EXCLUSIVE: David Dastmalchian (Dune, The Suicide Squad), Marin Ireland (Y: The Last Man, The Umbrella Academy), Vivien Lyra Blair (Bird Box, Mr. Corman) and Madison Hu (Voyagers) have signed on to star alongside Chris Messina and Sophie Thatcher in 20th Century Studios horror-thriller The Boogeyman, based on Stephen King’s 1973 short story of the same […]
Big publicly-traded broadcaster Tegna, which has been in play for months, agreed to sell itself to Standard General and investors led by Apollo Global Management and its Cox Media Group. It’s a cash deal for $24 a share. That comes to an equity value of $5.4 billion, or $8.6 billion including the assumption of debt. […]
Nexstar Media Group, the No. 1 owner of local TV stations in the U.S., weathered the absence of political advertising in the fourth quarter to post better-than-expected results. Total revenue of $1.245 billion in the quarter ending December 31 slid almost 10% from the same period in 2020, but it beat Wall Street analysts’ consensus […]
BBC News’ veteran heavyweights Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel are leaving the corporation to launch a podcast for Global. The pair, who have around 60 years of BBC experience between them and have combined recently on BBC Sounds podcast Americast, said little about the new audio venture but Sopel described it as an “innovative project” […]
When documentary filmmaker and anti-slavery activist Peggy Callahan got an invitation in from her friend Doug Abrams to shoot and co-direct Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama talking about joy in India in 2015, she didn’t hesitate to take the job. “I knew this was a once in a lifetime opportunity,” Callahan tells Deadline, […]
European studio Mediawan has signed a strategic partnership with Death of Stalin producer Laurent Zeitoun and Gregory Ouanhon’s nascent creative studio Good Hero to co-develop and produce high-end international TV shows and feature films. The projects will be adapted from the originals slate of Good Hero, which was founded in New York and Paris in […]
Netflix has become the first global streamer to ink a deal with the French film industry that will see the window between theatrical and SOVD release significantly reduced. It is now official that Netflix will be able to show movies 15 months after their theatrical releases in the country, slashing the previously long-held 36-month mandatory […]
BBC Studios has appointed Lorraine Burgess, the former MD of Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures, as Chief Financial Officer. Burgess, who had been doing the role on an interim basis since July, permanently replaces Tom Fussell, who became BBC Studios CEO towards the end of last year. Burgess will sit on the Executive Committee and […]
Nominations have been announced for this year’s Irish Film And TV Academy Awards (IFTAs). Scroll down for the full list. Leading the way with ten apiece are Kenneth Branagh’s much-fancied awards contender Beflast and Irish-language feature An Cailín Ciúin, which recently won the Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus program at the Berlin International Film […]
Prominent Australian TV Executive and philanthropist Neil Balnaves has died aged 77 in a boating accident, his foundation has said. Balnaves was reported to have been on holiday with his wife, Diane, near Tahiti when the accident occurred. His foundation released a short statement today confirming his death, stating: “The Balnaves family sends their heartfelt […]
BBC One’s The A Word spin-off Ralph & Katie, which was created by a group of disabled writers overseen by Peter Bowker, has entered production in Manchester and the Lake District. The six-parter from ITV Studios, Keshet Productions and Tiger Aspect, which follows the two beloved A-Word characters played by Leon Harrop and Sarah Gordy, has also unveiled […]
EXCLUSIVE: All3Media-backed Little Dot Studios’ Head of Arts Catherine Bray has departed to focus on UK indie Loop. Bray joined Little Dot six years ago as Commissioning Editor for Channel 4 shorts strand Random Acts, which featured the likes of Mae Martin, Asa Butterfield and Noel Fielding. She was promoted to Head of Arts in […]
Former Fox News Channel host and long time political operative Bob Beckel has died at the age of 73. So far, his cause of death is not specified. The passing of the man who ran Walter Mondale’s unsuccessful 1984 Presidential campaign was revealed by old friend Cal Thomas on social media Monday evening. FNC’s Sean […]
Jaida Benjamin, most known as Kelly in Netflix’s Family Reunion, is reportedly missing. The LAPD reports the actress was last seen in the Los Angeles area on Tujunga Avenue and Ventura Boulevard on February 19. She was last seen wearing a purple crop top, pink jogging shorts, white sneakers and wears locs in her hair. […]
The NAACP has begun handing out its 53rd annual Image Awards, which will roll out over six consecutive nights starting tonight. Winners in non-televised award categories will be announced starting at 5 p.m. PT every night this week on naacpimageawards.net and the NAACP Image Awards YouTube channel, leading up to the televised ceremony on Saturday, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Sony’s $106.4M global box office weekend for Uncharted was another reminder to a streaming-obsessed entertainment industry that the tried-and-true business model of theatrical features still works — and that there’s an audience for them. Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group Chairman and CEO Tom Rothman underscored this in a companywide email Monday following the success […]
The news focus on Presidents Day was of Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin, as he ordered troops to enter two separatist regions of Ukraine for “peacekeeping” purposes after he recognized their independence. Cable news networks carried parts of Putin’s speech, with his move viewed by correspondents and foreign policy analysts as another step toward war. The […]
