The Disney Pixar movie Turning Red will not debut in theaters on Friday, March 11, instead it’s heading exclusively to Disney+ worldwide. This is a big subtraction to movie theaters which were looking to play this title and at a time when Omicron was looking to calm. It’s the third Pixar movie to skip theaters after Soul and Luca and go […]
EXCLUSIVE: Allison Janney has rounded out the ensemble of New Regency’s upcoming film True Love, an original sci-fi project written and directed by multi-hyphenate filmmaker Gareth Edwards. She joins previously announced cast members John David Washington, Gemma Chan, Danny McBride and Benedict Wong. Kiri Hart will serve as a producer on the project along with Edwards. New […]
FOURTH UPDATE, Friday,, 12:09 PM PT: Gregory McMichael and his son Travis were sentenced to life in prison without parole in the death of Ahmaud Arbery. A third defendant, William “Roddie” Bryan, who took the cellphone video of Arbery’s killing, was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Superior Court Judge Timothy […]
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has purchased Homecoming, a screenplay that made the 2021 Black List, in a competitive situation, and is setting it up as a film. The feature scripted by Murder Ink’s Brandon Broussard, Hudson Obayuwana and Jana Savage picks up with one of New York’s most eligible bachelors and his eccentric, globetrotting wingman 10 years after […]
Michelle Mendelovitz is stepping down as SVP and Head of Drama Development for 20th Television after almost two years on the job. There is no immediate replacement, with Mendelovitz staying until the end of January to help with the transition. Mendelovitz, who joined then-20th Century Fox TV from Apple TV+ in March 2020, was instrumental […]
UPDATED, with additional reaction: Former President Barack Obama paid tribute to Sidney Poitier today, calling him a singular talent” who “epitomized dignity and grace.” Poitier, whose death was revealed Friday, was 94. In 2009, Obama awarded Poitier the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor, for his artistic and humanitarian achievements. “Ultimately, the man […]
EXCLUSIVE: A classic blue-collar comedy title from the CBS library is plotting a return. The network is developing The Honeymooners, a reimagining of the 1950s sitcom created by and starring Jackie Gleason. The multi-camera project with a feminist twist hails from Damon Wayans Jr. and Kameron Tarlow’s Two Shakes Entertainment and CBS Studios where the […]
Be happy, be kind, be Tony. Ricky Gervais is coming to the end of After Life, the Netflix comedy series that he created and stars in and which has been watched by 100 million people around the world. The final season marks a departure for the British comedian, who has never made a third season […]
EXCLUSIVE: Indie production company Thornbyrd Films has launched production on Healed, a psychological thriller starring Guinevere Turner (American Psycho), Shantell Yasmine Abeydeera (The Influencer), Emily Goss (Snapshots), Benjamin Barrett (The Politician) and Todd Lowe (True Blood), which has been awarded the coveted ReFrame Stamp from the Sundance Institute and Women in Film for gender-balanced hiring. […]
Hollywood and the nation are mourning a Hollywood pioneer today. Click on the photo above to launch a photo gallery on the career of Oscar winner Sidney Poitier, who has died at 94. His 60-year résumé is filled with groundbreaking roles in singular movies. He played the Philadelphia homicide detective Virgil Tibbs investigating a murder […]
Refresh for updates… Tributes are pouring in for Oscar-winning actor, director, civil rights activist and humanitarian Sidney Poitier, who has died at age 94. “For over 80 years, Sidney and I laughed, cried and made as much mischief as we could,” said Harry Belafonte in a statement (the two met in the mid-1940s while working […]
After five years, Seth Oster is leaving UTA at month’s end to take another post. The news was announced internally Friday via an email from UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer: “I am disappointed to say that Seth Oster, our partner and Global Chief Communications Officer, has decided to pursue a new opportunity and is leaving UTA […]
Despite a prolonged effort to maintain a physical edition this year, the Berlin Film Festival has been forced to move its primary industry event, the European Film Market, online due to rising Covid cases in Germany, according to multiple sources. Deadline understands that the festival itself will remain a physical event but rumors are abounding […]
U.S. economy continued to be slowed by Covid disruptions in December, with 199,000 job added, far below expectations. Still, the unemployment rate fell to 3.9%, bringing it closer to the rate it was when the pandemic started. The latest numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics were from data collected before the most recent uptick […]
Afternoon subscribers and a very happy new year. 2022 is only a few days old but we’re back with the biggest stories of the week and some more long-term stuff to look out for. The Year Ahead Round-ups: As 2021 was drawing to a close, the Deadline international team was beavering away forecasting the storylines […]
EXCLUSIVE: A24 and New Regency are among partners on Oscar winner Steve McQueen’s intriguing documentary Occupied City. McQueen remains in production on the project, which is about Amsterdam under Nazi occupation during World War II. A24 will handle domestic and New Regency will handle international, with both players co-financing. As previously revealed, Film4 are also […]
The year 2021 was the year of Squid Game. If one piece of content caught the zeitgeist on the world stage over the last 12 months it was Netflix’s Korean-language Battle Royale-style capitalism satire. According to the streamer, the show smashed previous records to become Netflix’s most-watched title of all time, racking up a mighty […]
This year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has unveiled the 14 films selected for its flagship Tiger Competition. Scroll down for the full list. The selection is typically globe-trotting, with features ranging from Chile to China, Sweden to Israel, and Mexico to India. A jury will grant three prizes: the Tiger Award (worth €40,000), plus […]
The BBC has unveiled its next generation of drama commissioning and writing talent, three Assistant Commissioners including an Industry Script Exec along with 16 scribes for its Drama Room Writers 2021-22. The trio of Assistant Commissioner roles were forged last year as part of a shake-up of Piers Wenger’s drama team, which saw the appointment of […]
Amazon Prime Video is continuing its push into the African market by signing a second exclusive licensing agreement with a production company based in Nigeria. The streamer has inked a multi-year deal with Lagos-based Anthill Studios, which is behind local theatrical hits including Prophetess, Day of Destiny and ElevatorBaby. The agreement sees Prime Video become […]
Shoplifters director Hirokazu Kore-eda is to adapt popular comic Maiko in Kyoto: From the Maiko House into an eight-part Netflix TV series, his first for the streamer. The prolific Kore-eda teased a TV and film project for Netflix late last year and these are the first details to emerge. Airing later this year, The Makanai: Cooking For The […]
Heh-heh. Mike Judge said Beavis and Butt-Head will be returning this year with a brand new movie for Paramount+. Judge tweeted the information, but didn’t give an exact date for the return, indicating it will be “soon.” The reason for the delay? “They need some time to get back in shape,” he said of the […]
The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Friday in two key legal challenges to the Biden administration’s authority on vaccination mandates. The public can listen to the oral arguments on the Supreme Court’s website, or download the audio files after the hearing. C-Span will also televise the hearings. The first case, National Federation of Independent […]
Apple has landed another big feature project, that being an Audrey Hepburn biopic which Oscar-nominated filmmaker Luca Guadagnino will helm, with 2x Oscar nominee Rooney Mara set to play The Breakfast at Tiffany‘s legendary actress. Deadline has learned separately that Mara is also producing the feature project, which Michael Mitnick, the EP of HBO series Vinyl […]
All of the news networks carried events marking the anniversary of January 6th, albeit with differences in tone and tenor, but by the time of the opinion-heavy primetime hours, there were wildly different characterizations of the significance of attack on the Capitol. MSNBC’s Chris Hayes opened his how at 8 PM ET saying that “today […]
