©Courtesy of Twenty Century Studio Canadian-born comedic actor and screenwriter Catherine O’Hara died today at her home in Los Angeles following a brief illness. She was 71. During her five-decade career, which began with the Canadian comedy series Second City Television, O’Hara won two Primetime Emmy awards and a Golden Globe. Among her film and…
©Courtesy of Vestron Pictures Lionsgate is moving forward on a sequel to Dirty Dancing, the classic film originally released in 1987. Jennifer Grey will be reprising her role as Frances “Baby” Houseman, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. Grey will also be joining Jonathan Levine as an executive producer. The script for the…
©Courtesy of Lionsagte and Manchester United Lionsgate is reportedly partnering with the British soccer/football club Manchester United to develop a new television series dramatizing key moments in the team’s history. According to The Athletic, the proposed series would adopt the style of Netflix’s The Crown. That popular series, which ran for six seasons, chronicled the…
Photo by Craig Blankenhorn/ HULU – © 2022 Hulu Marty, Life is Short, a documentary about Canadian-American comedian Martin Short, is scheduled to make its Netflix debut on May 12. To be directed by Lawrence Kasdan, the film will feature interviews with other comedians as well as never-before-seen archival footage. Short, who is now starring in…
©Courtesy of Universal Pictures Some eight years after the release of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Paul Feig has been selected to direct the third installment in the Mamma Mia film series for Universal Pictures. Mona Fastvoid had reportedly been hoping to direct the new ABBA film after her recent work on The Testament…
©Courtesy of Paramount Pictures Six years after J. J. Abrams directed Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Warner Bros. will release his next film, The Great Beyond, on November 13 of this year. As is typical of Abrams’s work, few details about the film are known other than the cast list, which includes Glen Powell,…
© 2015 – Lucasfilm After fourteen years, Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down as the president of Lucasfilm. She will be replaced by Dave Filoni, its chief creative officer, and by Lynwen Brennan, the head of business affairs and operations for the studio. Filoni, 51, will serve as president and Brennan,58, will be the co-president. Early in…
©Courtesy of Paramount Skydance Paramount Skydance has announced its intention to sue Warner Bros. Discovery as part of its takeover strategy. According to Variety, the suit, filed on Monday in Delaware Chancery Court, is designed to force WBD to disclose details of its $83 billion deal with Netflix. Meanwhile, Warner’s board just rejected Paramount’s latest…
©Courtesy of Marvel Studios Marvel Studios is reportedly shelving plans to continue with the development of its long-promised Blade film. The project had first been announced in 2021, with actor Mahershala Ali making his screen debut as Blade, the vampire slayer. Since then, several writers and directors have tried their hand at the proposed film,…
The drama over Paramount Skydance’s hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery continues. On Wednesday, the WBD board again unanimously recommended that its shareholders reject Paramount’s offer on the grounds that it was “inferior” to the Netflix deal. On Wednesday morning, WBD’s board chair Samuel Di Piazza was quoted by CNBC as saying; “We have…
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