Nina Tassler & Denise DiNovi Launch Indie Studio PatMa Focused On Diverse Voices Former CBS Entertainment Chairman Nina Tassler and veteran producer Denise Di Novi have teamed to launch PatMa Productions. Related DreamWorks Reunites 'Shallows' Scribe & Producers, Denise Di..

‘Happy!’ Renewed For Season 2 By Syfy Ahead of Happy!’s Season 1 finale this week (Jan. 31), the quirky comedy series starring Christopher Meloni and featuring the voice of Patton Oswalt has been renewed for a second season. Happy! has been a breakout hit for Syfy. Its Dec. 7 premiere set a new..

HBO Orders Terence Nance Late-Night Comedy Series ‘Random Acts Of Flyness’ HBO has given a six-episode series order to Random Acts Of Flyness, a late-night series from filmmaker Terence Nance. Related HBO Buys Sundance Documentary 'The Oslo Diaries,' About '92 Mideast..

White House Pretends Donald Trump Doesn’t Tweet, Insists POTUS Not Part Of Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe Exit President Donald Trump “wasn’t a part of the decision-making process” that led to Monday’s exit of Deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sande..

‘Mudbound’s Virgil Williams To Adapt ‘A Journal For Jordan’ At Sony, With Denzel Washington Eyeing To Direct Sony Pictures has tapped Mudbound co-writer Virgil Williams to adapt A Journal for Jordan, the bestselling 2008 novel from Dana Candey that is being turned into a movie. The project is be..

Ilene Chaiken FBI Drama & Erin Foster Comedy Get Fox Pilot Orders As Chaiken Exits As ‘Empire’ Showrunner Fox has ordered two more pilots — a drama from Empire executive producer/showrunner Ilene Chaiken, Rosewood writer-producer Melissa Scrivner Love and Scandal co-executive producer Judy Smith..

Sony Pictures Television Networks And UN Foundation Launch Picture This Festival For The Planet Sony Pictures Television Networks and the United Nations Foundation have launched the Picture This Festival for the Planet. The short-film competition will be open to emerging filmmakers, everyday sto..

‘Unsane’ Trailer: Steven Soderbergh & Claire Foy Ratched Up The Fear Factor Steven Soderbergh’s second tie-up with Bleecker Street is his horror thriller Unsane, which stars The Crown‘s Claire Foy as a woman involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest ..

‘Liza On Demand’: YouTube Red Comedy Series Rounds Out Cast, Sets Directors YouTube Red’s new comedy series Liza on Demand has finalized its cast and set its director line-up with production underway in Los Angeles. Related YouTube Acquires Eminem-Produced 'Bodied' Prior T..