Refresh for latest…: Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick‘s jet-propulsion continues as the Tom Cruise-starrer has now crossed $900M global in just 25 days of release. The worldwide cume through Monday is $901.9M. Of that, domestic makes up $474.8M with the international box office accounting for $427.1M. This Joseph Kosinski-directed film is simply on a tear, and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Paul Downs Colaizzo is in talks to direct and rewrite Paramount Pictures’ Harbinger, stepping in for Wes Ball. Ball was forced to step down to focus on the next Planet of the Apes pic, which he is deep in pre-production on. Neal Moritz and Toby Jaffe are producing for Original Film. Dan Mintz is producing for Valiant Entertainment. […]
The Tampa Bay Lightning’s victory over the Colorado Avalanche in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final scored another big win for ABC in primetime Monday among viewers and in key demos. From 9-11 p.m. ET, the network dominated in viewers (9.07 million), 25-54 (3.2 rating) and 18-49 (2.7), according to Nielsen fast affiliates. The […]
Director, actress, writer, producer, and editor Isabel Sandoval is a trans Filipina filmmaking Auteur who made history with her third feature film Lingua Franca at the 2019 Venice International Film Festival’s Giornate degli Autori section. It is the first film directed by and starring a trans woman of color to screen in competition. Lingua Franca was nominated […]
Gronk is hanging up his helmet…again. After fellow “Bad Boy For Life” Tom Brady announced he would come back for his 23rd NFL season earlier this year, Rob Gronkowski has decided he will not follow suit. Here is the full statement Gronkowski posted today: In college, I was asked to write about a dream job […]
EXCLUSIVE: Riverside Entertainment is expanding into scripted content with the coming-of-age LGBTQ+ drama Remy & Arletta, written by and starring Micaela Wittman (Clairevoyant), and the nihilistic thriller Manodrome, starring Academy Award nominee Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) and Academy Award winner Adrien Brody (The Pianist). The Los Angeles and Nashville-based production company, known for its unscripted success […]
Dark Winds, the Native-led Western noir crime thriller, will be back for a second season. AMC and its sister streaming service AMC+ have renewed the drama series starring Zahn McClarnon, and it will return for another six-episode run next year. It comes after the series, which is produced by AMC Studios, drew 2.2M viewers on […]
EXCLUSIVE: Danielle Deadwyler (Till) has signed on to star alongside Aldis Hodge and his brother Edwin Hodge in the sci-fi thriller Parallel, from director Kourosh Ahari (IFC Films’ The Night), which has entered production in Vancouver. The film formerly titled Parallel Forest is a remake of Lei Zheng’s award-winning Chinese feature of the same name. It follows the […]
The Writers Guild of America West’s Nominating Committee today revealed the 18 candidates who are running in its board of directors election this year. Those vying for the eight opens seats are Angelina Burnett, Timothy Dowling, Leah Folta, Justin Halpern, Tom O’Connor, Van Robichaux, John Rogers, David Schulner, Rich Talarico, Danny Tolli, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Ryan […]
Since its 2015 premiere, the Breaking Bad prequel series Better Call Saul has matched the original crime drama’s level of acclaim. The AMC and Sony Pictures Television series’ focus on the eponymous shady attorney played by Bob Odenkirk has earned the series 39 Emmy nominations. The sixth and final season had its midseason finale May […]
Trevor Noah and his Daily Show team are taking their show on the road. It marks the first time that the Comedy Central late-night series has gone on the move in such a big way since the Covid pandemic began. The show will cover the midterm elections from the battleground state. It will record full […]
Melanie Goodfellow has joined Deadline as Senior International Film Correspondent based in London. Goodfellow joins Deadline’s growing international team from UK trade Screen International, where she was most recently Senior Correspondent, Europe & Middle East. Goodfellow worked at Screen for more than a decade, covering the French, European and Middle East businesses, breaking hundreds of […]
Matt Dillon To Receive Locarno Award Matt Dillon is to receive the Locarno Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award. The award ceremony on Thursday, August 4 in Piazza Grande will be accompanied by screenings of Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant, 1989) and City of Ghosts (Matt Dillon, 2002), and a Q&A with the actor on Friday, August 5 at the […]
Maureen Arthur, an actress best remembered for her performance as secretary Hedy La Rue in Broadway’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and its 1967 screen adaptation, died June 15 of natural causes in Beverly Hills. She was 88. Arthur’s friend, the actor Ilene Graff, announced the news on Facebook. “The world is […]
Amazon Prime Video is expanding its footprint in Africa with a three-picture deal with Lagos City-based production house Nemsia Films. The first feature in the deal will be Breath of Life. Described as an inspirational story about life and destiny, it is written and directed by Nemsia co-founder BB Sasore and produced by Eku Edewor. “We are very […]
Universal revved up exhibition at its CineEurope presentation today in Barcelona, offering a glimpse at 2023’s Fast & Furious X, including a first look at new cast members Jason Momoa and Brie Larson. The Louis Leterrier-directed 10th installment is currently in production for release next summer. That was the capper to a jam-packed Uni session […]
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is the network behind Rise Films’ drama on the phone hacking scandal that rocked Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. The Salisbury Poisonings writers Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson and director Saul Dibb are attached and U.S. buyers are understood to be circling. Deadline revealed Thank You & Goodbye was in development with Oscar and Emmy-winning […]
EXCLUSIVE: Departing Netflix Director Of UK Scripted Chris Sussman is in talks to exec produce the fourth season of Apple TV+ comedy Trying, Deadline can reveal. Last week, we revealed that Sussman is leaving Netflix next month after a two-and-a-half-year stint and a move to the Rafe Spall and Imelda Staunton-starring Apple TV+ comedy would be […]
Geoffrey Rush and Benicio Del Toro will be honored with career awards at the 56th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), running July 1-9 against the backdrop of the picturesque Czech Republic spa town. Australian actor Rush will receive the festival’s Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema. The King’s […]
Noma Sets Crypto Feature Film Trio EXCLUSIVE: Japanese film company Noma is developing a series of three feature films about the world of crypto, with Sefi Carmel (Legacy Of Lies) joining as composer and sound designer. The first theatrical feature film in the series, The Rhetoric Star, is currently in production. The second film in the […]
EXCLUSIVE: IMAX and Pathé Live have set a new partnership to bring French pop-rock band Indochine to IMAX screens this fall. On Saturday June 25, the sold-out Indochine – Central Tour concert at the Groupama Stadium in Lyon, France will be shot with 22 IMAX-certified cameras. This will be the first concert ever released through […]
David Beckham’s Studio 99 is producing a series on the rise of football’s Premier League billionaires for Paramount+ as the streamer unveils a five-strong UK factual slate that includes shows on luxury yachts, the Loch Ness monster, Simple Minds and strippers in Vegas. The Premiership: Rise of the Billionaires (working title) is being co-produced by The […]
Among studios, Sony was first up with its presentation here at CineEurope in Barcelona which kicked off on Monday. “As an industry, we are anything but done,” declared Sony Pictures International Releasing’s President Steven O’Dell at the top of the show. The studio is coming off of its most ambitious six-month slate ever, which it […]
Stephen Colbert addressed the arrest of several of his Late Show staffers and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, joking that it was “first-degree puppetry” and calling out Fox News for claiming that it was an “insurrection”. It comes after seven people, including Robert Smigel, who is known for being the creator, puppeteer and voice of […]
The theater building at Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington D.C. was to be officially named in a ceremony tonight after one of the school’s most famous graduates: Dave Chappelle. The naming was in consideration of Chappelle’s support of the school, especially after he and his friends were the group that raised the […]
