Hulu Lands Bon Jovi Docuseries From Gotham Chopra

Jon Bon Jovi is enjoying a rare night out with his wife!

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The annual MusiCares Person of the Year dinner will be like New Jersey West, with Bruce Springsteen among the performers announced to salute Jon Bon Jovi just prior to the Grammys in L.A. on Feb. 2.

EXCLUSIVE: DeskPop Entertainment has acquired filmmaker Thomas Walton’s 1980s-inspired slasher Camp Pleasant Lake. DeskPop has set the pic for a release in select theaters and VOD on February 27.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Sony Pictures‘ “Madame Web,” a standalone origin story in the studio’s array of “Spider-Man”-based Marvel characters, has been granted a theatrical release in mainland China. The film will open in the country on March 1 — two weeks after the title’s Valentine’s Day bow in North America and multiple international territories, including the Chinese-language markets of Taiwan and Hong Kong. The release marks a welcome opportunity for Sony, which, along with the other traditional studios faced difficulty in securing theatrical runs in China over recent years.

Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story, an upcoming documentary chronicling the legendary career of rock band Bon Jovi, has been acquired at Hulu.The four-part docuseries, helmed by Gotham Chopra’s Religion Of Sports, is due to premiere on Hulu in the United States on April 26, and will stream on Disney+ throughout the rest of the world, and in Latin America on Star+ later this year, per The Hollywood Reporter.Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story will also mark the first time that a docuseries on the band will feature every member of Bon Jovi’s illustrious career, including former and current members, and will include four decades worth of personal footage from members of the band and never-before-seen photos and never-before-told stories.“As thrilling as the story of a once-in-a-lifetime talent is, it is even more rare that a legend like Jon Bon Jovi lets the world into his most vulnerable moments while he’s still living them. Forty years of personal videos, unreleased early demos, original lyrics and never-before-seen photos that chronicle the journey from Jersey Shore clubs to the biggest stages on the planet.

BreAnna Bell Hulu has acquired “Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story,” the streamer announced on Monday. The four-part series marks the first-ever docuseries on the band’s history with full cooperation from all past and present members of Bon Jovi. It also promises to give viewers a glimpse at the life of the frontman behind the music.

EXCLUSIVE: Diego Boneta (Luis Miguel: The Series) and Martha Higareda (Queens on the Run) are set to star and executive produce the new erotic thriller film Follow for Amazon Studios from award-winning collaborators Fred Berger (La La Land) and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (The Bikeriders). This is the first project from Boneta’s production banner Three Amigos’s overall deal with Amazon Prime.

The Pollstar Live! conference has announced its keynoters for its February conference for the live entertainment industry.

In recent years, The Duchess of Edinburgh has proved herself as an engaging and empathetic senior member of the Royal Family. And while she’s shot up in status as well as the public’s affections, the woman some call King Charles’ ‘secret weapon’ plays another vital, connecting role as the perfect bridge between royal generations.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Fabula–Fremantle’s “Hot Sur,” The Mediapro Studio’s “El Mal” and “Two Nights in Lisbon,” from Portugal’s Hop Films and the U.K’s Heroes Films, look like potential standouts at next week’s Content Americas Copro Pitch 2024, one of its industry centerpieces. These series projects will be joined by crime mystery thriller “Delito,” from Barcelona’s Grup Focus TV & Films, behind banner Amazon Original “Reina Roja,” “Iron Woman,” a tumultuous political saga from Brazil-based Jarsom Wayans, two high concept doc series – Argentina’s “Climate Migrants” and Brazil’s “Mystery of the Megafauna” – and bio doc feature “Farraquito, a Flamenco Story,” profiling the famed flamenco bailaor.

EXCLUSIVE: A new single-camera comedy series is in the works at Fox from Denis Leary, Jack Leary and Joel Church-Cooper.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor September Film has acquired all rights for Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg for “In the Land of Brothers,” which has its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section. The film is written and directed by Iranian filmmakers Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi. Alpha Violet is handling world sales.

A Scots passenger has told how a 'brake fault' forced her KLM flight bound for Edinburgh to make a dramatic emergency diversion to Prestwick Airport.

Taylor Swift is sending her love to Ebon Moss-Bachrach after his big win!

Ben Croll This week’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris will kick off with the Tuesday night world premiere of Pascal Bonitzer’s “Auction” – a ripped-from-the-headlines ensemble drama set in the crosshairs of high art and high finance. Produced by SBS Productions (“Last Summer,” “Elle”) and sold by Pyramide International, the art-world saga follows – among others – a hotshot auctioneer (Alex Lutz, “Vortex”), his less-than-reliable assistant (Louise Chevillotte, “Benedetta”), and the working class bloke (Arcadi Radeff, “Passages”) who sets the narrative in motion upon realizing that his erstwhile innocuous wall art bears the signature of Egon Schiele.

Taylor Swift got a positive shout-out at the 2024 Critics Choice Awards!

A man is in hospital after an alleged stabbing in the Highlands.

Jason Momoa is living on the road. In a new interview while promoting his TV show “On The Roam,” Momoa revealed that he’s currently without a permanent home. His ex-partner, Lisa Bonet, filed for divorce earlier this month after being separated for two years.

The sisterhood between Fantasia Barrino and Danielle Brooks began on Broadway. That is, the sisterhood of the order of The Color Purple. Both women starred on stage in the musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer-prize winning novel. Barrino spent 10 months in 2007 playing Celie, the poor country girl who survives an abusive step-father and husband and realizes her worth.

Lee Sun-kyun died at age 48. Lee starred as the father of a wealthy family in “Parasite,” which was the first non-English-language movie to win best picture in the Oscars’ 92-year history.