In a conversation with fellow auteur Gregg Araki for Interview Magazine, Richard Linklater revealed that he hopes to shoot a movie in French, shot on location in Paris. Araki said to the director, “I saw Ruby Rich last night. She did the Q&A for our
The CW has named Ryan Sharkey as its new senior vice president of programming and content strategy, announced Brad Scwartz, the network’s president of entertainment, on Tuesday. In the new role, Sharkey will oversee the scheduling and acquisitions teams to optimize programming across all platforms
Apple may claim the wireless earbuds throne with their bestselling AirPods, but Google isn’t that far behind these days with their popular Google Pixel Buds. First unveil in 2017, Google is now four-generations into their wireless earbuds, which offer a competitive AirPods alternative at a
Jonathan Dolgen, the former head of Viacom Entertainment and a former top 20th Century Fox executive, died Oct. 9 of natural causes in Los Angeles. He was 78. For a decade, from 1994 until 2004, the hard-charging Dolgen led Viacom’s film, television and amusement parks,
Veteran film executive Paul Davidson has acquired the remake rights to “Electric Dreams,” the 1984 film written and produced by Rusty Lemorande. Davidson — who previously ran The Orchard and IDW Entertainment — struck the deal with Lemorande (“Yentl,” “Caddyshack”), who retained the rights to
For the millions who loved him, John Prine was an angel from Illinois. The singer-songwriter had a 50-year career trajectory that went the full distance from being part of the “next Dylan” brigade in the early ’70s to inspiring Next-John-Prines by the thousands before his
The “Barbie” film and soundtrack album are such an embarrassment of riches that an equally massive bounty of Grammy and Academy awards seems like a foregone conclusion. But such awards don’t just happen — it’s an intricate, laborious, precisely timed dance of official submissions, lobbying, advertising
“The Spiderwick Chronicles” series adaptation has found a new home at Roku. The series was originally set up at Disney+ before the streamer decided to scrap it in August. The eight-episode show is based on the hit book series of the same name by Tony