Emile Sherman News

SHOWTIME has picked up the 10-episode first season of THE END, a half-hour dark comedy series starring Emmy nominee Harriet Walter.

BroadwayWorld is checking in with the cast to uncover some little known facts about the political giants they play onstage. Today, watch as Marchánt Davis gives us a lesson on Stokely Carmichael.

 See-Saw Films' “A Special Relationship,” the upcoming biopic on Elizabeth Taylor, has brought on Rachel Weisz to star.

Tony Award & Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan will return to Broadway with the second of his two exhilarating dramas celebrating Lyndon B. Johnson's legacy: THE GREAT SOCIETY. Get to know the cast below as they begin Broadway performances!

BBC Two has acquired See-Saw Films' short-form comedy series State Of The Union, written by Academy Award-nominated and Bafta-winning writer Nick Hornby.

Bafta award-winner Jack O'Connell has signed on for the lead role in the BBC Two four-part thriller The North Water, being adapted and directed by multi award-winning Andrew Haigh (Lean on Pete, Looking, Weekend).

On Monday, May 6, SundanceTV's commitment to innovation in storytelling will be showcased through the new, short form series State of the Union, produced by See-Saw Films. Debuting on SundanceTV, Sundance Now and other digital platforms same day, the highly anticipated series, comprised of ten ten-minute episodes, stars Oscar®-nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, A Private War) and Emmy®-winner Chris O'Dowd (Bridesmaids, Get Shorty). 

Golden Globe-winner Colin Farrell has boarded the BBC Two four-part thriller The North Water, being adapted and directed by multi award-winning Andrew Haigh (Lean On Pete, Looking, Weekend).

Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan are set to star in romance-drama Ammonite from Francis Lee, according to Deadline.

Endeavor Content, the scripted television and feature film financing, development and sales division of Endeavor (formerly WME I IMG), will launch international sales at MIPCOM on See-Saw Films' short-form comedy series 'State of the Union' directed by Academy Award(R)-nominated, BAFTA and Emmy-winner Stephen Frears' (A Very English Scandal, Philomena), written by Academy Award(R)-nominated and BAFTA-winning writer Nick Hornby (Brooklyn, An Education) and starring Academy Award(R) and BAFTA-nominated Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Hostiles) and BAFTA-nominated Chris O'Dowd (Bridesmaids, 'Get Shorty'). The series is set to air on SundanceTV, sundancetv.com and Sundance Now in Q1 2019.

Critically acclaimed and multi-award-winning film and TV director Stephen Frears (A Very English Scandal, Philomena) is set to direct the ten-part short form comedy series 'State of the Union' written by the Academy Award®-nominated and BAFTA-winning writer Nick Hornby (Brooklyn, An Education) and starring Academy Award® and BAFTA-nominated Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Hostiles) and BAFTA-nominated Chris O'Dowd (Bridesmaids, 'Get Shorty'), it was announced by See-Saw Films' COO of Television, Hakan Kousetta, Head of Television, Jamie Laurenson and Jan Diedrichsen, General Manager, SundanceTV and Sundance Now. Shooting will commence in summer 2018 in London. See-Saw Films is producing the series for SundanceTV.

From the raucous dual imaginations of fantasy laureate Neil Gaiman ('American Gods,' CORALINE) and glamrock multi-hyphenate John Cameron Mitchell (HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, SHORTBUS) comes the electrifying and singular pop extravaganza film, HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES.

From Academy Award®-winning director Steve McQueen ('12 Years a Slave') and co-writer and bestselling author Gillian Flynn ('Gone Girl') comes a blistering, modern-day thriller set against the backdrop of crime, passion and corruption. 'Widows' is the story of four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities. Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, tensions build when Veronica (Oscar® winner Viola Davis), Alice (Elizabeth Debicki), Linda (Michelle Rodriguez) and Belle (Cynthia Erivo) take their fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms. 'Widows' also stars Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, Daniel Kaluuya, Lukas Haas and Brian Tyree Henry.

20th Century Fox shares the details for their upcoming releases that will be included in today's CinemaCon 2018 Presentation in Las Vegas, Nevada. See below for a list of titles and the synopsis for each film!

Sony Music Masterworks has announced the release of How To Talk To Girls At Parties (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack),the musical companion to the hugely anticipated new film from award-winning writer-director, John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch), based on the short story by Neil Gaiman (American Gods, Norse Mythology). The album arrives at all music retailers and streaming services on Friday, May 11. Out today ahead of the full soundtrack release is the single track, 'Between the Breaths' from beloved indie-darlings, Mitski and Xiu Xiu. The A24 release of a See-Saw Films/Little Punk production, How to Talk to Girls at Parties opens in theaters across the U.S on May 25. StudioCanal UK releases the film across the UK on May 11.

John Cameron Mitchell, Neil Gaiman and actress Elle Fanning have all turned to social media to share sneak peeks at Mitchell's new film HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES.

The Weinstein Company's (TWC) film LION was nominated for six Academy Awards® this morning by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the following categories

This morning, Jennifer Hudson, Brie Larson, Emmanuel Lubezki, Jason Reitman and Ken Watanabe will join Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs to reveal the 89th Oscars Nominations

Today, The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced today the motion picture nominations for the 2017 Producers Guild Awards.

Sia has shared the lyric video for her new song 'Never Give Up' from the movie LION, now in theaters. Check it out below!