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Apr 5 2013 05:08 PM ET

HBO to make Nora Ephron documentary directed by her son

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Late filmmaker Nora Ephron, who died last summer at age 71, will soon have her life and career memorialized on HBO. The cable network is planning to make a documentary about Ephron, EW has confirmed. The Hollywood Reporter first announced the news.

Ephron’s son Jacob Bernstein (also son of famed Washington Post Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein, to whom Ephron was married for four years) will direct and co-produce the documentary, which HBO describes as “an intimate portrait” of his mother.” The film will be called Everything is Copy, a lesson taught to Ephron by her mother, who also used her life as inspiration for her writing. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 4 2013 07:36 PM ET

Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio developing Gorbachev pic with HBO Films

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The Cold War has captivated our imaginations and taken over our television sets. But instead of stylish spies in disguise, HBO Films is taking the biopic route.

HBO Films confirmed Thursday they are developing a movie about former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev with the help of Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio. Neither actor will be donning that distinctive birthmark, though. They’re just helping to make sure the project comes to life through their respective production companies — DiCaprio’s Appian Way, and Hanks’ Playtone. This news was first reported by Deadline.

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Apr 4 2013 11:23 AM ET

Christopher Abbott not returning for season 3 of 'Girls'

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At least one of the major storyline development from Girls‘ season 2 finale is set for a major shakeup. Christopher Abbott, who plays Marnie’s long-suffering, on-and-off boyfriend Charlie, will not be returning for the third season of the show, according to HBO.

It was only in the recent second season finale that we finally saw Marnie (Allison Williams) and newly rich Charlie officially declare that they were very much back on and ready to settle down. In a statement, Abbott’s rep said that the actor is “grateful for the experience of collaborating with Lena, Judd [Apatow], and the entire Girls cast and crew, but right now he’s working on numerous other projects and has decided not to return to the show.”

There’s been no word from HBO on how his abrupt departure will be handled in season 3, which is currently in production.

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Mar 22 2013 09:30 AM ET

'Veep': Julia Louis-Dreyfus's staffers snap and curse (even more) in deleted scenes -- EXCLUSIVE

Forget coffee — this NSFW video of Veep‘s prickly, foul-mouthed characters demanding cappuccinos with “crack sprinkles” and hissing about the “most important piss” their boss has ever taken should be the only energy boost you need. The first season of HBO’s caustic political comedy hits DVD and Blu-ray next Tuesday; beyond even more deleted scenes, the release features a few shorts starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s hapless vice president, a making-of documentary, and commentary from creator Armando Iannucci and Louis-Dreyfus, among others.

If you still haven’t caught the series that won the Seinfeld alum her latest Emmy — for shame! — consider this a decent introduction. When even the material that got cut crackles, you know the show’s gotta be good.

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Mar 19 2013 10:49 AM ET

Christopher Guest's 'Family Tree': Round up the usual (hilarious) suspects! -- VIDEO

The king of improv feature films, Christopher Guest, is coming to HBO this May with Family Tree. The new comedy series stars Chris O’Dowd, who you might know from Bridesmaids or Girls, as a man who “gets a box of treasures” and becomes obsessed with his family’s history.

In our spring preview issue, Guest told EW that each episode has an eight-page outline and the rest is improv. “But we’ve written a huge back history for every character, which took us six or eight months to come up with,” Guest explained. “We’ve done an entire family tree going back to the 1700s.”

Watch the fun teaser below: READ FULL STORY »

Mar 18 2013 11:57 AM ET

'Veep' season 2 trailer: Everyone curses and almost nothing goes right -- VIDEO

It’s time for the second season of Veep, HBO’s lightning-fast/lightning-foul comedy about the first female V.P. (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), the most-aggressive, second-most-powerful politician in D.C.

Here’s what we learn from the show’s new NSFW trailer: the Veep’s team is headed to a pig roast (maybe) where the hosts might be intimately involved with the main course; the Veep considers “daughter-boarding”; and, unrelated to those two incidents, the Veep becomes a meme, or “mean ma’am” — sorry, “meme, ma’am.” Something tells me V.P. really doesn’t stand for Very Precious.

Register for season 2, which begins April 14, below:

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Mar 18 2013 10:16 AM ET

'Game of Thrones': Best season 3 trailer yet -- VIDEO

Sure, we just posted a Game of Thrones trailer yesterday, but now there’s this one: The most action-packed season 3 preview yet. There’s sword fights with flaming swords, armies, ice climbing, smooching, and some new dragon footage. In fact, if you haven’t read George R.R. Martin’s books and already plan to watch season 3, you might want to skip this one since it’s pretty spoilery. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 12 2013 08:08 PM ET

Cate Blanchett heads to HBO for 'Cancer Vixen'

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Cate Blanchett isn’t a name you usually associate with television — even HBO. Tuesday, news broke that the Oscar-winning actress was set to develop Cancer Vixen: A True Story into a feature film for the cable network. EW confirmed Blanchett is set to star in and executive produce the project. Deadline reported the news first.

The best-selling memoir tells the story of author and New Yorker cartoonist Marisa Acocella Marchetto’s 11-month battle with breast cancer, which forces her to reevaluate her glamorous Manhattan life, her work, and her upcoming marriage.

It’s still very early in the process. Blanchett and her fellow executive producers, Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray, are currently deciding on a writer to adapt the material.

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Mar 8 2013 05:05 PM ET

Watch the trailer for Louis C.K.'s upcoming HBO special 'Oh My God' -- VIDEO

You may have to wait until the futuristic-sounding 2014 for Louis CK to return to your television on a weekly basis, but you’re mere weeks away from seeing his next stand-up special on HBO. Premiering April 13, Oh My God is an hour-long stand-up concert that was recorded last month in Phoenix and showcases the Emmy- and Grammy-wining comedian riffing on such topics as “the food chain, animals, divorce, strange anecdotes, broken morality, murder, and mortality.” If you have yet to hear a killer food-chain joke, our guess is you’re about to.

Would you like an overblown, uberdramatic, hyped-to-the-max trailer for the special? You got it — with a twist: The master self-loather artfully deconstructs one while bringing his awkward nightmare to life. It really is fitting for “the Greatest Comedy of the Generation of Blah Blah Ever to Do a Thing on a Thing.” Solid gold microphone drop. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 4 2013 04:04 PM ET

HBO's Liberace biopic 'Behind the Candelabra' tunes up in new teaser -- VIDEO

There’ll be glitz, glamour, and Matt Damon butt shots galore in Behind the Candelabra, an HBO movie about Liberace that may or may not be Steven Soderbergh’s final film as director — but you’ll see none of that in this new teaser, which may more accurately be called Inside the Piano.

Even if the video doesn’t feature star Michael Douglas as Mr. Showmanship himself, it is a pretty nifty bit of animation… especially if it does turn out to be one of the last times Soderbergh’s name appears in a credits sequence. Watch below:

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Mar 3 2013 12:00 PM ET

'Game of Thrones' season 3 extended trailer arrives: More sex, more dragon, and a bear

Yes, as the first Game of Thrones preview warned us, death is still “coming for everyone and everything,” and the night is still “dark and full of terror.” But the HBO show’s new extended trailer adds some more color to those ominous omens — and a bear!

That’s right, at around the 1:05 mark, a sizable bruin shows up looking very unhappy. The new video also features a couple more snippets of steamy boudoir action, but perhaps the trailer’s most exciting addition is the extra dragon footage tacked on at the end. The first clip had about three seconds of a dragon flying toward a ship, whereas the version below plays out the scene for about eight seconds.

See for yourself:

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Feb 11 2013 03:25 PM ET

Beyonce will be on 'Oprah's Next Chapter' -- VIDEO

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Want a whole night of Beyoncé? Grab your girlfriends, Oprah Winfrey is making your dreams come true.

Winfrey will have a special one-on-one interview for Oprah’s Next Chapter with the 17-time Grammy winner, which will air the same night as Beyoncé’s HBO documentary Life Is But A Dream. Don’t worry: There won’t be a conflict. The OWN interview will air at 8 p.m. this Saturday, and the HBO documentary airs at 9. The Oprah’s Next Chapter chat will apparently talk about the Beyonce-directed documentary, and also is being touted as her first interview about her showstopping Super Bowl performance.

Beyoncé was last interviewed by Winfrey for the Oprah show in 2008, where the “Single Ladies” singer talked about her new album, but notably refused to say much of anything about her then-recent marriage to Jay-Z.  Perhaps she’ll get more personal this time around.

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Feb 5 2013 11:46 AM ET

Al Pacino is Phil Spector in new HBO movie -- VIDEO

It’s one of the most famous cases in Hollywood history: Music producer Phil Spector was accused of the second-degree murder of Lana Clarkson in 2003. After a 2007 hung jury, he was found guilty in 2009 and is currently in prison. Now, the true story is coming to HBO with an all-star cast. An incredibly-similar-looking Al Pacino tackles the title role of Spector, and Helen Mirren plays his attorney, Linda Kenney Baden.

Written and directed by David Mamet, the HBO Films production focuses on his first trial and the relationship between Spector and Baden (who was one of many attorneys he went through in the case). The movie also stars Jeffrey Tambor and Rebecca Pidgeon.

Watch the trailer below: READ FULL STORY »

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