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- Zee Studios Sets Release Date For Omung Kumar’s ‘Silaa’
EXCLUSIVE: Omung Kumar’s ‘Silaa’, starring Harshvardhan Rane, will release early next year. Zee Studios has set a launch date of February 5, 2027, on the film, which stars Rane and Sadia Khateeb in a story billed as bringing together “intense romance, gripping mystery and high-octane action” set against the landscapes... - ‘Clayface’ Cashing In $3.5M+ Thursday Previews – Box Office
EXCLUSIVE: Peter Safran and James Gunn’s DC entree into lower budget genre movies, Clayface, is off to a solid start in previews tonight with an estimated $3.5M, if not more. Domestic weekend forecasts are between $20M-$25M, which if that occurs, would deliver the newly combined Paramount-Warner Bros its second back-to-back... - Cancelled “Mass Effect” Game Trailer Leaked In the wake of yesterday’s news that EA had shut down game developer BioWare and had cancelled the next “Mass Effect” game, something unexpected has happened. A BioWare developer has seemingly leaked a two-minute in-engine trailer for the canceled project, titled “Mass Effect: Universe”. EA hasn’t confirmed...
- ‘The Imaginary Invalid’ Broadway Review: Molière Gets Clowned By A Winning Bill Irwin The La-Z-Boy-style brown leather recliner that’s a focal point of Bill Irwin’s The Imaginary Invalid opening tonight on Broadway doesn’t really mesh with the eye-popping 17th Century French frills and finery that suggest a stage invasion of brilliantly plumed vainglorious peacocks, but no matter. Irwin knows how to clown an...
- Ortega Takes TV Break After “Wednesday” “Wednesday” star Jenna Ortega says she has no plans to do another TV series after “Wednesday” wraps on Netflix. The news came during a Happy Sad Confused interview with the actress, currently out promoting “Klara and the Sun,” who was asked about whether she would commit to...
- ‘Nobody Wants This’ Creator Erin Foster Responds To Adam Brody’s “Free Palestine” Comments: “It’s Complicated” As Nobody Wants This returns to Netflix for Season 3, Erin Foster has addressed Adam Brody’s recent comments on the Israel-Hamas conflict. The series creator recently explained that although she does “disagree” with the star of her 6x Golden Globe-nominated romantic-comedy, Brody is “entitled to a different opinion” from hers,...
- Joe Perry Bows Out Of Tonight’s Hollywood Vampires’ Flick West Coast Debut As Aerosmith Ramps Up For Hollywood Bowl Gigs If you were planning on catching the West Coast debut of the Hollywood Vampires’ documentary tonight at the Newport Beach Film Festival, be warned Joe Perry will not be in the sold out Lido Theater. While info for the 8 pm PT showing of the Daniel E. Catullo III helmed...
- Veteran Actor Tom Skerritt Has Died At 93 “Alien” and “Picket Fences” alum Tom Skerritt has died. The actor passed away yesterday in Seattle at the age of 93 from natural causes, according to a statement from his family. His family has issued a statement: “We are heartbroken by his loss. While the world knew...
- “Star Wars: Starfighter” Budget Hits $226 Million Shawn Levy’s “Star Wars: Starfighter” film wrapped shooting in December last year, well ahead of its planned May 2028 release. Now, a new report at Forbes has gone into the economics of the film via tax filings. The project was shot primarily at Pinewood Studios in the...
- Sacha Baron Cohen Says Marvel’s ‘Ironheart’ Producers Wanted To Ensure He Was “Not Insulted” Playing Devil As Jewish Actor With his recent addition to the MCU, Sacha Baron Cohen is praising the Ironheart production team for taking his Jewish identity into account. The 3x Oscar nominee recently recalled that the producers and directors on the Disney+ series wanted to ensure that he was “not insulted” as a Jewish actor...
- Heather Morris & Chord Overstreet In Talks To Return For ‘Glee’ Reboot Two more original Glee cast members are eyeing a return for the Disney+/Hulu reboot. Heather Morris, who portrayed ditzy, high-spirited cheerleader Brittany, and Chord Overstreet, who played Sam Evans in the original series are in talks to return for the reboot, sources have confirmed to Deadline. Overstreet’s Sam Evans was...
- Chris Jericho To Play Gorgeous George In Prime Video’s Muhammad Ali Limited Series ‘The Greatest’ EXCLUSIVE: Chris Jericho will portray legendary wrestling pioneer Gorgeous George in Ben Watkins’ upcoming historical drama The Greatest, a Prime Video limited series that chronicles the life of Muhammad Ali. All eight episodes will be released November 4. One of wrestling’s first true mainstream celebrities, Gorgeous George became a television...
- Michael Gray Dies: ‘Shazam!’ Star Was 75 Michael Gray, star of the 1970s CBS live-action series Shazam! died of natural causes on Friday, October 16 in Palm Desert, CA, his rep confirmed to Deadline. He was 75. One of Gray’s early television roles came in 1972 when he was cast in NBC’s The Little People, alongside Brian...
- Marvel’s ‘Zodiac’ Spy Series To Be Written By Amit Cohen & Ron Leshem Following the news that Marvel has the spy thriller series Zodiac in the works at Disney+, Amit Cohen and Ron Leshem have been set as the show’s writers, we hear. When the new show was announced on October 8, details were scant. The story will follow a pair of spies...
- Tony Lipp And Dara Gordon Join Entertainment 360 As Partners EXCLUSIVE: Tony Lipp and Dara Gordon have joined Entertainment 360 as partners. Lipp will also join the management board, and Gordon will lead the New York office. The hirings are a major win for the company, with Lipp and Gordon drawing interest from several management companies after the pair recently...
- Laysla De Oliveira & Riccardo Scamarcio Wrap On Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Telephone’; Gale Anne Hurd Among EPs EXCLUSIVE: Laysla De Oliveira, star of Paramount+’s Lioness, and Italian actor Riccardo Scamarcio (A Haunting in Venice) have wrapped on Telephone, an indie sci-fi thriller directed by Anthony Scott Burns. Shot in Sudbury, Ontario, with The Walking Dead‘s Gale Anne Hurd among its EPs, Telephone follows Sandy, who is abducted...
- ‘Wildwood’ Director Hopes People “See The Danger” In GenAI, Calls It “Antithetical” To Laika’s Work As Laika debuts its latest stop-motion animation, Travis Knight is standing firmly against generative AI. The Wildwood director and Laika CEO explained that GenAI “is antithetical to everything that we are at this studio,” also emphasizing that he hopes people “see the danger” in the technology’s potential as much as...
- Comcast Flags $1 Billion Q4 Charge For Layoffs, Restructuring Amid Overhaul Of Core Connectivity Business As it continues to feel the squeeze on its broadband and pay-TV operations, Comcast executives said today the company will take a $1 billion charge for the current fourth quarter that will include layoffs as part of an ongoing revamp of its core connectivity business of broadband, pay-TV and wireless....
- Rebel Wilson Trial Over ‘The Deb’ Producers’ Defamation Claims Likely To Be Delayed Years in the making, the L.A. courtroom showdown between Rebel Wilson and The Deb producers is not going to trial as scheduled. In a filing Wednesday that has been agreed upon by all the principals, Wilson’s lead lawyer Allyson K. Thompson asked for the long-set January 19, 2027 trial to...
- ‘Line Of Fire’ Gets Full 18-Episode Season Order At NBC NBC has handed a full 18-episode season order to its Monday night freshman drama hit Line of Fire. It’s not a surprise. The drama, starring Peter Krause and Hope Davis, about a family of federal law enforcement agents entangled in a mystery, is one of the breakout stories of the...
- Jenna Ortega Plans To “Be Off The TV For A While” After ‘Wednesday’ After wrapping production on Season 3 of Wednesday last month, Jenna Ortega is looking forward to exploring new roles in the future. The Emmy nominee explained that she will “probably be off the TV for a while” after completing the Tim Burton-helmed Netflix series from creators Alfred Gough and Miles...
- Amazon Cornered The YA Market, Now It’s Coming For New Adult Stories Amazon Prime Video has found much success in the YA space with series such as The Summer I Turned Pretty, We Were Liars, Elle and Sterling Point. Now, the streamer is turning its attention to a similar but slightly older and raunchier audience for its next batch of programming: the...
- Becca Tobin On ‘Glee’ Reboot: “This Gives Me Diarrhea” Becca Tobin has had quite a reaction to the news that Glee is getting a revival on Disney+ and Hulu. Tobin joined the Ryan Murphy series in Season 4 as Kitty Wilde, a bully and a member of the McKinley High cheerleader squad who channeled an early Quinn Fabray. The actress recurred...
- ‘Wicker’ Review: Olivia Colman And Peter Dinklage Turn Alexander Skarsgård Into A Sexy Basket Case In Comic Fable That’s Pure Delight With something smart and pertinent to say about relationships between men and women, happiness and love, jealousy and longing and other matters of the heart, Wicker is the year’s most unexpected charmer. A hit at Sundance where it was picked up by Black Bear, this wry film from writer-directors Alex...
- Chris Pratt Teases Marvel Return: “You’ll See Star-Lord Again, Which Is Very Exciting” Chris Pratt is teasing his return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) to reprise his role as Star-Lord from Guardians of the Galaxy. After Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3, the post-credits assured fans that the “Legendary Star-Lord Will Return,” but that has not happened yet. With Avengers: Doomsday and...
- MPTF Expands Board Of Directors With David Kramer And Blair Rich; Five Added To Board Of Governors EXCLUSIVE: The Motion Picture & Television fund has added UTA CEO David Kramer and Legendary Films’ Chief Marketing & Commercial Officer Blair Rich to its board of directors, while boosting its board of governors ranks with the addition of five new members. The new members of the board of governors...
- Amanda Seyfried Joins Ramy Youssef’s ‘Martha & Muhammad’ At A24 EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Amanda Seyfried is set to star opposite Ramy Youssef and Sharon Stone in Martha & Muhammad, the new A24 comedy marking Youssef’s feature directorial debut. Plot and character details are being kept under wraps. Youssef is directing from his own script, with his Cairo Cowboy producing alongside...
- Comcast Co-CEO Brian Roberts Touts Staffers’ “Energy And Excitement” About Pending NBCUniversal Split Comcast chairman and Co-CEO Brian Roberts said staffers are eagerly anticipating the forthcoming split of NBCUniversal from the company’s broadband, pay-TV and wireless division. “Really, there’s an energy and excitement with the proposed separation in both organizations,” Roberts told Wall Street analysts Thursday at the end of the company’s third-quarter...
- Tom Skerritt Dies: ‘Top Gun,’ ‘Picket Fences,’ ‘Alien’ Actor Was 93 Tom Skerritt, the versatile actor who over his 60-plus year career played memorable roles in projects such as Top Gun, Picket Fences, M*A*S*H and Alien, has died. His family confirmed the news to Deadline. He was 93. Skerritt was often memorable in supporting roles for his quiet, powerful presence and...
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani And Neon Set Free NYC Screenings Of ‘Once Upon A Time In Harlem’ Neon, in partnership with Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the New York City Office of the Mayor, is offering four free screenings of documentary Once Upon A Time In Harlem at AMC Magic Johnson Harlem, Film Forum, and Film at Lincoln Center this coming weekend – Oct. 24 and 25. The...
- Kelly Reilly Confirms ‘Dutton Ranch’ Season 2 Filming Dates At Splashy Paramount UK Upfronts Featuring Kenneth Branagh, Peter Sarsgaard, David Glasser In a surprise appearance at the Paramount UK Upfronts, Kelly Reilly has offiically revealed that Dutton Ranch will begin filming Season 2 in just a few months. Yellowstone spin-off Dutton Ranch has been a huge hit for Paramount+ and the expected Season 2 renewal came with two episodes still to...
- Amazon MGM Studios Picks Up Chris McKay Serial Killer Romance Package ‘Butcher & Blackbird’; Emma Laird & Thomas Doherty To Star EXCLUSIVE: Lyrical Media and Embrace have sold feature package Butcher & Blackbird, a dark romance based on the bestselling novel by Brynne Weaver, to Amazon MGM Studios, for release worldwide on Prime Video. Chris McKay, the filmmaker who directed Amazon’s Chris Pratt sci-fi actioner The Tomorrow War, is set to...
- ‘Iron Jane’ Adds Rafael Casal, Alexandra Metz, Jesse Garcia, Nicholas Gonzalez & Lenda Murray As Production Wraps; Victoria Alonso To Produce EXCLUSIVE: The Eiza González and Brandon Sklenar-led feature film Iron Jane has wrapped production in Atlanta and Las Vegas, with additional cast revealed: Rafael Casal (The Lowdown, Blindspotting), Alexandra Metz (The Pitt, Will Trent), Jesse Garcia (The Odyssey, Flamin’ Hot), Nicholas Gonzalez (The Good Doctor, Resurrection Blvd), and Lenda Murray,...
- Elon Musk Steps In With $1 Billion Equity Investment For Debt-Laden Skydance — Report Elon Musk has invested $1 billion in the new Skydance, according to a report in Semafor, amid speculation by Wall Street, industry players and, yesterday, John Malone, that the world’s richest man and Tesla chief would step in to lend his friend Larry Ellison a hand. At a conference yesterday...
- Quick News: Avengers, Heat 2, Zero, Scapegoat Avengers: Doomsday “Avengers: Doomsday” has reportedly scored an exclusive two-week IMAX window in China, the title getting the large-format cinemas to itself for the last two weeks of the year following the postponement of “Dune: Part Three” in that country until December 31st. “Avengers: Doomsday” will open...
- “Carrie” TV Series Renewed For Season 2 Amazon Prime Video has announced that it has renewed Mike Flanagan’s “Carrie” TV series for a second season. Flanagan, who adapted Stephen King’s novel, will continue as showrunner and executive producer in season two. In interviews, he has previously teased a three-season plan for the show. The...
- Second Trailer: “I Play Rocky” Amazon MGM Studios has unveiled the second trailer for Peter Farrelly’s “I Play Rocky” a biopic about the origin of the seminal 1976 boxing film “Rocky” and the Rocky Balboa character. Anthony Ippolito plays the young Sylvester Stallone, a struggling actor with a partially paralysed face and...
- Sony Pulls Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player From Japan Sony Japan has reportedly discontinued its last remaining UHD Blu-ray player on the market, the UBP-X700/K, which was released in May 2025. Japanese blog Kunkoku broke the news, indicating that sales are officially ending in Japan today (October 22nd) with shipments stopped. The blog also happens to...
- Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye & Dr. Mae Jemison Join Broadway’s ‘Galileo’ Musical As Co-Producers EXCLUSIVE: Prominent members of the scientific community Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye and Dr. Mae Jemison have joined Broadway’s upcoming Galileo musical as co-producers, the show’s lead producers announced today. “Galileo’s story reminds us that scientific discovery begins with the courage to question what we think we already know,” said...
- Tom Hanks & Kelli O’Hara Heading To Broadway Next Fall In ‘This World Of Tomorrow’ Tom Hanks and Kelli O’Hara are Broadway-bound in a Fall 2027 production of This World of Tomorrow, a new play written by Hanks and James Glossman. The strictly limited engagement will be directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon at a Shubert theater to be announced. The announcement was made...
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani & Neon Partner On Free ‘Once Upon A Time In Harlem’ Screenings Across NYC Neon has partnered with Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s office to host four free screenings of Once Upon a Time in Harlem across New York City this October. The screenings will happen on Saturday, October 24, and Sunday, October 25, at AMC Magic Johnson Harlem, Film Forum, and Film at Lincoln Center....
- Trump Ordered By Judge To Sit For Deposition In $10B Lawsuit Against The BBC Donald Trump has been ordered by a judge to sit for a deposition by December as part of his $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC. Trump sued the BBC for defamation in December over a Panorama documentary that misleadingly edited his speech before the January 6 attack on the Capitol....
- Druski, Inde Navarrette & John Mulaney Set As ‘SNL’ Hosts For Season 52 Saturday Night Live has announced its next trio of hosts: Inde Navarrette, Druski, and John Mulaney. The NBC late-night sketch show returns with a live new episode on October 31 as Inde Navarrette takes the stage at Studio 8h. The Obsession star will host the Halloween episode and will be joined...
- ‘The Watcher’ Season 2 Adds Madelaine Petsch, Evan Adams, Owen Painter & Quintessa Swindell Madelaine Petsch, Evan Adams, Owen Painter, and Quintessa Swindell have been cast in Season 2 of Netflix’s The Watcher. The quartet of series regulars will join returning series leads Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale as well as fellow main cast members Margo Martindale and Isabel Gravitt. Production on Season 2...
- ‘Cupertino’: CBS To Air Special Back-To-Back Episodes Of Legal Drama Viewers will get to see more of Cupertino in the near future. CBS has slotted special episodes of the critically acclaimed legal drama in addition to its Sunday 10 p.m. slot. On Sunday, November 8, new episode “Harper” will air at 8 p.m. ET/PT in place of Marshals, followed by...
- Tom Hollander, Aja Naomi King & Beau Young Join Prime Video’s ‘Stillwater’ As Series Regulars EXCLUSIVE: Stillwater, Prime Video’s new horror thriller series, has filled out three more series regular roles with the addition of Tom Hollander (Monster: The Ed Gein Story), Aja Naomi King (Lessons in Chemistry) and up-and-comer Beau Young. Hollander plays Judge Jack Taylor, an authoritative man who weighs his words carefully,...
- Elgin James Developing Drama Series ‘King Of Ashes’ Based On Novel By S.A. Cosby At FX EXCLUSIVE: Elgin James (Mayans M.C., The Outlaws) is currently shooting his upcoming Prison Break series for Hulu, and has already lined up his next project. James is developing a TV adaptation of S.A. Cosby’s Southern Gothic crime thriller novel King of Ashes at FX with Amblin, Higher Ground, and 20th...
- Stage 32 Launches Marketplace To Combat AI Slop EXCLUSIVE: Script platform Stage 32 has launched an official marketplace to partly help combat an influx of AI-written projects. The Stage 32 Marketplace, which launched yesterday, allows executives to discover film and TV projects that have been fully vetted via an “evaluation process” conducted by humans. Only scripts submitted across...
- “Heated Rivalry” Is Getting A Theatrical Release Everyone’s coming to the cottage as Crave and HBO’s smash hit sensation “Heated Rivalry” is set to get a theatrical release. Nearly one year after the gay hockey romance series premiered and became a pop culture phenomenon, it has been announced that all six episodes of the...
- New James Bond Final Candidates Emerge Jack Lowden (“Slow Horses”), Josh O’Connor (“Disclosure Day”), Callum Turner (“One Night Only”) and at least one unknown name are all said to have made the final round of candidates to take on the role of James Bond. THR reports that according to multiple sources, the three...
- Spotify Stock Surges 10% on Q3 Subscriber Beat And Bullish Forecast Spotify shares jumped 10% at $572 billion Thursday to a 10-month high as the music streaming giant hit 306 million premium subscribers in the September quarter (up 9% year on year) – one million ahead of forecasts, and with growth across all regions. It guided to another 10 million net...
- Kate Berlant & John Early Join Olivia Wilde’s Universal Holiday Comedy ‘Naughty’ EXCLUSIVE: Comedic multi-hyphenates Kate Berlant (The Moment) and John Early (Maddie’s Secret) are the latest additions to Naughty, the holiday comedy from Universal marking director Olivia Wilde’s follow-up to the lauded A24 chamber drama The Invite. Character details are being kept in Santa’s sleigh. The duo joins a cast led...
- Zac Efron Signs With Range Media Partners EXCLUSIVE: Zac Efron has taken on new management at Range Media Partners. This comes at a time when he has a full slate of upcoming projects. Next up, he’ll be seen starring opposite Phoebe Dynevor in Famous, Jody Hill’s dark comedy for A24, followed by Nicholas Stoller’s comedy Judgment Day...
- Sam Heughan To Star Opposite Viola Davis In Paramount+ Thriller ‘Ascent’ Sam Heughan, the Scottish star and producer of Starz’s hit historical fantasy Outlander, has found his next TV project. He’s set to star opposite EGOT winner Viola Davis in Ascent, a Paramount+ series created by John Logan and produced by Paramount Television Studios, which shoots in Los Angeles next year....
- Politico Corrects Susie Wiles Story After Trump Official’s Threat, But Media Outlet’s Attorney Warns White House Of “Unconstitutional Retaliation” Politico corrected a report from last week on the role that Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles played preceding the exit of Katie Zacharia as White House press secretary. But the media outlet’s attorney is warning the Trump administration not to seize on the correction for “unconstitutional retaliation,” following...
- Alex Roe, Jack Topalian & Shakira Barrera Starring In Feature ‘The Ride’, Told From Perspective Of A ’76 Plymouth EXCLUSIVE: Slava Denisov’s short film The Ride is getting the feature treatment with Alex Roe (The 5th Wave), Jack Topalian (Euphoria) and Shakira Barrera (GLOW) on board to star. Told entirely from the perspective of a single automobile and due to begin production in Los Angeles this fall, The Ride...
- How Olivia Colman Starrer ‘Wicker’ Went From Unpublished Short Story To A Big-Screen Feminist Romantasy When Justin Lothrop first came across Ursula Wills’ short story “The Wicker Husband” online in 2021, the Votiv Films producer immediately knew that it was material worth championing. The offbeat fantasy fable, which at its core explores themes of jealousy and the transformative power of love, was just the kind...
- YA Vampire Adaptation ‘House Of Night’ Gets New Director, Casting Underway & Shoot Eyed For Early 2027 EXCLUSIVE: The first big screen adaptation of House of Night, the popular YA fantasy romance book series by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast, has a new director in the shape of Johanna Watts. A long-time collaborator of the film’s producer Davis Films, Watts previously directed the short Career Girl and...
- Lucy Fry & Amanda Brugel Join Jensen Ackles In MGM+ Crime Thriller ‘Rules Of Prey’ EXCLUSIVE: Lucy Fry (Bright, Godfather of Harlem) and Amanda Brugel (The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments) are set as series regulars opposite Jensen Ackles in MGM+’s crime thriller series Rules of Prey. Created by Bruce Terris (DTF St. Louis), based on the first novel in John Sandford’s Prey book series, the...
- ‘Game Of Pets’: Animated Pic Based On ‘Bad Guys’ Author’s Book Series In Works With Rideback, Foundation Media & Amazon MGM Studios EXCLUSIVE: An animated feature of Aaron Blabey’s middle-grade book series, Game of Pets, is being let off the leash as Lilo & Stitch studio Rideback and Foundation Media Partners are teaming to bring the IP to the big screen for Amazon MGM Studios. A New York Times bestseller, Game of...
- Edinburgh Film Festival Genre Title ‘Snapshot’ Gets North American Deal EXCLUSIVE: UK and France-based sales firm Alief has struck a deal with U.S. distributor Dark Star Pictures for North American distribution rights to Snapshot, the UK found-footage horror film which debuted at the Edinburgh Film Festival earlier this year. Director Joseph Archer’s film, starring Tom Stourton, who co-wrote and starred...
- ‘Carrie’ Renewed For Season 2 By Prime Video Mike Flanagan is now two-thirds of the way on the three-season arc he had envisioned for Carrie. Prime Video has renewed Flanagan’s adaptation of Stephen King’s horror classic for a second season. The pickup comes two weeks after Carrie‘s eight-episode first season was released on Oct. 7 to strong reviews...
- ‘Ali G: Who Iz I?’ Review: Sacha Baron Cohen’s Signature Prankster Returns In Outrageous Form With Something To Offend Everyone After I saw Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest mind-bending comedy Ali G: Who Iz I?, I immediately thought that this movie is proof there should be a brand new Oscar category created, for Best Clearances. The fact that there is someone out there who could actually get all the real unsuspecting...
- Gossip Goblin’s AI Sci-Fi Film ‘Gods Don’t Give Gifts’ Heads To AFM Market For Sales With AGC AGC International, the sales and distribution arm of Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios, is adding Gods Don’t Give Gifts to its distribution slate and will introduce the feature length AI-generated sci-fi epic to buyers at the American Film Market. The feature debut from creator and YouTuber Zack London (aka Gossip Goblin)...
- Final James Bond Screen Tests To Take Place Over Next Week As Amazon Nears Naming The Next 007 – The Dish EXCLUSIVE: The process to find out the next James Bond has been long and thorough, but all signs are pointing to the search hitting the homestretch as Amazon MGM Studios is setting its final auditions over the next week. Sources tell Deadline that screen tests for the Bond role could...
- Matt Friend Joins Prime Video’s ‘Thursday Night Football’ Postgame Show With ‘The Friend Zone’ Matt Friend will be bringing some humor to Prime Video’s Thursday Night Football postgame show. The comedian and impressionist has joined the show’s TNF Nightcap as a recurring contributor in a new comedy segment, The Friend Zone with Matt Friend, Prime Video announced Thursday. The segment will kick off October...
- JJ Watt Named Lead Analyst For ‘NFL On CBS’ CBS Sports announcer JJ Watt has been named lead analyst for the NFL on CBS in a new multi-year agreement. The announcement made Thursday by David Berson, Chairman, Global Sports Group, Skydance, calls for Watt to continue to call the network’s top games alongside Jim Nantz and Tracy Wolfson as...
- Apple’s Fleetwood Mac Doc Lands Title & Release Date Fleetwood Mac: The Chain, the first fully authorized documentary on the legendary rock band, will debut on Apple TV on January 29, 2027. The documentary, directed by Frank Marshall and produced by The Kennedy/Marshall Company and White Horse Pictures, offers fans what Apple has described as a “definitive and unprecedented...
- ABC Stations To Air Second Season Of Hearst Media Productions’ ‘Home For Good’ Home-and-life safety education series Home for Good has been renewed for a second season, which will begin airing on ABC stations on January 9. The series is produced by Hearst Media Production Group via a partnership with Epic Entertainment and Media Group and safety equipment maker Kidde. It airs as...
- Investigation Discovery Buys SXSW True-Crime Doc ‘My Brother’s Killer’ EXCLUSIVE: My Brother’s Killer, the true-crime documentary directed by Circus of Books’ Rachel Mason, has landed at Investigation Discovery. The film, which is exec produced by The Decline of Western Civilization director Penelope Spheeris, will debut on the Skydance-owned cable network on December 3. It comes after the doc premiered...
- Puck Yeah! ‘Heated Rivalry’ Gets Limited Theatrical Run With Regal For Season 1 The boy aquarium has some competition next month as Heated Rivalry fans are treated to a jumbotron-sized event that should hold them over until Season 2. From Nov. 6-30, fans can experience all six episodes of Season 1 on a screen befitting of Shane (Hudson Williams) and Ilya’s (Connor Storrie)...
- Space 11 & SK Films Bringing Artemis II To The Big Screen With ‘Return To The Moon: The Story Of Artemis II’ EXCLUSIVE: Space 11 Corp. and SK Films are behind Return to the Moon: The Story of Artemis II, a new space film with Duncan Copp and Christopher Riley directing. The producers are targeting a PLF rollout for the film, which they say will combine NASA’s real Artemis II mission imagery...
- The Lede Company Acquires Lauren Winslade’s London-Based Agency Aisle 8 The Lede Company has acquired London-based fashion and lifestyle agency Aisle 8, Aisle 8 founder Lauren Winslade will join as President of Brand for The Lede Company London, bringing her full team of 21 into the firm. Matthew Avento will continue to oversee the Talent and Strategic Communications divisions at...
- Skydance Nordics & Germany Boss Says “We’re Doing Our Best To Manage The Change” After Mega-Merger “We’re doing our best to manage the change but I’m not naïve.” That was the verdict of Christina Sulebakk, who runs the newly-minted Skydance’s operation in the Nordics, Germany and Benelux, over how she is approacing the $110B merger in her territories. Sulebakk, who has been with various iterations of...
- Russell Brand Trial: Witnesses Say Their Friend Was “Extremely Distressed” After Alleged Anal Rape Editor’s note: This story contains details of alleged sexual offenses that some readers may find distressing. Multiple witnesses in the Russell Brand trial have claimed that their friend was in physical pain and “extremely distressed” after she was allegedly anally raped by the Despicable Me star in 2009. On the...
- Andy Burnham Becomes First UK Prime Minister To Join ‘Celebrity Gogglebox’ Plenty of Prime Ministers have been watched on Channel 4’s Gogglebox, but none have bedecked the famous sofas until now. Tomorrow, Andy Burnham will appear from 10 Downing Street on Gogglebox for Stand Up To Cancer sat alongside his old friend Steve Rotheram, the Mayor of Liverpool. Check out a...
- Comcast Q3: Record-Breaking ‘The ‘The Odyssey’, Profitable Peacock Fuel NBCU Spinoff Momentum Odysseus and his intrepid crew sailed through Comcast’s latest quarter as Universal surpassed $5 billion at the global box office, led by the The Odyssey, now Universal’s highest-grossing film of all time. The Christopher Nolan smash based on Homer’s epic has grossed nearly $1.9 billion worldwide since its July opening...
- Charades Boards Juho Kuosmanen’s ‘Dream Come True’ As Production Wraps Across Europe EXCLUSIVE: Charades has acquired international rights to Dream Come True, the third feature film by Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen, best known for his 2021 Cannes Grand Prix-winning Compartment No. 6. Production has wrapped on the film, which was shot in Denmark, Finland and France. The film is said to tell...
- Laura Birn Leading Sports Doping Thriller Series ‘Disqualified’ From Banijay Finland & Journalist Johanna Aatsalo EXCLUSIVE: Foundation actress Laura Birn is leading a sports doping thriller series from Banijay Finland and journalist Johanna Aatsalo. Disqualified is being presented at the MIA Market in Rome today as a TV drama inspired by one of real-life events surrounding Finland’s most notorious sporting scandals. The series is based...
- TV Festival Unveils Dates, Venues & Advisory Chair For First-Ever Greater Manchester Edition The UK’s biggest TV Festival has revealed the dates it will officially launch in Greater Manchester for the first time, with Sony international productions boss Wayne Garvie aboard as advisory chair. The TV Festival will move one week back from its traditional Edinburgh slot to the week after the August...
- ‘The Day’: First Look At Minnie Driver As Hostage Negotiator In Paramount+ Drama ‘The Day’ EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first look at Minnie Driver as a hostage negotiator in Paramount+’s tense heist thriller The Day. We’ve got a batch of images for the eight-part British drama, which is based on 2018 Belgian series De Dag and alos stars the likes of Luca Pasqualino and Louisa Harland....
- Paul Mescal, Daisy Edgar-Jones & Jessie Buckley Among Signatories Of Open Letter Supporting Sally Rooney After UK Book Ban Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones have signed an open letter in support of their Normal People scribe Sally Rooney. Earlier this month, it was confirmed that Rooney’s books would be withdrawn from sale in the UK over her support of the banned protest group Palestine Action. Palestine Action is a...
- ‘Harry Potter’ Production Accounts Reveal Clue About Budget For HBO Series Harry Potter is on course to be among the most expensive series ever made by HBO. A source familiar with the adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s beloved books confirmed that the Potter series will rank alongside the final season of Game of Thrones and The Last of Us, as production accounts...
- Billy Porter, Leslie Jones & Phoebe Robinson To Front ‘Places, Dahlingz!’ Podcast From Acast EXCLUSIVE: Billy Porter, Leslie Jones and Phoebe Robinson are launching a comedy podcast exploring live performance. The 48-part weekly comedy series, Places, Dahlingz!, will see theater icon Porter, theater critic Jones and theater convert and comedian Robinson sitting down with Broadway stars such as Shoshana Bean, Ariana DeBose and Renée...
- Canal+ “Making Progress” In Opposing French VAT Hike That It Says Would Force Subs Increases & Cuts Canal+ has “made progress” in opposing a controversial proposal in France that would double the VAT rate on TV subscriptions from 10% to 20%. Delivering a Q3 trading update, the French major said it has support from “cinema organisations, federations and leagues” and will continue fighting the rate increase tooth...
- BBC Merges TV & Audio Commissioning Teams Amid Plan To Cut 100 Content Roles EXCLUSIVE: The BBC will merge TV and audio commissioning teams across comedy and other genres amid plans to close around 100 roles in its content unit. In an internal memo earlier this week, BBC content chief Kate Phillips told colleagues that her department will make “tough” choices to support the...
- David Krumholtz Explains Why He Missed ’10 Things I Hate About You’ Reunion On ‘DWTS’: “Love Them All” As Julia Stiles paid tribute to Heath Ledger on Dancing with the Stars, one 10 Things I Hate About You star was unable to attend the televised reunion. Following Tuesday’s “Dedication Night” on Season 35 of the ABC dance competition show, David Krumholtz explained why he was not able to...
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- Pratt Confirms Star-Lord Will Return To MCU Chris Pratt last played Peter Quill/Star-Lord in “Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3” three years ago, with that film promising “The Legendary Star-Lord Will Return”. Nothing has materialised since then, and neither Pratt nor any of the other Guardians are expected to appear in this year’s “Avengers:...
- NBC Planning To Reboot “Coach” Series NBC is reportedly developing a potential reboot of the ABC comedy “Coach” with “Modern Family” alum Ty Burrell executive producing and potentially starring. Craig T. Nelson starred in the original which ran for nine seasons from 1989 to 1997. Nelson played Hayden Fox, head coach of Minnesota’s...
- Sara Bareilles Is “Still Holding Out” For A ‘Girls5eva’ Movie: “We’d Do It In A Heartbeat” Although Girls5eva was cut short after three seasons, Sara Bareilles still has some “Big P*ssy Energy” to work out with her inner Fledge Mulholland. The 2x Grammy winner recently admitted she’s “still holding out” for a movie adaptation of the Peacock/Netflix series, which ran for three seasons from 2021 to...
- ‘860’ Broadway Review: Billy Crystal Remembers The Stuff Of Life And Loss Billy Crystal’s career, from his catch-a-rising-star stand-up days of the 1970s, his groundbreaking role as TV’s first regular-cast gay character on the sitcom Soap and through his years as both a top Hollywood director and what many consider the greatest host in Oscar history, gets a fine, funny and emotional...
- White House Correspondents’ Association Decries Trump Team’s “Retaliation” After POTUS Lashes Out At Reporter White House Correspondents’ Association President Jacqui Heinrich said that the Trump administration was engaged in retaliation by blocking a journalist’s access because the president was upset over his questions. Heinrich, senior White House correspondent for Fox News, said in a statement on Wednesday, “The White House Correspondents’ Association strongly objects...
- Netflix Co-CEOs Address Executive Shakeup & Layoffs In Town Hall, Talk Up New CCO Peter Rice’s Experience Across Platforms — Including Streaming A day after Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters faced anxious investors on the company’s Q3 earnings call after reporting mixed financial results, the duo on Wednesday faced anxious staffers at a town hall meeting after laying off 1,000 and shaking up the executive ranks by replacing Chief Content...
- Sebastian Koch Joins Apple TV’s ‘Disavowed’ As Series Regular EXCLUSIVE: Sebastian Koch (Never Look Away, Black Book) has joined the cast of Apple TV’s Disavowed, the upcoming action-thriller created by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway. Koch will play a series regular role, though details are under wraps. He joins the previously announced stars, led by James Marsden, Norman Reedus,...
- Meta Ordered To Pay New Mexico $25 Billion For Deceiving Facebook Users About Privacy A judge in New Mexico has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in civil penalties for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook. The ruling Wednesday by state District Court Judge Francis J. Mathew came in the state’s landmark Cambridge Analytica case against Facebook for violations of New Mexico’s Unfair Practices...
- Oscar Nuñez, Marlene Forte, Otmara Marrero & Vivian Ruiz To Star In Adrian Cardenas’ Directorial Debut ‘In An Orderly Fashion’ EXCLUSIVE: Writer Adrian Cardenas is making his directorial debut with the film In an Orderly Fashion, which just completed production in Miami with Oscar Nuñez (The Office, The Paper), Marlene Forte (The Rookie, Star Trek), Otmara Marrero (Florida Man, StartUp), and Vivian Ruiz (Bloodline, Pain & Gain) in lead roles....
- The “Clayface” Reviews Are In Reviews are in for Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Studios’ “Clayface” film, and the results are fairly mixed. With 83 reviews counted, the movie sits at 75% (6.7/10) on Rotten Tomatoes and 59/100 on Metacritic. That’s a distinct improvement on the mostly panned “Supergirl” film, but not...
- EA Shutters BioWare, Cancels “Mass Effect” Electronic Arts Inc. has announced it will lay off staff and shut down its long-running development studio BioWare reports Bloomberg. BioWare is the long-running development studio behind acclaimed single-player role-playing games such as many of the titles in the “Dragon Age” and “Mass Effect” franchises. Its attempt...
- Mark Kermode & Daphne Dentz On Restoring ‘Ken Russell’s The Devils’: “There’s A Balance Between The Grain, The Dirt, The Vibe And The Look” If you don’t ask, you don’t get, and that’s what Mark Kermode discovered over 20 years ago while trying to put together the definitive version of Ken Russell’s badly butchered 1971 film The Devils. Thanks to Kermode’s sleuthing, not only did the missing moments turn up, but it also resulted...
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