CBS News Names Mark Lima Washington Bureau Chief; Mary Hager To Oversee Politics And Matthew Mosk Joins From ABC News

SPOILER ALERT: Do not read unless you have watched Apple and A24’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” which is now playing in select theaters and streaming on Apple TV Plus. In “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” Denzel Washington plays the titular Lord Macbeth — a Scottish nobleman whose last grasp at power ultimately leads to his downfall.In addition to memorizing Shakespeare’s powerful soliloquies (“It this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?”), the Academy Award winning actor and many in the troupe, including Corey Hawkins (Lord Macduff) and Alex Hassell (Ross), were also required to brush up on their dueling skills for the production, adapted and directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Joel Coen.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorLaurence Fishburne and Daniel Dae Kim will star alongside Kerry Washington in the upcoming Audible original podcast drama series “Prophecy.”Washington is also executive producing under her Simpson Street banner, along with head of development Pilar Savone, marking its first Audible original production.Washington announced the casting of Fishburne and Kim in a Variety Streaming Room session Monday (available at this link) providing a behind-the-scenes discussion about the upcoming podcast drama, presented by Audible. Washington was joined by “Prophecy” creator, writer and director Randy McKinnon, executive producer Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, and Audible Studios head Zola Mashariki.

election and campaign correspondent.Costa, co-author with Bob Woodward of “Peril” about the final days of the Trump administration, said that he's concerned about the fragile state of the American democracy and the need to aggressively cover attempts to undermine it.Costa has been a national political reporter at the Post since 2014.“I really wanted to grow as a journalist and find new ways to tell the story of our political times,” he said in an interview. “To me, there's no place better than CBS News with its legacy and integrity to do that.”He said the Post is a “first class organization” and that he was open to potential collaborations between the newspaper and CBS News.Reporting for “Peril” and attempts by former President Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election made clear to him the need to closely follow efforts to change how America votes and how that vote is counted, he said.He begins at CBS News' Washington bureau on Feb.

Robert Costa, who has been national political reporter at The Washington Post and was host of PBS’s Washington Week, is joining CBS News as chief election and campaign correspondent.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorRobert Costa, a Washington Post reporter who has become increasingly visible on TV news networks in the past two election cycles, will join CBS News as its chief election and campaign correspondent, a move that shows the often insular ViacomCBS news division luring new talent under its umbrella.Costa, who was a co-author with Robert Woodward on the recent best-seller “Peril” and logged a three-year stint as moderator of PBS’ “Washington Week,” will join CBS News on Feb. 13 and work out of its Washington bureau.

Denzel Washington had quite the surprise on Monday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

“A Journal for Jordan” director and mentor Denzel Washington actually gave him some serious pointers for the upcoming third installment of the “Rocky” spinoff series.In a revealing new sit down with AP Entertainment, Jordan, 34, spoke about how he was in the midst of pre-production on “Creed III” last year while he and Washington, 67, were working on “Journal.”California native Jordan said that seasoned two-time Oscar winner Washington explained to him the significance of the storyboarding process before shooting a script. The “Training Day” icon then immediately called a storyboard artist he had collaborated with and hooked him up with Jordan so they could knockout the project together. “He literally called up a friend of his who’s a storyboard artist — and dialed him up right there, pitched him [and] me in the project and put me on the phone,” said Jordan, Jordan, 34, who is also starring in “Creed III,” which is set to premiere Nov.

In an interview with AP Entertainment, Jordan discussed how he got help from Washington while working together on “A Journal for Jordan,” in which the “Creed” star plays an Army sergeant who writes a journal of wisdom for his infant child while deployed in Iraq. The film is Washington’s fourth as a director, having made his directorial debut with “Antwone Fisher” in 2002 and also helming “The Great Debaters” and the Oscar-winning “Fences.” Jordan said that while working on “Journal” last year, he brought up to Washington that he was also in pre-production on “Creed III,” to which Washington told him about the importance of storyboarding early in the process when preparing to shoot. On the spot, Washington called a storyboard artist he had worked with and gave the phone to Jordan so they could discuss his plans for “Creed III.” Michael B.

Liam Neeson isn’t the only aging veteran actor who gets to make a career out of playing a retired badass with a particular set of skills. Sure, Neeson seems to have made an entire career out of this sort of thing, but he doesn’t hold the monopoly on the idea.

EXCLUSIVE: Olivia Nuzzi, the Washington correspondent for New York magazine who wrote some of the wildest stories about President Donald Trump during his four years in office, is turning her attention to television.

EXCLUSIVE: Allison Janney has rounded out the ensemble of New Regency’s upcoming film True Love, an original sci-fi project written and directed by multi-hyphenate filmmaker Gareth Edwards. She joins previously announced cast members John David Washington, Gemma Chan, Danny McBride and Benedict Wong. Kiri Hart will serve as a producer on the project along with Edwards. New Regency will produce and finance the film.

William Shakespeare, the Bard himself, needs no introduction. Nor, arguably, does Joel Coen, who has been one of American cinema’s great voices for almost forty years with his brother Ethan.

What fight? Denzel Washington said he doesn’t remember anything about his alleged clash with Ellen Pompeo on the set of Grey’s Anatomy.

Looking back with love. Denzel Washington reflected on working with the late Chadwick Boseman on Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom ahead of his death in 2020.

Marvel Studios doesn’t seem to have any trouble finding A-list actors who want to join the MCU. Each and every film and TV project coming out of the studio is just a who’s-who of talent.

Lights, camera, action! From Denzel Washington to Ben Affleck, many actors seamlessly made the switch from being in front of the camera to behind it — but it wasn’t always as easy as it looked.