Schumacher, a documentary about famed Formula One driver Michael Schumacher, is in gear with German filmmakers Michael Wech and Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns directing. Rocket Science is presenting, executive producing and handling international sales, starting in Cannes next week. The timely film given this year marks 25 since Schumacher scored his first world championship, is currently in post and is fully supported […]

Nick Tilsley (Ben Price) and David Platt (Jack P Shepherd) have been playing a dangerous game, and they know they’re on borrowed time with the police still sniffing around in Coronation Street. Nick has been trying to cover up the fact he stole £80,000 from his gran, but the police just won’t let up and they’re dangerously close to discovering […]

Beverly Goldberg will continue to smother her children for the foreseeable future: ABC has renewed The Goldbergs for Season 7, TVLine has learned. What’s more, the network has renewed ’90s-set spinoff Schooled for Season 2. Schooled stars AJ Michalka as Barry Goldberg’s ex-fiancée Lainey, who goes from college dropout/wannabe rock star to music teacher at her old high school, William […]

Meet babies Khaleesi, Arya and Yara – it seems ‘Game of Thrones’ is having an effect on our baby names. The series, which was largely filmed in Northern Ireland, has been the defining TV show of a generation. And it appears that some parents have taken to naming their children after the characters. Since the show first aired in 2011, […]

Oscar winner Russell Crowe will star in Unhinged, a psychological thriller that will start production July 15 in New Orleans. The film, which is the first Solstice Studios movie to go into production, is directed by Derrick Borte (American Dreamer), written by Carl Ellsworth (Disturbia, Red Eye) and produced by Lisa Ellzey (Warrior, Kingdom of Heaven). Solstice is targeting a wide […]

Fox’s music drama Star has been canceled after three seasons. The news is not unexpected. As we noted in our story yesterday on Fox’s decision to pick up four new drama series, with a fifth pending, the move did not bode well for the network’s bubble dramas Star, Lethal Weapon and The Passage. All of them were canceled today. Created by Lee Daniels and […]

ABC has passed on its drama pilot New York Undercover, a reboot of the 1990s Dick Wolf cop drama. I hear Wolf and the pilot’s leading studio, Universal TV, are high on the project and plan to shop it elsewhere. Primetime-Panic Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series orders New York Undercover was one of two ABC drama pilots this […]

Avengers: Endgame is the definitive film event of 2019, with 10 years of Marvel movies culminating in a decisive conclusion. The film is already the highest-grossing of 2019, and could soon be the highest-grossing of all-time. Its success is rooted both in those who come to see the film for the first time, and those inspired to see it over […]

John Wick and Predator may both be action franchises, but with the exception of high body counts, blood and bullets, they couldn’t be more different from each other. But soon enough they’ll both have one more thing in common: they’re getting the video game treatment. That’s right, there are new Predator and John Wick video game adaptations on the way, […]

Rarely are transformational works well-regarded in their time. Vincent Canby of The New York Times compared The Godfather Part II’s dialogue to “cartoon captions,” and wrote that the movie was “stitched together from leftover parts” — like Frankenstein’s monster. The Fast and the Furious was called “Rebel Without a Cause without a cause” by Rita Kempley of The Washington Post. […]