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Refresh for updates Hollywood and the Beltway praised the “guilty, guilty, guilty” murder and manslaughter verdicts against former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd today: “GUILTY! As it should be!!” tweeted Oscar winner Viola Davis, summing up the response. Writer-director-producer Ava DuVer…

The widely lambasted European Super League is falling apart less than 48 hours after being announced. Manchester City have withdrawn from the 12-team coalition and Chelsea are preparing to do so. Rumours are widespread tonight that others will soon follow. In a move the club claim is not related to the Super League…

Netflix has revealed that it will spend $17B on content in 2021 – on par with its 2020 spend. The streamer noted the figure in its first quarter financial results. "While the roll out of vaccines is very uneven across the world, we are back up and producing safely in every major market, with the exception of Brazil…

Mexican thriller series Who Killed Sara? has become Netflix's most popular non-English language title ever with an estimated 55M subscribers tuning in since its launch last month. The series stars Manolo Cardona as Alex Guzman, hellbent on finding out who killed his sister Sara after spending 18 years in prison for a…

The fallout from the allegations of systematic abuse against Scott Rudin has extended to his ongoing projects. Earlier today, the top producer issued a statement saying that he was “stepping back from my film and streaming projects in addition to my work on Broadway.” (He had issued a similar statement about the…

Netflix reported 208 million global subscribers as of the end of the first quarter, missing its own prediction for 210 million. The streaming giant did beat financial targets, though with earnings per share of $3.75 coming in well ahead of Wall Street analysts’ expectations. Revenue of $7.16 billion also topped the…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Cuesta (Homeland) has been tapped to direct and executive produce ABC's drama pilot Promised Land. Written by Matt Lopez, Promised Land is an epic, generation-spanning drama about two Latinx families vying for wealth and power in California's Sonoma Valley. Cast includes John Ortiz as Joe Sandoval…

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association said Tuesday that it has expelled its former president Phil Berk from its membership rolls. “Effective immediately, Phil Berk is no longer a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association,” the HFPA board said in a statement that has just gone out. NBC and the parent company…

California health officials on Tuesday announced that five counties are moving to less-stringent levels of coronavirus restrictions including Santa Barbara, which had been the lone holdout in Southern California. Calaveras, Fresno, Kings, Mono and Santa Barbara counties were the five regions that advanced from the Red…

Audiences may know Kendrick Sampson from his roles on TV series such as How To Get Away With Murder, White Famous and Gracepoint. But he is probably best known for his role as Nathan a.k.a. “Lyft Bae” in Issa Rae’s HBO comedy Insecure — which is currently in production on its fifth and final season. Sampson is also a…

EXCLUSIVE: Alan Taylor is swapping 1970s New Jersey for 1980s California for his next project. The director, whose The Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark is set for a September release, is to helm a TV adaptation of fantasy novel Stone Junction. Taylor knows the fantasy world well, having directed numerous…

SAG-AFTRA has launched a Spanish-language version of its website as part of a broader organizational effort to increase engagement with its thousands of Spanish-speaking members. The new website is also designed to support the union's organizing efforts in the growing Spanish-language market. “SAG-AFTRA continues to…