Lionsgate has promoted Joel Meyer to executive vp, worldwide production for Lionsgate Television, replacing studio veteran Gary Goodman as he retires. Meyer will head up production for the studio’s premium scripted series slate, while overseeing Lionsgate’s East Coast TV production facilities in Atlanta, Yonkers, New York and Newark, New Jersey. He succeeds Goodman, an 18-year veteran at the studio. Meyer’s promotion …
Read More »Tina Fey’s ‘Four Seasons’ Series Gets Netflix Premiere Date
Netflix‘s star-studded series The Four Seasons is set to join the already crowded spring TV calendar. The series, starring and co-created by Tina Fey, is set to premiere May 1. The show is an adaptation of the 1981 movie written, directed by and starring Alan Alda (who’s a producer and guest star of the new version) and centers on three …
Read More »Lower Costs Are the Name of the Game
It was another recovery year for Hollywood following the dual strikes that affected the film pipeline just a few years after the COVID pandemic hit. The global box office dropped 10 percent to $30.5 billion last year but it wasn’t bad news for everyone. In a mixed year for the industry, the film divisions of some legacy entertainment conglomerates actually …
Read More »Tom Cruise Awarded BFI Fellowship, Will Keep Making Films in UK
Tom Cruise is expressing his gratitude after it was unveiled on Thursday that he’ll be awarded the British Film Institute’s (BFI) highest accolade, the BFI Fellowship. The Fellowship recognizes Cruise’s achievements across a decades-spanning career, as well as his contribution to the U.K. film industry as a producer who has shot numerous projects in Britain. This includes his Mission: Impossible …
Read More »Jenny Slate Interview on ‘Dying for Sex’ FX Series
Mere days after she wrapped Dying for Sex, Jenny Slate chopped off all her hair. She’d had basically the same style all her adult life, but through the process of filming the FX cancer comedy, her locks began to take on new meaning. “I felt that my long hair held the sadness, and I just needed to reboot my physicality,” …
Read More »Hugh Jackman, Rachel Brosnahan Among Stars Set for Global Citizen NOW
Hugh Jackman, Rachel Brosnahan and Liza Koshy are among the notable names set to join Global Citizen NOW, a one-day summit designed to drive action to help end extreme poverty. Set to take place at New York’s Spring Studios on April 30, the program promises announcements on policy initiatives, intimate conversations, impact awards and other schedule highlights. The event is …
Read More »John & Yoko’ to Close Red Lorry Film Festival in India
Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards’ John Lennon and Yoko Ono documentary One to One: John & Yoko will get its Asia premiere as the closing film for the second edition of the Red Lorry Film Festival in India. The country’s international cinema showcase is organized by BookMyShow. This year’s second edition of the festival features a lineup of more than …
Read More »RTL Streaming Business Closing in on Profits as Subscribers Surge
European television giant RTL Group is closing in on profitability in its streaming division, with subscriber figures and online revenues surging last year and start-up costs falling. In its year-end results, published Thursday, RTL said subscribers to its streaming services RTL+ in Germany and Hungary and the new M6+ platform in France jumped 21 percent to more than 6.8 million. …
Read More »Uzo Aduba in Netflix’s Mystery Comedy
When Jennifer Euston was casting Orange Is the New Black, it stands to reason that she was selecting interesting performers first and, given the show’s evocative opening credits, interesting faces second. But somewhere on the opening page of criteria, there must have been a listing that read: “Must also be capable of fronting a Columbo-esque mystery procedural.” In the case …
Read More »Big Bang Theory Co-Creator Calls Kaley Cuoco’s Character ‘One-Dimensional’
The Big Bang Theory co-creator Chuck Lorre is opening up about why it “took a while to figure out” Kaley Cuoco‘s character Penny on the hit sitcom. Lorre, alongside Warner Bros. Television Group chairman and CEO Peter Roth, appeared on the first episode of The Official Big Bang Theory Podcast, where they looked back at the beginning of the Emmy-winning series, …
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