EXCLUSIVE: Canadian production house 9 Light Entertainment has opened an unscripted division with Lights, Camera… Kitchen! being its debut title. To date, Toronto-based 9 Lights has focused on scripted TV and film, but founder Pasha Patriki has opted to push into unscripted with the four-part reality show Lights, Camera… Kitchen!, which debuts on Bell Fibe’s…
TLC is taking a cue from Bravo’s massively popular fan event, BravoCon, with the launch of a multi-day event for the rabid audience surrounding its “90 Day Fiancé” franchise. Per a press release issued during the WBD upfront presentation to advertisers Wednesday, “In addition to its robust slate of new and returning series, WBD continues…
Globo Filmes, one of Brazil’s biggest film production forces, is set to back “Spring of the Dragon,” a fiction feature bio focusing on arguably the greatest of the country’s film directors, Novo Cinema icon Glauber Rocha. The news comes as Globo Filmes and production house Conspiraçao have released new details about “The Brokers,” one of…
New antitrust litigation funding in Gavin Newsom’s final budget as California’s governor looks to provide a clue as to what the state plans to do about the contentious Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery merger. The just-released revised budget may be unexpectedly tax-revenue flush, but the likely 2028 White House candidate isn’t exiting Sacramento without firing off a…
EXCLUSIVE: Robert Lorenz (In The Land of Saints) is attached to direct Hardcourt, a new feature written by Mark L. Smith (The Revenant). Ehud Bleiberg is producing through his namesake banner, along with Ariel Bleiberg, Robert Deege, and Suzanne Lyons’ Snowfall Films. Production on the film is set to begin in early 2027. Casting is…
At the end of her “Mayhem Ball” tour, Lady Gaga performs “Bad Romance” as the opera house behind her ignites, the set piece roaring with flames. It’s a commentary, or at least it appeared to be, on the ephemeral nature of pop music: Gaga spends the entire performance celebrating the genre’s artifice by leaning into…