EXCLUSIVE: Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson (Power Book II: Ghost) has signed on to star in the horror film Skill House from Ryan Kavanaugh’s Proxima Media—and will also produce the pic under his G-Unit Film & Television banner. He joins an ensemble led by TikTok star Bryce Hall, which also includes UFC veteran Paige VanZant, as […]
EXCLUSIVE: Google’s dogfight with TikTok for dominance in the shortform video space has a new combat zone – the courts. The UK’s Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, to be precise, and a potential David in Shorts International Ltd trying to tackle the tech goliath. In what could shape up to be a long-term dust-up, the London-based […]
Just as the Fall Film Festival season is getting prepared to take off with Venice, Telluride, Toronto, and NYFF busily firming up their slates, we now have a late winter awards season must-stop revealing its dates. The Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s 2023 fest will take place from February 8 through February 18 it was […]
Queen Sugar creator and executive producer Ava DuVernay, who directed the pilot, will return to direct the series’ final episode. Production on the seventh and final season has begun in and around New Orleans. DuVernay will wrap up seven seasons of an all-women directorial team for OWN’s award-winning drama series. In addition to DuVernay, season […]
Actress Busisiwe Lurayi, who starred in the Netflix series How to Ruin Christmas, died suddenly this weekend, according to a statement from her agency, the Johannesburg-based Eye Media Artists. No cause was given. Lurayi “passed away suddenly and was pronounced dead at her residence on Sunday 10.7.2022 by medical personnel,” reads the statement. “The reason […]
UPDATE, with Michele comment & Glee video As expected, or at least widely rumored, Lea Michele is Broadway’s new Funny Girl, taking over the coveted role of Fanny Brice from the departing Beanie Feldstein. Tovah Feldshuh will take the role of Mrs. Brice after Jane Lynch leaves the production. Michele, best known as a star […]
EXCLUSIVE: Following years of Hollywood working on getting a biopic of Amy Winehouse off the ground, Sources tell Deadline Studiocanal is gearing up to make Back to Black, a new film about the life of the Grammy wining singer who tragically passed in 2011 with Fifty Shades of Director Sam Taylor-Johnson directing. The script has […]
EXCLUSIVE: Robert A. Daly Jr. & David Lipper have brought their up-and-coming production company Latigo Films to CAA. The pair will now work with the agency and its Media Finance department to arrange financing for and sell the distribution rights to Latigo Films’ productions, with a particular focus on action, and other genres such as […]
Thrum the hell out of that six string, Eddie! The writers from Stranger Things paid tribute to Joseph Quinn’s fine work on the guitar by posting footage on him rehearsing Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” on Twitter. In one of the last moments from Season 4, Volume 2, Quinn’s Eddie Munson (Quinn) shreds his electric guitar […]
EXCLUSIVE: A docuseries about Diego Maradona Jr., the formerly unknown son of the Argentinean soccer legend, is in the works. Maradona Jr., who also goes by Diego Sinagra, was born in 1986 but it took until 1993 for an Italian court to recognize the World Cup winner as his paternal father and another 13 years […]
EXCLUSIVE: The run of TBS’ series Chad has been cut short. The completed second season of the coming-of-age comedy, created by and starring Saturday Night Live alum Nasim Pedrad as teen boy Chad Amani, will not run on the network as previously announced. The show, whose first season was well received by critics and ranked […]
President Joe Biden marked the signing of a gun safety bill, passed in the aftermath of recent mass shootings. But even as lawmakers, gun reform advocates and victims’ families at the South Law ceremony said that the new legislation would be meaningful, it falls short of laws that were in place in the past, like […]
EXCLUSIVE: Scott Evans (One Life To Live, Grace and Frankie) has joined the cast of Amazon’s With Love for Season 2. He will portray the character of James, the childhood friend of Henry (Vincent Rodriguez III). Season 1 of With Love followed the lives of the Diaz siblings, Lily (Emeraude Toubia) and Jorge Jr. (Mark […]
EXCLUSIVE: Meralta Films, the Mumbai-based producer behind Netflix’s Indian Matchmaking, has hired Nina Anand Aujla and Maya Gnyp to supercharge its LA division. Meralta, also known for Shelter, a DGA-winning episode of HBO Max’s Through Our Eyes, and Mundhra’s Academy Award-nominated short doc St. Louis Superman, focuses on premium content that brings South Asian representation into the […]
The Cannes Film Festival has put its weight behind calls for the immediate release of Iranian filmmakers Mohammad Rasoulof, Mostafa Aleahmad and Jafar Panahi. Berlin Golden Bear winner Rasoulof and his colleague Aleahmad were reportedly arrested last Friday after showing support for popular protests against the Iranian authorities over the collapse of a building in […]
EXCLUSIVE: Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, the comedy duo behind series such as The Eric Andre Show and Showtime’s Moonbase 8, have set a new comedy series featuring a pair of viral pranksters at Netflix. The streamer has ordered Chad & JT Go Deep, a series that features Chad Kroeger (aka Tom Allen rather than […]
The start of the fall box office just got bleaker as Warner Bros is moving New Line’s adaptation of Stephen King vampire novel Salem’s Lot from Sept. 9 to April 21, 2023. I hear the move is due to Covid-related delays in the post production realm. The Gary Dauberman-directed pic also had a handful of days of additional […]
Another awards season is looming, and the Art Directors Guild has set a date for its 27th annual ceremony. The 2023 ADG Awards is set for Saturday, February 18, in-person at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. Nominations will be announced on Monday, January 9. See the 85-year-old guild’s full timeline below. Chuck Parker Re-Elected To […]
UPDATED, 8:22 a.m.: Neon and Universal Pictures Content Group today announced that Brett Morgen’s David Bowie doc Moonage Daydream will hit theaters globally on September 16 outside of Japan, where it unspools in March of 2023. Neon will distribute the film in the U.S., with UPCG handling international. The first feature doc on Bowie to have been sanctioned […]
EXCLUSIVE: Vikings, Raised By Wolves and Warcraft star Travis Fimmel has been set to lead new mystery-drama series Black Snow, which is underway in Australia for streamer Stan. The six-part series follows the mystery of a small-town murder that rocked North Queensland’s Australian South Sea Islander community. The show is financed and produced in association with All3Media International, which is handling international […]
Twitter stock is down around 7% on its first day of trading since Elon Musk late Friday followed through on a threat to walk away from his agreed-upon $44 billion purchase of the beleaguered social media platform. Twitter threatened legal action to hold Musk to his word and has now hired big name U.S. law […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Europe-based Pop Up Film Residency mentorship program has unveiled the filmmakers and mentors who will participate in its summer 2022 edition. The program, which is among a number of feature development initiatives spearheaded by former TorinoFilmLab artistic director Matthieu Darras, consists of three-week residences focused on one project only in different locations across […]
Netflix was one of the key sponsors of UK magazine The Spectator‘s summer party last week. The well-timed and buzzy London event — which came amid the stormy unseating of Boris Johnson as PM — was attended by a number of leading figures in the UK political and media landscape. Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos was […]
UPDATED 03:20 AM PT: The race to replace Boris Johnson has begun in earnest and ITV News and Sky News will now both host debates in the coming days, with the BBC expected to follow suit. Eleven Conservative candidates have thrown their hats into the ring to be the next UK Prime Minister, following Johnson’s […]
ITV Studios-owned Spanish drama house Cattleya Producciones has acquired rights to Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s bestselling novel El Italiano and will adapt it as a miniseries. Inspired by real events, El Italiano is a story of love, spies, and the sea set at the height of World War II in the Bay of Algeciras, where Italian combat divers […]
