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For a lawyer, Alex Murdaugh is sure gonna need a lawyer. The trailer (below) for the upcoming Hulu scripted series Murdaugh: Death in the Family features the before and after of a few deaths in the family in the real-life story of Alex Murdaugh. It also directly includes one tragedy outside of the family that…
The 2025 Beyond Fest Festival will be bookended with Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice as the opener and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia as the closer for the 13th edition to hit Los Angeles from Sept. 23. In between, the genre film festival returning to the Egyptian Theatre, Aero Theatre and Los Feliz 3 will also feature…
When filmmaker Potsy Ponciroli and Ben Foster were trying to schedule a Zoom meeting to discuss a potential collaboration on Motor City, they quickly discovered that time zones wouldn’t be an issue. “When Potsy emailed me, he said, ‘OK, we can Zoom at 12 p.m. What coast are you on?’ I told him that I…
Filmmaker duo Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney have signed with Gersh for representation in all areas. The actor-writer-directors kicked off their partnership with Sylvio, about a small-town gorilla joining a local TV show, only to see on-air mishaps spark a journey of self-discovery. The film bowed at SXSW in 2017. Their follow up Strawberry Mansion,…
“Because I know the rooster.” Those were the words of a Baghdad-based director named Hasan Hadi when asked how he was able to corral not just a host of non-actor children for his new movie but a particular kind of junglefowl. Hadi – hisThe President’s Cakewill come out this fall from Sony Pictures Classics and…
Podcasting network Lemonada is revealing its upcoming slate of shows, including a renewal of Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s Wiser Than Me, and a new podcast from Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody. Don’t Listen To Us, the new weekly show from Patinkin and Grody, launches Oct. 15 and will feature the married couple giving advice to listeners, with…
After the end of the flashy Peak TV era, Kevin Beggs, Lionsgate Television Group chair and chief creative officer, sees green shoots signaling a hopeful recovery for the global TV business. “The streaming wars kind of came to a crashing end, both with COVID and the strikes, and now there’s been a nice little resurgence…
‘Maddie’s Secret’ Image Credit: Photo Credit: Kayla Rocca Claudia O’Doherty THR’s studio at the 1 Hotel during the Toronto Film Festival is sponsored by Canada Goose. ‘Maddie’s Secret’ Image Credit: Photo Credit: Kayla Rocca Connor O’Malley THR’s studio at the 1 Hotel during the Toronto Film Festival is sponsored by Canada Goose. ‘Maddie’s Secret’ Image…
Why pay a celebrity podcast host millions when you can create your own using AI? Inception Point AI is attempting to do just that, as the company builds a stable of AI talent to host podcasts, and eventually become broader influencers across social media, literature and more. Amid the high costs for producing narrative podcasts…
Another top executive is set to leave Paramount following Skydance‘s acquisition of the global media company. Justin Dini, who had led corporate communications at the company, steered the company’s messaging through a number of critical moments, including the Viacom-CBS merger, the rebranding to Paramount Global, the acquisition of Pluto TV and the launch Paramount+, and…
