EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Dorff (Old Henry), John McEnroe (Ocean’s Eight), Gina Gershon (Emily the Criminal) and Luka Sabbat (Grown-ish) have signed on to star alongside Vito Schnabel in the dark comedy The Trainer, which Tony Kaye (American History X) is directing from a script by Schnabel and Jeff Solomon. The film heading into production tomorrow, after […]
WCCO Minneapolis recently struck gold when an employee went to pull archival footage for a story about local teachers’ strike. Production Manager Matt Liddy was looking at features of local landmarks in a 52-year-old film reel when he saw what he believed was a familiar face. Without revealing his guess, he showed the image of […]
Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker John Zaritsky died of heart failure in a Vancouver hospital last Wednesday, according to a statement from his family and friends. He was 79. Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery The St. Catharines, Ontario native earned an Academy Award in 1983 for Just Another Missing Kid, a film that told the […]
UPDATED with closing stock price. Tesla founder Elon Musk has acquired 73.5 million shares in Twitter, or 9.2% of the company, sending its shares up 27% for the day but prompting uneasiness about his intentions. An SEC filing this morning listed the date of the $2.9 billion purchase as March 14. It isn’t yet clear […]
Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi (Don’t Look Up) is the last addition to the cast of the action-thriller Silent Night, from iconic action director John Woo (Face/Off), John Wick producers Thunder Road Films and Capstone Studios. He’s set to star alongside Joel Kinnaman, Harold Torres and Catalina Sandino Moreno. The film currently in production in Mexico City centers on Godlock […]
EXCLUSIVE: Red Notice actor Chris Diamantopoulos has joined MGM-Spyglass Media Group-Smoke House Pictures’ George Clooney-directed movie The Boys in the Boat. Based on New York Times bestselling author Daniel James Brown’s 2013 novel The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the pic follows the triumphant underdog […]
The Jennifer Lopez-Josh Duhamel Lionsgate romantic comedy Shotgun Wedding is heading straight to streaming as Prime Video has snatched up all U.S. rights for the pic from Lionsgate. No release date has been set yet on the streamer. Similar to other Prime Video features, it’s expected that Shotgun Wedding will also receive a day-and-date limited theatrical release. […]
EXCLUSIVE: After helping tell the crazy behind-the-scenes story of the leaked Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex tape in Hulu’s Pam & Tommy, director Craig Gillespie looks to have found another wild true story to adapt for the big screen. Sources tell Deadline that he has signed on to direct MGM’s feature adaptation of New […]
EXCLUSIVE: Luke Mitchell (The Republic of Sarah) will return to the CW in a recurring role on Legacies, Deadline has learned exclusively. A spinoff of The Originals, Legacies features characters from both series and its predecessor The Vampire Diaries. The series stars Danielle Rose Russell as 17-year-old Hope Mikaelson, descended from some of the most powerful vampire, werewolf and witch […]
Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin are partying like it’s 1999 in the first images released from the final season of Netflix’s Grace and Frankie. The comedy premieres on April 29. From Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris, Grace and Frankie follow the titular divorcées whose husbands (played by Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston as Robert […]
EXCLUSIVE: Kestrin Pantera’s satirical takedown of the rich elite, Pretty Problems, has been acquired by IFC Films following the pic’s Narrative Spotlight Audience Award win at SXSW. The pic will hit theaters and VOD this year. IFC is taking all global rights to the pic written by Michael Tennant, Britt Rentschler, and Charlotte Ubben, who also star […]
EXCLUSIVE: Indonesian helmer Joko Anwar (Impetigore) is preparing to make his English-language debut with Fritzchen, an adaptation of the classic short story by Charles Beaumont, which is in development at Village Roadshow. While the story published in Orbit magazine in 1953 (and later in Beaumont’s anthology Yonder) examines a boy’s encounter with a strange creature on […]
EXCLUSIVE: DeMane Davis, who has directed episodes of Queen Sugar and Netflix’s Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam CJ Walker, has been tapped to helm NBC pilot Found. Davis will direct the pilot episode of the missing-persons drama, which comes from Nkechi Okoro Carroll, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. TV. It reunites the […]
Jesse Spencer departed Chicago Fire after a decade on the NBC series in October, and there are plans for his character Matt Casey to return this season for the finale. The news was revealed last week by executive producer Derek Haas during One Chicago Day. He teased that if everything works out as he hopes, […]
EXCLUSIVE: American Idol is heading into its Showstoppers round but is already planning a 20th birthday celebration with some familiar faces. The ABC series is bringing back a slew of Idol alums – dubbed The Great Idol Reunion – for its May 2 episode. These stars from the past will get on to the Idol […]
Candle Media Founder Kevin Mayer has set out his strategy to take advantage of the wealth of deep-pocketed new buyers, as he unveils a tie-up between kids powerhouse Moonbug Entertainment and Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine. Blackstone-backed Candle owns both CoComelon owner Moonbug and Hello Sunshine and, delivering a Mip TV keynote this afternoon, the former […]
Deadline has hired Jesse Whittock as International TV Co-Editor, based in London. Whittock joins Deadline’s growing international team from UK TV trade Broadcast, where he was most recently Insight Editor, overseeing features and long-form reporting. Whittock worked across editing and commissioning and wrote news, features and long-read articles for Broadcast’s monthly magazine and the Broadcast website. Prior […]
India’s Zee And Mexico’s TelevisaUnivision Team On Travelog India’s ZEE Entertainment and Mexico’s TelevisaUnivision have joined for what they are describing as a “historic first of its kind collaboration” on an international travelog. The Spice Trails: Latin America will spotlight verdant lands, understanding the influence of spices in the local culture, economy, cuisine and traditions across […]
EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA-nominated St. Trinian’s, Johnny English Reborn and An Ideal Husband director Oliver Parker has launched a production shingle with former Red Arrow Studios CEO James Baker and Metro International Partner Sam Parker, and the outfit is taking a packed slate to Mip TV. Anyway Content opened quietly several months ago and is leading its […]
EXCLUSIVE: Dave Logan, creator of Acorn TV’s Harry Wild and writer on Roald Dahl film To Olivia, is developing a crime drama TV series set in Malta with his Harry Wild co-writer Jo Spain. Details of the show are scarce but it is being produced by Harry Wild indie Dynamic TV with Dynamic Managing Partner Klaus Zimmerman. No network is attached. […]
Walter Iuzzolino’s Eagle Eye Drama and Beta Film’s Hotel Portofino has been commissioned for a second series. Unveiled at a swanky Beta-hosted Mip TV event last night, the six-parter for PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel, BritBox UK, Foxtel Australia and others will return to film in Italy this year. Beta said Hotel Portofino was one of […]
Jon Batiste hauled home four trophies at the 64th Grammys, including Album of the Year for We Are. He went into the night with 11 nominations and ended up with Album of the Year, Video of the year Right behind Batiste was the duo Silk Sonic, who took the night’s two other big categories: Record […]
Since the Oscars last week, the slap heard ’round the world has generated both an immense amount of media reaction and an unprecedented division of public opinion. Even today it seems impossible to avoid a conversation involving Will Smith or another hot take on the internet. Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver acknowledged there is indeed […]
Grammys host Trevor Noah kicked off a video tribute to recently-deceased Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins with the following words: “This was the moment in the show when i was supposed to be introducing the Foo Fighters. We would have been celebrating with them as they won three Grammy awards earlier today. But they, of […]
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details about the series finale of Peaky Blinders…: Before it debuts on Netflix on June 10 in the U.S. and other markets, period gangster epic Peaky Blinders‘ sixth and final season concluded with a feature-length episode on BBC One in the UK tonight. Created by Steven Knight, who cautioned me […]
