Anthony Anderson to Host Emmy Awards Delayed by Hollywood Strikes
Anthony Anderson has been named to host the Emmy Awards by Fox and the Television Academy after the Hollywood strikes delayed the 75th edition. “With our industry’s recent challenges behind us, we can get back to what we love — dressing up and honoring ourselves. And there’s no better celebratory moment to bring the creative […]
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Ruby Sunday Introduced With Foundling Mystery in ‘Doctor Who’ Christmas Special Trailer
Millie Gibson is introduced as Ruby Sunday and apparently learns the secret of her birth in the latest teaser for Disney+’s Doctor Who Christmas special, which will bow on Dec. 25. The trailer opens to Christmas Eve long ago and a baby discovered abandoned in the snow by The Fifteenth Doctor Who, played for the […]
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E3 Shuts Down After Two-Decade Run as Video Game Industry’s Biggest Convention
It’s official: E3 has been shut down as the video game industry’s biggest convention and media platform for good. “After more than two decades of E3, each one bigger than the last, the time has come to say goodbye. Thanks for the memories,” the Entertainment Software Association, the video game trade association, said on its […]
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‘Palm Royale’: Kristen Wiig Plays Ambitious Social Climber in First Photos for Apple TV+ Series
Kristen Wiig is a Palm Springs socialite struggling for a perfect life at the top in the first photos for Palm Royale, Apple TV+’s star-driven series that will launch globally on March 20, 2024. The scripted comedy, loosely based on Juliet McDaniel’s novel Mr. and Mrs. American Pie, tells the story of Maxine Simmons, played […]
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Anna Lambe to Star in Untitled Netflix/CBC Arctic-Set Comedy
True Detective actress Anna Lambe has nabbed the lead role in an untitled Arctic-set comedy for Netflix and the CBC and APTN in Canada. Lambe will play a young Inuk mother Siaja, with Keira Cooper, a 7 year-old actress from Iqaluit, Nunavut, in Canada’s north, playing her daughter Bun. Siaja wants to build a new […]
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CBC to Cut 600 Jobs Amid Advertising Headwinds
The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. has announced it expects to cut around 600 jobs as it deals with lower advertising revenue and competition from U.S. digital giants. Canada’s pubcaster said it faces a $125 million budgetary shortfall likely to be offset with programming cuts and layoffs. “These pressures are a result of the same structural factors […]
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Tony Shalhoub Talks ‘Monk’ Revival in a Pandemic-Impacted World: “People See the World Now the Way Monk Does”
Adrian Monk is back with Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie. The TV movie, now streaming on Peacock, reunites the cast and creative team behind the former USA series Monk. And making the 90-minute revival felt like a homecoming for star Tony Shalhoub — who reprises his role as the crime-solving detective with obsessive-compulsive disorder […]
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Stock in Paramount Global Pops on Takeover Speculation
Stock in Paramount Global popped on Friday on speculation David Ellison’s Skydance Media and RedBird Capital are eying a potential takeover of Sheri Redstone’s controlling stake in the Hollywood conglomerate. Representatives for private equity giant RedBird Capital had no comment on Wall Street chatter around a possible transaction that could see the private equity giant […]
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Focus Features Sets Release Date for Austin Butler, Jodie Comer’s ‘The Bikeriders’
Focus Features has set a release date for Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders, a crime epic about a motorcycle club in the 1950s that stars Austin Butler, Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy. The New Regency film set in Chicago will hit theaters on June 21, 2024, after first bowing at Telluride. The movie was earlier set […]
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Red Sea Film Festival: Zarrar Kahn’s ‘In Flames’ Wins Best Movie Award
Zarrar Khan’s In Flames has picked up the Yusr Award for best competition film at the third edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The festival, which attracted such Hollywood stars as Will Smith, Johnny Depp, Chris Hemsworth and Sharon Stone, on Thursday evening unveiled the winners of its Red […]
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CNN Plans Two More Republican Presidential Race Debates
CNN has unveiled plans to host two more Republican presidential primary debates in Iowa and New Hampshire in January. The first debate on Jan. 10 in Des Moines, Iowa, will take place just before Iowa caucus-goers vote in the 2024 Republican presidential race. The second new debate will take place on Jan. 21 in Goffstown, New […]
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‘Barbie,’ ‘Oppenheimer’ Among AFI 2023 Film and TV Award Honorees
The American Film Institute has unveiled its choices for the year’s 10 best films and 10 best TV shows. The AFI Awards for films, which fete both Hollywood tentpoles and indie fare, goes to American Fiction, Barbie, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, May December, Oppenheimer, Past Lives, Poor Things and Spider-Man: Across the […]
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