Japanese Stars Join Ansel Elgort in ‘Tokyo Vice’ Series for HBO Max and Wowow

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHBO Max is developing a series adaptation of the upcoming Stacy Willingham novel “A Flicker in the Dark” that hails from Emma Stone’s Fruit Tree and A24, Variety has learned exclusively.The novel is slated for publication in the U.S. in January 2022 with rights sold into 17 foreign markets to date.

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Edi Patterson) while his plumber-father philanders elsewhere; his best friend, Nelson (Byron Bowers) often leads him astray (but always in a well-intentioned kind of way) and he’s surrounded by tone-deaf adults in his suburban New Jersey town. (Dildarian as a Garden State native.)Each roughly-half-hour episode is comprised of two vignettes; in the opener, Tom’s sketchy bassoon-playing in the Shady Oaks Elementary School band triggers a storyline encompassing his teacher music teacher, Mr.

Late last year, before the release of Warner Bros.’ “Wonder Woman 1984,” WarnerMedia announced that all of WB’s 2021 films would have a day-and-date release in theaters and on HBO Max. The news sent shockwaves through the film industry, including the filmmakers that were directly affected, as the studio failed to tell them beforehand.

Grab your hot cocoa. Lifetime announced its largest holiday movie slate to date on Tuesday, September 28, revealing that the network’s annual It’s a Wonderful Lifetime programming event will kick off on Friday, November 12!

Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin are reuniting on the big screen!

NBC has ordered a sequel to its classic comedy “Night Court” starring Melissa Rauch and John Larroquette, who is reprising his role from the original, to series, TheWrap has learned.Here’s the official logline for the new half-hour, multi-cam show “Night Court,” which has been in the works at NBC since December 2020 and is based on the original “Night Court” series created by Reinhold Weege: Unapologetically optimistic judge Abby Stone (Melissa Rauch), the daughter of the late Harry Stone,

HBO Max will highlight the influential legacy of comics powerhouse DC in a three-part documentary series from Oscar and Emmy-nominated director, producer and showrunner Leslie Iwerks.

Mindy Kaling has taken her rise to stardom in several different directions. Her work as an actor and writer on “The Office” led to her success with “The Mindy Project” and then the festival film “Late Night” starring herself and Emma Thompson.

Schitt's Creek, The Good Place and Bridgerton will all be represented in new romantic comedy movie The People We Hate at the Wedding, which will be headlined by I, Tonya star Allison Janney, Frozen's Kristen Bell and Dear Evan Hansen actor Ben Platt. Amazon Studios has confirmed that production has now begun on the Amazon Original film, which is adapted from Grant Ginder's 2017 novel of the same name.

One of the biggest stories of 2021 so far, in the entertainment industry, at least, is the news that AT&T was, in essence, selling off WarnerMedia and merging it with Discovery. This came after a rough several-month period for WarnerMedia, as the studio kept getting hammered for its decision to send blockbuster films straight to streaming on the same day as theatrical and just the general feeling that HBO Max has yet to fully become the Netflix competitor it positioned itself to be.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterKrysten Ritter has signed on to the cast of the upcoming HBO Max series “Love and Death.”The series is based on the true story of Texas housewife Candy Montgomery, who murdered her friend from church, Betty Gore, with an axe in 1980.

The Sopranos creator David Chase has said he is “extremely angry” that the forthcoming prequel film The Many Saints of Newark is being premiered on HBO Max.Discussing the day-and-date format, which will see the film open in cinemas and on the streaming platform at the same time, Chase said the situation was “awful”.“I don’t think, frankly that I would’ve taken the job if I knew it was going to be a day-and-date release.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“Something’s coming, something good” — and it’s the official trailer for Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” remake.Disney and 20th Century Studios on Wednesday debuted an extended look at the reimagining of the classic musical about fierce rivalries and young love in 1957 New York City.

HBO Max has opted not to order a second season of the Lena Dunham-produced dramedy series Generation (official title style Genera+ion).

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeHBO’s “Mare of Easttown” was one of the bright lights for HBO this Emmy season, one reason it’s probably no surprise that HBO and HBO Max chief content officer Casey Bloys hasn’t closed the door on the idea of bringing back another season of the series created by Brad Ingelsby and starring Kate Winslet, also an exec producer on the project.“Brad and Kate and the producers are all talking to see if they think there’s a place to go,” Bloys revealed to

followed Darby (Anna Kendrick) through the ups and downs of her dating in New York City, the anthology rom-com series shifts focus to Marcus (William Jackson Harper) who goes through his own romantic journey in season 2.

Obviously, when it comes to the spectrum of how people feel about day-and-date releases of feature films on streaming platforms and in theaters, folks like the CEO of IMAX are going to be on the side of exclusive theatrical windows. But one of the main ways he defends this stance, in a recent interview with Puck, is by pointing out the record levels of piracy that have been seen after Warner Bros.