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Late-night television has long been a boys' club, and with Taylor Tomlinson stepping down from After Midnight,it just lost its only female host — again. Tomlinson's departure from the show marks yet another moment where a woman in late-night television takes the stage, only to exit far too soon. For two seasons of After Midnight, Tomlinson brought a fresh, millennial perspective to CBS' late-night lineup, making her one of the few women to host a late-night show on a major network.

However, now, just over a year after its debut, After Midnight is facing an uncertain future. Tomlinson announced that she would be stepping away from the comedy panel game show to focus on her stand-up career, seemingly spelling the end of the series. After Midnight's slot was previously held by James Corden's The Late Late Show, with Tomlinson's show being a reboot of @midnight, which ran from...

Certain movie directors — Hitchcock and Tarantino come to mind — constitute a genre unto themselves. Steven Soderbergh was never like that, at least not until he started making his “little” films: the cleverly plotted low-budget indie palate cleansers that he got into the habit of directing in between his more deluxe features. He did it as a way to recharge his batteries, and to remind himself that moviemaking is supposed to be fun.

You could say that Soderbergh’s first official “little” film was “Full Frontal” (2002), an all-star Hollywood satire made for $2 million, or you could say that it was “Bubble” (2005), a Middle American existential crime drama that also happened to be the first day-and-date release. In a way, though, the original Soderbergh “little” film was “Schizopolis,” the aggro experimental doodle he made all by himself and released in 1996, as a way to clear his pipes after what he characterized as...

[Editor’s Note: this list was originally published in August 2017. It has since been updated to include more of Soderbergh’s films, including “Black Bag.”]

Steven Soderbergh’s directing career started with “Sex, Lies and Videotape,” a massive breakout that not only launched his career — it changed the industry of independent filmmaking in America. While struggling to find his footing after becoming a household name at age 26, Soderbergh never let himself become frozen by his early success or some preconceived notion of what his career would be. Instead, he dogmatically followed any story that piqued his interest, regardless if it was building the slick “Ocean’s Eleven” franchise or an experimental film he shot in his hometown with friends (“Schizopolis”).

He has been careful to build a career that was commercially viable so as to maximize his ability to be constantly creating and experimenting with films that were sometimes aggressively uncommercial. Along the way, he has fought to be as efficient a filmmaker as possible — constantly trying different approaches and new technology to make...

Are late-night TV feuds back for 2025? It certainly seems like it could be as former late-night TV host Samantha Bee dealt some harsh words toward Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels.

It all started with the release of an excerpt from Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, an upcoming biography written by Susan Morrison. In an effort to claim SNL is apolitical, Michaels called out Bee by name.

“It’s the hardest thing for me to explain to this generation that the show is nonpartisan,” Michaels said. (viaThe Daily Beast) “We have our biases, we have our people we like better than others, but you can’t be Samantha Bee.”

According to Morrison, the SNL creator meant someone "meant one-sided and strident." Bee would certainly fit that definition based on the views she expressed as a Daily Show correspondent and host of the now-defunct TBS late-night show Full Frontal.

Samantha Bee is clapping back at “Saturday Night Live” boss Lorne Michaels, who makes a diss at her in his upcoming memoir “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live.” The former “Daily Show” correspondent and “Full Frontal” host appeared on “The Daily Beast Podcast” and weighed in on Michaels’ criticism, saying: “It’s never exciting to be referenced in a negative way in someone else’s biography that’s gonna do really well.”

Michaels’ biographer, Susan Morrison, spoke to the “SNL” boss two weeks before Donald Trump was first elected president in November 2016. That was a year after Trump hosted a 2015 episode of “SNL” to much controversy from viewers as well as the show’s writers and cast members.

“It’s the hardest thing for me to explain to this generation that the show is nonpartisan,” Michaels says in the book (via The Daily Beast) in response to the...

Hulk actor Eric Bana is set to star alongside Charlize Theron in Netflix's upcoming survival thriller Apex. Taron Egerton has also signed on for the project.

Deadline broke the news of Bana joining the cast, which is directed by Baltasar Kormákur and written by Jeremy Robbins. Apex is described as "Free Solo meets Silence of the Lambs," with a story that follows a rock climber who finds herself hunted in the wild. Details of Bana's role in the film are not clear at this time.

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In addition to starring, Theron will produce Apex alongside Beth Kono and Aj Dix for Secret Menu. Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping and David Ready will produce for Chernin Entertainment, Ian Bryce for Ian Bryce Productions,...

An upcoming Netflix thriller, Apex, is set to bring together new and old Marvel stars Charlize Theron and Eric Bana, along with Carry-On'sTaron Egerton. Apex is “described as Free Solo meets Silence of the Lambs.”

Eric Bana is the latest actor to be added to the Apex cast, as Deadline reports, although his role is not known. The film sees Theron playing a rock climber who finds herself in the terrifying situation of being hunted in the wilderness. Egerton plays the psychopath stalking Theron’s character. The Carry-On star was announced as an Apex cast member in November 2024. Reykjavík, Iceland-born filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur is set to direct the film while the screenplay was written by Jeremy Robbins, whose credits include The Purge television series.

While further details of Apex are in short supply, another piece of the puzzle has fallen into place with the addition of Eric Bana, who will...

Just as he was on the cusp of international superstardom thanks to The X-Files, David Duchovny was a relatively unknown actor taking what many might call a big risk — playing a trans woman in a surrealist TV series in 1990. 35 years ago, that kind of performance could have easily been insulting and one-dimensional, but Twin Peaks was a different kind of show, and Duchovny was a different kind of actor.

Created by Mark Frost and David Lynch, Twin Peaks embraced queerness in many ways, just like much of Lynch's work, and Duchovny's character of Denise Bryson, a former Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent who later becomes the FBI's Chief of Staff, was an important stepping stone in representation. With the death of David Lynch on Jan. 15, 2025, some members of the LGBTQ+ community were paying tribute to Lynch through the form of Duchovny's character, and through a specific line of dialogue in Twin Peaks: The Return,...

Steven Soderbergh is a filmmaker who works fast. In just the next two months, he’ll be releasing two major films: this week, his Pov-ghost film “Presence” will hit theaters, and then in mid-March, the Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender-led spy thriller “Black Bag” will be released. But one project that the director has been tinkering away at for years, in between films, is his dream of writing a book about his profession.

“I’ve been working on a book about directing for 15 years,” said Soderbergh while he was a guest on an upcoming episode of the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “It was always going to use as its spine, a shot by shot, scene by scene analysis of ‘Jaws,’ just as a way of orienting people, so that I could still go off into digressions, but that I always returned to a narrative that pulls you through the book.

"Stranger Things" isn't the only show keeping the fervent spirit of the '80s alive, because "The Goldbergs" acts as a giant love letter to the decade that birthed such national treasures as "ThunderCats" and "Garbage Pail Kids." Loosely based on showrunner Adam F. Goldberg's own life, the sitcom follows his family's adventures (and misadventures) in everyday scenarios that unfolded across 10 seasons between 2013 and 2023. "The Goldbergs" cast features more than a handful of recognizable names, such as Jeff Garlin and Stephen Tobolowsky, not to mention Patton Oswalt using his recognizable voice, but it's sometimes difficult to pinpoint exactly where we have seen these actors before.

Don't stress, though, since that's why we're here -- to figure out the notable shows and films where you might have seen the cast of "The Goldbergs" before. Now, that doesn't mean their entire filmographies will be covered from top to bottom, because some...

As an artist keen on pushing himself creatively with each new release, Yeat is a rarity in contemporary hip-hop. Still, while this year’s 2093 represented an artistic breakthrough for the rapper with its electro-industrial gambit, some fans felt that he was sanding down the more obtuse elements of his offbeat psychedelic sound for mainstream consumption. Lyfestyle, then, is something of a corrective, as the album sees the rapper offering up a spiritual sequel to 2021’s Up 2 Me with yet another zany take on trap and rage music.

Lyfestyle’s cover art, featuring a house engulfed in flames and wild horses galloping around it, embodies the album’s prevailing sense of chaos. In short, it’s a barnburner, with little on its mind outside of conjuring kinetic energy from the most basic of sources: pounding drums, glitched-out arpeggios, soupy basslines, and, of course, Yeat serving as master of ceremonies. Or, more accurately,...

Late-night comedy has undergone a dramatic shift in the past few years with the exits of David Letterman, Jon Stewart, and Jay Leno from the late-night desk. Stewart then returned for a weekly election-season slot on his hit-making show, The Daily Show, but only after his show, The Problem With Jon Stewart, was canceled by Apple TV + when he refused to censor his views. We saw the arrival of many fresh faces, turning the late-night wars into a fractured battle waged on many fronts, from TV ratings to YouTube views. Many of those newer names have lost or left their shows, like Trevor Noah left The Daily Show and the loss of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and Desus & Mero.

Yoshiyuki Tomino is one of the greatest storytellers ever. The creator of the Gundam franchise has influenced multiple manga artists through his works and to date, remains a celebrity that people look up to. Even though his popularity extends overseas, Tomino has an infamous reputation for being too upright with his words.

The Gundam creator never sugar-coated his words and always delivered his true feelings. Hayao Miyazaki and he are from the same generation, yet he was brave enough to say that he never liked the multiple Academy Award winners. It surprised countless fans, but there is a particular reason as to why he felt such a thing.

Yoshiyuki Tomino Is Not Convinced About Hayao Miyazaki Being A Craftsman The Boy and the Heron (Credits: Studio Ghibli)

Hayao Miyazaki is known worldwide for his anime movies with Studio Ghibli. Since the 1970s, he has been actively making movies and won...

Jimmy Kimmel spent much of 2022 vacillating as to whether he would continue hosting his eponymous late-night before striking a new, three-year deal.

The host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! revealed that one of the reasons he signed this deal was that he is “worried” about what he’ll do next.

But a bigger concern for the late-night world is that Kimmel doesn’t think there will necessarily be any late-night shows on network television in 2034.

“I don’t know if there will be any late-night television shows on network TV in ten years. Maybe there’ll be one but there won’t be a lot of them,” he said on the Politickin’ podcast. “There’s a lot to watch and now people can watch anything at anytime, they’ve got all these streaming services. It used to be Johnny Carson was the only thing on at 11:30pm and so everybody...

Australian actor Eric Bana had a fascinating professional trajectory. He first started out as a comedian in the comedy series Full Frontal before gaining momentum in his career with the Australian crime drama Chopper (2000). The audience loved his portrayal of criminal Mark “Chopper” Read, but his international breakthrough came with the 2003 movie Hulk, helmed by Ang Lee.

Eric Bana in Deadfall (2012) || Magnolia Pictures

Even though Eric Bana saw it as a fantastic career opportunity, he had some reservations of his own. He explained why he didn’t feel like a leading man when playing the Hulk in a previous interview.

Eric Bana Didn’t Feel Like a Leading Man in Hulk

Eric Bana‘s career reached entirely new heights after starring in the crime drama Chopper. He began receiving major offers from directors. For instance, Ridley Scott got him on board for Black Hawk Down and Ang Lee’s Hulk,...

Good Morning America host Robin Roberts talked up the benefits of embracing diversity in storytelling when receiving the Inclusion Award at the 2024 edition of the Banff World Media Festival on Monday night.

“Immense gratitude to everyone who is involved in this dynamic, vibrant inclusive festival, where everyone is not only welcomed, but embraced,” Roberts told the Rockie Awards gala. “Diversity is being on the team, inclusion is getting in the game. I’m so grateful to A&e to allow me to be in the game, with you,” Roberts, who went from star athlete to becoming a TV anchor, added about A&e, the sponsor of the gala award.

Kevin Beggs, chairman and chief creative officer at the Lionsgate Television Group, was on hand to receive the Award of Excellence at the Rockie Awards gala after serving for seven years as chairman of the board at the Banff TV festival.

“Through it all,...

Eric Bana has been a mainstay on the big screen for decades. The Australian comedian turned dramatic actor has been in everything from Ang Lee’s Hulk to Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down, J.J. Abrams’s Star Trek, and Judd Apatow’s Funny People. Getting his big break on the Australian shows Full Frontal and the eponymous The Eric Bana Show Live, the actor hit Hollywood’s radar with his role in Chopper as the infamous criminal Mark Chopper Read. After over twenty years in the industry, Bana returned to Australia for the 2021 mystery The Dry and has now reprised the role of Aaron Falk for the sequel, Force of Nature.

Based on the novel by Jane Harper, Force of Nature picks up a year after The Dry as Aaron Falk and his partner investigate a money laundering scheme with the aid of insider Alice Russell (Anna Torv). When...

Two new additions are arriving in Port Charles as General Hospital has cast Kody Kavitha (Dead End: Paranormal Park) and Virginia Ma (Chindia) in recurring roles. As first reported by Soap Opera Digest, Kavitha and Ma will make their General Hospital debuts this week. Ma is set to debut on the Tuesday, April 2 episode, playing Madison, Nina’s (Cynthia Watros) new assistant. Meanwhile, Kavitha will make her first appearance on Thursday, April 4, portraying Hunter, the new manager at Bobbie’s. On television, Ma’s credits include The Thundermans, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, and Magnum P.I. More recently, she starred in the 2023 romantic-comedy film Chindia and the 2024 thriller Final Heist. Kavitha is best known for her voiceover work, most notably voicing Norma in Netflix’s animated fantasy horror comedy Dead End: Paranormal Park. She’s also provided voices for We Bare Bears, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,...

The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival has been plunged into chaos a month before its 2024 edition.

The opening press conference in Toronto on Tuesday was overshadowed by news that the Hot Docs artistic director, Hussain Currimbhoy, and 10 programmers had left the festival organizing team ahead of the 2024 edition kicking off on April 25.

Hot Docs in a festival statement confirmed Currimbhoy’s departure as artistic director on March 20, “due to personal reasons.” “Regrettably, some members of the programming team have decided not to participate in this year’s festival. We thank them for their contributions,” the documentary festival added.

Their departure forced Hot Docs president Marie Nelson — the former ABC News and Disney exec who took the helm at the Canadian festival in June 2023 — onto the back foot when she stepped forward to unveil the lineup for the 2024 edition.

“We understand that our union is far from perfect, but I...

Netflix has ordered the limited series “Untamed” with Erica Bana attached to star, Variety has learned exclusively.

The six-episode series hails from writers Mark L. Smith and his daughter, Elle Smith. The series is described as a character driven mystery thriller in which Bana plays Eric Inman, “a special agent for the National Parks Service who works to enforce human law in nature’s vast wilderness. The investigation of a brutal death sends Inman on a collision course with the dark secrets within the park, and in his own past.”

Along with the Smiths, Bana is also an executive producer on the series. John Wells and Erin Jontow also executive produce via John Wells Productions, as do Todd Black and Tony Shaw for Escape Artists Entertainment, Steve Lee Jones for Bee Holder Productions, and Cliff Roberts for Syndicate Entertainment. Warner Bros. Television, where John Wells Productions is under an overall deal,...

Coleman Hough, who received solo screenplay credit on the quirky Steven Soderbergh-directed improvisational films Full Frontal and Bubble, has died. She was 62.

Hough died Feb. 24 at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey, after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease, her friend Jennifer Romine told The Hollywood Reporter. She was diagnosed with early onset Parkinson’s when she was 42.

Full Frontal (2002), set in Hollywood and a film within a film, shot in 18 days using a consumer-grade digital camera and was the first produced screenplay by playwright and poet Hough.

Featuring Julia Roberts, Catherine Keener, David Hyde Pierce, Blair Underwood, David Duchovny and Jeff Garlin as a Harvey Weinstein type, it marked an extreme change of pace for Soderbergh, who was coming off Erin Brockovich (2000), an Oscar win for Traffic (2000) and Ocean’s Eleven (2001).

Hough’s characters are “simultaneously self-absorbed and less introspective than they think they are,” Craig J. Clark...

A new interview with veteran animator Shinsaku Kozuma has revealed that Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki once segregated animators in the workspace based on blood type.

In an interview with animation blog Full Frontal, Kozuma recounted his long career, from working on Yu Yu Hakusho to multiple Final Fantasy titles, and even the latest season of Jujutsu Kaisen. Among his many anecdotes was a time he worked at Studio Ghibli with Hayao Miyazaki, revealing that in addition to levying high fines for lateness, the acclaimed director believed the superstition that blood types determined personalities. "They were pretty high fines!" he said. "And Miyazaki really checked out when everybody got in or out. His seat was the closest to the door, so he saw everything. He was also the one who decided who got to sit where. He really believes that blood types influence personality, so he had the B-type people...

Anime producer Kazumasa Narita has defended Hideaki Anno, the creator of the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise, against allegations of abusive and violent behavior.

Narita spoke to ITMedia News about his experiences working on Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (Shin Eva), in which he remarked on accusations that Anno was irrational, controlling on set, and did things like flipping tables over in anger. "Mr. Anno doesn't make changes that are irrational," Narita said. "When you're flipping tables because you dislike something, people won’t follow you. It might seem like he does that. Perhaps it was something that existed in the distant past before I joined. However, in reality, when you want to change something or give instructions, it’s simple: if there’s a possibility to improve the existing image or create something better, that’s the judgment criterion. It’s always rational."

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Late-night comedy has undergone a dramatic shift in the past few years with the exits of David Letterman, Jon Stewart, and Conan O’Brien from the late night desk. Stewart then returned, only to have his show, The Problem With Jon Stewart, canceled by Apple TV + when he refused to censor his views. We saw the arrival of many fresh faces, turning the late-night wars into a fractured battle waged on many fronts, from TV ratings to YouTube views. In the last year, many of those newer names have lost their shows, however, as Trevor Noah left The Daily Show and James Corden said goodbye to The Late Late Show. We also lost Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and Desus & Mero. Most recently, Taylor Tomlinson took over James Corden's slot with her new series, After Midnight.

Jujutsu Kaisen 0 chief animation director Terumi Nishii -- also known for her animation work on the likes of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable, Mawaru Penguindrum and Servant × Service -- has called the latest Mappa criticism by a fellow Jjk animator "refreshing."

Nishii's comments come days after the popular French Jujutsu Kaisen and One Piece animator Chansard Vincent shared why he would never work with Mappa again, citing not wanting to "support a company that ideologically doesn't care about working conditions." Nishii called the remarks refreshing in her own post to X (formerly Twitter). "'Ideologically' is very refreshing," she said. "I think if there were more people like this in the anime industry, the working environment would be a little more comfortable."

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The recent The Boy and the Heron documentary on Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki, 2399 Days with Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli, garnered controversy this week after many people knowledgeable of Ghibli's affairs considered it an exaggerated and even false account.

Given the title, many fans who expected the Nhk documentary to dive into The Boy and the Heron's long production were disappointed with what appeared to be a dramatized account of Miyazaki himself. Masakatsu Ishizone, who was a director's assistant in Ghibli's Princess Mononoke and My Neighbors the Yamadas, noted his disappointment, saying, "I'm watching the Nhk Hayao Miyazaki special feature, but this is truly presenting a 'false history,' isn't it? It connects his statements intermittently and crosses the wires between episodes and anecdotes. You have to watch it very carefully and objectively. It's not about whether it's accurate or inaccurate. I can't comprehend the mentality behind making something like this.

It’s been a strange year for late-night and things are only going to get weirder.

All of the late-night shows were dark between May and October as as a result of the writers strike and the genre lost one of its longer-running shows as The Late Late Show, which has run for over 5,000 episodes since 1995, is to be replaced by an old Comedy Central game show.

The change hasn’t been quite as significant as last year when James Corden and Trevor Noah revealed they’d be stepping down, Warner Bros. Discovery’s new regime killed Samantha Bee’s Full Frontal and Desus & Mero, who, for some, were the duo to reinvigorate the field, broke up.

Late-night, it seems, is just ticking along.

The Late Show...

Two anime industry veterans, including the director of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, have stirred controversy over their recent comments regarding AI.

As reported by the animation blog Full Frontal, Bleach: Tybw director Tomohisa Taguchi and Keiichi Hara held a panel at the Annecy Film Festival, describing their filmmaking histories. As Hara spoke about his latest film, he took aim at animators in Japan who reportedly drove up the budget due to their laziness and incompetence, calling them "leeches." He also revealed a growing trend of talented animators getting paid before producing any work and allegedly not giving 100% to the project because of it.

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Similarly, Hara added that directors who take the money and leave during production were "scum,...

Exclusive: Samantha Bee is joining director Nazrin Choudhury and producer Sara McFarlane as Executive Producer on the film campaign for the Oscar-qualifying short film Red, White and Blue, which stars Brittany Snow (Pitch Perfect).

Per the official synopsis, Red, White and Blue tells the moving story of Rachel, a single parent in a precarious position forced to cross state lines in search of a necessary abortion. As we learn more about Rachel and the series of events that led to this journey, we learn a heartbreaking truth which means her life will never be the same again.

Snow stars as Rachel, alongside Juliet Donenfeld (Better Call Saul). The short qualified to be considered for the 2024 Academy Awards after winning the Grand Jury Award for Best Live Action Short at Edmonton International Film Festival. The film also won the Industry Choice Award at Dances With Films: NY.

Red, White and Blue is written,...

Chris McCarthy has a big decision to make.

Nearly twelve months on to the day that Trevor Noah said goodbye to The Daily Show, the Comedy Central series still does not have a permanent host.

But a decision is expected soon with sources telling Deadline that Paramount is facing pressure to name a new host by the end of the year.

There have been a number of shortlists and stars mentioned throughout the process, which was hampered by the writers and actors strike, and obviously there was the Hasan Minhaj situation, where the Patriot Act star basically had the job before that New Yorker article came out.

But many in the late-night and comedy community believe that McCarthy and his team already have viable options right under their noses and with it the opportunity to shake-up the talk show landscape with a fresh take and in the process bolster diversity...

If movie and TV studios get nervous about advertising, so should everyone else.

Advertisers loathe controversy, and often “pull” or “yank” their commercials from individual pieces of content that generate it. But the studios have stiffer spines. They don’t run garden-variety commercials, but rather trailers and sneak previews of much-anticipated TV programs, and their target consumer is typically young men, who often don’t feel the outrage of advocacy groups eager to spur boycotts of a cable-news channel, a scripted series with a controversial star; or a reality program that offends. Studios don’t often feel the need to stop running their ads, particularly when an opening weekend’s box office tally might be at stake. In 2018, when many advertisers suspended their support of comedian Samantha Bee’s “Full Frontal” on TBS following a joke she made about Ivanka Trump, then the daughter of the then-u.S. President, Comcast...

The 2000s were a great time for science fiction. Thanks to The Matrix closing out the 90s, studios were more willing to give the green light to stories about science gone awry, leading to favorites such as A.I. Artificial Intelligence and Paprika, as well as superhero hits like Spider-Man 2, X2, and Iron Man.

With so much good stuff out there, it’s no surprise that some really good movies would pass by audiences. Sometimes, these movies simply got buried by higher profile and more popular works. Sometimes, they were rejected by audiences disturbed by their audacious or disturbing ideals.

For anyone who wants to catch up on some sci-fi movies they have missed, here are ten great overlooked entries from the start of the millennium.

Solaris (2002)

After the 1-2-3 punch of Erin Brockovich, Traffic, and Ocean’s Eleven, Steven Soderbergh could do almost anything he wanted, especially since...

It’s been so long since Steven Soderbergh announced his recut of Kafka––so long since the thing even premiered at TIFF––that one could assume it was no longer in play. But reemergence, it seems, is in store: Indiewire have announced the U.S. premiere of his new edition, Mr. Kneff, will occur at Nitehawk’s Prospect Park location on November 9, with a complimentary cocktail made from Soderbergh’s Signani 63 offered. Tickets are now on-sale.

The official synopsis is scant: “A writer guy in 1919 Prague uses his dead-end job as inspiration for his fantastical fiction.” But the extent of Soderbergh’s revision is huge: the movie’s lost 20 minutes and, what’s more, all dialogue––silent-movie accompaniment includes an instrumental of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman.”

If you (like me) aren’t in New York on November 9, it’s comfort to know Nitehawk’s premiere shouldn’t be the end of the road.

Steven Soderbergh’s “Mr. Kneff” is finally landing stateside.

The recut version of 1991’s “Kafka” stars Jeremy Irons as a writer in 1919 Prague; the film has had new iterations unveiled in 2013 and 2021, respectively. Now, Soderbergh is revealing the first ever U.S. screening of the 2021 recut “Kafka,” titled “Mr. Kneff.” The premiere will take place at Nitehawk Cinema in Prospect Park on November 9 at 7 p.m.

The official logline of “Mr. Kneff” reads: “A writer guy in 1919 Prague uses his dead-end job as inspiration for his fantastical fiction.” Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey, Ian Holm, Jeroen Krabbé, Armin Mueller-Stahl, and Alec Guinness star in the cult classic which marked Soderbergh’s sophomore directorial effort after “sex, lies, and videotape.” Soderbergh will participate in a Q&a following the U.S. premiere.

His liquor brand Singani 63 will also be sponsoring the evening, with a complimentary Singani speciality drink for ticket...

Exclusive: Netflix on Monday morning unveiled Verified Stand-Up, a new series featuring short sets from 10 comedians that’s set to premiere globally on November 28. Rising comedians that perform in the two-parter, filmed at Webster Hall in New York City, include Asif Ali, Dulcé Sloan, Gianmarco Soresi, Isiah Kelly, Leslie Liao, Nimesh Patel, Robby Hoffman, Rosebud Baker, Sabrina Wu, and Vanessa Gonzalez.

News of Netflix’s new stand-up series comes following its announcement of Improv: 60 And Still Standing, a comedy special celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Improv comedy clubs, which is set to premiere November 7th. Top comics dropping in for short sets as part of that project included Anjelah Johnson-Reyes, Bert Kreischer, Craig Robinson, Deon Cole, Fortune Feimster, Jeff Dunham, Kevin Nealon, Mark Normand, Jo Koy, and Whitney Cummings.

Linda Mendoza directed Verified Stand-Up, with Anne Harris serving as executive producer.

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Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe have found their next act.

The Oscar-winning duo behind police brutality short Two Distant Strangers and, more recently, HBO’s Bs High, have teamed with Group Nine Studios’ former president Mickey Meyer to launch a new entertainment company titled The Unreasnble. The goal of the full-service media company is to develop, produce, finance and incubate stories that have had historically limited access to mainstream media.

“The work stoppages and battles we recently experienced and are still experiencing across our industry for fair and equitable pay and ownership of our work is a clear sign we can no longer adapt to the ways of this business,” explains Free, “but instead we have to adapt it to us, the creators, and that’s what we intend to do.”

As part of the launch, the team will also acquire Roe’s award-winning production company Dirty Robber, which...

Bill Maher has faced a lot of criticism after revealing that he was bringing Real Time back to HBO next week.

Called out by a slew of striking writers on social media, the WGA called the move “disappointing” and said that they would picket the show on its return.

But the other question that Maher’s move provoked was whether the remaining late-night hosts – The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert, The Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Late Night’s Seth Meyers and Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver – would make a similar move.

As it stands, the answer seems to be a hearty ‘No’.

The group has got together regularly after teaming up to launch the Strike Force Five podcast on Spotify, established to help pay for their staffs during the strike. The fivesome has not explicitly talked about returning or not returning to work on the podcast,...

Linda Yaccarino spent 15 years at Turner Entertainment and 11.5 years at NBCUniversal before her surprise appointment as Twitter’s (now X) new CEO. As she continues to build her team, she just announced four hires of executives she had worked with at Turner or NBCUniversal, bringing more Hollywood experience to the tech company headed by Elon Musk.

Brett Weitz, former General Manager Of TNT, TBS & truTV, has been named Head of Content, Talent and Brand Sales. Fellow Turner alum Monique Pintarelli has joined as Head of the Americas, overseeing Sales and Partnerships across the U.S., Canada and Latin America. NBCU’s Carrie Stimmel will serve as Global Agency Leader, and fellow NBCU exec Rob Hayes as Lead for Revenue Operations.

Weitz left in the major post-merger Warner Bros. Discovery restructuring in May 2022 after 14 years at Turner. As General Manager Of TNT, TBS, & truTV, position he was named to in 2019, he managed all three nets,...

While some celebrated filmmakers like Martin Scorsese have never had a "rotten" film, there have been many movies that broke a director's hot streak. There are some big-name directors working in Hollywood whose names are just as bankable as any actor, and many of them are still working today. Christopher Nolan just released Oppenheimer, Quentin Tarantino is working on his 10th movie, and Michael Mann's Ferrari biopic is scheduled for release in Winter 2023. All of these movies had or will have their visionary filmmakers' names on the poster before any actor because they're reliable and have a guaranteed audience.

Unfortunately, every filmmaker has a bad day at the office, and it happens to visionary auteurs after long hot streaks more often than not. As respected filmmakers are given higher budgets and more creative freedom, that's bound to get the best of them after a certain number of instant classics.

Seth Meyers has become one of the elder statemen of late-night.

Meyers has been hosting NBC’s Late Night for nearly ten years, starting a week after Jimmy Fallon began his stint helming The Tonight Show. Other than Jimmy Kimmel, who has been on air for over 20 years, the NBC pair’s shows have been on air longer than The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and has seen off the likes of Trevor Noah on The Daily Show, James Corden on The Late Late Show and Samantha Bee on Full Frontal, who all started after him.

“I was the new guy for two months and a lot of shows have come and gone. It’s been nine years, so it didn’t happen overnight. But there was certainly a boom of how many people were trying this format,” he told Deadline.

But Meyers,...

Exclusive: The late-night community is over the moon after it emerged that there will be five Emmy nominations this year.

Emmy voting opened today, and Deadline understands that there are 19 submissions in the Outstanding Variety Talk Series category, far more than expected, which, given the math, means that there will be five nominations this year.

One late-night source told Deadline this was “unexpected” but a “positive” move, meaning that that the sector no longer has to lament the loss of another Emmy slot.

Given that Last Week Tonight with John Oliver has been moved to the Outstanding Scripted Variety Series category this year after seven consecutive wins for Outstanding Variety Talk Series, it is a boon for The Daily Show, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel Live!

It could also the door to shows such as The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon...

John Oliver will not be picking up his eighth straight Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series at this September’s gala.

The Last Week Tonight host will instead be battling it out with Saturday Night Live, and potentially A Black Lady Sketch Show, in the Outstanding Scripted Variety Series category after the TV Academy made a number of changes at the end of last year.

The move means the late-night talk show Emmy race will crown another victor – the first non-Oliver win since The Daily Show with Jon Stewart won the award in 2015. Ironically, Stewart is now back in the same category with his Apple series, The Problem with Jon Stewart, after moving from the Outstanding Hosted Non-Fiction Series category.

It also means the race is far more wide open than it has been for years with shows such as The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Late Night with Seth Meyers...

Top Hollywood writers took to social media to express defiant support for their first union walkout in 15 years and showed their feelings about studios being unwilling to meet their contract demands.

The Writers Guild of America announced the work stoppage will begin Tuesday afternoon. The union also released a list of claimed responses from the studios to their proposals, which helped fire up members.

“The Shield put FX on the map,” wrote FX’s Snowfall writer-producer Sal Calleros. “Mad Men put AMC on the map. House of Cards put Netflix on the map. Writers did that. Not some CEO. Know what you get when you put CEOs in creative lanes? You get Quibi.”

“They shut down an entire industry rather than part with less than 3% of their record profits,” wrote Javier Grillo-Marxuach (Lost).

“Looks like it’s time to cancel my streaming services,” wrote David Simon (The Wire). “Ask the...

James Corden is leaving The Late Late Show much like he entered: with a bang.

Corden kicked off his first show on March 23, 2015 with a coup. He managed to persuade Tom Hanks to perform his entire filmography in an episode that also featured appearances from Arnold Schwarzenegger, Billy Crystal, Chris Rock and Meryl Streep.

Having spent the past eight years driving and singing with A-listers such as Mariah Carey, Stevie Wonder and Michelle Obama, passing Penny Lane with Paul McCartney and jumping out of a plane with Tom Cruise, he’s closing his CBS late-night show Thursday with guests including Harry Styles and Will Ferrell as well as a musical performance with Cruise during The Lion King at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood.

“The nature of our show is we really want to go out with a bang,” he tells Deadline. “We want to go out in the same manner that we came in.

Okay, I admittedly came in hot by calling the folks at Comedy Central "cowards" in that headline, because that's probably not the correct word to use to describe a channel that has been letting Trey Parker and Matt Stone run wild for over 25 years. When it was announced last fall that Trevor Noah would be leaving "The Daily Show" after seven fantastic years, fans immediately started fantasy booking his successor. There was a big push for Samantha Bee, of the recently canceled "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee" to become the show's first full-time female host, with others hoping the job went to one of Noah's roll of correspondents. Comedy Central instead announced that they would showcase a weekly rotation of guest hosts, with some of comedy's smartest minds sitting behind "The Daily Show" desk.

Things kicked off with "Saturday Night Live" alum Leslie Jones, with Wanda Sykes, D.L. Hughley, Chelsea Handler,...

Exclusive: Nearly a year after her late-night show came to an end, Samantha Bee is continuing to offer some choice words, this time in podcasting.

The Full Frontal host is launching a new podcast series, Choice Words, with Lemonada Media.

The weekly series, which launches on June 1, will see Bee sit down with celebrities, politicians, and everyone in between to discuss the biggest choices they’ve made in their lives and the ripple effects those decisions have had.

Bee will also dig into why so many of our current issues stem not just from what we aren’t allowed to do, but that we are denied actual choice in the matter. Topics will range from what to eat for breakfast and which subway car to take, to who you are voting for and what you do with your body.

The former Daily Show correspondent had a seven-season run with Full Frontal...

John Oliver has fired the first shot at his new Emmy rival Saturday Night Live – six months before his show Last Week Tonight will go head-to-head in a new awards category.

The British comedian, whose show returns for its tenth season on February 19, posted a hosting announcement to his social media channels that looks an awful lot like the ones that Saturday Night Live posts when they make a score a new host.

In the past, this wouldn’t have got any attention but given the fact that Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, which won the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Talk Series for the last seven years, will now compete directly against SNL, which has won the Emmy for Variety Sketch Series for the past six years, it feels like shots fired.

Whether he’ll actually have a horse on the show is anyone’s guess, but don’t rule it out.

How’s this for a rapid refresh?

Former Comedy Central late-night show @Midnight is being rebooted at CBS, where it is set to take over the 12:37 am time slot currently occupied by The Late Late Show With James Corden, Deadline reports.

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The new incarnation will be executive-produced by The Late Show‘s Stephen Colbert. Former host Chris Hardwick is not attached.

CBS is dipping back into the recent past to fill the late night slot that’s soon to open up when its The Late Late Show With James Corden departs.

The network is set to replace the long-running Late Late Show franchise with a reboot of comedic panel game show @midnight, sources confirm to The Hollywood Reporter. Stephen Colbert, who hosts The Late Show for the network, is on board as executive producer of the revived program that aired 600 episodes on Comedy Central before signing off in August 2017.

Reps for CBS declined to comment.

@midnight, which launched in October 2013, aired Mondays through Thursdays on the basic-cable network, with host Chris Hardwick asking internet-themed questions to three comedian guests. Hardwick is not expected to have direct involvement in the new iteration of @midnight, which hails from Funny or Die and won two Emmys for creative achievement in interactive media social TV...

Samantha Bee is set to host a Canadian Screen Awards one-hour special. The country’s national film and TV awards will not be broadcast or streamed live this year, as happened pre-pandemic.

Instead, the former host of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee will emcee a pre-taped, one-hour special, The Canadian Screen Awards with Samantha Bee. The recap show will feature celebrity interviews and highlights from prize giving during CSA award shows held in private and in person for the first time in four years.

Canadians featured during the TV special will include Ryan Reynolds, Catherine O’Hara and Simu Liu, who will receive special awards during this year’s CSAs. Last year, the national awards show handed out top prizes during a one-hour virtual awards show on the CBC and CBC Gem that had no TV commercials and saw winners mostly accepting trophies remotely from their homes.

During the previous two years,...