J. Smith-Cameron is giving Emmy voters several reasons to consider her this season. Back in 2024, when Variety spoke with Smith-Cameron, the actor had made a cameo on HBO’s “Hacks” as Deborah Vance’s (Jean Smart) younger sister, Kathy. “It feels to me like there’s more,” Smith...
Bottom line from Variety: this reflects evolving audience tastes.
Don’t forget: Bowen Yang is still Emmy-eligible. On Monday, “Saturday Night Live,” the long-running NBC late-night sketch series, held its Emmy For Your Consideration event in Los Angeles at the Television Academy’s Wolf Theatre at the Saban Media Center. Yang was among the 12...
Bottom line from Variety: this is generating industry buzz.
EXCLUSIVE: Lauren Graham (Twinless), Patti LuPone (Beau Is Afraid) and Dan Bucatinsky (The Comeback) are set to star opposite Nick Borenstein in August, a comedy marking Borenstein’s feature directorial, screenwriting, and acting debut. Currently in production in New York City...
Bottom line from Deadline: this could reshape the box office conversation.
In the wake of the March bankruptcy filing of iPic Theaters, Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired two iPic luxury theater locations in Los Angeles’ Westwood Village and New York and will rebrand them as The Cinemas. The locations will no longer operate with in-theater dining, b...
The big picture: Blue Fox Entertainment Acquires iPic Theaters in Westwood... — signals where Hollywood is headed.
EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Reece Feldman for representation. Feldman is a content creator with a following of more than three million who has in recent years established himself as a digital authority on all things film, TV, and entertainment, operating under the handle @guywit...
Why it matters: CAA Signs Content Creator Reece Feldman could reshape the box office conversation.
Plus: Amanda Peet finds the "fucking funny" in menopause.
Bottom line from Hollywood Reporter: this may set a new benchmark for the genre.
Drake Doremus was shooting a commercial in Madrid during the pandemic when a chance encounter changed the course of his life completely. The writer-director initially packed for a nine-day trip but after meeting the woman who would later become his wife, he ended up staying in...
The big picture: Drake Doremus Talks Parallel Lives, Working With Emilia... — is generating industry buzz.
EXCLUSIVE: The Little Cult That Could is the new doc from producer-director Anthony Columbus and Tiger King and Chimp Crazy producer-editor Doug Abel. With the first installment of the series premiering in Tribeca’s TV sidebar, the pair gave Deadline the low-down on the projec...
Bottom line from Deadline: this could reshape the box office conversation.
The future of the correspondents' role had been in doubt after the ouster of EP Tanya Simon and the hiring of outsider Nick Bilton.
Bottom line from Hollywood Reporter: this may set a new benchmark for the genre.
EXCLUSIVE: Following 15 years as a talent agent at Paradigm, Jeff Kolodny is moving over to the management side, after joining Cognition, the boutique talent management company founded by Brian DePersia. Bringing extensive experience representing some of the industry’s most re...
Deadline reports: Jeff Kolodny Joins Cognition In Pivot Back To... — this may set a new benchmark for the genre.
IndieWire Honors: The "Spider-Noir" star, upon accepting the Innovation Award, called his first foray into television "an extremely rewarding new adventure."
IndieWire reports: Nicolas Cage Is Looking Forward to ‘Expressing My... — this signals where Hollywood is headed.
The three remaining fill-time correspondents on 60 Minutes — Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim — said on Friday that they will remain with the show. “We feared that our returning might be construed as an endorsement of the existing power structure,” they wrote in a ...
Deadline reports: Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker And Jon Wertheim Say... — this reflects evolving audience tastes.
The indie superstar announced the jaunt a day after playing a sold-out acoustic show at Madison Square Garden.
Bottom line from Hollywood Reporter: this signals where Hollywood is headed.
EXCLUSIVE: Dave Annable (Lioness) and Jennifer Holland (Peacemaker) have wrapped lead roles in Brine, a Civil War-era supernatural thriller from veteran documentary filmmaker B.J. Golnick. Written by Golnick and producer Jeremy Miller, Brine follows a family of Confederate des...
Bottom line from Deadline: this signals where Hollywood is headed.
They’re staying. Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim said in a memo Friday that they would remain at “60 Minutes,” potentially calming the chaotic situation that has festered at the CBS News program since the ouster of top producers and three of the program’s correspo...
Bottom line from Variety: this may set a new benchmark for the genre.
