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The Moment Of Truth For 555 Programs As Emmy Nomination Voting Hits Fever Pitch This Weekend – Notes On The Season
Emmy nomination voting is now live with final ballots due June 22, capping what one four-decade Television Academy member calls the most exhaustive FYC campaign cycle ever seen, with 555 programs comp
DGA Board Backs 4-Year AMPTP Deal With AI Protections
The DGA's National Board unanimously recommended ratification of a new four-year contract with the AMPTP featuring increased health plan contributions, new AI guardrails giving directors authority ove
DGA Deal Curbs TV Actor-Directors Amid 40% Job Slump
The Directors Guild of America reached a tentative four-year deal with major studios that curbs actors from directing TV episodes, lifts health plan contributions, and adds AI safeguards — all aimed a
Kieron Moore on 'Blue Film' Kink: 'Never a Shock'
Kieron Moore, star of the new VOD film 'Blue Film,' explains how the movie's sexual kink and taboo content didn't faze him thanks to his sex-positive queer friend group, and addresses Netflix's cancel
Gene Shalit, Longtime ‘Today Show’ Film Critic, Dies at 100
Gene Shalit, the bow-tied, pun-happy film and book critic who became one of television's most recognizable faces during a 40-year run on NBC's 'Today Show,' has died at 100.
NBC Redevelops 'What The Dead Know' With Taylor
NBC is redeveloping its crime procedural pilot 'What The Dead Know' with a new writer while retaining star Taylor Schilling, whose option was extended by Universal Television just before it was set to
Adam Keen Launches Agenda Collective PR Firm
Veteran entertainment publicist Adam Keen, with three decades at Amazon MGM Studios, Warner Bros. and MGM, has officially launched Agenda Collective, a bicoastal full-service PR firm whose client rost
DOJ Clears Paramount-Warner Bros Merger
The Justice Department's Antitrust Division concluded Friday that Paramount's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery is unlikely to harm competition or consumers, aligning with Paramount's own
‘Jinsei’ Review: An Eerie Philosophy of Fame is Fine-Lined in a Spellbindingly Strange Anime Debut
Ryuya Suzuki's hand-drawn, crowd-funded debut 'Jinsei' tells the century-spanning story of a J-pop idol across surreal, genre-defying terrain — and it's being released the same summer as major Hollywo
'Lucy Schulman' Review: Failure to Launch, Wholesomely
Comedian Ellie Sachs writes, directs, and stars in 'Lucy Schulman,' a 2026 Tribeca-premiering indie about a directionless New Yorker navigating breakups and a loving relationship with her father, play
Ronnie Schell, ‘Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.’ and ‘That Girl’ Actor, Dies at 94
Ronnie Schell, the character actor best remembered as Duke Slater on 'Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.,' died of natural causes Friday in Los Angeles at age 94. His decades-long career spanned sitcoms, films, voi
Virginia Evans wins Women's Prize after seven rejected
Debut American novelist Virginia Evans has won the Women's Prize for her epistolary novel The Correspondent, which she wrote in a closet during the 2020 pandemic after seven unpublished manuscripts an
Jason Bateman Eyes Five Emmy Nods Across Two New Series
Jason Bateman, a 40-year industry veteran, enters the current Emmy cycle competing in both lead actor for Netflix's 'Black Rabbit' and supporting actor for HBO Max's 'DTF St. Louis,' a double-show piv
Aaron Sorkin Tried to Get Jesse Eisenberg Back as Mark Zuckerberg for ‘Social Reckoning,’ but the Actor Doesn’t ‘Want to Be Conflated’ With the Facebook Founder Anymore
Aaron Sorkin spent three days trying to convince Jesse Eisenberg to reprise his Oscar-nominated role as Mark Zuckerberg in 'The Social Reckoning,' but Eisenberg refused, citing discomfort with being p
'The Great Skull' Opens SIFF Main Competition in
The Shanghai dialect tragicomedy 'The Great Skull' opened the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival's main competition on June 12, with director Liu Xiaoyang, screenwriter Zhang Xiaoying, and lead
Joe Negri, Guitar Player and Handyman on ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,’ Dies at 99
Joe Negri, the jazz guitarist who played 'Handyman Negri' on PBS's 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood' for the show's entire 33-year run, has died at 99 in Pittsburgh.
Lionsgate Taps Two Writing Teams for Monopoly Movie
Lionsgate, LuckyChap, and Hasbro Entertainment have enlisted two writing teams — including the scribes behind A Minecraft Movie and Dumb Money — to pitch competing outlines for a long-gestating Monopo
Kathryn Newton Cast Opposite Cooper Hoffman in Hulu
Kathryn Newton has been cast opposite Cooper Hoffman in the Hulu pilot 'Durango,' from writer Eliza Clark, 20th Television, and Media Res, where she will play a guarded runaway named Bunny.
Olivia Rodrigo: You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love review – who’s she singing about? Who cares when the songs are this good
Olivia Rodrigo's third album 'You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love' marks a confident pivot to 80s new wave, loaded with Cure homages including a Robert Smith duet, and showcases more nuanced, ma
The Long Drop review: Mina's 1956 Glasgow murder play
A five-star review of "The Long Drop" at Citizens Theatre, Glasgow — Linda McLean's stage adaptation of Denise Mina's true-crime novel about the 1956 Burnside triple murder, running until 20 June.
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