Find all of the cancels and renewals below. We should note here that not every cancelled TV show goes away on bad terms: Among the 20-something or so series we won’t be seeing again in the 2022-23 season, there were a few preplanned decisions — like the ending of NBC’s “This Is Us” and ABC’s “Black-ish” — that got mixed in. You’ll notice we only focused on scripted series here....
It’s still unclear how (or even if) 2021 will provide a bounceback for the box office and its rising women talents. But there are some positive indicators. As we head into a new era, the latest study from the Celluloid Ceiling, the longest-running and most comprehensive study of women’s employment in film, women directors were up overall in 2020. Women directors achieved historic highs this past year, with women comprising 18 percent of the filmmakers calling the shots behind the top 250 domestic features, an uptick from 13 percent in 2019 and eight percent in 2018....
It’s a testament to Viggo Mortensen’s restless and singularly creative spirit that nobody could possibly predict the subject of his directorial debut, and perhaps an even greater testament that “Falling” immediately makes sense as the kind of movie that the modern poet, abstract painter, experimental musician, prolific anthropologist, septilingual traveler, Oscar-winning “Green Book” accomplice, and rightful King of Gondor would feel compelled to make. And David Cronenberg’s cameo as a frustrated proctologist is somehow least among the reasons why....
But it’s all relative, and these billion-dollar to multi-trillion-dollar publicly traded corporations are relatively large despite our first few not meeting the $13.1 billion market cap threshold to be considered for the S&P 500. (Not a requirement for our list, just a notable Wall Street valuation cutoff.) Without much further ado, let’s learn a bit more about the major media players, from smallest to largest. Note: We curated this list to be one that would most appeal and apply to readers within the entertainment industry....
“Oh, I was shaking trees as soon as it happened,” Gadot said of her encounter with Whedon. “And I must say that the heads of Warner Bros., they took care of it…Going back to the sense of righteousness that I have…you’re dizzy because you can’t believe this was just said to you. And if he says it to me, then obviously he says it to many other people. I just did what I felt like I had to do....
Actor Peter Dinklage, who played Tyrion Lannister in HBO’s beloved George R.R. Martin series, in a recent New York Times interview about his new film “Cyrano” fielded the inevitable “Game of Thrones” finale question. The actor, who won four Primetime Emmys for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for “Game of Thrones” and is now up for a Critics Choice Award and a Golden Globe for his “Cyrano” performance, had this to say about the finale....
In a new interview with the New York Times, “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin offered more detail about the wide range of spin-offs that HBO has in development and the approach that he hopes to see the network take when it comes to producing them. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. He added: “We have some animated shows going, one of which was set in Yi Ti, which is basically the fantasy version of Imperial China or the Far East....
One person who is not concerned about the series? “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin, who once again took to his blog this week to praise the spinoff. “I’ve now watched rough cuts of nine of the ten episodes, and I continue to be impressed,” Martin wrote. “I cannot speak to the SFX, many of which are not in yet, but the look of it is great, and the acting, the directing, and writing are first rate....
Of course, the metric of any film’s success these days is whether or not a sequel can be greenlit — and according to a cagey but slightly revealing Reitman in a recent interview with Uproxx, a follow-up is most likely already in the works. In “Ghostbusters II,” the logo on the iconic Ecto-1 vehicle is pictured as a ghost holding up two fingers instead of one (as seen in the first film)....
Anderson received the Variety Icon Award at CannesSeries, where she opened up about the highs and lows of playing FBI Agent Dana Scully. While she acknowledged that many fans view her “X-Files” character as something of a feminist icon, Anderson revealed that she does not necessarily see it that way. “I don’t think it was as clear-cut in my mind as being, ‘Oh, this is a feminist character,’” Anderson said....
As this story has dominated the conversation, it was inevitable that Carano would pop up somehow in this weekend’s episode of “Saturday Night Live,” hosted by “One Night in Miami” Oscar contender Regina King. That reference came in the form of a “Weekend Update” bit from the segment’s co-anchor Colin Jost (opposite Michael Che). “Yeah I don’t know if ‘Star Wars’ is the authority on what’s anti-Semitic,” he said. Then, he played a clip of Watto, the junk dealer from “The Phantom Menace,” which at the time sparked allegations of ethnic stereotype....
The film, centered on the experiences of three young women coming of age and into love and sex, premieres January 24 as part of the Sundance lineup. Exclusive to IndieWire, watch the electric first trailer below. Here’s the official synopsis: “Best friends Mimmi and Rönkkö have each other’s backs, always. They want to live adventurous lives, loaded with experiences and passion. Emma, on the contrary, has given her whole life to figure skating....
Those controversies will be explored in a new three-part documentary series ordered by the streamer Discovery+. Currently untitled, the series is produced by Ample Entertainment, best known for producing documentary series such as this year’s “The Invisible Pilot” on HBO. ID Productions serves as an additional producer on the docuseries. The project will include interviews with cast and crew members about their time on the show, which ran for six seasons from 2009 to 2015....
Where to Watch ‘Good Timing with Jo Firestone’: Peacock Comedy often works better as a magic trick. A performer arrives with a set of distinct flourishes, carefully perfected to catch their audience by surprise. Puncture that illusion and you better have something just as good ready to take its place. Fortunately, “Good Timing with Jo Firestone” does. It’s a documentary special that gets at what gets people laughing, all through the eyes of a group of senior citizens who are part of an online comedy class....
But while many reboots are content to do nothing more than update the technology for a beloved property (looking at you, “MacGuyver”) and cash in on its name recognition, some are interested in exploring and questioning what made the original iteration so resonant while addressing its earlier failings. The prime example is Pop TV’s dearly beloved “One Day at a Time,” which took the original’s premise (single mom and kids struggling with divorce) and applied it to a Latinx family....
The piece has attracted attention for disses like “Scorsese has lazily settled on Mafia-Picture Director as a main calling” and its dismissal of Scorsese as an “uneven talent.” The essay also makes unfounded claims like “no studio dares utter the word ‘no’” to the director who famously spent much of his career fighting to get funding for his films. The article has prompted plenty of outrage from around the film community, but few responded with as much passion as Guillermo del Toro....
“It turned out that the company is growing much, much faster than we anticipated,” said Cogan during an interview with IndieWire at the Telluride Film Festival alongside Garbus. “Right now, we have 21 projects between development and things about to go into release, including the three things that are here. And we projected that we would have half of that. It’s not just about us, it’s the way the industry is growing....
By that time, it will have been nearly 14 months since the ceremony celebrating the best film and TV of 2019 took place. That’s more than a year for the HFPA to take some time, evaluate their process, and decide whether or not the Golden Globes are really optimized to be everything they could be. Now, maybe HFPA is happy with the awards ceremony as it stands. They seem to fancy themselves tastemakers within the industry — albeit ones with an unfortunate reputation for single-minded celebrity status seeking and prestige chasing....
When Damon admitted that one of his daughters recently schooled him on not using the epithet “f****t,” the social media backlash was fierce. The Times story went viral because it revealed something many of us already knew from Damon’s faceoff with producer Effie Brown on “Project Greenlight”: the Boston native is often unconscious of his own biases. On August 2, Damon’s PR reps responded with a statement from the actor (which they provided to IndieWire)....
Set in the last days of WWII, “Burial” tells the fictional story of a small band of Russian soldiers, led by intelligence officer Brana Vasilyeva (Vega), tasked with delivering the remains of Hitler back to Stalin in Russia. En route, the unit is attacked by German “Werewolf” partisans and is picked off one by one. Brana leads her surviving comrades in a last stand to ensure their “cargo” doesn’t fall into the hands of those who would see it buried, in order to hide the truth forever....
