Josh Groban, Nathan Lane and Jake Gyllenhaal honored composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim on Sunday with an online 90th birthday concert that was stuffed with his songs, but delayed by technical difficulties. The starry special called Take Me to the World featured performances by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Kelli O’Hara, Lea Salonga, Judy Kuhn, Katrina Lenk, Aaron Tveit, Laura […]
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SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and TV Producers said on Friday that they will start negotiations on Monday for successor agreements to the SAG-AFTRA TV/Theatrical contracts. Because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and state government stay-at-home orders, both sides said that talks will be conducted via video teleconference. SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris will […]
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Nickelodeon is going ahead with the Kids’ Choice Awards, making it the first remotely produced awards show to take place amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. The annual awards have a slightly amended title this year: Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards 2020: Celebrate Together. They’re set to air May 2, six weeks after their initially scheduled date of March […]
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On Easter Sunday, while on her afternoon stroll, Irish novelist Denise Deegan realized she still had not yet called her mother. “Hello” she said cheerily into her phone. “Hello,” a man on the street replied. Looking at the man’s face, she realized the voice belonged to actor Matt Damon. Living through a pandemic already had […]
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Game shows may be in jeopardy of running out of new episodes as a result of the production shutdown brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. The syndicated hit “Jeopardy!,” which typically wraps production on its full season of shows in April, has already begun to make adjustments to stretch its depleting batch of in-the-can episodes. […]
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A few years before Roger Ailes was ousted from Fox News, he boasted how the influential cable news network had never taken down a story because it was wrong. That wasn’t exactly true, but nevertheless, one doesn’t need to consume hydroxychloroquine to know that admitting error happens very rarely in Fox Nation. Of course, few journalists like to […]
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It takes more than a pandemic to keep “Saturday Night Live” off the air. The venerable NBC late-night program will air a new “remote” episode this weekend, according to the show’s Twitter feed, despite conditions under the coronavirus pandemic that make its normal production impossible to accomplish. “SNL” typically runs live in front of an in-studio audience whose reactions […]
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Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler, Tiffany Haddish and more comedians have signed on to perform comedy sets from home for the “Feeding America Comedy Festival.” Put together by Bryon Allen through Entertainment Studios, the television division of his Allen Media Group, the charity event is seeking to raise money for Feeding America and is co-produced by […]
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Whitney Houston’s life is set to be the subject of a big-screen biopic from the Grammy-winning producer Clive Davis and the singer’s estate. According to Deadline, the film, to be called I Wanna Dance with Somebody, will be scripted by Anthony McCarten, who will also act as producer. McCarten has received Oscar nominations for his screenplays […]
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It is customary in Hollywood for the casts of hit series to get salary increases after Season 2. Succession, which, after the end of Game Of Thrones, has emerged as HBO’s most acclaimed drama, fits that bill. And, while its Season 3 production has been delayed because of the COVID-19 health crisis, when it eventually commences, the main cast will […]
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A new “Star Wars” series is in the works at Disney Plus, Variety has learned from sources. The series hails from Leslye Headland, the co-creator, showrunner, and executive producer of the critically-acclaimed Netflix series “Russian Doll.” Details of the exact plot of the series are being kept under wraps, but sources say it will be a female-centric series that […]
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Netflix added a net 15.77 million paid streaming customers in the first quarter of 2020 — blowing away prior estimates thanks to the coronavirus pandemic and setting a record for quarterly gains. The streamer said it had 182.9 million paid subscribers globally as of the end of Q1, up 22.8% from a year earlier. Netflix had previously told […]
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp will allow movie theaters in his state to reopen starting April 27, but exhibition insiders stress that it would be nearly impossible for most major chains to start business back up by next week. Movie theater circuits believe that it reopening won’t just be like flicking a switch. AMC Theaters, Regal Cinemas, Cinemark […]
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The cast of Friends is joining the All In Challenge. The six stars are offering six tickets to the taping of their forthcoming HBO Max reunion special as well as a cup of coffee at “Central Perk” as part of the Warner Bros. Studio Tour. “Hey, it’s us…your FRIENDS. And We Are All In! Some of you may […]
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Hours after President Donald Trump announced Monday night he would be temporarily suspending all immigration, “Fox & Friends” co-host Ainsley Earhardt questioned on-air what that meant for her and others like her, given her au pair is foreign-born. Earhardt, recently divorced and a now operating as a single mom, reflected on how the immigration ban […]
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AT&T will offer WarnerMedia’s HBO Max free or via promotion to “tens of millions” of its U.S. wireless, video and internet customers The news follows the announcement earlier Tuesday that the streaming service will launch on May 27. The new service, which features 10,000 hours of original shows, library titles and the full existing HBO offering, will retail for $15 a month. […]
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When “American Idol” returns with new episodes next Sunday, it will adapt to these coronavirus quarantine times by taking place for the first time in the homes of the show’s contestants, musicians, judges, mentors and host. After two weeks of airing clip specials — giving producers enough time to rethink and readjust “Idol” to our new stay-at-home […]
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Actor, producer, and now weatherman. Brad Pitt, 56, did the weather from his house for the latest episode of John Krasinski’s Some Good News show. ‘We should do a check on the weather. Brad, how’s it looking out there?’ John, 40, asked after reporting on uplifting world news. Brad sticks his head outside of his […]
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Chris Cuomo isn’t the only CNN anchor with a nasty case of COVID-19. On Sunday, “CNN Newsroom” host Brooke Baldwin published a “coronavirus diary” detailing her own “relentless, scary and lonely” battle with the respiratory illness, which “took a full two-week beating” on her body. “I thought ‘Do I show everyone these photos of me taken at […]
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John Oliver once again devoted most of Last Week Tonight to the novel coronavirus, this time taking on conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh and Fox News Channel for spreading inaccuracies about the disease. Oliver showed a clip of Limbaugh downplaying the coronavirus threat. “All of this panic is just not warranted,” Limbaugh says in the clip, equating […]
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced Monday that his state is ready to implement the first phase of the Trump Administration’s plan to gradually end the coronavirus lockdown, and that movie theaters and restaurants will be allowed to reopen starting on April 27. “Subject to the specific social distancing and sanitation mandates, theaters, private social clubs […]
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Warner Bros. is shifting a number of its release dates — including Matt Reeves’ The Batman — due to the ongoing impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson as the caped crusader, had been set to hit the big screen June 25, 2021. It will now ride into theaters Oct. 1, 2021. Like numerous […]
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Taylor Swift’s “Lover Fest” will be something to love in 2021. The singer’s reps announced Friday that the remaining shows she had scheduled for this summer, including a handful of dates on the east and west coast in the United States, are being pushed back to next year. “I’m so sad I won’t be able […]
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San Diego Comic-Con has been canceled as the coronavirus pandemic continues to reshape how the world views large public gatherings. The annual entertainment and comic book convention was scheduled to take place from July 23-26 in San Diego, California. It will next occur July 22-25, 2021. This is the first time in the event’s 50-year history […]
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Following their collaboration on Sundance doc Rebuilding Paradise, National Geographic Documentary Films is teaming with director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer on a film about world-renowned chef and humanitarian José Andrés. The untitled documentary will focus on Andrés’ work with his nonprofit, World Central Kitchen, which helps communities reeling from disaster by providing healthy food […]
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