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Her transformation might not be as dramatic as the one Effie White sings about in the second act of “Dreamgirls,” but the EGOT winner is beginning what she describes as her “next chapter.” It all started in Salt Lake City, on the final stop of…
A very jet-lagged Scarlett Johansson reunited with co-stars Adam Driver and Miles Teller for the New York Film Festival premiere of “Paper Tiger,” which kicked off the festival’s 64th edition. “I’m hallucinating,” said Johansson during the post-screening Q&A at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. She…
Say the name “Pete Davidson” aloud, and it will conjure a certain image: a man strutting down the street in baggy pants, swarmed by paparazzi, clenching the hand of a screen beauty with a grin on his face. A man who’s dated everyone from Ariana…
Season 2 of FX’s “Adults”— which premiered in late August — depicts a group of five friends hanging out in their shared house in Queens. There’s the relatively sane Samir, holding the group together (Malik Elassal), the thwarted careerist Billie (Lucy Freyer), the agent-of-chaos diva…
Bradley Whitford is ready to return to the White House. The actor tells me that it may be time to bring back “The West Wing” as a “limited series of some kind.” Series creator Aaron Sorkin has had fans chomping at the bit ever since…
CBS is tripling down on its unscripted lineup, bringing back a new version of “Undercover Boss” — this time hosted by Drew Carey — and greenlighting two new series: “Stacks of Cash,” hosted by Mike O’Malley, and “24 Hour Millionaire,” from the executive producers behind…
In the end, Casey Bloys knew he was holding all the cards. As the industry continued to speculate about whether the HBO boss or Paramount’s Cindy Holland would wind up with control of the two companies’ soon-to-be-merged streaming behemoth, in recent weeks the momentum seemed…
Continuing her crossover from reality TV into acting, Ariana Madix is attached to executive produce and star in a drama series in development at Peacock. In a meta play on Madix’s unscripted career, the project is titled “Future Housewives” with an official logline that reads,…
When Rafael Espinal took office in February as New York City’s entertainment chief, he looked around and saw a city that was thriving but had yet to recover from a yearslong slump in film and TV production. “The number of permits we were seeing was…
Naomi Bulochnikov-Paul is exiting Disney TV as head of communications after eight years. Bulochnikov-Paul has spent eight years at the company, most recently as executive vice president, communications, for Disney Entertainment Television. In a memo to staff she said she was exiting “to pursue a…