Peter Berg News

ESPN is collaborating with acclaimed filmmaker/director Peter Berg of Pony Show Entertainment to create a dramatic new show open for the Monday Night Football franchise. The one-minute, 30-second open chronicles the 44-year history of sports television's signature series by combining indelible football moments from past MNF games with images of touchstone cultural events of the past four-and-a-half decades.

The kidnapping story of oil heir J. Paul Getty III will be told from a slightly different perspective as the criminal masterminds of the plot and their families contribute their side of the story.

Although this year marks the 50th anniversary of Edith Piaf's passing, no French singer since has matched her level of international success. The singer and actress Patricia Kaas, whose first major breakthrough took place 26 years ago-and who has since sold 19 million albums worldwide and won six Victoires de la Musique (the French equivalent of GRAMMYs), 2 World Music Awards and over other 25 distinctions and awards-may be the female artist to have come closest. As a unique and charismatic interpreter of songs and live performer, too, Kaas has proven a worthy bearer of the Piaf torch. Kaas pays direct, emotional tribute to the legendary singer with the multimedia concert Kaas Chante Piaf, which comes to North America this September on a 45-country, 150-show tour of prestigious opera houses, concert halls and theaters, including a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall last November. The North American shows immediately precede three nights at Paris' Olympia.

Private Practice star Amy Brenneman will play Justin Theroux's wife in HBO's THE LEFTOVERS, according to The Hollywood reporter. The pilot is directed by Peter Berg and penned by Damon Lindelof for HBO. Also co-starring are Tony nominee Carrie Coon, Doctor Who's Christopher Eccleston, Ann Down and Amanda Warren.

According to Deadline.com, Liv Tyler will star alongside Justin Theroux in Damon Lindelof's 'The Leftovers' pilot for HBO, directed by Peter Berg.

Hot on the heels of her 2013 Tony Award nomination for her winning portrayal of Honey in the 2012 Broadway revival of Edward Albee's bristling and brilliant WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, Carrie Coon has landed an HBO pilot, THE LEFTOVERS.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, a division of MGM Holdings, Inc., and Paramount Pictures, a division of Viacom, Inc., announced principal photography began today on “HERCULES,” starring Dwayne Johnson

Recognizing the essential role that writers have played in creating and elevating the medium of television since its inception, the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) tonight announced the list of the 101 Best Written TV Series

Producers Shari Albert and Jessica Blank have announced the full cast for new web series GOOD MEDICINE, written by Shari Albert and Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen ('THE EXONERATED') and directed by Erik Jensen.

Following PRIVATE PRACTICE's recent conclusion, series star KaDee Strickland is moving on to a pulp thriller. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Strickland has signed on for NBC's upcoming drama pilot BLOODLINE from David Granziano. Peter Berg is directing.

Jonathan Banks, best known as 'Mike Ehrmantraut' on AMC's BREAKING BAD, has officially signed on for NBC's upcoming pilot, BLOODLINE.

According to Deadline.com, MGM and Paramount Pictures' Hercules, starring Dwayne Johnson, has set its release date for August 8, 2014.

Nominees for the 33rd Annual RAZZIE Awards, satirizing the Worst Achievements in Film for 2012, include several Repeat Offenders, returning for more pie-in-the-face/light-hearted joshing in the one Tinsel Town trophy derby no one wants to win.

Twihards might be disappointed to know that the only formal recognition the final installment in the TWILIGHT saga will likely receive is a Razzie. And a lot of them, if the number of nominations it was (dis)honored with is any indication. Read: The film was nominated in every category.

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is celebrating this week's premiere of TNT's all-new series DALLAS by unveiling a 10-gallon list of the Top 10 Texas Movies.

ABC's On The Red Carpet gives fans an inside look at Rihanna's film debut on the set of the highly anticiapted action film BATTLESHIP. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the superstar below!

ESPN Films has announced the return of the Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning 30 FOR 30 film series.

The award-winning GI Film Festival (GIFF), the nation's only military-themed film festival, is pleased to announce the full schedule of events for the 2012 event, which will feature premiere military film screenings, celebrity appearances, red carpet parties and more.

According to Comingsoon.net, Academy Award-winning actor Liam Neeson will reprise his role as Ra's al Ghul in the highly anticipated Batman sequel THE DARK KNIGHT RISES.

On the heels of record-setting premiere ratings for the network's Sunday night line-up and continued audience growth, SHOWTIME has picked up new seasons of SHAMELESS, HOUSE OF LIES and CALIFORNICATION.