Dune cast member Josh Brolin has a bone to pick with the voting members of the Film Academy. In a recent Twitter video, he saluted Legendary, Warner Bros., and “everybody” who recently secured Oscar noms for their work on the acclaimed Frank Herbert adaptation, in categories including editing, cinematography, score, music and writing, before going […]
EXCLUSIVE: The replicants are heading to the small-screen as Amazon Studios has put a live-action series set in the Blade Runner universe into development. Ridley Scott, who directed the original 1982 Blade Runner movie, is executive producing the series, Blade Runner 2099, a follow-up to the feature film sequel Blade Runner 2049, which was released […]
Longtime Fleet Street fixture Baz Bamigboye is joining Deadline as a columnist and international editor at large. Bamigboye comes from London’s Daily Mail, where he has been the newspaper’s chief chronicler of showbusiness in the UK for three decades. Long known for his weekly column for the DM, Bamigboye has been an authority covering the […]
EXCLUSIVE: Post-production outfit Vaudeville Sound Group, which has worked on the likes of HBO Max’s Peacemaker and Netflix’s The Old Guard, has launched a department focused entirely on spatial audio, bringing in 10 staff. Vaudeville described spatial audio as the “next generation of innovative sound” and will use the division to identify natural sounds and create […]
Nickelodeon announced the 10 participants for its annual writing and artist programs, designed to support creative voices from underrepresented communities. Selected participants include Kobie Scott, Lauren Monroe, Hannah Suria, and Frank Paiva for the writing program; Cherrie Wang, Katarina Perez, Roger Hernandez, Emily Monjaraz, Booker Jackson, and David Lu for the artist program. “Nickelodeon’s long-running Writing […]
EXCLUSIVE: Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale is to host intimate conversation series E.A.T. With Gavin Rossdale, which will see the musician invite celebrities to his home in the Hollywood Hills where he will design, prepare and serve them a three course meal. Rossdale and his guests will eat, discuss their careers and what makes them tick, and […]
Tyler Henry will have seen this coming. The celebrity medium has landed his own reality series, Life After Death, on Netflix. This comes after he previously starred in four seasons of Hollywood Medium on E!. The series, which launches on March 11, comes from the same production teams behind the NBCU cable show in 44 […]
Disney’s Encanto continued its remarkable run, landing at No. 1 on Nielsen’s weekly streaming chart with almost 1.5 billion total minutes of viewing. That tally for the week of January 10 to 16, up about 6 million minutes from the previous week, easily outpaced No. 2 entry, Netflix’s Cobra Kai. The Karate Kid revamp still […]
If you loved Prime Video’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel fast, funny, brilliantly paced, richly hued comedy about a woman’s determination to be taken seriously in her craft, the wait is almost over and it’s so worth it. The Amazon streamer debuts the Covid-delayed Season 4 on Feb. 18, more than two years after we last […]
Marg Helgenberger has signed on to return to the CSI franchise. She is set to star in Season 2 of CBS’ CSI: Vegas, reprising her role as Catherine Willows from the original CSI. I hear Helgenberger will be a series regular with a one-year deal. On CSI: Vegas, Helgenberger succeeds fellow original CSI cast members […]
EXCLUSIVE: Peacock will double down on its animated kids programming slate, unveiling a number of new and returning titles including two follow up series to DreamWorks Animation’s Megamind and Abominable. The streamer has also renewed Babble Bop!, the musical dance jamboree series for preschoolers, for Season 2. Written by Katherine Stanford, Babble Bop! is a foot-tapping, […]
Disney’s 20th Century Studios Kenneth Branagh movie Death on the Nile saw $1.1M in both Wednesday and Thursday previews, while Universal’s Jennifer Lopez-Owen Wilson romantic comedy posted $525K just from Thursday night shows. Marry Me, which also made itself available on Peacock last night as the third Universal dynamic release with its sister streaming service, was in play […]
La Vie En Rose and Netflix’s The Spy producer Alain Goldman has signed an overall deal with Banijay for TV shows and feature films. Goldman will produce projects via his production entities Pitchipoï Productions and Montmartre Films (previously Légende Films) and Banijay France, with a view to creating a pipeline of scripted IP. The deal is one […]
Ian McDonald, a multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of rock bands King Crimson and Foreigner, has died. He was 75. According to McDonald’s spokesperson, McDonald passed away peacefully surrounded by his family at his home in New York City. Cause of death has not been provided. Born in 1946 in Osterley, Middlesex, England, McDonald co-founded King Crimson […]
Sting has become the latest elder rocker to cash in his songwriting catalog, selling his back output to Universal Music for a reported $300 million. In doing so, the 70-year-old Sting joins several such recent sales by artists, including Sony buying Bruce Springsteen’s songwriting catalog and recorded music copyrights for an estimated $550 million in […]
When people who dislike musicals talk about the musicals they dislike, there’s a decent chance they’re talking about musicals like The Music Man – whether they’ve ever actually ever seen The Music Man or not. Meredith Willson’s nostalgic slice of Americana was already proudly old-fashioned when it debuted in 1957, with “Seventy-Six Trombones” leading Broadway […]
Respect for the underlying material is the key to film adaptation, agreed panelists tonight at the WGA Foundation’s Beyond Words panel discussion featuring this year’s WGA Awards nominees for adapted screenplay. For Guillermo del Toro, film adaptation is “almost like you’re marrying the widow of one of your best friends. You can respect his memory, […]
For figure skater Nathan Chen, it truly was a “long, long time” to his touchdown moment in his gold medal free skate to Elton John’s song, “Rocket Man.” After a disappointing showing at the previous Winter Olympics in 2018, where he missed many jumps and fell out of individual medal contention, Chen redeemed himself with […]
EXCLUSIVE: We told you two nights ago that buyers were circling. Now the eagle has landed. Tom Hanks comedy A Man Called Otto has sold to Sony in a record EFM worldwide rights deal pegged around $60M. Sony has taken global rights to the red-hot package from CAA Media Finance and is lining up a […]
For those not going to the Super Bowl in Los Angeles this weekend, the second best place to watch the game might now be Las Vegas. Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, lifted the Nevada’s indoor mask mandate on Thursday citing “a rapid decline in case numbers, coupled with declining hospitalizations, a drop in #COVID19 detected […]
Kanye West wants an apology from Billie Eilish. Not to him, but to fellow rapper Travis Scott, who was allegedly dissed by Eilish last Saturday. The beef started when Eilish stopped her show in Atlanta on Saturday to attend to a fan having breathing problems in front of the stage. Eilish got her crew to […]
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics has hit its stride after a slow start, and tonight is one of the biggest moments of the Games for Team USA. Snowboarding legend Shaun White will be locking in for the Men’s Halfpipe Final and two-time Gold Medalist Mikaela Shiffrin is stepping up after failing to finish runs in […]
EXCLUSIVE: Todd Strauss-Schulson and Adam Devine are reuniting for a third time as the former has signed on to direct and exec produce the pilot episode of Peacock’s Pitch Perfect (w/t) spinoff series. Strauss-Schulson worked with the actor on 2015 comedy slasher film The Final Girls and 2019 rom-com Isn’t Is Romantic. He will direct […]
The Department of Homeland Security said in a memo that it has received reports truck drivers may attempt to block roads at major events to protest vaccine mandates. This Sunday’s Super Bowl in Los Angeles at SoFi Stadium is a likely target, according to an internal memo cited by several major media outlets. Also potentially […]
EXCLUSIVE: Payman Benz (Black Monday) has been tapped to direct and serve as co-executive producer on four episodes, including the pilot, of Blockbuster, Netflix’s upcoming single-camera workplace comedy starring Randall Park. Blockbuster, from Universal Television, is a 10-episode ensemble comedy that takes place in the last Blockbuster Video in America. It explores what it takes […]
