Editor’s note: The Deadline Watchlist is a feature spotlighting small-screen specials, events and can’t-miss episodes of ongoing series each week. 1. Red Table Talk Season 5 Premiere: Jada Pinkett Smith’s popular and revealing online series returns with its first episode since her husband Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars last month. Season 5 of the […]
2ND UPDATE, 1:05 p.m. PT: Johnny Depp said that though he was upset during a May 21, 2016 confrontation with then-wife Amber Heard, he was not physically abusive toward her. On his second day on the stand in the $50 million defamation trial, the ex-Pirates of the Caribbean star said that had already told Heard […]
Fellow Travelers, a series based on the Thomas Mallon novel starring and exec produced by Matt Bomer, has landed a greenlight at Showtime. The network has ordered the eight-part limited series, which is created and exec produced by Ron Nyswaner, the Oscar nominated writer of Philadelphia who also served as a co-exec producer on Showtime’s […]
EXCLUSIVE: Brandon Larracuente (Freeform’s Party of Five) and Savannah Welch (HBO Max’s Titans) have been cast in major recurring roles on ABC’s The Good Doctor as the newest St. Bonaventure interns. Their characters will be introduced at the start of the recently picked up Season 6 and, as is the case with any new class […]
Is it truly a marketplace for branded tentpoles and uber low-budget fare at the box office as the pandemic eases? And is everything in between just future programming for a streamer? Surely if you ask any filmmaker, established or budding, they truly don’t want their art lost to obscurity in a streaming queue, or worse, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Producer Trevite Willis (Forty Year Old Version) and her production company Southern Fried Filmworks has optioned interior designer Sheila Bridges’ acclaimed book The Bald Mermaid: A Memoir in order to adapt Bridges’ remarkable personal story into a series. The Bald Mermaid: A Memoir comprises engaging and deeply personal vignettes that explore questions of identity, […]
The much-anticipated Season 5 premiere of Red Table Talk opened with a title card that, among other things, signaled how Jada Pinkett Smith won’t be discussing the behavior of her husband Will Smith at the 94th Academy Awards anytime soon. “Considering all that has happened in the last few weeks, the Smith family has been focused […]
EXCLUSIVE: Retired professional hockey player Miles Koules has launched the production company Koulest Productions, partnering with his father Oren Koules—who co-founded Evolution Entertainment and its division Twisted Pictures—to option the YA survival thriller Ski Weekend for development. Oren Koules is a well-known producer who has been behind everything from Lionsgate’s Saw franchise to CBS’ sitcom Two and […]
(Updated with Hutchins’ family lawyer statement) Long in the spotlight for Alec Baldwin’s fatal shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins last October, the film’s armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed is now declaring a degree of vindication after a vital safety report’s release Wednesday. “After OSHA’s very comprehensive safety investigation involving numerous interviews and review of documents, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has assembled the cast for My Life With the Walter Boys, its coming-of-age romance series based on the popular WattPad novel by Ali Novak, which has nearly 80 million reads. Nikki Rodriguez (On My Block) is set as the lead Jackie Howard in the project, with Suits alumna Sarah Rafferty and Marc Blucas […]
EXCLUSIVE: European organization ACE Producers has unveiled the 17 producers who will participate in the third edition of its ACE Animation Special workshop. Scroll down for the list. The initiative is deigned to provide extensive knowledge of how to diversify by developing and producing long-form, feature film and series animation for international audiences across cinema, […]
A new play by Anna Deavere Smith about tennis icon Billie Jean King is in development, with Marc Bruni (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical) set to direct. A reading in August is planned as part of the New York Stage and Film 2022 Summer Season. Love All is described as the story of “the rise of […]
Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re talking with British multi-hyphenate Charles Dorfman, who, through his two banners Samuel Marshall Films and Media Finance Capital, has worked across a range of titles from The Lost […]
EXCLUSIVE: Actor and singer Kolton Stewart (Lock & Key) is the latest name to join horror-thriller All Fun and Games, starring Asa Butterfield (Sex Education) and Natalia Dyer (Stranger Things). Production began this month in Canada on the movie about two kids who play a game with their sadistic older cousin and awaken a cruel entity […]
Netflix stock crashed at the market opening today, down by 35%, shedding well over $50 billion in market value after its latest earnings and commentary late Tuesday spooked investors. Plans to launch an advertising tier and to crack down on password sharing didn’t assuage Wall Street because they aren’t quick fixes for a streaming business […]
Some Like It Hot, the stage musical adaptation of the classic 1959 Billy Wilder film comedy, will make it to Broadway next fall, following a couple pandemic-bedeviled years that saw the cancelation of a once-planned 2021 pre-New York engagement in Chicago. With a cast fronted by Christian Borle, J. Harrison Ghee and Adrianna Hicks, who […]
Julianne Hough, making her Broadway debut in the comedy POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, has tested positive for Covid and will miss several preview performances of the play. Hough, the former Dancing With The Stars pro who starred as Sandy in the 2016 Fox TV-musical Grease, […]
Netflix has confirmed the full cast for its upcoming animation pic My Father’s Dragon. Voicing the film will be: Jacob Tremblay, Gaten Matarazzo, Golshifteh Farahani, Dianne Wiest, Rita Moreno, Chris O’Dowd, Judy Greer, Alan Cumming, Yara Shahidi, Jackie Earle Haley, Mary Kay Place, Leighton Meester, Spence Moore II, Adam Brody, Charlyne Yi, Maggie Lincoln, Jack […]
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ greenlights the film Toxicomania, an adaptation of the popular Sonoro podcast of the same name. The podcast tells a fictionalized story based on the real-life events following the legalization of drugs in Mexico. The project is the first from Luis Gerardo Méndez and Gerardo Gatica’s first-look deal with VIS, a division of Paramount, via […]
Jerry West only won one NBA championship in his career with the Lakers, but the hall-of-fame player-turned-GM was so respected around the league that it crafted the organization’s logo in his image. Now “the Logo,” as he’s admiringly called, is unhappy with his portrayal in HBO’s series Winning Time, according to multiple reports. In a […]
SPOILER ALERT: The following story reveals major plot points from tonight’s episode of FBI. CBS‘ FBI is saying goodbye to Missy Peregrym‘s character Special Agent Maggie Bell, at least for now, as the actress goes on maternity leave. Peregrym and her husband Tom Oakley are expecting their second child. “Tonight is my last episode of […]
SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about Episode 613 of This Is Us, “The Day of the Wedding”. As it inches closer to the end of its run, This Is Us still throwing fans curveballs, which the series did again tonight with an episode whose main storyline took place on the day of Kate and […]
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of Tuesday’s series finale of Black-ish on ABC. After eight seasons, Kenya Barris’ ABC comedy Black-ish came to a bittersweet end with the series-finale episode “Homegoing,” with the Johnson family selling their place so they could return to living in a Black neighborhood. It also turned into an opportunity […]
In the 25 years since Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse first performed Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned To Drive, the name for the disturbing process that we witness being depicted on stage has long since entered widespread usage. If audiences can now readily label what happens as “grooming,” Vogel’s emotionally complex masterwork […]
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are reteaming for a Nike drama that Affleck will direct for Amazon Studios, Skydance Sports and the duo’s banner Mandalay Pictures, Deadline can confirm. The as-yet-untitled sports marketing film will tell the incredible story of how Sonny Vaccaro (Damon), a maverick sneaker salesman, led a fledgling running shoe company called […]
