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La Fundación y la Dinastía Cleónica se enfrentan a una nueva amenaza: La Mula. © Apple TV+

Apple TV+ ha presentado el primer teaser tráiler de la tercera temporada de Fundación, la épica saga de ciencia ficción de David S. Goyer, y ha anunciado su fecha de estreno.

Basada en las premiadas novelas de Isaac Asimov, Fundación gira en torno a un grupo de exiliados en su afán por salvar la humanidad y reconstruir la civilización ante la caída del Imperio Galáctico. Ambientada 152 años después de los eventos de la segunda temporada, esta nueva temporada marca un punto de no retorno. La Fundación, desde sus modestos inicios, ha evolucionado hasta convertirse en una fuerza decisiva en la galaxia, justo cuando el poder de la Dinastía Cleónica comienza a resquebrajarse. Cuando estos dos poderes galácticos forjan una complicada alianza, emerge una amenaza colosal: «La Mula», un guerrero temido, que tiene la vista...

“Foundation” is back for more sci-fi thrills with the first official teaser for Season 3, reuniting Jared Harris, Lee Pace and Lou Llobell.

“Foundation” Season 3 debuts Friday, July 11 on Apple TV+ followed by weekly episodes through Friday, September 12.

With new stars this season including Oscar-winner Troy Kotsur, Emmy-winner Cherry Jones and Brandon P. Bell, the story picks up 152 years after the events of Season 2. The official synopsis reads: “The Foundation has become increasingly established far beyond its humble beginnings while the Cleonic Dynasty’s Empire has dwindled. As both of these galactic powers forge an uneasy alliance, a threat to the entire galaxy appears in the fearsome form of a warlord known as ‘The Mule.'”

The show is produced for Apple by Skydance Television. Executive producers include David S. Goyer, Bill Bost, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Matt Thunell, Robyn Asimov, David Kob, Christopher J. Byrne, Leigh Dana Jackson, Jane Espenson and Roxann Dawson.

Exclusive: Here are your first look images of Oscar winner Russell Crowe (Gladiator) and Daniel MacPherson (Foundation) in martial-arts movie Beast In Me, which is in production in Australia and Bangkok, from a script co-written by Crowe.

They are joined in the cast by Luke Hemsworth (Westworld), Mojean Aria (The Correspondent) Kelly Gale (Plane), George Burgess (Land of Bad), Bren Foster (The Last Ship), Saphira Moran (It Will Find You) and Australian musician Amy Shark, who makes her feature film debut.

The Solution Entertainment Group is selling the project at the EFM in Berlin.

Pic follows Patton James (MacPherson), who abandons his mixed martial arts dream to support his wife, Luciana (Gale), and son. When his brother, Malon (Aria), suffers a serious injury and faces financial strain to underworld figures, Patton sets out to avenge him in a One Championship fight with the help of veteran trainer Sammy (Crowe). Below are additional production stills.

There's one major difference between Mistborn and Game of Thrones, pointed out by Brandon Sanderson, that could indicate something about how his books should be adapted. George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice & Fire novels are some of the most prolific fantasy books ever written, and given the popularity of the HBO adaptation, they're a common comparison point for any series hoping to be made into a film or television show. Brandon Sanderson has long discussed the possibility of a Mistborn movie adaptation, and there's much to theorize about regarding how that would look.

In a Reddit thread from 2016, Sanderson was prompted by a fan, questioning if he would consider finishing A Song of Ice & Fire if Martin doesn't. The question was asked in praise of Sanderson as an author and also due to the fact that he famously finished Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time...

Únete a Joel Edgerton y Jennifer Connelly en esta inquietante y prometedora serie. © Apple TV+

Apple TV+ ha publicado el tráiler de su nueva serie “Materia Oscura”, que se suma a la lista de series de ciencia ficción de Apple TV+, que incluye las exitosas y aclamadas “Fundación”, “Monarch: El Legado de los Monstruos”, “Silo”, “Para Toda la Humanidad”, “Invasión” y muchas más.

Basada en el exitoso libro best-seller de Blake Crouch, “Materia Oscura” es una historia sobre las vidas que no hemos vivido. La serie sigue a Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton), un físico, profesor y padre de familia que, una noche mientras vuelve a casa por las calles de Chicago, es transportado a una versión alternativa de su vida. El asombro se convierte rápidamente en pesadilla cuando intenta volver a su realidad, en medio del alucinante paisaje de las vidas que podría haber vivido. En este laberinto de realidades,...

Exclusive: Rebel Moon star Staz Nair is replacing Sacha Dhawan as lead of upcoming Bradford-set BBC crime thriller Virdee.

Doctor Who star Dhawan has dropped out due to scheduling issues, Deadline is told, and will be replaced in the Harry Virdee role by the actor who has also appeared in Game of Thrones and Supergirl.

The adaptation of AA Dhand’s thriller, which Dhand is penning, has unveiled full cast including Aysha Kala (Criminal Record, Indian Summers) as Saima Virdee, Harry’s wife, Nina Singh (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry) as Tara Virdee, Harry’s niece and a keen crime reporter, with Vikash Bhai (Crossfire, Limbo) playing Harry’s brother-in-law Riaz Hyatt. Kulvinder Ghir (Foundation, Blinded By The Light) and Sudha Bhuchar (Expats, Rules of the Game) will play Harry Virdee’s parents, Ranjit and Jyoti. Other cast include Elizabeth Berrington (Good Omens), Danyal Ismail (All the Lights Still...

Is Apple TV+ quietly morphing into a full-fledged sci-fi network? Judging by its latest acquisition, the answer is a resounding mmhmm.

The streamer behind Foundation, For All Mankind, Constellation and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is adapting William Gibson’s classic science fiction/cyberpunk novel Neuromancer into a series.

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Graham Rolan (Jack Ryan) and Jd Dillard (Sleight) will shepherd the inaugural 10-episode season,...

Exclusive: Foundation, the Apple TV+ series from Skydance TV, is set to resume production on its upcoming third season March 6 in the Czech Republic capital Prague and Poland, Deadline has learned. The cast and crew of the sci-fi drama starring Jared Harris and Lee Pace were just notified about the new principal photography start date, sources said.

As Deadline reported, re-start of production on Season 3, originally slated for February, was postponed earlier this month, with issues related to budgeting and physical production prompting the delay. Cast and crew who had already convened for the shoot, were told to return home while the issues were sorted out, with the budget brought down.

That process has now been completed, and Season 3 will be finished. Series’ co-developer/executive producer/showrunner David S. Goyer, who directed one episode in Season 1 and two in Season 2, will complete his outstanding writing and directing services and will...

One of the most ambitious science fiction adaptations ever attempted on the small screen is returning with new episodes! The Apple TV+ original series “Foundation” will premiere its second season on Friday, July 14. The series follows a band of human exiles who want to save humanity from extinction, amidst the fall of the Galactic Empire which governs them. You can watch Foundation: Season 2 with a 7-Day Free Trial of Apple TV+.

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Season 2 takes place more than 100 years after the conclusion of the first batch of “Foundation” episodes. The Cleons have begun to fracture, just as a malicious queen schemes to bring down the entire Empire from within. Hari, Gaal, and Salvor find a colony of reclusive Mentalics, equipped...

“Foundation” is returning with new episodes this week. The series will debut its second season on Friday, June 14, and to promote the new episodes Apple TV+ is making the show’s premiere episode available to stream for free on YouTube! And if that wasn’t enough, the series’ showrunner David S. Goyer will be answering questions about the show live in the YouTube chat.

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Starting at 2 p.m. Et on Monday, July 10, Apple will place Season 1, Episode 1 of “Foundation” on YouTube with no login credentials required. Users will be able to watch free for a limited time, and Apple hopes the episode will get some new customers hooked enough to try the streamer’s seven-day free trial. The trial would give viewers enough time to binge through the first season, plus see the second season premiere.

Watch the First Episode of ‘Foundation’ From Apple...

There's a lot to wrap your head around when you dig into the $45 million budgeted Apple TV+ show Foundation in preparation for a second season in July. The ambitious science fiction epic is based on the 1951 book of the same name by legendary author and pioneer of the genre Isaac Asimov and gets into some heady ideology over the course of its 10-episode first season. At its core, Foundation is a story about faith versus science. Yes, the same age-old question that has been twisting humankind into knots since its inception is very much at the center of Asimov's story.

Exclusive: Ben Daniels (Foundation) is set as a series regular in the upcoming second season of Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire at AMC.

The contemporary adaptation of Rice’s gothic novel follows Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) and Claudia’s (Bailey Bass) story of love and immortality, as told to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian).

The series is based on Rice’s book, which was famously turned into a 1994 movie starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.

Daniels plays Santiago, the leading vamp thespian of the Theatre des Vampires who grows increasingly suspicious of the American vampires Louis and Claudia.

Rolin Jones (Perry Mason) serves as creator, showrunner and writer of the series. The 8-episode second season will be set in Prague with Oscar and Emmy Award-winning producer Mark Johnson and Jones executive producing. Anne and Christopher Rice...

Sarah-Sofie Boussnina (The Colony), Shalom Brune-Franklin (The Tourist), Faoileann Cunningham (The Northman), Aoife Hinds (Normal People) and Chloe Lea (Foundation) have joined the cast of HBO Max’s Dune: The Sisterhood (wt), from Legendary Television. They join previously announced leads Emily Watson, Shirley Henderson and Indira Varma.

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The series, which is based on Frank Herbert’s classic novel, is set 10,000 years before the ascension of Paul Atreides and follows the Harkonnen Sisters, played by Watson and Henderson, as they combat forces that threaten the future of humankind,...

Netflix announced today that Karl Urban (The Boys), Zaris-Angel Hator (The Power), Jared Harris (Foundation), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Boxing Day), Dan Stevens (Gaslit) and Kathy Burke (Tinker Tailor Solider Spy) will topline The Sea Beast, its upcoming animated film from Academy Award winner Chris Williams.

Pic is set in an era when terrifying beasts roamed the seas, and monster hunters were celebrated heroes, with none being more beloved than the great Jacob Holland. But when young Maisie Brumble stows away on his fabled ship, he’s saddled with an unexpected ally. Together, they embark on an epic journey into uncharted waters and make history.

Williams is directing from his screenplay, written with Nell Benjamin, and is producing alongside Jed Schlanger. Check out the first teaser for The Sea Beast above.

The two largest film studios in Ireland — Ardmore Studios and Troy Studios — have been sold to Hackman Capital Partners and Square Mile Capital Management, a joint venture that owns complexes including Culver Studios and Silvercup as part of the world’s largest independent studio and media portfolio.

Ardmore and Troy will both continue to operate with their existing branding, and will maintain their current staff, led by Elaine Geraghty as CEO. Based in Limerick, Troy is Ireland’s largest studio complex, with 100,000 square feet of stage space and 250,000 square feet for production support, including the largest sound stages in the country. Ardmore Studios, in Wicklow has more than 140,000 square feet of sound stages and about 160,000 square feet of support buildings. Recent projects shot at Troy Studios and Ardmore Studios include Ridley Scott’s “The Last Duel” as well as “Foundation” from Apple TV Plus and “Winx” from Netflix.

“We are...

Here is an updated list (May 2020) of broadcast, cable, streaming and syndicated TV shows decimated by the spread of the deadly 'Covid-19' virus, forcing productions to shut down for the safety of cast and crew:

Broadcast

All Rise (CBS)

The Amazing Race (CBS)

American Housewife (ABC)

America’s Got Talent (NBC)

American Ninja Warrior (NBC)

The Bachelor (ABC)

The Bachelorette (ABC)

Batwoman (The CW)

The Blacklist (NBC)

Bob Hearts Abishola (CBS)

The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)

The Brides (ABC)

Bull (CBS)

Card Sharks (ABC)

Charmed (the CW)

Chicago Fire (NBC)

Chicago P.D. (NBC)

Chicago Med (NBC)

Claws (TNT)

Dynasty (The CW)

Empire (Fox)

FBI (CBS)

FBI: Most Wanted (CBS)

The Flash (The CW)

General Hospital (ABC)

God Friended Me (CBS)

The Goldbergs (ABC)

Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)

Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC)

Last Man Standing (Fox)

Law & Order: Svu (NBC)

The Late Late Show with James Corden (CBS)

Late Night with Seth Meyers...

Exclusive: Former AMC Studios executive Drew Brown is joining Skydance Television as Evp, Physical Production. He replaces Carol Turner, who recently exited to head up production at ABC Studios. It is one of several executive hires and promotions in the indie TV studio’s creative development, global physical production, business affairs and publicity operations as new Skydance TV President Bill Bost is building his team.

Also joining the company are Lucid Road Productions’ Zack Beckman as VP, Creative Development, and Sony Pictures TV’s Jeff Hegedus as Evp Business & Legal Affairs. Katherine Morrison has been promoted to VP, Creative Development; Dawn Lach to Svp,, Marketing and Publicity.

In his new role, Brown will oversee all physical production for comedies, dramas and limited series for the television studio, including production finance and post-production. Both Beckman and Morrison will be responsible for overseeing current series and the development of original and IP-based...

Scorpion creator Nick Santora, showrunner of Skydance Television’s upcoming Jack Reacher series, is expanding his relationship with the studio, signing an exclusive, multi-year overall deal. Under the pact, Santora will create, develop and produce event-level original scripted series for Skydance TV.

Santora currently serves as showrunner and executive producer on the studio’s upcoming series Jack Reacher for Amazon Prime. Jack Reacher is a drama based on Lee Child’s bestselling international book series, which has sold 100 million copies in almost 50 languages and more than 100 territories to date. Season one will be based on the first Jack Reacher novel Killing Floor and is produced by Amazon Studios, Skydance Television and Paramount Television Studios.

“Nick has impeccable taste and an amazing facility for all aspects of creating and producing television,” said Bill Bost, President, Skydance Television. “He is masterful at telling sophisticated stories for a global audience and we are...

Here is an updated list of broadcast, cable and streaming TV shows decimated by the spread of the deadly Wuhan Virus, forcing productions to shut down for the safety of cast and crew:

Broadcast

All Rise (CBS)American Housewife (ABC)America’s Got Talent (NBC)American Ninja Warrior (NBC)The Amazing Race (CBS)The Bachelor (ABC)The Bachelorette (ABC)Batwoman (The CW)The Blacklist (NBC)Bob Hearts Abishola (CBS)The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)The Brides (ABC)Bull (CBS)Card Sharks (ABC)Charmed (the CW)Chicago Fire (NBC)Chicago P.D. (NBC)Chicago Med (NBC)Claws (TNT)Dynasty (The CW)Empire (Fox)FBI (CBS)FBI: Most Wanted (CBS)The Flash (The CW)General Hospital (ABC)God Friended Me (CBS)The Goldbergs (ABC)Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC)Last Man Standing (Fox)Law & Order: Svu (NBC)The Late Late Show with James Corden (CBS)Late Night with Seth Meyers...

Check back for updates … The coronavirus already has hit the television industry hard, and the fallout has only begun. Dozens of series have halted production or had their starts delayed as the outbreak continues to spread. Have a look at our list of broadcast, cable, streaming and international series below.

We will update this post when we hear that another show is shut down:

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Broadcast

All Rise (CBS)

American Housewife (ABC)

America’s Got Talent (NBC)

American Ninja Warrior (NBC)

The Amazing Race (CBS)

The Bachelor (ABC)

The Bachelorette (ABC)

Batwoman (The CW)

The Blacklist (NBC)

Bob Hearts Abishola (CBS)

The Brides (ABC)

Bull (CBS)

Card Sharks (ABC)

Charmed (the CW...

TV production is grinding to a halt in Hollywood and beyond.

Grey's Anatomy, Dynasty, The Good Fight, Bull, Grace and Frankie, Chicago Fire, Chicago Pd, Chicago Med, and New Amsterdam are among the latest wave of TV shows to halt production on their current seasons.

"Out of an abundance of caution, production is postponed on Grey’s Anatomy effective immediately," the Grey's Anatomy cast and crew were told in a letter from Krista Vernoff, the series' showrunner.

"We are going home now for at least two weeks and waiting to see how the coronavirus situation evolves.

"This decision was made to ensure the health and safety of the whole cast and crew and the safety of our loved ones outside of work, and it was made in accordance with Mayor Garcetti’s suggestion that we not gather in groups of more than 50."

"Stay safe, stay healthy, stay hydrated, stay home as much as possible,...

The list of TV shows that have shut down production due to coronavirus continues to grow.

CBS TV Studios on Thursday announced that it would delay or halt production on at least a half-dozen series, including the entire NCIS franchise (Los Angeles, New Orleans and Original Flavor), as well as Bull, Dynasty and The Good Fight. Meanwhile, The Neighborhood will film its Season 2 finale without a studio audience.

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Exclusive: Add Apple TV+ and Skydance Television’s high-profile Foundation drama series to the growing list of TV series that have shut down production in face of a global coronavirus pandemic. The adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s dci-fi novel trilogy, starring Jared Harris and Lee Pace, had been filming in Ireland as the country’s largest-scale production ever,

The shutdown decision follows the announcement by Irish Prime Minister An Taoiseach of Covid-19 restrictive measures, which include the canceling of any indoor mass gatherings of 100 people or more and outdoor mass gatherings of more than 500 people.

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“Skydance, along with Apple, have made the decision to temporarily suspend filming on Foundation,...

David Ellison’s Skydance Media has received a $275 million strategic investment from RedBird Capital Partners and Cj Entertainment and Merchandising (Cj Enm), the studio behind the 4x Oscar-winning Parasite. All in, this takes Skydance Media’s value to $2.3 billion.

Skydance’s current investor base, including the Ellison family and Tencent Holdings Ltd., also participated in the investment round.

The equity investment solidifies a strategic partnership with RedBird Capital and Cj Enm to further support Skydance’s substantial growth trajectory. RedBird Capital, founded by former Goldman Sachs Partner Gerald Cardinale, led the investment round and brings to Skydance its expertise in scaling owner-operated companies with a focus on growing value over time.

In this new partnership with Cj Enm and Studio Dragon, Skydance will collaborate with both studios’ on the project level, tapping into their vast libraries which appeal to a worldwide audience. In addition the team-up with Cj Enm, strengthens...

Production spend in Ireland rose by 162% to €357 million ($395 million) in 2019, according to the country’s TV, film and animation agency Screen Ireland.

Inward investment projects such as Netflix’s “Nightflyers,” BBC3 and Hulu drama “Normal People,” Apple TV Plus sci-fi series “Foundation,” and feature film “The Green Knight” accounted for €261 million (€289 million) of the overall production spend, around two thirds of the total.

The animation sector in particular has seen its annual production activity rise strongly, increasing fourfold in the last 10 years, to €180 million ($199 million) in 2019. This includes upcoming animated feature “Wolfwalkers,” from the Academy Award winning studio Cartoon Saloon.

Chair of Screen Ireland Annie Doona said that Ireland’s screen production sector has more than doubled in the last decade, and that all the major streaming giants are now among production partners. “The full restoration of Screen Ireland’s annual funding and the ongoing commitment to Section 481 tax incentives are critical to this success,...

Apple TV will produce an adaptation of author Issac Asimov's 1951 science fiction novel trilogy "Foundation", including "Foundation", "Foundation and Empire" and "Second Foundation", starring Jared Harris, Lee Pace, Lou Llobell, Leah Harvey, Laura Birn, Terrence Mann and Cassian Bilton:

"...in the waning days of a future 'Galactic Empire', mathematician 'Hari Seldon' spends his life developing a theory of 'psychohistory'.

"Using statistical laws of mass action, it can predict the future of large populations. Seldon foresees the imminent fall of the Empire, which encompasses the entire 'Milky Way' and a dark age lasting 30,000 years before a second empire arises.

"Although the inertia of the Empire's fall is too great to stop, Seldon devises a plan by which 'the onrushing mass of events must be deflected just a little' to eventually limit this to just one thousand years.

"To implement his plan, Seldon creates the 'Foundations' – two groups of scientists and...

“Foundation,” the upcoming Apple TV Plus series based on the Isaac Asimov novel series of the same name, is building up its cast.

Lou Llobell, Leah Harvey, Laura Birn, Terrence Mann, and Cassian Bilton have all been cast as series regulars. They join previously announced leads Lee Pace and Jared Harris.

The series chronicles the epic saga of The Foundation, a band of exiles who discover that the only way to save the Galactic Empire from destruction is to defy it.

Llobell will star as Gaal, a mathematical genius from a rural, repressed planet. The role will mark Llobell’s second credited onscreen appearance. She will next be seen in the film “Voyagers” opposite Colin Farrell, Tye Sheridan, and Lily Rose-Depp.

Harvey will play Salvor, the protective and intuitive warden of a remote outer planet. Harvey’s recent credits include the 2019 miniseries version of “Les Misérables” as well as the film “Fighting With My Family.

Last week, the SAG-aftra Foundation's 4th Annual Patron of the Artists Awards honored industry leaders and artists who are champions for the arts and whose history of fostering creativity and creating opportunities has made a positive impact on the performing arts and the world.

Jennifer Aniston receives the Artists Inspiration Award

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The event took place at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills.

This year’s benefit recognized entertainment industry leader and showrunner Greg Berlanti and trailblazing director/writer/producer Ava DuVernay with the “Patron of the Artists Awards” which commends their commitment to championing the careers of countless performing artists. Legendary producer/writer Norman Lear presented the award to Berlanti and critically acclaimed actor David Oyelowo presented to DuVernay.

The “Artists Inspiration Awards” were given to performers who use their platform to advance humanitarian and philanthropic causes.

Lee Pace (Halt and Catch Fire) and Jared Harris (Chernobyl) have been tapped as leads in Foundation, Apple TV+’s upcoming drama series based on Isaac Asimov’s science fiction novel trilogy.

The 10-episode series from David Goyer, Josh Friedman and Skydance Television chronicles the epic saga of The Foundation, a band of exiles who discover that the only way to save the Galactic Empire from destruction is to defy it.

Pace plays Brother Day, the current Emperor of the Galaxy. Harris plays Hari Seldon, a mathematical genius who predicts the demise of the empire.

Goyer serves as showrunner and executive producer. Skydance Television is producing the series, with David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Marcy Ross serving as executive producers. Friedman and Asimov’s daughter, Robyn Asimov, also serve as executive producers for the series.

Pace, who starred on AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire for four seasons, recently starred in...

David S. Goyer, best known for penning Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight” trilogy, is doubling down with Skydance.

The writer-producer has signed an exclusive multi-year overall agreement with Skydance Television via his Phantom Four production company. Under the deal, Goyer will create, develop and produce original scripted series for the studio. He currently serves as showrunner and executive producer on Skydance TV’s upcoming sci-fi drama series “Foundation,” based on Isaac Asimov’s book series of the same name.

“Throughout his career, David has proven time and again he is a one-of-a-kind visionary talent as a storyteller and producer for both the big and small screen,” said Marcy Ross, president of Skydance Television. “David is masterful at bringing to life epic stories and creating massive worlds and we couldn’t be more excited to continue our collaboration with him.”

Goyer is also credited as a writer on Skydance’s upcoming feature film “Terminator: Dark Fate.

Apple has taken its first concrete step into the original film space. The tech giant has announced a deal with A24, the independent studio behind acclaimed features like Moonlight, Lady Bird, and Ex Machina.

The pair’s partnership will see A24 produce multiple films for Apple. There aren’t many more details available, and there’s no word on how they will be distributed. Though The Hollywood Reporter points out that A24 already operates a deal with DirecTV that gives the service provider the rights to offer its films on demand.

Films resulting from the Apple/A24 partnership will be Apple’s first movies -- but, make no mistake, it’s been splashing out quite a bit of cash on original content development before now. After its first series, Planet of the Apps, was widely panned, it pivoted — and reportedly spent more than $1 billion -- on a slate of shows,...

Apple has ordered sci-fi drama “Foundation” to series. The Skydance Television show, which will consist of 10 episodes, is an adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s book trilogy of the same name.

“Foundation” the TV series will chronicle the thousand-year saga of The Foundation, a band of exiles who discover that the only way to save the Galactic Empire from destruction is to defy it.

The series will be executive produced by WGA Award nominee David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman. They’ll both be showrunners. David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Marcy Ross and Robyn Asimov — Isaac’s daughter — will serve as executive producers.

The “Foundation” series started as a collection of short stories published in Astounding Magazine in 1942, then became a book trilogy in 1951. Asimov later added to the series in subsequent sequels and prequels with the first installment arriving...

Apple has tapped a BBC veteran to help spearhead its video efforts internationally.

Joe Oppenheimer, who formerly served as chief of BBC Films, has joined Apple as a creative executive on its international development team, Deadline reports. Oppenheimer marks the tech giant’s second hire in the U.K. following Jay Hunt -- to whom he will report. Hunt, who formerly served as the chief creative officer of British broadcaster Channel 4, was named Apple’s creative director, Europe, in January. Hunt, who reports to Apple content chiefs Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg, has spent the last six months meeting top producers in the U.K., per Deadline, and “is on the verge of announcing her first commissions.”

In addition to its growing stateside slate, Apple made its first international purchase last month, tendering a straight-to-series order of Calls -- an English adaptation of the French short-form series, which...

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More cast members have joined leads Jared Harris and Lee Pace on the Apple TV+ adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation.

Well, they're trying to adapt Isaac Asimov's Foundation series for TV again. Foundation was headed for HBO back in 2014 with Jonathan Nolan at the helm, but that version vanished into space. But now David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight) and Josh Friedman (Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles) are tackling the extraordinarily dense and cerebral series for Skydance Television. David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Marcy Ross, and Robyn Asimov will serve as executive producers.

Asimov's core three Foundation novels, Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation are all worth your time. There's a secondary group of sequels, too, but really, these are the big three you should be concerned with. Any one of these books contains enough character and world building to fill multiple seasons of TV, so hopefully,...

Isaac Asimov's seminal Foundation book series is one of those white whales, like Rendezvous With Rama, that seems like it would never see the light of day. Not only is it a sprawling, multi-character, and complexly political work, but also many of its best ideas have already been cannibalized by things like Star Wars (a similar problem John Carter faced). So the challenge to adapting... Read More...

Exclusive: The Isaac Asimov science fiction trilogy Foundation heavily informed Star Wars and many other sci-fi films and TV series, but for decades it has confounded Hollywood attempts at a straight adaptation. I'm hearing that Skydance, David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman are going to try to crack it. Skydance Television is closing a deal with the Asimov estate to try turning Foundation into a sprawling TV series. Originally published as a short story series in Astounding…...

The Law Is A Ass Installment # 401

Despite Marvel’s claims about Captain Marvel being a human-Kree hybrid, she must really be an X-Man… because she certainly x-acerbated the whole Ulysses Cain problem.

Civil War II is a series about said the Inhuman Ulysses Cain and the problems he caused for the Marvel Universe. Ulysses, you see, was a seer; able to predict the future. He used mathematics to, “determine, to within a fraction of a percent, the probability that certain events are going to take place.” Kind of like Isaac Asimov’s psychohistory, only more refined. In Dr. Asimov’s Foundation series, Hari Seldon used psychohistory – a discipline that combined history, sociology, and statistical analysis – to make general projections about the future acts of very large groups of people. Ulysses’s brand of mathe-magic let him make specific projections about the future acts of specific people.

And why am I...

Plus: Aaron Sorkin to give online screenwriting lessons on MasterClass; and more…

The sales and distribution company has signed territories on the sci-fi action comedy from Rooster Teeth.

At Entertainment has licensed rights for Japan and will launch the film theatrically on July 19 followed by home video in late August. At Entertainment handled recent releases such as Roland Emmerich’s historical drama Stonewall and horror-romance Spring.

Edel Ag has acquired rights for German-speaking Europe sometime after February 2017. Matt Hullum’s Indiegogo-funded Lazer Team launched on YouTube Red in February and grossed $1.2m theatrically in the Us via Amplify.

Online education platform MasterClass has signed up Aaron Sorkin as a screenwriting instructor. Sorkin’s MasterClass will include more than 25 video lessons along with a 30+ page workbook and interactive assignments. Pre-enrolment has opened for what is expected to be a full class in summer. Click here for further details.Short film channel ShortsHD is teaming up with the Hispanic...

This Sunday, The Next Door Lounge in Hollywood will host "A Cause for Entertainment", a fundraiser for the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade. The event's in-person and online auction includes items of interest to horror fans, including a Bates Motel set visit and items signed by Guillermo del Toro.

A Cause for Entertainment will take place this Sunday, September 13th from 4:00pm–8:00pm Pdt at The Next Door Lounge in Hollywood, CA. We have official details on the event below, and to learn more or take part in the online auction, visit:

http://acauseforentertainment.com/

From event leader Jessica Sherman: "Breast Cancer is one of the ugliest diseases in the world today, and with heartbreaking statistics like these, I find it hard not to want to give back:

- A woman has a 1 in 8 chance of developing breast cancer in her lifetime.

- Every 3 minutes, there is a...

Athena Wickham, who just exited J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, has officially joined Jonah Nolan and Lisa Joy’s Kilter Films to run the company's television development. At Bad Robot, Wickham served as a producer on Fringe, Person of Interest, as well as the upcoming 11/22/63 for Hulu and Westworld for HBO. She will continue on Poi and Westworld, which Bad Robot co-produces with Kilter Films. Additionally, Wickham will join Foundation, Kilter’s drama series in development at…...

Jonathan Nolan has revealed that sci-fi blockbuster Interstellar could have had a very different ending.

The 38-year-old, who co-wrote the script with his director brother Christopher Nolan, told an audience of scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Lab that his original ending was "much more straightforward".

When asked what actually happened at the end of the film, Jonathan joked: "You've got the wrong brother."

According to Nerdist, the writer did go on to explain how he had intended the film to end, saying: "The Einstien-Rosen bridge (would) collapse when Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) tries to send the data back."

This would mean that there would have been no way for Cooper to return home or find Brand (Anne Hathaway), and he would have fallen into a black hole.

The film's real ending sees Cooper launch himself into the black hole Gargantua in the aim of sending data back to Earth.

He survives...

Jonathan Nolan officially has another show on the air. HBO announced today (via Twitter, obviously) that is has ordered to series Nolan’s adaptation of writer/director Michael Crichton’s 1973 sci-fi film Westworld, which revolved around a malfunctioning Wild West robot at a futuristic adult amusement park. The official, cryptic logline for this HBO series is as follows: Westworld is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin. Nolan, of course, is the brother of Christopher Nolan and has co-written the screenplays for films like The Dark Knight and Interstellar, but he also acts as the creator/executive producer of the CBS series Person of Interest and is developing another potential HBO show in the form of an adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s sci-fi series Foundation. Hit the jump for more on the Westworld TV show and to watch the first brief teaser trailer for the series,...

I love science fiction movies and TV shows, but I'm not very well versed in much science fiction literature. While I'm familiar with author Isaac Asimov, I haven't read the Foundation book trilogy. Sources have told The Wrap that Jonathan Nolan has quietly been developing Foundation for HBO and Warner Bros. In a recent interview, he coincidentally talked about Foundation.

Nolan via Indiewire:

"Well, I fucking love the ‘Foundation’ novels by Isaac Asimov. They're certainly not [unknown], but that's a set of books I think everyone would benefit from reading. That's a set of books where the influence they have is just fucking massive. They have many imitators and many have been inspired by them, but go back and read those, and there are some ideas in those that'll set your fucking hair on fire.”

It sounds like I better read that book series. Nolan has proven himself to be a solid writer and producer,...

A new television series is in development from HBO and Warner Bros. TV that will adapt Isaac Asimov’s science fiction epic “Foundation” Trilogy for television. At the head of the project is Interstellar screenwriter Jonathan Nolan, who will write and produce the series, as reported by TheWrap. It should be noted that Jonathan Nolan has had some experience in the art of adapting science fiction novels to television, as he has recently adapted Michael Chrichton’s Westworld which was also for HBO and Warner Bros. TV but in collaboration with, J.J. Abrams production company, Bad Robot.

Jonathan Nolan expressed his interest and excitement to work on the adaption of the trilogy in a recent interview with Indiewire.

“Well, I fucking love the ‘Foundation’ novels by Isaac Asimov. They’re certainly not [unknown], but that’s a set of books I think everyone would benefit from reading. That’s a set...

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"Memento" and "Interstellar" scribe and "Person of Interest" creator Jonathan Nolan is set to write and produce "Foundation," an HBO and Warner Bros. TV series adaptation of Isaac Asimov's original novel trilogy of the same name.

Asimov penned the books back in the early 1950s, though followed it up with four more books in the 1980s. The original trilogy follows mathematician Hari Seldon, a man who has dedicated his life to developing psychohistory - a concept that is able to predict the future on a large scale.

When he foresees the imminent fall of the Galactic Empire and a dark age that will last thirty millenia, he sets out to create a foundation of talented artisans and engineers to preserve and expand on humanity's collective knowledge with the hope of establishing a new empire.

Sony Pictures acquired the rights several years ago to the property with Roland Emmerich attached to direct and produce.

Isaac Asimov‘s trilogy of Foundation novels — Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation — is among the landmark works in science fiction. (There are further sequels and prequels, too.) We’ve watched development efforts come and go, with various people hoping to create a Foundation film adaptation. (Most recently, Roland Emmerich raised the ire of […]

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After spending years on the screenplay to his brother's Interstellar, Jonathan Nolan is going back into space: The Wrap reports that the younger Nolan is working with HBO on an adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. It's Nolan's second project with the network after J.J. Abrams's planned Westworld adaptation and his third TV show overall. (He previously created Person of Interest.) Asimov's seven-book series concerns the rise and fall of new galactic empires; Nolan previously told IndieWire the books contain "ideas ... that'll set your fucking hair on fire." If the Foundation show takes off, Jonathan Nolan will finally be "Christopher Nolan's brother" no more. At least in the career sense. In the fraternal sense, they will likely remain bonded.

While you’d be hard-pressed to find someone not familiar with Christopher Nolan’s work, his brother and frequent collaborator Jonathan Nolan is responsible for helping craft some of Christopher’s most beloved films. He wrote the short story that served as the inspiration for Memento and co-wrote the screenplays for The Prestige, The Dark Knight Rises, and the seminal The Dark Knight with his brother. Most recently, Jonah collaborated on the screenplay for Christopher’s sci-fi epic Interstellar (which he initially wrote for Steven Spielberg to direct), and now he’s continuing on with the sci-fi theme in a TV series adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s book trilogy Foundation. More after the jump. Per The Wrap, Jonah Nolan is developing a Foundation TV series for HBO that he will write and produce. While his brother keeps busy in the feature film world, Jonah has become well versed in the...

The man behind the man behind Interstellar, Jonathan Nolan, is developing a new sci-fi series for HBO and Wbtv called Foundation. Based on the trilogy of futuristic novels by decorated genre author Isaac Asimov, Nolan’s adaptation will be his second collaboration with HBO following his current work on Westworld.

Foundation was originally set up over at Sony with Roland Emmerich lined up to direct. After they let the rights slip, HBO forked out a small fortune to acquire them and have now got Nolan, an unabashed fan of the novels, on board to write and produce.

The first in the series, Foundation “follows mathematician Hari Seldon, who has dedicated his life to developing psychohistory, a concept that uses the laws of mass action to predict the future on a large scale. When he foresees the imminent fall of the Galactic Empire and a dark age that will 30,000 years, he...