NBC has placed a pilot order for “St. Denis Medical,” the latest workplace comedy series to come from “Superstore” alums Justin Spitzer and Eric Ledgin, as well as Simon Heuer. According to the show’s logline, the forthcoming comedy will be “a mockumentary about an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital where the dedicated doctors and nurses try…

After committing billions over the past few years to snare valuable sports rights, Disney is signaling it might play a more careful game when it comes to ESPN. Disney on Wednesday unveiled a new corporate structure that pulls ESPN out of its shared structure with the bulk of Disney’s linear TV networks and sets it…

Steven Soderbergh’s “Magic Mike’s Last Dance” is gearing up for its theatrical release with Salma Hayek playing the female lead opposite Channing Tatum, but that wasn’t how the film originally went into production. The movie started filming with Thandiwe Newton, but she exited the project after only 11 days and was replaced with Hayek. A…

President’s Day weekend is almost here which means Amazon is back to churning out some of the best deals of the year.  For a limited time, Amazon Prime is offering three whole months of their premium audiobook site, Audible Premium Plus, for no cost at all — down from its usual $14.95/month. Of course, to…

You’d think the movie that won the critics’ awards trifecta of Los Angeles, New York and the National Society of Film Critics would be considered one of the best picture front-runners. Still, Todd Field’s psychological drama about a lesbian conductor’s rise and fall isn’t being touted as a possibility to win the best picture Oscar…

In January 2020, the most popular movie on Netflix was “Don’t Look Up,” a newly released disaster comedy with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. But the second-most-popular movie was “Just Go With It,” an Adam Sandler flick from 2011 that had just started streaming on the service. Timothy Dowling, who co-wrote the screenplay for that…

The Number 44, the production company co-founded by director-producer Ben Charles Edwards (“Quant”) and Goldfinch, has revealed its slate of productions due to be completed by the end of 2023. The company is currently in post-production with its previously announced project, “The Wheels of Heaven,” starring Mickey Rourke. The new slate of projects includes: “All…

Prosecutors in New Mexico charged Alec Baldwin last week with a gun allegation that was not on the books at the time of the “Rust” shooting. Baldwin is facing a charge of involuntary manslaughter as well as a “firearm enhancement” in connection with the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The enhancement carries an additional five-year…

David Guetta is bringing the topic of artificial intelligence to the forefront after proving just how well the new technology works at replicating the voices of pop artists. Last week, the French DJ and producer shared a video of him playing a song during one of his sets that used AI technology to add the…

Netflix has ordered the limited series “The Madness” with Colman Domingo set to star, Variety has learned. “The Madness,” which will consist of eight episodes, is described as a conspiracy thriller. It centers on “media pundit Muncie Daniels (Domingo), who must fight for his innocence and his life after he stumbles upon a murder deep…