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We’ve reached the end. After 14 seasons and 293 episodes, the Reagan family’s story is ending with CBS’s Blue Bloods season 14 episode 18, “End of Tour.” Directed by Alex Zakrzewskiis from a script by Siobhan Byrne O’Connor and Kevin Wade, episode 18 will air on Friday, December 13, 2024 at 10pm Et/Pt.

Tom Selleck returns to lead the final season’s cast as Frank Reagan. Donnie Wahlberg stars as Danny Reagan, Bridget Moynahan plays Erin Reagan, Will Estes is Jamie Reagan, Len Cariou is Henry Reagan, Marisa Ramirez plays Maria Baez, and Vanessa Ray stars as Eddie Janko.

“End of Tour” Plot: It’s all hands on deck for the Reagan family, as they race to stop deadly mayhem in the city when the gangs of New York unite together to demand amnesty for the release of their imprisoned members and those awaiting trial, in the historic series finale episode. Academy Award...

CBS’s Blue Bloods is taking a two-week break before returning with the show’s penultimate episode, “Entitlement.” With just two new episodes left, season 14 episode 17 finds Eddie and Badillo dealing with Jamie’s confidential informant. Directed by Jackeline Tejada from a script by Yasmine Cadet and Daniel Truly, episode 17 will air on Friday, December 6, 2024 at 10pm Et/Pt.

Tom Selleck returns to lead the final season’s cast as Frank Reagan. Donnie Wahlberg stars as Danny Reagan, Bridget Moynahan plays Erin Reagan, Will Estes is Jamie Reagan, Len Cariou is Henry Reagan, Marisa Ramirez plays Maria Baez, and Vanessa Ray stars as Eddie Janko.

“Entitlement” Plot: Eddie and Badillo try to help a man whose apartment has been taken over by a squatter who also happens to be Jamie’s confidential informant. Also, Danny and Baez investigate when a star student is found dead in her dormitory. Frank suspects...

Hey, "Blue Bloods" fans. We're back with some absolutely wonderful news for you guys because CBS is going to finally serve up the next, new episode 7 of Blue Bloods' current season 14 tonight, April 26, 2024. That's right, guys. After delaying it last week, they're going to make it up to you tonight, and we've got some new spoiler scoops to run by you. We were able to dig up quite a few, official teaser descriptions for this new episode 7 via CBS' official episode 7 press release synopsis. So, we're going to certainly pull it up for this spoiler session. Let's get to it. To start, there's an official title for this new episode 7 of Blue Bloods season 14. The writers went with the name, "On The Ropes." It sounds like episode 7 will feature some very scandalous, intense, dramatic, action-filled, suspenseful and interesting scenes as artificial intelligence scammers are on the scene. Some mysterious deaths take place.

Blue Bloods returns after a brief hiatus for the final four episodes of Season 14 Part One.

The final season of the hit CBS show has been divided into two parts, with the final eight episodes airing next fall.

Well, that is unless Blue Bloods fans get their wish and CBS renews the show at the last minute, just like with S.W.A.T.

CBS likely won’t decide about the fate of Blue Bloods until next year, but the good news is that the fans have been loud telling the network to “cancel the cancel.”

In the meantime, summer break is on the horizon, bringing the first part of Blue Bloods Season 14 to an end.

Let’s examine what we know about the remaining Blue Bloods Season 14 spring episodes.

Blue Bloods Season 14 schedule and finale date

There are four episodes left in the current season of Blue Bloods. Due to the Writers...

ESPN Films is working on a docuseries about the legendary Gracie family, Variety has learned exclusively.

Titled “Gracie,” the series will delve deep into the family’s history and dissect how they became the founders of Brazilian jiu jitsu, which serves as a major cornerstone of modern mixed martial arts (Mma).

The official description of the series states: “Featuring larger-than-life personalities, triumphs and tragedies, deep loyalties, passionate loves and deadly feuds, ‘Gracie’ will explore the essence of family, honor, legacy, and humanity’s innate desire to fight. Told through the eyes of key Gracie family members, the series will dive deep into an epic family saga that takes audiences from Scotland and Japan, to Brazil and America.”

The series is directed by Chris Fuller (“Loren Cass”) and is executive produced by ESPN Films. The project is being produced by Solaris Entertainment. Gregory O’Connor, Nanette Burstein, Guy Ritchie and Ivan Atkinson...

Brett Morgen has signed with Entertainment 360.

Morgen is is considered one of the most influential and acclaimed nonfiction filmmakers of the past 25 years, with credits that include Moonage Daydream, Jane, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, Crossfire Hurricane and The Kid Stays in the Picture.

Moonage Daydream premiered to critical acclaim at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival and went on to become the highest-grossing nonfiction film this decade. The film was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Documentary and received WGA, Cas, Mpse and Critics Choice awards. 

In 2018, Morgen won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Director for his work on Jane. In addition, he has been awarded DGA, PGA, Ace, Mpse, WGA and IDA awards for Outstanding Documentary. In addition, he has received eight individual Emmy nominations, two Peabody Awards, two BAFTA nominations, three Ace Eddie nominations, and an Oscar nomination in 2000 for the documentary On the Ropes. ...

The Australian supernatural horror film Talk to Me is the latest fright fest distributed by A24, and its cast is full of up-and-coming young actors. Directed by notable YouTubers Danny and Michael Philippou, Talk to Me follows a group of teens who dabble in the dark arts by performing seances with an embalmed hand that eventually leads to a deadly possession. Updating classic horror movie tropes for the 21st century, Talk to Me takes a cinematic approach to its horror storytelling and delivers its abundant scares with mostly practical effects. Though an independent film at heart, Talk to Me has the chance to become an international horror blockbuster.

The film had its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, and the buzz surrounding it kicked off a bidding war for its international distribution rights. Indie film titan A24 won (via Variety) and added it to their collection of other elevated...

The expansion of free streaming services continues unabated. On Wednesday, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (Csse) shared some details on its ever-expanding reach and upcoming original programming at the Iab Newfronts in New York. A month after launching a new advertising sales division known as Crackle Connex, Csse reports having an audience of over 80 million monthly active users, up 100% year-over-year.

This rapid expansion was aided by the company acquiring Redbox last May, giving Csse an out-of-home presence, but the majority of the growth comes from the addition of over 160 channels on the company’s free ad-supported streaming TV (Fast) and ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) services.

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Csse also benefited from the addition of Crackle and Redbox buttons on [Vizio Smart TV] remotes, making the free streaming services even easier to access and front-of-mind for viewers. Thanks to new deals with the likes of Crunchyroll, Funimation, Vidgo,...

Gigi Pritzker’s entertainment company Madison Wells and veteran doc maker Nanette Burstein have signed a co-production deal to develop premium unscripted projects together.

The two-year agreement will see Burstein, a director, producer and writer best known for the Oscar nominated On The Ropes film, develop documentaries and docuseries with backing from Madison Wells.

“I am thrilled to be partnering with longtime collaborators, Madison Wells, on this new venture. Documentary filmmaking is the love of my life. It is high time I formed my own company to produce not only my own work but support new, up and coming talent in this burgeoning field,” Burstein said in a statement on Tuesday.

Longtime unscripted producer and network exec Lesley Goldman will oversee development across projects that will aim to spotlight pressing issues facing women today.

“We have a long-standing relationship with Nanette and her interests align with our own: telling stories...

Exclusive: Legendary astronomer and astrophysicist Carl Sagan, who expanded scientific understanding of the universe and helped millions appreciate the wonders of the cosmos, will be the subject of an upcoming documentary feature from National Geographic Documentary Films.

The Untitled Carl Sagan Film will be produced by Fuzzy Door’s Seth MacFarlane and Erica Huggins, Emmy and Peabody winner Ann Druyan – Sagan’s life partner – and Academy Award nominee Nanette Burstein, with Burstein directing. Also producing is production company Hungry Man.

Dr. Carl Sagan during an interview with ‘The Tonight Show’ host Johnny Carson on September 16, 1976.

Sagan’s contributions to planetary science were equaled only by his capacity to spread an infectious joy of the marvel and immensity of space. His 1980 book Cosmos became the best-selling science book ever published in English, and he appeared frequently on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (amusing the host and the viewing public with...

The nominations for the 95th Academy Awards were unveiled this morning, and while for some like Everything Everywhere All At Once, All Quiet On The Western Front and The Banshees of Inisherin the race to Oscar glory is on, there are some who never made it off the starting line.

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Announced in the pre-dawn hours in Los Angeles by self-described “over caffeinated” past Oscar winner Riz Ahmed and M3gan star Allison Williams, the nominations covered a lot of ground with the blockbusters, streamer offerings and traditional dramas in the mix this year. However, not every contender made it into that nominations mix in the end.

Take a look...

Hulu dropped the trailer for its new Hillary Clinton-focused docuseries “Hillary” on Thursday, during the Television Critics Association press tour. The four-part show follows the woman, the myth, the legend, herself, all throughout her political career, including her 2016 presidential campaign. But it also goes way back to before she was interested in pursuing that path.

In the trailer, which you can view above, the former U.S. secretary of state and her husband Bill Clinton tell the story of their meet-cute back in law school, when the future Flotus and Potus say they couldn’t stop looking at each other in class.

“I said, ‘If you’re gonna keep looking at me and I’m gonna keep looking back, we oughta know each other’s names. I’m Hillary Rodham, who are you?'” Hillary says.

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Bill adds: “She was...

“Minamata,” starring Johnny Depp, Nanette Burstein’s documentary series about Hillary Clinton, “Hillary,” and Agnieszka Holland’s “Charlatan” have been selected to play in the Berlinale Special section of the Berlin Film Festival, the event said Tuesday.

Also selected in the section are two documentary features, Jóhann Jóhannsson’s “Last and First Men,” narrated by Tilda Swinton, and Jia Zhang-ke’s “Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue.”

These five titles join Matteo Garrone “Pinocchio” in Berlinale Special, whose selection was announced last month.

Depp plays celebrated photographer W. Eugene Smith in Andrew Levitas’ “Minamata,” which follows Smith as he takes on a powerful corporation responsible for poisoning the people of Minamata, Japan, in 1971.

The film is based on Aileen Mioko Smith and W. Eugene Smith’s book “Minamata,” which has been adapted by David K. Kessler (“A Hard Day’s Day”).

HanWay Films is handling international sales on “Minamata,...