Michaela Coel to Release Debut Novel

EXCLUSIVE: Craig Macneill and Clay Chapman, the duo behind SXSW horror film The Boy, have teamed up with Jonathan Nolan & Lisa Joy’s Kilter Films to develop a horror series at Amazon.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIFC Films has nabbed North American rights to “John and the Hole,” an unorthodox coming-of-age story that had its premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.Directed by visual artist Pascual Sisto, the film follows 13-year-old John (Charlie Shotwell) who decides to drug his well-to-do parents (Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Ehle) and older sister (Taissa Farmiga).

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentFederation Entertainment is set to co-develop and co-produce an adventure comedy TV series adapted from the bestselling Lucky Luke comics franchise with popular French actor Michael Youn attached.The company has teamed with French banner Un pour Tous Productions to acquire the audiovisual adaptation rights from Luke Comics, which revolves around a gunslinger in the American Wild West.Created by the Belgian cartoonist Morris in 1946, the Lucky Luke

EXCLUSIVE: CBS’ United States of Al has added The Big Bang Theory alum Brian Thomas Smith to its cast in a recurring role.

Throughout her time on The Circle USA, Brit girl Chloe Veitch set viewers’ tongues wagging with her flirtatious relationships with catfish “Trevor,” as well as former contestant Mitchell Eason. And now in an exclusive chat with OK! on the lead-up to tonight’s final, Chloe, 22, has lifted the lid on her relationship with Mitchell, confirming their budding romance is still going strong after the pair shared a kiss at the wrap party.

EXCLUSIVE: Rosemarie DeWitt is set to star alongside Toni Collette and Colin Firth in The Staircase, HBO Max’s drama limited series adaptation based on the true-crime docuseries.

Premium network Epix has greenlighted Billy the Kid, an hourlong series about the famous American outlaw, written by Vikings and The Tudors creator Michael Hirst.

Michael Jackson has been given a legal win against the US tax authority regarding how much the late artist was worth at the time of his death.As covered by The Hollywood Reporter, the court case centered on how much tax Jackson’s estate owed the Internal Revenue Service following his death in 2009, based on his assets, image and likeness.

Chloé Zhao, Kelly Marie Tran, Riz Ahmed, Padma Lakshmi and others are being honored as a part of nonprofit collective Gold House's fourth annual A100 List to celebrate Asians and Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) and their impactfulcontributions to society.

Gold House, the nonprofit collective of Asian and Pacific Islander founders, creative voices and leaders, has unveiled its annual A100 List, honoring the most impactful Asians and Asian American & Pacific Islanders in culture.

The independent wrestling world is the setting for the new Starz original drama series Heels, which released its official trailer and key art today.

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Being in a room with snakes isn’t the usual songwriting process for Lionel Richie.

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, who piloted the ship from which Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left to make their historic first steps on the moon in 1969, died Wednesday of cancer, his family said. He was 90.

Frances McDormand - a woman who leaves her hometown in Nevada after her husband dies and the sole industry closes down, and then travels around the US in search of seasonal work. Fern is not a real person, but the film is based on Jessica Bruder's non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, which follows the trend of older Americans moving around the country for seasonal jobs.

Nomadland, directed by the Chinese filmmaker Chloé Zhao, is part of a long lineage of non-American American art, from Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas to Andrea Arnold’s American Honey. It grapples with grief, the betrayals of capitalism, and the lure of the open road.

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Nomadland, directed by the Chinese filmmaker Chloé Zhao, is part of a long lineage of non-American American art, from Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas to Andrea Arnold’s American Honey. It grapples with grief, the betrayals of capitalism, and the lure of the open road.

On a night in which Netflix led all studios with 35 Oscar nominations, traditional distributors had the last laugh, as Searchlight's Nomadland landed the top prize. Likewise, Chloé Zhao picked up the best director statue for the film, a modern-day odyssey of the dispossessed surviving on the edges of the American dream.