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Dr. Frasier Crane might be an expert in human behavior, but even he didn’t see this coming! After two seasons, Paramount+ axed the 2023 Frasier revival, leaving lead actor Kelsey Grammer struggling to keep his beloved character alive. Now, Grammer is reportedly doing something he never imagined—swallowing his pride and begging his former co-stars to return.

Kelsey Grammer in the 90s spinoff Frasier | image: Paramount+

Yep, the man who once ruled the 80s hit sitcom Cheers and its spinoff Frasier is now hoping a little nostalgia magic will convince studios to give his 2023 Frasier reboot a third season. But will this Hail Mary work? Let’s dive into the drama behind Frasier’s uncertain future!

Kelsey Grammer is allegedly begging his co-star to keep his Frasier reboot alive Grammer as psychiatrist Frasier Crane on Frasier (2023) | image: Paramount+

Veteran legend Kelsey Grammer, who iconized the character of psychiatrist Frasier Crane...

Before “Sing Sing” became a critical hit and awards darling, it almost failed to launch.

The film, which shows the positive impact that the real-life Rehabilitation Through the Arts (Rta) program has on a group of incarcerated men, features Colman Domingo as a playwright incarcerated after being wrongfully convicted of murder. Domingo is one of only three professional actors in the cast, which is otherwise made up alumni of the Rta program.

It’s an ambitious project by any measure, but filmmakers Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar and Monique Walton realized — albeit a little late — that it would be near-impossible without industry support. “We just realized that about a month before we started shooting,” says Kwedar, who directed the film. “I remember having a legitimate panic attack.”

Mere weeks before filming was set to start in the summer of 2022, the team faced a race against the clock to find the right...

The tagline for Werewolves didn’t need to be anything more “Frank Grillo Werewolf Movie” because as fans of Action’s B-Movie Megastar, that’s all we needed to know. You like Frank Grillo? You like Werewolves? Well good news, fellow Venn Diagram movie fan, we’re getting it all in Steven C. Miller’s Werewolves!

Now I know we’re all worried about Climate Change, but have any of us taking a second to consider that while the Earth has us looking to the right, the Moon is coming in for the kill to the left?! That’s essentially the premise of Werewolves. In the near future, a cataclysmic event is brewing that threatens life as we know it. Thanks to a Supernatural Super Blood Moon, anyone caught under the silver glow of that big rock in the sky is suddenly transformed into a snarling beast. And in an...

Looking at life behind bars if found guilty on charges of sex trafficking and more, Sean “Diddy” Combs and his lawyers are now going on the offensive against the Department of Homeland Security.

In a risky tactic, Combs’ defense are accusing Dhs agents of leaking grand jury information and orchestrating a smear campaign against the “It’s All About the Benjamins” performer. As the bail denied Combs stews in the raucous Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, his Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos team are demanding an pivotal hearing in front of Judge Arun Subramanian Asap over the alleged Dhs “misconduct.”

“Defendant Sean Combs moves for four forms of relief related to what the defense believes was a series of unlawful government leaks, which have led to damaging, highly prejudicial pre-trial publicity that can only taint the jury pool and deprive Mr. Combs of his right to a fair trial,” declares...

How do you follow a smash hit like “Greedy,” which has spent nine days at Number One of Spotify’s Top 50 Global chart?

If you’re Tate McRae, you write the equally infectious “Exes,” with a chorus that’s catchy enough to put the same kind of success well within reach. Written with pop maestro Ryan Tedder, “Exes” arrives as the second single from McRae’s upcoming album Think Later. As a prelude for the album, which is out Dec. 8, it fits: “Exes” is an anthem for the unapologetic, even...

Marvel Studios has reportedly contemplated bringing back its classic characters, including deceased ones. Reviving deceased characters removes any sense of stakes and repeats a problematic comic book trope. A future MCU movie must either end in a reboot or submit these cameos as one-time deals in the narrative.

There's a lot in the air as far as fans are concerned when it comes to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The plans for the Multiverse Saga don't seem to be as concrete as things were with the preceding Infinity Saga. This is one of several reasons why audience engagement is waning. There's reportedly a Hail Mary being taken into consideration for another Avengers movie, but this plan might not be for the best.

According to a Variety report, the classic lineup of the Avengers is possibly coming back for another Avengers project. It's not confirmed who, if any of these characters will make their triumphant return,...

Jada Pinkett Smith and the late Tupac Shakur's were-they-weren't-they relationship is one that still intrigues fans nearly three decades after his tragic death. On Sept. 20, a week after the 27th anniversary of the rapper's death, Pinkett Smith took a trip down memory lane and posted an old clip of the two on Instagram ironically rapping along to her estranged husband Will Smith's classic '80s hit "Parents Just Don't Understand."

"Not in a million years would I have dreamed that the Fresh Prince and I would become, um, very acquainted," she captioned the video, referring to her husband's rap name. "Not in a million years did I imagine three lives, their fates, would be so intertwined. And… I never would have imagined that this video would become a tangible memory, of the last time Pac and I, were simply kids together. Pac and I lip syncing Parents Just...

Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers from the Oct. 4 episode of “Survivor.”

The latest episode of “Survivor” showed just how much people love this game — and will do just about anything to continue, even if they’re not physically thriving .

The episode kicks off with Emily continuing to upset the Lulu tribe. After Hannah’s surprise exit, Kaleb and Sabiyah voice how upsetting it is that she’s continuously calling them out. Emily claims that she’s doing what she thinks is best for her game, and feels she’s being gaslit. She later spirals, and starts very obviously digging for an idol. Since the whole tribe knows she’s looking, they then decide to partner up and look together; when Sabiyah tries to join Emily, she tells her she’d rather look alone.

Unfortunately for Emily, Sabiyah ends up getting the advantage; Brandon is the one to find it,...

Alon Moni Aboutboul reprises his role as Pavel Novikoff on CBS’s FBI: International season two episode 18. Directed by Avi Youabian from a script by Hussain Pirani, episode 18 – “Blood Feud” – will air on Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 9pm Et/Pt.

Season two stars Luke Kleintank as Special Agent Scott Forrester, Heida Reed as Special Agent Jamie Kellett, Carter Redwood as Special Agent Andre Raines, Vinessa Vidotto as Special Agent Cameron Vo, and Eva-Jane Willis as Europol Agent Megan “Smitty” Garretson.

Yuriy Sardarov guest stars as Sergei Diatchenko.

“Blood Feud” Plot: The Fly Team jumps into action to protect Forrester when a Russian hitman seeks revenge on him. Also, Raines is sent into a tailspin when someone close to him is taken.

Luke Kleintank as Special Agent Scott Forrester in ‘FBI: International’ season 2 episode 18

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FBI: International is the third iteration of the successful FBI brand...

The following contains spoilers from Wednesday’s episode of Survivor.

Survivor‘s showmance has officially been dismantled and there were so many tears.

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On Wednesday’s episode, a gazillion twists rained down on Fiji, as Probst split the merged tribe in two for this week’s immunity challenge. When all was said and done, a whopping seven out of the 11 players...

Mido Hamada as Constable Yannick Wagner, Luke Kleintank as Special Agent Scott Forrester, and Vinessa Vidotto as Special Agent Cameron Vo in ‘FBI: International’ season 2 episode 17

An attack on a ballerina sets the team in motion on CBS’s FBI: International season two episode 17. Directed by Eduardo Sanchez from a script by Kristina Thomas, episode 17 – “Jealous Mistress” – will air on Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at 9pm Et/Pt.

Season two stars Luke Kleintank as Special Agent Scott Forrester, Heida Reed as Special Agent Jamie Kellett, Carter Redwood as Special Agent Andre Raines, Vinessa Vidotto as Special Agent Cameron Vo, and Eva-Jane Willis as Europol Agent Megan “Smitty” Garretson.

“Jealous Mistress” Plot: The Fly Team heads to Vienna to find the culprit of an acid attack on a rising American prima ballerina. Also, Smitty receives some troubling intel from a familiar face.

Eva-Jane Willis as Europol Agent Megan “Smitty” Garretson in the “Jealous...

(Welcome to 100 Years of Disney Magic, a series examining the history, achievements, and legacy of The Walt Disney Company over the last century. Part 1, "How Walt Disney's First Cartoons Drove Him To Bankruptcy," followed the animator's early life and first forays into the business. In Part 2, we explore the founding of Walt's second — and much more successful — company, Disney Brothers Studio.)

The Walt Disney Company is arguably the most influential media empire of the 21st century, enjoying a firm hold on the public's attention. This is a studio that is a true market maker. People care so much about the Disney business that social media was set ablaze in 2022 by the news that Bob Iger would return as CEO of the Walt Disney Company. With the possible exception of Warner Bros. (and the DC Films IP), what other company has so many non-industry people invested in the corporate leadership?

Yet,...

“You have to know how to reject roles so as not to enter into a system in which women are only seen in a certain way,” French actress Juliette Binoche said here on Sunday, according to ‘Variety’.

Binoche spoke up for women while answering questions from the media at the San Sebastian Film Festival, where she is a recipient this year of the festival’s Donostia Award as a tribute to her career.

‘The English Patient’ star is a go-to actress for a slew of auteur directors, including Krzysztof Kieslowski and Claire Denis, who joined her on stage to discuss ‘Both Sides of the Blade’, this year’s Silver Bear winner for Best Director at the Berlinale.

A love triangle film co-starring Binoche, the film will be screened at the festival before the award’s presentation. ‘Both Sides of the Blade’ also stars Vincent Lindon and Gregoire Colin.

“You have...

“You have to know how to reject roles so as not to enter into a system in which women are only seen in a certain way,” said French actor Juliette Binoche on Sunday.

Binoche spoke up for women whilst answering questions from the press at the San Sebastián Film Festival where she is a recipient this year of the festival’s Donostia Award, as a tribute to her career.

“The English Patient” star is a go-to actress for a slew of auteur directors, including Krzysztof Kieślowski and Claire Denis.

Denis joined her on stage to discuss “Both Sides of the Blade,” a love triangle film co-starring Binoche, which will screen at the festival before the award’s presentation.

“Both Sides of the Blade” also stars Vincent Lindon and Grégoire Colin.

“You have to go instead to the new. And you have to jump into the unknown and work outside of macho codes,...

Media coverage of Jean-Luc Godard’s death will fall short of what he merits. He was a game-changing creator on the level of Sergei Eisenstein, Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, and others who changed the grammar of film forever, but his best-known films are from a half-century ago. And there’s this: Under the standards by which successful directors are judged today — box office and awards — Godard was strictly a minor-league player.

His lifelong regard as a master is a tribute to his films above all, but it also speaks to a cinephile culture that elevated and supported him for decades despite the general public’s disinterest.

In the U.S., Godard’s films initially received erratic distribution with short-run showings at a few big-city theaters; even his best-known titles like “Breathless” and “Week-end” received marginal releases. They appeared erratically, out of order, and sometimes not until two or three years after their public debuts.

Nearly nine months after Taylor Swift filed a Hail Mary motion asking a judge to reverse one of his own key rulings and cast aside a copyright infringement lawsuit centered on her biggest-ever hit “Shake It Off,” the judge issued his decision from the bench on Monday.

U.S. District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald not only rejected Swift’s last-ditch challenge to his summary judgment decision reached last December, he also made it clear he intends to stick to the mid-January 2023 trial date now set for the long-running case.

“The motion for reconsideration is denied,...

What would you do with a billion dollars? For most people, the question is so absurd as to be essentially meaningless. You could do it all. You could move into a mansion, eat only caviar, drink only champagne, hire a cadre of grovelling butlers and still have enough change left over to buy a respectable mid-size sports club. For a company like Amazon, however – or its multi-multibillionaire CEO, Jeff Bezos – a billion is a bit of a different proposition. That kind of money can buy you a wizard, a battalion of elves, and a few dozen hobbits.

Back in November 2017, Amazon acquired the rights to adapt parts of Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings, for its proprietary streaming service, Prime Video, in a deal worth an eye-watering 250m (£176m). This week, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power finally makes its debut. The series – set thousands of years...

Had all gone according to plan, Michael Dougherty's anthology horror flick, "Trick 'r Treat," would've arrived in theaters on October 5, 2007, giving it several weeks to make box-office hay during the spooky season. But with less than a month prior to its release, Warner Bros pushed the film back indefinitely for unstated reasons. Typically, when a movie gets bumped so abruptly, it's a sign of grave trouble. Whether it's testing poorly with audiences or tracking to fall far short of expectations at the box office, it's at least clear that the studio has no faith in the picture. There was speculation that the disappointment of producer Bryan Singer's "Superman Returns" a year prior might've left WB cool to the project's prospects, but no one was talking. In any event, Dougherty's film vanished from the release schedule, destined to linger in limbo for who knew how long.

15 years later,...

Deals closed at AFM 2020 Online. Arclight Films represents intenational rights.

Well Go USA has picked up North American rights and Signature Entertainment has acquired UK and Ireland to Irish drama Here Are The Young Men featuring an ensemble led by Anya Taylor-Joy from The Queen’s Gambit and Travis Fimmel.

The deals closed at AFM 2020 Online. ICM Partners and CAA Media Finance represented the filmmakers in the North American deal and Arclight Films brokered the UK sale.

Both Well Go USA and Signature plan 2021 releases, and Irish company Wildcard Distribution will manage the theatrical release in Ireland.

Eoin Macken directed...

Deals closed at AFM 2020 Online. Arclight Films represents intenational rights.

Well Go USA has picked up North American rights and Signature Entertainment has acquired UK and Ireland to Irish drama Here Are The Young Men featuring an ensemble led by Anya Taylor-Joy from The Queen’s Gambit and Travis Fimmel.

The deals closed at AFM 2020 Online. ICM Partners and CAA Media Finance represented the filmmakers in the North American deal and Arclight Films brokered the UK sale.

Both Well Go USA and Signature plan 2021 releases, and Irish company Wildcard Distribution will manage the theatrical release in Ireland.

Eoin Macken directed...

Having finished production on Netflix’s “Hillbilly Elegy,” Ron Howard is zeroing on a new directing gig as the “Beautiful Mind” director has come on to direct “The Fixer” for Paramount Pictures.

Howard’s production banner Imagine Entertainment will produce along with Bradley Cooper and Todd Phillips’ Joint Effort shingle. Andrew Panay will also join as producer.

Based on the original pitch by Tyler Hisel, the film is based on the incredible true story of a disgraced FBI agent, who, at the height of the Cold War is tapped by the CIA to lead a ragtag team of CIA operatives and Chicago mobsters on an unlikely mission to try to assassinate Fidel Castro.

Hisel also penned the script and sources tell Variety the project is a top priority for the studio and is likely to be Howard’s next directing job.

Howard recently finished production on the adaptation of bestselling non-fiction book “Hillbilly Elegy,...

Our favorite framily drama is back!

It was a long wait, but the return of A Million Little Things was worth it. It was easy to forget how great this show is, but A Million Little Things Season 2 Episode 1 reintroduced us to many of the qualities that make this series so special.

Let the emotions flow!

One of the best parts of the hour was how it blended angst, drama, and humor. The humor is what keeps the show from being weighed down too much, and despite everything happening in this hour, it was funny.

We can always thank James Roday and Romany Malco for that, along with Tristan Byon's unusual but effective quirk. It's the "God, this is my life" type of humor that anyone who defaults to humor as a coping mechanism can appreciate.

Related: A Million Little Things Opening Scene: Does Katherine Learn the Truth?

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All have projects at the Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink industry strand.

With the CineLink industry programme in full swing at the Sarajevo Film Festival, Screen profiles five producers from the region with an international outlook.

Jelena Angelovski (Serbia/Montenegro)

Serbian-born actress and producer Angelovski began to make her mark internationally when she produced Tamara Drakulić’s feature debut Wind through her Belgrade-based Monkey Production in 2016. It played at various international festivals including Torino and Goteborg.

Angelovski followed it up with two freelance projects: Ivan Salatić’s 2018 Venice Critics Week entry You Have the Night. made through Podgorica-based Meander Film,...

Edward Lewis, an independent producer best known for “Spartacus” and “Missing,” died at the age of 99 in his Los Angeles home on July 27. He produced 33 films, which garnered 15 Oscars and Golden Globe awards as well as 90 nominations. Additionally, he co-wrote musicals, works of fiction, and screenplays with the his partner and wife, Mildred, who died April 7.

A passionate opposer of the Hollywood blacklist, Lewis was given credit for clearing the name of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo by hiring him for “Spartacus.” Lewis went on to produce “The Last Sunset,” “Lonely Are The Brave,” and “Executive Action,” all films written by Trumbo.

Lewis and his wife were nominated for a best picture Oscar for Costa-Gavras’ 1982 drama “Missing.” They worked together on a number of other projects including, “Harold and Maude” and “Brothers.” He and his wife also co-wrote the books “Heads You Lose” and “Masquerade.”

Born Dec. 16, 1919 in Camden, New Jersey, the...

Lori McKenna performs a solo rendition of “The Fixer” off her album The Tree in this new video filmed for YouTube’s Nashville Sessions.

It’s a particularly dramatic reading by the New England songwriter, who shines a light on the complicated relationship between a man who is perpetually toiling away on a project (“The Fixer”) and his wife who is battling a life-sapping illness (“The Fighter”). “Some thing just can’t be fixed,” she tells him, too tired to even take a sip of the ginger ale he’s placed by her bed.

In recent times, light-hearted comedies such as We’re the Millers and Horrible Bosses have emphasized Jennifer Aniston’s more comedic side, though there’s no question that the former Friends actress has captured our attention with a turn in Daniel Barnz’s acclaimed and melancholic drama, Cake.

And while we don’t expect Aniston’s latest role to venture quite so far into the human psyche, the actress will soon be calling upon her dramatic chops once more for 20th Century Fox’s real-life sports drama, The Fixer. Deadline has learned that Aniston has sealed a deal to topline the feature as Denise White, a real-life Miss USA contestant who became one of the best sports managers in the business when she closed the book on her time as a beauty model. As White’s career evolved, though, she developed a knack for shielding clients and their public image...