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Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s frosh mobile short-form streaming service Quibi is making a big splash here at Sundance ramping toward its April 6 launch, following a stop earlier this month at CES. Today at the Chase Sapphire lounge on Main Street, Quibi gave indie film fans a taste of what to expect with Katzenberg […]

With the Directors Guild prepping for Saturday’s DGA Awards, more than 50 female helmers and actors including Ava DuVernay, Greta Gerwig, Olivia Wilde, Reed Morano, Brie Larson, Jill Soloway, Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon have signed a letter calling for a change to guild rules so parents can take more time to be with their […]

EXCLUSIVE: Chachi Senior, who previously oversaw alternative programming for the Paramount Network, has joined The Real Housewives of Atlanta producer Truly Original. Senior becomes Head of Development at the Endemol Shine North America subsidiary. This comes after he left Paramount Network last year, where he was head of alternative development and original programming at Paramount […]

Despite older guys indulging greatly in Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s reteam Bad Boy for Life last weekend, STX and Miramax are hoping that there’s a little bit of spillover from that into Guy Ritchie’s R-rated all-star ensemble The Gentlemen.  STX took U.S. rights from Miramax for $7M, and the hope is that the pic […]

Nicolas Cage is certainly building on his resume of genre-driven films with the new sci-fi horror pic Color Out of Space, which opens in limited release January 24. The film marks the first feature from celebrated cult filmmaker Richard Stanley since Hardware.  Based on the short story by H.P. Lovecraft, the film follows Nathan Gardner (Cage) […]