre Sahin. “I grew up in Turkey, and we’ve produced two feature films there [2015’s “Takim: Mahalle Askina!” and “The Team,” both directed by Sahin] as well as commercials and several non-fiction shows. With the country being the second-largest producer of television dramas in the world, it’s the perfect opportunity for us to enter the Turkish market.”
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- Robert Mitchell
Karga Seven Expands Into Turkey With New Production Venture
29 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
L.A.-based production company Karga Seven Pictures has launched a new production venture in Turkey, opening a permanent production office in Istanbul, parent company Red Arrow Entertainment Group announced Thursday.
Karga Seven Turkey will produce original content, including feature films, scripted and factual television, documentaries, game shows, and branded content for mobile and digital platforms. The new operation will be headed by Tamer Uner as president, Ozer Sata as CEO and Todd Cohen as chief creative officer. Cohen previously served with the company as Karga’s executive vice president of development.
“We have a strong and passionate connection to Turkey,” said Karga founding partner Emre Sahin. “I grew up in Turkey, and we’ve produced two feature films there [2015’s “Takim: Mahalle Askina!” and “The Team,” both directed by Sahin] as well as commercials and several non-fiction shows. With the country being the second-largest producer of television dramas in the world, it’s the perfect opportunity for us to enter the Turkish market. »
- Robert Mitchell
English-language ‘Anthropoid,’ ‘A Prominent Patient’ Dominate Czech Lion Nominations
46 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“Anthropoid,” an English-language film based on the assassination of a Nazi officer in wartime Prague, and local biopic “A Prominent Patient” (“Masaryk”) dominated the Czech Lion Awards nominations, earning 12 and 14 nods respectively, including best film. Both films were eligible for nominations in 14 of 15 categories overall.
“Anthropoid’s” British director, Sean Ellis, personally received nominations in four categories: best director, best screenplay (shared with co-writer Anthony Frewin), best photography and, as he also served as a producer, best film.
Cillian Murphy was nominated for best actor for his performance as Czech resistance fighter Josef Gabcik, and Jamie Dornan was nominated as best supporting actor playing Gabcik’s comrade in arms Jan Kubis. Both actors are Irish.
“Anthropoid” (pictured) only missed out on nods in the best actress and supporting actress categories, with no recognition for Czech actress Anna Geislerova or Canada’s Charlotte Le Bon who play the female leads, and in the best documentary category, »
- Robert Mitchell
Palm Springs Film Review: ‘Center of My World’
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Andreas Steinhofel’s prize-winning 1998 novel “The Center of the World” is considered an unusually ambitious and ornate work for Young Adult fiction — but one that proved so popular that the German author published a 2001 sequel. Still, the more complex a work, the trickier the adaptation into another medium. Its title — now “Center of My World” — isn’t the only thing that’s diminished in translation in Austrian director/writer Jakob M. Erwa’s third feature, which finds the book’s magical-realist air morphing into something a bit more cloyingly artificial.
Equal parts swoony Ya romantic fantasy and misfit-coming-of-age chronicle a la Xavier Dolan (and Jean-Marc Vallee’s “C.R.A.Z.Y.”), this deliberately over-the-top exercise will intoxicate some viewers while striking others as over-directed and overwrought. Its shiny bravado should heighten commercial prospects, however, and deals already in place for several territories assure the film’s status as one »
- Dennis Harvey
Synergetic Distribution Acquires North American Rights to ‘Sami Blood’ (Exclusive)
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Los Angeles-based outfit Synergetic Distribution has picked up North American rights to critically acclaimed Swedish-Sami drama “Sami Blood” in the run-up to Sundance, where the movie will play in the Spotlight section.
“Sami Blood” was acquired from Scandinavian outfit LevelK, which represents the film in international markets.
Written and directed by first-time helmer Amanda Kernell, the film sheds light on Sweden’s colonial oppression of the indigenous Sami folk in the 1930s through the coming-of-age tale of a young reindeer-herding Sami girl who breaks free from her family and culture.
“It’s rare to come across a movie that is as honest and as universally loved as ‘Sami Blood,’ and I think this movie, though set in a specific time and place, speaks to anyone that has questioned their history or identity, or has felt out of place,” says Anatol Chavez, Synergetic Distribution’s head of acquisitions. “We’re excited »
- Elsa Keslassy
Tartikoff Awards Celebrate TV’s Innovators and Influencers
2 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Miami — “Between Two Ferns” made a surprise appearance at this year’s Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards ceremony.
Josh Sapan, AMC Networks’ president-ceo, delivered a delightfully unconventional spin on a tribute video as he was honored Wednesday night along with YouTube’s Susanne Daniels, Univision’s Randy Falco, multihyphenate Eva Longoria and Fox’s Gary Newman and Dana Walden.
Sapan’s reel for the ceremony, held at the Fontainebleau Hotel as part of the annual Natpe conference, featured the veteran cable executive sitting for an offbeat interview with Zach Galifianakis on the mock talk show that has become a staple of Funny or Die. (AMC just bought a minority stake in the digital comedy service.)
Gale Anne Hurd, exec producer of AMC’s smash hit “The Walking Dead,” presented the kudo to Sapan, calling him a rare example of an executive who combines “a first-rate business mind with the heart of a creative.” Sapan »
- Cynthia Littleton
Palm Springs Film Review: ‘Sealed Cargo’
2 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Billed as fact-based fiction, “Sealed Cargo” manages to eke an awful lot of fun and heart out of the unappetizing notion of police trying to sneak imported toxic sludge into a rural dump site. This buoyant seriocomedy from director/co-scenarist Julia Vargas-Weise juggles a lot of balls with seeming ease, from farcical elements and romance to political commentary. While the film has kept an oddly low profile in playing a long line of second-tier festivals over the past year, it’s selection as Bolivia’s Oscar submission might bring this international co-production some well-deserved interest from offshore distributors.
Whatever the bright green gunk leaking out of heavy-duty barrels is, and wherever it originally came from, it requires handling from workers in full hazmat suits. The film shows the carelessness with which this presumably First World poison is being unloaded on unsuspecting Third World nations when one worker simply pastes »
- Dennis Harvey
Vanessa Redgrave to Get Lifetime Achievement Award at Dublin Film Festival
3 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Stage and screen icon Vanessa Redgrave is to receive the Volta Award for lifetime achievement at this year's Dubai International Film Festival in honor of her contribution to film.
The actress will be among a number of names attending the festival, which runs Feb. 16-Feb. 26, with the likes of Cillian Murphy, Jack Reynor, Ben Wheatley, Anna Friel and Aidan Gillen also confirmed.
Among the gala screenings at the event will be the Irish premiere of Maudie, the biopic of folk artist Maud Lewis by Irish director Aisling Walsh and starring Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke, which will open the festival.
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- Alex Ritman
Warburg Pincus Buys 14 Percent Stake in India's Largest Cinema Chain for $120M
3 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Warburg Pincus has acquired a stake of about 14 percent in PVR Limited, India’s largest cinema chain, for about $120 million (8.2 billion rupees).
The U.S. private equity firm said it bought the stake from New Delhi-based PVR's existing investors, which include Indian private equity firm Multiples Alternate Asset Management and PVR's founders, including chairman and managing director Ajay Bijli. According to a statement, PVR's founders, including Bijli, will remain the largest group of shareholders with a stake of more than 20 percent. Multiples now owns a 14 percent stake in PVR.
Bijli said in a statement that India's multiplex industry "is at »
- Nyay Bhushan
Sundance: Documentary ‘City of Ghosts’ Wins Candescent Award (Exclusive)
5 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Matthew Heineman’s documentary “City of Ghosts” has won this year’s Candescent Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
The Candescent Award was created by actress-producer Lilly Hartley in partnership with the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program. The award goes to a powerful social-issue film that has been supported during production by the Dfp and premieres at the Sundance Film Festival.
Heineman, whose credits include the Academy Award–nominated “Cartel Land,” followed the journey of a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by Isis in 2014. “City of Ghosts” centers on a group of citizen journalists — dubbed “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently” — as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against Isis. Raqaa is an Isis stronghold in Syria.
“City of Ghosts” premieres in the U.S. Documentary competition on Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival. »
- Dave McNary
Ufc Star Anderson Silva Heads Cast of Fruit Chan’s ‘Made in Kowloon’
5 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Mixed martial arts star, Anderson Silva (aka The Spider) will face off against Chinese action star Max Zhang and Chinese-American actress JuJu Chan in “Made In Kowloon.”
The $20 million action film is now in production with Fruit Chan directing. The picture is backed by Pegasus Motion Pictures, the Wong Pak-ming-headed company that recent sold a 29.9% stake to Chinese metals and media investment company Anhui Xinke.
The film sees a detective on the trail of a serial killer, who may have abducted the cop’s niece. The film also stars Stephy Tang, Kevin Cheng and Sumyau Liu. Stephen Tung (“Downtown Torpedoes,” “Accidental Spy”) heads the action choreography unit.
Da Silva is a Brazilian fighter and former Ufc middleweight champion, who holds the longest title streak in Ufc history. His streak ended in 2013 after 2,457 days, with 16 consecutive wins and 10 title defenses. Zhang (aka Zhang Jin) has risen from being a stunt double »
- Patrick Frater
Film Review: ‘Detour’
6 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
It may be tempting, and not entirely inaccurate, to describe Christopher Smith’s “Detour” as “Sliding Doors” reimagined by Quentin Tarantino, but this cleverly twisty neo-noir thriller turns out to be more substantial and surprising than such logline shorthand might suggest. Indeed, some VOD viewers likely will desire an instant replay of the film, to more fully appreciate (or at least better understand) how its parallel plotlines contrast and converge to intriguing effect. The only real downside to a rerun: A few minor gaps in logic could be more annoying the second time around.
Tye Sheridan offers an engaging variation of the prototypical noir protagonist as Harper, a Los Angeles law student who blames Vincent (Stephen Moyer), his despised stepfather, for the auto crash that left his mother comatose. While drowning his sorrows in a seedy bar, Harper makes the mistake of chatting up Johnny Ray (Emory Cohen of “Brooklyn »
- Joe Leydon
Palm Springs Film Review: ‘Dark Skull’
6 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
In “Dark Skull,” there’s no hint of any redeeming gray matter existing between the ears of the protagonist, who runs a short gamut between stupid, angry, violent, drunken, and unconscious. While hardly an appealing subject, he seems almost incidental to a movie that manages to be rather fascinating — even almost hypnotic — in spite of him. Director/co-scenarist Kiro Russo’s first feature is a sometimes cryptic, strikingly atmospheric drama set among the often literally subterranean lives of workers in the tin mines of Huanuni in Bolivia’s Oruro region. What might have easily become a familiar if worthy exercise in peasant miserabilism acquires an otherworldly quality via arresting imagery and enigmatic, fragmented storytelling.
What narrative specifics we can glean are that after the death of his parents, Elder Mamani (Julio Cesar Ticona) falls into the care of his remaining relatives, a duty they hardly relish. After all, this unseemly »
- Dennis Harvey
‘A Dog’s Purpose’ Star Josh Gad Is ‘Shaken and Sad’ Over ‘Disturbing’ Dog Video
6 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
“A Dog’s Purpose” is at the center of criticism after the release of a video obtained by TMZ that showed a trainer apparently pushing a struggling dog named Hercules into a pool. Josh Gad; who stars as the voice of a dog named Bailey, has spoken out after PETA called for animal lovers to boycott the family movie to “send the message that dogs and other animals should be treated humanely, not as movie props.” In a lengthy Facebook post Wednesday night, Gad said: “I signed on for a film that truly stands out as one of the most »
- Debbie Emery
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of People’s Choice Awards 2017
7 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Ellen DeGeneres is officially the peopliest person, the “awardiest awardee,” in People’s Choice Awards history, after the daytime host swept the three awards she was nominated for at the 2017 edition, taking her tally to a staggering 20 wins.
As stars and fans packed the Microsoft Theater L.A. Live for the 2017 People’s Choice Awards, hosted by Joel McHale, DeGeneres and her record-breaking moment were the center of attention, trumping the upcoming presidential inauguration. And while Trump jokes and jabs were kept to a minimum, the award winners took time to speak for the power of women in Hollywood, and to express their hope that their films and TV shows might bring a little joy into the current global climate.
However, with the good of DeGeneres’ victory and Blake Lively’s “girl power” speech, there was also the bad of jokes falling flat, and the ugly of the teleprompter breaking down in the middle of Kristen Bell’s »
- Will Thorne
Will President-elect Trump Have a ‘Designated Survivor’ for the Inauguration?
7 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
ABC’s excellent new hit drama “Designated Survivor” has shined a light on a position that rarely received much attention in the past: that of the member of the presidential line of succession who is hidden away when a huge number of government officials are all in the same place. In most cases, its use makes perfect sense — but in the case of a presidential transition, the choice of designated survivor, and the validity of the position, becomes far more complicated than it is during the annual State of the Union address. In the show, Kiefer Sutherland plays Housing and Urban Development Secretary. »
- Phil Owen
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