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  1. The Rock. HBO. Miami. Do We Have Your Attention?

    Amos Barshad

    Well, this is certainly a surprise. THR reports that Dwayne Johnson is cashing in on his hard-earned box-office cred and nailing down a flashy HBO show with all kinds of big names involved. We're talking Peter Berg as director, Mark Wahlberg as produ...

    Blog | May 02, 2013
  2. Chris O'Dowd Is No Coward

    Amos Barshad

    But he does have a promising new gig lined up. O'Dowd — best known for Bridesmaids, Girls, and, soon enough, Christopher Guest's HBO show Family Tree — is in talks for period-comedy The Coward. Reports The Wrap, "Set in 18th century E...

    Blog | April 30, 2013
  3. John Legend Is Making a Miami Drama for HBO

    Amos Barshad

    Mr. John Legend! Not just a silky-smooth crooner of the finest of piano-pop ballads and rap hooks anymore! Now he's out here making TV shows too. Why, just last night, HBO picked up a series coproduced by Legend and Tony Krantz, called Down Lo, for d...

    Blog | April 19, 2013
  4. Behind the Candelabra Trailer: Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Wigs,...

    Amos Barshad

    Do you remember thinking the phrase "Steven Soderbergh is making a Liberace biopic with Michael Douglas and Matt Damon for HBO" sounded ridiculous when the project was merely in development? Well, wait till you see moving footage! Based on Behind...

    Blog | April 08, 2013
  5. People of the AntiLena Dunham Movement, Hail Your New Overlord: ...

    Amos Barshad

    At every single moment of Lena Dunham's professional existence, there has been a notable and active Anti–Lena Dunham faction. The size and fervor of this faction fluctuates greatly along with occurrences of Dunham's HBO television program, Girl...

    Blog | April 04, 2013
  6. Martin Scorsese Returns to Premium Cable With Gangs of New York T...

    Amos Barshad

    The last time Martin Scorsese combined old-timey gangster stuff with the kind of fancy cable package some sad people actually have to return to their childhood homes to access, the result was HBO's Boardwalk Empire, and that seemed to work out pretty...

    Blog | March 29, 2013
  7. Why Can't We Have Nice Things? HBO Is Not Picking Up the James Ga...

    Amos Barshad

    James Gandolfini breathed life into Tony Soprano, one of the richest, darkest, truest characters TV will ever see. Richard Price has crafted literary crime-novel classic after literary crime-novel classic, and co-shepherded The Wire to greatness. Tog...

    Blog | February 20, 2013
  8. HBO's Phil Spector Trailer: Al Pacino's Wonderful World of Wigs

    Amos Barshad

    On a certain level, this whole Al Pacino as Phil Spector thing could have ended with this one indelible, delectable image right here: Helen Mirren, doing her best not to audibly grumble out, "WTF, didn't I win an Oscar, like, six years ago"; then a c...

    Blog | February 05, 2013
  9. You're Going to Have Entourage Around to Hate Watch Just a Little...

    Amos Barshad

    Eight seasons, 96 episodes, and roughly 10,000 Jeremy Piven foam-at-the-mouths; some might say this Earth has gotten all the Entourage it ever needed. And some might be wrong, bro. The Entourage movie that's been halfheartedly rumored since the show ...

    Blog | January 30, 2013
  10. Arnold Schwarzenegger Confirms: The Terminator Shall Rise Again

    Amos Barshad

    So much eyebrow-raising Hollywood casting news and project announcements, so little time. Let's get to it! Arnold Schwarzenegger has confirmed he's doing Terminator 5. This isn't coming out of nowhere. There was already a money man (Oracle scion...

    Blog | January 23, 2013
  11. HBO Explores PTSD With Oren Moverman and Anthony Swofford

    Amos Barshad

    Laughs Unlimited, the show HBO just picked up, isn't quite what it sounds like. Unless "what it sounds like" is a series about an Army vet returning home from Afghanistan and dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder? It is? OK, then Laughs Unlimit...

    Blog | December 14, 2012
  12. Girls Isn't Not Already Picked Up for Third Season, Says HBO

    Amos Barshad

    As THR points out, Judd Apatow did a long interview with Movie City News (embedded below), during which he let go some info about Girls, which he executive produces. "And [Lena Dunham]'s such a great writer and great person," he says, "she helped me ...

    Blog | November 13, 2012
  13. Today in Lena Dunham: A $3.5 Million Book Deal, Prop-Penis-Relate...

    Amos Barshad

    The second season of Girls doesn't premiere until January, but Lena Dunham cannot and/or will not stop. Confirmed a couple hours ago: After a furious few days of bidding, Dunham has landed an advance of over $3.5 million with Random House for her deb...

    Blog | October 08, 2012
  14. Larry David's HBO Movie Stars Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Kate Huds...

    Amos Barshad

    Looks like Larry David has got some friends in this town. His upcoming HBO movie Clear History is shaping up to be a doozy. David co-wrote (alongside some other Curb Your Enthusiasm writers) and will star; Greg Mottola (Superbad, Adventureland) will ...

    Blog | September 14, 2012
  15. Flight of the Conchords Return for Charity (and Stuff Like That)

    Amos Barshad

    The two best things about "Feel Inside (and Stuff Like That)," this new Flight of the Conchords jam created for New Zealand's "Red Nose Day: Comedy for Cure Kids" and shot with a bunch of children at the Clyde Quay School in the duo's hometown of Wel...

    Blog | August 27, 2012
  16. Stephen Merchant Steps Out of Ricky Gervais's Shadow

    Amos Barshad

    Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais do everything together: Co-create comedy classic The Office, cowrite and costar in not-so-shabby-either Extras and The Ricky Gervais Show, co-direct drama feature Cemetery Junction (OK, that one no one saw), and, yo...

    Blog | July 24, 2012