EXCLUSIVE: Constance Zimmer has joined ABC’s Big Sky in a key recurring role. Emmy-nominated Zimmer will play Alicia, an accountant who proved herself invaluable to Veer Bhullar’s (Bernard White) business even before they fell in love. Charismatic, cunning and confident, Alicia’s success comes from her tendency to observe and assess long before she acts. But […]
The Guild of Music Supervisors today unveiled the nominees for its 12th annual award ceremony, celebrating outstanding achievement in the craft of Music Supervision in film, television, games, documentaries, advertising, and trailers, with such notable songwriters and performers as Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Kid Cudi, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Eddie Vedder, Anderson .Paak, Bruno Mars, H.E.R. and Demi Lovato […]
EXCLUSIVE: Sony’s highly-anticipated adaptation of the classic children’s book Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile looks to have found the musical star who will voice the lovable main character. Sources tell deadline, pop star Shawn Mendes is set to voice Lyle in Will Speck & Josh Gordon’s Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile for Sony Pictures. Javier Bardem, Constance Wu and Winslow Fegley also are on board […]
EXCLUSIVE: French actress Isabelle Adjani, co-star of the Berlin Film Festival’s opening film Peter Von Kant, has not traveled for the world premiere tonight due to being a close contact of someone with Covid, we understand from multiple sources. The film is being represented in Berlin by director Francois Ozon and stars Denis Menochet, Khalil Garbia […]
Keshet Studios has appointed NBC’s SVP Drama Development Lisa Roos as EVP Television. Roos, who joined the US-based production arm of Keshet International in January, fills the void left by the 2020 departure of Keshet Studios’ longtime Head of Scripted Rachel Kaplan. Roos will be the new No.2 development executive to Keshet Studios President Peter […]
EXCLUSIVE: Universal, EVP of Global Physical Home Entertainment, Kathleen Gallagher, has been named EVP, General Sales Manager for the studio’s North American Theatrical Distribution team, Deadline has learned. Gallagher will report to Universal President of Domestic Theatrical Distribution, Jim Orr, and lead the studio’s sales teams in U.S. and Canada, as well as strengthen and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Bill Camp (The Queen’s Gambit, The Night Of) is the latest addition to the cast of Amazon Studios’ film The Burial, based on the New Yorker article by Jonathan Harr. He’ll star alongside previously announced cast members Jamie Foxx, Tommy Lee Jones, Jurnee Smollett and Mamoudou Athie. Based on a true story, The Burial follows a […]
Figure skater Nathan Chen and snowboarder Chloe Kim both brought gold for the U.S. Olympic team during Wednesday’s primetime coverage of the 2022 winter games in Beijing. Chen, fresh off his world-record-shattering men’s short program performance, nabbed the top prize in the men’s singles while Kim won gold for the women’s halfpipe. Each added to […]
EXCLUSIVE: David Alan Grier is set for a major recurring role opposite Steve Carell and Domhnall Gleeson The Patient, FX’s 10-episode half-hour limited series from The Americans creative duo Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields, and FX Productions. Co-written by Fields and Weisberg, in The Patient, a psychotherapist (Carell) finds himself held prisoner by a serial […]
ITV America has had success adapting British formats in the U.S. including CBS’ Love Island, ABC’s The Chase and Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen. It is now looking to add more global formats to this list with the promotion of Love Island exec producer Simon Thomas. Thomas has been named President of ITV Entertainment – one of […]
EXCLUSIVE: Writer and director Morgan Cooper, creator of Bel-Air, Peacock’s dramatic reimagining of the ’90s Will Smith sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, has signed with M88 for management. Premiering on Super Bowl Sunday, Bel-Air was born from a short film of the same name that Cooper released in March 2019. Starring newcomer Jabari Banks […]
EXCLUSIVE: Alison Pill is getting into the scripted podcast universe. The Star Trek: Picard and Devs star is to star in and produce supernatural audio drama The Doctor Is In. The series was created and written by Cassie Keet and is produced by Paul Feig and Laura Fischer’s Powderkeg Media for podcast studio Echoverse. The […]
EXCLUSIVE: European film giant Pathé, which owns more than 1,000 cinema screens across the continent, will always be a theatrical-first business. That doesn’t mean it can’t also move with the times. The French major, whose lifeblood is film exhibition, production and distribution, is riding high off this week’s three Oscar nominations for Coda. But the company is […]
Sony Pictures Television and WarnerMedia have extended a content deal that will see the likes of Spider Man: No Way Home and Ghostbusters: Afterlife made available on HBO Max and HBO channels across Central Eastern Europe. The deal spans territories including Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina and North […]
Amazon Prime, Banijay & Others Boarded For UK Apprentice Scheme UK training body ScreenSkills is partnering with Amazon Prime Video, Banijay UK and a host of other big players to manage 40 apprentices, funded by an injection of government investment. Lime Pictures, Sky and APX Content Ventures are also part of the scheme, which is […]
Jeremy Giambi, who was portrayed in the film and book versions of Moneyball and played for four teams, including the Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox, and Philadelphia Phillies, has died. He was 47 and no cause of death was released. Jeremy Giambi was the younger brother of slugger Jason Giambi, who also was part of […]
You say potato. I say po-tahto. You say gazpacho. I say Gestapo. Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene probably wishes she could call the whole thing off, as the song goes, thanks to her awful gaffe Wednesday. In an interview on One America News, the controversial congressperson mixed up the chilled tomato soup with the Nazi […]
Members of Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399 have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new three-year film and TV contract. The vote, counted tonight, was 89% for ratification and 11% against, with 67% of the eligible members casting ballots. The local did not release the actual vote totals. The agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture & […]
An angry Dave Chappelle told his hometown council meeting Monday that he would not build two planned businesses in the area if they approved an ordinance that included dozens of affordable houing units. The meeting, held Monday in Yellow Springs, Ohio, saw the ordinance defeated. Earlier, Chappelle called the village council “clowns” and said his […]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will not require Oscar ceremony attendees to be vaccinated, Deadline has confirmed with a source close to the situation. Attendees will only need to show a recent negative Covid test. The Academy has not responded to Deadline’s requests for comment. The move marks a break from requirements […]
EXCLUSIVE: Three-time ER Emmy nominated actor Eriq La Salle has landed a three-book, world rights deal with Ebony Magazine Publishing imprint Sourcebooks for his dark and gritty crime thriller Martyr Maker series. Laws of Depravity, will be book one and available to a worldwide audience in November. The second title will be Laws of Wrath and then Laws of Annihilation. The […]
EXCLUSIVE: Rosario Dawson and Lana Parrilla are boarding the upcoming SXSW Linda Goldstein Knowlton directed documentary Split At The Root, as EPs. The pic is schedule to play in the Austin, TX festival’s Documentary Spotlight section. Split at the Root follows the emotional journey of mothers separated from their children at the U.S. border and […]
UPDATE: The Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton (R), said Wednesday that the office will investigate GoFundMe after its decision to end a fundraising effort aimed at assisting the “Freedom Convoy” in Canada. Paxton said they will review possible breaches or violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Missouri’s AG Eric Schmitt is also probing […]
CBS has had a busy week of picking up drama pilots. The network has added East New York, a cop drama from Law & Order and NYPD Blue exec producer William Finkelstein and Big Sky co-exec producer Mike Flynn, to its pilot book. The series follows Regina Haywood, the newly promoted police captain of East […]
Disney’s once-battered theme parks are back with revenue doubling and solid profits last quarter, besting pre-pandemic levels and even setting records. Execs cited a combination of increased attendance and higher average per capita ticket prices — although both of those have caused griping on social media with Reddit chatrooms complaining about lines and costs. CEO […]
