Director Clint Eastwood’s still-untitled upcoming biopic of Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger is set to reunite the helmer with star Laura Linney. Linney previous starred in Eastwood’s Absolute Power and Mystic River and, per Deadline, will now play Captain Sully’s wife, Lorrie Sullenberger, opposite leading man Tom Hanks. Linney’s involvement with the project comes just one […]
IFC is betting big on “Documentary Now!,” giving a second and third season to Fred Armisen, Bill Hader and Seth Meyers’ parody project ahead of its series premiere on Thursday. The “Saturday Night Live” alums created, wrote and and executive produced the seven-part series that offers a different look at some of the world’s best-known […]
The Hollywood Reporter brings word that filmmakers Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kolsch, who wrote and directed the 2014 horror Starry Eyes, will take on Exorcism Diaries for Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment. Previously drafted by Oculus duo Mike Flanagan and Jeff Howard, the film will be produced by Roy Lee (The Woman in Black, Rings), Doug Davison (The […]
“Another Period” will get another period of time on Comedy Central. The historical satire, which co-stars Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome as two sisters who want to become as rich and famous in 1902 as the Hilton sibling did in the modern age, will get a second-season run on the Viacom-owned cable network. The network said […]
The WWE Network has announced that Jon Stewart, the now retired host of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” is set to host WWE SummerSlam on Sunday, August 23 at 7pm ET. Stewart, a longtime WWE fan, appeared earlier this year in WWE storylines in an on-going feud with WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins. […]
ZTE today announced the Warp Elite, a big-screened Android handset for Boost Mobile. ZTE calls the Warp Elite an update to the Warp Sync, which is also sold by Boost Mobile. The Warp Elite features a 5.5-inch screen protected by Gorilla Glass 3 with 720p HD resolution. The phone is powered by a quad-core 1.2GHz […]
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Google indicated today via Twitter that its Project Ara modular smartphone project has been delayed until next year. The project was scheduled to trial its mix-and-match smartphone hardware in Puerto Rico this year, but the company now says it is looking at U.S. sites and won’t get off the ground until some point in 2016. Google […]
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Sprint has kicked off a new program that lets customers upgrade to “the latest” iPhone at any time. Starting today, new or upgrade-eligible customers can lease a 16GB iPhone 6 for $22 per month. When a new iPhone becomes available (possibly in late September), those customers will be able to go into Sprint stores and […]
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Google has officially named the next version of its mobile operating system Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The company had strongly implied that Marshmallow would be the final name in a teaser video released last week. In addition to revealing the new operating system’s name, Google made the Android 6.0 SDK available to developers, which contains an […]
The FCC has officially and unanimously rejected Dish Network’s $3.3 billion in AWS-3 spectrum auction discounts. Dish used three smaller companies, in which it owned an 85% stake each, to place bids on its behalf. The smaller companies, known as designated entities, qualified as small businesses and received a significant discount on their $13.1 billion […]
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