When Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger collaborated on the Rolling Stones documentary “Shine A Light” they conceived an idea for a “Casino”-like movie set in the music biz of the 1970s. That was in 2010. Than in 2011 Scorsese and Jagger took the idea to HBO and brought on “Boardwalk Empire” writer Ter...
Read More »"The Leftovers," the HBO pilot based on Tom Perrotta's 2011 novel "The Leftovers" about the people left on Earth after the sudden, Rapture-like disappearance of a large chunk of the population, has found its lead.
Read More »Even if you aren't a "Game of Thrones" fan, even if you have only the most peripheral sense of the HBO drama as being about dragons, medieval sexytimes and Peter Dinklage acting sassy, rumbles that something major happened on this Sunday's installment surely reached you via social media or Monday mo...
Read More »Rather that showcase footage from the series, HBO has opted for the symbolic in its trailer for the second season of Aaron Sorkin cable news drama "The Newsroom," set to start on July 14th.
Read More »HBO's 2013 summer doc lineup kicks off on June 10 and covers subjects as varied as a Russian feminist art collective ("Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer") and a cinematic icon ("Love, Marilyn"), fracking ("Gasland Part II") to casting directors ("Casting By").
Read More »Steven Soderbergh's highly anticipated Liberace biopic "Behind The Candelabra" is adapted from a book by Scott Thorson with Alex Thorleifson, newly re-published by Tantor Media with a new afterword written by Thorson. Indiewire has the complete first chapter.
Read More »The 3rd Annual Critics' Choice Television Awards announced the nominations for the 2012-13 television season this morning, with HBO topping all networks with 21 nominations.
Read More »"Behind the Candelabra," which premiered at Cannes today before heading to HBO on Sunday, May 26th at 9pm, is Steven Soderbergh's virtuoso swan song to filmmaking (at least for now), his final feature before stopping to focus on his painting.
Read More »It's almost unfair how easy Steven Soderbergh makes it look. As the filmmaker heads into his hiatus from movie-making, he's spent the few last years dipping between high grade entertainment ("Magic Mike") and accomplished genre films ("Side Effects," "Haywire") and for his goodbye, he's more or less...
Read More »While there's still no word on whether or when there will be more "Curb Your Enthusiasm" in the future (a decision that seems to be entirely in Larry David's hands), HBO made fans of the "Seinfeld" co-creator very happy by announcing last year that the network would be producing a movie he wrote and...
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