EXCLUSIVE: After watching his live-action transfer of Disney’s animated Aladdin become his first film to crack the billion-dollar gross mark, Guy Ritchie is back in business with the studio. This time, he’s overseeing a live-action film based on the Disney animated film Hercules. The film will be produced by AGBO, the production company run by […]
Jean-Louis Trintignant, the Cesar-winning actor and star of French classics such as Amour and The Conformist, has died aged 91. The iconic actor, also known for Three Colors: Red and A Man And A Woman, died on Friday at his home in southern France, his wife and agent Marianne Hoepfner confirmed to Agence France Presse. In a long […]
Since its debut in 2016, Insecure has garnered critical acclaim for telling the story of the Black female experience via its two leads, Issa (Issa Rae) and Molly (Yvonne Orji). After five seasons and 11 Emmy nominations, Insecure had its series finale in December of last year. The Insecure finale, “Everything Gonna Be, Okay?!”, is the […]
EXCLUSIVE: Julia Chan (Archive 81) has been cast as a series regular opposite Michaela McManus and Parker Young in Criminal Nature, ABC’s drama pilot from Rashad Raisani, 20th Television and A+E Studios. Ian Duff also stars. Written by Raisani, Criminal Nature (fka untitled National Parks project) is described as a propulsive, soapy procedural set in […]
SEAL Team showrunner/executive producer Spencer Hudnut is expanding his relationship with CBS Studios, the studio behind the military drama series, with a new overall deal. SEAL Team is currently in production on its sixth season at Paramount+. SEAL Team, along with Evil, relocated to the ViacomCBS streaming service from CBS in May 2021, where it […]
Get ready for Bill Nye to blow your mind: The End is Nye starring the inimitable science educator will bow Aug. 25 on Peacock. The unscripted series from Nye, Seth McFarlane and Brannon Braga will “send Nye into the most epic global disasters imaginable – both natural and unnatural – and then demystifies them using science to show how we […]
IATSE members employed at four Fox TV stations in New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., have ratified a new three-year contract, bringing to a close one of the longest-running contract negotiations of all time. Union officials say that the tentative agreement, which was reached in April, followed 11 years of on-again off-again bargaining and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Britt Robertson has been tapped as a series regular on ABC’s new hourlong series The Rookie: Feds, headlined by Niecy Nash-Betts. Co-created by Alexi Hawley and Terence Paul Winter, The Rookie: Feds stars Niecy Nash-Betts as Simone Clark, the oldest rookie in the FBI Academy. The spinoff was introduced in a two-part arc on […]
EXCLUSIVE: I’m hearing from sources that Universal is circling Cleopatra, the Gal Gadot epic which was set up at Paramount with The Falcon and the Winter Soldier EP/director Kari Skogland helming the project. While interested in the project still, Paramount was not prepared to meet the timeline that the creative elements necessitated. Deadline first told you about the […]
Hallmark Channel has renewed When Calls the Heart for a tenth season and is bringing on a new showrunner to help oversee the fan favorite: Lindsay Sturman (Supergirl), a television veteran with writing and producing credits spanning over 15 years in the industry, will take over the top job. “When Calls the Heart continues to […]
Justin Bieber, who recently disclosed his diagnosis of Ramsay Hunt syndrome and the facial paralysis it causes, has postponed the remaining North American “Justice” tour dates originally set for June and July. “In light of Justin’s ongoing recovery, the remaining U.S. tour shows scheduled for June and early July will be postponed,” according to a […]
The eyepatch may be gone, but Samuel L. Jackson is still playing the hero. In The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Jackson—best known for playing the one-eyed Nick Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe—plays a reclusive old man with dementia who is given a miracle drug to help him remember his past. Though the cure is only […]
EXCLUSIVE: Village Roadshow is bolstering its television ranks. The company’s television arm has hired Cory Lanier, who has worked on series including Amazon’s Hunters and Jordan Peele comedy series Weird City. Lanier joins as SVP, Scripted Television. He will report to Village Roadshow’s Alix Jaffe, EVP, Television. He will help the company produce scripted content […]
EXCLUSIVE: GKIDS, the acclaimed producer and distributor of animation for adult and family audiences, announced it has acquired North American theatrical, home video, and EST rights to the capstone finale film Evangelion : 3.0 + 1.01 Thrice Upon A Time. The highly anticipated fourth and final installment of the new theatrical “Rebuild” editions of the […]
Vince McMahon, the longtime face of and force behind the WWE and the company’s chairman and CEO, is stepping aside pending an investigation into “alleged executive misconduct” by a special committee of the board of directors. His daughter, Stephanie McMahon, who herself had recently taken a pause from the company in order to “focus on […]
Nancy Grace’s ‘Bloodline Detectives’ Set For Season Three EXCLUSIVE: A third season of FilmRise’s Bloodline Detectives Hosted by Nancy Grace is in the works. The show, which is produced by Peninsula Television in association with Sky Studios, is hosted by the renowned former prosecutor and explores familial DNA search and testing used to uncover elusive criminals. […]
Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange could now be extradited from the UK to the U.S. The decision was rubberstamped by UK Home Secretary Priti Patel this morning and he now has 14 days to appeal. The Home Office said the extradition would not be “incompatible with his human rights” and that while in the U.S. “he […]
EXCLUSIVE: Chris Sussman, Netflix’s Director of UK Scripted Series, is leaving the streamer, Deadline has learned. The former BBC exec has resigned from Anne Mensah’s lean UK commissioning team to spend more time with his family, we understand. His final day is July 8. During his two-and-a-half year spell, the well liked exec was behind the likes […]
Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, who have overseen the James Bond franchise for the past three decades, have been honored with BFI Fellowships, the highest bestowed by the film institute. Starting with Goldeneye, the pair, who run EON Productions, have produced nine of 25 Bond films over the period, winning BAFTAs and overseeing changes in actors who […]
EXCLUSIVE: One of the BBC’s longest-serving kids executives, Michael Towner, responsible for the likes of Teletubbies and Andy and the Band, is exiting after nearly three decades with the corporation. Deadline understands Towner has taken voluntary redundancy and his Senior Commissioning Editor role will be closed. The BBC will subsequently recruit for an animation commissioner […]
EXCLUSIVE: London and Paris-based production and sales company Film Constellation has inked pre-sales on family adventure animation The Last Dinosaur following its Cannes market launch. Pic has sold in Australia New Zealand (Icon), Latin America (BF Distribution), Poland (Forum Film), Former Yugoslavia (MCF Megacom), Greece & Cyprus (Filmtrade), Israel (Red Cape) and Middle East (Italia […]
EXCLUSIVE: Jenna Coleman (The Serpent) and Oliver Jackson-Cohen (The Invisible Man) have been cast as co-leads of Amazon Original drama series, Wilderness, from Firebird Pictures. Filming begins this month in the U.S., Canada and UK, with the series launching on Prime Video next year in over 240 countries and territories. Written and created by Marnie […]
More than a million music streaming subscriptions have been cancelled in the UK over the last three months, as customers try to save money. Market researchers Kantar have discovered the fastest drop to be happening in the under-35 age group, but across the board customers have been giving up this perceived luxury, as they face […]
EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of us revealing their Katy Perry animated musical Melody, The Trial Of The Chicago 7 and The Pale Blue Eye outfit Cross Creek Pictures and animation specialist Zag have set an agreement to develop and produce a slate of ten animated, live-action and hybrid format features, the majority of which will […]
There’ll be no English Strawberries for Lil Wayne this weekend, after border authorities denied entry to the UK for the American rapper. Lil Wayne was due to give his first performance in the country for several years on Saturday at the Strawberries and Creem Festival in Cambrige, but his application for entry has been refused. […]
