UPDATED, 1:38 PM: Amber Heard suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, a clinical and forensic psychologist told a Virginia jury today in Johnny Depp’s $50 million defamation trial against the Aquaman star over Heard’s 2018 Washington Post op-ed on domestic violence. In potentially damning testimony, Dr. Dawn Hughes also said that Heard repeatedly was “subjected to […]
Francesca Chambers is joining USA Today as a White House correspondent starting on May 9. Chambers joined the publication from McClatchy, where she was senior White House correspondent. She previously covered campaigns, elections and the White House for DailyMail.com and the syndicated newsmagazine DailyMailTV. She also is on the board of the White House Correspondents’ […]
Broadway box office was down 15% last week, with even some of the biggest hit shows reporting slips for the week ending May 1. In all, the 36 shows grossed $29,072,410. Likely reflecting a slimming down of spring break and Easter tourist business, attendance was off by 10% last week from the previous week, coming […]
Roku and Apollo Global Management have teamed up to bid for a minority stake in Starz, Deadline has confirmed. A person familiar with the situation said a first round of bids was several weeks ago and interested parties were just starting to get access to Starz data. Others are in the mix as well, with […]
Viola Davis’ Amanda Waller is the latest DC Comics character getting the small screen treatment. Deadline understands that HBO Max is developing a Peacemaker and Suicide Squad spinoff series featuring the supervillain with Davis in talks to star and exec produce. Watchmen writer Christal Henry will write and exec produce the potential series, which comes […]
“I am absolutely horrified by what the majority of Supreme Court of the United States plans to do to women’s rights in this country,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul said Tuesday. “As a woman this is personal. This is something that we have fought against for our entire lives. This was a battle for my […]
Jonathan Wolf, managing director of the American Film Market who has led AFM for 24 years, will step down when his current term ends in June. He’ll continue on as an advisor through the 2022 AFM, which is set to make its in-person return to Santa Monica for the 43rd edition, November 1-6, said the […]
Kailia Posey, whose only appeared on one memorable episode of TLC’s Toddlers & Tiaras which led to a popular gif, has died, according to a Facebook post by her mother, Marcy Posey Gatterman. Her cause of death was not announced. She was 16. Posey appeared at age 5 on the show in and episode titled […]
EXCLUSIVE Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss and husband/executive producer Todd Tucker have joined the producing team of Broadway’s upcoming The Piano Lesson revival starring Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington and Danielle Brooks. Burruss and Tucker were co-producers of Broadway’s Thoughts of a Colored Man earlier this season. They join the Piano Lesson […]
Liz Feldman is about to deliver her second comedy to Netflix: The streamer has greenlit her new dark comedy No Good Deed. No Good Deed “follows three very different families vying to buy the very same 1920s Spanish style villa that they think will solve all their problems,” according to Netflix. “But as the sellers […]
EXCLUSIVE: Range Media Partners has signed Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger. As a pioneering crime and justice filmmaker, Berlinger’s early work is widely credited for having been the launchpad for the explosion in true crime storytelling. His work has drawn attention to social justice issues in the U.S. and abroad through his documentaries and landmark […]
EXCLUSIVE: Megan Ellison’s Annapurna has promoted Susan Goldberg to Head of Cross-Media development. In the new position Goldberg will focus on adapting Annapurna Interactive’s IP to Film & TV, as well as managing Annapurna’s push into documentaries and developing third party game IP for live action and animated movies and series. Goldberg has been at […]
Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone’s indie studio Sister has entered a first-look deal with the new production company Wychwood Media, from Harry Potter filmmaker David Yates and his producing partner, Lewis Taylor. Under the pact, the pair will develop and produce both scripted and unscripted film, television and documentary content for Sister’s offices in both […]
EXCLUSIVE: Roswell, New Mexico star Michael Vlamis is preparing to make his feature directorial debut with Crossword, a psychological thriller in which he’ll star alongside Aurora Perrineau (When They See Us), Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows), Nick Thune (Love Life), Sarah Ramos (Winning Time), Karan Oberoi (Counterpart), Andoni Gracia (Warner. Bros’ upcoming […]
In February, the first few cases of two new, more infectious variants were identified in the Northeastern United States. Dubbed BA.2.12.1 and BA.2.12.2, these sublineages of the BA.2 variant made up only 1.5% of newly-sequenced positive tests before March 19. But, warned New York State Public Health officials, the new variants are thought to have […]
Paramount Global shares were down about 1% midway through the trading day after the company reported a mixed bag of first-quarter results. The stock initially dropped as much as 7% to near a 52-week low in the opening minutes of the session. Like most other shares in media and many in tech, it remains in […]
The latest episode of Fox’s 9-1-1 emerged the true ratings victor on Monday night, breaking the network’s weeks-long tie with ABC and CBS. The Fox drama ticked up in fast affiliates to earn a 0.7 rating in the 18-49 demo, the highest of Monday primetime. 9-1-1 was up one-tenth from the previous three weeks and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Laurence Connor, the British director of troubled West End musical Cinderella, has told friends of his “anger” at how the closure announcement of his show was handled by Andrew Lloyd Webber and his executives. Connor had not been told his show would be closing. He’d been on a professional assignment in Sydney and was […]
EXCLUSIVE: WME has inked double BAFTA nominated filmmaker Rose Glass. The London, UK native made her feature directorial debut with the horror movie Saint Maud, which A24 released, about a pious nurse who becomes dangerously obsessed with saving the soul of her dying patient. Glass wrote and directed the movie which starred Jennifer Ehle and […]
Paramount+ is to launch in the UK and South Korea next month and will be in India next year, Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish has revealed in the past hour. During the Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS) Q1 earnings call that has been taking place in the U.S., Bakish updated on a wealth of Paramount+ international […]
When you bring Sam Raimi into the Marvel Cinematic Universe you can bet you are going to get something different, and that is definitely the case with his pretty scary take on the latest MCU entry, Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness. Though Raimi is well versed in the Marvel comic book world having directed […]
Michael Bassick and Michael Laundon’s M2 MediaPost is teaming with Pillango Productions to launch a new state-of-the-art post-production facility in Pecs, Hungary. The 1600 square foot facility will service sound and picture for television, streaming, feature film and commercials in the busy Central European hub. Pecs City Studios is already taking bookings and will have […]
Paramount+ added 6.8 million subscribers last quarter, as Paramount ended the period with 62 million global streaming subs. CEO Bob Bakish said the three months “once again demonstrated the power and potential of Paramount’s unique assets and the company’s continued momentum.” “Our differentiated playbook – including a broad content line up, a streaming business model […]
Johnny Depp’s new movie Jeanne Du Barry will be launched for pre-sales at this month’s Cannes market, marking a first narrative feature for the actor in more than three years. In a report from ScreenDaily about Wild Bunch’s Cannes market slate, the trade confirms previous reports that Depp will star alongside Maïwenn in the French period drama about Jeanne […]
Another UK studio is to open later this year in the UK town of Wycombe and a Hollywood feature film will start shooting there. Temporary planning applications have been submitted to support the unknown Hollywood feature and an application for a permanent studio will follow later this year, transforming a 26-acre site into a 295,000 […]
