No ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ For a While, Relativity’s Big Day In Court, Boba...
NBC Is Setting Aside ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Until It Can Find a Replacement For Donald Trump The network announced yesterday morning that the competition series is being put on an extended hiatus this...
View ArticleOn the Set for 8/14/15: Marlon Wayans Starts Fifty Shades of Black, Bill...
STARTS Fifty Shades of Black 8/10/2015 Logline: Wayans will once again push the envelope of good taste and break new boundaries in Fifty Shades Of Black as he parodies the highly charged encounters...
View ArticleDC Comics’ New NBC Sitcom, Big Change At Universal, Cobie Smulders Circles...
On the Set For 8/14/15: Marlon Wayans Starts ‘Fifty Shades of Black’, Bill Condon Wraps Up ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and More Among the other projects that are now up and running are Damien Chazelle’s...
View Article‘Compton’ Opens Huge, Universal Sets Another BO Record, Disney Announces...
‘Straight Outta Compton’ and Right To the Top Of the Box Office For N.W.A Biopic F. Gary Gray’s docudrama continued Universal’s incredible year with a $56.1 million opening, the sixth-highest August...
View ArticleExec Shuffle for 8/17/15: Alphabet Takes Google Under its Umbrella, Shifts at...
Company Launches & Partnerships Jeff Kirschenbaum has partnered with Joe Roth to form Roth Kirschenbaum Films, a new production company. He was previously the Co-President of Production at...
View ArticleSSN Emmy Coverage, D23 Live-Action and Animation Roundups, New ‘Scooby-Doo’...
SSN EMMY COVERAGE Drama/Comedy Series Emmy MVPs: Past Batting Averages For TV’s Nominated Series Some come up to plate every year, others are awards-show rookies. With Modern Family a perfect 5 of 5...
View ArticleStudios Pull Injunction Demand In MovieTube Suit, Toronto Fest Adds Star...
Movie Studios Pull Injunction Demand in MovieTube Lawsuit In the face of objections raised by prominent tech companies, the Motion Picture Association of America is declaring that it has already...
View ArticleTV Development for 8/18/15: Training Day, The Notebook, Friday the 13th and...
Blood Will Out Network: TNT Studio: Sony Pictures Television Production Company(s): TriStar Television, Vendetta Productions Executive Producer(s): Sheldon Turner, Jennifer Klein Writer(s): Walter...
View ArticleEmmys 2015: Drama Actor/Actress, Ferguson Jumps On the ‘Train’, Linney Joins...
SSN EMMY COVERAGE Best Actor/Actress In a Drama Series With Bryan Cranston Gone, Veterans Square Off Against Newbies In a Big Category In the lead actor drama category, five of the six nominees have...
View ArticleWarner’s Carl Sagan Biopic, Martin Short Joining Maya Rudolph’s Variety Show,...
Get Ready For a Carl Sagan Biopic, Thanks To the Folks At Warner Bros. The legendary astrophysicist will be remembered in the upcoming biographical drama Sagan, with Courtney Valenti and Cate Adams...
View ArticleRep Moves for 8/19/15: John Cusack Shifts to ICM, UTA Scoops up Hot Cannes...
UTA: Director Laszlo Nemes, who directed hot Cannes title Son of Saul that landed the festival’s Grand Prix, has been scooped up by UTA. Son of Saul is set to be shown at the Toronto Film Festival...
View ArticleFilm & TV Deals for 8/19/15: NBCUniversal Invests in Vox & BuzzFeed, Patricia...
NBCUniversal has made some big purchases recently, investing $200 million in Vox Media and $200 million in BuzzFeed. The investment in Vox Media is expected to bring its valuation to $1 billion and...
View Article2015 Emmys: Comedy Actor/Actress, Relativity Lenders On Warpath, Miles Teller...
SSN EMMY COVERAGE Best Actor/Actress in a Comedy Series An Emmy Q&A With Will Forte and Amy Poehler On ‘SNL’, Andy Samberg and Their Nominations The pair goes back a long way. But the former...
View ArticleDwayne Johnson’s ‘Jungle Cruise’, Morgan Freeman’s TV Return, Whoopi...
Dwayne Johnson Will Rock Disney’s ‘Jungle Cruise’ Movie Adaptation Johnson will lead the film, as the Mouse House has tapped Crazy, Stupid, Love. directors and Focus writers/directors John Requa and...
View ArticleFilm Development for 8/20/15: Chris Evans and Marc Webb Team for Gifted, WB...
NEW ATTACHMENTS Andorra Logline: A mysterious American picks up and moves to the country of Andorra where he befriends two women, but when a dead body turns up, the American must prove his innocence....
View Article2015 Emmys: Supporting Actor/Actress, Bale To Play Ferrari, Foley In Line To...
SSN EMMY COVERAGE Supporting Actor/Actress in Drama/Comedy No Matter How You Slice It, the Landscape Of Supporting Nominees Is Definitely Changing This year’s nominees in the supporting categories are...
View ArticleSAG-AFTRA Elections, Cube & Son Not Doing Riot Film, ABC’s ‘S.H.I.E.L.D.’...
SAG-AFTRA Election Special: Ken Howard Reelected as President, Challengers Other Slots Howard, who has led the union and its predecessor, SAG, since 2009, was reelected to an additional two-year term...
View ArticleOn the Set for 8/21/15: Eddie Redmayne Starts Fantastic Beasts, Russo...
STARTS A Dog’s Purpose 8/17/2015 Logline: A canine’s quest to discover his purpose in the world over the course of several lifetimes with multiple owners. Studio/Distributor(s): DreamWorks Studios...
View Article2015 Emmys: Variety/Talk Show, Relativity Bankruptcy News, NY’s Film Czar...
SSN EMMY COVERAGE Variety/Talk Show Why Emmy Rule Changes Left Amy Schumer Smiling and Broadcast Calling for Its Own Category With this year’s Emmys series contenders now in full campaign mode, it...
View Article‘Compton’ Wins Again, Animators Lawsuit Proceeds, Lender Wants Delay In...
‘Straight Outta Compton’ Wins a Second Straight Weekend At the Box Office The N.W.A. biopic earned $26.7 million to take the top spot again, ahead of Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation which rose back...
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