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EXCLUSIVE: A week after the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins by Alec Baldwin on the New Mexico set of Rust, two crew members at the center of the police probe have hired a pair of the state’s top criminal defense lawyers. Veteran First Assistant Director David Halls has retained Albuquerque attorney…

IATSE leaders are urging their members to "stay united" and vote "yes" to ratify the tentative agreement for a new film and TV contract. In the latest message to their members, IATSE president Matthew Loeb and the leaders of Hollywood's 13 locals covered by the agreement acknowledged that there is opposition to the…

The 2021 American Music Awards won’t have controversial country artist Morgan Wallen appearing on this year’s live show. The nominations for the 2021 American Music Awards (AMAs) were revealed this morning for the Nov. 21 show at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. The event will air live on ABC and will stream the…

Netflix’s 3 Body Problem, a series adaptation of Liu Cixin’s sci-fi trilogy, has set a cast of 12 actors including Benedict Wong (Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness), Tsai Chin (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings), and Game of Thrones alums John Bradley and Liam Cunningham. The series hails from Game of Th…

To the public, Alec Baldwin's Colt .45 stands as a symbol of perhaps criminal incompetence, but to insiders it also represents a pathetic epitaph to that mythic genre, the "indie" movie. The indie Western already was in dire straits because of lack of funding and distribution until Baldwin came along as both star and…

Covid test positivity rates and virus-related hospitalizations have begun to rise again in Los Angeles and California after months of decline. “Of course we're watching this with caution,” said L.A. director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer today. “We're all noticing actually the case rate across California inched up…

Update: Sony has moved up its release of Sam Raimi production 65 from May 13, which was in the second weekend of Disney/Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, another film directed by the filmmaker to April 22, 2022. On its new date, 65 stands alone as the only major studio wide release. The movie…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s one that’s sure to heat up the impending AFM. Knives Out and No Time To Die star Ana de Armas is in talks to take the lead role in anticipated John Wick spinoff Ballerina, about a young female assassin who seeks revenge against the people who killed her family. The character made a fleeting…

EXCLUSIVE: While WME dropped C&W star Morgen Wallen back in February after he used racist language in comments to his friends on a private video that made the rounds on the internet, top WME exec Lloyd Braun today addressed agents in the music department after word surfaced that the agency might still be quietly…

EXCLUSIVE: Chinaza Uche (Dickinson) is joining Florence Pugh, Morgan Freeman, Zoe Lister-Jones, Molly Shannon and Celeste O’Connor in A Good Person, the feature Zach Braff is directing for MGM, which is currently in production. Braff’s follow-up to 2017 heist comedy Going in Style follows Allison (Pugh), whose life…

Jon Hamm is set to voice a misanthropic detective in a new animated comedy series for Fox. The Mad Men star will lead Grimsburg from newcomers Catlan McClelland and Matthew Schlissel. The series, which will launch in 2023, follows Marvin Flute (Hamm), who might be the greatest detective ever to catch a cannibal clown…

Matt Hausfater, Teddy Riley, and Aaron Buchsbaum, creators and executive producers of the upcoming Amazon Original adult animated comedy series Fairfax, have signed first-look deals with Amazon Studios. Under the pacts, they will create and produce projects via their The Adorable Trio production banner to premiere…