• The Daily Beast

    The Best Acting on TV Right Now Is on ‘Shōgun’

    Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/FXIt’s been a busy spring TV season already, with some of the funniest comedies of the year (Girls5eva), best reality shows (Top Chef), best documentary projects (Queens), and most excitingly cast new series (Palm Royale) all airing at the same time. But there’s one show that’s been the standard-bearer of the season, with everything from its production design to its casting operating at a level that warrants mention alongside the all-time grea

  • Variety

    Beyond Borders: How The Mediapro Studio CEO Laura Fernández Espeso has Helped Transform Spain’s TV and Film Industry

    Last year, actress Penélope Cruz set up a joint production venture, Moonlyon, with Madrid-based The Mediapro Studio at the urging of its CEO, Laura Fernández Espeso, a rising star in Spain’s fast-expanding media sector. “It’s been an amazing connection from the first,” Cruz says, about her working relationship with Fernández Espeso, Variety’s International Media Woman …

  • The Daily Beast

    ‘Dogman’ Gives a Whole New Meaning to the Word ‘Absurd’

    Briarcliff EntertainmentDogman is Joker by way of Robin Hood, Air Bud, and RuPaul's Drag Race, and arguably the most absurd film of this, or any recent, year. Whether it’s offensive is also certainly up for debate. Yet the prime calling card of The Fifth Element director Luc Besson’s latest, which premieres March 29 in theaters following its debut at last year’s Venice International Film Festival, is its unabashed and laugh-out-loud goofiness, which is amplified by the seriousness with which it