On Tuesday, the executive producers and stars of How I Met Your Father gathered for a virtual TCA panel teasing the Hulu series’ January 18 debut—noting that the series stemming from beloved CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother is not a reboot, as it has sometimes been described. Per writer, EP and showrunner Isaac […]
Jack Viertel, whose 34 years with Broadway’s Jujamcyn Theaters included stints as both the Creative Director and, more recently, Senior Vice President, announced his retirement today, effective as of the end of 2021. In a statement, Viertel said, in part, “as the song says, the days grow short when you reach September, although I feel […]
Latin America is a large place, so when the idea was pitched, it was a daunting task to narrow it down. Directors Jared Bush and Byron Howard, with co-director and writer Charise Castro Smith, found the perfect place for this musical fantasy: Colombia. Encanto takes place in a magical town sheltered by mountains. As she […]
EXCLUSIVE: A sensational wrongful-termination lawsuit filed last year by Michael Mendez against IATSE Grips Local 80 has been settled. Mendez, the local’s former assistant business representative, claimed he was fired last February in retaliation for complaining about “lewd sexual misconduct” and “sexual harassment” that he allegedly witnessed at the local’s offices in Burbank. A notice […]
Black-ish boss Kenya Barris was just hoping to get a show on the air when he first created the family comedy. Now in its final season, the ABC title starring Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross as the pillars of the Johnson family, has far exceeded his expectations. “We wanted to say something that as […]
Driven by the Omicron variant, the U.S. saw a record number of new cases, hospitalizations and hit an all-time high test positivity rate today. Johns Hopkins University reported 1,483,656 new daily cases in the country on Tuesday. That’s 300,000-plus cases above the previous high of 1,044,970 cases seen on January 3, just eight days before. […]
Brooke Posch has been upped at Jax Media. The Search Party and Emily in Paris producer has named Posch as President of the company. It comes after co-founder Tony Hernandez and Lilly Burns were promoted to Presidents of Jax Media owner Imagine Entertainment, although the pair will continue to lead Jax Media as CEO and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Don’t Look Up continues to climb the Netflix charts, this week officially becoming the streamer’s second most successful movie of all time. The film added 58.2 million hours viewed globally across the week January 2-9. That takes it to 321,520,000 total viewing hours since it debuted online January 24, meaning it has overtaken Bird […]
Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race. “There’s a constantly interesting back-and-forth you have with a child that we rarely talk about,” C’mon C’mon writer-director Mike Mills says. “It can be as light as playing but then it can […]
EXCLUSIVE: Cindy Cheung (The Sinner, Awkafina Is Nora from Queens) will star alongside Ashley Liao, Ross Butler, Nico Haraga and Chelsea Zhang in Loveboat, Taipei, a YA romance, which is currently in production in Taipei. The film directed by Arvin Chen (Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?) is based on Abigail Hing Wen’s New York Times bestselling novel […]
ABC yesterday gave an early Season 19 renewal to its flagship drama series Grey’s Anatomy, with star Ellen Pompeo closing a new one-year deal to continue as the show’s title character, Meredith Grey, and rise from co-executive producer to executive producer on the show next season. Krista Vernoff remains an executive producer and showrunner on both […]
EXCLUSIVE: Jada Pinkett Smith (The Matrix Resurrections) has signed on to star in Redd Zone, a new Netflix drama from Emmy-nominated screenwriter Kristin Layne Tucker (A Black Lady Sketch Show), Oscar-winning director Matthew A. Cherry (Hair Love) and Westbrook Studios. Based on a true story, Redd Zone follows Tia Magee (Smith), a single mother who […]
EXCLUSIVE: Continuing its drive towards local-language titles, Sony Pictures International Productions is co-producing, in association with Cinética Filmes, an adaptation of Zíbia Gasparetto’s best-selling 2002 Brazilian novel Nobody Belongs To Anybody (Ninguém E De Ninguém). SPIP has also acquired worldwide distribution rights. Wagner de Assis (Nosso Lar and KARDEC) adapted the screenplay and will direct […]
Channel 4 has promoted factual commissioners Alisa Pomeroy and Shaminder Nahal to take over the running of its documentaries and specialist factual teams, replacing Danny Horan. Former Head of Documentaries and Specialist Factual Horan’s role has been split into two, with Pomeroy taking on documentaries and Nahal specialist factual. Both have been with the Leaving […]
French film exports generated 91.4M euros ($103.6M) in 2021, a 5.5% increase on the previous year’s provisional figures, while admissions were up 8% to 14.8M. Comparatively, French films within France sold 39.2M tickets during the year. The figures were announced during the annual Unifrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema which is taking place in Paris this […]
EXCLUSIVE: Mars Media’s Ruben Dishdishyan and Amedia Production’s Len Blavatnik, two of the most significant figures in the Russian biz, have entered into a five-year agreement to co-produce and co-finance feature films. The deal is a formalization of an existing partnership that to date has seen the companies team on projects including local box office […]
Distributor ITV Studios Global Entertainment has promoted Chief Operating Officer Arjan Pomper to MD of its distribution arm, replacing Maarten Meijs. Having joined in September 2020, Pomper has been overseeing the division since October 2021 alongside Chief Commercial officer Kim Dingler, who will remain in that role. Reporting into ITV Chief Operating Officer David McGraynor, […]
Dan Sefton To Adapt Ex-Genesis Drummer’s Novel For TV Mallorca Files creator Dan Sefton is to adapt the story of ex-Genesis drummer Chris Stewart’s life for TV. Based on Stewart’s novel Driving Over Lemons, Sefton, along with a team including Simon Lupton, Nick Leese, Alvaro Alonso and Manuel Yebra, will turn the retired musician’s incredible […]
With infections still surging, Los Angeles County’s cumulative number of Covid cases throughout the pandemic surpassed the 2 million mark today, with 43,582 new cases confirmed. Those new cases lifted the county’s cumulative case total to 2,010,964 since the pandemic began. Daily cases in the county set an all-time high on Sunday at 45,584. Another […]
Betty White’s death certificate released Monday showed the iconic actress died of a stroke that occurred six days before she died on December 31 at age 99. The certificate, posted by TMZ, showed that White’s cause of death was a “cerebrovascular accident,” also known as a stroke, caused by blot clots and broken blood vessels […]
EXCLUSIVE: Radar Pictures, the TV and film production company behind the Jumanji franchise and Amazon’s Wheel of Time series, is expanding into the video game sphere with a new partnership. Radar will join with LevelN4XT to form Radar-N4XT, focused on developing new IP for video games and adapting existing game IP for television and film. […]
Glenn Berger, longtime national controller for the International Cinematographers Guild, died today at work in the union’s headquarters on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. He was 64 and just four days away from retirement. “Our hearts are broken as we write to inform you of the sudden passing of a beloved member of our Local […]
Last week was the week the late-night hosts contracted Covid with Late Night’s Seth Meyers and The Late Late Show’s James Corden both being hit by the virus. Meyers will return to host his NBC show this evening, although the former SNL star will record remotely after receiving his positive test last week. Tonight’s show […]
EXCLUSIVE: Film and television production company Culture House is expanding its offices to Los Angeles along with two key new hires. Founding Partner Carri Twigg will lead the West Coast office for the growing slate of projects. Joining her is new hire, Jaimie Woo, who has been named senior development producer reporting to Twigg. Woo […]
EXCLUSIVE: Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to Jump, Darling, an LGBTQ+ family drama featuring the final performance of the late screen icon Cloris Leachman (The Last Picture Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show), with plans to release it in theaters and on digital and VOD in March. The film written and directed by Phil […]
