EXCLUSIVE: Deborah Davis, the British screenwriter and producer who co-wrote and exec produced Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite, has signed with A3 Artists Agency for representation. The 2018 Searchlight title set in early 18th-century England watched as the status quo at the court was upset when a new servant arrived and endeared herself to a frail Queen […]
Denise Draper, formerly an agent in ICM’s unscripted and alternative team, has joined management and production firm Range Media Partners. Draper will continue to represent talent, showrunners and production companies in the unscripted space. She has spent the last six years as an agent at ICM, representing exec producers including Heather Crowe (Love is Blind), […]
Academy Award-winning actress and comedian Mo’Nique has joined the Season 2 cast of the Starz drama BMF in a recurring role. Mo’Nique will portray the character Goldie, a sophisticated Atlanta strip club owner with swagger and street smarts. She forms an alliance with the Flenory brothers which will help fuel their migration from Detroit to Atlanta. […]
Celebrity chef Mario Batali was found not guilty today on a charge of indecent assault and battery stemming from an alleged 2017 groping incident in a Boston bar. It was the first criminal charge for the former The Chew chef amid a number of sexual assault and harassment allegations. Batali had waved his right to […]
Daisy Ridley and Shazad Latif are set to star in Magpie, a sexy contemporary noir thriller based on an original idea from Ridley that was written by Tom Bateman. Award-winning British theater talent Sam Yates will make his feature directorial debut. Matilda Lutz also stars. The film follows a couple whose lives are thrown into […]
EXCLUSIVE: Alec Baldwin has partnered with veteran actor and producer Anjul Nigam (Grey’s Anatomy) to form film and TV production company Persona Entertainment, whose first project will be on sale at the upcoming Cannes market. Baldwin and Nigam were among producers of Rust, the film whose production was halted last year when DP Halyna Hutchins was […]
Banijay, the company behind series such as Survivor, Peaky Blinders and MasterChef, is going public through an agreement with a SPAC investment group. The deal will see Banijay chairman Stephane Courbit take the company, as well as online sports gambling group Betclic, public through FL Entertainment. The deal is being backed by investors including Bernard […]
EXCLUSIVE: Principal photography has begun on Better Man, and Deadline has the first image from production. This is the musical feature film based on the life of singer Robbie Williams, with Australian filmmaker Michael Gracey at the helm. Gracey’s debut film, The Greatest Showman, grossed over $435M at the global box office. Williams makes his […]
Rick Riordan, author of the popular YA adventure novel series Percy Jackson and the Olympians, is speaking out amid backlash in casting one of his characters in Disney+’s upcoming series adaptation. In a blog post Tuesday, Riordan criticized those “who have a problem with the casting of Leah Jeffries as Annabeth Chase,” saying “It’s a […]
With nearly all 36 productions settling into full schedules last week, the Broadway box office tally climbed a modest 7% from the previous week, totaling $31,199,660, with attendance of 249,219 showing a 3% bump. The attendance figure represents about 76% of available seats, indicating that the recently crowded line-up could be spreading the audience pool […]
EXCLUSIVE: Bash Naran, a literary manager and producer at Writ Large, is leaving the company to become an agent in the Scripted Television department of WME. He will be based in the agency’s Beverly Hills office. During his more than three and a half years at Writ Large, Naran represented writers, directors and producers with […]
The Sam Raimi directed Marvel movie had a robust Monday earning $13.3M which sends Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness to $200.7M. That amount of cash is arguably on par with what Avengers: Age of Ultron on its first Monday in 2015 –$13.2M– which put that MCU sequel at $204.4M through four days. Doctor Strange 2‘s Monday was […]
Newly minted Oscar winner Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) joins the cast of HBO’s Westworld a recurring guest star for the upcoming eight-episode fourth season, which premieres June 26 and will be available to stream on HBO Max. She joins returning main cast members Evan Rachel Wood, Emmy winner Thandiwe Newton, Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright, […]
Middle East-based distributor and producer Front Row Filmed Entertainment has joined the team of producers on satirical coming-of-age comedy feature Abdelinho. Front Row will also represent all MENA rights. International sales are with Urban Sales. The Arab-language feature stars Ali Suliman (Jack Ryan, The Last Planet, The Attack, Houda’s Salon) and is currently in post-production […]
EXCLUSIVE: Starz has renewed breakout freshman series Shining Vale. Stars Courteney Cox, Greg Kinnear and Mira Sorvino are slated to return for the second season of the horror comedy from Trial & Error co-creator Jeff Astrof, Divorce creator Sharon Horgan, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television and Lionsgate TV. Season 2’s eight-episode order matches […]
Roku has integrated Discovery+, which it already offers as a stand-alone app in its regular store, into the offerings of the Roku Channel. Both the $5-a-month ad-supported version and the $7-a-month ad-free version will be part of the integration. In a recent quarterly report, Roku said the 5-year-old Roku Channel now reaches households with 80 […]
EXCLUSIVE: The wait to discover the next BBC Factual, Arts and Classical Music director is to go on a little while longer. In a dramatic U-turn, the BBC has notified the final candidates that none have been successful and Chief Content Officer Charlotte Moore is now reconsidering the very nature of the role, Deadline understands, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Altitude Film Sales has boarded worldwide sales rights to high-concept survival thriller Quicksand and will introduce first footage to buyers in Cannes next week. The U.S.-Colombia co-production recently completed shooting in Bogota and is now in post-production. Above is a first look. Carolina Gaitán, the Colombian actress and singer who voiced Pepa in Disney’s […]
Quarterback Tom Brady has been confirmed as Fox’s lead NFL analyst, with the job waiting for him whenever his playing career finally concludes. Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch broke the news during the company’s fiscal third-quarter earnings call. Asked when the deal would begin, given that Brady made news by un-retiring a few weeks ago, […]
Ghosts will continue to haunt Paramount+. The breakout CBS comedy, which has been renewed for a second season, will remain on the streaming service after Paramount Global partnered with Lionsgate for the exclusive SVOD rights to the show. The series, which is the highest-rated new comedy of the year, currently airs on the service as […]
In another mega M&A deal, Fremantle has taken a majority stake in Irish The Favourite, Room and Conversations with Friends producer Element Pictures. The company, one of the most prolific and respected on the European drama circuit, joins Fremantle’s roster of drama producers including The Responder indie Dancing Ledge Productions, which recently became majority-owned by Fremantle, and Italian powerhouse […]
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: Since the start of the Covid pandemic in 2020, The Actors Fund, the 140-year-old organization that offers emergency financial assistance and other support service to workers in the the performing arts industries, has distributed more than $26.8 million in emergency financial assistance – rent, groceries, medicine, health insurance premiums -.to about 17,900 individuals. […]
Fox Corp. delivered a mix bag of financial results in its fiscal third quarter, with revenue exceeding Wall Street expectations but earnings falling short. The company also revealed a $30 million write-down on scripted programming. The media company reported total revenue of $3.46 billion in the period ending March 31, up 7% from the same […]
EXCLUSIVE: David Cronenberg has been at the cutting edge of horror for more than 50 years, sailing close to the mainstream with edgy early-2000s thrillers such as A History of Violence and Eastern Promises while appeasing the fans of his visceral ’80s work with the likes of 1999’s eXistenZ. At first glance, his new film […]
RTS London Unveils Lineup & Warner Bros Discovery’s Priya Dogra As Chair Priya Dogra, the big winner in the recent Warner Bros Discovery international reshuffle, will chair this year’s Royal Television Society (RTS) London Convention entitled The Fight For Attention, with bosses of all the major channels addressing the event. The day of talks and […]
