The Rideback TV Incubator, the inclusion-focused writers program launched last year by Dan Lin’s Rideback and MRC, will begin taking applications next month for its sophomore session. The incubator, whose core mission is to creatively and financially support writers from different backgrounds as they create their own series for premium cable or streaming, will accept…
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The awards-hungry streamer landed a leading 17 nominations, more than double that of its nearest rival. Netflix and the luck of the Irish were one Monday. Making awards history yet again, Netflix secured its first-ever Golden Globes best picture nominations for not one but four of its films — Martin Scorsese’s sprawling mob pic The…
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Disney has hired Jordan Dunn and Michael Kvamme to pen a script for an Aladdin offshoot centered on Prince Anders, the scene-stealing character played by Billy Magnussen in the live-action film released earlier this year, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Magnussen would reprise the part in a feature, which is in early development for Disney+,…
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CBS has put in development Truth & Justice, a crime drama from one of its top drama showrunners, Peter Lenkov (Hawaii Five-O, MacGyver, Magnum P.I.), The Oath creator Joe Halpin and The Dirt author Neil Strauss. The project hails from Dan Lin’s Rideback and CBS TV Studios, where Lenkov and his 101st Street Entertainment are…
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Click Here to watch clips from the Producer Roundtable David Heyman, Dan Lin, Debra Martin Chase and Emma Tillinger Koskoff also open up about the threat of lawsuits, how they deal with eleventh-hour scrambles and why controversy isn’t necessarily a bad thing: “To encourage a conversation is really healthy.” “Tom just landed on the roof,”…
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In the ongoing standoff between the WGA and talent agencies, writers are being sourced for projects through other writers and online, according to producers speaking at the Produced By: New York conference Saturday in New York. They said it’s slower this way, but it’s going. If we have a project, “We ask other writers we…
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Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce star in this intimate look at a historic turning point in the Catholic Church. Directed by Academy Award nominee Fernando Meirelles. In select theaters on November 27 in the US, November 29 in the UK and on Netflix December 20. Winner – Audience Award for US Cinema, Mill Valley Film…
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CBS has put in development Drift, a drama from Black List writer Christopher Salmanpour (The Promise), and executive produced by Anna Fricke (Valor), Craig Turk (The Code, The Good Wife) and Dan Lin (Lethal Weapon). CBS Television Studios, where Turk and his Thinking Hat Productions are under a deal, is the studio. Written by Salmanpour,…
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As he’s preparing to bid farewell to Sam Winchester, Supernatural star Jared Padalecki is gearing up for another run on the CW in a new character. The network has landed for development Walker, a reimagining of CBS’ 1990s action/crime series Walker, Texas Ranger, with Padalecki set to star and executive producing. Walker extends Padalecki’s stay…
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In a roller-coaster year of megamergers and megadeals, the ranking of showbiz’s top execs, makers and stars sees big moves and a more dynamic (and diverse) group of powerhouses as the Obamas join Netflix, Phoebe Waller-Bridge ignites the town’s creatives and J.Lo hustles her way onto the ultimate industry A list. Hollywood, like the rest…
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