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- Diane Lane & ‘Anniversary’ Co-Stars Reacted To “The Experiment That Is Democracy” Over Group Text After Wrap
With professors on watchlists and comedians on cultural thin ice, Diane Lane‘s latest role in director Jan Komasa‘s Anniversary has never been more prescient. Leading a star-studded ensemble as matriarch Ellen, the Oscar nominee admitted to Deadline that she’s not prepared for the discourse that’s bound to ensue from the... - Alan Ritchson’s Dialogue-Free Revenge Thriller ‘Motor City’ Gets U.S. Deal & Theatrical Commitment In 2026
EXCLUSIVE: RLJE Films, the genre label within the IFC Entertainment Group, has acquired U.S. distribution rights to buzzed about Venice and Toronto pic Motor City, we can reveal. The dialogue-free crime-revenge thriller with a toe-tapping soundtrack stars Alan Ritchson (Reacher), Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies), Pablo Schreiber (Halo), and Ben Foster... - Teresa Moneo Joins Mike Goodridge’s Good Chaos As Creative Director & Producer Teresa Moneo has joined Mike Goodridge’s Good Chaos label as Creative Director and Producer. Moneo resigned earlier this year from her role as Director of UK Film at Netflix. The company today said Moneo will work closely with Goodridge and head of development Catriona Renton on the company’s slate while...
- Epic Universe Keys Comcast Q3 Theme Park Gains; Co-CEO Says It Will “Fully Scale Up” In Coming Months In the first full quarter of operation, Comcast’s Epic Universe theme park drove double-digit gains for the company’s theme park unit. And executives expect that contribution to only increase. The company reported a 19% year-over-year gain in parks revenue, to $2.7 billion, in the period ended September 30. EBITDA rose...
- Underscore Talent Ups Nadi Filsoof To Partner & Hires BuzzFeed Alum For Shorthand Studios EXCLUSIVE: Underscore Talent has upped Nadi Filsoof to partner and hired former BuzzFeed content producer Zack Evans for its recently-launched digital production and distribution business. Filsoof is promoted from talent manager and will continue to oversee a client list of creators and entertainers including Phaith Montoya, Charly Jordan, Lindsay Brewer,...
- Mike Cavanagh On Comcast’s M&A Options With Warner Bros. Discovery In Play Comcast’s Co-CEO designate Mike Cavanagh said today that if the company was looking at M&A it would be interested in streaming and studio assets, and that it will have more options along those lines, and post Versant spinoff, than many seem to believe. “I think we’ve said repeatedly, and I’ll...
- Becky G Documentary ‘Rebbeca’ Sets Limited Theatrical Release EXCLUSIVE: Becky G is coming to a theater near you soon. Following its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in June, the documentary Rebbeca is headed to the big screen for a two-night-only limited engagement. The title, which spotlights the woman behind the hits, Becky G, born Rebbeca Marie Gomez,...
- Teaser Trailer: “Scream 7”
- “Stranger Things” Final Season Full Trailer Netflix has premiered the full trailer for the fifth and final season of “Stranger Things” ahead of the first batch of episodes arriving in a month. The preview, containing almost all new scenes, is set primarily to Queen’s “Who Wants to Live Forever” from the original “Highlander”...
- Theater & Screen Actor Raj Ghatak Signs With Alta Global Media EXCLUSIVE: British-Asian actor Raj Ghatak has signed with Alta Global Media for international management. Currently appearing on stage in Mel Brook’s The Producers in the West End, Ghatak has credits across theater, TV and film. His role as the flamboyant Carmen Ghia in the London revival was personally approved by...
- ‘Stranger Things 5’ Trailer: Eleven Is Ready For Battle With Vecna On The Attack – Update UPDATE: Netflix has launched its second trailer for Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 1. The new trailer opens on the Upside Down version of the Hawkins Library, covered in slimy vines. Viewers may recall that this is where Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) was found after that fateful night he went missing in...
- IDFA Director Isabel Arrate Fernandez Explains Why Europe’s Biggest Documentary Festival Is Not Inviting State-Backed Israeli Bodies & Films Isabel Arrate Fernandez, Artistic Director of the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), has confirmed its decision to become the first major film event to officially exclude Israeli state-backed organizations and films and explained the process and thinking behind the move. The festival has stoked debate with its rejection of accreditation...
- Comcast Names Steve Croney CEO Of Key Connectivity & Platforms Amid Reset, Dave Watson Segues To Vice Chair Comcast its elevating Steve Croney to CEO of its core Connectivity & Platforms division, succeeding Dave Watson, effective January 1. He’ll be responsible for residential and commercial connectivity businesses including broadband, wireless and entertainment distribution platforms. They’ve been challenged in a competitive landscape as video and broadband customers defect Comcast...
- Fox Streamer Tubi Turns Profit Earlier Than Expected, Lachlan Murdoch Reveals On First Results Call Since Family Settlement Drama Fox Corp. has been touting Tubi’s growth for months and so CEO Lachlan Murdoch sounded overjoyed as he revealed the AVoD platform hit profitability for the first time during the past quarter. Tubi’s revenue growth shot up by 27% and viewing time was up 18%, Fox said as it unveiled...
- Nexstar CEO Perry Sook Extends Contract Through 2029 Nexstar Media Group has extended CEO Perry Sook’s contract through March 2029. Sook, who is Nexstar’s third-largest shareholder, founded the company in 1996 and in less than 30 years built it from a single radio station into the No. 1 local TV station owner in the U.S. Among Nexstar’s 40...
- Japan’s Animation Industry Grows 15% To Record $25BN Driven By Overseas Sales Japan’s animation industry grew by 14.8% to hit record revenues of $25BN (JPY3.8TR) in 2024, with much of the increase coming from overseas markets, according to a report presented by the Association of Japanese Animations (AJA) at TIFFCOM. The report, introduced by Megumi Onouchi, AJA committee member and CEO of...
- StudioCanal Settles Lawsuit That Threatened To Injunct ‘How To Kill Your Family,’ The Upcoming Netflix Series Starring Anya Taylor-Joy EXCLUSIVE: StudioCanal has settled a copyright lawsuit in which the European studio said it was seeking an injunction against How to Kill Your Family, the upcoming Netflix series starring Anya Taylor-Joy. Deadline can reveal that StudioCanal took legal action against Bella Mackie, who wrote the How to Kill Your Family...
- FilmSharks Acquires ‘The Convent’; ‘Guns & Moses’ In The U.S.; Canadian Indie Feature ‘Nobody Sees Me Like You Do’ — Global Briefs FilmSharks Acquires Sales To ‘The Convent’ FilmSharks has picked up world sales rights to The Convent. The film narrates the story of a convent located in the South of Spain, where a sect of unholy nuns served as a coven to find the perfect womb for the son of the...
- Comcast Sees Tough Q3 Comps From Paris Olympics Last Year But Beats Forecasts; Epic Universe Revs Up Comcast’s quarterly number topped Wall Street forecasts with Epic Universe contributing to 19% revenue growth at Theme Parks, advertising steady thanks to Peacock (and excluding a massive year-earlier bump from the Paris Olympics) and good news on the subscriber front with fewer domestic broadband losses and a jump in wireless...
- Fox Surges Past Wall Street Expectations In September Quarter Despite Modest Ad Revenue Gains Fox Corp. eclipsed Wall Street analysts’ expectations in its fiscal first quarter, reporting adjusted earnings per share of $1.51 and total revenue of $3.7 billion. Analysts’ consensus outlook was for earnings per share of $1.06 and revenue of $3.58 billion. The solid overall quarter came despite sluggish movement of the...
- ‘Kangaroo’ Hops Up The Oz Chart To Become Australia’s Highest-Grossing Local Film Of 2025 Family movie Kangaroo has become the highest-grossing Australian film of the year to date at the local box office. Since premiering in September via Studiocanal Australia, the comedy about an unlikely friendship and a group of the titular marsupials has grossed A$5.2M ($3.4M USD). Including releases outside Oz so far,...
- Pan-African E-Sports Drama Series ‘Respawn’ Switched On At Sonepa Studios, Nile Entertainment & GameEvo EXCLUSIVE: A pan-African drama series based around competition e-sports gaming in Cape Town and Lagos is in development. Sonepa Studios, a new production house based in Nigeria, is working on the nine-episode Respawn, with a plan to unite Nollywood with South Africa’s production ecosystem. Mayowa Adegbite is the creator and...
- Rita Ora & Ella Purnell To Voice Animated Viking Girls Adventure ‘ViQueens’; Sola Media Unveils First Image Ahead Of AFM Launch EXCLUSIVE: Rita Ora and Ella Purnell have been unveiled for the lead voice cast roles of Harald Zwart’s animated viking girls adventure ViQueens as Sola Media gear up to launch sales at the AFM. Billed as a high-energy adventure-comedy, ViQueens follows two fearless Viking girls, Ingrid (Purnell) and Hedvig (Ora),...
- Maha Haj, Wissam Charaf, Mohamed Kordofani & Mamadou Dia Features Set For Red Sea Souk Project Market + Full List Of 40 Selected Titles Upcoming films from Palestinian director Maha Haj, Lebanese director Wissam Charaf and Sudanese breakout Mohamed Kordofani are among 40 titles selected for the upcoming edition of the Red Sea Film Festival’s Souk Project Market. The platform taking place within the framework of the festival in December is designed to bolster...
- Gary Oldman Reveals What He Believes Is The Secret Behind The Success Of ‘Slow Horses’ Apple TV’s Slow Horses is into its fifth season and with two more on the way, this spy thriller ain’t going anywhere. Gary Oldman, who plays odious lead Jackson Lamb in the smash series, pondered why it has been so successful this morning on the BBC’s Today program. For Oldman,...
- Why Disney Ditched ‘Doctor Who’: Sources Say Ratings, Big Ticket Budget & MAGA Politics Were Factors In BBC Deal Failing To Regenerate EXCLUSIVE: Dana Walden was in London earlier this month, but it’s safe to say that renewing Doctor Who was not among the Disney entertainment chief’s priorities. Sources have been telling Deadline for more than a year that Disney has been lukewarm on the sci-fi series, and by Tuesday afternoon, it...
- New-School Studios & Creator Economy Take Center Stage At London’s Digital Content Forum With TV industry events increasingly leaning into the creator economy, next week’s Digital Content Forum will see new and established players take stock as the entertainment business faces a reset. The London event is in its fourth edition and has established itself as a space for digital-first creators and studios....
- Don’t Expect Dorothy’s Face In New “Wicked” While Dorothy Gale is coming to “Wicked: For Good,” don’t expect to see any stunt casting for the role. Filmmaker Jon M. Chu has confirmed to People that the new movie will not show Dorothy’s face. Instead, much like Hugh Jackman’s ‘appearance’ in Netflix’s “The Residence” earlier...
- “Avengers” Dr. Doom Art & Kang Defeat Talk Last month, the first art of Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom in the upcoming “Avengers: Doomsday” appeared via photographs of a standee at the Walt Disney Studios Marketing Expo in Shanghai. The studio used both a drone light show and marketing materials to tease the release, but...
- Floyd Roger Myers Jr. Dies: ‘Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ Child Actor Was 42 Floyd Roger Myers Jr., the former child actor who appeared on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, has died. He was 42. The actor died from a heart attack on Wednesday morning at his home in Maryland, his mother Renee Trice told TMZ after her son previously survived three heart attacks...
- Paramount Animation President Ramsey Naito Departing Studio As Paramount begins cleaning house under new CEO David Ellison, Paramount Animation‘s President Ramsey Naito is the latest to step down from the company. Previously the head of Nickelodeon Animation, where she launched its largest animation slate in the network’s 40+ year history with over 70 projects at the Nickelodeon...
- Colin Farrell Recalls ‘Minority Report’ Scene That Took 46 Takes While Drunk, Tom Cruise “Wasn’t Very Happy” While Tom Cruise could see into the future in Minority Report, his co-star Colin Farrell might have benefitted from a little foresight while making the movie. The Oscar nominee recalled getting drunk one night before “one of the worst days I’ve ever had on a film set” while making the...
- Adult Upscale Films Box-Office Failure Examined A recent feature piece over at Deadline has gone into the underwhelming box office performance of original auteur-driven adult films in recent months. The big reveal in the piece that has got everyone talking is that after three weekends, the Luca Guadagnino-directed “After the Hunt” has been...
- Ritchie, Statham Team For “Viva La Madness” Filmmaker Guy Ritchie and actor Jason Statham are set to re-team again for a sixth time with the action-thriller “Viva La Madness”. The film will be based on a novel of the same name by author J.J. Connolly. The novel is a direct sequel to his earlier...
- Xbox Console Sales Slide After Price Hike Microsoft has announced that sales of its Xbox consoles were down a whopping 29% in the July-September quarter, the company’s fiscal first quarter of 2026. That follows Xbox console sales figures dropping 22% in the prior quarter. At the same time, content and services revenue, at $5.5...
- Farrell On “Sgt. Rock,” Extraordinary “Batman” A little while back, actor Colin Farrell was linked to star in the film adaptation of the DC Comics title “Sgt. Rock” for DC Studios. Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino was originally tapped to direct the project that would’ve been set in the DC Universe. His “Queer” star Daniel...
- “Man of Tomorrow” Villain Teased In Casting James Gunn’s upcoming “Superman” follow-up “Man of Tomorrow” shoots next year, and that means locking in some of the key roles in the feature should be taking place very soon. One key part will be that of the film’s antagonist. The film is expected to see David...
- Netflix Wins Adam Driver-Led “Rabbit, Rabbit” Netflix has reportedly won a bidding war for an Adam Driver-led hostage drama TV series titled “Rabbit, Rabbit”. When an escaped convict is cornered by law enforcement at a Southern Illinois truck stop, he takes hostages in an effort to bargain for his freedom. But the standoff...
- Marvel Writer To Pen “Buck Rogers” Film “Deadpool & Wolverine” co-writer and “Marvel Zombies” creator Zeb Wells has reportedly boarded a new feature film adaptation of the iconic sci-fi character “Buck Rogers”. Legendary announced the project back in 2020 with ambitious plans for a franchise that would span a feature film, live-action series and...
- YouTube Offers Employees Voluntary Buyout As Company Embraces AI: “The Next Frontier” YouTube is undergoing a staffing shakeup as the company pivots to focus on artificial intelligence, offering its US-based employees voluntary buyout packages with severance. The online video platform, which launched in 2005, is restructuring its products team for the first time since 2015, according to an internal memo from YouTube...
- Halloween To Scare Off Moviegoers; ‘Kpop Demon Hunters’ May Not Pop: “It’s Going To Be A Weird Weekend” – Preview It’s the first time since 2014 that Halloween falls on a Friday in what is expected to be horrific for the weekend box office. For the most part, the crowds are expected to shrink greatly on Friday due to festivities, though a scary movie like Black Phone 2 might be...
- ‘Hello Kitty’ Sets Summer 2028 Release From New Line & Warner Bros Pictures Animation Hello Kitty‘s cinematic debut is set for July 21, 2028, via New Line and Warner Bros Pictures Animation, the news was just unveiled on Instagram. The project, as exclusively made known by Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr, was first announced in March 2021. It was billed then as an animated/live-action hybrid...
- Pierre Robert Dies: Legendary DJ At WMMR Philadelphia Was 70 “The station was lucky to have him on the air. We were all lucky to have him as a guide to his musical galaxy and I was lucky to have him as a friend.” That’s how Jon Bon Jovi today described legendary Philadelphia rock DJ Pierre Robert, who was found...
- Russell Crowe MMA Action Movie ‘Beast In Me’ Acquired By Grindstone Entertainment EXCLUSIVE: Grindstone Entertainment Group has taken domestic distribution rights to the mixed martial arts action drama Beast in Me starring Oscar winner Russell Crowe, Daniel MacPherson, and Luke Hemsworth. Crowe co-wrote the movie David Frigerio in a story about a former MMA legend turned family man who is lured back...
- Anthony Mackie, Pablo Schreiber & Ben Foster Set To Fly In Thriller ‘Raven’ – AFM EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Mackie, Pablo Schreiber and Ben Foster are boarding the Corey Large produced thriller Raven. Ron Livingston and Hassie Harrison are also starring in the movie which Tom Sierchio (Gasoline Alley, The Girl Who Invented Kissing) is directing from his own script. Cameras roll this autumn. Raven follows Fay...
- Margaret DePriest Dies: Actress & Writer On ‘General Hospital’, ‘Days Of Our Lives’, ‘All My Children’ & More Was 94 Margaret DePriest, an actress and five-time Daytime Emmy Award nominee who wrote on numerous soaps including General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, All My Children, Sunset Beach and others, has died. DePriest passed away on September 29 of natural causes at her home in Greenwich Village, her daughter Sara Kimbell...
- ‘IT: Welcome to Derry’ Creators On Deciding To “Trick The Audience” With Pilot Twist: “Nothing Is Safe” As one of Stephen King‘s scariest pieces of IP gets the HBO Max series treatment, the bloodbath has commenced with the first episode. Following this week’s debut of IT: Welcome to Derry, the show’s co-creators explained how they pulled off the pilot’s big twist, which they thought they’d “have to...
- Disney And YouTube Settle Poaching Dispute Over Video Giant’s Hire Of Exec Justin Connolly A carriage battle may see all the Disney-owned channels disappear from YouTube TV on Thursday, but today the Bob Iger-run company and the Google-owned platform have reached a detente over an executive they both wanted working for them. “A Notice of Settlement of Entire Case has been filed in this...
- Sophie Flay Joins ABC News As Correspondent And Overnight Anchor Sophie Flay, general assignment reporter at ABC7/KABC-TV in Los Angeles, is joining ABC News as correspondent and overnight anchor of World News Now and Good Morning America First Look. Flay has worked at the Los Angeles station, owned by the network, since March 2019. She has covered the Monterey Park...
- Paramount Layoffs Hit Motion Picture Execs In Production, Marketing, Music & More; Studio Co-Chairs Say, “Today Has Been A Difficult One” EXCLUSIVE: Paramount’s motion picture divisions, including production, literary, marketing and music, were impacted Wednesday by the wider company layoffs, with many Melrose Ave lot vets exiting. The new David Ellison-run conglom is handing out about 1,000 pink slips as it looks to achieve $2 billion in overall savings. We understand...
- YouTube Q3 Revenue Tops $10B As Alphabet Has Another Big Print YouTube ad revenue topped $10 billion for the first time in a single quarter, helping push parent Alphabet past Wall Street expectations for the July-to-September period. Total company revenue also hit a milestone, passing $100 billion in a quarter for the first time. It hit $102.34 billion, up 16% from...
- Sumerian Pictures Acquires Barbie Ferreira Rom-Com ‘Mile End Kicks’ From Chandler Levack, XYZ Films EXCLUSIVE: Sumerian Pictures, the division of Sumerian Records that released its first film in 2023, has picked up U.S. rights to Mile End Kicks, an indie rom-com starring Euphoria‘s Barbie Ferreira that premiered to critical acclaim at this year’s Toronto Film Festival. The film, from writer-director Chandler Levack (I Like...
- Steve Coogan Defiant After Settling Court Battle Over ‘The Lost King’: “Not One Frame Of The Film Has Changed” Steve Coogan has written a defiant op-ed defending the creative decisions on The Lost King after paying “substantial damages” to settle a defamation complaint against the movie. In a piece for The Guardian newspaper, Coogan said the 2022 film, chronicling the extraordinary discovery of King Richard III’s remains under a...
- ‘The Pitt’s Not “Derivative Of ‘ER’,” Warner Bros TV Claims In Appeal To Toss Out Crichton Estate Suit Warner Bros TV is making another incision to stop the legal exhumation of The Pitt, and whether or not the Noah Wyle-starring Emmy-winning medical drama is a rip-off of ER from going to trial. “There was no evidence that The Pitt was made by copying from or using ER, so...
- Colin Farrell Calls Matt Reeves ‘The Batman Part II” Script A “Masterwork”: “It’s So Deep & Detailed” Colin Farrell has nothing but praise for the script Matt Reeves wrote for The Batman Part II. The actor is set to reprise his role of The Penguin for the sequel, starring Robert Pattinson as the Caped Crusader and gave insight into the script. “I had many thoughts to share...
- Ron Perlman Launches Asylm Studios; ‘Kodak Super-XX’ With Kelly Marie Tran & David Dastmalchian Is Debut Feature EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning actor and producer Ron Perlman is launching a new film, TV and new media studio, Asylm Studios, which will be based in Los Angeles. Perlman co-founded Asylm with Willie Morris, who has founded multiple verticals across the fast growth consumer, new and traditional media, and technology space. In addition,...
- David Bowie’s Final Decade To Be Celebrated In Documentary Feature From Channel 4, Rogan & Dogwoof EXCLUSIVE: It’s been nearly 10 years since the late David Bowie released his final album and Channel 4, Dogwoof and Rogan Productions are commemorating the moment. David Bowie: The Final Act [working title] will chart the final creative chapter of one of music’s most iconic artists. Featuring rare interviews with those...
- Yalitza Aparicio To Receive Trailblazer Award At Guadalajara Film Festival; Gia Coppola & Danny Trejo To Host Masterclasses EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award nominee Yalitza Aparicio (Roma) will be honored at the GuadaLAjara Film Festival with the Árbol de la Vida Trailblazer Award, to be presented in Los Angeles on Friday, November 7. The award celebraties cinematic figures whose artistry and advocacy transcends borders and inspires global audiences. Aparicio, who...
- Fifth Season’s EVP Jill Arthur Departing Amid Layoffs Jill Arthur, EVP TV Development and Production, is among the executives leaving Fifth Season as part of the layoffs at the independent studio, which impacted 10% of its staff, Deadline has learned. Fifth Season has been looking for a new head of television following the fall 2024 departure of Joe...
- ‘The Morning Show’ Star Reese Witherspoon On Bradley’s Betrayal Of [Spoiler]: “I Don’t Know If That One’s Recoverable” SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for Episode 407 of Apple TV’s The Morning Show. Episode 7 of The Morning Show Season 4, titled “Person of Interest,” tests Bradley like never before, expanding on the tension of her deal with the Feds versus maintaining her journalistic integrity. As Bradley gets...
- Paradigm Talent Agency Forms Strategic Partnership With Reign Maker Group EXCLUSIVE: Paradigm Talent Agency has made a strategic partnership with Reign Maker Group, a newly launched holding company. The plan for the team-up is to connect brands and talent across digital- and creator-driven sectors in a streamlined process. Paradigm will be able to leverage Reign Maker Group’s creator-first infrastructure and expertise...
- AOL Acquired By Italian Tech Company Bending Spoons In Latest Move For Historic Brand Milan-based technology company Bending Spoons has inked a deal to acquire AOL from Yahoo and private equity parent Apollo, saying it will position the historic web portal and email provider for its next phase of growth. The deal is expected to close by year end. Financial terms weren’t disclosed but...
- ‘Influencer’s Kurtis David Harder To Direct Horror Thriller ‘FOMO’ For Scott Strauss & Thunder Road’s Badlands EXCLUSIVE: Rising Canadian genre filmmaker Kurtis David Harder has come aboard to direct FOMO, a new horror thriller for the indie label Badlands. Billed as Midsommar meets Squid Game, FOMO follows a party trip to the Greek islands that turns sinister when a group of friends realize they’ve become unwilling...
- Six Heading To DreamWorks Animation’s ‘Forgotten Island’ H.E.R., Liza Soberano, Lea Salonga, Dave Franco, Manny Jacinto and Jenny Slate are booking a trip to DreamWorks Animation’s Forgotten Island. The action-adventure comedy directed by Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado centers on lifelong best friends forgetting about themselves. Jo (H.E.R.) and Raissa (Soberano) find themselves stranded on the fantastic world...
- Taraji P. Henson Inks First-Look Deal With Fox Entertainment Studios For Her TPH Entertainment EXCLUSIVE: Empire star Taraji P. Henson is returning in the Fox fold, signing a first-look deal with Fox Entertainment Studios for her TPH Entertainment. Under the multi-year pact, Henson, alongside Jamila Jordan-Theus, Head of Development and Production at TPH Entertainment, and their team will be developing a slate of scripted...
- Greg Pedicin Joins Untitled As Lit Manager Following Two-Plus Decades At Gersh EXCLUSIVE: Greg Pedicin has joined Untitled as a lit manager following more than 23 years at Gersh. Pedicin began his Hollywood career as a floater at Gersh before becoming a literary agent. Over the past two decades, he has built a career representing writers, directors, novelists, playwrights, producers, and multi-hyphenates...
- GLAAD Selects Winners Of Black Queer Creative Summit TV Pilot Pitch Competition In Partnership With Starz EXCLUSIVE: GLAAD has selected the winners of its TV Pilot Pitch Competition from the recent Black Queer Creative Summit. First place went to Jules Crosby with the project Don’t Try This at Home. In second place was Carlton V Bell II with un-United, and third place went to Chas Jackson...
- WNBA Star Paige Bueckers To Star In Sports Drama ‘Jess & Pearl’ From Apple EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off her record-breaking rookie year in the WNBA, Paige Bueckers is looking to make her leap onto the big screen, as sources tell Deadline she is attached to star in the sports pic Jess & Pearl. Apple Original Films is developing the film, which is based on an...
- Judy Gold, Ella Stiller & Richard Masur To Star Opposite Ari Frenkel In His Rom-Com ‘See You On The Other Side’ EXCLUSIVE: Judy Gold (Better Things), Ella Stiller (The Comeback), and Richard Masur (The Thing) are set to star opposite Ari Frenkel (I’m a Virgo) in See You on the Other Side, an indie rom-com marking Frenkel’s feature directorial debut. Inspired by true events, the story follows Noah (Frenkel), a neurotic...
- Dan Brown & Van Gogh Immersive Creator Team For ‘The Da Vinci Code’ Experience EXCLUSIVE: Publishing sensation The Da Vinci Code is being turned into an experiential event. Bestselling author Dan Brown has joined forces with Massimiliano Siccardi, creator of Van Gogh Immersive, to reimagine The Da Vinci Code as an event in a similar vein. Siccardi describes the project as “a journey through the mind of Leonardo —...
- Paramount Layoffs Hit CBS News: Morning And Evening Streaming Shows Canceled, Saturday AM To Be Overhauled, Johannesburg Bureau Closed Paramount’s cuts across the company hit CBS News on Wednesday, with the streaming editions of CBS Mornings and the CBS Evening News canceled and CBS Saturday Morning in for an overhaul, according to a source familiar with the plans. The network also is closing its bureau in Johannesburg. In all,...
- Brendan Hines, Tatiana Maslany, Johnny Knoxville, Heather Graham Among Those Joining Osgood Perkins’ Next Film ‘The Young People’ At Neon EXCLUSIVE: Brendan Hines, Cush Jumbo, Heather Graham, Johnny Knoxville, Lexi Minetree, Lily Collias and Tatiana Maslany have joined Osgood Perkins’ The Young People. The new additions round out the ensemble cast, joining previously announced Lola Tung and Nico Parker. Perkins is directing from a script he wrote. Neon will release...
- Adam Driver To Star In Hostage Drama Series ‘Rabbit, Rabbit’ At Netflix From Philip Barantini, Peter Craig & MRC Netflix has just landed another hot drama series and this one stars Adam Driver. The streamer has picked up Rabbit, Rabbit, a hostage crime drama that is described as in the vein of Dog Day Afternoon, after major interest across town. It handed the project a straight-to-series order. The contemporary...
- Larry Kasanoff Leads Industry Veterans To Form The Cartoon Coalition EXCLUSIVE: A group of prominent animation, entertainment and music producers with credits for Mortal Kombat, The Lion King and Dirty Dancing have teamed to form a production venture. The Cartoon Coalition will debut at the AFM with a trio of movies. The privately-funded company, based in L.A., will focus on...
- ‘The Morning Show’ Season 4 Star William Jackson Harper On Where Ben Fits Into The “Gamesmanship” At UBN: “He’s Willing To Play” SPOILER ALERT: This piece contains light spoilers for Episode 407 of The Morning Show. Though William Jackson Harper’s Ben may be the first Head of News at the newly-merged UBN network, he’s not the first person to come into the position from a completely different background. Cory Ellison (Billy Crudup)...
- ‘High Potential’ Showrunner On Mapping Out High-Speed Chase, Casting Roman & That Midseason Cliffhanger: “It Gets Intense” SPOILERS: This post contains details about the High Potential, Season 2 episode ‘The One That Got Away’ As High Potential heads into a midseason hiatus, audiences are left with some more questions (and eye candy) to chew on. Leading up to this week’s Season 2 episode ‘The One That Got...
- ‘BMF’ Canceled At Starz After 4 Seasons Starz has canceled its series BMF after four seasons. What is now their final season premiered in June and concluded with its tenth episode, “Dreams Deffered,” on August 15. While the series finale buttons up a lot of the drama for the Flenory brothers, there was a cliffhanger with Big...
- Evan Rachel Wood Joins Ryan Murphy’s FX Series ‘The Shards’ EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-nominated Evan Rachel Wood (Westworld) is set for a recurring role on Ryan Murphy’s upcoming FX series The Shards, sources confirm to Deadline. The series, from 20th Television and Ryan Murphy Productions, is based on Bret Easton Ellis‘ prep school thriller novel of the same name. First unveiled as a serialized...
- Former Microsoft Software Engineer Austin Nasso To Self-Release Debut Comedy Special ‘Impressionable Youth’ In November EXCLUSIVE: Austin Nasso, a former Microsoft software engineer turned professional stand-up and impressionist, is set to release his debut comedy special, Impressionable Youth, on YouTube on November 6th. With more than two million followers across social media platforms, Nasso broke out online with his impressions of high-profile political figures and...
- ‘Hey Bear:’ Mia Goth, Zach Galifianakis & Dan Stevens To Star In Comedy From ‘Portlandia’ Creator Jonathan Krisel — AFM Portlandia creator Jonathan Krisel is directing a comedy titled Hey Bear with Mia Goth, Zach Galifianakis, and Dan Stevens (I’m Your Man) signed on to star. Hey Bear marks Krisel’s directorial debut. The film was written by Carrie Kemper (Beef). Alix Madigan (Winter’s Bone) will produce. The film will be...
- ‘The Four Seasons’ Netflix Series Adds Steven Pasquale For Season 2 EXCLUSIVE: We have the first official Season 2 cast addition for Netflix’s comedy-drama The Four Seasons. Steven Pasquale is set to recur next season as Mark Brett, a new friend who meets the gang at the Jersey shore during their summer vacation. The eight-episode Season 1 of The Four Seasons,...
- Deadline Launches Rendering, A Column About AI & Showbiz — First Topic: Paranoia Over Impasse In UK Actor Contracts Welcome to Rendering, a new Deadline column reporting at the intersection of AI and showbiz. Published with our TechLine newsletter, Rendering will examine how artificial intelligence is disrupting the entertainment industry, taking you inside key battlegrounds and spotlighting change makers wielding the technology for good and ill. Why the name...
- Benedict Cumberbatch-Olivia Colman Dark Comedy ‘The Roses’ Gets Hulu Streaming Date Searchlight Pictures’ marital dark comedy satire The Roses starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman will debut on streaming November 20 exclusively on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+. The news, announced Wednesday, comes after the pic directed by Jay Roach hit theaters in late August. It has since grossed $15.3 million...
- John Malone Stepping Down As Chair Of Liberty Media, Marking End Of An Era John Malone, 84, is stepping down as chair of his media, sports and telecom empire after 50 years of dealmaking, marking the end of an era in modern media. He will transition to chairman emeritus as of Jan. 1. Vice Chairman Robert R. (“Dob”) Bennett will assume the role of...
- ‘One Piece’ Executive Producer Tetsu Fujimura On Japanese IP: “Most Major Properties Are Already Secured But The Next Tier Has Huge Potential” One Piece executive producer Tetsu Fujimura mapped out the massive growth of Japanese IP in a TIFFCOM keynote today, advising that while many of the big properties may already be licensed, attention is shifting to the next tier where there’s huge potential. In an eye-opening presentation, Fujimura – the former...
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- Ebon Moss-Bachrach & Caitriona Balfe Among Names Added To Andrew Haigh’s ‘A Long Winter’ Cast As Production Begins In Canada Cameras have started rolling on Andrew Haigh’s latest feature, A Long Winter, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Caitriona Balfe have been added to the cast. The film is currently shooting in Alberta, Canada. Written by Haigh, the script is an adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s short story of the same name. The...
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